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livius drusus · #**126** 10-14-2013, 09:57 PM

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And then I was getting super-mad last night because I watched Murnau's Nosferatu on AMC

LIAR. VILE BETRAYER. It was on TCM.

lisarea · #**127** 10-14-2013, 10:09 PM

Well, I said that wrong ON PURPOSE to troll you.

:woohoo:

Dingfod · #**128** 10-15-2013, 04:41 PM

I cannot watch Nosferatu without thinking of Shadow of the Vampire, where Willem Dafoe played Max Shreck, Count Orlok/Nosferatu as not actually acting or needing makeup to look like this:

Janet · #**129** 10-15-2013, 06:24 PM

I have Herzog's Nosferatu on VHS and a player to play it on. So there nyah! :nyahnyah:

BrotherMan · #**130** 10-21-2013, 05:24 AM

Don't Trust the B!tch in Apartment 23

Did you blink and miss it? Did you read the title and say "THAT SOUNDS DUMB AND CURSES RIGHT IN THE TITLE ARE STUPID"? Allow me to reassure you: It's p funny. Well, I should caveat that I'm only a few episodes in so I don't know how it holds up or how it all ends (because it was cancelled at its second season).

BrotherMan · #**131** 11-01-2013, 03:48 AM

HAPPY HOLLOWSWEEN EVERBODY.

Dexter is now available on Netflix streaming.

livius drusus · #**132** 12-17-2013, 12:15 AM

Because I can never get enough of UK police procedurals or Gillian Anderson, I added The Fall to my queue and watched it over the weekend. It is phenomenal. Even if you're not a whodunit type, you should watch it just for the intelligence of the dialogue, the unique approach to issues of gender and sexuality and, of course, for Gillian alone.

The only negative is that it's just five episodes and as far as I know, they haven't even shot the second season yet. They need to get on that because the main killer (it's not a spoiler; we know who he is from the beginning) is played by Jamie Dornan who is currently shooting 50 Shades of Grey in Toronto or something.

lisarea · #**133** 12-17-2013, 12:30 AM

Oh, we watched Top of the Lake on the Netflixes. That was pretty good, and I recommend it.

On the other hand, I watched two episodes of Hemlock Grove, which is a Netflix original directed by Eli Roth, on some recommendation I can't remember where I saw it, and it is just hilariously bad. The writing, the acting, the special effects makeup are all LOLOLOLOL.

Like, to introduce this one character, they have another character walk up to him and just start drilling him with personal questions for no good reason. And when they need to show that this previously mute monster girl is actually all sensitive and intelligent, they have her write an email in this really stilted kind of fedora guy style, all courtly and shit. And one of her main monster qualities is she has one regular eye and one giant anime style eye halfway down her face.

It is so terrible that I actually kind of halfway recommend it for the lulz.

CreamOfConnor · #**134** 12-17-2013, 04:49 AM

Reefer Madness! REEFER MADNESS!
That if you like enjoyably bad movies. Other than that I'd recommend Shaolin Soccer. You'd have to read subtitles, though.

SharonDee · #**135** 12-18-2013, 12:49 AM

So I was at the Red Cross yesterday, doing my good deed for leukemia patients, where Netflix is offered to donors while you go through two hours of hell.

Anyway, I got pretty bored with the Discovery Channel's dinosaur series by the second episode so I looked over at the next TV to see what that guy was watching.

Y'all, that had to be the dumbest looking thing I ever saw. It was mermaids. Freaking live action mermaids, complete with a merman. (Well, mer-teenager, I guess. But we all know he's probably 25.) It had closed captioning so I'm reading along, surreptitiously so no one is disabused of the notion that I'm a science-y uber-nerd.

So even though I was repulsed I was also kind of fascinated. I mean, it looks like something Daughter would have enjoyed when she was 10 or so.

I get home and do the Google thing and learn that it's a Netflix original. And ... freaking and! ... this silly little show is based on an apparently Aussie TV show about mermaids. NO LIE!!

So if you really care, you can take a look on Netflix for:

Original series: H2O: Just Add Water
Netflix series: Mako Mermaids: An H2O Adventure

I just wish I knew why this silly thing is still on my mind. Seems I want to do everything but watch it. Tell everybody IRL, write about it here ... but no watchee! what's the deal?

Dingfod · #**136** 12-18-2013, 01:21 AM

I'm not watching it, you watch it. I know, we'll get Mikey to watch it, he hates everything.

Dingfod · #**137** 12-18-2013, 01:37 AM

Oh, here's some Xmas ornaments for you, SharonDee:

Sock Puppet · #**138** 12-20-2013, 04:57 PM

The Li'l Puppet watches H2O. Luckily, she watches it in the office so we aren't subjected to it. Actually, it's about on par with the Disney kidcoms she watches; bad, but not, say, 80s kid show bad.

SharonDee · #**139** 12-20-2013, 05:54 PM

Orient it to my experience: Are they as bad as Saturday morning live action shows from the 70s? (Shazam! , Isis, et al.)

Sock Puppet · #**140** 12-20-2013, 06:41 PM

Nah, they're better than that crap. I remember watching that shit as a kid and being continually amazed and horrified at how bad those were. H2O seems more like a fantasy-based dramedy for kids, at least the bits I've seen. I did see a scene with some sort of magical battle between a good and evil character involving hilariously fake CGI bubbles, but even that wasn't as terrible as the stuff that passed for action in the Isis or Shazam shows.

Watser? · #**141** 12-20-2013, 06:49 PM

Oh, I'm trying out the Dutch version of Netflix, which became available a couple of months ago. I am not very impressed by what they have, though quite impressed by what they don't have, which is pretty much all of the American shows I watch. They have some that i have seen and don't mind watching again like Farscape and Arrested Development. They also have Breaking Bad and Orange is the New Black which I still haven't started and I'm not sure why. And they have all kinds of Danish (and Swedish) cop shows, some of which are insanely good but I have seen and some I haven't seen but are probably not as good. So I'll probably do it for 7.99, if only because I will use it to rewatch shows. It is very fast, compared to all the illegal ones, the picture is very good and it remembers where you were. I have done extensive research to come to this conclusion, so that is all justified and perfectly legal now that I am an überinformed consumer like the Koch-funded lolbertarians tell me to be.

Janet · #**142** 12-20-2013, 09:08 PM

I had forgotten Isis ever existed. I'm not entirely happy to be reminded.

SharonDee · #**143** 12-20-2013, 10:45 PM

"Oh, mighty Isis ..."
:relaxation:

Dingfod · #**144** 12-21-2013, 03:18 AM

Orange is the New Black is all kinds of awesome.

JoeP · #**145** 12-22-2013, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by livius drusus

Because I can never get enough of UK police procedurals or Gillian Anderson, I added The Fall to my queue and watched it over the weekend. It is phenomenal. Even if you're not a whodunit type, you should watch it just for the intelligence of the dialogue, the unique approach to issues of gender and sexuality and, of course, for Gillian alone.

The only negative is that it's just five episodes and as far as I know, they haven't even shot the second season yet. They need to get on that because the main killer (it's not a spoiler; we know who he is from the beginning) is played by Jamie Dornan who is currently shooting 50 Shades of Grey in Toronto or something.

The Fall was excellent. :yup:

Ensign Steve · #**146** 12-22-2013, 02:39 PM

I'm watching this movie called "timer" that's like a near-future scifi romantic comedy where most people have a timer on their wrist that counts down the seconds till they meet their soul mate. It's pretty cute and more interesting than the premise sounds.

erimir · #**147** 12-22-2013, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Janet

I had forgotten Isis ever existed. I'm not entirely happy to be reminded.

But... Archer!

SharonDee · #**148** 12-22-2013, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by livius drusus

Because I can never get enough of UK police procedurals or Gillian Anderson, I added The Fall to my queue and watched it over the weekend. It is phenomenal. Even if you're not a whodunit type, you should watch it just for the intelligence of the dialogue, the unique approach to issues of gender and sexuality and, of course, for Gillian alone.

The only negative is that it's just five episodes and as far as I know, they haven't even shot the second season yet. They need to get on that because the main killer (it's not a spoiler; we know who he is from the beginning) is played by Jamie Dornan who is currently shooting 50 Shades of Grey in Toronto or something.

What kind of season--oh, excuse me, series...is only five episodes long?! C'mon, the latest victim is waking up and bam, we're done. WAIT!

Pfft.

(Thanks for the new addiction, liv. I think.)

livius drusus · #**149** 12-23-2013, 04:41 PM

Yay! I'm delighted to have sucked you in.

lisarea · #**150** 12-26-2013, 04:48 PM

On my brother's recommendation, we watched Wrong last night, and I thought it was hilarious.

Looking at the Netflix reviews, though, I see that a lot of people disliked it to the point that it made them really angry, so I guess that's not a general recommendation.

It's by the same guy who made Rubber, that movie about the tire, so it has a little similar style.

Also, for some reason, I had seen one of the scenes about the trees, but for the life of me I cannot imagine why.