Netflix junkie

[Smith1776]

Exactly! Total un-Terminator, un-action movie for Arnold.

Vinny

I remember the first un-Arnold film I ever saw him in: Jingle All The Way.

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[vnatale]

Exactly! Total un-Terminator, un-action movie for Arnold.

Vinny

I remember the first un-Arnold film I ever saw him in: Jingle All The Way.


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Somehow as a MAJOR Arnold fan that one has escaped my knowledge until now. I think the first one I saw was Twins.

Vinny

[vnatale]

Just finished watching the 3rd in the IP Man series!

Loved them.

Tomorrow night I see the 4th!

Vinny

[Smith1776]

Just finished watching the 3rd in the IP Man series!

Loved them.

Tomorrow night I see the 4th!

Vinny

Man, that brings back memories. True story here.

When I was a teenager I did a lot of Wing Chun training. Our family friend who owned a vegetarian restaurant in Vancouver was a Wing Chun master. I trained under him, and he in turn had been taught by Ip Man's son.

When I was 16 I went on a trip with family to Hong Kong. Through our mutual connection I met Ip Man's son and visited his martial arts studio that he had in the city.

The history, the connection with Bruce Lee, the aura around the whole thing. One of my favourite experiences as a kid. Totally amazing.

I got to see the technique and the mastery that he and some of his students had. There was a such a grace where they were able to effortlessly redirect and use their opponents' energies against them. Crazy stuff to behold.

[vnatale]

Just finished watching the 3rd in the IP Man series!

Loved them.

Tomorrow night I see the 4th!

Vinny

Man, that brings back memories. True story here.

When I was a teenager I did a lot of Wing Chun training. Our family friend who owned a vegetarian restaurant in Vancouver was a Wing Chun master. I trained under him, and he in turn had been taught by Ip Man's son.

When I was 16 I went on a trip with family to Hong Kong. Through our mutual connection I met Ip Man's son and visited his martial arts studio that he had in the city.

The history, the connection with Bruce Lee, the aura around the whole thing. One of my favourite experiences as a kid. Totally amazing.

I got to see the technique and the mastery that he and some of his students had. There was a such a grace where they were able to effortlessly redirect and use their opponents' energies against them. Crazy stuff to behold.

That's quite the story. I entirely impressed with the movies. To have experienced what you did is incredible.

Vinny

[pp4me]

Two series I've binge-watched lately are Fauda and Zero, Zero, Zero (actually, I think the latter might have been on Amazon).

Both are foreign language so you have to turn on subtitles. I could never get into that but my wife keeps the subtitles turn on even when it's in English so I've gotten used to it.

[vnatale]

Two series I've binge-watched lately are Fauda and Zero, Zero, Zero (actually, I think the latter might have been on Amazon).

Both are foreign language so you have to turn on subtitles. I could never get into that but my wife keeps the subtitles turn on even when it's in English so I've gotten used to it.

As a reader I ALWAYS want subtitles for ALL movies. They actually put a lot of the screen of what is said that you'd never actually hear (even while wearing headphones). I'm now severely disappointed whenever a movie does NOT provide subtitles.

Vinny

[vnatale]

The 100 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now

https://www.vulture.com/article/best-mo ... t-now.html


The 100 Best Movies on Amazon Prime Right Now


https://www.vulture.com/article/best-mo ... _source=tw

[Ad Orientem]

I am about to give a shot at The Man in the High Castle. I've heard that it's good, though very dark.

[vnatale]

I am about to give a shot at The Man in the High Castle. I've heard that it's good, though very dark.

I watched both seasons. Liked the concept but was overall disappointed in it.

Grade: B-

Vinny

[Tortoise]

Peaky Blinders is quite good. Someone sent me this really well done spoof of Tommy telling all his guys to self-isolate.

He wiped his eyes! Really good though.

Finally started watching Peaky Blinders, and now I'm hooked. Just finished season 3. Love the soundtrack and the slow-mo badass shots. Also really like the creative anachronistic concept of using a modern rock soundtrack in a series that takes place in the 1920s.

When my favorite actor Tom Hardy appeared in season 2 as the boss of the Jewish gang, I knew I'd made the right choice watching this series.

[Smith1776]

Finally started watching Peaky Blinders, and now I'm hooked. Just finished season 3. Love the soundtrack and the slow-mo badass shots. Also really like the creative anachronistic concept of using a modern rock soundtrack in a series that takes place in the 1920s.

When my favorite actor Tom Hardy appeared in season 2 as the boss of the Jewish gang, I knew I'd made the right choice watching this series.

Both Bane and Scarecrow are in Peaky Blinders? I gotta watch it now.

[vnatale]

Watched Operation Red Sea last night.

Tremendous, impressive movie!

I've seen tons and tons and tons of movies in my life. This one is one of the BEST EVER that I have seen.

It'd fit into the War / Military genre. Struck me the same way Black Hawk Down struck me the first time I saw that movie.

Vinny

[vnatale]

The streaming giant had upended show business long before the pandemic hit. But with a highly unusual management style, its billionaire founder has now positioned his entertainment juggernaut to prosper like few companies in the world.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnchmiel ... 15399b15df

“And to me, that was an immediate lesson,” Sarandos now says. “With all that decision-making power comes responsibility. . . . Reed models that over and over again, and he lets you own the win and he makes you own the loss.”



By Silicon Valley standards, Pure Software had made a successful exit. But it left Hastings with lingering dissatisfaction. In the early days, it had innovated. As it matured, like pretty much every company, it developed policies to safeguard against mistakes, rather than taking smart risks. Pure ended up promoting people “who were great at coloring within the lines,” Hastings says, while the creative mavericks got frustrated and went to work elsewhere.


Hastings acknowledges Disney’s extraordinary feat of logging 50 million subscribers in its first five months, a milestone it took Netflix seven years to reach. Meanwhile, he’s focused on Netflix crossing its next significant milepost: 200 million subscribers and beyond. That means more investment in local content around the world—including as much as $400 million by the end of the year in India. And it means continuing to evaluate his talent so he can continue to empower them to make decisions.

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[dualstow]

There’s an Australian show called The Letdown about new parents that’s pretty great so far.
I think it’s from 2016.

[Smith1776]

Saul Goodman has more hair in Better Call Saul than he did in Breaking Bad. This despite Better Call Saul being the newer show. He also has fewer wrinkles.

They really young-ed him up!

[vnatale]

American Murder is unique.....and hard to watch...

Vinny

[vnatale]

Enemy at the Gates is an exceptional movie. Cannot believe it's a 19 year old movie and never knew about it until Monday night.

The battles scenes at the beginning are both realistic and intense.

Vinny

[dualstow]

Enemy at the Gates is an exceptional movie. Cannot believe it's a 19 year old movie and never knew about it until Monday night.

The battles scenes at the beginning are both realistic and intense.

Vinny

That is still the only movie I’ve ever seen with a Holocaust/concentration camp sex scene.
Ed Harris was awesome.

[vnatale]

Enemy at the Gates is an exceptional movie. Cannot believe it's a 19 year old movie and never knew about it until Monday night.

The battles scenes at the beginning are both realistic and intense.

Vinny

That is still the only movie I’ve ever seen with a Holocaust/concentration camp sex scene.
Ed Harris was awesome.

That was NOT a Holocaust / concentration camp. It was where all the Russian snipers were.

Vinny

[dualstow]

That is still the only movie I’ve ever seen with a Holocaust/concentration camp sex scene.
Ed Harris was awesome.

That was NOT a Holocaust / concentration camp. It was where all the Russian snipers were.

Could be. My memory is a bit hazy on it as I saw it soon after the release.
But, it may as well have been a camp, regarding the visuals.

[Kriegsspiel]

The sex scene was in the sewers or a bunker in Stalingrad. Apparently there was a group of young female snipers in Stalingrad with a cool name. The Untouchables or something like that. If normal soldiers were caught with them in flagrante delicto, the soldier would be shot.

Really good movie anyway.

The battles scenes at the beginning are . . . realistic.

What are you basing this on?

[Kriegsspiel]

Ah, yes, it was in Ghosts Of The Ostfront, part 3:

Some Russian female soldiers looked like professional wrestlers. These Sniper Girls were like pinup girls, 18, 19, 20 years old, and very pretty. And the battalion saw them coming and thought 'Ohh, heyyy. Some girls in the unit!' and the first thing the commander said was, 'these women were the Untouchables' he called them. 'And if any one of you touches these women, you're going to be off to a penal battalion. So they were the Untouchables. But they earned the respect of this male unit, who started calling them the "Sniper Girls" when they saw what they could do.

Some more:

The Germans didn't like facing women in combat, and they faced a lot of them on the Russian front. There was another unit that the Germans wrote about that they called die Nachthexen; the Night Witches. This was a unit of bomber pilots, all women, and they flew the old-style World War One biplane. These planes were very quiet anyway... And the tactic that the Nightwitches used was to come over the German trenches at night, and then fly wayyy up high, before they cut their engines (turned them off) and let them glide down noiselessly over the Germany trenches and release the bombs when they got real low. And this would FREAK the Germans out. Because they wouldn't hear anything coming, and then all of a sudden the bombs are dropping. And these were the Nachthexen.

[vnatale]

The sex scene was in the sewers or a bunker in Stalingrad. Apparently there was a group of young female snipers in Stalingrad with a cool name. The Untouchables or something like that. If normal soldiers were caught with them in flagrante delicto, the soldier would be shot.

Really good movie anyway.

The battles scenes at the beginning are . . . realistic.

What are you basing this on?

That for a "war" movie the scenes seemed super realistic and not at all antiseptic.

I did later read that the Russians were not as aggressive as shown in the opening scenes in machine gunning their own solders who had been retreating after having been sent to be their slaughter against the well entrenched German army.

Vinny

[Xan]

The sex scene was in the sewers or a bunker in Stalingrad. Apparently there was a group of young female snipers in Stalingrad with a cool name. The Untouchables or something like that. If normal soldiers were caught with them in flagrante delicto, the soldier would be shot.

Really good movie anyway.

The battles scenes at the beginning are . . . realistic.

What are you basing this on?

That for a "war" movie the scenes seemed super realistic and not at all antiseptic.

I did later read that the Russians were not as aggressive as shown in the opening scenes in machine gunning their own solders who had been retreating after having been sent to be their slaughter against the well entrenched German army.

Vinny

I think Kriegs is pointing out that you don't actually know what "realistic" means in a battle. By "realistic" you mean "gory". Which might well be true!