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James Delaney

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I can only presume you work in Finance & or you cannot emphatise with the main character in the film, who is unable to pay for prescription drugs for his wifes survival because his investment in stocks is now worthless despite the 'sales pitch' of his broker promising high returns. Hiw would you feel if your wife took her life in such circumstances - How many people committed suicide in Ireland as a result of losing everything.
I don't think the film is ott - esp. with the gun culture in American & I certainly consider the actions taken by the main character are a possible future occurance. I'm sure many investors in Anglo who were fraudulently swindled out of their lifes savings, would have loved / love to undertaken such actions.

TitianGerm

James Delaney wrote: »

@BEEFY 78

I can only presume you work in Finance & or you cannot emphatise with the main character in the film, who is unable to pay for prescription drugs for his wifes survival because his investment in stocks is now worthless despite the 'sales pitch' of his broker promising high returns. Hiw would you feel if your wife took her life in such circumstances - How many people committed suicide in Ireland as a result of losing everything.
I don't think the film is ott - esp. with the gun culture in American & I certainly consider the actions taken by the main character are a possible future occurance. I'm sure many investors in Anglo who were fraudulently swindled out of their lifes savings, would have loved / love to undertaken such actions.

I think your reading to much into the film. It was made as an action film and that's what it does.

Also what does it mater were/what sector the other poster works as it has no bearing on the film whatsoever.

Stone Deaf 4evr

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emmetkenny wrote: »

I think your reading to much into the film. It was made as an action film and that's what it does.

Also what does it mater were/what sector the other poster works as it has no bearing on the film whatsoever.

I dunno Emmet, how would you feel if a gang of German terrorists took over a high rise building while you were visiting your wife at Christmas? If you were a police officer , surely you'd feel compelled to act?

Agent Coulson

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The Wolf of Wall Street added to Netflix Ireland today since the financial crisis is being talked about in here.

e_e

Watched Limmy's Show series 1, hit or miss but the good stuff is hysterical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfKhDiUNOG0

TitianGerm

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

I dunno Emmet, how would you feel if a gang of German terrorists took over a high rise building while you were visiting your wife at Christmas? If you were a police officer , surely you'd feel compelled to act?

Depends on how annoying she had been lately

She'd piss the terrorists off and they'd just leave either way

Charlie19

The Good Doctor.

Orlando Bloom plays young Dr that falls for one of his patients while treating her for kidney disorder. A bit creepy but not a bad film.

Cake.

Very surprised by this and I thought Jennifer Aniston was brilliant in it.

8-10

I'm going to weigh in and give a thumbs up for Margin Call. Excellently acted movie with tense dialogue that you can believe actually probably happened during the 2008 crisis when the realisation hit. Jeremy Iron is excellent in his first scene in the boardroom.

Assault on Wall Street however was very poor in my estimation. I would hesitate to recommend it even to action fans. Expected more from the premise.

Technocentral

Agent Coulson wrote: »

The Last Picture Show added to Netflix Switzerland.

Cybill Shepherd, 'nuff said!

Technocentral

Speed test giving 50mb plus download speeds but Netflix only spooling up to 240 playback here in Drumcondra, anyone else? I'm usually on 1080 no problem all the time?

Beefy78

James Delaney wrote: »

@BEEFY 78

I can only presume you work in Finance & or you cannot emphatise with the main character in the film, who is unable to pay for prescription drugs for his wifes survival because his investment in stocks is now worthless despite the 'sales pitch' of his broker promising high returns. Hiw would you feel if your wife took her life in such circumstances - How many people committed suicide in Ireland as a result of losing everything.
I don't think the film is ott - esp. with the gun culture in American & I certainly consider the actions taken by the main character are a possible future occurance. I'm sure many investors in Anglo who were fraudulently swindled out of their lifes savings, would have loved / love to undertaken such actions.

Would love to indiscriminately murder dozens of innocent people? I hope not many.

Ted_YNWA

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Technocentral wrote: »

Speed test giving 50mb plus download speeds but Netflix only spooling up to 240 playback here in Drumcondra, anyone else? I'm usually on 1080 no problem all the time?

Netflix is being a little laggy here too. Had put it down to being "on holidays" here.

Technocentral

Ted_YNWA wrote:

Netflix is being a little laggy here too. Had put it down to being "on holidays" here.

Wonder if UPC or Netflix are dialling back on Netflix speed?

Agent Coulson

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I wouldn't be surprised if there servers are getting pounded at the moment since the whole world just joined in.

Technocentral

Ted_YNWA wrote:

Netflix is being a little laggy here too. Had put it down to being "on holidays" here.

That never was an issue before, do you think flix are clamping down on tourists now?

Technocentral

Surely they'd be ready for that, no one would continue using their service for long if their quality is only half of SD (480).

Ted_YNWA

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Technocentral wrote: »

That never was an issue before, do you think flix are clamping down on tourists now?

No idea, it was just a guess on my part. Everything else is going ok for me.

Could be just an issue as above with more countries being added & they haven't upgraded for increase in traffic.

Sad Professor

I’ve been experiencing speed issues since before Christmas. I used to always get 1080p but these days I’m lucky if it’s 720p. This on Irish Netflix with UPC.

Agent Coulson

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Netflix use Amazons cloud servers I wonder have Amazon just not put them up to the max at the moment a little friendly competition and all that.

Or it could simple be a Virgin or Eir or whoever having an issue here.

Edward Hopper

480 is as good as I ever get! It hasn't got any worse for me, travelling or in Ireland.

Beefy78

I've had nothing less than 1080 and have had no issues with Netflix at all lately. UPC in Dublin.

Dyr

I think UPC does something weird on sundays, sometimes it only affects netflix but sometimes speeds in general fall off a cliff

Technocentral

Sad Professor wrote:

I’ve been experiencing speed issues since before Christmas. I used to always get 1080p but these days I’m lucky if it’s 720p. This on Irish Netflix with UPC.

I'm OK with 720 , but the current half DVD quality is awful

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Think it may be UPC in general. Have noticed issues with all streaming services of late. Earlier today Hulu repeatedly stopped to buffer during a 22 minute episode of TV, Fandor automatically streams on the lower settings and if I change to HD it will need to buffer. Netflix will at best show 720 when in the past all three were at highest settings without a hitch.

Ageyev

e_e wrote: »

Watched Limmy's Show series 1, hit or miss but the good stuff is hysterical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfKhDiUNOG0

Watched this before but is hilarious and worth a look

ThisRegard

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Technocentral wrote: »

Speed test giving 50mb plus download speeds but Netflix only spooling up to 240 playback here in Drumcondra, anyone else? I'm usually on 1080 no problem all the time?

I found it poor last night too, first thing I watched was at a reduced resolution but I didn't mind as it was a doc, second thing it seemed to pick up but the load times were longer than usual. This was using the Irish site on UPC, never usually have issues and get up to 1080p normally.

maximus02

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I'm watching an old comedy classic today:

"It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world"

It's rare that I laugh out loud at a comedy movie but this really is a classic.

ThisRegard

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It's a great film, first saw it as a kid in the 80s some time. Didn't they remake it recently?

warpdrive

Going on holidays to parts of E. Europe, they seem to have a really good selection of movies already available there. Am I right in assuming it's because there probably aren't many big channels that would have the movie rights locked down like Sky do with movies in the UK and Ireland? Since not many people in those countries would be able to afford the prices of subscriptions to such channels. Even Netflix's €7.99 would be considered expensive to a lot of people there.

Ageyev

At this link is a directory which will open all the secret genre categories Netflix doesn't show you. Pretty nifty - http://netflixcodes.me