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bhelliom
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response 178 of 342:
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Jan 31 14:16 UTC 2006 |
Oscar nominations are out today!
http://www.oscar.com/nominees/list.html
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remmers
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response 179 of 342:
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Jan 31 17:23 UTC 2006 |
I've posted item:79 to discuss the Oscar nominations.
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richard
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response 180 of 342:
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Feb 1 21:19 UTC 2006 |
re #176, just ask the animators at Disney and Pixar about Miyazaki. I went
to school with someone who now works at the animation department at Disney.
They consider Miyazaki as a god in their field, and thats not an
overstatement. Everything they do is influenced by him.
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mcnally
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response 181 of 342:
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Feb 1 21:49 UTC 2006 |
> just ask the animators at Disney and Pixar about Miyazaki.
Why? I've seen his work for myself, several times now. Each time I've
approached it I've been very open to appreciating it but have found the
work unengaging and not especially entertaining. Why should I ask
someone else's opinion rather than form my own? It's not like I'm asking
everyone else to share it..
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gull
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response 182 of 342:
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Feb 2 01:12 UTC 2006 |
Myazaki's animation is a bit like Bluth's: absolutely gorgeous visuals,
but a bit lacking in the plot department. I still find it entertaining
for the eye candy factor. I'm not sure if the plot shortcomings I
perceive are real, or because I'm viewing something that's been
translated and that no doubt contains cultural references I'm
unfamiliar with.
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bru
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response 183 of 342:
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Feb 2 06:09 UTC 2006 |
Poko Roso is one miyazaki film I have never really enjoyed. But the
rest are fantastic.
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richard
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response 184 of 342:
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Feb 2 18:47 UTC 2006 |
miyazaki is known for handpainting each of his cells individually. The only
computer animation he uses is on backgrounds. For that reason his animation
is of a very high quality.
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jadecat
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response 185 of 342:
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Feb 2 20:09 UTC 2006 |
Finally got around to watching "Bride and Prejudice" night before last
(it was a birthday present). Very fun movie, I enjoyed it greatly. Since
it's a re-telling of the Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice the
storyline is really well known to me. This particular version comes from
a modern Indian point of view- with Darcy (and his family) and Wickham
as the only white characters. Elizabeth is Lalita, Jane is Jaya, and
Bingley is Balraj.
Some of the story line is mixed around slightly- to make sense and to
compact the story. There are only 4 daughters not 5 and the event
progression is somewhat different. Oh, and it's a musical too.
All in all- I really enjoyed this movie, and appreciated the lines they
were able to draw right from the book and insert so cleanly into this
very different setting. The actress playing Lalita is just beautiful- I
love her eyes. The singing and dancing was really neat to watch. And the
colors! Wow. I'm very glad I have it for keeps.
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scott
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response 186 of 342:
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Feb 4 01:37 UTC 2006 |
I really like the great music that's behind most or all of the Miyazaki films.
Actually, many animes do have great music, though I could certainly understand
there being people who don't like that particular type of music.
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mcnally
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response 187 of 342:
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Feb 5 07:08 UTC 2006 |
I stopped at the video store to return some movies on the way back home
tonight and looked for "Grizzly Man", the documentary Werner Herzog made
about Timothy Treadwell, mostly out of footage shot by Treadwell and/or
his friend Aimee Huguenard while they were observing wild brown bears in
Katmai National Park, which has one of the highest concentrations of
brown bears anywhere in the world. The video store didn't have the movie,
so I went home and.. discovered it was being broadcast that night on
The Discovery Channel.
It was an interesting film and Treadwell comes across as an interesting,
if fatally flawed, person. Worth watching if you're interested in bears,
Alaska, or people with an obsession.
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twenex
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response 188 of 342:
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Feb 5 11:17 UTC 2006 |
You pick up VIDEOS from a RENTAL STORE? That's so two years ago ;-)
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tod
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response 189 of 342:
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Feb 5 19:23 UTC 2006 |
re #187
I watched episodes 4 & 5 where they determined the old sickly bear in the
river rocks that he'd predicted would kill him was most probable.
Its kind of a poetic ending for a guy that wanted to see the entire world from
a bear's perspective.
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marcvh
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response 190 of 342:
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Feb 5 20:08 UTC 2006 |
Although Netflix has a distribution center in Honolulu, it does not have
one in Anchorage at this time. That means for AK residents the closest
service center is in Tacoma; not sure how long it takes for USPS to
deliver mail between Tacoma and Ketchikan but I'd guess it's not next-day.
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slynne
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response 191 of 342:
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Feb 5 21:48 UTC 2006 |
I have to say that for the last month or so, I have been a little bit
disappointed in netflix. It used to be if I mailed my movies on Monday,
they got them on Tuesday and then mailed replacements right away so that
I usually got them by Wednesday. Not so anymore. Movies I mail on Monday
get there on Wednesday (they say) and they dont mail them out until
Thursday. I wonder if they are finding that slowing things down a bit
improves their profit margin? Or maybe they are just busier than usual
and not as able to check movies in or ship them as quickly as before?
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gull
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response 192 of 342:
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Feb 5 23:06 UTC 2006 |
There are rumors that they're "throttling" their mailings to people who
turn over movies fast, as a way to save money. I don't know if there's
any truth to that.
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marcvh
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response 193 of 342:
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Feb 5 23:11 UTC 2006 |
It's certainly been a result of some of their policies. My personal
suspicion is that it's not intentional throttling so much as a side-
effect of their general business decision to compete on price rather
than on service.
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bru
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response 194 of 342:
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Feb 5 23:27 UTC 2006 |
I found out something today about "Brokeback Mountain". It is not a cowboy
movie as I was led to believe by the reviews. it is a movie about
sheepherders!
Brokeback mountain, where the men are gay and the sheep are nervous.
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twenex
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response 195 of 342:
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Feb 5 23:35 UTC 2006 |
Hooray for the return of Grex's Most Enlightened Social Commentator.
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slynne
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response 196 of 342:
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Feb 6 01:58 UTC 2006 |
Yeah. I have noticed a decline in other areas of netflix besides the
mailings. They seem to be getting in fewer copies of really popular
movies too. It is scary because I have had The 40 Year Old Virgin pretty
much at the top of my queue for more than two months and I still havent
gotten it yet. I am kind of planning to actually go to the video store
when something I actually want to see in a timely fashion comes out. I
never used to have to wait more than a week or two for anything. Oh
well, they are still a better deal for me than regularly going to the
video store.
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marcvh
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response 197 of 342:
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Feb 6 02:05 UTC 2006 |
Huh; I got that movie the day it came out, although it now shows up as a
very long wait. A Very Long engagement, ironically enough, has no wait.
Of course, the more discs you rent, the less likely you are to get
titles which are in demand.
Part of this is a function of the deals the studios choose to cut. Some
studios make a deal where they give Netflix the discs for free in return
for a portion of the rental revenue; such discs are usually easy to get,
since it's win-win for everybody that Netflix have a lot of copies.
Some other movies aren't carried that way, so Netflix has to decide how
many to buy.
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eprom
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response 198 of 342:
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Feb 6 02:34 UTC 2006 |
re #187
I came across it randomly yesterday night too.
At first I thought it was the same dude from Queer Eye.
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glenda
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response 199 of 342:
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Feb 6 07:03 UTC 2006 |
I have had "Madagascar" and "The Brothers Grimm" at the top of my list since
they were released. They both went to long wait and then to very long wait
extremely fast. They have been at short wait for several weeks, but I still
haven't gotten them. I agree with Lynne, I may just start going back to the
video store for new releases that I want to see now rather than 1-3 months
from now. "Madagascar" was release on Nov 15th. Used to be that I would get
a new release in the first mailing after its release.
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tod
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response 200 of 342:
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Feb 6 17:22 UTC 2006 |
re #194
They are cowboys that take a job herding sheep. One guy is a bullrider...the
other one is the bull!
YEE HAW!! KOO KOO! Giddyup! Hut!
"I wish I knew how to quit yew!" -Jack Twist
My favorite scene in the movie is the visit to Jack's parents' farm.
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gull
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response 201 of 342:
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Feb 6 18:10 UTC 2006 |
Re resp:196: Interestingly enough, "40 Year Old Virgin" is still near
the top of Netflix's list of most requested films.
Netflix works well for me because many of the movies I rent are older
or relatively obscure. For me the appeal isn't so much the speed as it
is the wide selection and lack of late fees. I rarely have to wait for
a film because the ones I'm requesting just aren't checked out that
much.
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slynne
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response 202 of 342:
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Feb 6 18:18 UTC 2006 |
For the most part, netflix works for me too. Even though I might have a
bunch of new releases at the top of my queue, I am generally not really
in a terrible hurry to get them. I also like to watch a lot of older or
obscure titles which often are not available at the video store. I have
over 300 items in my queue so they always have something that I want to
watch to send me. I like it because it not only saves me a trip to the
video store to return movies but it saves the original trip too. I am
lazy that way.
But every now and then a movie will come out that I want to watch
sooner rather than later. It is funny because I had a real block about
that. Like I had some unwritten rule with myself that if I had netflix,
it meant that I couldnt go up to the video store. Weird I know.
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