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[Name Redacted]

Thought Beef was excellent. Good to see Ali Wong step out of her standup and kill it. Hope there's a follow up of some sort.

[dookeyXXX]

R.I.P. Netflix DVD:

https://variety.com/2023/digital/new...wn-1235587325/

[Flyoverland Captive]

R.I.P. Netflix DVD:

https://variety.com/2023/digital/new...wn-1235587325/

Didn’t they have a metric fuck ton of titles on DVD that were never available streamed? I hope they do something like the Internet Archive for that material (copyright issues aside, obviously.).

[dookeyXXX]

Didn’t they have a metric fuck ton of titles on DVD that were never available streamed? I hope they do something like the Internet Archive for that material (copyright issues aside, obviously.).

Yup.
Titles not available anywhere else is why I have kept the service.
Guess I ain’t getting through the 373 titles in my queue by Sept.


It would be cool if they had a sale, too.
I mean what are they gonna do with all that inventory?

[Flyoverland Captive]

Zactly. Millions and millions of dvds in a massive estate sale!

[mcski]

R.I.P. Netflix DVD:

https://variety.com/2023/digital/new...wn-1235587325/

Wow, I was just wondering about this a couple days ago. It was such a cluster of stupidity when people freaked out the first time Netflix tried to spin-off/nix providing DVDs. I’m a little surprised it’s not still sustainable for places w less than stellar internet connections and the availability of titles has been unmatched by anything before or since. Kinda sad

[PB]

Ummmm .... upload them onto their streaming platform?? Don't they have unlimited storage space?!?!? Like, in the dark matter cloud??

[mcski]

Licensing. They could upload but not legally share. Send them to megaUpload2 maybe

[The AD]

Wife and I just started the documentary "Wild Wild Country" about the Rajneeshees. There are six episodes and we watched the first one. Seems promising so far. The first episode covers the time up to where the Rajneesh decamps from Poona, India to start the new ashram near Antelope, Oregon. Definitely a crazy story that I really don't know that much about.

Has anyone else seen this? It really is captivating. I'm through four of the six episodes now. Definitely recommended.

edit: finally got search to work and see a couple people commented on it in 2018.

[John_B]

Has anyone else seen this? It really is captivating. I'm through four of the six episodes now. Definitely recommended.

I watched it a few years ago when it came out. My folks lived in PDX as all of that was happening so I found it quite interesting.

[The AD]

I watched it a few years ago when it came out. My folks lived in PDX as all of that was happening so I found it quite interesting.

I'm just young enough that I was old enough to have heard about it concurrently, but had essentially zero interest at the time. The whole story is extremely interesting. It's almost entirely based on interviews from the key players (both inside and outside the commune), including Ma Anand Sheela who is arguably the linchpin in the entire saga.

[mcski]

It was interesting back whe it was going on but even more interesting w the background in the doc. I randomly met an ex Rajneeshie a year or so ago. Just talking about random jobs we had and he mentioned he did stuff for a group he belonged to and it clicked. He was actually pretty high up and did a lot on stuff w the Bagwhan. I met a lot of them when I was in India and he was had his new set up in Pune. I briefly considered checking it out since I was close but all the members just seemed too weird and creepy to me.

[Sluff]

The Diplomat is A+. Keri Russell is back.

[bobz]

R.I.P. Netflix DVD:

https://variety.com/2023/digital/new...wn-1235587325/

Netflix's DVD service has been dying a slow death for years. When I subscribed, I had hundreds of titles in my queue, that I had varying amounts of interest in seeing. That queue had a lot of fairly obscure titles, easily scores of movies that couldn't be found at a better than average Bay Area video rental store (okay, merely a few dozen if we're talking about Le Video). Netflix had damn near all of them. (A perennial not-available was Ishtar, but that was because Ishtar NEVER got a US DVD release; I own it on VHS of course, and it finally came out on BluRay.)

That started to change at least a decade ago; titles would start to fall off the available list and never return. I quit the service when I felt that San Mateo County's library system (granted, much better than most) had roughly as good a deep catalog as Netflix did (supplemented by Redbox for high-demand recent releases). Supposedly, Netflix's catalog of obscure titles got a lot worse since then.

[mcski]

RIP Le Video

[dookeyXXX]

Methinks once Netflix DVD bites the dust I’ll put that monthly fee towards The Criterion Channel…

And, yeah, Le Video was perhaps the greatest movie rental shop I ever frequented.

[bodywhomper]

Wife and I used to walk to Real Video.

[buttahflake]

Anyone else watching Kleo? It’s funny and savage. Thumbs up

[PB]

Yep; smack dab in the middle of quirky.

[mcski]

Haven’t watched it yet, but John Mulaney’s special dropped yesterday and having seen it live last year, I can say it was one of the best routines I’ve ever seen. Fucking totally killed the entire time.

[Supermoon]

The Diplomat is A+. Keri Russell is back.

Five episodes in to this and I’m loving it.

[VTskibum]

HEAT now streaming on Netflix now, greatest movie ever made. Ok that may be a stretch but has long been my favorite movie.


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[Benneke10]

HEAT now streaming on Netflix now, greatest movie ever made. Ok that may be a stretch but has long been my favorite movie.

YES! Thanks for the tip

[MontuckyFried]

Finally got around to Bullet Train. You guys were right. That WAS a fun one. Some great performances in there. Although WTF was up with Sandra Bullock's looks? Did they hit her with some digital touchups or something? Was a bit uncanny valleyish. As with MANY films these days, you can tell all the budget went into casting and CGI got the scraps leftover. Kinda like Red Notice I also recently saw. Lousy CGI reminiscent of early 2000s, but still a really fun flick. Lemon & Tangerine deserve their own spinoff. Those actors NAILED those roles.

[MontuckyFried]

Gotta love the geniuses behind streaming licensing rights. Apparently Conan the Barbarian (the OG version with Arnie) FINALLY became available May 1st. Cool. Been meaning to revisit that one for ages but wasn't available to stream anywhere. Anyway, added it to my queue and right off the bat it gave me a warning saying it's already going away May 31st. So a 1 month run on Netflix? What the heck? Not cool. Anyway, being that it's NOT a family friendly film and it's also a movie my wife would likely hate, I had to squeeze it in late at night this week before it expires.

Point being? WATCH THIS CLASSIC BEFORE IT'S GONE! ...again. Really enjoyed the heck out of it, and it made me realize just how much I was missing by only having seen the TV edit when I was a kid. Over the top violence, T&A, a fantastic score, and Arnold in peak form, complete with Arnie's signature heavily Austrian accented AARRRHGGHs and AAGRHAHRRSs. Was hilarious. I vaguely remember the comics and that they were pretty badass, so might need to revisit those too someday.

Oh, and James Earl Jones in his wig as Thulsa Doom?! PERFECT casting. Haha. Now go watch it and you'll have good time. Just maybe not with the spousal unit and kids. Would love to hear what Dookey has to say about the production aspects of it: Directed by John Milius, co-written by Milius and Oliver Stone, produced by Dino De Laurentiis (or rather his daughter Rafaella I think). Has some strong old school Italian cinema vibes for sure.