I couldn't make myself continue past three episodes. They had teamed up once before this in another series I gave a chance but just couldn't get into after arrested development. Running wild or something?
are u guys crazy?!? todd margaret is sooooo goood! 3 episodes into season 2 currently. My friends have been trying to get me to watch Battlestar Gallactica for a while now & we were talking about it again the other night & then went home & watched the newest Portlandia episode, where they are making fun of people watching BSG & it was all too funny & random so needless to say I am on day 5 of my BSG binge via Netflix Instant.
Senna totally blew my mind. I have never followed Formula 1 and it was really eye-opening for me. The money involved, the speed, the rivalries, the politics...it was intense.
After browsing around for fun last night I noticed they have Brick up. I'd recommend it, albeit it's a bit slow to start.
Damn, I guess it happened yesterday: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/once-film ... 08412.html I was unaware of this timing - it crept up on me. I received no notifications that anything was removed from my queue. I would have printed it out in advance to see if anything disappeared (so I can track it down by other means). There is no way for me to know otherwise considering I have like 300 movies on it. Has anyone noticed anything in particular removed from their queues?
More tv shows is better than movies. The only time I watch movies is when it's cheesy or terrible. Except for Kung fu movies, I will watch Jackie Chan all day.
Alright. After waiting nearly two years, they finally have Fatso available for streaming. Watch & enjoy.
The link timed out, so I am not sure what info it gave. But Netflix has lost their contract with STARZ, who provided a good bulk of their movies. I am sure this will continue to be the trend amongst other companies who supply Netflix with their content.
Yesterday I caught Werner Herzog's recent documentary "Into the Abyss" on Netflix. It was a far more robust and intense doc than I was expecting ... then again, what was I thinking? This is Herzog exploring a horrible crime, its effects on the perps, the perp's families, the victims families, the life sentence groupie, the people involved in carrying out a state execution, and without being too preachy about it, the death sentence itself. Heavy stuff but an excellent watch. Also caught a foodie movie, "El Bulli: Cooking in Progress." This one was a bit of an odd duck. There's an awful lot of focus on how the now-defunct avant-garde restaurant El Bulli worked, which is alternately interesting, but maybe overdone. You get to know Chef Ferran Adria pretty well, but the whole thing is presented without narration with a sort of trippy ambient soundtrack. It all comes together at the end with a slideshow of a complete menu, aspects of which you've seen discussed, tested and created during the documentary. Gotta say, despite my interest in the subject I found it almost sleep-inducing at times. Maybe it should have been about a half hour shorter. Still, if you're interested in foodie stuff or modernist cuisine, it's worth catching. Just don't expect it to set your world on fire.
So, I watched one of these newly added “Classic Albums” shows on Netflix last night; I usually expect these sorts of things to be bad, but I was intrigued by the roster of albums they dealt with: Paranoid, Catch A Fire, Transformer. I love Transformer, so I picked that one… and was happily surprised by how damn good it was. Track-by-track interviews and commentary with Lou, Bowie, Micks Ronson and Rock, Transformer session ace Herbie Flowers- really great stuff, at a nice 49 min. length. Several times, Lou and/or engineer Ken Scott are at the board in Scott’s studio, playing the master tapes and isolating certain tracks; the moment when Lou isolates Bowie’s amazing high notes on the end of “Satellite of Love” is freaking wonderful. If you love the album, you’ll love this doc; I’m not sure it will win anyone over (Lou’s solo acoustic versions of the songs today are marked by his typically weird, kinda non-musical phrasing, and there is some 80s performance footage w/ awful singing). In any case, though, it’s a good indicator of how good the rest of these might be. I think I’ll do Catch A Fire next.
Saw the Steely Dan "Aja" rock doc. It was surprisingly good, but to state the obvious, if you don't care for that album you'll find the doc super-boring. Next I'll watch the one about "Transformer." More to my taste and probably much more compelling, given the personalities involved. Currently watching "It's All True!" which is about Orson Welles' unfinished documentary about Brazil, Samba, "voodoo" etc. It's really great.
Yeah, that's explained in the movie. What I found interesting is that he was appointed Artistic Ambassador to Latin America because of USA government concerns about Nazi sympathizers in South America. Sort of a "make the USA look friendlier" thing. There are also some bits from a little movie he was making in Mexico. As usual, his cinematic eye is amazing. Looking forward to finishing this one. Then I'll move to Lou and Ziggy.
AD for life, def one of the best shows ever written. I can't get enough of the awesome cheesiness that can be found thoughout the b-movies. besides all the monster movies, love this classic.
Oh hell yea, Sunday special! Jackie Chan - Wheels on Meals Don't sleep on this one nerds! http://youtu.be/rksNN2orMyU
