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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)

My saved list:

Turtles Can Fly
Last Days
2046
Ken Park
Kings and Queen
Me and You and Everyone We Know
The Best of Youth
Tropical Malady
Two-Lane Blacktop

Be my netflix friends. gml = gmail.com. I'll send out invites later.

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Tropical Malady was not good.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Fuck that movie is AWFUL!!!!!

I finally agree with Adam on something!

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

I wholeheartedly recommend Two-Lane Blacktop btw. Also The Cockfighter and The Iguana. Monte Hellman was amazing.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Scream was the mean-spirted nadir of '90s self-referential pop culture. The worst kind of shallow "irony," self-congratulatory and gratuitously nasty. Everything interesting it did was in the first 10 minutes.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Exactly!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

also Drew Barrymore

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

SHE GOT KILLED! IMMEDIATELY!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Also mean-spirited? What it was supposed to be the friendly slasher flick? I'll bite on the self-referential part, but that doesn't bother me if it's done well and Scream was done very well. But I love horror/slasher flicks and Craven esp. so maybe it's just me.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Movies all three of my Netflix friends gave 5 stars:

Blue Velvet
Mulholland Drive
Rear Window
Vertigo

Lowest rated movies all three of my Netflix friends rated (two one stars, one two star):

The Beach
Death Becomes Her
Dogma
Garden State
Mystic River
Pearl Harbor
The Perfect Storm
What About Bob?

Hey, I liked Death Becomes Her!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Also there is the rule that prohibits Muhammad from being depicted, so he never appears on screen.

Yeah, I think that was the main reason I wanted to get the film: the controversy that surrounded it w.r.t the misunderstanding of its "representation" of God... and the hostages that were taken, et al.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/special_packages/passion_of_christ/8020436.htm

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 19 August 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

I wholeheartedly recommend Two-Lane Blacktop btw.

And yet you call Cassavettes boring!

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 19 August 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

haa

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

"And yet you call Cassavettes boring!"

Did I miss the auto-racing in AWUTI?!?! Fuck I'd rather watch Warren Oates pick his nose for an hour and a half than Ben Gazarra or Peter Falk.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Adam, I have a confession to make... I cancelled our netflix subscription today! Can we still be real friends?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Oh no!!!!

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Did I miss the auto-racing in AWUTI?!?!

You didn't see the director's cut? I do love Two-Lane Blacktop but I also find it almost Cassavetean. Cassavettian? Cassavesque?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Adam, I have a confession to make... I cancelled our netflix subscription today! Can we still be real friends?

That's CRAZY! but yes, we can.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

I need to take a break from the small screen anyway, but especially from H:LOTS. It wasn't until after we'd watched the last episode of season 6 that we learned there's a whole other season left! OH NO!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

What is the saved section?

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Movies on your queue that don't have release dates.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Wow, I've just started skimming everybody's ratings and queues, and my queue is growing at an alarming rate.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 19 August 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

(It's like a statscock with movie stars!)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 19 August 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

Movies on your queue that don't have release dates.

here's the ones zip.ca doesn't have that are in my list:

Playtime
Repulsion (on order)
Two-Lane Blacktop (on order)

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Saturday, 20 August 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

I deleted basically my whole queue that was filled with like 50 examples of 50s Americana and 70s French films, and instead added only TV shows, most of which requested by my mom: Larry David, Homicide, The Office. Now that I rent my serious movies from the library, I need to keep the Netflix light. Also, now that I work regularly, I don't have the time or inclination to watch a movie a day.

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 20 August 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)

I invited Netflix to my BBQ.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Saturday, 20 August 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, library dvd loans are great. In Nova Scotia I've discovered that I can even order them online from other provincial libraries and get them shipped to my local one.

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Saturday, 20 August 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

I ordered "Holes" from Netflix b/c the teacher across the hall from me had the poster on her door and when the DVD got to me it was cracked and I told Netflix and then right away they sent another copy to me.

I'm just saying.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Saturday, 20 August 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

Starsky and Hutch was okay, which is remarkable since I want Stiller to disappear forever. Also, I was playing GBA Zelda for part of it. Maybe that has something to do with it.

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Saturday, 20 August 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Brown Bunny was fuckin' awful. Sorry if I sound surprised.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Saturday, 20 August 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

I liked it until the ending.

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

I don't remember the ending. What happened?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

I agree with Dr Glen.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

I probably could have found this out if I read the thread, but when you order DVDs from Criterion or something, do they send you the booklet, too?

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

No.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

It's not like the essays aren't all available on their website.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

Also if there are multiple discs for extras or whatever, they only send you the disc(s) with the feature.

― sleep (sleep), Saturday, 20 August 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

I've been adding my .02 all night. I like reading everyone elses.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 21 August 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

I put all the Homicide DVDs IN ORDER in my queue. The next one should be Season 3 Disc 6. They sent me Homicide: The Movie. WTF!!!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

i have had bad luck lately ordering popcorn flicks from them ... each disc is trashed.

― dr gary bleune (dr g), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

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