Not for nothin but this must be some sort of Karmic thread above and beyond coincidence.
Because I couldn’t find a FUCKING thing to watch on Instant View last night. I’d brainstorm, wax reminiscent about a title and look it up, only to find “disc only” next to the description. MOTHERFUCKER!
For you, tsmink, I recommend my “dude movie triad.” I know they’re subtitiled because even though I have hearing, I like to keep up with the dialogue.
Tropic Thunder
13th Warrior
The Right Stuff
LOL at the responses. Once you’ve had it a while, you will simply watch things that have at least 3 stars. Less than 3 stars usually means low budget, poor writing and not enough breasts.
I am on a mission to watch every horror b-movie on it that is actually watchable.
yea watching spartacus series now… 1st two episodes are crap and u’ll get tired of the crappy 300-esque way they approached those two episodes… but it does eventually turn into a good series…
[quote]Professor X wrote:
LOL at the responses. Once you’ve had it a while, you will simply watch things that have at least 3 stars. Less than 3 stars usually means low budget, poor writing and not enough breasts.
I am on a mission to watch every horror b-movie on it that is actually watchable.[/quote]
Arent the stars based off of your own previous ratings? I canceled my membership but tats what I seem to remember. That if you go through the movie rating system they have, giving your - own ratings to movies you have seen, you will see the list of rec. movies for your particular tastes grow in numbers. Maybe I am com[pletely misremembering how that worked.
Also, I always get a little thrown when people say Cult movies. The supposed category of having a rabid following but not being incredibly well known is a weird category. Not really when I look at what I just typed, but I egress.
A couple varied suggestions
The Bad Lieutenant- do not watch if you cant handle some pretty heavy shit.
Soylent Green- A Charleton Heston classic.
If we are talknig Bronson- Hard Times is a classic.
The Freshman- broderick and Brando
Chinatown
Inception
LA Confidential
The Godfather 1 and 2
The Lives of Others
The Usual Suspects
Casablanca
A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove
The Shining
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Deliverance
Audition
City of God
There Will Be Blood
Mulholland Drive
Spartacus
Psycho
Dial M for Murder
Rear Window
Vertigo
Shadow of a Doubt
Suspicion
Notorious
JFK
Platoon
Bullitt
The Search Engine
[quote]Vinnie85 wrote:
yea watching spartacus series now… 1st two episodes are crap and u’ll get tired of the crappy 300-esque way they approached those two episodes… but it does eventually turn into a good series… [/quote]
I watched 10min of it and couldn’t force myself to view anymore. I would not bring down 300 by relating the two. Maybe I will give it another shot later…but probably not. Fucking Abercrombie Spartans.
[quote]SILVERDAN7 wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
LOL at the responses. Once you’ve had it a while, you will simply watch things that have at least 3 stars. Less than 3 stars usually means low budget, poor writing and not enough breasts.
I am on a mission to watch every horror b-movie on it that is actually watchable.[/quote]
Arent the stars based off of your own previous ratings? I canceled my membership but tats what I seem to remember. That if you go through the movie rating system they have, giving your own ratings to movies you have seen, you will see the list of rec. movies for your particular tastes grow in numbers. Maybe I am com[pletely misremembering how that worked.[/quote]
I don’t think it works like that because all the movies have ratings…and the ones with two stars or less truly suck ass and are usually low budget movies. I don’t even rate my movies watched.
They do find you movies based on ones you’ve watched already.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]SILVERDAN7 wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
LOL at the responses. Once you’ve had it a while, you will simply watch things that have at least 3 stars. Less than 3 stars usually means low budget, poor writing and not enough breasts.
I am on a mission to watch every horror b-movie on it that is actually watchable.[/quote]
Arent the stars based off of your own previous ratings? I canceled my membership but tats what I seem to remember. That if you go through the movie rating system they have, giving your own ratings to movies you have seen, you will see the list of rec. movies for your particular tastes grow in numbers. Maybe I am com[pletely misremembering how that worked.[/quote]
I don’t think it works like that because all the movies have ratings…and the ones with two stars or less truly suck ass and are usually low budget movies. I don’t even rate my movies watched.
They do find you movies based on ones you’ve watched already.[/quote]
Your right, that jogged it for me. The more movies you watch/list as having watched the more content that matches those mvies will appear.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
Chinatown
Inception
LA Confidential
The Godfather 1 and 2
The Lives of Others
The Usual Suspects
Casablanca
A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove
The Shining
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Deliverance
Audition
City of God
There Will Be Blood
Mulholland Drive
Spartacus
Psycho
Dial M for Murder
Rear Window
Vertigo
Shadow of a Doubt
Suspicion
Notorious
JFK
Platoon
Bullitt
The Search Engine[/quote]
Man, now I am pissed I didnt give a better list. Def. would have thought of most of these event. This is where my issue with the cult term has always lay. To me it indicates a huge underground following. While movies like The Godfather, Usual Suspects, Casablanca, The Shining all have that, they are also mainstream movies in a way. True, in this day and age many under thirty year olds wont be able to sit through most of these movies. If a class in film school can be taught about a particular movie and it’s effect on a whole generation of movies/filmakers, can it really be called a cult classic.
[quote]SILVERDAN7 wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
Chinatown
Inception
LA Confidential
The Godfather 1 and 2
The Lives of Others
The Usual Suspects
Casablanca
A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove
The Shining
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Deliverance
Audition
City of God
There Will Be Blood
Mulholland Drive
Spartacus
Psycho
Dial M for Murder
Rear Window
Vertigo
Shadow of a Doubt
Suspicion
Notorious
JFK
Platoon
Bullitt
The Search Engine[/quote]
Man, now I am pissed I didnt give a better list. Def. would have thought of most of these event. This is where my issue with the cult term has always lay. To me it indicates a huge underground following. While movies like The Godfather, Usual Suspects, Casablanca, The Shining all have that, they are also mainstream movies in a way. True, in this day and age many under thirty year olds wont be able to sit through most of these movies. If a class in film school can be taught about a particular movie and it’s effect on a whole generation of movies/filmakers, can it really be called a cult classic.
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Oh, I didn’t even realize he was looking for “cult classics”. I guess some of these count anyways. It seems that the quality of films in general is so low compared to a generation or two ago that most younger people now don’t watch the older movies listed above, so to them they might be considered “cultish”. I always just think of cult classics as movies that have grown in popularity and stature after they have exited the theaters. Movies that have stood the test of time much, much better than they have stood the test of the box office ticket booth. Even movies like Dazed and Confused or American Psycho would fit this bill because they drew fairly poorly when in theaters, but nowadays EVERYONE has seen those films, due to word of mouth and rentals. One that comes to mind off my list that’s like that is The Usual Suspects. It didn’t make a ton of money in the theaters, but it’s considered a classic film now.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I watched 10min of it and couldn’t force myself to view anymore. I would not bring down 300 by relating the two. Maybe I will give it another shot later…but probably not. Fucking Abercrombie Spartans.[/quote]
Did you just watch the 1st episode? I hated the first 2 or 3 episodes So did my co-workers. But once I got pas that , I loved it. It has one of the best endings of a season that I’ve ever seen.
oh if u wanna watch series dexter is pretty good…
oh and for cultish movies i’d hit up “rosemary’s baby” its a thriller/horror type movie…
also 300 in its own right is an awesome movie… its just that spartacus tries to use the same slow-mo/blood/cgi effects as 300 and comes off as cheesy not like 300 that came off as epic…
also side note: did u know the scene in 300 with the oracle was filmed underwater…
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Ghost Dog:The Way of the Samurai
Jeremiah Johnson
Thunder Bolt and Lightfoot
The Hustler
Unforgiven
Slapshot
The Mechanic(original with Chuck Bronson)
The Sixth Sense
Capricorn One
Brians Song
Monty Python Movies
Grand Torino
Blazing Saddles
Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead
Suicide Kings
[quote]tsmink wrote:
Yeah… Just about all of those movies listed can be watched instantly, but the instant streaming movies don’t have subtitles. Being deaf, I need the subtitles. It sucks, but what are you gonna do. Netflix said they are trying to make the subtitles an option on instant streaming but so far, it’s not happening. [/quote]
since you need subtitles foreign movies are the way to go for instant streaming check out
let the right one in
the girl with the dragon tattoo
the girl who played with fire
daniel and ana
dead snow
dog eat dog
there all really good movies
25th, thanks for the suggestions with the foreign movies. Will definitely be trying them out.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]SILVERDAN7 wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
LOL at the responses. Once you’ve had it a while, you will simply watch things that have at least 3 stars. Less than 3 stars usually means low budget, poor writing and not enough breasts.
I am on a mission to watch every horror b-movie on it that is actually watchable.[/quote]
Arent the stars based off of your own previous ratings? I canceled my membership but tats what I seem to remember. That if you go through the movie rating system they have, giving your own ratings to movies you have seen, you will see the list of rec. movies for your particular tastes grow in numbers. Maybe I am com[pletely misremembering how that worked.[/quote]
I don’t think it works like that because all the movies have ratings…and the ones with two stars or less truly suck ass and are usually low budget movies. I don’t even rate my movies watched.
They do find you movies based on ones you’ve watched already.[/quote]
I have a sneaky suspicion that my Netflix account thinks I’m gay. You watch one Hilary Swank movie and you’re branded for life!!
Though sometimes it just thinks I’m a fledgling terrorist.
the lives of others is also a good foreign film…
I just started watching spartacus because I’ve always liked gladiator literature. I’ll tough it through to first couple episodes. lol.
[quote]SmilingPolitely wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]SILVERDAN7 wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
LOL at the responses. Once you’ve had it a while, you will simply watch things that have at least 3 stars. Less than 3 stars usually means low budget, poor writing and not enough breasts.
I am on a mission to watch every horror b-movie on it that is actually watchable.[/quote]
Arent the stars based off of your own previous ratings? I canceled my membership but tats what I seem to remember. That if you go through the movie rating system they have, giving your own ratings to movies you have seen, you will see the list of rec. movies for your particular tastes grow in numbers. Maybe I am com[pletely misremembering how that worked.[/quote]
I don’t think it works like that because all the movies have ratings…and the ones with two stars or less truly suck ass and are usually low budget movies. I don’t even rate my movies watched.
They do find you movies based on ones you’ve watched already.[/quote]
I have a sneaky suspicion that my Netflix account thinks I’m gay. You watch one Hilary Swank movie and you’re branded for life!!
Though sometimes it just thinks I’m a fledgling terrorist.
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LOlz
Same thing happened to me when I watched one episode of Dr. Who. Suddenly all I want to watch is British tv all of a sudden.
And the answer is no…I do NOT want to watch that much British television…ever.
PS, once again I will write that I do not get the appeal for that fucking show. Who the fuck is watching Dr. Who?