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Karl_db 
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 Topic: Movies on DVD thread 2Posted: 07 Dec 2011 at 3:38am |
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Good one indeed!
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Bob
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Posted: 12 Dec 2011 at 9:23pm |
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I've had a bad time with Netflix, my first, over this last week. I sent in the last DVD a week and a couple of days ago and it somehow got misdirected in the mail and Netflix finally got it Friday or Saturday and mailed out another which I got today. Slipped in the player and "Reading" comes up and never anything else. I took it out and checked and it's got a crack toward the center and will not play. So I'm not getting much out of Netflix for subscription this month. I am not a happy camper at the moment. That after checking all other sources of entertainment tonight with not much luck.
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Don Watkins
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Posted: 13 Dec 2011 at 5:42am |
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Sorry, I jinxed you.
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Bob
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Posted: 13 Dec 2011 at 8:03am |
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With me their satisfaction quotient is still pretty high. But I'm watchin' 'em.
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Don Watkins
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Posted: 13 Dec 2011 at 8:05am |
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Yeah, they're still the only player. Blockbuster is okay, especially if you can use their in-store trade in thing but they don't process/ship on Saturday and that one day really cuts into rentals if you're a high turnover watcher like me. |
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Randy
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Posted: 13 Dec 2011 at 1:10pm |
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We watched "Cowboys and Aliens" along with "The Help". C & A was a good cowboy movie with some aliens thrown in. "The Help" was a look at the South prior to desegregation. Was a good movie with some humor but it was mostly a look at the relationship between upper class white Southerners and their black help. Definitely not a "Driving Miss Daisy" kinda movie.
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Don Watkins
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Posted: 13 Dec 2011 at 3:55pm |
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I don't think we have any other horror fans here but Fright Night is by far the best remark of any horror movie I can think of. Far, far better than the original and certainly a vampires are really, really bad things vs. those sappy vampires are just misunderstood movies. Just a hoot. Looking forward to Cowboys and Aliens but it's not on Netflix until after the first of the year. |
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Karl_db
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Posted: 13 Dec 2011 at 6:37pm |
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Cowboys and Aliens is out for local rental...but I'm waiting for a night when the youngun isn't working.
(Trying to edukate her to some of the finer aspects of talkies.) |
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Don Watkins
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Posted: 14 Dec 2011 at 7:33am |
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A ripping good yarn. I'm encouraged to go track down the real story just to see how much it deviates from the movie as if only 10% of the movie is fact based just wow. Ignore the IMDB 5.7 rating, it's a 7. |
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Bob
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Posted: 14 Dec 2011 at 8:17am |
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I watched a very old Eastwood movie last night - The Gauntlet. This movie probably came in way over budget due to ammo cost. That's 'bout all I can say.
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Don Watkins
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Posted: 14 Dec 2011 at 8:18am |
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Hehe, lots of rounds fired in that one. I liked the bus part but my favorite is when they opened fire on the house and caused it to collapse. I've always wanted to do that. |
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Randy
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Posted: 14 Dec 2011 at 9:06am |
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I liked the movie when I saw it in the late 70's. Many of those 70's movies I've gone back and watched did not seem near as good.
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Karl_db
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Posted: 15 Dec 2011 at 8:53pm |
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Cowboys and Aliens. Watched it tonight. Hmm. Glad I didn't buy it as I don't think it's going to be a repeat watch. Almost didn't watch more than the first third or so. I thought the dialog was pretty monotone. But it got better as it went along, especially the last third or so. I'm not sure if it's because it improved, or because there was less talking and more action. LOL
But one good thing came from watching tonight. Our DVD player remote has a bunch of very small buttons near the bottom that I've never played around with very much. Just no need to. I did tonight and WHOA...one of them is a 'zoom' button. Can't remember where the manual is a took a few tries before I got it to do something. Lovely!! Instead of that narrow widescreen band on our old 4:3 TV...I finished watching the movie enlarged to fill the screen. |
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Bob
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Posted: 15 Dec 2011 at 10:29pm |
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Technology and manuels are just wonderful things, aren't they? I think the primary tendency is to stumble and bumble rather than RTFM. I know I am that way. My new printer presents some of those challenges. I've printed ok so far but know not much about the copy or scan features and I'm sure it'll be a try/fail/success process. I'm still learning about my camera which is a year of so old now. And computers ......... fuggedaboutit!
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Don Watkins
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Posted: 19 Dec 2011 at 7:38pm |
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It's A Wonderful Life. What a wonderful story. Excellent for those times I want a pick me up.
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Karl_db
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Posted: 19 Dec 2011 at 8:23pm |
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It sure gets a lot of mileage. Good movie.
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Randy
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Posted: 19 Dec 2011 at 10:07pm |
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My brother watches that one and "White Christmas" every year without fail.
Went to see the 2nd Sherlock Holmes movie at the theater with the gang here, excellent movie. Highly recommend it. |
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Bob
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Posted: 21 Dec 2011 at 12:15am |
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I'm sure all have watched Gods and Generals, the Civil war trilogy. I just watched the first 2 discs and it is just great. I love ole' Robert Duvall anyway. The first part is slanted towared the south but I imagine the later discs will change, history says it will. War is Hell for sure. Off to Netflix to check on the other episodes.
My son in law loves this thing and I got him the Bluray boxed version Limited Collecters versionas a Christmas gift. I saw a demo of Bluray when down there Sunday and it is very impressive.
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Karl_db
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Posted: 21 Dec 2011 at 2:20am |
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Sounds cool and a lucky son in law. I think I saw one episode and always intended to catch the whole thing.
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Posted: 21 Dec 2011 at 8:20am |
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My sweetie bought a combo pack with "Gods and Generals" and "Gettysburg" but have never watched them.
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