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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)

My taste is impeccable (and unlike Adam I don't change my mind every three minutes.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

It's okay, he only hurt my feelings a little bit. I'll go cry over my cassavetes box in the corner

ps. I've actually only watched WUTI and Shadows from it. I buy dvds and never watch them in lieu of netflix dvds.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe you guys all hated Scream. WTF is wrong with you people?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Fuck that movie is AWFUL!!!!!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

(I watched My Best Fiend last night and it was kind of disappointing!)

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

You are crazy. I would rather watch Scream 3 (which wasn't that good) than some crap Cassavettes film with his wooden bunch of crap failed NYC stage actors.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

I haven't seen Killing Of A Chinese Bookie, so I can't comment. But Scream was not good.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Haha wtf Adam you liked JERRY MAGUIRE and you are badmouthing Scream?!?! Put the crackpipe down.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Jerry Maguire is sweet. Also I liked Renee Zellweger before she went weird.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Wait, waht did I give Jerry Maguire? It's still a 3 star movie at best.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

chinese bookie sucks

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Thank god someone else agrees with me there.

Adam, do you just genre films? Cuz Scream is really good if you have even a passing love for slasher thrillers.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Adam, do you just genre films?

Just what? Just HATE?

No, I don't hate genre films, I just hate bad smug boring meta ones like Scream.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Haha but you like every other kind of bad smug boring meta films? So it's just bad smug boring meta thrillers that bug you?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

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

-- Eric H.

I saw this recently! A friend at work gave it to me. It was pretty interesting, I guess. Most of the Arabs are played by Caucasian actors, which is unfortunate, but maybe it couldn't really be avoided. Also there is the rule that prohibits Muhammad from being depicted, so he never appears on screen. I think it's funny that to get around this, some shots are in the FIRST PERSON from Muhammed's eyes - I thought that would be a worse offense than depicting him!

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

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