What are you watching on Netflix? (Page 1 of 2)

Goddammit, Teague, I very clearly said if so.

After years of meaning to, I just watched it the first time this afternoon (thanks, Netflix). I'm … really not sure what to say about it. I can't shake the feeling that it's a hell of a thing, but I can't explain why.

Sure, knock yourself out.

Haven't seen "Boys Don't Cry" since the first time, which wasn't long after it came out. I remember being affected by it, but I don't remember how exactly. Haven't seen "Lord of the Flies" at all, never heard of "Pizza."

I hate giving up on a movie. I'll stick with a movie through thick and thin, out of pure stubbornness most of the time. But just last weekend, I bailed on one: "Ninja Assassin." I get that there are people who dug it, but I was just bored out of my socks.

I finally got around to watching "Up in the Air" a few weeks ago. Kicked myself for missing it the first time. Great, great movie.

Also … I'm pretty sure I have a man-crush on George Clooney. He's good in everything.

You can do better than that. Gimme a minute, I'll find you something.

Taxi Driver is hard in my top 10.  Hard.

- Branco

Am I the last movie lover who doesn't subscribe to Netflix? I used to use Peerflix, but it went under. I still have about 10 movies from them that I haven't watched (you owned them until you sent them on). I also have about 20 other DVDs and Blu-Rays that I haven't watched. And I have at least 40 movies on my DVR that I haven't watched (I have 2 external hard drives).

So I can't bring myself to subscribe to Netflix because I'm not lacking for entertainment, just time.

However, if movie channels count, then I have to say Perfect Getaway (Steve Zahn, Milla Jovovich), which I watched yesterday because I wanted to see how right I was in my guesses from seeing the trailer. About 85% right, as it turns out.

I'm actually not surprised that you didn't dig TAXI DRIVER.  Not that I know you well enough to tell you shit about yourself, so don't take it that way, but you don't strike me as the type of dude that's constantly repressing urges to fight people.

I think the movie might appeal more to those of us who feel like their drowning in a sea of fucking morons and indecent ogres, and the only life raft has Smith and Wesson written on the side of it.

- Branco

PS -- Just finished up RICHARD PRYOR ON THE SUNSET STRIP.

The wife passed out, so I'm watching SINGLES. Kinda reminds me of a Bertocci flick...

- Branco

PS -- Is it just me, or do the majority of actors/characters in quirky flicks from the early 90's seem like giant douches?

Last edited by Branco (2010-08-02 05:05:13)

Being There is amazing. Easily some of Sellers's best work. He tends to come off smug in a lot of roles (There's a Girl in My Soup, for example).

Very interesting observation. All I could think of when I was watching "Aguirre" was Terence Malick.

(Well. And "Apocalypse Now," obviously. I don't remember the timeline well enough to know if "Aguirre" could have influenced Coppola directly. "Aguirre" was 72, "Apocalypse" was 79, but wasn't "Apocalypse" in prepro for a couple hundred years?)

Last edited by Jeffery Harrell (2010-08-02 20:30:34)

"A Simple Plan" was Raimi, not the Coens.

I need to embrace the whole Coen Bros. thing more than I have. I haven't really seen any of their "serious" movies except "Fargo," which I remember enjoying but it didn't change my life or anything. The first twenty minutes or whatever of "Raising Arizona" is genius, and "O Brother" is one of my all-time favorite films. I don't want Fop, goddammit. I'm a Dapper Dan man.