The Netflix Thread

[ThePlashyBubbler]

Louie Season 2 added. Now I can get caught up for next week!

[Spinal]

Battle Royale and, ugh, Battle Royale 2.

Yeah, the sequel pretty much does away with all of the tact and character investment of the first film.

[number8]

:|

[Scar]

Battle Royale and, ugh, Battle Royale 2.

Didn't you use to love Battle Royale 2?

[Spinal]

:|

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?

[Mysterious Dude]

Love and Death and Sleeper... I'm going to watch at least one of these right now.

[Mal]

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.

[Dead & Messed Up]

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.

[Skitch]

I've been quite enjoying Jon Benjamin Has A Van lately.

[Kurosawa Fan]

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.

Definitely not new, but worthy of promotion at any and all opportunities.

[Spinal]

How much time and money was spent developing this stupid 'Play Max' feature? Jesus, how useless.

[Kurosawa Fan]

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.

[Spinal]

What is this? I've never encountered it. A Google search isn't even yielding results.

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.

[Kurosawa Fan]

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.

Yikes. Sounds like an awful addition. I would hope it can be ignored/turned off?

[Spinal]

Yikes. Sounds like an awful addition. I would hope it can be ignored/turned off?

It's basically a more drawn-out version of its recommendation system for people who like machines to talk to them.

[Irish]

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.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I've heard Macbeth is reeeeaaaaallly bad. Haven't seen it myself yet.

[Irish]

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?

The Lear was incredible, but oddly made. Like they film a stage production without any audience.

[Kurosawa Fan]

What? Nooooooo. Say it ain't so. Did you get any specifics or was it more a general warning to stay away?

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.

[Irish]

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.

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).

[EyesWideOpen]

They added that recent Titanic BBC mini-series and Rampart (Woody Harrelson).

[Beau]

What? Nooooooo. Say it ain't so. Did you get any specifics or was it more a general warning to stay away?

The Lear was incredible, but oddly made. Like they film a stage production without any audience.

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.

[Spun Lepton]

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.

[Rowland]

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.

[Skitch]

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).

*raises hand*

Guilty!