Stick with it. There's only 1 season.

Does anyone else go on "not interested" ratings sprees with movies/genres you know you'll never want to see? I'm currently at 7223 rated movies. Almost all of them in Watch Instantly.

i do not think there are too many movies/genre that i would dismiss right off the bat, so i never do that

Just finished watching the Up Series and I'd definitely recommend it. I love the way they march through the progression of answers to the same question to show their changes over time. It's pretty cool.

cocaine cowboys is great, cocain cowboys two is terrible

Wow, you watched it all? I got bored late in the second one and gave up in the middle of the third (plus skimmed random parts of the others). Nothing really happened and tons of repetition. I guess it would be fine to watch one every few weeks, but as a marathon it seemed to be unbearable.

I got a little bored of the same scenes once I got to 42 and 49, but the marathon approach was great for the time lapse effect.

Ya I tried to marathon it and quit in the third also.

Looking at the WI list more closely, did you just watch 21, 28, 42, and 49 UP (4 episodes)? They used to have them all on WI (maybe one was missing). I started at 7 UP when I watched them. 4 of them is probably ok, but all 7 of them was too many for me to continue after the excessive repetition of 7 UP clips.

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yeah its frustrating that more of the foreign movies aren't subtitles, the dubs are always awful

I watched them all, and just got the missing ones online. It was definitely a lot for one weekend.

i disagree. i liked 2 more than 1.

1 is about a bunch of boring white guys in florida.. 2 is about black guys in cali and this overweight mexican chick that i would DEFINITELY nail

Watched Street Thief: Who is Kaspar Carr? just now, and it was awesome. It's a 'documentary' (ala Blair Witch) about a burglar planning and executing heists. The star/director is incredibly charasmatic, and there were times I completely forgot that it was fake.

I watched both dear zachary and touching the void last night. Dear Zachary is a great film. Touching the void bored the hell out of me though. Reenactments just don't do it for me.

I watched the Human Centipede last night. ****ed up doesn't even begin to describe that movie. The antagonist does an incredible job of being someone you can hate easily. He's dark and twisted and you really just want to see him suffer. People review the movie saying the lines and acting are horrible, but if you're even considering watching this then you are probably not looking for "quality cinema."

I also watched Hard Eight, a movie about a down-on-his-luck gambler that's given a second chance by a random stranger. Very interesting movie, it throws a couple of curves that you don't really see coming. It's got John C. Reiley, Gwynneth Paltrow, and Samuel L. Jackson. Don't know if I spelled those names right but you get the idea.

I watched Touching the Void last night too after the recommendations in this thread (it was either that or the MNF game, so not much of a choice). I don't know that I was bored per se, but it didn't live up to the hype for me.

It didn't help that I had somewhat of a hard time grasping what exactly happened, and I went to the wiki page on the book afterward. So, after Jim falls and breaks his leg they take turns slowly descending the face, right? Then Jim falls off a ledge and is dangling there, so after much deliberation about what happened Simon decides to cut the rope because it's obvious Jim isn't going to be able to bolt in anywhere or he would have already done it. This is correct?

Both in the story and the wiki page it was mentioned that Simon caught a lot of heat for his decision, but I don't understand why. As was noted if he doesn't then they're both screwed. Unless I'm missing some other out that he had, or maybe they felt he didn't wait long enough before making that decision.

I watched touching the void yesterday. It filled my exercise time, but it isn't something id watch again. Jim should have cut the rope himself, IMO. He knew he was going to die, he should have tried to let the other one live.

That was my other thought. In fact in my initial confusion I thought Jim was the one who cut it, then it didn't make sense the way they kept talking so I went back and watched more closely. If he lacked the strength to pull himself back up then wasn't that his only way down?

Anybody else watch stand up Louis C.K.'s show Louie? Its not great but there are enough darkly humorous scenes to make it watchable

No wonder you guys had trouble following along with Touching the Void when you can't even get Joe's name right.

I've only seen a couple of episodes of Louie, but his stand up special are fantastic. Chewed up is available for streaming but Shameless is only on DVD. If Hilarious ever becomes available, i highly recommend it. I was almost crying laughing watching it by myself.

I also watched this yesterday, and it definitely didn't meet my expectations. I don't see how Simon was criticized for cutting the rope. I mean there was nothing else he could do.

hilarious will be available on dvd in january according to netflix.

Louie is amazing