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Streaming Recommendations (Netflix, HBO, Amazon, etc.)
October 21st, 2020 at 9:16:10 AM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11786 | Netflix American Murder The Family Next Door Really good Tough to watch all the old videos of the kids Pretty fascinating 2 best parts After the police and Watts review the neighbors security cam. After Watts leaves. The neighbor is clearly very suspicious of Watts and tells the police Right after the lie detector test. The police tell him he is lying and they want to know the truth Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
October 21st, 2020 at 10:49:19 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
The original is only 6 hours, but the whole series is 27 hours long 6:24 Lonesome Dove 1989 5:20 Return to Lonesome Dove 1993 5:00 Streets of Laredo 1995 4:43 Dead Man's Walk 1996 6:00 Comanche Moon 2008
The joys of being a husband. |
October 24th, 2020 at 12:40:57 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | Oh my god. I don't go to Nflix much and I'm looking around and there's a 4.5 hour docu on the life of Frank Sinatra. I think my heart stopped beating for a second. I'm a HUGE fan, have all his music and movies and over 30 books on him. I was on the Sinatra Family Forum from 2002-06 and had over 11000 posts and countless conversations with Nancy about her dad. So yeah, I'm a fan. I start watching this docu and my mouth is literally hanging open. I'm realizing I've never seem 90% of this material. Nancy and Tina had to give them access to the family vaults for this to get made. To say I'm mesmerized and enthralled is an understatement. I feel like I've discovered buried treasure. I'm watching it in 30 min installments, it would be an insult to the most talented man of the 20th centuries memory to binge this masterpiece. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
October 26th, 2020 at 10:03:18 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | OMG. If these people are getting old, how old am I. Huge Grant and Nicole Kidman is a new Prime series. Grant is 59, Kidman 52. Grant looks late 60's and Kidman has had so much work done she looks like a mannequin. This is how they were not that long ago. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
November 9th, 2020 at 12:11:02 PM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11786 | Queens Gambit on Netflix Pretty good Just watched one episode, got me hooked. I also love the game of chess Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
November 9th, 2020 at 1:36:04 PM permalink | |
gamerfreak Member since: Feb 19, 2018 Threads: 4 Posts: 527 |
Queens Gambit was fantastic. I finished it in 2 days. I gave my mom my Netflix credentials and she binged it in 1 sitting. |
November 9th, 2020 at 1:44:00 PM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12422 | Do you have to like chess to enjoy it? “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
November 9th, 2020 at 1:45:26 PM permalink | |
gamerfreak Member since: Feb 19, 2018 Threads: 4 Posts: 527 |
Not even a little. |
November 9th, 2020 at 1:47:29 PM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12422 |
Good. I saw Stephen King was raving about it on Twitter. I’ll check it out. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
November 10th, 2020 at 4:15:19 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | Excerpt from Searching For Bobby Fischer (1993, directed by Steven Zaillian). Cameos by GM Joel Benjamin and GM Roman Dzindzichashvili and an unforgettable chess addicted Asa Hoffman (Austin Pendleton): "Look at that. I got him thinking. I got him thinking. Maybe I can win a pawn".
I think you have to be able to appreciate the above scene from "Searching for Bobby Fischer" about the real life Joshua Waitzkin (born December 4, 1976) . If you don't, you probably won't like "Queen's Gambit". Joshua Waitzkin was age 17 when the film was made. He was designated an International Master and had a FIDE rating of 2480. In real life he excelled in multiple sports. He stopped playing completely at age 23, and became a writer and has been married for over a decade (he is currently age 43). In the Queen's Gambit she never leaves the game (I presume, as I haven't seen the ending yet) and maintains the obsessive addictive personality that seems to go with that type of life. |