Netflix Streaming Film Recommendations: Because You Can't Always Play With Yourself

i dunno i mean i spent my childhood watching tapes of these over and over and over again so maybe they wouldn't seem so bad to someone who wasn't already sick of them (cf. also CAPTAIN PETER "WRONGWAY" PEACHFUZZ, THE WORLD'S WORST SAILOR) but--and this is gonna sound just completely ridiculous--they're so contrived.

like, william tell has gone blind and can't hit the apple, so peabody places a "small but powerful magnet" in the apple, attracting william tell's arrowhead and making him hit it dead-on, which like okay maybe it is just how smug peabody is with his little bow tie about his Genius Solutions that could not possibly ever work that gets on my nerves

but then i mean i guess that is the point of peabody and sherman

i dunno

haha well i watched them over and over too, but that was at an age where i wasn't likely to dismiss anything for being contrived. for me all the supplemental shorts were like broccoli to get to the rocky & bullwinkle dessert, but peabody & s-man always felt like the best of those to me.

i definitely need to revisit this stuff with ~adult eyes~

oh, i did not become militantly anti-peabody until i was an adult. fair.

i usually only see r&b these days when i visit my parents, when my dad and i generally settle in for one or two sessions per visit. between segments we hold efficient and informed quorums re: whether or not this next one should be skipped. my mom rolls her eyes in a different room.

i know the animation gets knocked a lot but R&B are among my favorite character designs ever, i could stare at this all day:

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and the bumper where they grow in the ground like flowers... how did they even think of that??? that's just flat out brilliant animation.

haha thats great

bullwinkle appreciation was definitely a thing that was passed onto me by my dad. he'd take me to the bar with him when i was like 5 and i'd sit around drawing bullwinkles for hours and then the bartender would stick them on the beer fridge.

the internet went down in the middle of this important conversation and it became a housewide crisis involving 4 of the 6 residents standing around behind each others' shoulders saying HEY TRY CLICKING THAT but i'm back and here is the post i saved in a text file before rebooting my computer:

r&b always has great design, like all four of the main characters are just perfect and expressive and awesome, and i love things like the two opposing mirrored short/tall duos, and the flower bumper, and Fearless Leader's scarred wedge-head, but the actual animation was i believe farmed hurriedly out to a mexican studio and done really cheaply and last-minute and without a lot of communication and that's why it's always weird and distorted and has demented perspective and fucked-up colors and lacks any kind of consistency from episode to episode. but then that mirrors the plot; that is kind of its whole charm. so yeah i love it.

your dad story is also great. am now curious to see if this is a common dadthing.

i miss tennessee tuxedo

why am i watching battlefield earth at 2:30 in the morning

whyyy

ha my dad also loved R&B

he also tried to sell me on barney miller but i wasnt really feeling it

Rocky & Bullwinkle def a thing with my dad. One of his proudest moments was giving his college comp essays Fractured Fairy Tale type titles.

LOADS of new bad tv shows and Shanachie music docs

is day of the dolphin worth watching

what abt deadhead miles? written by terrance malick?

Oooh, Netflix has the TV miniseries "The Stand" streaming. Haven't seen that since '93 or whenever it came out. Loved it then.

And upthread, thanks for mentioning Monsters. Didn't know that was even out yet on dvd, let alone streaming.

twin pks

wait srsly

yup

awesome!

watched Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey last night. lots of good footage of leon theremin, clara rockmore, robert moog, and a brief but very strange segment with brian wilson talking about "good vibrations" and how it connected with "25 year old children." definitely worth watching!

hal ashby's the landlord

you know it would be cool if they had a "random episode" feature -- sometimes i have like 30 mins to burn & think "i could watch a random episode of 30 rock or arrested development on netflix" but i inevitably end up combing thru the descriptions or avoiding doing that altogether -- so a 'random episode' thing would be cool imo

Close your eyes and click.

hal ashby's the landlord - is this good? it's been sitting in my queue for months

2010 Moby Dick:
That infamous whale is bigger, badder and a whole lot stronger in this sci-fi reimagining of Herman Melville's classic tale of the battle between man, sea and sea creature starring "Xena" alum Renée O'Connor as the (traditionally male) narrator. But the boat -- now a high-tech submarine -- is also bigger, and Capt. Ahab (Barry Bostwick) is as determined as ever to settle the score and take down the mighty sea mammal that maimed him.

226 minute version of Once Upon a Time in America is available on streaming!

the incredible shrinking woman, starring lily tomlin, ned beatty, and charles grodin is on instant watch. besides being joel schumacher's first film, it's a great companion piece to morgan: a suitable case for treatment

- HR Pufinstuf, Bravestar, He-Man, Inspector Gadget, Shazam, She-Ra, South Park, Voltron
- All the Hellraiser movies
- The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick
- All the "Masters of Horror"
- Yo Gabba Gabba
- Tuvalu <-recommended

if i had a bunch of w33d and no responsibilities, my weekend would be set with that list there.

MAN AMERICAN NETFLIX IS SO MUCH MORE GOOD

someone tell me what all south park episodes are good after abt season 5

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someone tell me what all south park episodes are good after abt season 5

― johnny crunch, Friday, June 3, 2011 3:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh man, the first four episodes of season 6 are all great for starters... Looking at the wiki episode guide for that season, you can't go wrong with any that I can see. There should be a least a few laughs to be had in each.

Btw before it gives horror a bad name, most of the masters of horror series is middling to terrible, although there are a couple of good ones in there

October Country

Mike The Situation's workout video is streaming.

Perhaps this is only relevant to my interests but whatev.

ill wait til he releases "tanning" & "laundry" 2 complete the trilogy

It is unbelievable how many times he says "situation" in this thing, geez.

Dr. Bronner doc looks interesting

its fine, better subject than filmmaker imo

curious about this pinball doc that just showed up

^yea i queued the pinball 1

I watched this anime called "Dead Leaves" that is 30% terrible and 70% amazing. Wish it had been in Japanese instead of dubbed.

Also a jellybean doc!

read some reviews on that jellybean doc and they were pretty mixed

crawlspace
film socialisme (as of 1/10)

in canada: twin peaks

Crawlspace seconded. It's sleazy and terrible and absolutely amazing, especially Klaus Kinski's endless collection of Cosby sweaters.