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Sad Professor

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adox

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Well I'll get the ball rolling so. Just finished season four of five seasons of a show called Friday Night Lights. Based on a small town in Texas football team, it's a whole lot more than football, more about the community and their trials and tribulations with the coach and his wife the centre piece.

Very well written and acted, corny as hell at times, but it's a fantastic show none the less. Some fantastic characters in it, you'll finish an episode with a smile on your face more often than not.

Definitely recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG37AylK1_s

S.M.B.

Friday Night Lights actually makes me want to move to the arse end of Texas.

Following on from the "smile on your face theme", Being Elmo: A Puppeteers Story was added to US Netflix the other day.

Highly recommended for being just an all round feel good and inspiring documentary.

podgemonster

Dear Zachery,
The Girlfriend had to leave the room crying. I was holding them back aswell. What an incredible, heartbreaking story!

I liked Frozen also, 3 Americans stuck on a ski-lift. Very tense, short and simply.

Also saw a movie call Rubber about a Tyre who can kill people with its mind. As ridiculous as it sounds, its quite watchable.

Nyan Cat

Ahhhh! Zombies
It's incredibly cheesy (intentionally so) and really very funny because of it.
It's a zombie flick- from the zombies perspective. Which is quite unique!
I started watching it as the 'DVD cover' on Netflix and the blurb were so... Yet again cheesy. It was worth it. It's like who framed roger rabbit meets the day of the dead meets your typical teen movie
If you like zombie flicks, piss takes etc. you might well like this. Seriously funny.

krudler

adox wrote: »

Well I'll get the ball rolling so. Just finished season four of five seasons of a show called Friday Night Lights. Based on a small town in Texas football team, it's a whole lot more than football, more about the community and their trials and tribulations with the coach and his wife the centre piece.

Very well written and acted, corny as hell at times, but it's a fantastic show none the less. Some fantastic characters in it, you'll finish an episode with a smile on your face more often than not.

Definitely recommended.

just finished the 5th season of FNL, fantastic show, am a big fan of the original movie and had always been meaning to watch the show but was worried it didnt live up to the film, I was wrong. the second season suffers from the writers strike at the time as its a bit all over the place, especially the

Landry/Tyra murder storyline, didnt like that at all and Landrys dad just vanishes afterwards

but it gets better with each season. the ending of season 5 is absolutely brilliant. Tim Riggins is now one of my favorite tv show characters ever.


I've been on a comedy bender the last few nights, really recommend I Am Comic, a doc about standup and a retired comedians attempt to get back into the standup business, some very funny interviews with Sarah Silverman, Louis CK and others:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym5oKS43frI

and this pretty interesting documentary, Pulling John, I'd never heard of John Brzenk before watching it, but sweet jesus, there's undefeated champions and then theres undefeated champions, a professional armwrestler who hasnt been defeated for 25 years goes at it with a Russian prodigy and upstart young American kid who are trying to take his world champion crown, really entertaining doc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMT2Z1ISd8s

ziggyman17

ip man and ip man 2 on the us netflix.. wallander the swedish version on the Irish version..

Tipsy McSwagger

Pulling John was very good. I'm currently watching the first season of Sons of Anarchy which is brilliant. It takes a few episodes to click but once it does it's mental.

NinjaK

For those who just woke up from a coma - Breaking Bad

campo

Title: 30 Rock
Genre: Comedy - TV Show
Starring: Alec Baldwin , Tina Faye
Season: 1

Ok just finished watching the above which I found to be very funny and what suprised me was the comic timing of Alec Baldwin who is by far the star of the show.

My only gripe is that it is actually too short most episodes only last 20mins

If you are a fan of programmes like two and haf men then this is for you

Mickeroo

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campo wrote: »

Title: 30 Rock
Genre: Comedy - TV Show
Starring: Alec Baldwin , Tina Faye
Season: 1

Ok just finished watching the above which I found to be very funny and what suprised me was the comic timing of Alec Baldwin who is by far the star of the show.

My only gripe is that it is actually too short most episodes only last 20mins

If you are a fan of programmes like two and haf men then this is for you

Balwin is legendary in that show!

Two documentaries worth a look on the US netflix I watched recently - Bustin' Down the Door about the birth of pro surfing and Pearl Jam Twenty chronicling twenty years of Pearl Jam, directed by Cameron Crowe

johnny_ultimate

Folks let's not get too bogged down with TV discussion. No problem at all with a bit of general banter in this thread (and it would be utterly futile and unfair trying to mod that), and there will surely be film fans interested in some of the great shows on there, but (to state the obvious) this is the film forum and there's a similar thread over in the TV forum for talk about TV shows

Mr.David

1. The Station Agent: Slow moving story, but very nicely shot and a real feel good movie. 4/5

2. In the Mood for Love: Very arty movie set in Hong Kong, worth a look. Not much to it though. 3/5

3. High Fidelity: Hadn't seen it in years. Cleverly narrated John Cusack flick. 3.5/5

4. The Insider: Great movie based around the tobacco industry in America. 4/5

Bad Panda

Mr.David wrote: »

4. The Insider: Great movie based around the tobacco industry in America. 4/5

Never actually saw The Insider. Might give that a go tonight. After a few episodes of Married with Children! Ahead of it's time I tell ya!

Fysh

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I have a mixed feeling about the anime selection - on the one hand, there's a bunch of stuff there I'd like to watch (yay!) but on the other hand, it all seems to be dubbed rather than subtitled (BOOOO!).

I watched The Girl Who Leapt Through Time the other night and despite the dubbing it was pretty damn good. A nice take on time-travel and a good enough story, weaving between time-travel and high-school drama quite deftly.

Any other recommendations from the UK/Ireland anime selection?

krudler

Bad Panda wrote: »

Never actually saw The Insider. Might give that a go tonight. After a few episodes of Married with Children! Ahead of it's time I tell ya!

Great film, intelligent adult drama, its superbly shot too as you'd expect from Michael Mann. Full of great character actors too

johnny_ultimate

Fysh wrote: »

Any other recommendations from the UK/Ireland anime selection?

Summer Wars is the director's follow up to Girl Who Leapt... and is (IMO) a superior film. Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya is meant to be great too. I still haven't gotten around to the TV show and the dub is a cause for concern, but still really want to give it a gander soon.

Fysh

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johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Summer Wars is the director's follow up to Girl Who Leapt... and is (IMO) a superior film. Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya is meant to be great too. I still haven't gotten around to the TV show and the dub is a cause for concern, but still really want to give it a gander soon.

Boo, Summer Wars isn't on UK Netflix

I'd noticed Disappearance Of Haruhi Suzumiya alright, and I'll likely plow through all the Ghost In The Shell stuff as well. It's amusing that the Anime category includes Invincible Iron Man and Thor

johnny_ultimate

Fysh wrote: »

Boo, Summer Wars isn't on UK Netflix

Just checked the Irish one and it's gone too, which is a shame. Oh well, means you have to buy the subbed Blu-Ray instead

Fysh

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johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Just checked the Irish one and it's gone too, which is a shame. Oh well, means you have to buy the subbed Blu-Ray, full-HD TV and Blu-Ray player instead

Fixed that for you :P

I've read suggestions that a lot of the current anime selection is provided through the soon-to-expire Starz deal, but I'm hoping they have some sort of plan to address that. I know there's not a huge selection on the UK/Irish set up, but it'd be a real shame to lose what's there.

johnny_ultimate

Well in the US version there are a few distributors on board, with varying selections: a company called Viz seem to be the ones providing subtitled anime like Death Note, whereas Starz are the ones sticking with dubs. They do the same on iTunes - downloaded the (dreadful) Eden of the East movies and was disgusted to discover they didn't provide an original language option .

I'm not sure if Manga are on board over here yet, but since they 'own' a lot of the anime properties released over here there'd be a lot of potential for subbed stuff. But streaming anime has never been adequately handled over here. Bar whatever's available on crunchyroll (a significantly poorer selection than the US, I gather) there's few legal alternatives. Whereas the US has quite a number of anime streaming sites and services - anime network, adult swim etc... - here Netflix seems the only the option. And it would be a real shame if the distribution contracts don't allow for online distribution options.

Fysh

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johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Well in the US version there are a few distributors on board, with varying selections: a company called Viz seem to be the ones providing subtitled anime like Death Note, whereas Starz are the ones sticking with dubs. They do the same on iTunes - downloaded the (dreadful) Eden of the East movies and was disgusted to discover they didn't provide an original language option .

Hopefully they'll expand the deal with Viz - they're the crowd who provide a lot of manga to the US (stuff like Shonen Jump as well as Dragon Ball, 20th Century Boys, Pluto etc).

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I'm not sure if Manga are on board over here yet, but since they 'own' a lot of the anime properties released over here there'd be a lot of potential for subbed stuff. But streaming anime has never been adequately handled over here. Bar whatever's available on crunchyroll (a significantly poorer selection than the US, I gather) there's few legal alternatives. Whereas the US has quite a number of anime streaming sites and services - anime network, adult swim etc... - here Netflix seems the only the option. And it would be a real shame if the distribution contracts don't allow for online distribution options.

Yeah, it'd be awesome to get Manga on board. Might go and pester ask nicely via mail if there are plans to get them on board

krudler

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Pulling John was very good. I'm currently watching the first season of Sons of Anarchy which is brilliant. It takes a few episodes to click but once it does it's mental.

SOA is excellent, but be warned,most of season three is nearly a show killer, but season 4 is amazing again so its worth sticking with it, ask any SOA fan and yeah, season 3 sucks for the most part.

Technocentral

Watched "Lives Of Others" last night, fantastic film, great evocation of what it must have been like to live in such a dour, colourless dictatorship where you couldn't trust anyone , fantastic performance from main Stazi guy (sad that he died around time that the film was released).

adox

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Possibly Cronenbergs finest hour, The Fly is available in HD for anyone who hasnt seen it. A gem of a movie.

S.M.B. wrote: »

Being Elmo: A Puppeteers Story was added to US Netflix the other day.

Highly recommended for being just an all round feel good and inspiring documentary.

Going to check this one out over the next few days.

elWizard

Alexander Payne's first movie. Never properly released here and I'd always wanted to see it and, though for me it's not his best (hint: Election) it proved well worth a watch. An unusually scuzzy role for Laura Dern. Kurtwood Smith. Abortion satire. (On US Netflix only, assuming everyone has that now!)

baby and crumble

The Bridge: Great documentary following a year looking at the suicides jumps from the Golden Gate Bridge.

Cazale

Have been watching 24 and Breaking Bad so have not got to watch as many films as I would liked but here are some I enjoyed.

TrollHunter

A group of students investigates a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1740707/

Best Worse Movie - A look at the making of the film Troll 2 and its journey from being crowned the "worst film of all time" to a cherished cult classic.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1144539/

Tucker and Dale vs Evil

Tucker & Dale are on vacation at their dilapidated mountain cabin when they are attacked by a group of preppy college kids.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1465522/

House of 1000 Corpses

Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251736/

The King of Kong

Diehard video game fans compete to break World Records on classic arcade games.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/

krudler

baby and crumble wrote: »

The Bridge: Great documentary following a year looking at the suicides jumps from the Golden Gate Bridge.

crazy footage in that, I thought it'd be cctv stills not actual footage of people committing suicide, but you're seeing the last moments of someones life, its powerful stuff.

adox

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krudler wrote: »

crazy footage in that, I thought it'd be cctv stills not actual footage of people committing suicide, but you're seeing the last moments of someones life, its powerful stuff.

I watched it a while ago and posted about it in the Doc. Forum. The one thing that didn't sit with me too well was that the director didn't tell any of the families interviewed, that he had filmed their loved ones jumping.

Fascinating documentary all the same which stayed long in my mind afterwards.

sillo

Jackass 3. Total guilty pleasure of mine.

Dear zachery just so moving watched after reccomended here cant believe never heard of it before

Professey Chin

Started watching The Captains last night.
William Shatner interviewing the other actors who've played captains in different Star Trek series. Although they talk about the shows less then youd think, more about themselves and their own lives

Nyan Cat

The Great Chinholio wrote: »

Started watching The Captains last night.
William Shatner interviewing the other actors who've played captains in different Star Trek series. Although they talk about the shows less then youd think, more about themselves and their own lives

I second that. If you liked star trek at all you'll probably like it. It's supposed to be about the actors before, during and after star trek and it is. Though I thought it focused most on Christ pine and Scott bacula they all got a good look in though. Brooks comes across funny. But that's just who is now, a slightly nutty jazz man

krudler

The Great Chinholio wrote: »

Started watching The Captains last night.
William Shatner interviewing the other actors who've played captains in different Star Trek series. Although they talk about the shows less then youd think, more about themselves and their own lives

I enjoyed that, Avery Brooks is a lunatic though. was funny when Shatner was walking around the conventions photobombing people.

Skinfull

The Great Chinholio wrote: »

Started watching The Captains last night.
William Shatner interviewing the other actors who've played captains in different Star Trek series. Although they talk about the shows less then youd think, more about themselves and their own lives

I've been meaning to watch that but I've been afraid it would be too much like "looking behind the curtain"

Might give the Picard one a crack and go from there.

Been watching Family Ties Nostalgia overload!

Just watched limitless enjoyed it chewing gum for the mind .

I didnt watch it for bradly cooper .......yum

DrZeuss

After a recommendation on the other thread for "The Wonder Years", watched first episode...out of sync, so said I'd try another series from the same era..

"Family Ties", still found myself laughing at the jokes, ages well (ish). 4 episodes down, 172 to go :eek:

MANUTD99

baby and crumble wrote: »

The Bridge: Great documentary following a year looking at the suicides jumps from the Golden Gate Bridge.

I watched about 5 mins of this and turned it off,utterly depressing and don't understand how anybody could sit through a whole documentary about people jumping from a famous bridge and killing themselves. It is not even interesting, it is just depressingly sad

Mickeroo

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Went for a bit of nostalgia today and watched a film I remember from when i was a kid called The Last Unicorn. I nearly remember it being quite dark and scary but I nearly turned it off during the first ten minutes, the songs are AWFUL and that butterfly was incredibly annoying. Luckily I persevered and once the film gets going it still holds up quite well. The animation has held up really well(it was the same house as Nausicaa: The valley of the wind that did this apparently) and apart from the songs and some dodgy dialogue it's still quite a compelling story and reasonably dark in places. Not the bonafide classic I remember from my childhood but still worth a look.

gilmour

Have found myself watching a lot of films in the foreign film section of the US library - i highly recommend Sin Nombre, Entre Nos and The Wave.

Tipsy McSwagger

MANUTD99 wrote: »

I watched about 5 mins of this and turned it off,utterly depressing and don't understand how anybody could sit through a whole documentary about people jumping from a famous bridge and killing themselves. It is not even interesting, it is just depressingly sad

Well I watched it and I'm glad I did. I wanted to know why these people felt the only option left was to take their own lives. Its a documentary that still haunts me after watching it 4 years ago. The one thing that stays with me is the guy who said he wouldn't jump if any person smiled at him or said hi when he was on the bridge, nobody did.

Mickeroo

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Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Well I watched it and I'm glad I did. I wanted to know why these people felt the only option left was to take their own lives. Its a documentary that still haunts me after watching it 4 years ago. The one thing that stays with me is the guy who said he wouldn't jump if any person smiled at him or said hi when he was on the bridge, nobody did.

This sounds like a borderline snuff movie, I'm hesitant about watching it now.

johnny_ultimate

It's far from snuff - it's handled with decency considering the subject matter. I don't remember much from the film - watched it years ago - but it did justify its existence thematically if I recall.

The major debate is whether the camera people would have been better off trying to stop the people from jumping, or what they could have done to try and prevent it. I might be incorrect, but isn't that very issue explored at some point withing the documentary itself?

Nyan Cat

I'm only on the 7th episode but I can recommend earth 2 (tv series -quite a short one)

Its still explotative of the jumpers no better than faces of death imo.

Mickeroo

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johnny_ultimate wrote: »

The major debate is whether the camera people would have been better off trying to stop the people from jumping, or what they could have done to try and prevent it. I might be incorrect, but isn't that very issue explored at some point withing the documentary itself?

Thats precisely what makes me hesitant. They talk to people who are suicidal then film them throwing themselves off a bridge to their death? I don't want to judge the film before I've seen it but on paper it sounds reprehensible.

johnny_ultimate

Mickeroo wrote: »

Thats precisely what makes me hesitant. They talk to people who are suicidal then film them throwing themselves off a bridge to their death?

God no, it's not that bad! The filmmaker talks to relatives and family members after the fact, not the jumpers themselves.

I think documentarians need to broach subjects like this - bold, controversial and difficult ones. I don't remember enough about the Bridge to have an in-depth discussion about it, but it's a meditative piece rather than an exploitative one.

Mickeroo

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johnny_ultimate wrote: »

God no, it's not that bad! The filmmaker talks to relatives and family members after the fact, not the jumpers themselves.

I think documentarians need to broach subjects like this - bold, controversial and difficult ones. I don't remember enough about the Bridge to have an in-depth discussion about it, but it's a meditative piece rather than an exploitative one.

Ah ok, that makes more sense, I got the wrong imrpession from the posts above. I'll give it a look one of the nights so.

NapoleonInRags

gilmour wrote: »

Have found myself watching a lot of films in the foreign film section of the US library - i highly recommend Sin Nombre, Entre Nos and The Wave.

Just watched this - absolutely superb. Worth a month's subscription alone.

MANUTD99

Client 9. Rise & Fall of Eliot Spitzer is a interesting documentary about the Governor of New York who wanted to tackle the fraudsters on Wall Street. He was doing a great job until they found out he was banging hookers!!

South of The Border is Oliver Stone's documentary about the South American countries giving the 2 fingers to the US. I actually have a fondness for Hugo Chavez after watching this one.

Food Inc is about the by gone days of farmers working for themselves but now being slaves to corporations