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

I was browsing around in Netflix last night and noticed Pulp Fiction. I intended to only watch the first apartment scene and ended up watching all of it. Tarantino will never make a better movie.

Quote: JimRockford

I was browsing around in Netflix last night and noticed Pulp Fiction. I intended to only watch the first apartment scene and ended up watching all of it. Tarantino will never make a better movie.

I liked Pulp Fiction a lot
but
I think
Reservoir Dogs, Django and Kill Bill 1 are all just as good

Netflix's big budget Will Smith movie "Bright" is getting absolutely trashed by critics.

Almost makes me want to watch it just to see how bad it is...

I was planning on watching it. I'll let you know what I think.

The main problem I have with these big budget netflix things is they will be (and already are) jacking up their monthly rates to pay for all of this stuff.

So far "Dirty Money" is worth a look. Mainly watched Episode 2 on payday loans as they have fascinated me since I first heard of them almost 20 years ago. You want to talk about a real crook, the guy they profile is it. I don't find the payday loan concept dishonest in and of itself, but this guy and the way they treated their customers takes the cake.

He is in the can now and will be until his 60s. He and his wife cry "woe is me" the whole way. There has to be a way to better serve that market.

Quote: AZDuffman

So far "Dirty Money" is worth a look. Mainly watched Episode 2 on payday loans as they have fascinated me since I first heard of them almost 20 years ago. You want to talk about a real crook, the guy they profile is it. I don't find the payday loan concept dishonest in and of itself, but this guy and the way they treated their customers takes the cake..

I just watched it and it's confusing as
to which side the producers are on.
80% of the show is from a documentary
Tucker did, crying and crying about
he's not a crook and how unfair the
the gov't is. They show almost none
of the people he scammed and how
miserable he made their lives.

He claims to be legit, yet all his businesses
were hidden in shell corporations within
shells, and in cahoots with Indian tribes.
It was loan sharking plain and simple, it's
comical that most of the show is about
him and his cohorts whining about what
the Feds did to them.

He just got sentenced this month to 16
years. And it's a Fed prison, there is no
parole or early release, he'll do the whole
16. He's a con man, he tried to con his
way out of it right to the end.

Just last month the IRS filed charges
of tax evasion against Tucker for failing
to claim over 100 mil in income from
his loan shark business. They can
prosecute him in prison and tack on more
years to his sentence, and if he ever
gets out any money he makes would
go to paying penalties and fines.

Here he is whining on a radio show
just 2 months ago about how unfairly
he was treated. Poor baby..

Quote: Evenbob

I just watched it and it's confusing as
to which side the producers are on.
80% of the show is from a documentary
Tucker did, crying and crying about
he's not a crook and how unfair the
the gov't is. They show almost none
of the people he scammed and how
miserable he made their lives.

He claims to be legit, yet all his businesses
were hidden in shell corporations within
shells, and in cahoots with Indian tribes.
It was loan sharking plain and simple, it's
comical that most of the show is about
him and his cohorts whining about what
the Feds did to them.

He just got sentenced this month to 16
years. And it's a Fed prison, there is no
parole or early release, he'll do the whole
16. He's a con man, he tried to con his
way out of it right to the end.

Just last month the IRS filed charges
of tax evasion against Tucker for failing
to claim over 100 mil in income from
his loan shark business. They can
prosecute him in prison and tack on more
years to his sentence, and if he ever
gets out any money he makes would
go to paying penalties and fines.

The hard thing about payday loans is you basically have to run it as a 6 for 5 system to make a fair profit. The stores stay in business because people keep walking in. Where this guy was a scumbag was in not disclosing the "renewal" fee. He had the TILA looking on the up and up. Then the fees hit.

The "monyebag" memo seems to be the smoking gun. But I have seen as bad in other places.

Quote: AZDuffman

Where this guy was a scumbag was in not disclosing the "renewal" fee.

You borrow $1k from a loan shark,
you know the vig of $100 is due
every Monday till it's paid back. The
vig was never explained to this guys
victims. And who in their right fricking
mind lets any company have full
access to their bank account. Stupidity
is usually quickly punished.

Quote: Evenbob

You borrow $1k from a loan shark,
you know the vig of $100 is due
every Monday till it's paid back. The
vig was never explained to this guys
victims. And who in their right fricking
mind lets any company have full
access to their bank account. Stupidity
is usually quickly punished.

On the first part, I do figure "The Sopranos" was fairly true to life with the loan sharks explaining the vig then saying, "DO YOU UNDERSTAND?" Just good business at any level. This guy buried the terms. I will say, if I was on a jury and the borrower clearly understood, I would be unlikely to find for them.

I am willing to bet that if a person who worked with loans saw their paperwork that they would be able to either understand it or else see something was terribly amiss. Having been in loans I can say that the average person wants the loan but gives little thought to the terms. I even had one girl give as loan purpose: "To file my bankruptcy then buy some furniture." Few people read much of anything, ever.

As to bank account access, the underclass is so uninformed that they would easily do this. Even smart people working in a bank, I tried to explain to one that you use a credit not a debit card in certain situations. He just got angry with me. I have seen lower class people so uninformed they believe anything. And these are the ones with bank accounts. The "unbanked" are even worse.

Quote: AZDuffman

On the first part, I do figure "The Sopranos" was fairly true to life with the loan sharks explaining the vig then saying, "DO YOU UNDERSTAND?" Just good business at any level. This guy buried the terms.

I have often felt that the mafia is more honest than many modern corporations. Modern business seems to be entirely about "burying the terms".