Recommend something on netflix...

xStonr said:
I'm not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but Peaky Blinders is a great show. Post World War I gangsters in Birmingham, England.
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That one was mentioned - I couldn't get it on Canajun Netflix but I watched it on the Android box. I love it.
 
Netflix disc mail delivery has been slow the past couple of weeks. I hope this isn't a sign of things to come…

Up until just recently, I could post a disc in the mail on Monday, and I'd have the next one on Wednesday, Thursday at the latest.

Last week I posted one on Monday, and didn't get the next disc until Saturday (USPS still delivers on Saturday here). This week I posted one on Monday, and just today Thursday got the confirmation email that they received it. Meaning it'll be here on Saturday again :(

I've thought about switching over to streaming, but their website isn't very intuitive about that. There doesn't appear to be a way of having both services.
 
Flamencology said:
Watched that earlier this week. It's hard not to recommend.
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Good overall but the real-life segments and the way the incorporated them into the story was brilliant and scary. Also pretty, pretty pertinent to what's happening here.

Only complaint is that Hitler looks like Conan O'Brien.
 
Jbird said:
Netflix disc mail delivery has been slow the past couple of weeks. I hope this isn't a sign of things to come…

Up until just recently, I could post a disc in the mail on Monday, and I'd have the next one on Wednesday, Thursday at the latest.

Last week I posted one on Monday, and didn't get the next disc until Saturday (USPS still delivers on Saturday here). This week I posted one on Monday, and just today Thursday got the confirmation email that they received it. Meaning it'll be here on Saturday again :(

I've thought about switching over to streaming, but their website isn't very intuitive about that. There doesn't appear to be a way of having both services.
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I have both streaming and one disc in the mail, so you can do it.

If you are having that much delay between when you mail the disc in and you get the email, I'd say the delay is with something in the postal chain.
 
Theodore said:
Good overall but the real-life segments and the way the incorporated them into the story was brilliant and scary. Also pretty, pretty pertinent to what's happening here.

Only complaint is that Hitler looks like Conan O'Brien.
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Yeah. It really reminded me of Brecht's The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui; very funny until it's terrifying and then it's too late.
 
GomezAddams said:
I have both streaming and one disc in the mail, so you can do it.

If you are having that much delay between when you mail the disc in and you get the email, I'd say the delay is with something in the postal chain.
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Maybe the post office is watching my movies :zoinks:

No, seriously…years ago I used to subscribe to Computer Gaming World & Guitar For The Practicing Musician, and the Post Office was reading my magazines. They were supposed to be delivered inside the plastic sleeve thingy, and I started to receive them weeks late, even a month or more late. They would be opened up, fingerprints all over them, sometimes an included cd would be missing, etc.

I ended up making a complaint by phone, and was transferred to the Midwest regional Post Office director, I don't know by mistake or what, as she was/is one of the head honchos for the whole Post Office, but she said she'd get to the bottom of it. I told her I didn't want to get anyone in serious trouble, I just wanted my magazines on time and unopened.

A couple of months later, a couple of guys at my local hick town Post Office were fired...
 
BlockInlay said:
Not knowing anything about the film, I feel weird watching a Hitler romp. Was the film made "respectfully"?
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It's hard satire. And it has a message.

To quote the postscript from the Brecht work that I referenced above (a thinly veiled satire of Hitler's rise to power, set as Chicago gangster fare, written in the early-30s but never performed in Brecht's life-time):

"Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again."

(The postscript was written after the war, obviously)
 
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Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon - Documentary on the long time manager of Alice Cooper and various others. Directed by Mike Myers. Interesting insight into the world of rock and roll management, especially in the 70's. And the guy seems to know EVERYONE. Features stuff about people as varied as Jimi Hendrix, Groucho Marx, Sly Stallone, Willy Nelson, Teddy Pendergrast and Emeril Lagasse, to name just a few.
 
I just started season 3 of Sons of Anarchy. Don't think I can take much more. Does it get any better once they're done in Ireland? Such a strange show: it has some incredible actors, some shit actors, and the same plot lines over and over and over and over.
 
I've watched most of the Twisted Sister documentary. Even though I'm not a fan (all I know of them is the one song/video), it has been interesting. I had no idea they had such a long history.
 
The Ireland season was the worst. I had to turn on subtitles to understand the dialogue and it still never made sense. Overall the show picked up in the fourth season, but it also got dumbed-down with nu-metal car chases and dumb ratings stunts. I think season five was when the two white biker bitches beat up the Mexican hooker immediately after the big tearjerker scene.
 
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