Louie Season 2 added. Now I can get caught up for next week!
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Louie Season 2 added. Now I can get caught up for next week!
Yeah, the sequel pretty much does away with all of the tact and character investment of the first film.Quote:
Originally Posted by number8
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Didn't you use to love Battle Royale 2?Quote:
Originally Posted by number8
Was this for me? I think one of Battle Royale's strengths is how it takes the time to give us a glimpse into the personalities of each of the kids rather than just slaughtering them willy nilly like Hunger Games does. Do you disagree?Quote:
Originally Posted by number8
Love and Death and Sleeper... I'm going to watch at least one of these right now.
The full run time of the Woody Allen PBS doc is online now too. It's fantastic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Isaac
I don't know if it's new or not, but That Mitchell and Webb Look has a great first episode. "Numberwang" and "BMX Bandit & Angel Summoner" were really flippin' funny.
I've been quite enjoying Jon Benjamin Has A Van lately.
Definitely not new, but worthy of promotion at any and all opportunities.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dead & Messed Up
How much time and money was spent developing this stupid 'Play Max' feature? Jesus, how useless.
What is this? I've never encountered it. A Google search isn't even yielding results.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spinal
It talks you through the process of finding a film on Netflix. It's basically an automated video store employee. It showed up after I updated the software on PS3.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kurosawa Fan
Yikes. Sounds like an awful addition. I would hope it can be ignored/turned off?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spinal
It's basically a more drawn-out version of its recommendation system for people who like machines to talk to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kurosawa Fan
Not sure how long it's been available, but Instant Watch has a Royal Shakespeare production of King Lear with Ian McKellan in the lead and Macbeth with Patrick Stewart.
Watching Lear now. Pretty damned amazing.
I've heard Macbeth is reeeeaaaaallly bad. Haven't seen it myself yet.
What? Nooooooo. Say it ain't so. Did you get any specifics or was it more a general warning to stay away?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kurosawa Fan
The Lear was incredible, but oddly made. Like they film a stage production without any audience.
Not much more other than they made some bizarre changes, and the tone is what kills the production. Take it with a grain of salt, as it's coming from someone whose literary opinion I respect, but know nothing of their taste in film or productions like this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irish
Cool, thanks for the head up. I'm wary but I'll give it a try because of Patrick Stewart (and the Lear thing has me in the mood to watch more Shakespeare, besides).Quote:
Originally Posted by Kurosawa Fan
They added that recent Titanic BBC mini-series and Rampart (Woody Harrelson).
I watched a couple of these productions back in the day to prepare for English tests during College, and most of them were "stage productions without an audience". As a result, they were respectably "filmic", since they could stick that camera wherever they wanted. I mean, it was still a stage production, but with a certain visual freedom. I rather enjoyed them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irish
Netflix has been invading my teenage years. First they posted Hardbodies, which was a film that I'd "watched" frequently during puberty (read: I masturbated to it whenever it was on Cinemax). And now Screwballs has appeared.
Well, I watched Screwballs this week. I *only* watched it this time, hands out of the pants! Back when I was a teenaged horny-toad, I watched it on Cinemax a number of times, only because it really trumped the other teenaged sex-comedies of the time by showing far more boobies. I *loved* it for that reason alone.
I could say it was terrible, but who fucking cares? The filmmakers knew what they were making and the material reflects that. Bad writing, bad acting, bad characters, pretty much all around BAD. But, there were boobies!
What was funny is that there was SO MUCH I didn't remember about it -- AT ALL! -- but then there were moments where I thought, "Holy shit, this moment is really burned into my memory!" I remember being really ... ahem ... agitated by them as a kid. As an adult, not so much.
Anyway. Screwballs. Not really recommended unless you're 14 years old. To rate it as an adult would be unfair, so I'll just leave it at that.
The brilliant Nostalgia for the Light, which made our top 20 for last year and also tied in the Matchies for Best Documentary despite being seen by a relatively small number of us, is now up, so watch it if you haven't.
*raises hand*Quote:
Originally Posted by Spun Lepton
Guilty!