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Frontline: Death by Fire
About a Texas man who was executed by the state essentially for being a fan of beer, darts, and Iron Maiden.
http://instantwatcher.com/titles/161064
Frontline: Death by Fire
About a Texas man who was executed by the state essentially for being a fan of beer, darts, and Iron Maiden.
http://instantwatcher.com/titles/161064
Frontline: Death by Fire
About a Texas man who was executed by the state essentially for being a fan of beer, darts, and Iron Maiden.
For any of those movies were there is an actual killer/villain, would it be hard to toss in a subplot or line or two about his cell phone jammer? I mean they exist, and last I recall you could buy them over the counter, and are just illegal to use.Originally Posted by VSys114
Many of the Frontline episodes are available at the official site, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/, and almost every single one is awesome. I don't know how they manage such consistently high quality.
The only one that used that excuse was Quarantine.
Yes Frontline is good. Thanks for the link.
http://blog.movies.yahoo.com/blog/43...ho-prefer-dvds
It looks like the push to get away from physical discs may be a bit more painful than anticipated.
Anyone else subscribed to the RSS feed for new releases? There are literally thousands of entries for "Example TV Mega series". Same thing happened a few weeks ago but it was only a few dozen listings.
Is Netflix getting rid of discs completely or just "add to q" from streaming devices?
A few of those show up every now and then, but the 1000+ that showed up today was silly.
At this point, I wouldn't mind seeing them abandon DVDs if only because the DVD is no longer offering much benefit. The last few discs I've gotten of newer movies haven't even had any extras on them. They were pure rental copies and selecting any extra just played a screen that said, "To view the extras for this movie, please purchase the DVD or Blu-Ray." If it's all going that way, I'd just prefer to stream it.
I wouldn't mind the move, except there's still way too many shows and movies that aren't available as a streaming selection.
The latter, as part of their strategy for doing the former at some point.
Yeah, that's the main downside, though for the most part, I've just been patient, their streaming library is fairly large.
And getting better all the time.
I mean, I don't even have the time to watch everything I want, nevermind how often I stumble on something new I didn't even know about/expect to like.
As a movie lover who likes to watch movies at home instead of a theater, the streaming system doesn't compare to getting mailed a disc. I'm tired of Netflix treating the mailers like dirty scum by delaying titles for a month, raising prices, and now removing the queue link.
Sure if you're a casual movie watcher who just likes to browse check out what looks interesting the streaming option works. If you want to see something specific however like Inception have fun waiting.
Can you really blame Netflix for that?
It was a deal between Netflix and the movie studios so that Netflix can increase their streaming content and studios can introduce a release lag with Netflix so... yes.
I'm tired of people who get discs from Netflix treating them like crap, scratching them up by leaving them on the floor or the coffee table, out of the sleeve, because they don't care since they don't own it. Of the last 10 movies I've gotten on disc from Netflix, 7 of them we scratched or dirty (one was sticky and I had to actually destroy the sleeve to remove it). Cleaning helps sometimes, but 4 of those I had to report as damaged and have them ship me another disc.
I'm not sure what that adds to the discussion. That's a drawback of physical copies yes. Streaming would solve the issue only if the libraries are the same. They are not.
(Personally I've been renting from Netflix on a very rapid return rate for years and have only gotten a handful of broken / unreadable discs.)
Until Netflix fully implements multiple user-selectable audio and subtitle tracks on streaming movies, there is a substantial subset of stuff I -have- to get on DVD.
God forbid it forces us to update our internet infrastructure.
Agreed. I also prefer to watch some movies on DVD for quality reasons. For example, I have a Netflix DVD at home of the documentary Sweetgrass. I could have watched it online, but I prefer the better picture quality of the disc, especially for a film that is mostly imagery.
The best thing streaming has to offer is older or obscure movies you might have missed and never thought to rent, and the TV series sets.
Out of curiosity, does anybody know if Netflix streamed through a PC has a Dolby Digital 5.1 track? Or are all the streaming movies just stereo or Pro Logic?
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Gorky-Park/60003221
in soviet russia, something something.
this was pretty good. a russian militaman (cop) tries to solve a gruesome triple murder despite kgb interference. william hurt put in a good performance, there were some great lines, and a few twists i didn't see coming.
4/5 starsIrina Asanova: KGB have better cars, you know.
Arkady Renko: Ah, but they don't always take you where you want to go, do they?
Subtitles are a huge benefit to DVD's still. My parents are hard of hearing and couldn't watch most movies without them.
Then add in director commentary alternate audio tracks, as another nice bonus of discs.
Even ignoring the 'bonuses', the alternate subtitle and audio tracks need to be integrated into netflix's streaming before they even consider limiting their DVD side of the business.
Just watched The Affair of the Necklace. It was okay for the first 2/3's, but then they try to make Hillary Swank into some sort of martyr who paved the way for the French Revolution. I enjoyed the con-artist costume drama, not so much the bullshit Les Mis.
Sweetgrass
The last cowboy in Montana herds his flock of sheep to safe pastures in this epic documentary about vanishing America. No narration, the only dialog the rancher and his hired hands, and the sheep. Jake the horse makes his debut, and John the cowboy sings a number of songs along the way, and illustrates the proper way to sleep under a cowboy hat. Not a bad way to spend an evening.
Watched Lake Mungo on recommendation from here. Very nice. Very creepy. Lots of twists that you really don't see coming. I'm weirded out right now by the darkness outside my window.
Spartacus - Gods of the Arena
Fuck yes.
Seconded. After recently finishing the amazing, pulp spectacle that was the first season of Spartacus, I was hoping the prequel would hurry up and get on instant.
Aaargh -- Netflix is down on Xbox Live tonight according to an Xbox Live status alert. They're say they're very sorry, but I sure they won't be offering us a refund for the percentage of our membership fees for today.
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