in weird netflix stuff, i watched videodrome a while ago and i still can't shake it.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, you should probably watch The Brood next, then.
― Alan Hale's Corn Casserole Recipe (Family Circle, June 1976) (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
atlas shrugged pt. 1 is a hoot so far.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^yes
really looking forward to pt. 2!
― love this song! :) especially his hair (get bent), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
THE BROOD IS SO GOOD!!!
Love that movie.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
DAGON expires tomorrow. I liked it a lot. Though everyone will have their own idea of what a Lovecraft movie should be like. I thought its degenerates were wonderful.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
Please Vote for Me was cute, but I didn't think it much more than that.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
started watching murder by decree last night, gotta finish it tonight, expires 3/15. here is where I once again observe that bob clark has a weird filmography.
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
other stuff in my queue expiring 3/15
swamp thingescape from new yorkdown from the mountainbuena vista social clubalphavillearmy of shadowsle cercle roguebob le flambeur
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
Haha, I did the exact same! Looking forward to finishing it tonight.
Impossible to watch it with pre-Alan Moore eyes, of course...
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
lol
anybody want to recommend one of those melvilles?
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
you cant really go wrong
― max, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
i guess army of shadows is the 'famous'/'best' one? i dont know what people say about melville tho. all three are dynamite imo.
― max, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
weird, I always think of army of shadows as one of his least-known, it was never released in the US and languished in obscurity for decades!
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
Army and Cercle are both great, but pretty different.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
i prefer le cercle rouge but other folks seem to prefer army of shadows. both are excellent choices.
(another melville film - le doulos -- will expire on April 1st, BTW)
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
hmm maybe i just think that b/c it was a big deal when it got released on dvd
― max, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
bob le flambeur is sort of a precursor to Godard and the whole French New Wave thing ... so if that's your thing and you can only squeeze in one Melville film today, that would be the one to watch. (the others are much more sedate cinematographically.)
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
yeah army of shadows was "rediscovered" and had a theatrical run so there was a lot of press at the time
hmm I'm a big godard fan so maybe in the interest of science I will go w/ bob
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
"at the time" being 2006
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Nat Geo multi-episode version of Guns Germs and Steel is pretty sweet.
― the prurient pinterest (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
sequel to rats lice & history?
oh shit ed III thx for the heads up on alphaville expiring, now i must make time before it vanishes
― Thu'um gang (jjjusten), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
Is the "Netflix nerd" a new type, checking their list for expiry dates, etc?Do you think Netflix is "fucking cool"?
― hbo with a shotgun (admrl), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
Do you think about where Netflix movies go when they expire, or is it too awful to contemplate?
― hbo with a shotgun (admrl), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
I really wish Corman's World was on this.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
"you can't really go wrong" otm honestly.
― Wesley Crusher: Teenage F#ck Machine (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, Army of Shadows was rather overrated when it finally got salvaged about 5 years ago; it's good, but far from his best.
http://www.theyshootpictures.com/melvillejeanpierre.htm
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
bob rules. i forgot i even wrote a <a href="http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2002/091202/film3.html">review</a> of it once!
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
facepalm
― hbo with a shotgun (admrl), Wednesday, March 14, 2012 3:35 PM (36 minutes ago)
obv what's on instant is a small portion of what's available, but it serves a similar function to the (extinct) local video store. limited selection, but I can watch something *right now*.
sure, I could watch murder by decree at any time, but I've wanted to see that movie since missing it in 1979 when it played for a single week at the downtown theater. if a netflix expiry date gave me the prod to finally watch it, what's the big d? I've watched films for dumber motivations before.
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i reckon that if a movie's in my Instant Queue then it's there b/c i want to see it. and if i know that it's going to expire relatively soon and i have time to watch it before it's gone, then i'd like to know that. nothing about "being cool" at all.
also, some Netflix Instant movies aren't available on DVD -- only Instant.
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
just wanna reiterate that peep show series 1-7 are on instant. I have series 1-5 on DVD, and it was great to be able to blow through 6 and 7 in the last couple weeks. greatest sitcom ever.
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
watched the first few episodes of peep show and did not like it. does it improve? otherwise might just not be for me.
― wmlynch, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
did you watch the one where they go to the party straight from the grocery store, that one is pretty amazing
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
i think that was the last one i watched and it had its moments...
― wmlynch, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
peep show is amazing, we're blasting through it now.re: melville, they're all good -- last one I watched on instant was Dirty Money (which I think has a diff French title). Delon / Deneueve, awesome helicopter/train heist scene.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
melville is a genius.
― wmlynch, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
he is! the delon movies are all kinda blending together into one movie, but it's a great movie.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
yeah and who cares cuz you get to look at delon the whole time.
― wmlynch, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-G9DYDGkpljc/TlSfF0zNFwI/AAAAAAAANtU/Y8sKpVzfyNc/s400/alain-delon-1.jpg
― wmlynch, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
Peep Show is one of the best sitcoms currently (sort of, as it won't be back for a bit yet) on television, easily on par with Parks and Recreation and Community. Maybe a bit better, even?
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
And that's coming from someone who didn't really "get it" at first and was on the fence for several episodes. Looking back, I don't know what I wasn't "getting", as it's brilliant from the start (with a brief dip into something slightly less than brilliance during series 4).
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
i'm all about Peep Show right now, i couldn't understand some people not being into the sometimes brutal awkwardness, though
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 14 March 2012 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
could*
cool. i'll give it another shot.
― wmlynch, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
the first episode of "peep show" has the stuff about Stalingrad so if anyone doesn't "get it" I doubt they ever will.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 15 March 2012 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
peep show is fucking great but it gets better halfway through the first season once all that bullshit POV camera stuff gets finished.
― Wesley Crusher: Teenage F#ck Machine (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 15 March 2012 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
I love Peep Show and I've tried to get friends to watch it. One close friend makes me a little crazy b/c she is averse to British TV shows b/c the people look weird, e.g., David Mitchell. Also, Robert Webb's teeth. Actually, Mitchell's teeth too, I think.
― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
I never thought Webb's teeth were that bad, but I Googled "Robert Webb teeth" and I guess other people think they are awful? Some Brits on a message board said both their teeth are "grim" and "crap." I mean, they're sort of wonky, but not gross or rotten.
― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago) link