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def watch party down.

we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link

to be honest, i don't know if we even made it through ALL of Trailer Park Boys. there are even movies too. every episode is kinda the same. but that is its charm.

scott seward, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link

Alex Lifeson episode is really the only one you need to watch

Moodles, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 18:16 (ten years ago) link

the new girl really turned good....they sort of figured it out like the simpsons did, where the first season is kinda about bart and then they figured out the show should be about homer, but in this case zooey=bart simpson and the dudes=homer simpson and wait what am i talking about?

"If you like the Byrds, try Depeche Mode" (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 19:35 (ten years ago) link

we watched first 3 new girl episodes. funny!

scott seward, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 19:43 (ten years ago) link

I have a hard time hearing about 1/3 of what people say on New Girl though. I'm not sure if it's the dialogue mix or they talk to fast. Or maybe I'm old and fucking deaf. I can't hear anything anyone says on walking dead either but I figure most of that dialogue is 'oh fuck zombie arghghghghg'

akm, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 20:57 (ten years ago) link

some good new stuff

56 up
dont look now
ken burns the dust bowl
the parallax view

johnny crunch, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 21:08 (ten years ago) link

ken burns prohibition too. should i watch that?

scott seward, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link

I enjoyed it.

Gukbe, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 21:53 (ten years ago) link

Hot coffee is a pretty good doc about the push for tort reform in the US. Kinda shocked by some of the stuff it revealed, since I've always bought into ” lol america and its frivolous lawsuits”.

just1n3, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link

The House I Live In is up

mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 July 2013 01:41 (ten years ago) link

Might have to rewatch The Parallax View. Unfortunately it's a movie, and i only watch TV shows, but if I pause it every 21 minutes I might be able to get through it.

Gukbe, Thursday, 4 July 2013 01:55 (ten years ago) link

hahah

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 July 2013 01:55 (ten years ago) link

Might have to rewatch The Parallax View. Unfortunately it's a movie, and i only watch TV shows, but if I pause it every 21 minutes I might be able to get through it.

Man, between shuttling kids around and having them hanging around the house, this is totally how I watch movies these days, 21 minutes at a time over the course of a week.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 4 July 2013 02:24 (ten years ago) link

If you love the syrupy production values of the early 80s and want to see Yvette Mimieux romance a man 20 years her junior AND you have Netflix streaming, I seriously recommend 1982's FORBIDDEN LOVE. Bonus: you will go crazy trying to figure out whose voice is singing the awful theme song, and then you will remember that man's name is DAN HILL.

Recommended!

free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Sunday, 7 July 2013 15:09 (ten years ago) link

Wow, the Dr. Bronner's doc is a weird trip.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 July 2013 03:02 (ten years ago) link

Haven't seen it yet but Starlet is up.

Gukbe, Monday, 8 July 2013 03:55 (ten years ago) link

confirmed: new girl is funny

johnny crunch, Monday, 8 July 2013 21:26 (ten years ago) link

fuck that show

mh, Monday, 8 July 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link

kewl w/e

johnny crunch, Monday, 8 July 2013 21:41 (ten years ago) link

i think its a good time. i like the dude characters more and more as the first season moves along.

scott seward, Monday, 8 July 2013 21:51 (ten years ago) link

both white guys in the apartment act like stage actors. in a good way. or like they could have been in scorsese movies in the 70's.

scott seward, Monday, 8 July 2013 21:53 (ten years ago) link

i can see them in some movie like the wanderers or lords of flatbush.

scott seward, Monday, 8 July 2013 21:53 (ten years ago) link

yea they are well cast

johnny crunch, Monday, 8 July 2013 22:31 (ten years ago) link

hmm perhaps I will give it a slight chance. I think maybe I just hate the sitcom format in general.

mh, Monday, 8 July 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link

you're like the guy on the tao lin thread who said he hated tao lin because "who would write a NOVEL in 2013 ANYway"

we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 00:59 (ten years ago) link

I was under the impression that Tao Lin is kind of a gimmicky non-trad novelist and The New Girl is a traditionally-styled situation comedy so they're kind of the opposite sitch

mh, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 01:09 (ten years ago) link

Preview looks terrible but New Yorker makes Orange is the New Black sound promising.

One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 02:19 (ten years ago) link

Yeah. Getting a lot of good buzz.

Gukbe, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 02:20 (ten years ago) link

It'll be a miracle if it isn't racist and/or annoying.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 02:24 (ten years ago) link

Troll Hunter is available tho

this movie is highly worthwhile if you haven't seen it

Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 02:26 (ten years ago) link

otm

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 02:42 (ten years ago) link

^^^

twerking for obvious reasons (contenderizer), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 04:01 (ten years ago) link

ditto

hmm perhaps I will give it a slight chance. I think maybe I just hate the sitcom format in general.

I like that even though the New Girl has been around for two years, some of us are still wrestling with ourselves over whether or not to grant it its right to exist.

mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 13:49 (ten years ago) link

it took me like 20 episodes in to get a truly dud episode. the one AFTER the martin starr episode (and he of course gave his usual guest-starr star turn) where they pushed things too far with the one guy sleeping with college girls and they gave winston a horrible unfunny speech designed to get the college girls out of the apartment. that one was dumb. and i kinda hate the dermot mulroney character cuz he always plays that character and the rich guy thing is just dumb. the only good rich guy scenario was when the one dude went into his study and fell in love with his desk and kept describing the smells in the room.

scott seward, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 14:11 (ten years ago) link

I'm looking forward to Orange is the New Black. I know eventually everyone turned against Weeds but the creator was very good at establishing characters.

akm, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 14:16 (ten years ago) link

oh, I have no ability to grant things rights to exist or whatever, there was just little chance of me watching it

I mean, unless you're implying things don't exist until I watch them.... oh shit, the world exists only in my imagination, doesn't it?

(existential crisis)

mh, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 14:22 (ten years ago) link

i think you'll live if you don't watch it. the world will live! i was just happy to find something frothy to watch that i didn't hate. not a lot of great sitcoms i haven't already seen on netflix.

scott seward, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link

I trust you guys a lot more than my coworker who recommended it but also loves the Big Bang Theory

mh, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 14:26 (ten years ago) link

The new girl is ok. I continue to be a fan of zooey deschanel's hairstyle

Treeship, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 14:49 (ten years ago) link

wanna bone hannah simone

balls, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link

shes attractive

johnny crunch, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link

hot rhyme

how's life, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 16:50 (ten years ago) link

Netflix seems to be the cause of problems I've had w/ various devices. To wit: Two nights ago I tried to watch something on Netflix on my Apple TV and it crashed like crazy. When I went to Netflix on my laptop, it also crashed like crazy. Both devices froze for a while, and on my laptop, even after I killed the browser, everything was sloooow, including animations that happen when you open or close a window.

Then today I checked Netflix on my work computer and the same thing happened. It bogged down the whole system and I had to restart.

Anybody else?

Je55e, Friday, 12 July 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link

I had apple TV streaming via iTunes issues on... Sunday?

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 July 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link

orange is the new black was on last night!!?? i thought it was going on streaming later in the week. damn i would have watched last night. watched DVDs instead. okay, will watch tonight with maria. i tried to watch spring breakers last night and i got bored. and i was even stoned. don't know what's wrong with me. looked cool though. then i watched Red. which was not very good but i watched it anyway. bruce willis movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nryWkAaWjKg

scott seward, Friday, 12 July 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link

i watched the first ep of orange is the new black - was ok. writing is a lil cringe-y in spots but not like unforgivably so

johnny crunch, Friday, 12 July 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link

The stills I've seen look horrible, but I didn't like what I saw of Weeds.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 July 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link

so on the doc front, "The Imposter" is a very well done film abt a incredibly bizarre story. director def spent a lot of time watching errol morris stuff, but incorporates it the right way. highly recommended.

You pieces of shit. (jjjusten), Friday, 12 July 2013 17:46 (ten years ago) link


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