What are You Watching on Netflix Instant/Amazon Prime/orwhateverotherinstreaming
 

Decided to start a thread on this because it's where I'm doing most of my viewing lately, and while most of the content is available on DVD it isn't actually on DVD so ...

Couple of recent picks:

Sound and Fury - two brothers, one deaf, one hearing, each with a deaf child, struggle with the decision over cochlear implants. Kind of interesting, and says a lot about deaf culture.

Inheritance - documentary about Amon Goeth's daughter (yeah, the one Ralph Fiennes plays in Schindler's List).

24 - I just started watching this. I never watched this while it was on, which is a darn shame. It's pretty good. I think I have a couple plot points figured out (I'm on hour 5), but I'm probably completely wrong.

I really liked the first season of 24, except for one silly bit. The other seasons were OK, but I feel I may have been watching just out of inertia.

I went to the Boy Scout camp whose T-shirt Jack's daughter adapted for her use.

Comcasts Streampix is really faux-streaming, but....I've started at the beginning of Damages with with Glenn Close. It has a gimmicky aspect to it with the flashbacks and forwards going on (just like the Firm, which I soon grew tired of), but Im enjoying it so far.

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Goshen!

I spent half a week at Goshen in June. I left mid-way through the week and left my son there, and two days later he spent the night in the dining hall after the derecho tore through and toppled a couple bonfires and blew down many of the tents.

I went there as a Scout one week one summer, for Scout leadership training one week another summer, AS Scout leadership training two weeks the next summer, and on staff for 8 weeks a few years later.

Good times...

Well, I liked being on staff at least.

I had a blast for my half a week.

I recently finished the 2 season run of the old NBC series "Life" (on Hulu), about a cop who gets framed for a triple murder, is sentenced to life in prison, gets out on new evidence sues the city for $100,000,000, and gets his job back with backpay and promotion to detective. Loved it.

RFN, I'm watching "John Doe", about a guy who wakes up naked on an island off Seattle, knowing everything about everything, except who he is. Meh, take it or leave it.

Recently watched "God Bless America" on Netflix. Let me say now: Netflix is a pain in the ass. I almost gave up trying to get it to work on my 'puter. Gotta have Silverlight to watch anything.

Back to "God Bless America"; ƒucking loved this movie. First, it has one of my favorite actors as the star/protagonist, Joel Murray. It wasn't what I thought it was going to be. This movie made so many good points about what we (the American public) have become, that I stopped counting at 17. No shit.

Spoiler alert: These are the types of people the guy thinks needs to be shot:

People who take up two parking spaces
People who talk in theaters during movies
People who say 'Namaste'
People who high five
Spoiled brats
People who pound energy drinks all day

Really, I'm surprised someone hasn't went on a shooting spree, and cited this movie as their motivation.

Also watched "Seraphim Falls" w/Pierce Brosnan & Liam Neeson, on YouTube Movies.

Loved it.

I have a couple of questions regarding this flick, if anyone else has seen it.

I saw it , but it was a while ago...

OK, one question then. The one that's bothering me:

Spoiler Alert

Highlight for the question;

At the end of the flick, Anjelica Huston shows up in the desert, from out of nowhere, and trades Brosnan's character his horse for one bullet. She later shows up again, again from out of nowhere, and trades Neeson's character his water, for one bullet.

Was she God, Satan, one of their angels, or Death? Or, what?!

Thanks in advance.

Well, Im not sure - I'd have to watch it again, but I do remember that scene irritating me, because it seemed it was surreal just for surreals sake.

That's about all I watch these days, other than sports.

I'm really into Grimm (Hulu) and Warehouse 13 (Netflix) and have enjoyed several other series. I'll have to think hard to pull out names tho.

Pam

I'm watching the downfall of human civilization as we know it.

EDIT: My mistake, that's the window, not the TV.

EDIT2: OK, OK. I'm meaning to watch "Out of Egypt." I'm also working my way through "That Mitchell and Webb Look" and Peepshow (which I'm kind of lukewarm on, in spite of how much I like Mitchell and Webb).

Last weekend we watched Office Space; it was Mrs. Dallas' first time seeing it.

PC LOAD LETTER

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Yeah, that's a funny scene from the movie, but I rememebr printers that actually said that.

Our consultants just arrived.

My cow orker came to my office and said "did you see the two bobs?" I was the only one who knew what he was talking about!

Grren Wing on netflix.

Greenfingers. netflix.


It's Green week

Started watching Wilfred last night.

It's an American retooling of an Australian series that seems to be based on loosely the same concept, but is ultimately very different, like the UK vs. US versions of Being Human. The same Australian actor plays Wilfred in the American series.

Elijah Wood is a suicidal (possibly manic depressive) guy, who sees his neighbor's dog Wilfred as a man in a dog costume. It sounds ridiculous, I know, but there were no wacky hijinks, just a twisted psychological comedy about a guy trying to figure out how (and whether) to put his life back together. Really enjoying it so far.

The Walking Dead, on Netflix.

I'm already beginning to wonder (two episodes in) if this isn't going to be a long, drawn out 'every-gimmick-you've-ever-seen-in-a-zombie-flick-stretched-out-over-multiple-seasons-type thing.

And don't even get me started on Netflix's video quality, which is The Suck.

The video quality adjusts based on your internet speed. As soon as you can buffer more, it will stream a sharper image.

agreed. I have DSL and my picture is good to excellent.

I got poor people's DSL.

Also, Hulu's quality doesn't seem to suffer nearly as much.

But the commercials!


Now revisiting Torchwood for the benefit of my beloved (who turned 40 yesterday) who hasn't seen it yet, but loves Warehouse 13.

Eden of the East - Short (11 episode) anime about this guy who shows up naked with a cell phone and a gun at the White House. Doesn't look a thing like slang.

I don't stream movies, I either watch them on TV or download them to watch on my PC.

Same here Max. speed: 1.5 Mbps

On a good day tho, I get relatively bufferless viewing at YouTube.

Netflix is a goldmine of outdated TV series. Since Mrs. Z and I missed the last twenty years or so, we have been having fun catching up. Lately, it's been Lie to Me and White Collar.

Mrs. Z wasn't interested, but I watched the whole Firefly series a couple of weeks ago. I don't understand why that didn't go over better.

Currently watching Prison Break.

Just finished Deadwood (loved it!)

Also on my to-do list (some to just get current): Six Feet Under, Pretty Little Liars, Mad Men, Sopranos, Entourage and Fringe.

Already watched:

24
Oz
The Wire
La Femme Nikita
True Blood
Sons of Anarchy

and others.

Stormie, didn't you just love Timothy Olyphant in Deadwood? I love him in Justified too. And I just found out that he is in season 2 of Damages.

Apparitions (British series about an exorcist)
Triumph at Carville (documentary about the leprosarium)
House of Numbers (documentary about HIV/AIDS largely driven by the HIV doesn't cause AIDS crowd's opinions)
Not Quite Hollywood (documentary on Aussie exploitation films)
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue (American Horror Films retrospective)
The History Channel: Video Games, Behind the Fun (I played an awful lot of them)
Forgiving Doctor Mengele
Cropsey (documentary about child abduction/murders in Staten Island)
S&MAN (documentary about independent horror filmmaking. Really bad independent film making, like handheld digital camera bad)
The Resurrected (adaptation of HP Lovecraft's Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Very B horror)
Hey Boo, Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
Horsemen (completely awful. Dennis Quaid has not aged well)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (surprisingly good)

Yes and yes! I may have to go back and catch up with Damages if he's in it.

"Where The Yellowstone Goes" - on Netflix

Nearly halfway through season 2 of The Good Wife. I like the show, Juliana and Archie are easy on the eyes. Sometimes I wish things would move a bit quicker, but I like to multiple story arcs. I can't believe I've got 5 more seasons to catch up with.

I just started watching Supernatural, after Mr. Clod had been raving about it for years. It's cute. If you like the American version of Being Human, you will like Supernatural.

My daughter holes herself up in her room and watches Supernatural on her ipod's tiny screen. It has like 8 seasons or something like that. She's been binging on it for months.

That's how I got through a lot of newer Doctor Who...Netflix on my iPhone.

That is such a good show...smart and funny.

I was watching Netflix on my nook, but it died so I'm using my ipod now. It AMAZES me that the size of the screen does not interfere at all. I totally forget that Im watching it on my little ipod.

I have tiny little pornos on my dumbfone.

It's like watching people screw through a tiny, square peephole. With a poor soundtrack.

I was reading this thread on my phone last night, sitting in the living room with the tv on. I held my phone up at reading distance, so it looked like it was right next to the tv, and it took up a bigger area in my field of vision than the tv did. I guess it's all about viewing distance.

Been watching Trailer Park Boys on my phone.

Interesting. I shall give that a go.

I'm at my brother's house. Complete with Netflix. So I've watched a few episodes of The United States of Tara. I love Toni Collette and it's a great premise but I just don't like it that much. I can't stand any of the characters, even the 'meant to be funny' alters. Usually even the most vile characters elicit some sort of empathetic response in me, but I can't even stand the kids in this one.

Watched a few episodes of Arrested Development. Yeah, never saw it before. I like it, it's pretty funny.

Watched a few episodes of Portlandia. There are parts I hate and parts that I find really funny. It's so weird to me that the 90s are retro now. It can't be that long ago can it? I was a young adult. Oh yeah, that was that long ago.

Re-watched The Talented Mr Ripley. I'd forgotten a lot about it. I like it. It made me think, though, that I know of two movies where part of the plot is that one of the main characters bear a small resemblance to Jude Law's character. This one with the passport and Matt Damon, and the other one being Gattaca with the ID and Ethan Hawke. None of them really look anything alike. Just an observation.

My youngest thinks Portlandia is hilarious. There was a time in the '90s when I felt like I was pretty cool, so I find it not so funny.

The women folk like Orange is the new Black if you have not checked it out yet. I started watching Arrow a while back but the episodes seem kind of up and down in quality.

I watched the entire series on Netflix. I also didn't like any of the characters, except for Patton Oswald's. He was likeable. There were some fun parts to that show, but mostly it didn't go anywhere and then the ending was so forgettable I couldn't tell you how it was resolved.

I thought about trying O is the New B, maybe tonight. I started the book but never finished it.

I'm surprised at how many series there are, that seem to be under the new umbrella of 'innovative television.' I have the series that I love, some old school, some newer (like Six Feet Under, Sopranos, Oz, Walking Dead, The Wire, Mad Men, and right now Nurse Jackie) but now there seems to be some saturation, and the quality isn't always that good. There's something for everyone though.

Portlandia: there was a really funny segment where the main actor guy is a bike rider with a chin beard. He goes by his favorite bar and through the window sees some yuppie-looking guy and gets all mad "That kind of guy is in there? This bar is so OVER!" Then he keeps seeing this guy doing things he himself likes to do and keeps declaring things 'so OVER!" After a series of such happenings we see the formerly yuppie guy now on a bike with a chin beard riding past a bar where the previously bike-riding chin beard guy is sitting at the bar, on a cell phone discussing business, and very yuppie-like...and the new hipster declares "That kind of guy is in there? This bar is so OVER."

That was pretty clever. Other parts not so much. Can't stand the ones with the girl playing the guy and vice versa. Very annoying. The shopkeeper couple are annoying, though Steve Buscemi's cameo was funny. The cameos are often pretty good (Kyle MacLachlan as the mayor, for instance.)

OH yeah, he had just started making more appearances. I DID like him. I can't even stand the psychiatrist. Just, awful.

I doubt I'll see the resolution. The poncho goblin just made an appearance and I'm just like "yeah...no."

A few days ago I watched Season One Episode One of "The Killing".

I'll prolly go back for more.

I second Orange is the New Black, I've enjoyed that quite a bit.

Right now I'm clenching my teeth waiting for the latest seasons to drop into streaming for The League (I think you would love this one, infi, with your fantasy football prowess) and The Walking Dead.

Watched a little of White Collar. I think the wife of fbi guy's wife looks a little like wonder woman, Linda carter. I think is the name.

I saw some of Orange is the New Black. I like it. I mostly like the flashbacks to what other prisoners did to get in there. I find those scenes to be subtle...I don't know if the backstory becomes more clear or if we are just going to have the hints...but either way I like the way they do it: they don't just hand it to you on a platter.

I tried The League and it may have been another instance of I wasn't in the right mood, but I couldn't get into it. It was late. I may try again.

But I only have a few more days to try to finish the ones I have liked. Let me ask a question: I am sick of my cable bill going up and up. I haven't been watching regular TV at my house. I have been purchasing DVDs of series. Can one get Netflix without having cable? Like, if I kept Bugs Bunny wireless but dropped all TV service, could I get netflix?

The League made me remember a show I've always wondered about: Friday Night Lights. Wow. It's about one of the best HS football teams in Texas (no small deal there) and so far I LOVE it. It has some great football moments, along with incredible acting. It really shows the pressures of the coach and the players, from the whole town, and the tolls such expectations can have.

It had me at hello. If you like football you will love this show.

Friday Night Lights is great.

Yes, but you will need a box that can accept the internet signal and put it on your TV. A Playstation 3 can do it, for example, or a Roku. Or get a Chromecast and you could do not just Netflix on your TV, but also YouTube and whatever other internetty things you wanted.

We bought a Sony Blueray player that even had a netflix button on the remote, it can access all kinds of online content through built in apps, youtube, espn etc. look out for SMART devices. Even old style wii can do it (not full HD, fine). maybe you can pick one up for a song, or find someone who doesn't use theirs anymore.

I bet a used wii or a new Chromecast would be your cheapest options.

I love my Roku though. It recently added a youtube channel, and it's so cool. You can find a video on youtube on your youtube phone app and then send it to the Roku to watch on the TV to share with everyone. Just yesterday we were sitting around, taking turns, finding youtube videos on our devices and sending them to the tv. Good for chuckles. Somebody has a lame video up there, and you send a new one to interrupt theirs.

Oh yeah! I do have a blu-ray player and it does have a netflix button. I'd never considered purchasing netflix before so I haven't really messed around with it. Plus, I'm a technological whiz...for things 20 years ago. Today I can barely figure out my phone.

the trick there is to make sure your BR player can reach the internet in your house. there needs to be a cable or a wireless connection for it. I bought a couple BR players for Twil and thought the internet connectivity would be a good thing. BUT. the boxes only accept a Sony wireless adapter, so, no joy. I'm not paying 2x the cost of the BR player for a freakin wireless network interface card, f*ck that. and the effort to string cables to those locations was not worth it. It was far, far easier to get her a couple Roku boxes, which get along fine with the wireless connections that she already had, and netflix and others were all there for us.

I fired the cable company many years ago and I have not missed it ONE SINGLE BIT. The stuff that I thought I would miss, some premium (!) channels like Discovery Channel, etc., pffft. They were fun, but there's way, way, way more stuff that is just as interesting or more so to fill the gap.

Fire the cable company. You'll adapt. You'll have more money, too.

Of course.

If your cable company provides your internet access, then, no. You would be relegated to the Netflix DVD-mailing service.

You'll need an internet connection of some sort to keep watching Netflix.

I have high speed internet and tv service. I'm saying drop the tv service and keep the wireless interwebz. Is that even do-able?

Thanks for the helps. I'm dumb.