Watching this now on Netflix
This chilling documentary examines the growing phenomenon of spree killings in the United States. The film explores the basic question of what brings a seemingly normal person to the point of committing mass murder.
“In this documentary, filmmakers Andrew James and Joshua Ligairi explore the rise and fall of Cleanflicks, a movie rental company that edited offensive material out of Hollywood films to produce unauthorized “clean” versions for its customers.”
In my opinion, Hollywood SHOULD make edited versions of their movies on DVD. It would automatically open up a wider audience, and allow people to watch good movies with their kids, parents, and more.
Watching this now. I’ve seen the first and second seasons, but I think there’s a third season out now, which I haven’t seen any of due to not having full cable…but I have Netflix streaming! My girlfriend hasn’t seen the show, so that’s why I’m re-watching episodes I’ve already seen.
I’m finding all kinds of good documentaries on Netflix for my Instant Queue. The Horse Boy is about a kid with autism who seems to calm down when he’s on a horse. His parents decide to take him on a horseback adventure to visit Mongolian shamans when other therapies are not successful.
When conventional therapies fail to help their autistic son, Rupert and Kristin Isaacson travel with Rowan to Mongolia in the hopes that a combination of traditional shamanic healing and horseback riding will benefit him. Director Michel O. Scott’s documentary juxtaposes scenes of the family at home in Texas with their journey on horseback across the breathtaking Mongolian countryside in search of reindeer herders and a powerful shaman.
From Netflix:
Filmmaker Taggart Siegel paints a fascinating portrait of a man who refused to yield. By transforming his farm into an experimental haven in the late 1960s, John Peterson attracted hundreds of artists, hippies and other political radicals. But when the agriculture crisis of the late 1980s led to the farm’s eventual collapse — and his neighbors publicly branded him a devil worshipper — most locals thought he’d call it quits. They were wrong.
Another awesome documentary I just watched streaming on Netflix.
Before the Civil War, preparing the dead for burial and funeral rites generally fell to friends and family members of the deceased. The 20th century saw the rise of the professional undertaker, a trend that changed American attitudes toward death and distanced grievers from their loved ones. This eye-opening film uncovers a growing movement advocating a return to a more traditional, personal approach to honoring the dead.
My girlfriend is currently in bed watching Celebrity Rehab season 4 on Netflix, streaming it on the Wii. I’m here at the laptop, watching it with her. What a trip. Eric Roberts is such a puss. Dude is having “cannabis withdrawals” and crying all the time. Seriously? Keisha Coles mom is about to kick everyones ass. Evidently she is a crackhead. I haven’t figured out who the big fat gay dude is yet, but he just now got sent to his room by the “Shelly” chick who works there. I’m pretty sure Shelly did the crack and heroins in the past, but she’s clean now and works at the rehab place. I’m going to bed.
Currently watching EVERY episode of Trailer Park Boys on Netflix. Funny stuffs.
When Netflix started up more than 10 years ago, its sales pitch was pretty simple: Hey, subscribe to us, and we’ll mail you DVDs that you can then mail back to us without worrying about any late fees. But as the rental market moves toward online and on-demand models, Netflix’s iconic red envelopes may eventually become as antiquated as VHS tapes. Beefing up their streaming business, Netflix has predicted…
via Netflix Is Abandoning DVDs, Customers Who Prefer DVDs – MOVIE TALK on Yahoo! Movies.
Cool documentary, watching on Netflix.
Watching it on Netflix. Maynard is lead singer for the bands Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer. Now he has wine vineyards in Arizona.
I just got a movie in the mail called The Education of Charlie Banks. When I saw that Fred Durst was the director of the movie, I was skeptical, but I have to admit, it was a damn good movie, and Fred did a great job of making the film. Here is what NETFLIX says about the movie:
Years after Charlie (Jesse Eisenberg) fingers Mick (Jason Ritter) for a brutal assault, Mick shows up at Charlie’s university and insinuates himself into college life. As Mick audits classes, sleeps with Charlie’s dream girl and ponders how his life might have been different, Charlie anxiously wonders whether Mick knows he ratted him out. Limp Bizkit front man Fred Durst’s directorial debut, this powerful drama co-stars Chris Marquette.
Night Of The White Pants. For some reason, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.
From Netflix:
Thrown out of his mansion by his soon-to-be ex-trophy wife, Barbara (Janine Turner), Dallas businessman Max Hagan (Tom Wilkinson) forges an unlikely connection with punk rocker Raff (Nick Stahl), the boyfriend of his workaholic daughter, Beth (Selma Blair). Joining Raff for a wild night on the town, Max abandons his thoroughly dysfunctional life and gets in touch with his inner punk in this rollicking comedy from writer-director Amy Talkington.
I admit, I liked this movie simply because of some of the subject matter. Ok, maybe not the main plot of the movie, which is about a guy (Matthew Broderick) who gets amnesia after getting hit on the head. He decides to go on a road trip with his uncle (Alan Alda) who has Alzheimers, and and ex-girlfriend (Virginia Madsen). The main reason I rented the movie however, is because the story centers around an rare baseball card and a trip to a high profile sports memorabilia show in an attempt to sell it. I was a major sports card nerd back in the day, circa late 1980′s and early 1990′s, and the movie does a pretty damn good job of accurately portraying the hobby, although in an exaggerated and humorous way.
Man, Werner Herzog is so awesome. I’ve said it before, but the guy is a film genius. Whether he is doing feature films or documentaries, pretty much everything I’ve seen of his has been brilliant. I admit, I only learned of Herzog a few years ago, and still have some catching up to do on his films, but I went through and added everything I haven’t seen to my Netflix queue.
In this documentary, Encounters At The End Of The World, he travels to the South Pole and does a film not about penguins (as he tells you at the beginning) but about the people who live and work at the South Pole, and the land itself. He asks oddball questions and makes the mundane seem interesting. The guy just has a way of talking and using words that make you want to keep watching. The cinematography is amazing also (done mostly by Peter Zeitlinger), taking you to places most of us will never get to see, under the ice and above the ice.
See also my previous blog post: Mister Lonely
Ok, maybe not the best movie ever, but Mister Lonely is possibly the best movie ever, if I were to watch it again on massive amounts of mind-altering drugs. As it stands right now, I have no idea what the movie is about, or what the hell I just watched. I just know it was awesome. For starters, I knew the movie would be odd as soon as I saw that it was written by Harmony Korine, the same dude who wrote a couple of weird and disturbing films that I liked called Kids, and the even stranger Gummo. So that is basically why I chose to add the movie to my queue.
Before you rent this movie for yourself, let me say it again, it’s weird. As I said earlier, I have no idea what the hell I just watched, except that in one scene I remember an old dude gently tapping a hammer on his head. The movie is supposedly about a commune in Paris full of celebrity impersonators that include a foul-mouthed Abraham Lincoln, Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe (who is married to Charlie Chaplin, and their daughter is Shirley Temple). Oh and there is also a Buckwheat impersonator kid who rides a pony and has a strange obsession with chicken. There is also a Pope impersonator living at the commune, he says in one scene that “These lambs are not from outer space.” I’ll let you interpret that however you want.
Oh and there are also flying nuns. Literally, flying nuns. They also play imaginary volleyball in one scene. The nuns, that is. Also, legendary film genius Werner Herzog is in the movie as a priest. As always, he is brilliant. I will generally watch anything associated with Werner Herzog.
The New York Times A.O. Scott said “Nearly every frame is an image of arresting beauty.”
Filmmaker Magazine’s Michael Tully said “Dazzling…A remarkable achievement.”
I say: What a weird-ass movie.