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Re: What are you watching now ? Movies and TV

Post by esd » Fri, 15. Feb 19, 20:52

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I have Amazon Prime and Netflix. I am not going to buy any other streaming service, so Disney, you can eff right off--if I care enough about your content to watch it, I'll get it on DVD.
Same here - Netflix, coz shows. Tho the Defenders dying off isn't helping me stick around - selection has gone downhill lately. Amazon because I have Prime. Frankly most of their selection is complete and utter rude words - C movies (not even B!), dire rubbish and tat. But they have the Expanse now.

Season 4 has just wrapped up production and will also be headed to Amazon according to Den of Geek (CAUTION - PROTOMOLECULES AND SPOILERS)

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I do wonder how it's gonna go now. So many systems. So much expectation of blood. Bobbie is returning, I kinda like her. Hope she gets a new suit of power armour.

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Re: What are you watching now ? Movies and TV

Post by burger1 » Fri, 15. Feb 19, 20:52

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Fri, 15. Feb 19, 18:59
I have Amazon Prime and Netflix. I am not going to buy any other streaming service, so Disney, you can eff right off--if I care enough about your content to watch it, I'll get it on DVD.

Disney already has Disney Life in UK. Maybe it will become Disney Plus and get the Star Wars, Marvel, stuff etc... Hulu when it goes international might take away some of the Amazon/Netflix content. I think netflix has removed the majority of it already over the last couple years. Rotating through services seems to be the way to go.

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Re: What are you watching now ? Movies and TV

Post by Morkonan » Sat, 16. Feb 19, 01:19

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Fri, 15. Feb 19, 18:59
I have Amazon Prime and Netflix. I am not going to buy any other streaming service, so Disney, you can eff right off--if I care enough about your content to watch it, I'll get it on DVD.
I hear/read ya, brother...

But, have they reached market saturation with the number of streaming services, yet? Probably not. BUT, there's only so many streaming services people are going to sign up for. I'm sure they're all competing and jealously guarding their IPs, but where's the syndication rights? Nowhere, of course. They know there's too many choices and they'd all love putting a competitor "out of business." As if... Netflix hasn't had positive cash-flow yet. "Business?" lolz.. Amazon could serve up ten-tons of crap an hour and it's never going to go broke. Hulu? It's off in the corner, somewhere, trying on a furry suit. Youtube? Yeah... no.

And, here I am staring at my channel lineup on friggin cable and I've got seventy-eleven "HBO" channels and there ain't crap on. "Hey, look, we got the remake of "Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang" and it's not the porno one!" Yip...

I get Cinemax, too, and a bunch of other movie channels. I specifically told them I did not want Cinemax. I said, specifically, "NO SKINIMAX." "No." "I don't want Cinemax." NO! Aaaand, I have Cinemax. Guess why?

So, I go up to the cable office to hit someone in the head with a brick. I forgot the brick, though, so I figured I'd just scream at them over the counter. There wasn't a counter, it was one of those stoopid friggin "Open Office We're Almost Like An Apple Store" friggin "Your friendly neighborhood we're-consolidating-customer-service-expenses shops." I dunno if you guys have them or not. If you walk in and it smells like BS ground into new carpet and there's a tone of uncomfortable white furniture in it, you have them too."

So, Johnny Ballshaven 'Tdroppedyet (He must be European) gets my "number." Yeah, you gotta take a number. Only, it's not a "number." There's a dumbass little ipad at the entrance and you have to put your name in there. Then, it dings up on an overhead screen to let you know how long you're going to have to wait for no service... Yeah, everyone can see your name, too.

So, after twenty minutes of jabbering with Johnny, He tells me this:

"People in the billing department routinely change your lineup choices so you will get the best rates. Since getting a package including Cinemax got you your best rate for this month, you got Cinemax. Isn't that great that we're looking out for our loyal customers by ensuring they always get the best rates?"

"So... How long am I going to have Cinemax? And, is that wtf happened to that other channel I used to watch, but can't get it anymore?"

"I don't know and I couldn't find out even if I wanted to. Would you like to speak to someone else?"

Holy crap, now i know why people firebomb friggin' buildings... :/

What am I watching that's got me so verbose and ticked off? The friggin' news. I got fifty-eleven friggin' channels of artistically inspired crap programming and all i ever watch is the friggin' news.

I'm going to go to the DVD store and buy a series of something, I don't give a crap what it is, at least I'll OWN THE DARN THING!

(Which is why I posted this - I like "owning" a series. I like not having to be tied down to some crappy cable streaming box or membership or stoopid crap. I like owning movies, too, for the same reason.)

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Re: What are you watching now ? Movies and TV

Post by Bishop149 » Sat, 16. Feb 19, 02:21

pjknibbs wrote:
Fri, 15. Feb 19, 18:59
I have Amazon Prime and Netflix. I am not going to buy any other streaming service, so Disney, you can eff right off--if I care enough about your content to watch it, I'll get it on DVD.
I switched from Prime to Netflix, but Prime now has a bunch of stuff in the works in which I'm interested. . . The Expanse, Good Omens etc so I may switch back for a bit.
I'd also like to watch Clone Wars and Rebels (because I never did) and those are on the Disney one, getting that lot on DVD would be hella expensive.
I sure as hell ain't paying for all of them at one time.

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Re: What are you watching now ? Movies and TV

Post by pjknibbs » Sat, 16. Feb 19, 06:38

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Business Idea: A service which allows you to quickly an easily switch streaming service from month to month depending on what you fancy watching at the time.
Or, an even better idea: the likes of Disney can treat Netflix and Amazon Prime the same as they would a TV channel and sell their stuff to them for viewing, rather than setting up their own streaming service and making their stuff exclusive to it? Just a thought.

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Re: What are you watching now ? Movies and TV

Post by Redvers Ganderpoke » Sat, 16. Feb 19, 15:01

esd wrote:
Fri, 15. Feb 19, 20:52
Amazon because I have Prime. Frankly most of their selection is complete and utter rude words - C movies (not even B!), dire rubbish and tat.
I feel like i am back in the eighties in the corner video shop looking at the titles you've never heard of, you know they are going to be bad, very bad.
Amazon do seem to have a back catalog of utter rubbish, mostly straight to video films, failed pilots, series so terrible that no channel n the UK bought them. Their collection of 'documentaries' isn't much better.

But there's enough (just) to watch with subscription.
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Re: What are you watching now ? Movies and TV

Post by BugMeister » Sat, 16. Feb 19, 21:42

Blind adventurer Amar Latif takes us along one of Yorkshire’s most stunning river valleys.
He abseils into a hidden gorge, canoes across a reservoir and meets the local llamas.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... 1-the-nidd

- yes, that's correct - Amar is blind..
- what an inspiration..
- a really interesting perspective.. :)
- the whole universe is running in BETA mode - we're working on it.. beep..!! :D :thumb_up:

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Re: What are you watching now ? Movies and TV

Post by BugMeister » Sun, 17. Feb 19, 17:36

The Royal Enfield Interceptor 650cc - UK Test Ride !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjz9iBB-r_0

- looks beautiful..
- a well-made little review.. :D
- the whole universe is running in BETA mode - we're working on it.. beep..!! :D :thumb_up:

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Re: What are you watching now ? Movies and TV

Post by Ronald Sandoval » Sun, 17. Feb 19, 19:36

BugMeister wrote:
Sun, 17. Feb 19, 17:36
The Royal Enfield Interceptor 650cc - UK Test Ride !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjz9iBB-r_0

- looks beautiful..
- a well-made little review.. :D
thats a nice little bike but he chose a bad day for a test ride man i dont ride in the wet at all now days this is my bike(not this one)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NB_TWLwXnM
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Re: What are you watching now ? Movies and TV

Post by Bishop149 » Mon, 18. Feb 19, 10:49

pjknibbs wrote:
Sat, 16. Feb 19, 06:38
Or, an even better idea: the likes of Disney can treat Netflix and Amazon Prime the same as they would a TV channel and sell their stuff to them for viewing, rather than setting up their own streaming service and making their stuff exclusive to it? Just a thought.
Well, we can only hope that no one signs up and they don't make any money. If they make even 1 cent more by cutting out the middleman this perfusion of services is likely to remain a thing.
Hey, can we unionise consumer power? :roll:
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Re: What are you watching now ? Movies and TV

Post by Tamina » Mon, 18. Feb 19, 19:47

If you haven't watched "The Umbrella Academy" on Netflix already, you should immeadiatly.

TL:DR: A bunch of Super"weirdos" try to save the world. Weird, crazy and amazingly good with creative characters and story writing.
*Edit: Oh and and amazing sound, camera and actors.

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Post by Bishop149 » Wed, 20. Feb 19, 17:49

Tamina wrote:
Mon, 18. Feb 19, 19:47
If you haven't watched "The Umbrella Academy" on Netflix already, you should immeadiatly.

TL:DR: A bunch of Super"weirdos" try to save the world. Weird, crazy and amazingly good with creative characters and story writing.
*Edit: Oh and and amazing sound, camera and actors.
I'd kinda written this one off to "Superhero fatigue" but people keep recommending it so I'll give it a go.

Recently been watching.

The Punisher, Season 2: Nearly finished it, continues to do what it does well. Enjoyed it but I'm kinda glad it's been cancelled. It themes are: Toxic Masculinity, PTSD, Gun violence and Vigilantism and it does a good job of tackling them and doesn't hesitate to paint them all as very bad things. Yet I still see people coming away from it thinking of Frank Castle as someone to be admired or emulated.
Frankly (ba-dum-tish) I'm not sure the audience is mature enough for this show.

Nightfliers: Finished, Meh it was ok. If you're a super sci-fi nerd like me watch it to see what it does with the genera, otherwise can't really recommend it. It has no idea what its trying to be. On the tin its a Sci-Fi Horror and TBH I'm not sure anything has pulled that mix off well since "Event Horizon".
It also seemed to think it was going to get more than one season so the ending is weak, which makes no sense at all as the the entire shows narrative was structured upon building to a (likely catastrophic and fatal) climax.

Dragon Prince: Season 2: Continues to be very good.
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Re: What are you watching now ? Movies and TV

Post by Tamina » Wed, 20. Feb 19, 22:54

Bishop149 wrote:
Wed, 20. Feb 19, 17:49
Tamina wrote:
Mon, 18. Feb 19, 19:47
If you haven't watched "The Umbrella Academy" on Netflix already, you should immeadiatly.

TL:DR: A bunch of Super"weirdos" try to save the world. Weird, crazy and amazingly good with creative characters and story writing.
*Edit: Oh and and amazing sound, camera and actors.
I'd kinda written this one off to "Superhero fatigue" but people keep recommending it so I'll give it a go.
I do not like superhero movies, never liked them. I am sick from all those Marvel/DC movies.
Would not count The Umbrella Academy as a typical "superhero" movie/series, because they are neither super nor heroes and their already limited powers are countered by their human flaws. The story itself is heavily driven by their interesting personalities, their backstories and character development (including the antagonists), rather then the continuing fight against an obvious stupid evil being with even dumber plans.
Bishop149 wrote:
Wed, 20. Feb 19, 17:49
Nightfliers: Finished, Meh it was ok. If you're a super sci-fi nerd like me watch it to see what it does with the genera, otherwise can't really recommend it.
Yeah, kind of enjoyed the story but it is extremly difficult to recommend.

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Post by Morkonan » Thu, 21. Feb 19, 21:40

Tamina wrote:
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I do not like superhero movies, never liked them. I am sick from all those Marvel/DC movies....
Mystery Men?

Blankman?

Kickass?

There are plenty of "almost a superhero" movies you might like that don't have anything to do with the rampant profit-grabbing Marvel/DC universe. I like a few of the mainstream "superhero" movies. I think it's more nostalgia than anything else - I like reliving the imagery I conjured when I was a kid. Though, there are some movies that, IMO, actually have a story worth watching.

I like some of the "themes" in these sorts of movies. I don't like the over-the-top "mashup blockbuster" kind of stuff, since the stories are usually undeveloped and they're just setup pieces for some big CGI something/battle.

There are so many of the sort of "counter-culture" superhero movies out there, but few decent "lists" of them. Anyone have a good list of all the superhero movies that aren't part of the toybox of DC or Marvel? I know, there's stuff like "Spawn" and the like, but I'm looking more for the ones that develop their own kind of hero/antihero or are comedies/parodies.

There's a recent offering that I've been meaning to look out for, but I can't remember a darn thing about it. It's supposed to be pretty "edgey" though, not for family audiences. (Violence, some twisted sort of anti-hero characters, etc.) Anyone?

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Post by esd » Fri, 22. Feb 19, 11:36

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Morkonan wrote:
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There's a recent offering that I've been meaning to look out for, but I can't remember a darn thing about it. It's supposed to be pretty "edgey" though, not for family audiences. (Violence, some twisted sort of anti-hero characters, etc.) Anyone?
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Post by Morkonan » Sat, 23. Feb 19, 01:51

esd wrote:
Fri, 22. Feb 19, 11:36
Wolf and the debat! Clarence! Poor Winks.
Morkonan wrote:
Thu, 21. Feb 19, 21:40
There's a recent offering that I've been meaning to look out for, but I can't remember a darn thing about it. It's supposed to be pretty "edgey" though, not for family audiences. (Violence, some twisted sort of anti-hero characters, etc.) Anyone?
Glass? (Sequel to Unbreakable with Jackson/Willis)
I've seen Unbreakable, but the other movie about the guy with MPD that kidnaps/tortures a bunch of cheeleaders... I haven't seen that one. I am not sure I want to see it. :) "Glass" looks good though and I loved Unbreakable!

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Post by Observe » Sat, 23. Feb 19, 04:34

Tamina wrote:
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If you haven't watched "The Umbrella Academy" on Netflix already, you should immediately.
Wife and I just finished watching it. Excellent show! Thanks for the suggestion. :)

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Post by felter » Tue, 19. Mar 19, 03:23

I know some of you like your documentaries, I stumbled onto this short documentary today and I thought some of you may like it, it's only 23 minutes long and it's about some special Nepalese Honey. All I can say is those guys have some pretty large balls of steel.
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Post by Ketraar » Tue, 19. Mar 19, 19:28

Watched Captain Marvel yesterday night and just wanted to say that if you are going to see IW Endgame then its worth seeing this one, but its not great. Entertaining 2h mostly to get to know the character.

OK movie with some interesting ideas that never shine, they crammed a LOT of exposition and basically 3 origin stories. This is like an episone between the 2 parts of Infinity War.

6/10

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Post by Tamina » Tue, 19. Mar 19, 19:57

Ketraar wrote:
Tue, 19. Mar 19, 19:28
Watched Captain Marvel yesterday night and just wanted to say that if you are going to see IW Endgame then its worth seeing this one, but its not great. Entertaining 2h mostly to get to know the character.

OK movie with some interesting ideas that never shine, they crammed a LOT of exposition and basically 3 origin stories. This is like an episone between the 2 parts of Infinity War.

6/10

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