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Collects Welfare posted:Netflix launched their remake of House of Cards today, and it shows a lot of promise. The production values are great, there are a lot of well-known actors (including, obviously, Kevin Spacey as Francis Underwood), and the tone seems spot on. So far my only complaint is minor. Francis Underwood hails from the South, and Spacey does not. His fake accent is pretty decent, but it is a little telling at times. Netflix is really dropping the ball on this. I loaded up the Netflix site earlier today and there's no mention of it at all. I looked under Recently Added and New Releases and it was nowhere to be found. They spent a lot of money on this series. It should be plastered all over the page so people will see it.
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Feb 2, 2013 03:04
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It was plastered on mine when I went there this morning.
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Feb 2, 2013 03:12
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Joe Don Baker posted:Netflix is really dropping the ball on this. I loaded up the Netflix site earlier today and there's no mention of it at all. I looked under Recently Added and New Releases and it was nowhere to be found. They spent a lot of money on this series. It should be plastered all over the page so people will see it. For the past three days or so when I logged in to Netflix on my laptop there's been a huge banner announcing it.
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Feb 2, 2013 03:12
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That's really weird. You guys are just going to straight to the Watch Instantly page?
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Feb 2, 2013 03:14
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Yeah, it was all over my Ipad Netflix app, as well as the Apple TV Netflix. I would honestly have a hard time missing it, even if I wasn't awaiting it's release.
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Feb 2, 2013 03:17
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Joe Don Baker posted:That's really weird. You guys are just going to straight to the Watch Instantly page? The PS3 app literally starts on a screen sized banner of it that you have to scroll away from. It's actually a little annoying.
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Feb 2, 2013 03:18
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There's a big ad for it but I cannot for the life of my find the place to add it to my Instant Queue. I want to finish The West Wing first, dammit! e: never mind, I had to type it into the search bar and add it from there.
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Feb 2, 2013 03:20
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Well I'll be. I will have to load up the iPad version and see that. I guess they are promoting it. Not sure why none of my browsers here or at work show the ads.
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Feb 2, 2013 03:20
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So I just started watching House of Cards, and the first part was loving stupid. Hit and run on a dog? Going to call the cops? Yeah, I don't think thats a crime.Why the gently caress was your dog running outside when you live on a street?
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Feb 2, 2013 04:04
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Joe Don Baker posted:That's really weird. You guys are just going to straight to the Watch Instantly page?  But if I pull it up with IE there's a huge banner: 
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Feb 2, 2013 04:12
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RightClickSaveAs posted:Ah, looks like some adblockers may be filtering it out. Are you running Adblock or anything? On mine it doesn't show with Firefox running Adblock: I'm running AdBlock Plus in Chrome and it showed up.
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Feb 2, 2013 04:46
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Monkeyseesaw posted:There's a few episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation that have the "wobbly video-tape" audio; like it's been run through the VCR too many times. It's kind of amazing.  .
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Feb 2, 2013 04:55
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WickedIcon posted:The latest episode of Archer is pretty goddamn amazing. Basically Archer is the god damned best, and netflix has the first two seasons. Everybody watch it!
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Feb 2, 2013 05:08
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Had high hopes for House of Cards, but the first episode failed to grab me. I'll keep going with it, but even though I had the time I didn't move on with the second ep today. Spacey seems super over the top for the subject matter, though he kinda always does that. Based on the first episode there didn't seem like anything to like about any of the characters, every scene was people yelling or talking about why they should be yelling at each other. And I don't see what people are saying about the production values. Though maybe I was just distracted by the weird, kinda gross color palette. WHY IS KEVIN SPACEY SO ORANGE?
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Feb 2, 2013 05:31
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I thought HoC got better as it went on. First one was the worst IMO (I'm ep 7 now).
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Feb 2, 2013 09:53
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morestuff posted:It's been a few years since I saw it, but I don't remember much topical other than the (admittedly kind of terrible) opening scene. Yeah maybe I was having a bad day or something and was too down on the movie. I browsed through it again this morning and realized I was forgetting a lot of really funny scenes. I prefer the TV show to the movies but the first movie is still good. Gonna watch the second one tonight.
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Feb 2, 2013 15:26
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Unmature posted:WHY IS KEVIN SPACEY SO ORANGE? Because your monitor is broken? The production values are loving amazing, and not just because David Fincher directed the first two episodes, but because everything looks genuine and lived in. From the offices of Washington to the conspiracy theory trailer visited in episode two there's a richness to the set dressing and the lighting that is rarely seen on TV. I understand not liking the series, but don't blame it for you having weird color settings.
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Feb 2, 2013 15:50
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I added Groundhog Day to my queue months ago and thought today would be a good day to watch it again. Turns out they pulled it yesterday
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Feb 2, 2013 16:27
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Rothgil posted:I added Groundhog Day to my queue months ago and thought today would be a good day to watch it again. Now I'm completely convinced they do this poo poo on purpose just to gently caress with us. It's the same reason why most of their horror movies are pulled right before October.
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Feb 2, 2013 16:35
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Well it's probably because the copyright holders know that this is their one chance to make money off of it. Like they know a bunch of people think it would be great to watch Groundhog Day on Groundhog Day so they pull it because they make much more money on people renting or buying it. Saem with horror movies before October. It's really not Netflix itself. If Netflix had their way they'd have every movie ever on their service. If they had their way they wouldn't even have a DVD rental service anymore.
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Feb 2, 2013 16:40
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axleblaze posted:Well it's probably because the copyright holders know that this is their one chance to make money off of it. Like they know a bunch of people think it would be great to watch Groundhog Day on Groundhog Day so they pull it because they make much more money on people renting or buying it. Saem with horror movies before October. Or that Netflix bought it for x years early in some previous October (or Groundhog day, as it were), so the contract expired on that early date, when years ago they were making it be ready for the holiday.
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Feb 2, 2013 16:52
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Rothgil posted:I added Groundhog Day to my queue months ago and thought today would be a good day to watch it again. If only you had yesterday to do over again.
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Feb 2, 2013 17:01
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So in case any of you had seen the incredible trailer for A Talking Cat?!?! a few months back, I just found out that is on Netflix. I'm definitely planning on watching/livetweeting it tonight, just to find out how atrocious it is, and how bored Eric Roberts sounds in his speakerphone performance as the cat's voice.
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Feb 2, 2013 17:01
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Rothgil posted:I added Groundhog Day to my queue months ago and thought today would be a good day to watch it again. But they just added Scrooged, so you can watch that now and watch Groundhog Day next Christmas.
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Feb 2, 2013 17:16
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House of Cards Kevin Spacey: Is that a PS Vita? Anyways, back to what we were talking about that had nothing to do with video games.
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Feb 2, 2013 17:51
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PriorMarcus posted:Because your monitor is broken? Watched it on my TV, everything else looked fine. I thought all the makeup looked kinda weird. Everyone looked like they were trying out self tanner for the first time. And everything was so clean and sterile. Nothing really felt lived in to me.
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Feb 2, 2013 20:14
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House of Cards I am on episode 11. It keeps getting better. The first two episodes are pretty mediocre, but they just keep picking up steam. Definitely give it to episode 3 at least.
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Feb 3, 2013 01:53
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Tennis Ball posted:House of Cards Sure it was blatant product placement but at least they attempted to set it up earlier in the series. That's something rarely seen. This is a superb show for a production company's 2nd series.
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Feb 3, 2013 02:12
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The worst product placement ever is in the show White Collar wherein every few episodes the characters do something like: FBI guy: We need to find the criminal! Argh, this traffic! FBI lady: Wait, FBI guy! With the Ford Whatever's traffic tracker system, you can see that the traffic clears up in two blocks! *multiple close-ups of buttons and screens showing you the features of this amazingly versatile Ford* FBI guy: These really are great cars! It's otherwise a pretty good show (though the premise starts to wear thin after a while) but here have a taste of how loving jarring the product placement scenes are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5RhYe3zBeI
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Feb 3, 2013 02:47
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Forgive me and ignore this if technical questions are outside the purview of this thread. Backtracking a few seconds or a couple minutes on Netflix streaming (on my PC) always requires loading again. Is there a way to make this smoother and more immediate? Through Chrome cache settings or Silverlight settings? Edit for another small question: anybody notice a whole lot of bad subtitles? For example there's plenty of times when the subtitler couldn't understand British English and put a question mark in for half of a sentence. Why wouldn't they use the same subtitles that would come with the movie's DVD, which are also often inaccurate but much better? Mescal fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Feb 3, 2013 |
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Feb 3, 2013 02:59
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No the worst product placement ever is in Pawn Stars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H7hWL_uXT8 For like a season they had a scene like this every episode.
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Feb 3, 2013 03:02
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Wow, that's beyond placement. It's seriously a car commercial, shot-for-shot.
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Feb 3, 2013 03:09
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tliil posted:The worst product placement ever is in the show White Collar wherein every few episodes the characters do something like: Nope. The absolute worst for this type of thing is the new Hawaii 5-0 show. In EVERY show, they show off Microsoft products and Chevy(?) cars. Literally every episode there are several sequences where someone shows someone else how to use an MS product, highlighting its features, or they drive flawless cars in long helicopter shots along a waterfront highway. They even had an episode where everyone stopped and talked about how much they loved the quality and freshness of Subway sandwiches. That show purely exists for product placement. They can't get 10 minutes in the show without showing off a different product.
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Feb 3, 2013 03:14
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Irish Taxi Driver posted:Swamp Thing was in french when I tried to watch it, subtitles included. But when it was paused on the preview screen it was in english. Battle Royale didn't have subtitles at all! I watched it anyway. Coupled with the Wikipedia page it was surprisingly easy to follow.
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Feb 3, 2013 03:26
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No, you're all wrong about the worst product placement. It's Minority Report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQo0N8tEnEM After Tom Cruise's character John Anderton leaves the precinct or whatever, he's bombarded from all sides by obnoxious advertising and I guess the intent is to convey how the retinal scanners are everywhere and he's never truly anonymous, but every ad is paid product placement. It's as aggressively obnoxious for the viewer as it is for Anderton. Plus the Bulgari watch. Is anybody who can actually afford a Bulgari watch really going to get the idea to buy one from a goddamn movie? Are there any good horror movies on Netflix that aren't either old classics, "haunted white girl" ghost movies, or gore porn?
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Feb 3, 2013 03:37
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Bertrand Hustle posted:No, you're all wrong about the worst product placement. It's Minority Report: No, this is good product placement in that it's used to enhance the narrative or just in places where there actually would be products in real life. I mean in here you explain why the scene with the ads is probably there and then you dismiss it, which confuses me.
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Feb 3, 2013 03:44
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axleblaze posted:I mean in here you explain why the scene with the ads is probably there and then you dismiss it, which confuses me. My problem with it is that it's shoved in my face. Yes, it's effective to literally beam images of your product into somebody's eyeballs and yell the product name at them, and it enhances the narrative of Anderton's fear and lack of anonymity, but it's loving obnoxious. Understanding why it's there doesn't make it any less ugly or obtrusive. As for "where products actually would be in real life", try Terminator 2. The Subway sandwich and drink on the table in the scene where the two cops are showing pictures of the T-800 to Sarah Connor and she steals the paper clip.
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Feb 3, 2013 03:52
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Tennis Ball posted:House of Cards Maybe they're just establishing it's existence for a plot point in an upcoming episode. Chekhov's Vita. Bertrand Hustle posted:Are there any good horror movies on Netflix that aren't either old classics, "haunted white girl" ghost movies, or gore porn? I'm having a hard time getting a handle on what kind of horror you want. Name a few horror movies you liked, I'll see if I can match them to anything on Netflix.
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Feb 3, 2013 04:00
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Insidious was released last year and is available...It may fit what you're looking for (based on your relatively vague request). It was my favorite horror in recent memory.
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All this talk about product placement and no one bothers with the best? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAjXYfTtGas
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