1601

Hey, Enter the Void, Kelly Wand’s #2 pick for the year end podcast, is now available to stream. Go forth and watch, so we may discuss.

1602

I tried the subtitles on a number of streaming titles so far and the only good thing I can say is that they did technically work. The fact that they were all in all-caps and that horrid yellow color so well-known in most early (and some not-so-early) DVDs made me turn them off almost immediately. Oh, and they’re technically captions, not subtitles, which means they describe non-dialogue as well. I understand that this is helpful for hard-of-hearing folks (at least because of them being captions – the yellow text and all-caps are crap for everyone) and if they could only get one set in there it might as well be that but that just means that it’s nowhere near replacing physical media yet. Hopefully they’ll just keep getting more options…

1603

Any options at all would be progress. I think the only thing you can adjust on the vast majority of streaming titles is the volume.

1604

I guess so. It’s just that for me personally, with “subtitles” this bad, if I really need them in a particular movie then I just won’t watch the movie. Well, until the DVD comes in. And hoo boy am I irked when I get one of those in where the subtitle track is just as bad as the streaming one…

1605

Prince of Persia hit instant watch. Its terrible, just really long with painful attempts at banter and the action scenes just failed to be interesting.

Also up is Wasabi, which I haven’t finished yet, but might be fun, another Luc Besson one with Jean Reno.

1606

X-Files Squeeze http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70134161&trkid=496624

1607

Wow, I’d even forgotten that had already come and gone.

I don’t think I can even muster the curiosity to bother - and with Instant Watch that’s a pretty low bother.

1608

WTF? Wow, that’s a link to an actual episode, not to Netflix’s entry. Just a warning to others. Now this computer is activated as a Netflix-watching computer automatically. Damn it.

And the link is to an X-files episode from Season 1. Does that mean instant watch now has season 1 on Instant Watch? Or all seasons? Or just this one episode?

1609

I think all the seasons are up for Instant Watch. I’ve gotten through most of the first four seasons of Scully’s and Mulder’s adventure (man, there was some real crap in there… such as Squeeze I think).

1610

What are you whining about?

1611

You should link to the title summary not the actual video.

1612

And why?

1613

Because you obviously can’t figure it out for yourself and need to be told what to do.

1614

Ok, this wasn’t fun, some decent build up that ultimately went nowhere, especially the bad action scenes, with just plain laughable overuse of the knockback effect when someone gets hit by a gun. When even my wife comments on how terrible it looks, you’re doing it wrong!

1615

I finally watched this and didn’t get the impression that he or the filmmaker claimed he invented reality TV or filming your life. The whole thing was about the Internet eroding privacy and people being totally cool with that, not grasping the implications. It laid it on a bit thick with the whole Harris as a modern Nostradamus figure, but it’s an interesting documentary in spite of him (except for the last half hour or so, which is excruciatingly boring).

1616

Fuck you.

1617

I watched it when it first went on Instantly thanks to my wife’s ongoing fascination with climbing stories (started with Into Thin Air). That story was really interesting, especially when you get the bits and pieces about what their life has been like since (in terms of how their story is viewed by the climbing community) and think about the moments that they are judged on (eg cutting the rope).

1618

You’re thinking of Touching the Void

different movie, but great too.

1619

Sorry, just got sick of you shitting up the thread with stupid questions that were already answered and calling someone a whiner when you’re the one who can’t figure out the standard link format 54 pages into this thing. Fuck me indeed.

You are right about Touching the Void, though. Fantastic movie.

1620

Ah, right. Well then Touching the Void is fantastic, and everything old is new.