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I just watched The Man from Nowhere. I did a search but didn’t come with it being mentioned before. It’s a South Korean film with subtitles. I don’t want to give anything away from it, though I’m sure most will figure out the plot immediately. It was one of the more enjoyable films I’ve seen lately. It’s an action movie with really good fight scenes. There was one camera shot I had to look up after words to see how they did it. It is bloody and more than a little dark.

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I watched the new release of Walking Dead. Maybe I’m just getting above my zombie saturation point, but it felt kind of stale. Till the other people showed up. Then it got a bit better.

I’m watching Supernatural now. I’m thinking they need to wrap that up. Every year is some hideous, world-threatening thing that the two brothers need to stop. Meh.

Sons of Anarchy is coming up, but that’s another of those “feels like it’s slouching towards wrapping up” shows.

One thing my wife has been on me about is all the horror and violence I’ve been watching lately. She even commented “You watch a lot of really violent shows.” Given I’ve been watching Walking Dead and Supernatural for the past few weeks, it’s hard to argue. Plus all the horror movies I’m queuing up for the rest of the month, though I’m pretty disappointed about how few of the ones we voted onto the island are available on Netflix.

Maybe I need some comedies, balance it out.

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You shut your damn whore mouth!

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I recommend Archer =)

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To be fair, that level of simplification can be applied to anything.

The Wire - I’m thinking they need to wrap that up. Every year is some crime thing that the cops need to stop. Meh.

Breaking Bad - I’m thinking they need to wrap that up. Every year is some drug thing that Walt has to live through.

Seinfeld - I’m thinking they need to wrap that up. Every year is some comedic situation that Jerry has to comment on.

;)

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I’m thinking this thread needs to be wrapped up. Every year is some show on netflix some doofus has to comment on. Meh.

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I think I felt the tremor in the force when you read that, Brian :-) You’re the one got me watching the show in the first place, and I’ve had a lot of fun with it. You do have to admit, though, it’s lost a lot of the counter-balancing foolishness that made it so fun.

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I Lurvs Archer. “Good God, Lana, put away your Hulk Hands!”

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I could see the line of reasoning. I don’t think it applies to Supernatural. They didn’t start right off with “the world is doomed” scenarios. Like good MMO characters they started off killing wendigos and ghosts and things. The problem came around season 3 or 4 where they effectively reached the endgame of needing to deal with THE BIG BAD ™. After that they couldn’t really go back to the mundane monsters, so every season has to ratchet up the level of awful peril, which already hit “ludicrous” levels about the time the leviathans showed up. It’s desensitizing, I say!

Any long-term show runs the danger of becoming its own inside joke. I don’t think they all do it, or…do they? Hmm.

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Thanks for the Gilmore Girls recommendation. It’s the West Wing with pop culture references replacing politics. The dialogue is fun!

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My favorite?

Anka: I’m from Germany, where the age of consent is 14.
Archer: What is it, the Alabama of Europe?

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Am I imagining it, or did Netflix recently gimp the search function for streaming titles? I just looked for Bird, Eastwood’s Charlie Parker biography, and got about ten suggestions related in varying degree to birds, but not the one movie actually called “Bird”. Maybe they got tired of showing titles with the “not available” message?

On the plus side, I didn’t have to search for Peaky Blinders. Not a classic, but entertaining, and a refreshingly different setting from the usual English costume drama. Fun to think that it’s set in exactly the same time period as Downton Abbey.

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I second this.

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Witching and Bitching from the director of The Last Circus (one of my favorite films of the last 10 years) is up, as is the highly entertaining Cuban Fury with Nick Frost. Witching and Bitching isn’t as good as The Last Circus, but it’s a fun horror film all the same (although the ending is a mess). Cuban Fury is your standard underdog gets ahead story, but it’s funny AND it’s got Ian McShane as a dance instructor.

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Watched both these the other day. Witching & Bitching was a great horror flick in the style of Return of the Living Dead, where it’s sort of horror-comedy, but still a blue-collar, sleeves-rolled-up horror film. I’d give it a watch.

The Last Circus (both movies star a very good actress I’d never heard of named Carolina Bang) is just flat-out disturbing. Those are some seriously messed-up clowns. Like a proper trainwreck, though, I just couldn’t look away. Especially since this was a pretty tightly scripted trainwreck. I’m pretty sure the movie got just the reaction out of me that the director wanted.

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Wait, what?! WHAT?!

Seriously?

I love the West Wing. LOVE.

I might actually need to try this show now…

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It’s like a Fellini film remade by Sam Raimi and Guillermo del Toro. Easily one of my favorite films, as I mentioned. Adding an unwilling clown to the scenes of the Civil War in the film’s opening plays up the absurdity of such things in a not too subtle, but still fantastic way.

Carolina Bang is actually married to the director, Álex de la Iglesia. Hence her frequent appearances in his films.

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I saw Byzantiumlast night. A tale of two women who are really vampires. It has an interesting take on the vampires, sort-of Anne Rice’ish but without the sappy romantic stuff. Its pretty brutal though, but Saoirse Ronan is brilliant (Also from Hanna that I know many of you love) and a perfect fit for the story. It IS slow paced, and focused on characters and story telling so don’t watch it if you want an action vampire movie.

My GF started watching Soul Surfer the other day, and I sorta got drawn into it. Its a true story about a surfer girl who gets her arm bitten off, and her struggle to return to the sport she loves, Surfing. What really got me, is the fact that its based on a true story which makes it remarkable instead of just interesting.

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These have no doubt been recommended before, but while I was on vacation I saw a couple of notable films on Netflix:
The Act of Killing: Okay, so it’s a documentary, and usually that wouldn’t be my thing either, but this one is worth seeing. It is a jawdropping thing, almost literally incredible, but real. It is a film wherein two of the men responsible for mass murder on an epic scale in Indonesia back in 1965 take some of their friends, not to mention other unnamed random Indonesians and do bizarre, phantasmagorical recreations of their deeds of torture and murder, not to mention the nightmares one of the two main guys (Anwar Congo) supposedly has, and a couple of dance numbers (one involving a giant fish structure for some reason) that appear to exist largely to let the fatter of the two dress up in a bizarre pink costume and both of them hang out with attractive women. But the really incredible part is how matter of fact they are about the whole thing. Only Congo seems to have any real remorse (and that largely evoked by the process of making the movie), and there’s little attempt to justify their actions - they openly admit that they lied about how bad the “communists” they were murdering were and that the answers produced by interrogation were falsified.

Blue Ruin: a beautiful, thoughtful, and ultimately kind of devastating piece about the destructive spiral of revenge. I thought the lead actor was pretty remarkable as well. He’s very striking in appearance and he has this quiet, soulful, desperate performance going that adds to the tragedy of the whole thing. It’s certainly not the usual hyper-competent badass dealing death (or hyper-competent elaborate scheme) that revenge flicks are usually about.

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They’re really spreading it out this month:

Artifact (2012) Avail Nov. 1
Babes In Toyland (1961)
Bali: Season 1
Hell is for Heroes (1962)
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 9
Kingpin (1996)
Portlandia: Season 4
The Rocketeer (1991)
Trading Mom (1994)
Spike (2008)
Total Recall (1990)
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) Avail Nov. 3
Altman (2014) Avail Nov. 4
Fading Gigalo (2014) Avail Nov. 5
Doug Benson: Doug Dynasty (2014) – Netflix Original Avail Nov. 6
Virunga (2014) – Netflix Original Avail Nov. 7
Louder Than Words (2014) Avail Nov. 8
Nebraska (2013)
Helix: Season 1 (2014) Avail Nov. 10
Not Yet Begin the Flight (2012) Avail Nov. 11
Quartet (2012)
La Bare (2014) Avail Nov. 12
Small Town Santa (2013) Avail Nov. 13
Chelsea Peretti: One of the Greats (2014) – Netflix Original Avail Nov. 14
Doc Martin Series 6 Avail Nov. 15
Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage (2014)
Trailer Park Boys Live At The North Pole (2014)
Woldblood: Season 2
Dream House (2011) Avail Nov. 16
Sabotage (2014) Avail Nov. 19
Lilyhammer: Season 3 – Netflix Original Avail Nov. 21
Ida (2014) Avail Nov. 22
Nikita: Season 4
Snowpiercer (2013)
Happy Christmas (2014) Avail Nov. 23
Beyond the Edge (2013) Avail Nov. 25
Running from Crazy (2013)
War Story (2014)
Bomb Girls: Season 3 Avail Nov. 26
VeggieTales in the House (2014) – Netflix Original
Bill Cosby 77 (2012) – Netflix Original Avail Nov. 27
The One I Love (2014) Avail Nov. 29
Trailer Park Boys 3: Don’t Legalize it (2014)
About Cherry (2012) Avail Nov. 30
The Grand Seduction (2013)

Any recommendations there?
The only ones I’ve seen are Kingpin and Total Recall. Both good if you’re in the right kind of mood. Total Recall, you really should watch with friends, it’s really funny that way.

Also: I had no idea LilyHammer was coming back for another season already. Yay!