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I got Netflix recently and here are the movies I've seen so far with brief reviews:
Short Cuts (1993) - I don't like Robert Altman. I didn't like The Player and I don't like this, yet I've signed myself up for MASH (1970). Because I'm an idiot.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - Part of my Stanley Kramer kick. I really liked it. Sidney Poitier makes Denzel Washington look like Wayne Brady.
Putney Swope (1969) - Don Cheadle's character in Boogie Nights, Buck Swope, is named after Putney Swope. So that's why I got this one. It's an experimental exploitation cult classic directed by Robert Downey Jr's dad. Somewhat funny, but mostly weird as shit.
Bullitt (1968) - Not as great as it's hyped up to be, although Steve McQueen is fucking cool. I found it to be really dry and the plot unfulfilling. The car chase was alright, I guess, but too much and not enough at the same time.
Harold and Maude (1971) - It has a lot of cult value. But it wasn't believable as far as it being a romance. I want a Jaguar hearse.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) - Another Paul Thomas Anderson-influenced decision. Dance marathon during the Great Depression. Real gruelling and claustrophobic. I liked it a lot.
Taxi Driver (1976) - Robert DeNiro is the man.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) - Another Stanley Kramer. It's as funny as I remembered it as a little kid. Except the ending blows. Stanley Kramer directs movies like they're musicals, it's neat.
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) - Why the fuck is it split in half and put on two DVDs? The main reason they invented the DVD was so that you could put long ass movies on them. Am I right? Besides that, I didn't care about this movie enough to watch the second half. Grandiose Hollywood bullshit.
North by Northwest (1959) - Really good. Haven't seen too much Hitchcock. He's a pretty sexually suggestive director. The last two shots are of Cary Grant and Eve Marie Saint in bed on a train and then the train going into a tunnel. It got my dick hard just thinking about what they were doing.
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) - Another Stanley Kramer. This movie is great and I recommend it to everyone. I generally don't like courtroom dramas nor Holocaust movies. But this is a great great movie.
Next up: The Defiant Ones (1958), another Stanley Kramer joint, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) by Mike Nichols.
Netflix is probably the best thing that's happened to me all year.
Short Cuts (1993) - I don't like Robert Altman. I didn't like The Player and I don't like this, yet I've signed myself up for MASH (1970). Because I'm an idiot.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - Part of my Stanley Kramer kick. I really liked it. Sidney Poitier makes Denzel Washington look like Wayne Brady.
Putney Swope (1969) - Don Cheadle's character in Boogie Nights, Buck Swope, is named after Putney Swope. So that's why I got this one. It's an experimental exploitation cult classic directed by Robert Downey Jr's dad. Somewhat funny, but mostly weird as shit.
Bullitt (1968) - Not as great as it's hyped up to be, although Steve McQueen is fucking cool. I found it to be really dry and the plot unfulfilling. The car chase was alright, I guess, but too much and not enough at the same time.
Harold and Maude (1971) - It has a lot of cult value. But it wasn't believable as far as it being a romance. I want a Jaguar hearse.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) - Another Paul Thomas Anderson-influenced decision. Dance marathon during the Great Depression. Real gruelling and claustrophobic. I liked it a lot.
Taxi Driver (1976) - Robert DeNiro is the man.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) - Another Stanley Kramer. It's as funny as I remembered it as a little kid. Except the ending blows. Stanley Kramer directs movies like they're musicals, it's neat.
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) - Why the fuck is it split in half and put on two DVDs? The main reason they invented the DVD was so that you could put long ass movies on them. Am I right? Besides that, I didn't care about this movie enough to watch the second half. Grandiose Hollywood bullshit.
North by Northwest (1959) - Really good. Haven't seen too much Hitchcock. He's a pretty sexually suggestive director. The last two shots are of Cary Grant and Eve Marie Saint in bed on a train and then the train going into a tunnel. It got my dick hard just thinking about what they were doing.
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) - Another Stanley Kramer. This movie is great and I recommend it to everyone. I generally don't like courtroom dramas nor Holocaust movies. But this is a great great movie.
Next up: The Defiant Ones (1958), another Stanley Kramer joint, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) by Mike Nichols.
Netflix is probably the best thing that's happened to me all year.
