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I'm sure this has been brought up before, but I was just curious about what everybody is looking forward to seeing from their respective internet rental accounts. I figure top ten should be fine, as people with full 500 disc queues would be at this all day.  :tongueout:

NetFlix (shared with my fiancee):
Dumbland (mine)
Guerrilla: the Taking of Patty Hearst (hers)
Dancer in the Dark (ours)
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror (mine)
Ronin (ours)
Casshan: Robot Hunter Vol. 1 (mine)
The Black Hole (mine)
Common Wealth (hers)
Fireworks (hers)
My Dead Girlfriend (mine)

Blockbuster (all mine):
The Crazies
Justice League Unlimited: the Complete First Season
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Vol. 1
The Celestine Prophecy
Masters of Horror: Black Cat
GI Joe: the Movie
The Aussie Horror Collection: Strange Behavior
Slaughterhouse
Pyx
Pin

Glad we're not doing the whole list.  300 some odd films would be tiring to type out.

Here's my Netflix.  I've seen most of these before but not in a long time:

1.  I'm Not Scared
2.  My Bloody Valentine
3.  Man Bites Dog
4.  I Drink Your Blood
5.  Soft For Digging
6.  A Tale Of Two Sisters
7.  A Bullet In The Head
8.  Heroes Shed No Tears
9.  Evil Ed
10.  They Live

I had no clue what I have going on there but theres several.  I'll give you my top 5 as it stands this morning.  I share with my wlife;

1.) Nip Tuck The Complete Fourth Season Vol 1
2.) Zombie 5: THe Killing Birds
3.) Helltrain
4.) Rawhead Rex
5.) Nam Angles

Currently in my house;
Deadwood S3 D1
Georgia Rule
Baywatch Collection D2

 
 1 New Gladiators
 NR Foreign 09/14/07 09/15/07
 
 2 School of the Holy Beast
 NR Foreign 09/13/07 09/14/07
 
 3 The Stuff
 R Horror 09/13/07 09/14/07
 

 
 The Other
 PG Horror Now   
 
 Let Me Die a Woman
 NR Documentary Now   
 
 Horror House on Highway 5
 NR Horror Now   
 
 Winter Kills
 R Thrillers Now   
 
 Pinky Violence: Girl Boss Guerilla
 NR Foreign Now   
 
 The Majorettes
 NR Horror Now   
 
 Christina
 NR Foreign Now   
 
 The Warrior and the Sorceress
 R Action & Adventure Now   
 
 Battle Beyond the Stars
 PG Sci-Fi & Fantasy Now   
 
 
 The Triple B Collection: Malibu Express
 R Thrillers Now   
 
 Sharky's Machine

Lester,

Let Me Die A Woman is a treat if you've never seen it before.  I hope you post your thoughts on that one once you view it....it's interesting.

skaboi- I heard that joe bob briggs wanted to have it on a video series he did but it was too out there for the company. 

also check my netflix reviews for a 5 star review of Laserblast!

Lester,

If you want, feel free to add me to your Netflix friends.  I'll PM over my email address if you want.

what's your screename

It seems that Netflix has changed around some stuff.  Didn't even realize there was an option to put a screen-name.


Anyway, I just put it in and it's the same as here on the board - Skaboi.

1. Horror of the Blood Monsters
2. Arachnia
3. The Dead Hate The Living
4. Stacy
5. Necromantik
6. Troma Triple B-Header volume 3
7. Troma Triple B-Header volume 1
8. Oldboy
9. Suicide Club
10. Phenomena

I saw some other good choices listed in this thread that have been added, as well. :thumbup:

Not sure if you have seen any of these Shadow, but it's a great list.  Dead Hate The Living is a fun little zombie flick.  Very low budget, but worth watching.  Stacy, I'm assuming is the Attack Of The Schoolgirls film?  It's another fun, if a bit confusing, zombie flick.

Necromantik is certainly unique.  I haven't seen it in a few years but once was enough for me.  It's not bad exactly, just.......unique.

Oldboy is a classic and the best film you have in your list.  To be honest, I'd recommend moving that all the way up the list to the top.  It's unbelievably good.  Oh Daesu is such an awesome character and the various twists in the film are top notch.

Suicide Club is another fun Asian flick.  Schoolgirls committing suicide in front of a metro train is always fun.

Phenomena is good as well.  I finally got around to renting it from Netflix last year and it's a blast.  Very strange film, and the killer in it is superb.

I'm not  the biggest fan of Japanese Horror but Suicide Club was great.

skaboi-  whats a movie you have reviewed, if any

Haven't reviewed any as of right now.  I need to get around to doing so.

I don't try and like actually review movies.  Like "the Godfather is set in..."  It's mainly movies that have only a few reviews that most people don't know about like the  something weird stuff.  and just general impressions

Anubis, I sent you a long overdue PM.

My upcoming ten (not the ones I have at home):

1. The Passenger (1975)
2. Silent Movie (1976) - A Mel Brooks movie I haven't seen.
3. Bob Saget: That Ain't Right (2007) - Eh.  We'll see.
4. The X-Files: Season 3 - Disc 1 (1995)
5. The Case of the Bloody Iris (1961) - Another "giallo."
6. Deathdream (1974) - This zombie book recommended this movie.
7. The Quiet Earth (1985) - I like this movie.
8. Show Me Love (1999) - Also known as "f**king Amal," charming movie about Swedish lesbian schoolgirls.  Seriously, it's charming.
9. Cope (2006) - Eh.  It came from Alaska, like myself.  (Bet you it's secretly Canadian.)
10. The Rocketeer (1991) - Haven't seen this movie in fifteen years.  I'm wondering what it's really like.

EDIT: It's a good thing this stops at ten, because number 11 is none other than Xanadu!  I predict pain.

My screen name is Mofo Rising, like here.  PM me and I'll add you as a friend.  I've actually got quite a few badmovies people in my friend's list, but I'm sad to say I'm no longer sure who all of them are.

At the moment I'm winding down the collection since I seem to be hanging onto discs way too long, and not returning them.

I tend to use Quickflix [our version here of netflix I suppose] to rent titles that are harder to find at stores, or if I was browsing happened to find and thought I'd like to watch.  Usually this means it's a lot of anime series and the like.

My list as it stands:

1. Breakdance 2 Electric Boogaloo
2. Sunshine [though I may just rent this if it doesn't come through in the next week or so]
3. The Wanderers
4. Samurai Champloo the series
5. Condorman

Further down the list is a smattering of exploitation films and Russ Meyer films like Vixens, and the old cartoon M.A.S.K.  In total I have about 30 on the list.

I saw Condorman in the theatres but I don't remember one thing about it as i was like 5

Mofo,

Deathdream is great.   :thumbup:  It's a film that really really makes me miss Bob Clark.  It's not a typical zombie flick and is well worth watching.

It was recommended to me by The Book of the Dead (http://www.amazon.com/Book-Dead-Complete-History-Zombie/dp/1903254337/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-5982831-7154501?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190101170&sr=8-1), a surprisingly scholarly overview of zombie cinema from its inception to present.  I picked it up from the library, and it's well worth your time, if not your money.

If anyone wants to add me, my nick is RapscallionJones

My next ten are:
Blades of Glory   
Zodiac   
The X-Files: Season 1: Disc 6
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Shakes the Clown
Extras: Season 1: Disc 1
Extras: Season 1: Disc 2
Undead   
The Bridge   
Almost Human

Well, I just got a message from Netlfix saying that Necromantik has been removed because they don't have enough copies to meet demand and are unable to acquire any more. So I guess I ain't seeing that one any time soon.

Taking your advice, Oldboy got bumped to the top of the queue.

Zodiac - Awesome.  Great procedural flick.  Gyllenhall is great as Greysmith and it's surprisingly true to the facts of the Zodiac case.  Everything in the film is spot on to the way it actually happened.  That's certainly a rare thing now.

Perfume - I have this one on DVD but have yet to watch it.  It looked very good from the previews.

Extras - Season 1 is good, but I HIGHLY recommend watching the second season as soon as you finish the first.  The second season is absolutely classic.  Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais are comedy geniuses.  The episode in season 2 with David Bowie is one of the funniest things to hit TV in a long time.

Undead - Decent zombie flick.  I had conversations with the directors when I was an Admin on a major horror site before spending most of my time here.  The guys were great, and serious horror fans but their film just wasn't as good as it should been.

The Bridge - Good film, highly disconcerting.  The director recorded real suicides from the Golden Gate Bridge and then talks to the families of the deceased.  It's certainly worth watching but feels a little dirty by the end of it.



Also, how does one add someone to their friends on Netflix just by the username?  I'm only used to adding people by their email address.

Shadow,

That's a shame.  If someone has the stomach for the film, then Necromantik is certainly an experience.  If you're really interested in seeing it, then I would recommend the DVD if you're able to find a copy for sale.  I wouldn't recommend it to the average moviegoer but I know that our patronage to this site automatically rules us out as one of those.

Enjoy Oldboy.  DO NOT READ ANY REVIEWS of the film before seeing it.  It has some of the best twists I have ever seen.  Seriously, it's probably in my top ten films of all time and certainly my favorite Asian film.  That's saying a lot.

Ah, the eternal struggle that is Shakes the Clown.  It's not really a good enough movie to watch if you haven't been drinking.  However, if you have been drinking it also includes some of the worst, most brainscraping hangover scenes ever put to film.

Shakes the Clown.

mofo- do you have any reviews at netflix. i can't figure out how to search screen names

God damn it! Take this advice!  Go in completely blind.

Oldboy is one of my all time favorite movies.  I feel like Park Chan Wook is the most exciting director working today.  His follow ups haven't been as good, but when you have to follow up Oldboy, you're filling a tall order.

I have Shakes on the list for an upcoming Roundtable.  It's been some time since I've seen it but I used to love it.  Hopefully it holds up.

I have one review that I wrote for National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon I, which is to say, no.

Netflix has a weird system for finding friends.  All kind of patched together.

I do love rating movies at Netflix though.  I rate everything I see, except for movies which aren't in their database.  I think I might be addicted.

Also, I second the Oldboy recommendations.  I would also recommend Chan-wook Park's other films, especially Lady Vengeance, and other South Korean films.  Some of the best movies I've seen in recent years have been from South Korea.

I wasn't as into Lady Vengeance as Oldboy.  I certainly liked it, but I was expecting so much more.  I was so excited that I preordered the Korean special edition from Yes Asia and got that sweet pack that comes with the "fade to black" version where from start to finish, the movie gradually fades to black and white.  Cool concept, never watched it.  I find his movies to be so intense that I can only bring myself to watch them once in a great while with the exception of Oldboy that I have shown to a million people.  Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance is also excellent and Joint Security Area nearly made me cry in the end.

I've been flirting with ordering I'm Sorry I'm A Cyborg recently, but I've heard that it's not particularly good.  I'm waiting for news on his next movie.

Also worth looking up on Netflix is Volcano High School.  Beware of an American release called Volcano High that was has dubbed dialog by Big Boy, Andre 3000 and Snoop Dog.  It's dumb.  Also see Arahan, a great super hero flick.

I agree with what everyone else has said, Park is great.  Mr. Vengeance is good, JSA is great and Oldboy is in a league of it's own.  I have Lady Vengeance on DVD but have yet to watch it.  I did feel that his portion of 3 Extremes was very good despite most others thinking it was less than stellar.

You have both services?  Are there things on Blockbuster you can't get on Netflix or something?  (You do know if want MORE movies, they've got other plans on Netflix than the three at a time one, right?)

Just curious.

if anyones interested I have likee 8 pages of "reviews" there.  same name lester1/2jr.  just search for  "Laserblast"  my 5 STAR review shuld be among the more recent

There are indeed movies available in either inventory that aren't available on both services. Additionally, even for the movies that are available from both, if there's something on one that's listed as "very long wait" or "coming soon", more often than not I find it immediately available through the other service. Example: I wanted Horrors of Malformed Men from Blockbuster, but they list it as "Coming Soon" whereas NetFlix had it ready to ship that day. It works both ways though. I've been with NetFlix a while now, but ever since moving a block or two away from one of the world's few great Blockbuster stores, I couldn't pass up the "return your movies to the store and get free rentals for them" service, along with one free video game rental each month. Also, I get to benefit from NetFlix's recent attempt to take back lost customers to Blockbuster by offering 17 hours of free streaming movies online each month.

Anyway, yeah, that's why I use both services.  :teddyr: