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See You Next Wednesday said:
GI Joe was a great cartoon to watch back when you were a kid.

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Glad it's up on Netflix
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[netflix by mail]

Netflix by mail sent me Curb Your Enthusiasm s8 disc 2.

I haven't gotten disc 1 yet.

Silly Netflix.

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I started to go through breaking bad again and noticed the pilot is now edited. The lady in the window isn't topless anymore, and I think some of the language has been cleaned up.
 
What was so great about Drive? I heard people rave about it on GAF, but I found it to be merely average. In fact, the main character's penchant for saying ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AND JUST SMILING ALL THE DAMNED TIME FOR NO REASON drove me wild several times. Like, the girl would ask him a question and dude would just give this sheepish smile and not say anything. I wanted to reach into the TV and shake some words into him. Aaaaarrghhhh. :P
 
Loki said:
What was so great about Drive? I heard people rave about it on GAF, but I found it to be merely average. In fact, the main character's penchant for saying ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AND JUST SMILING ALL THE DAMNED TIME FOR NO REASON drove me wild several times. Like, the girl would ask him a question and dude would just give this sheepish smile and not say anything. I wanted to reach into the TV and shake some words into him. Aaaaarrghhhh. :P
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I liked the music, I liked the tone, I liked the story, I liked the action, I liked the visuals and I liked the acting. It is not a movie for everyone. Typically I hate films where the characters have long unnatural pauses in their conversations, but this particular movie worked for me.
 
Loki said:
What was so great about Drive? I heard people rave about it on GAF, but I found it to be merely average. In fact, the main character's penchant for saying ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AND JUST SMILING ALL THE DAMNED TIME FOR NO REASON drove me wild several times. Like, the girl would ask him a question and dude would just give this sheepish smile and not say anything. I wanted to reach into the TV and shake some words into him. Aaaaarrghhhh. :P
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Oh yes, I really hated that. But on the other side I enjoyed all of the other aspects.
 
C4Lukins said:
I liked the music, I liked the tone, I liked the story, I liked the action, I liked the visuals and I liked the acting. It is not a movie for everyone. Typically I hate films where the characters have long unnatural pauses in their conversations, but this particular movie worked for me.
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I did like the music and the visuals, but I guess I'm more about the dialogue/plot than some of these other finer points of film-making. The story was okay, but we have no insight into how this dude got mixed up in all the illegal stuff, nor any exposition on his life or mental history which would shed light on how he's about to act seemingly sociopathically at various points in the movie.
 
Loki said:
What was so great about Drive? I heard people rave about it on GAF, but I found it to be merely average. In fact, the main character's penchant for saying ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AND JUST SMILING ALL THE DAMNED TIME FOR NO REASON drove me wild several times. Like, the girl would ask him a question and dude would just give this sheepish smile and not say anything. I wanted to reach into the TV and shake some words into him. Aaaaarrghhhh. :P
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LOL. I totally didn't buy Gosling as "shy boy" either.
 
Drive is groundbreaking only if you've never seen a Michael Mann film pre-Heat. Otherwise, it was a good homage to that style, but highly derivative. People just haven't seen that style for a while, so they mistake it as new and fresh.
 
As an 80s teen I didn't really see anything that 80s about it, other than the Goldfrapp-type soundtrack, opening sequence and the dude's goofy Members Only style jacket.
 
drive was a solid, simple movie with a cool style. nothing groundbreaking, nothing bad either.

i really, really enjoyed it because i like the style, the theme, and the actors in it. but i recognize that it wasn't anything really too special, just a good movie.
 
I don't have time to do a proper write up of the movie, but I watched Bully last night and the movie blew me away. Maybe it's something that only someone who grew up in Florida during the 90's could properly understand. On the surface it might seem like a simple movie about teens, drugs, sex, and a murder. But it goes way beyond that to capture the atmosphere of what it felt like to be young at the time. Directionless, no motivation, nobody had any real passion for anything. Even sex and relationships lacked any real passion. It was just something to do. Pretty much all we did was drive around from one place to another getting high and drunk and looking for something to do. Looking for anything. Parents that are no more than background noise who come second to friends when it comes to who they trust and confide in. To me it seems like that is what the movie is really trying to capture.

By the end of the movie you just end up feeling sorry for these kids and just how stupid they were. It's not until after the fact that what they were doing finally feels real to them. The gravity of the situation hits them and it is more than any of them can deal with since they have never had to face any real consequences before.

Anyway, I liked it. Even as a simple crime movie it is well made. I think it expires soon so anyone interested might want to check it out before it does.
 
Loki said:
What was so great about Drive? I heard people rave about it on GAF, but I found it to be merely average. In fact, the main character's penchant for saying ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AND JUST SMILING ALL THE DAMNED TIME FOR NO REASON drove me wild several times. Like, the girl would ask him a question and dude would just give this sheepish smile and not say anything. I wanted to reach into the TV and shake some words into him. Aaaaarrghhhh. :P
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It felt like a damn music video to me.
 
Loki said:
I did like the music and the visuals, but I guess I'm more about the dialogue/plot than some of these other finer points of film-making. The story was okay, but we have no insight into how this dude got mixed up in all the illegal stuff, nor any exposition on his life or mental history which would shed light on how he's about to act seemingly sociopathically at various points in the movie.
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I found the fact that the main character had no backstory, seemingly no history whatsoever, to be the most interesting thing about the movie.
 
I just watched Drive a couple of nights ago on Netflix streaming. I really enjoyed the soundtrack... and Ryan Gosling's tight jeans. :P

I'm a little on the fence about it, because I would have liked to know more about his character and what made him the way he is, but all in all it was an enjoyable movie. I thought the violence was... somewhat gratuitous. :P

I also loved Carey Mulligan in Bleak House, so I was really pleased to see her in this film! She's also going to be in the new adaption of The Great Gatsby, so I'll be looking forward to that.

My next Netflix picks are probably going to be "Rango" and "Brick", since I still haven't seen either of those.
 
Detective Dee
Shaolin
13 Assassins
True Legend
Fearless
Flash Point

That might be the most enjoyable lineup I've watched on Netflix. I'm not much of a film buff, but I love action movies and these blew me away.
 
Netflix is in syndication talks for nearly every new show on TV, Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said Thursday at the Nomura U.S. Media Summit in New York City, and that has helped broadcasters and studios to prosper.

“All of the fears of what Netflix would do to television … haven’t been realized,” Sarandos said. Not only has the company spent hundreds of millions on content, but it has also driven people to watch current season episodes of shows, he argued.

Part of the success Netflix has had acquiring rights has to do with the fact that it has done traditional media deals from day one. The company wrote checks instead of promising studios rev-share deals, a practice that has shaped the industry to the point where revenue sharing isn’t even an option anymore. “That train has left the station,” Sarandos said.

Netflix has also helped to reshape the market for older TV content. “We have established that the season-after VOD rights are very valuable,” said Sarandos. And as studios realize that they can make money with catalog content, the prize of these catalogs is rising to a point where competing with Netflix becomes very costly. TV Everywhere offerings, for example, would have a hard time offering the same kind of catalog his company offers. “They would have to pay more than I would be willing to pay,” Sarandos said.

Still, there are deals that even Netflix is going to pass on. “We would have loved to have Modern Family,” explained Sarandos, but the VOD rights were sold as part of its syndication rights. Sarandos made the case that studios won’t win if they withhold these rights from the market. He cited the licensing arrangement for Glee, which gives Netflix the right to stream older seasons online and for Oxygen to show them on TV, as “a great deal for everybody.”

Another deal that got props from Sarandos is his company’s recent licensing agreement with Miramax. The studio licensed its catalog to Netflix on a non-exclusive basis, and has since licensed rights to Hulu as well. “It is better for all parties if we get multiple buyers,” because a non-exclusive deal would minimize the risk for buyers while maximizing profits for sellers.

In other words: It helps a company like Netflix to be frugal. That’s been Netflix’s key philosophy ever since it started to rent physical DVDs, according to Sarandos, who summed up his company’s media-buying philosophy with the words: “Have what you can afford.”
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http://gigaom.com/video/netflix-content-chief-we-would-have-loved-to-have-modern-family/
 
I haven't been using Instant Watch as much in the past few months, but now since we're in the summer months and there aren't a lot of good shows on tv right now I'm starting to use it more and more.

Here's what I've watched this week and would recommend:

Hatchet: Pretty good light hearted comedy/horror flick. I'll check out Hatchet 2.

Humanoids from the Deep: Low budget retro horror flick from 1980 produced by Roger Corman. About mutated fish that turn into monsters that kill men and rape women.

Vigilante: A vigilante justice film that rips of the Death Wish series, but it's still pretty good. Man's wife gets assaulted and kid gets killed by a multi-racial street gang. When the corrupt system fails to prosecute the criminals he takes takes maters into his own hands to get justice...street justice.

Twilight Zone: Trying to make it through the entire series.
 
Can anyone remember/link me to the site that was posted on neogaf where you input the type of film you wanted to watch, a year range (i think) and how highly it had to be rated on rotten tomatoes etc and then it listed good films to watch?

(its not instant watcher or feedflix
 
adroit said:
Yeah, the dark scenes are really too dark but once there is some light, it's watchable. This looks like an interesting movie. Ghastly but interesting.
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Couldn't tell what was going on in some of the night scenes (that uzi killing spree was ruined for me).
I guess they just had improper lighting when they shot them.
 
JeTmAn81 said:
They also have Captain America (irony!), X-Men First Class, Inglourious Basterds and a bunch of other stuff. I was quite envious of their selection when i was up there recently.
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Captain America will be coming to U.S. Netflix soon enough as part of their deal with EPIX, which shows many of the Paramount movies.

Stinkles said:
Canada has Super 8!
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Who wants to sit through that horrendous film again?
 
Good Job Bob said:
Says the guy with the Prometheus avatar.

Anyways, I quite enjoyed Super 8. Very fun.
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It's a Charlize Theron avatar. And Prometheus is still more enjoyable than Super 8. Both both films are perfect examples of directors trying to recapture glory that's been lost. One simply was trying to recapture his own, while another was chasing another's legacy.
 
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