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I'll probably Netflix Dark Water.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

You can do that. You can use "Netflix" as a verb now.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

"My" saved list (maybe half of which is mine, since as I say I'm sharing an account):

Gabbeh
Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity
Jean de Florette
Jules and Jim
Kings and Queen ... I see this is at Oak Street now. I've already seen it but wanted to see it again. MPLS peoples try to see this film!
Maya Deren: Experimental Films
Moolaadé
Shoeshine
Masque of the Red Death / Premature Burial
The Raspberry Reich
Tokyo Fist

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Hello Netflix! Did Jules and Jim NOT JUST COME OUT on Criterion a few months ago?!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Movie in my queue I'm strangely most looking forward to seeing.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it did. I have it on my coffee table at home. Besides, surely they would have the Fox Lorber disc anyways, right? Don't they just swap out one disc for the other when it has been supplanted?

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Saved:

Mysterious Skin
The War of the Worlds
2046
Charade
Clean Slate
Day for Night
Eureka
Evil
Faust
Key the Metal Idol: Vol. 1: Awakening
Last Night
Last Year at Marienbad
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange
Nostalghia
Pierrot Le Fou
The Big Combo
Tierra
Two-Lane Blacktop
Wheel of Time

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Is Pierrot being re-released?

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Pierrot is le bomb.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Can someone answer my question upthread...please, I'm beggin you...

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

I did!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

Aha, now I can see Adam's list. Extensive. I'll have to parse it later for recommendations.

My Saved basket:

Cowards Bend the Knee
Clean Slate
Daughters of the Dust
Faust
Last Year at Marienbad
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Moolaadé
Short #2: Dreams
The Child
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Two-Lane Blacktop

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

On a side note - gypsy, I didn't realize who you were until I got your invite. I remember your last ILX name!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

opps, sorry Adam, and thanks.

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

I remember your last ILX name!

haha, "spittle" you mean? I changed it because I got complaints about it being unappetizing...and lord knows I aspire to appetizing.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

oh no, I remember when you used your real name!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah. Man of a thousand log-ins. Or 3, anyway. Yeah, I dropped the real name when I got my current job. Decided maybe I shouldn't be so googlable...

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

add me add me

power.strike @ gmail.com

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

My saved list:

Brothers
Batman Begins
High Tension
Mysterious Skin
Unscripted: Season 1
2046
Carnivale: Season 2
Deadwood: Season 2
Eros
Gonin
Kings and Queen
The Arena
The Best of Youth
The Great Raid
The Naked City
The Sopranos: Season 6
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
The Wire: Season 3

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

Killing of a Chinese Bookie is terrible btw.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

Braveheart terrible or Straw Dogs terrible?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

Hmmn closer to Straw Dogs, but really it's just boring ass Cassavettes terrible.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

In that they are both movies you rated low and I disagree with you on one of them.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

and you answered my question!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

Haha Straw Dogs is awful, but at least it's marginally entertaining. But politically it's shudder. Killing of Chinese Bookie is too damn slow to be entertaining. Plus I can't stand Ben Gazarra.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Yes, Straw Dogs is suspect but I still like it.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

I like a lot of Peckinpah, but that one I just can't stomach. It's so unredeemable by the end. 'sides Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia is so so so MUCH better.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

Reviewing Adam's and Dean's queues, I see the same tendency I have, to add a bunch of movies by the same director (or actor or whatever) all at once. So how much queue management and tweaking does everybody do? Do you actually rent like 5 movies in a row by the same director, festival-style, or do you scatter them out? I tend to do the latter, out of fear of overdosing on a given director or genre.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

I just sent you an invite adamrl. The ratings aren't mine and neither is over half the queue, but you are desperate, so...

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

I scatter stuff and I manage my queue every day.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

I am extremely neurotic btw.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

I mix it up, but sometimes I will do it "festival style". So right now I am watching all the Alan Clarke stuff and anything set in London. I took over my wife's queue so that I could use it for tv shows, etc. But she wants me to put Sky Captain up there next. :(

xxxp - I'm NOT desperate!

xp-I'm neurotic too, but in a different way from Alex

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

Haha actually I'm more obsessive than neurotic. Adam is definitely neurotic though.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'M NEUROTIC?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

Cool, five friends suddenly. Just invited Dean, also.

Saved List:
Kingdom of Heaven
Henry V
Howl's Moving Castle
Les Vampires
Maya Deren: Experimental Films
MirrorMask
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Topsy-Turvy

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

WHAT DON'T I MEAN IS THE BETTER QUESTION!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

Okay, I'm going home to FEAST on Brown Bunny.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Poor choice of words there, Adam.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Killing of a Chinese Bookie is terrible btw.

Terribly brilliant you mean. I take it you don't like Cassavettes at all?

Netflix seems to be slow on buying the Criterion discs. I was bummed to rent Videodrome a while back and discover that it was a crappy version with no bonus features.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 18 August 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

Cassavettes the actor is good. I don't like any of the films he directed much (I vaguely remember thinking Shadows was decent, but it's been a while.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 August 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

I add movies as they pop into my head. Occasionally I will watch a film and want to add other films by the director, writer, actors ... etc etc and I'll do it. Other than that, I try to make sure that each shipment has one disc of a TV show, one disc of something light (a comedy usually) and then one disc or something more involving. It's hard enough for me to find time to watch things that I try not to make it too difficult (i.e. - queueing up Tarkovsky.)

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Friday, 19 August 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I've been doing that with the Orphic trilogy -- breaking it up with kung fu and Anchorman.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 19 August 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

(Hell, I boo-ern a number of them to be watched later at my discretion.)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 19 August 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

how can one hate ben gazzara!?!!?

― huell howser (chaki), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

i want more netflix friends! zednd at yahoo!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

EXCEPT Rosemary, who only watches musicals and old british tv shows.

you forgot Tom Fontana series!! (Although, I just watched the British version of Pennies from Heaven, which, uh, fits your description, huh)

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

A Woman Under the Influence is great!

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

I just sent a bunch more invites. Won't you be my neighbors?

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

I just doubled my Netflix friends today! And no it isn't, Jeff!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

(Jeff, Alex practically makes a living from being WRONG, it's okay)

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

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