Forum / I'm thinking of going back to Netflix--any good movies streaming?
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mxi woddAug 11, 12:05amIt's been six months...any changes/improvements to streaming catalog?
They obviously want to go to all-streaming as a business plan, but ALL (well...) the good movies were still DVD only the last time I was there.
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GoneAug 11, 07:30pmYes.
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Matthew RobinsonAug 11, 08:49pmThe top 10 of my Instant queue looks like this right now:
Upstream Color
Dead Man
The Queen of Versailles
A Woman Is a Woman
Do the Right Thing
Night Watch
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Oslo, August 31st
Platoon
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Kait MauroAug 11, 10:29pmRivers and Tides! Also, The Future by Miranda July. Into the Wild.
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mxi woddAug 12, 12:30am
Peep Show (free/Hulu) is incredibly funny:
http://www.hulu.com/search?q=peep+show
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Also found this on Hulu:
http://www.hulu.com/klown?cmp=507&pdv=c%20&gclid=CLiP8KnS9rgCFadj7Aodr3AA6g
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Charlotte HamrickAug 12, 12:55amSince you're talking movies, check out The Darjeeling Limited if you want something light and funny.
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Matthew RobinsonAug 12, 01:06am
Peep Show is great, though after a while I got exhausted with David.
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mxi woddAug 12, 01:10am
Peep Show went on one season too long, imo.
Actors aged, characters didn't grow...(but what can you do...).
BUT the first few seasons were brilliant.
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mxi woddAug 12, 01:58am
"The Darjeeling Limited"
Looks really good.
I went throught the process of downloading the viewer for the SD chanell, being careful to check NO for all the add-ons they want you to take (which pays their bill, I understand...)
then after they installed all the extras anyway, went into my programs, UNinstalled all the doo-dads (search engines, tool-bars, computer-clean-up-things, etc.), went back to SD channel and nothing would play.
But thanks for the movie suggestion...looks like it's back to Netfrix pour moi!
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Charlotte HamrickAug 12, 02:08am
Omg, what a hassle! So sorry. I watched it on the Sundance channel so..... I used to do Netflix via mail. Now, if a movie I want isn't on Dish, I get it from the library. For free. It's amazing how current they are, of course, I'm sure that varies from town to town.
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mxi woddAug 12, 02:12am
We're talkin' small town Mississippippssipssissi here...
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GoneAug 12, 03:29am
If you're into the Coen Bros., check out Miller's Crossing, streaming on Netflix.
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mxi woddAug 12, 03:33am
Never seen that.
Title always reminds me of that Warren Beatty film (whose title I also can never remember).
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mxi woddAug 12, 03:34am
(McCabe & Mrs. Miller?)
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Charlotte HamrickAug 12, 04:10am
Coen Brothers = the Big Lebowski = fanfrekentastic.
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mxi woddAug 12, 04:14am
Watched about 4-5 youtube clips of the big lebowski earlier today.
Incredibly funny.
Absolutely masterful interaction.
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If'n you have netflix, check out:
Buffalo '66
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Letitia CoyneAug 12, 04:16amLOVE Buffalo '66. Little forgotten gem.
Lxx
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mxi woddAug 12, 04:18am
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Charlotte HamrickAug 12, 04:20am
Just requested it from the liberry. Thank ya.
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Charlotte HamrickAug 12, 04:23am
And, of course, Fargo. Brilliant.
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mxi woddAug 12, 04:25am
Favorite streamer back from the days of my first Netflox go-round:
The Saddest Music in the World
Terribly Happy
Tuvalu
The Violin
Santa Sangre
Following
As it is in Heaven
Sin Nombre
Bad Day to Go Fishing
The Law 1960
Fear and Trembling
Buffalo '66
Trees lounge
Hour of the Wolf
In the Realms of the Unreal
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
An Awfully Big Adventure
Tom & Viv
The Machinist
Faces
Matinee
Crazy
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
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mxi woddAug 12, 04:27am
(I want everyone to watch every single one of these--guaranTEED greatness!)
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Letitia CoyneAug 12, 04:35am
The Machinist. Proof Chris Bale is a genius.
Lxx
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Matthew RobinsonAug 12, 04:35am
As far as straight recommendations go, I can't speak highly enough of the film HOLY MOTORS.
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mxi woddAug 12, 04:37am
Two down, twenty-two to go.
;-)
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mxi woddAug 12, 04:40am
"Two down, twenty-two to go."
(meant for Letitia...)
HOLY MOTORS, eh?
(dang it, I've got to go back to notfrox...)
((also, The World's Fastest Indian" is ALSO just a darn good movie))
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Charlotte HamrickAug 12, 04:44am
Not a comedy but a film i loved, filmed in the great stet: The Yellow Hankerchief - stupid, crazy title but great movie.
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mxi woddAug 12, 04:51am
Hmmm...
Will def. check out.
Having been a long-time habitue of the Frainch Quarter, I must admit to liking Nicholas Cage's "The Bad Lieutenant" movie.
ALSO, the very old one (1947) "New Orleans," with Billy Holliday and Louis Armstrong. Actually quite good.
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Matthew RobinsonAug 12, 05:07am
Yeah, I was just talking about Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans earlier this afternoon, actually. Really good flick. Need to watch it again.
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Charlotte HamrickAug 12, 05:08am
Ack! Bad Lieutenant???!
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Charlotte HamrickAug 12, 05:09am
Locals hate it.
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Matthew RobinsonAug 12, 05:09am
I've also just had my Bergman awakening, have watched four of his movies in the last week. Going out for a few more in a day or so...
Passion of Anna is on instant, but it looks like they cropped it or something because the subtitles cut off. That almost offends me to the point of no return.
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Matthew RobinsonAug 12, 05:10am
Well it certainly doesn't shine the brightest light on that town...
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mxi woddAug 12, 05:11am
BAD LIEUTENANT IS GREAT!!!
;-)
(but seriously, give "New Orleans" (1947) a shot. I found it surprisingly true-to-life.)
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Charlotte HamrickAug 12, 05:13am
No, it doesn't shine the brightest light because its ..... Total fiction and badly acted. And hits every cliche out there about the city. Ho hum.
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mxi woddAug 12, 05:15am
but the weird/off-putting thing to me about Bad Lieu. was the criminals, the drug dealers.
They were NOT nola criminals/drug dealers.
They were LA actors.
(I like Nic Cage. He be crazy.)
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Matt:
Speaking of Bergman, be sure (if you haven't already) and check out:
Hour of the Wolf
(it's a streamer)
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Charlotte HamrickAug 12, 05:17am
I liked NC until he drunkenly shoved a local waitress when she didn't move quickly enough. Classless asshole.
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mxi woddAug 12, 05:21am
Charlotte-
I remember going to see "The Big Easy" when it first came out (and I was down there).
How is that considered these days?
OH!
And also saw "Angel Heart" while living down there! Have distinct memories of taking the Magazine Street bus past the locations they had blocked off for the filming.
Thought it was terrific when I first saw it.
Thought it was sh&t was I last saw it...
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mxi woddAug 12, 05:24am
"I liked NC until he drunkenly shoved a local waitress when she didn't move quickly enough. Classless asshole."
I read about that whole thing on nola.com.
Without a doubt, HE is a drunken dick...
(but I still like Bad Lieutenant)
;-)
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Matthew RobinsonAug 12, 05:25am
Hour of the wolf appears to be DVD only. Fortunately I receive DVDs...
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mxi woddAug 12, 05:27am
DO IT.
GREAT MOVIE.
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Charlotte HamrickAug 12, 05:30am
The Big Easy is still #1 as the most made-fun-of movie about NOLA with Bad Lieu as a close second. An alligator on the I-10 in Metairie? Please.
Angel Heart.....was that with Mickey Roark?
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mxi woddAug 12, 05:34am
Yep, Mickey Rourke (and that young child chick from "The Cosby Show")
(I actually remember walking up to the block on Magazine street when they were filming the nighttime raining scene where MR is running around. LOTS of water pumped through those rain machines...)
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mxi woddAug 12, 05:41am
"The Big Easy is still #1 as the most made-fun-of movie about NOLA"
That's what I kind of thought (though I can barely remember it). Having the "squeal-like-a-pig" guy from "Deliverance" being a major part didn't help much (I remember thinking at the time).
I remember when they went to Tipitinas' in the movie.
Only it wasn't Tipitinas, it was some other joint, obviously shot in Los Angeles or somewhere, post-production, to save money.
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mxi woddAug 12, 05:45am
Rule #1:
Do NOT make a movie about New Orleans where the actors go to Tipitinas and it's NOT Tipitinas.
(also, I remember them having some Chef Paul Proudome wanna-be look-alike coming out and talking to them....
when Tipitinas does not even have a kitchen...
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Matthew RobinsonAug 12, 05:47am
Damn, that's lame.
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Matthew RobinsonAug 12, 05:50am
I might just go rent that, Hour of the Wolf and The Virgin Spring at a real life movie rental place near my area tomorrow, watch em all in a row.
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Matthew RobinsonAug 12, 05:51am
"That" = Hour of the Wolf. Meant also to say Through a Glass Darkly.
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mxi woddAug 12, 05:51am
C'est vrai...
(I love everything neworleans. It's the only place I've ever felt at home.)
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mxi woddAug 12, 05:53am
"a real life movie rental place"
Where you live... is it 1987?
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Charlotte HamrickAug 12, 05:58am
I'm trying to remember the name of the TV show around about 2006 or 07 set in N.O. that we all played drinking games to. A shot for every "chere" and a shot for every time they ate gumbo..... Good times.
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mxi woddAug 12, 06:02am
Ooooh...
with that guy from "Dallas," right?!
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Matthew RobinsonAug 12, 06:05am
Close, it's Seattle.
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mxi woddAug 12, 06:07am
Not YOU!!
The TV show!
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Charlotte HamrickAug 12, 06:08am
K-ville, that's it. OMG, what an awful piece of crap that was. Everybody watched it because it was so bad it was hilarious.
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mxi woddAug 12, 06:12am
No,no,no,no,no....!
There was another show I'm thinking about, with...Larry Hagman! Set in nola! Probably late 80s?
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But OMG. K-ville...
What a piece of stool.
What a waste.
What a shame
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It could have been so good.
It could have been less of a failure.
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Just SO over-acted.
SO heavy-handed.
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mxi woddAug 12, 06:14am
Treme?
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Charlotte HamrickAug 12, 06:19am
I don't remember a show with Hagman. Hmmmm.
But, IMO, no one should even attempt writing about post-Katrina NOLA unless you were here. Treme got it mostly right strictly due to local input, writers and actors. Just sayin'.
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Charlotte HamrickAug 12, 06:23am
Lord, I must go to bed. I. Must. Go. To. Bed.
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mxi woddAug 12, 06:24am
Found the Hagman thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orleans_(TV_series)
Only eight episodes, so...
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K-ville (of which I watched every episode simply because it WAS nola)
was a cross between a saturday-morning cartoon and a 1979 daytime-drama.
Just a shame.
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mxi woddAug 12, 06:26am
Good Googly-Moogly!
It's 1:23 in der mornink...!
(I did not know that...)
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Sally HoutmanAug 12, 09:11amSweet dreams.
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Matthew RobinsonAug 12, 08:12pm
Hey Matt,
I watched TREES LOUNGE last night. Really good, surprising stuff. Buscemi, man. What a talented guy. The first movie I ever saw him in was Con Air, a good movie with the exception of Cage's (this guy, again...) deplorable accent work.
What do you think of Boardwalk Empire? I kinda shrugged at it after season one, haven't watched any more of it, though Buscemi's talents really shine through.
In a way, he'll always be CHET to me.
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mxi woddAug 12, 08:19pm
"Con Air, a good movie with the exception of Cage's..."
That was NOT a highlight for NC, that's for sure!
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I not know Boardwalk Empire...
small screen?
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Matthew RobinsonAug 12, 08:20pm
HBO series, Prohibition era drama.
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mxi woddAug 12, 08:22pm
Oooh, cool.
Prabably on Netflipz, then...
Or does HBO NOT automatically go to Notfropz?
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Sally HoutmanAug 12, 08:22pm
Nicholas Cage = "Raising Arizona"
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Charlotte HamrickAug 12, 08:23pm
Buscemi is a force in BE. Good stuff.
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mxi woddAug 12, 08:26pm
Does HBO automatically stream on Netflix?
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mxi woddAug 12, 08:30pm
I saw a Buscemi movie about a compulsive gambler.
Thought it was painfully bad. Still playing the part of ...himself... when he'd outgrown it by 7 years.
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(TREES LOUNGE is GREAT.)
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Charlotte HamrickAug 12, 08:30pm
I dunno but Amazon streams it.
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Matthew RobinsonAug 12, 08:31pm
HBO doesn't stream on Netflix because they have HBO GO. They stream their own stuff.
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mxi woddAug 12, 08:31pm
Which would you reccomend?
Nipflipz or Amazon?
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Charlotte HamrickAug 12, 08:34pm
He's in a vignette in Paris, je t'aime that's crazy-good.
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Matthew RobinsonAug 12, 08:34pm
RAISING ARIZONA is an all-time great. The Coen Bros are the ultimate badasses.
No Country
Lebowski
Barton Fink
Raising Arizona
A Serious ManSo. freaking. great.
Miller's Crossing and O Brother Where Art Thou? also.
Damn.
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Charlotte HamrickAug 12, 08:36pm
Totally agree.
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mxi woddAug 12, 08:42pm
Haven't seen "No Country" yet.
Have read tons of talk about it... Seems to be a real Love-It-Or-Hate-It.
"A Serious Man"
Never heard of it...
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Matthew RobinsonAug 12, 08:48pm
I can't profess to know your tastes, but I will say if you can appreciate cerebral, minimalist filmmaking, a profound and important actor's emergence (Javier Bardem) and faithful adaptation of what is a GREAT novel, No Country will rock you.
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Matthew RobinsonAug 12, 08:53pm
I would also recommend viewing the film, THEN reading the novel. The parts in the book the Coens left out of the film simultaneously fail to detract from the overall quality of the story, and by reading the book afterwards, your perspective on the overall themes will only be expanded.
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mxi woddAug 12, 08:54pm
I hang out at a guitar forum
Consensus on No Country...
IT'S GREAT!
IT SUCKS!!!IT'S GREAT!!!
IT SUCKS!!!!!!I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT!!!!
THAT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE STUPID!!!!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
and the inevitable online fist-fight ensues....
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Matthew RobinsonAug 12, 08:55pm
Then there's the source of the title of the novel:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20310
Yep.
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mxi woddAug 12, 08:56pm
Any consensus on choosing Amazon over Netflix?
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Matthew RobinsonAug 12, 09:01pm
"I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT!!!!
THAT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE STUPID!!!!!"That about sums up the entire argument everyone has ever had about that film.
In my estimation, what intimidates or turns people off about NCFOM is that, structurally, it shits on traditional plot lines. It forces the viewer to ask questions about what they know about storytelling. In other words, it's abrasive as hell, and some people don't like that from their movies.
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Matthew RobinsonAug 12, 09:02pm
That's one of the very few things I don't have much of an opinion on, unfortunately. I don't know jack about Amazon's streaming services. My boss seems to like it, that's all I got.
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mxi woddAug 12, 09:03pm
Dang.
I am completely Yeats ignorant.
Though (like George Harrison) manged to engage in some "unconscious plagiarism" over the use of a certain compound-adjective that I thought I'd 'discovered.'
(Which, for the record, I did, unto myself...)
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GoneAug 12, 09:28pm
No Country is good film, a Coen masterpiece.
Read the book twice, saw the movie thrice. Would even watch it again.
Bardem caught his character perfectly and the Coens, as always, did the story justice.
Rare when a book comes alive on film like that.
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Sam RasnakeAug 12, 11:09pmNo Country for Old Men - three main stories told in parallel and in crisscross - both book and film.
The film is wonderful. One of the Coens' best.
And the book is brilliant - There, JB that should cause you not to read it.
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Sam RasnakeAug 12, 11:16pm
Matt R - Where is Fargo on your list? How can it not be there.
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mxi woddAug 12, 11:18pm
"There, JB that should cause you not to read it."
heh..
Who wrote that?
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Sally HoutmanAug 13, 12:26am
Awwwwww, Sam - you're not gonna take that lying down, are ya?
(who needs Netflix when there's entertainment like this
at no charge!)
:)
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Matthew RobinsonAug 13, 01:02am
Fargo is absolutely among their best. As far as personal preferences go, though, I think I put it beneath my top 5. The only question about it that I have is how it'll hold up over time. There are some really 90s aspects to it. I'm not very good at explaining that point, I just feel it.
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mxi woddAug 13, 01:09am
I agree about Fargo...
It broke The Brothers big, but...
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mxi woddAug 13, 01:21am
"Who wrote that?"
Serious question (I know I could Gooble it...)
I don't know who wrote it...I'm thinking Cormac McCarthy...?
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mxi woddAug 13, 02:59am
GREAT movie...."
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Matthew RobinsonAug 13, 04:24am
Cormac McCarthy wrote No Country for Old Men, yes.
I also highly, highly, extremely recommend Blood Meridian, Suttree, All the Pretty Horses and Child of God.
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Matthew RobinsonAug 13, 04:24am
Cormac McCarthy wrote No Country for Old Men, yes.
I also highly, highly, extremely recommend Blood Meridian, Suttree, All the Pretty Horses and Child of God.
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Frankie SaxxNov 12, 06:36pm
@Matt
I'm consistently impressed with the quality of HBO series. They've also got a good eye for aquiring mediocre but popular book series & turning them into fun shows eg. Dexter & True Blood.
Made it into season 3 of Deadwood. Been paying more attention to the dialog since you mentioned it. You're right, it's exceptional.
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Chris OkumNov 12, 06:40pmComputer Chess
The American Astronaut
Frances Ha
The Red Chapel
Photographic Memory
The Gambler
The Baby
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Matthew RobinsonNov 14, 06:56am
@Frankie
YES. It's fucking Shakespeare.
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Frankie SaxxNov 14, 11:01am
@Matt
Ha! Yes!
On to No Country:
Excellent film, excellent book. I think I did it in the order you suggested - film first, then book. Usually I go the other way around, but I had some inconvenience in procuring the novel.
Then, I think the Coen Bros. are brilliant anyway. Also love their screenplays.
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