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.
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
― how bad could it be to be stuck to the couch, forever... (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 06:22 (ten years ago) link
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
i got bored of weeds really early on. i wanted to like it i really did. i like her she's so cute. but it was dumb. or not compelling enough for me to want to follow. i didn't really care what happened to anyone. but women in prison show, i mean, i gotta at least give it a shot.
― scott seward, Friday, 12 July 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
The New Yorker had a good article a few years ago about the guy in that Imposter doc.
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Friday, 12 July 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
is it just me or or are there fewer and fewer streaming titles every month?
― the late great, Friday, 12 July 2013 18:30 (ten years ago) link
Heard good things about Dead Man's Burden. I'll watch it this weekend.
― Gukbe, Friday, 12 July 2013 18:54 (ten years ago) link
finally got around to watching cave of forgotten dreams. don't wait like i did, people. it's as mindblowing as everyone said.
― andrew m., Friday, 12 July 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link
Happy People is up now too! I haven't watched it yet though.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Friday, 12 July 2013 19:06 (ten years ago) link
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Friday, July 12, 2013 1:28 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
in a lot of ways the movie seemed like a response to the NYer article, which was a lot more critical/suspicious of the family's role in the kid's disappearance
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 12 July 2013 19:38 (ten years ago) link
Happy People is worth a watch; it's kind of overly standard Herzog. The footage is all from someone else, he just reedited it and narrates. very middle of the pack.
― how bad could it be to be stuck to the couch, forever... (forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 July 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
I know all that and yet I don't care -- it's still gonna be better than the avg "this is how these ppl live" doc!
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Friday, 12 July 2013 21:55 (ten years ago) link
If they were trying to some up the gist of the show as this:
http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/orange-is-the-new-black.jpg
I think they were trying to sum it up as "don't watch this." But it's been well received...
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 July 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
Lechera OTM
― how bad could it be to be stuck to the couch, forever... (forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 July 2013 23:16 (ten years ago) link
i might be out after ep 2 of orange idk
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 13 July 2013 01:27 (ten years ago) link
― El tres de 乒乓 de 1808 (silby), Monday, 15 July 2013 00:39 (ten years ago) link
we tried out that new "MAX" recommendations gadget yesterday... was kind of amusing but was obviously just a bit of a built-on frame over their recommendations interface (with the exception of being able to hear a 30-second "pitch" for a recommended movie, which was actually kind of anice touch.)
it recommended "safety not guaranteed" and i lasted all of 5 minutes before i turned it off in disgust.
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Monday, 15 July 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link
That movie suuuuuuuuuuuuucked.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 July 2013 14:20 (ten years ago) link
i couldnt deal with it
like from the very first childhood flashback thing that seemed to have nothing to do with the movie... why is she applying for a job if she works at a newspaper (i know she's an intern, but it just seemed confusing)... and the way the classified ad is introduced, just like some guy in a meeting saying "the sales guys emailed it to me"... that's how you intro your big plot hook?? you couldn't even have aubrey plaza find it and try to pitch it as her way into the paper? it was just so bad
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Monday, 15 July 2013 14:27 (ten years ago) link