Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 1, 2012 - 09:27am PT
Netflix has some cool streaming documentaries.
Saw one about some people climbing the Table mountains in Venezuela and then rapping down Angel Falls. Looks like quite the adventure.
Anyone out there seen some other good videos on Netflix, climbing or otherwise? post em up.
Couldn't access Netflix from here at work, but here is link that has some info on the movie.
I enjoyed "80 Meters Below the Summit". Not the slickest production but real climbing and available streaming. I would also second the recommendations of "Deep Water" and "Am Limit".
Check out Cave of Forgotten Dreams by Werner Herzog. About the oldest known cave paintings, like they date back to the ice age and they are very detailed, definitely not your typical stick men type stuff. Pretty cool.
Also if you haven't seen it you HAVE to check out King of Kong, amazing doc.
About the first road trip across america. Really cool look at life in the early 20th century and the competition to make the first practical automobile.
I wanted something light, to laugh-I watched all the seasons of 30 rock. That was funny. Season 3 not as great, but the rest pretty hilarious-and good guest appearances.
Tucker and Dale vs Evil - A pretty funny movie, good entertainment. Poor guys just can't catch a damn break.
Hobo with a Shotgun - Gorefest, total B-rated movie. Pretty entertaining if you have ever thought of being a vigilante yourself, with a shotgun of course.
Jason Statham is a pretty bad ass actor in my book, there are a couple of British films he was in that were pretty bad ass, way better then the Transporter saga-
Blitz - Plays a pissed off cop, good action while trying to find a serial killer.
Revolver - Plays the typical bad ass gangster guy.
Lock, Stock, and two smokin Barrels - British mob movie. Funny, lots of action.
"Sweetgrass"--
from the website-- "An unsentimental elegy to the American West, “Sweetgrass” follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana’s breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed"
and--
"State of Mind"
North Korean gymnasts--a few years old but an amazing story--mindblowing gymnastics
+2 for arrested development and firefly. if firefly had been a cable show it would still be on. Portlandia is so funny. I have a six year old and he really digs avatar the last airbender, it's surprisingly well written and has really good story arcs.
I can't remember the last time I cared about or watched a tv series. I just don't care about these dramas.
But Breaking Bad was epic. I watched a couple episodes out of boredom, and ended up watching 3 seasons in about 3 weeks. I wish they had the last season on Netflix, I will have to find it somewhere soon. Amazing acting and characters.
A documentary about the problem of dealing with nuclear waste. Sounds boring? It's anything but that. It gets pretty mindboggling as people discuss the problems of building a facility that should last 100,000 years and not be disturbed by future events or people.
Senna was amazing. Im not an F1 fan, but this was simply incredible. On a somewhat different theme, I also enjoyed the Untouchable Girls about the topp twins in NZ - life affirming!
To The Limit, the documentary of the Huber brothers speed recoed attempt of the nose. I wish I could be as fit is that. Bloody hell, they are so strong
About a kid who grew up in the Haight during the 60s with communist hippy parents. By 4 years old he was smoking grass and running around barefoot downtown. The filmmaker comes back 30 years after his original footage and explores Sean's life since his youth.
Also, recently saw "Shut up, Little Man", another documentary about an odd facet of SF.!!!
Blood into Wine the story of Maynard Keenan (Tool frontman) making wine in AZ (near the former mining ghost town of Jerome no less). Makes me want to move back to Arizona right now! Makes me want to become an eco-wine hippy right now! NOW!
Watched a couple of documentaries the other night.
The White Family - story about a famous dysfunctional West Virginia family.
Winnibego Man - story about the swearing RV guy.
I've been working myself through 7 seasons of The Trailer Park Boys...hillarious
Biggest surprise was "Goon"
Clicking on it was an accident and I give it 5 stars.
I watched 180° South last year and thought it was good and worth watching, I might be biased because I know most of the characters.
I just watched Secret Yosemite yesterday, a National Geo film. It was good, but again, it was fun for me knowing some of the characters, including Lincoln Else and Chris Mac.
The Mountain is a classic, watched that one for the first time as a kid.
Man on Wire was good, saw that a few years ago.
BUT, Hobo with a Shotgun and Tucker & Dale vs. Evil? Really? I couldn't get through 20 minutes of it. Worst crap I've tried to watch in a long time... but, each to his own I suppose.
If you're looking for violence Seeking Justice has a way better story line with plenty of action.
Been trying Hell on Wheels, but it feels too much like they cleaned up Deadwood. I do like more exploration of Native American issues though.
But, goddamn, I wish there'd been another season of Deadwood.
Oh, yes, Jim Gaffigan has several comedy specials on Netlix as well. His newest: Mr. Universe. He manages to be supremely funny while never really trodding into offensive terrain. Not that I'm against offensive terrain, I just admire the accomplishment.
BUT, Hobo with a Shotgun and Tucker & Dale vs. Evil? Really? I couldn't get through 20 minutes of it. Worst crap I've tried to watch in a long time... but, each to his own I suppose.
Well, it helps if you're really drunk. Did you drink enough?
This movie premise is that the world was destroyed in a nuclear war many years ago. Now the human race has been almost wiped out and common frogs have mutated into intelligent, bipedal creatures. The human race has been sterilized by the war radiation, and human women outnumber men. Fertile women are a very rare, but fertile men are even rarer. Roddy Piper is an opportunist drifter. This Roddy 'Sam Hell' Piper has apparently left a string of pregnancies behind him. After being captured, he's taken to the evil 'Med-tech' labs where the female staff then forces him into servicing female candidates. Either, he signs a contract to "work" for them fertilizing women, or he has to go back and face the wrath of the evil frogs beings. The Med-tech women put a steel jock strap on him to protect their property. The strap front plate says, "Property of Provisional Government". But, the evil frog people beings have raided a border town and stolen many rare fertile women. It's up to Sam Hell and two Med-tech staff women to get them out of 'Frogtown' and be fertilized for humanity sake.
Well, it helps if you're really drunk. Did you drink enough?
Haa haa, no I've been on the wagon for a month. I shattered my tibia plateau and alcohol doesn't really promote healing. So, no beer for me for the next few months... boy do I miss those ice cold IPA's. ;)
Story about an 11 year old kid whose Dad died in the Falkland war, who gets taken in by punks, then taken deeper in by a skin head. REALLY GOOD. Ugliest kid, but super likable!
That Mitchell And Webb Look (superb sketch comedy from the BBC).
Peep Show (a sitcom starring the same people as Mitchell and Webb Look that is filmed almost entirely in first-person perspective. It sounds stupid and gimmicky, but it's actually very clever.)
Fubar two sucked in comparison to the original. Shame it's not on Netflix streaming.
Season two of Portlandia is on now, and it's as funny as the first season.
There's a series about some of Bob Marleys sons riding ducatis through S Africa. I only watched the first installment so far. It's OK, but I like Ziggys music, so I'll probably watch more.
Let us know!