Anyone seen a good movie lately?

[ice grillin you]

i enjoyed it but it was underwhelming...better than jackie brown or kill bill thats for sure

true

maybe it was the whole killing hitler thing that got my jew juices going. but i found it better than dogs, at least on first view.

ive just now determined that you havent seen resovoir dogs

[MDS]

i have now just determined that you have no taste in movies

[Munson]

It took you 900 pages to determine that?

[ice grillin you]

i dont know if you like documentaries...i farging love them...and most of them are on instant view

it has to be on a subject that really interests me.  super size me is probably the last documentary i've seen. 

of course, i don't really follow the documentary genre so if there's any solid ones out there, i'm always open to suggestions. 

here are a bunch of my favorites...i wont tell you what they are about you can look them up and see if they will interest you...but all are fantastic...i didnt include any of michael moores...they speak for themselves and are all superb

no end in sight
taxi to the dark side
harlan county usa
the bridge (maybe my favorite ever)
an inconvienant truth
enron the smartest guys in the room
king of kong
jonestown
jesus camp
lake of fire
fog of war
man on wire
you cant be neutral
in the shadow of the moon
hoop dreams
the thin blue line
crumb
grizzly man
paradise lost
spellbound
gimme shelter
capturing the friedmans
night and fog

[Sgt PSN]

read and saw hoop dreams probably about 15 years ago - awesome (still have the book and i might even still have the vhs somewhere)

i know what inconvenient truth is - want to see it.  not much interest in watching enron. 

as for the rest.....can't say i recognize any titles and other than a few, can't even imagine what they are about based on the titles.  i'll check them out on netflix though for a quick summary. 

[mussa]

grizzly man is the shtein! fog of war is great

[Seabiscuit36]

watched King of New York since i had no interwebs.  Forgot how much i loved that movie, bop bop bop

[MMH]

grizzly man is the shtein! fog of war is great

Fog of War was very well done, but depressing.
Jesus Camp made me hate Christians even more than I already did, if that was possible.

[paco]

I just saw bastiches the first time last weekend too.  Holy f, what a movie.  I went in totally unprepaired for what I was about to see.

they kill hitler?!!?! wtf? that's sooooooooooooo sad.     thanks for ruining it for me. 

ass

Don't worry, thats not the ending to the movie.

[paco]

i'm waiting until it's available on netflix.

speaking of netflix.....i'm annoyed with them right now.  

their instant view sucks now that i've watched the 20 or so movies they have that i was interested in.  the selection is total crap right now.  i guess it's easy to let people watch an unlimited number of movies on instant view, when they are mostly movies that no one really wants to watch.  the only appeal to it right now seems to be if you're a tv junkie as they have a shteinload of tv shows available.  

Don't blame netflix, blame the movie companies.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-10/ff_netflix

Unearthing overlooked gems is great, but Netflix's service will never take off until it can offer up its share of blockbusters. To get those titles, the company needed some way to hack the so-called windowing system, the complicated schedule that governs which distributors can show what films and in what format. First, national and international theatrical distributors pay to show a film in their theaters. Next, there's the DVD and pay-per-view windows. Then there's the combined $1.7 billion a year that channels like HBO, Starz, and Showtime spend to secure the exclusive rights to show movies to subscribers. (Each studio usually signs with just one pay channel; all Warner Bros. movies appear only on HBO, while Sony's go to Starz.) After a few months, the pay-TV networks hand off their rights to broadcasters and ad-supported cable stations. A few years later, the premium channels get the films back, giving them exclusive rights to air them. The windowing system can keep films locked up for years; Disney's National Treasure: Book of Secrets came out in 2007 and is spoken for until 2016. Unless Hastings and Sarandos could find a way around the windowing system, it would be a challenge to show any major movies that had been released in the recent past.

Then they discovered a loophole: Why couldn't Starz sell Netflix the right to air its movies, just as it did with Comcast? Starz had the pay-TV rights to newer titles, exactly what Netflix lacked. Netflix had nearly 9 million (now almost 11 million) subscribers; if it were a cable company, it would be number three, bigger than Cablevision and Charter combined. "We looked at our contract rights and saw that they were an aggregator of content just like the other distributors," says Starz CEO Robert Clasen.

If anything, they are actively trying to offer the content, but its the Warner brothers of the world keeping that from happening.


Also, you know the cable companies are hating this

In October 2008, the two companies announced a deal that would add 2,500 fresh titles to Netflix's service. The studios were stunned. "This is the last thing you want," moaned one studio executive. "More eyeballs with no incremental revenue."


Hastings' window probably won't stay open forever. Unhappy studios or cable companies could easily renegotiate their contract with Starz to discourage it from working with Netflix. Still, the deal kicked off what Hastings hopes will be an unstoppable virtuous cycle. If Netflix can use the Starz offerings to sign up more subscribers, those subscription fees will generate more revenue. And with more revenue, Netflix can afford to pay more studios for rights to more films—which will draw in still more subscribers. And so on. Ultimately, if Netflix can grow and maintain a big enough library by working directly with the studios, it won't need the likes of Starz. Sure, it could potentially overturn the way Hollywood has done business, but as long as the studios are getting paid, why should they mind? "Think of all things in Hollywood as 'money talks,'" Hastings says. "If we can generate enough money for studios, we can get any content we want."

[SunMo]

lol at Inglorious Baterds being better than Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs


ps.  stop calling it "Dogs" just because you don't know how to spell Reservoir

[ice grillin you]

i dont know how to either but im also not afraid to butcher it

[MDS]

lol at that being the reason

when you spell something wrong the word is underlined in red. what an effort it is to right click and change it.

[rjs246]

I watched something called Altered on streaming Netflix yesterday. It was a surprisingly effective horror movie (considering it was about alien abduction/invasion and revolved around the revenge fantasies of a bunch of 'necks) with one exception.. the rubber suit that the evil alien wore. The rest of the special effects and gore were pretty good actually, but jesus that suit was just atrocious.

[phillycrew]

I watched something called Altered on streaming Netflix yesterday. It was a surprisingly effective horror movie (considering it was about alien abduction/invasion and revolved around the revenge fantasies of a bunch of 'necks) with one exception.. the rubber suit that the evil alien wore. The rest of the special effects and gore were pretty good actually, but jesus that suit was just atrocious.

I thought the Tudors series was pretty good.  Interesting enough to make me break out my college British history textbook and look up the monarchy again.  Also makes you wonder about the Anglican/Episcopal church and the papacy.