| Re: learning Unix, was progress in e-mail, such as AOL [message #353389] |
Mon, 25 September 2017 11:55  |
Peter Flass
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Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> On 2017-09-24, Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
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>> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> writes:
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>>> Netflix has a search engine. Their list of content is publically
>>> searchable. The real problem is that most of the movies are shit. I
>>> watched 3mins and 27 seconds of "Wonderwoman" last night; utter shit. And
>>> about an hour of "Wolverine"; gave up when we decided we didn't GAS
>>> about the characters and were sick of endless chase sequences. Watched
>>> "American Gangster" a couple of nights ago. Made it to the end, but it's
>>> w-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-y too long. Ditto "American Sniper" one day last week.
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>> Jeez, I've been both vexed and wistful because $EVERYBODY has
>> broadband and can (I've supposed) watch good movies that they missed
>> in the theater.
>
> I miss everything in the theater (called "cinema" in the UK. "Theater"
> is where plays are put on) because we don't go. And until they provide
> comfortable seating, cease selling snacks and summarily execute anyone
> who talks, makes phone calls or indeed does anything other than watch
> the film (US: movie) in silence, I won't be going.
Now they're moving to seats that recline and have a footrest that raises
up, pretty close to my definition of comfortable.
>
>> We have dialup so a feature-length movie isn't doable.
>
> I feel your pain. Until a few (3? 4? I forget) years ago we didn't
> have broadband, and even when we finally got it, it was too slow (~1Mb)
> to stream video. Then we moved, and despite still being in the middle
> of nowhere (or at least as close to it as you can in the UK), we now
> have 22Mbps.
>
>> But now that the industry has decided that DVDs are dead, I drop in at
>> one of the places that has discount bins full of them every fortnight
>> or so. Yes, there is a *vast* superfluity of truly ghod-auful movies,
>> ones that can be identified as such just from the jewel case pic/blurb
>> and it takes 20 minutes to browse over them.
>
> Much how I buy CDs!
>
>> But in the last several years we've hit quite a few great movies.
>> Ratatouille; The Italian Job; Chinatown; Buster Keaton's The General;
>> both versions of Oceans 11 and of Solaris; Do the Right Thing; The
>> Hunt for Red October -- probably three dozen watch-every-year-or-two
>> good ones and maybe 300 entertaining-once & good enough to watch
>> again "sometime".
>
> Sounds good!
>
> [10 lines snipped]
>
>> So, given Huge's remarks supra, now I feel less deprived, TYVM.
>
> You're welcome!
>
>
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Pete
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| Re: learning Unix, was progress in e-mail, such as AOL [message #353405 is a reply to message #353389] |
Mon, 25 September 2017 15:38  |
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Originally posted by: JimP.
On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 11:55:33 -0400, Peter Flass
<peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2017-09-24, Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>>>
>>> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> writes:
>>>
>>>> Netflix has a search engine. Their list of content is publically
>>>> searchable. The real problem is that most of the movies are shit. I
>>>> watched 3mins and 27 seconds of "Wonderwoman" last night; utter shit. And
>>>> about an hour of "Wolverine"; gave up when we decided we didn't GAS
>>>> about the characters and were sick of endless chase sequences. Watched
>>>> "American Gangster" a couple of nights ago. Made it to the end, but it's
>>>> w-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-y too long. Ditto "American Sniper" one day last week.
>>>
>>> Jeez, I've been both vexed and wistful because $EVERYBODY has
>>> broadband and can (I've supposed) watch good movies that they missed
>>> in the theater.
>>
>> I miss everything in the theater (called "cinema" in the UK. "Theater"
>> is where plays are put on) because we don't go. And until they provide
>> comfortable seating, cease selling snacks and summarily execute anyone
>> who talks, makes phone calls or indeed does anything other than watch
>> the film (US: movie) in silence, I won't be going.
>
> Now they're moving to seats that recline and have a footrest that raises
> up, pretty close to my definition of comfortable.
A movie theater I went to had movable seats, around a table. Very
comfy seats. Unfortunately, Hurricane Katyrina severely damaged that
shopping center and the movie theater wasn't rebuilt. The pizza they
had was even fairly good. You could place an order in the lobby, and
it would be delivered.
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Jim
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