Streaming Recommendations (Netflix, HBO, Amazon, etc.)

October 21st, 2020 at 9:16:10 AM permalink
terapined
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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
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Quote: DRich
My wife just ordered Lonesome Dove. She didn't tell me it was 10 hours. I assumed it was a normal movie around two hours.


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

Quote: DRich
I told her that I would watch it with her. I WAS DECEiIVED!

The joys of being a husband.
October 24th, 2020 at 12:40:57 AM permalink
Evenbob
Member since: Oct 24, 2012
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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
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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
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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
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Quote: terapined
Queens Gambit on Netflix
Pretty good
Just watched one episode, got me hooked.
I also love the game of chess

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
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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
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Quote: ams288
Do you have to like chess to enjoy it?

Not even a little.
November 9th, 2020 at 1:47:29 PM permalink
ams288
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Quote: gamerfreak
Not even a little.


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
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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".


Quote: ams288
Do you have to like chess to enjoy it?


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.