What Are You Watching

[erwbol]

The Interview. Sony releasing it online (for a US audience only) meant a 1080p webrip would be made available on bittorrent within hours.

http://youtu.be/gKH1PymutJQ

Dutch commercial from 2001.

Edit: 50 minutes in. That commercial is a lot funnier thus far.

Edited December 25, 2014 by erwbol

[Shawn]

Or you could do the honest thing and actually pay to watch the movie since many legal options are available for streaming.

Edited December 25, 2014 by Shawn

[erwbol]

I don't live in the US. And this scumbag thinks this unfunny sack of shit isn't worth a cent.

[Shawn]

I don't live in the US. And this scumbag thinks this unfunny sack of shit isn't worth a cent.

Then wait until the film is legally distributed in your country...or if you really don't think the film is worth a cent then don't watch it at all.

[A Lark Ascending]

Never seen this before. Delightful.

[erwbol]

I don't live in the US. And this scumbag thinks this unfunny sack of shit isn't worth a cent.

Then wait until the film is legally distributed in your country...or if you really don't think the film is worth a cent then don't watch it at all.

I allocate most of my disposable income to buying music legally. On the other hand, I couldn't care less about what anyone thinks of my habit of pirating Hollywood movies & US television shows through bittorrent.

[Shawn]

Enjoy, at the expense of the employees of all the movie and television studios that provide your free entertainment.

[A Lark Ascending]

Another film I'd never seen before.

[erwbol]

Enjoy, at the expense of the employees of all the movie and television studios that provide your free entertainment.

[Shawn]

[medjuck]

Another film I'd never seen before.

I hear it's pretty good.

[jazzbo]

Finished watching The Americans Season 2 and Torchwood Season 2. Now watching The Pacific.

[Shawn]

[kinuta]

Marathon session of The Americans S1.

[jazzbo]

OOOH I'm sure that's fun.

[kinuta]

OOOH I'm sure that's fun.

Right, I really like The Americans.

[jazzbo]

Season 2 is also quite good.

[kinuta]

Indeed, season two is a goodun'.

Like The Good Wife, each episode is interesting, willing to take risks and without the all too often used shoddy padding episodes.

The subversive idea of making KGB agents the ones we guiltily root for is very cleverly pulled off, in no small part because of the two terrific leads.

For once the kids don't annoy but add to the tension; what would happen if they found out, how would it be resolved ?

It crept up on me to become one of my favourites.

[jazzbo]

Indeed, season two is a goodun'.

Like The Good Wife, each episode is interesting, willing to take risks and without the all too often used shoddy padding episodes.

The subversive idea of making KGB agents the ones we guiltily root for is very cleverly pulled off, in no small part because of the two terrific leads.

For once the kids don't annoy but add to the tension; what would happen if they found out, how would it be resolved ?

It crept up on me to become one of my favourites.

And Season 3, coming up in four weeks, will be interesting too, with the kid's future endangered and the parents none too happy about it!

[jazzbo]

Now onto Torchwood: Children of Earth. A long story arc like this is exactly what Torchwood has needed. Makes me want to say "Brilliant!"

[kinuta]

The Americans Season two

Nina

[jazzbo]

She sure is a good-looking woman, I'd sure like to feed her some food! That voice gets me.

[jlhoots]

The Fall (Gillian Anderson)

[kinuta]

The Knick

Grisly in parts but on a level of excellence you would expect from Sodenbergh.

Clive Owen is great as the lead doc, the recreation of the period is very impressive.

Recommended.

[duaneiac]

I really wish some one would do an anthology series like this again with every week a different story with different characters and different stars. Everything depends on the story/script, of course, so some here fare better than others. Some top flight writers were used including Evan Hunter, Charlotte Armstrong, Stirling Silliphant and one script by Ray Bradbury that seems like it would have been much better suited for The Twilight Zone.

It's also a kick to see the collection of actors here -- some former movie stars like Joseph Cotten, Raymond Massey and Laurence Harvey, some rising stars like Dick Van Dyke, Dennis Weaver, Brian Keith (who spends 90% of his episode acting in an iron lung), James Franciscus (and even in supporting roles one finds the likes of pre-stardom Patrick Macnee, Richard Chamberlain and James Coburn), and great character actors like Edgar Buchanan, Harry Morgan, Jackie Coogan, Sam Jaffe, and the wonderful Oscar Homolka. One episode features a young Steve McQueen costarring with a very puffy and not at all well looking Peter Lorre. One of the best episodes features a tense battle of wits between Walter Matthau and Robert Vaughn. The episode Mr. Hitchcock chose to direct this season was very pedestrian and his direction did nothing to enliven the story.

Another film I'd never seen before.

So what did you think of it? I first saw it as a teen when I snuck into a screening held for a film studies class I was not enrolled in. It wowed me then and I have seen it several times since. It remains my all-time favorite dramatic film.