brothers keeper is totally amazing
― nice moderating dude (jjjusten), Thursday, 25 July 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
hugo is garbage btw
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 25 July 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
did any of you ever watch HELL? i liked that movie a lot. german end of the world movie. i might actually watch it again. i recommended it way back when. anyway, its cool. and you don't really know where its going as it goes. which i liked. i want maria to watch it befofe it goes away from netflix. she can brush up on her german.
― scott seward, Thursday, 25 July 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
i can't watch anime on netflix because most of the streaming titles are dub-only which drives me crazy, but just glancing through the anime section there's some good stuff. mushishi, trigun, darker than black, last exile, gunslinger girl, tokyo godfathers. i've also heard good things abt eden of the east.
― 1staethyr, Thursday, 25 July 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
I liked 5 broken cameras and how to survive a plague
― President Keyes, Thursday, 25 July 2013 17:15 (ten years ago) link
― nice moderating dude (jjjusten), Thursday, July 25, 2013 9:57 AM (18 minutes ago)
― IIIrd Datekeeper (contenderizer), Thursday, 25 July 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
I really like The Princess of Montpensier
― Gukbe, Thursday, 25 July 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
Last Exile has been in my queue for a while, maybe I'll check that out!
Are we talking about Deep Blue Sea, the mutant shark movie with the wonderful LL Cool J theme song?
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 25 July 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
i love the shark movie. best samuel l. jackson role ever!
― scott seward, Thursday, 25 July 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
am guessing that at least some of the ppl here mean the terence davies movie when they say deep blue sea
― balls, Thursday, 25 July 2013 17:58 (ten years ago) link
rachel weisz in a terence ratigan adaptation vs the glory that is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkKb9OvXXvk
― balls, Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:00 (ten years ago) link
MY HAT IS LIKE A SHARK'S FIN
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMwmqp3GLMc
― scott seward, Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:04 (ten years ago) link
omg so awesome
Would love to see someone try to make Sphere and Deep Blue Sea into one movie through careful editing anchored on Samuel L. Jackson in underwater environments.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
that's a pretty key scene, yes
― sassy, fun, and RELATABLE (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
in the ll biopic i hope there's a scene where you see ll in his trailer on the set of deep blue sea, notepad in hand, frustrated - he's blocked. then he catches sight of his hat and his eyes narrow, then widen, then he smiles. cut to 'deepest bluest'.
― balls, Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
lol
The weird thing is that he actually already used the line "my hat is like a shark's fin" in "I'm Bad." It must have been a really cool hat, although I always pictured a novelty hat you might buy in the Tennessee Aquarium gift shop, with a floppy plush shark's fin sticking up off the top. Not discounting the possibility that LL owned one - it just seems a strange thing to repeatedly rap about.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:12 (ten years ago) link
huh, that was kinda renny harlin's last shot at gold. he's been reduced to directing episodes of usa network shows nowadays.
― balls, Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:12 (ten years ago) link
Also, before I wrap up what is clearly an extended recommendation that you all watch Renny Harlin's Deep Blue Sea on Netflix Watch Instantly, I also want to say that Allmusic used to list that song under the title "Deepest Blues."
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
deep blue see is awesome
also until just now I always thought it was 'my head is like a shark's fin'
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
see? sea
LL is vicious with his rhymes. Just like a shark fin poking out of water, he’s ready to attack when he’s wearing his hats.
Early in his career, LL was almost always seen wearing a black or red Kangol. These hat could resemble a shark’s fin when seen from the right angle. Here is a watercolor painting of LL Cool J from Rap Genius editor HaringDMC.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5329/8992509880_312d7ddc95_n.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:22 (ten years ago) link
forget oreos eat cool j cookies
― sassy, fun, and RELATABLE (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:30 (ten years ago) link
Shut Up and Play the Hits
Had no idea this was on there. Thanks!
xp is there actually a setting in Netflix for "highest image quality"? I've never seen that.
There are options in the settings to limit quality if you have bandwidth caps, but more useful is the wee secret browser menu. Alt-shift-mouse click (on a mac anyway- not sure if it's the same on windows) in the video window will bring up a diagnostic menu, and the stream manager option lets you change bitrate manually. SD videos max out at 1750Kbps and HD at 3000Kbps I think. Netflix generally seems pretty good at working this out though, so trying to second guess it for a higher bitrate might lead to buffering.
― sktsh, Thursday, 25 July 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
Orange is the New Black is great so far.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 02:51 (ten years ago) link
we miss it already. we want more.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 03:16 (ten years ago) link
Chicken episode was A+ TV.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 1 August 2013 03:27 (ten years ago) link
So...what will happen to me if I go down this New Girl-shaped black hole that I'm contemplating? Scott?
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Sunday, 4 August 2013 02:35 (ten years ago) link
Man top of the lake is weird and good
― kaiju rolling stone cover (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 4 August 2013 02:39 (ten years ago) link
Ugh I watched an entire New Girl season because of scott
I preferred the time I watched Longmire due to in orbit, tbh
― carlos danger zone (mh), Sunday, 4 August 2013 02:45 (ten years ago) link
Okay no I can't do this. She just broke a tv.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Sunday, 4 August 2013 02:49 (ten years ago) link
I just watched Happy People and it's definitely Lesser Herzog (like barely Herzog) and the music left something to be desired (considering the precedent he sets) but it's a great portrait of human-canine interaction!
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Sunday, 4 August 2013 04:04 (ten years ago) link
i think often of the guy making skis like nbd
― lag∞n, Sunday, 4 August 2013 04:21 (ten years ago) link
I wondered if he made them every year or just when they got old and he needed new ones.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Sunday, 4 August 2013 04:21 (ten years ago) link
Just finished watching God Bless America. Not as good as advertised, but a decent way to pass time on a Saturday night.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 4 August 2013 04:31 (ten years ago) link
The first three or four New Girls lean too hard on twee Jess behaviors... once they abandon that angle, it's much more fun.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Sunday, 4 August 2013 05:12 (ten years ago) link
yeah i very deliberately didn't watch that show first season cuz of deschanel, caught a few episodes via watching other fox sitcoms that night (neither of which i watch, one cuz it was canceled the other cuz i got tired of waiting for it to 'find its voice' or whatever), found myself liking it way more than i thought i might, ended up watching all of the second season and when someone (an ilxor i think) called it 'the best sitcom on tv' i couldn't really come up w/ a better contender (at least not that i'd really call a sitcom ie not louie, not girls, not bob's burgers, not um children's hospital i guess)(30 rock had already wrapped and happy endings was all but canceled). decided to watch first season on netflix, watched second episode and thought 'nope, too much deschanel', skipped ahead to episode 10 (which i think is the first one w/ lizzy caplan?) and enjoyed it pretty much from there out. in the episodes i've seen and liked jess is kinda just another character on the show, she's still the protagonist but not nearly as much the focus of the show as say liz lemon was w/ 30 rock (think ted mosby maybe). i've been tempted to check out the first nine episodes but apparently there's a lot of justin long there also so i may never get around to it.
orange is the new black is pretty good, i was superhesitant to check it out cuz 'from the creator of weeds' but i figured if i could stick thru 4 seasons (i think? when did mexico enter the picture?) of weeds i could give this a shot. it's better than weeds. based on this and oz women's prison looks like much much much easier time than men's prison.
― balls, Sunday, 4 August 2013 06:24 (ten years ago) link
OITNB had the best developed female characters on television. My biggest complaint might be that the tertiary characters are more interesting than the main one.
― Darin, Sunday, 4 August 2013 15:00 (ten years ago) link
I sort of like that. They've said flat-out that the and her friends/family are basically the Trojan Horse to get into the lives of all the other characters, since a prison show about a poor black ugly female prisoner never would have been made. I wonder if it's a coincidence or mild subversion that the lead character and her circle on the outside are often depicted as buffoons. For sure the flashback origins of her fellow prisoners just make her seem that much more lame. "I went through a stage when I was younger, being a lesbian, running drugs and staying the four-star hotels! We've got an artisanal soap line launching!" Meanwhile, everyone else had horrible lives and backgrounds and went through some real shit.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 4 August 2013 15:26 (ten years ago) link
"My biggest complaint might be that the tertiary characters are more interesting than the main one."
Feel like this is almost sort of the point of the show.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Sunday, 4 August 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
its a not uncommon way to tie ensembles together eg luke skywalker
― lag∞n, Sunday, 4 August 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
also i havent watched the whole thing yet but i find her interesting
― lag∞n, Sunday, 4 August 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
She's not bad. Her friends and family are insufferable, though. The Jason Biggs character is a big dud, and I still can't tell five or six in if it's an intentional choice. And his parents? And her mom? Total sitcom characters, with none of the depth or contradictions (yet) of her cellmates.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 4 August 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
"Ugh I watched an entire New Girl season because of scott"
i am the destroyer!
― scott seward, Sunday, 4 August 2013 16:28 (ten years ago) link
i dunno, i thought it was entertaining enough.
i'm hooked on terriers now cuzza nabisco and i'm sad it only lasted 13 episodes. almost done. and i miss orange is the new black. maria started watching prison break just to get a prison fix.
― scott seward, Sunday, 4 August 2013 16:29 (ten years ago) link
terriers is the best!
― horseshoe, Sunday, 4 August 2013 16:39 (ten years ago) link
do i have to watch this orange is the new black?
yeah i think so
imo they have to cartoon it up early so we can see them (the cartoony characters) "grow" (and/or not-grow, to have someone to reflect piper's growth) same with pipes -- she's a selfish master cleansing artisan soap artist OH WAIT now she is (i have no idea what she turns out like at the end of the series but i'm assuming she grows thanks to her exposure to the colorful cast of characters in her women's prison experience) i don't really like the idea that the only place we can get a diverse female ensemble cast is in prison but so be it. lots of the ladies remind me of my students.
that's not to say that i haven't been enjoying it -- i have! -- but i wish it were less vignette/more throughline story. i guess if it's based on a true story there's not going to be a lot of that though.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Sunday, 4 August 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link
one thing i really really like about orange is the new black is that sky blue title card that let's me know exactly when to stop fast forwarding thru that fucking regina spektor song.
― balls, Sunday, 4 August 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link
i kinda like iti like the opening sequence with the faces too
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Sunday, 4 August 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link