so not gonna happen:
https://www.tribecashortlist.com/preview/movies/all
shortlist indeed!
― scott seward, Monday, August 29, 2016 1:57 AM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh man, GOON and THE BANK JOB, finally
― nomar, Friday, 2 September 2016 19:24 (seven years ago) link
streaming services have pulled the most amazing con w/r/t the movies they make available, they get people excited for what they pass up in the 50 cent DVD pile at yard sales.
― nomar, Friday, 2 September 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link
otm
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Friday, 2 September 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link
does anyone even use the original netflix dvd-in-mail model anymore?
― Spottie, Friday, 2 September 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link
yes, I do, although we've gone from a peak of 5 at a time to only 1
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Friday, 2 September 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
*raises hand*
mostly because new seasons of tv series and movies come out on disc way sooner than they start streaming, for the most part.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link
i use it to watch movies that aren't on streaming
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 2 September 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
i use it to watch movies that are on streaming bc i'm a fucking moron
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 2 September 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link
i get blu-ray new releases on the regular.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Friday, 2 September 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link
No more discs for the last few years. Can't turn them over fast enough and don't care about new releases.
― Jeff, Friday, 2 September 2016 22:03 (seven years ago) link
I've started paying the $2.99-6.99 for VOD again through the Google Play store. The bargain bin movies are fine for background noise around the house but when I'm able to actually make time for a movie night the Netflix options seem to have gotten weaker and weaker.
Bring on the TCM/Criterion streaming service
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 2 September 2016 22:19 (seven years ago) link
hulu's got em!
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Saturday, 3 September 2016 00:27 (seven years ago) link
i get crippled by criterion hulu sometimes. i can't make up my mind. do i feel like japanese tonight or italian? it's best when i don't overthink it and go random.
― scott seward, Saturday, 3 September 2016 01:09 (seven years ago) link
LAST CHANCE U
― self-clowning cozen of ILX (cozen), Friday, 2 September 2016 18:49 (yesterday) Permalink
^^ so good!
― schwantz, Friday, 2 September 2016 19:23 (yesterday) Permalink
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Saturday, 3 September 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
i can't bring myself to watch that milk carton kid documentary even though john waters likes it a lot. just not in the mood for missing kid grief...
― scott seward, Saturday, 3 September 2016 20:18 (seven years ago) link
what's the title? (though i do agree with you)
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Saturday, 3 September 2016 20:20 (seven years ago) link
I still do disc service, as I have a 500 title queue of which only <10% is also streamable.
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 3 September 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link
i probably won't watch it since i've had to hear about it my whole life and that ordeal is of the main reasons my parents didn't let me stray very far as a kid
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Saturday, 3 September 2016 21:30 (seven years ago) link
"what's the title? (though i do agree with you)"
WHO TOOK JOHNNY
― scott seward, Saturday, 3 September 2016 22:31 (seven years ago) link
that movie is awful. not in a good way. like it's stupid.
― assawoman bay (harbl), Saturday, 3 September 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link
do i really need to watch the u.s. shameless? people were talking about how good it was on facebook today. i kinda got tired of the u.k. one and stopped watching it. i briefly had showtime via hulu and didn't watch it then. but now its up on netflix.
― scott seward, Saturday, 3 September 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link
well, no, i think i talked about this on some other thread. it's good in the way that the suburban mom is so perfect.
― assawoman bay (harbl), Saturday, 3 September 2016 22:33 (seven years ago) link
xp thanks for the save
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Saturday, 3 September 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link
like a lot of people i love watching people do hard stuff that i would never ever do in a million years. so, this was fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQmoxlUy33A
― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 16:56 (seven years ago) link
Good doc.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
oh boy i am sooooo watching London Has Fallen. i loved that first movie where things fell.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
The Wheelchair President is rubbish. I don't know what I was expecting - an FDR documentary with some weight or authority, I guess - but this spends way too much time with the annoying presenter, who keeps dropping wheelchair-related puns into the script. I wish they'd given it to a Ken Burns who, while dry, at least has a fair sense of tone and, for the most part, a lot of substance to his work.
― I cry, and watch my DivX's of Brass Eye to console myself.... (stevie), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
Didn't Burns do an FDR doc or a tandem one with Teddy?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
who keeps dropping wheelchair-related puns into the script
this sounds like something that'd be in a parody trailer for a FDR documentary!
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 18:30 (seven years ago) link
many xposts
harbl i have been on the fence about watching, yr the first person i sorta trust who has said it's bad.
because i honestly feel like the mom is batshit bonkers nuts & there is so much conspiracy theory vs actual things that happened in this story that i sort of hate every retelling of it that accepts her ideas as facts
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 September 2016 01:00 (seven years ago) link
i watched Marcella last week. if u thought Happy Valley was a bummer, holy shitit's great if you are a morbid saddo like me tho
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 September 2016 01:02 (seven years ago) link
sounds like my kinda show
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 15 September 2016 01:24 (seven years ago) link
srsly its so good
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 September 2016 01:34 (seven years ago) link
Has anyone watched Twinsters?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1txduZwL2Yg
As a twin, it probably affected me more than it should have but my wife was really touched and engaged with it as well.
It's a completely unbelievable story at any rate. Kudos to the one sister for having the foresight to begin documenting from the beginning.
http://www.netflix.com/watch/80047635
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 15 September 2016 01:54 (seven years ago) link
Been loving Chef's Table
― Spottie, Thursday, 15 September 2016 01:55 (seven years ago) link
We just watched Twinsters the other day. It began sort of cute and insufferable, all the on-screen texting and stuff, but then it got deeper and weirdly fascinating, though it never goes full nature-nurture. Like the way the two girls were so similar in many regards but so different socially, and how they had such different feelings about their adoption. Psychologically there are all sorts of things going on, but I found it really touching how the one sister felt wanted, because she was the third child and the first adopted kid, which made her feel like a choice, but the other sister felt like a runner up, that not only did her birth mother not want her, her adopted parents only chose her because they could not have kids of their own.
My wife told me (don't know where she heard this) that there is apparently a large subculture of adopted Korean-American kids rediscovering their roots and moving back to Korea, despite not speaking the language, etc.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 September 2016 02:00 (seven years ago) link
please ask her where she heard that
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Thursday, 15 September 2016 03:29 (seven years ago) link
Will do! It was certainly the first I'd heard of it.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 September 2016 03:53 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, really enjoyed Twinsters
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 15 September 2016 04:00 (seven years ago) link
VG, I liked Marcella.
I haven't see Happy Valley yet.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 15 September 2016 04:38 (seven years ago) link
What an insane memory she has:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/magazine/why-a-generation-of-adoptees-is-returning-to-south-korea.html
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 September 2016 13:07 (seven years ago) link
BTW, like I said when I first started the doc I thought it a tad insufferable, not least because it was lead/co-directed by an actor in Hollywood, which gave it a bit of a self-promotional reality show vibe. Obviously the doc gets better/deeper, but now, to no one's surprise, it's been leveraged into a sitcom:
http://www.avclub.com/article/abcs-newest-bundle-joy-twins-comedy-happy-endings--242649
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 September 2016 13:44 (seven years ago) link
i feel like there was a POV film on the korean adoptee migration as well?
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 15 September 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link
re: TwinstersI think the cutesy/immaturity aspect between the 2 girls was perhaps tied to the fact that they never experienced their childhoods together so it was a bit of a regression. They immediately began coding twin words, calling each other pet names like "fish", "snail"... but then they began using "pop" first as a symbol/shadow of their technological based communication, but soon evolved into an endearment and then almost a longing, melancholic codeword (again as a twin, this could be my own projection, but it still stood out).
I'm also curious about how much the caucasian suburbs of Paris created a different environment than the caucasian suburbs of NYC as Sam never felt singled out for appearing different (although that could be the product of having 2 older brothers as protection), whereas Anais mentioned a couple times that she was singled out for looking different growing up.
Also fascinating to me was, as we later learn at the Twins research center that the primary differences between them is that Sam is the extrovert and Anais is the moody one... but looking back at their first meeting in London, Anais was the extrovert, poking Sam a couple times, whereas Sam's initial impulse was to hide behind furniture and general high anxiety.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 15 September 2016 16:35 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, but she is also an actor and the co-director and therefore very camera-aware, which is another psychological component.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 September 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
xxpost Happy Valley is great!
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 September 2016 03:57 (seven years ago) link
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Saturday, September 3, 2016 8:58 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 17 September 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
the result of watching chef's table before lunch:
https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14449990_1670525443261101_7467732875862615989_n.jpg?oh=0c2129857b6cc0e9add6f4d0c851522c&oe=586E4EA3
that show doesn't actually make me want to go to a fancy restaurant. i just want to stand around in a barn smelling wheels of parmesan and be all rustic and cool.
― scott seward, Thursday, 29 September 2016 15:07 (seven years ago) link
just gave that picture a thumbs-up here
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Thursday, 29 September 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, September 14, 2016 9:00 PM (two weeks ago)
what didn't help is that i saw this at a film festival where the directors spoke afterward and it was like "we want to raise awareness about child sexual exploitation" or something else pro-stranger danger
― assawoman bay (harbl), Thursday, 29 September 2016 15:26 (seven years ago) link