Yeah but you're a trailblazer.
― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 16:38 (eight years ago) link
so what's the new workaround now that Netflix blocks hola? will probably unsubscribe if i can't find something, Canadian netflix is so bad
― flopson, Tuesday, March 29, 2016 11:12 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you know i was thinking about it... they should just cut a deal with the licensers or whoever owns the rights to the films, and you can pay 5$ per month more to get access to US/UK netflix
― flopson, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 20:03 (eight years ago) link
yeah that's not going to ever happen :c
im sure there's plenty of subscription vpns out there to use, im going to have to either choose one or cancel netflix as the canadian one is real bad in comparison with what the states gets.
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 20:10 (eight years ago) link
vpn blocking was apparently at the "request" of studios
― balls, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 20:14 (eight years ago) link
i know, but presumably there is some amount of extra $ they can charge + funnel to studios that would make studios better off than blocking vpn's
― flopson, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 20:16 (eight years ago) link
i imagine the studios etc. have manifold separate and distinct agreements regarding Canadian licensing, lasting different terms, involving different sums of money etc. and no bulk deal would be logistically feasible
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 20:18 (eight years ago) link
lol flopson you have to be trolling bud
there's a lot of bureaucracy to getting licensing
like jim said this is something that will never change
i do imagine some countries get one or two highly popular shows just to keep people hooked
but living in canada we/you are screwed
it's one of few good things living stateside
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link
distributors aren't helping though
but anyway
vpn + https://popcorntime.sh are some solutions
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 21:00 (eight years ago) link
just do what we did in the old days, order a box set from the other country
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
i don't claim to understand the intricacies of movie and tv licensing bureaucracy, but presumably the people who own the licenses want money, so i don't think it's so farfetched that there could be arrangement where countries with shitty licensing pay more
― de l'asshole (flopson), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 02:54 (eight years ago) link
in australia the stuff you actually want to watch has been snapped in exclusive deals by competing non-netflix VOD services who will probably die off over the next 5 years, but in the meantime mean you either subscribe to multiple shitty providers to still get less than the US for 5x the money, or else not watch anything good
― like Uber, but for underpants (James Morrison), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 03:53 (eight years ago) link
the demise of unblock us has really bummed me out - i pretty much could always find something worth watching by picking another region at random and paging through their selection.
the crazy thing about the whole region-locking issue is that it'll just encourage more piracy. my wife and i had started slowly working our way through the x-files again on us netflix and i'm wondering now whether i should just torrent the whole thing in a totally pointless fuck-you gesture to netflix
― Upset by racist left wingers calling me an egg (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 12:55 (eight years ago) link
Well, it would be a fuck-you to the rights-holders who caused this problem, so go for it!
― like Uber, but for underpants (James Morrison), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 22:52 (eight years ago) link
ya, torrenting is just such a pain, but ultimately it is the best option
and now that you can stream it it works out pretty good
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 23:47 (eight years ago) link
you guys are gonna make me feel bad for posting about cool movies you can't see because your netflix is so lame. can you petition the Queen or something?
― scott seward, Thursday, 31 March 2016 00:40 (eight years ago) link
when we were in england i could see "a walk among the tombstones" but i can't see it on US netflix :(
really been into myth hunters and ancient black ops lately.
― ian, Thursday, 31 March 2016 03:01 (eight years ago) link
Bizarro - are you in the UK? If you sign up to a free month of Ahummuszon Prime in the UK, they have X-Files on that.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 31 March 2016 10:26 (eight years ago) link
There is still some good weird stuff on Netflix UK - I finally got to see A New Leaf, for example, which is awesome.
I'm finding Unblock Us still works for one show via Ipad, then I get the VPN warning. You just have to quit the app and restart after each show/movie.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 31 March 2016 10:31 (eight years ago) link
if bizarro's in the uk then he can watch x-files on freeview on Spike at the moment. i think they are about 3 weeks in.
http://www.channel5.com/show/the-x-files
(oh, they are showing 1 a day so are on series 1 episode 13 already. it's also the place showing walking dead series 5, two at a time)
― koogs, Thursday, 31 March 2016 10:37 (eight years ago) link
watched the movie Hard Labor last night. from Brazil. i enjoyed it. a slow drip of minimal strangeness. one of the best last scenes i've seen in a long time. kind of the perfect catharsis for what came before.
― scott seward, Thursday, 31 March 2016 12:13 (eight years ago) link
yeah, i'm in scotland and i do have amazon prime - must have overlooked that the x-files is on there, cheers for the heads-up.
the thought of looking for the x-files on actual broadcast television genuinely never occurred to me! unexpected side-effect of living in the future, i guess
― Upset by racist left wingers calling me an egg (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 March 2016 13:05 (eight years ago) link
they started the repeats immediately after the revamp finished...
(hadn't realised that Spike was channel 5 owned. makes sense seeing as the walking dead was previously on one of the 5s.)
― koogs, Thursday, 31 March 2016 14:54 (eight years ago) link
poldark is streaming on prime if anyome likes brooding windswept period dramas about...mining
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 March 2016 15:00 (eight years ago) link
As Clive James once said, Poldark = an anagram of Old Krap
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 31 March 2016 15:01 (eight years ago) link
lol
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 March 2016 15:02 (eight years ago) link
I only had to hide my eyes once during Wetlands. at the end. what a movie...sigmund freud + john waters is some kinda combo.
― scott seward, Thursday, 31 March 2016 16:16 (eight years ago) link
Of course, Clive James is an anagram of El Jive Scam
― a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, 31 March 2016 23:28 (eight years ago) link
I just watched Queen of Versailles (thanks scott and thread!) - so well done. The filmmakers were even sued a couple of times by David Siegel, but he lost, and rightly so - because holy crap The Reality. You can't fake all that dog shit on the floor and a massive house full of compulsive spending and a mean old rich republican misogynist. I loved her though. And the wonderful nannies, they broke my heart most of all (I've seen docs and read about the Filipino nanny phenomenon so that prob affected that but still :( taking care of other people's kids while yours grow up without you? That makes me hate the bs financial system more than a rich guy getting his shit foreclosed upon. And Jackie's friend who was $1700 behind on her mortgage and the bank wouldn't accept her $5000 to get her house back?? And all the lost jobs?? Fffuck. But I guess that was the point.) Anyway, great film about the financial crisis and continued big finance bullshittery.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 1 April 2016 07:07 (eight years ago) link
Er Ist Wieder Da (Look Who's Back)
Storyline
Adolf Hitler wakes up to find himself in the 21st century. From there he pursues a career as a standup comedian.
The Germans have got their Hitler satire out before Iannucci's Stalin one comes out.
― calzino, Friday, 1 April 2016 20:20 (eight years ago) link
Whoa, Rivette's Out 1 is up. Broken up into 8 episodes. Guess I'll finally watch this thing.
― woman in the dunes, Saturday, 2 April 2016 03:25 (eight years ago) link
fuck that is crazy ya maybe will have to
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 2 April 2016 03:35 (eight years ago) link
yeah, me too! i know someone who saw it last year in nyc. at the movies. their liveblog play by play of the audience during intermissions was a hoot!
― scott seward, Saturday, 2 April 2016 03:40 (eight years ago) link
Thank God
― circa1916, Saturday, 2 April 2016 07:46 (eight years ago) link
watched the eGames documentary all about that stuff that Tombot loves. kind of a commercial for the league that holds tournaments and i wish they had actually talked to the people who make the games, but it had some interesting moments.
watched some episodes of The Booze Traveler which is very entertaining and funny. and it made me want exotic booze i will never find.
started episode 5 of Out 1 tonight. Netflix kinda the perfect way to watch it. since they hold my place and everything. watching Out 1 at night while also reading the Elena Ferrante books during the day is making me feel very cosmopolitan.
added these to my Netflix list. i never started a list before! but i am very forgetful and i should have done it a long time ago:
revenge of the mekons
inside man
i ought to be in pictures
happy-go-lucky
the birth of sake
3 women
16 blocks
in fear
gomorrah
goodbye to language
hard to be a god
snowpiercer
― scott seward, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 01:14 (eight years ago) link
happy-go-lucky is NOT what it claims to be! the trailer for this (and the blurb) make it sound like a comedy but it's not - it's fucking grim and awful and you spend the entire movie waiting for something really awful to happen. but then it is a mike leigh movie.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 04:28 (eight years ago) link
I loved Happy-Go-Lucky. I wouldn't say it's grim, exactly, but there are stretches of agonizing tension. And the lead performances (Poppy and the driving instructor) are really impressive.
― JRN, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 06:13 (eight years ago) link
happy go lucky is great and would make a good doubleheader with gomorrah.you can prob skip goodbye to language; watching it in 2-d on a television screen misses the point almost entirely.hard to be a god may have the same caveat?
― ulysses, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 06:36 (eight years ago) link
Snowpiercer is a lad of balls, but happy go lucky is very good indeed
― a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 10:37 (eight years ago) link
Load of balls, i mean
― a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 10:38 (eight years ago) link
ty for new screenname
― a lad of balls (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 10:58 (eight years ago) link
ha!
did you see Hard To Be A God, James Morrison?
looks cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11sMDQIgggA
― scott seward, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 12:48 (eight years ago) link
i don't think i've seen 3 Women since the days of VHS.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 12:52 (eight years ago) link
the brother from Ray Donovan is British! i did not know that. he's the driving instructor in happy go lucky.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 13:41 (eight years ago) link
"it's fucking grim and awful and you spend the entire movie waiting for something really awful to happen."
hahaha! it was not either! the end thing was scary though.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:41 (eight years ago) link
did we discuss how jacques rivette's OUT ONE -- all 13 hours of it -- is on netflix instant now?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:42 (eight years ago) link
i imagine jonathan rosenbaum will soon rescind his endorsement of OUT ONE as the greatest film ever made?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:43 (eight years ago) link
we did indeed talk about it.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:46 (eight years ago) link
i even talked about it today!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:47 (eight years ago) link
or actually 20 hours ago...
we didn't really discuss it though. just got excited about it...
― scott seward, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:48 (eight years ago) link