2025 Rolling Streaming Media Thread

movies, television, cable, games, videos, podcasts, music, ANYTHING streaming on ANY streaming platform.

i just want to know what people are seeing/watching/hearing and what they think. and i want to go to one place. in a casual way. so sue me!

but no DVDs or movies you see when you go to THE CINEMA. that way the SERIOUS film people can have their own fun. there is a film sub-baord. make it a thing again!

if you think something should have its own thread, start one! its a free countr....oh wait. if enough people love it or hate it they can talk about it there.

and there you have it.

i just wish i had remembered that the Roku Sports channel was showing the X Games all weekend. I love the X Games! oh well. i'll watch the reruns.

also, Go Eagles.

okay, i'm going back to Chopped. the one chef who had cooked for Kissinger and Lucian Freud had one whole finger of her glove filled with blood and she was still cooking. Ewwwww!

I watched the four episodes of The Pitt that are currently available on Max and they were OK, but I don't know if I'm gonna remember to watch the next one when it pops up on Thursday. ER + 24 = not as genius an idea as its creators thought.

I actually think The Pitt is getting richer as it goes - which is not what my expectation was. There were definitely moments in the first couple episodes that felt like clumsy track-laying (eg, when will the victims of the school shooting show up?). But now onto episode 4 I’m getting more comfortable with the characters and I think Noah Wylie is really holding it down.

Noah Wyle should have kept going with The Librarians

I watched a couple of the documentary shorts that were nominated for Oscars. Two that I watched by coincidence made a *perfect* double feature and a highly recommend watching them back to back in this order:

First, THE ONLY GIRL IN THE ORCHESTRA, on Netflix - about the first woman to play in the NY Philharmonic starting back in the 60s, on the occasion of her retirement after 50+ years. She is so humble and knows her role as a bassist in the orchestra.

Its made all the more compelling if you then switch over to YouTube to watch INSTRUMENTS OF A BEATING HEART, about a second grader in a Tokyo school who *desperately* wants to be in her school band as a percussionist. She is so adorable and the doc is very compelling, especially for something as mundane as small children doing a school assembly performance.

Watching both docs takes less than an hour and they both make the other richer and more inspiring. A real highlight of my day.

thought about watching Gladiator 2 on Paramount+ but then i make the mistake of watching the whole trailer and it all just looks so phony baloney with the cgi and everyone's face is all digitally smoothed and colored...bleh. i kept thinking that one guy was harry pooper. the young guy. i have no idea who he is. he looks like harry pooper. the only people i even recognize are denzel and the mandalorian. i had no idea who pedro pascal was until he was seemingly everywhere and world famous. i guess after mandalorian. i didn't even know he was in game of thrones until the other day. i didn't watch narcos. maybe he got famous from that. he must have switched agents at some point because he was in stuff for years and years before narcos.

He got famous for the Last of Us.

really? that seems so recent. i thought it was star wars people who made him famous. i did not love the last of us. it did make me watch the walking dead again though. with maria and cyrus. that was fun. until negan shows up then i stopped.

Will def watch that Japanese short, thanks.

I liked Chopped best when I used to watch it at the gym with the sound off, much more relaxing without their dumb music cues.

Pascal was def famous before The Last of Us. I first heard of him when he was on The Mandalorian -- never saw it bc I don't care about Star Wars, but it seemed like a big deal at the time. But he was also on Game of Thrones before that.

Which you already said! (I was skimming too fast.)

Pascal attracted attention for being on Game of Thrones, then he was on Narcos on Netflix. Then the Star Wars thing was sold as "starring that guy from Game of Thrones and Narcos!" And by The Last of Us, people knew his name.

Watched Alien Romulus. It’s well-made but doesn’t really add anything new to the franchise. Just feels like a rehash.

he's not young. his credits start in 1999. talk about working it. good for him. he seems nice. not that exciting to me but a lot of leading men now seem generic to me. hollywood leading men. maybe its easier to CGI someone if they have a really normal face. at least he has an interesting backstory what with his family being a part of the Castilian-Basque aristocracy in Chile. and then...tragedy struck...

"Two years before Pascal's birth, the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende was overthrown by General Augusto Pinochet, leading to the country becoming a military dictatorship.[12] Both of Pascal's parents were listed as enemies of the state by the Pinochet regime and the family eventually fled Chile when he was nine months old,[12] after seeking refuge in the Venezuelan embassy in Santiago for six months."

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I haven't watched Romulus. I'd probably like it. I don't care if its a lesser Alien movie. They all kinda are after the first three. Phil Tippett, the director of one of the greatest American movies of the 21st century, Mad God, did the stop motion rat in Alien: Romulus. HOW WAS THE RAT, PGWP?

The rat was nice.

It’s definitely not a disappointing movie - it’s exciting and tense and all that. You’ll like it if you like Alien movies.

I watched about half of Romulus and I don't even remember a rat. Maybe it showed up later.

i should watch it. i still haven't watched furiosa for some reason. now that its on netflix.

i would see some of these at the movies but the guy who bought the local theater is trumpy. its unfortunate. its good that someone took on the old heap of a movie house but on the other hand... i don't want to go there. they showed 2000 Mules there.

Pascal's real starmaking turn was being in a viral gif with Nic Cage IIRC

all of a sudden everyone knew his name. it seemed like it anyway. like olde-tyme hollywood. he probably got invited to a lot of swanky parties. does he have to hang out with george clooney now at Lake Como. with matt damon.

i'm watching american football right now and i like the ad where doja cat lurks around a taco bell.

i still haven't watched furiosa for some reason.

Very, verrrrry skippable. (But I am the only person on earth who hated Fury Road, so.)

oh i liked fury road. i like movies that never stop moving. that have forward motion.

i know its easy to make fun of tom brady but he is such a nothing broadcaster. he's no tony romo! he's so meepy.

Romulus is EXTREMELY disappointing; it’s a load of crap.

post malone/shane gillis beer ad is a big noooooooo. i never want to see shane gillis's grinning head.

but by what standard, james? is it even good as pulpy horror fun? cuz i'm fine with that.

my standards aren't very high anymore. but i do stop watching stuff a lot if it looks too dumb. it has to be pretty dumb or just low-budget filler that is boring. there is a lot of it out there. i want to watch good stuff.

i'm still watching the Eagles win but i'm also watching amy sedaris on david letterman. man, you don't see the likes of her anymore. unless its her. she would go full weird on national t.v. i'm also watching tom green on all the late night shows a long time ago. crazy. amy can make me laugh hard! not too many people can anymore. don rickles. her. some others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEIshHZXVoQ

I liked Furiosa better than Fury Road, it's 25% less '90s music video.

Furiosa is good - it's not as good as Fury Road, but then nothing is. But it does recognise that funny dumb Chris Hemsworth is the best Chris Hemsworth.

I’m on my little kick of watching things that were nominated (after watching almost no movies all year), and starting with the movies that are free to stream. Therefore I’m getting in those films nominated for best visual effects (Alien) and now costumes—Gladiator II, since most of the prestige films haven’t hit streaming yet.

I don’t think I ever saw the first Gladiator so I dont have the baggage of comparison. Nevertheless I had low expectations for the sequel but it was better than I expected it to be. I doubt I’ll think about it much but it was a nice way to spend an afternoon.

Romulus is not good fun, it's mostly incredibly awkward callbacks to better scenes from the earlier movies. It really is terrible, and in a really small, scuzzy way, not even terrible and preposterous on a grand stage like the two idiotic Scott Prometheus movies.

gotcha.

Many xps Pascal was a known actor before LoU, but after he became a subject of celebrity media, which is a different thing.

fun thing about Pascal is his friendship with Sarah Paulson, it's really sweet.

what are the good recentish spy shows other than slow horses? i finished binging it and wanted to continue in that vein. tried day of the jackal but it feels very slow and cheesy.

I think people are split here on The Agency? or maybe its just me who got bored of it. I really liked the first episodes and then it just dragged for me. didn't love the characters that didn't help.

I liked the first season of the Night Agent on Netflix. I've canceled my subscription but there's a second season now.

i liked that first season of The Night Agent on Netflix even though the lead guy is kind of a generic dud. it was still entertaining spy stuff. more action-y though. maybe more Tom Clancy territory.

great minds...uh...think alike! haha!

what are the good recentish spy shows other than slow horses?

I enjoyed Mr. and Mrs. Smith. And just started Black Doves, which seems promising.

i saw that the Recruit has a new season starting on Netflix and i can't remember if i even watched the first one. i probably did. and forgot all about it.

i want to go back and watch old stuff. MI-5 and the like. loads of stuff i've never seen.

Berlin Station looks kinda cool but i think its one of those odd ones that isn't streaming on the stuff i have. mgm+ or apple+ or something.

Xpost recent spy shows. Black Doves was good. However if you missed The Americans, highly recommended to see that instead

The Diplomat is sort of a spy show. That one is good.

I thought The Agency was skillfully made, but every now and then I remembered it was about the US trying to maintain control over the world, which was a bummer. I wonder if I'd like the French original better.

thanks all. maybe i'll give black doves a shot. or maybe i'll rewatch the greatest spy tv show of all time (patriot)

I liked The Agency a lot though I can see why some might find it boring. Less gunfights and explosives than most spy shows. But I thought it was excellent.

Patriot is a brilliant unconventional spy show.

Alias is a show about a... spy

Danger Mouse

The Pitt is legit :D
I watched ep 1 tonight and was glued to my seat! Love it. also grizzled Noah Wylie is hot af. holy shit was not prepared

I loved The Agency!
there’s a lot that plays out over many episodes so it’s a slow burn type of thing but when in life do you get GERE and WRIGHT and FASSBENDER doing their thing together. It’s fkn great!
But i knew right away i was onboard for it so if yr struggling to be interested it might not be yr bag

Watched the first episode of Paradise tonight. It's an NBC series (streaming on Hulu) starring Sterling K. Brown as a Secret Service agent; I'd basically describe it as 24 meets Under The Dome. (There's been an unspecified catastrophe and everybody still alive in America lives in a fake city inside a mountain in Colorado.)

I'm becoming a full movies illegally uploaded to Youtube kind of guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpvAdeAv8KI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNNsahI49IE

If you can handle four hours of Quentin Tarantino talking about movies in the public domain/available on YouTube, it's actually a pretty good list of movies to check out:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/public-domain-movies-with-quentin-tarantino/id1204885502?i=1000527497044

as someone reminded me on the youtube thread, 1929 movies are public domain and this Classic Film Library channel on YT has a ton of obscure titles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2T88am-BoA

A friend set up a watch party during lockdown, every Friday (now every first Friday) we WhatsApp and watch a film on YouTube - there's a list here - you should be able to get all of them still? Probably?
https://letterboxd.com/charmingpotato/tag/plague-film-club/films/

Presence on the list is very extremely not necessarily a recommendation, though if you haven't, it's worth seeing The Anderson Tapes inventing the 70s (and the nimbus around Christopher Walken even in his first feature film)

A friend set up a watch party during lockdown, every Friday (now every first Friday) we WhatsApp and watch a film on YouTube -

I did with this friends, too. We chatted over Slack. It lasted a few years but is basically done now (although we revived it to watch horror movies in October). Here's our list:

https://letterboxd.com/jaymc/tag/wmt/diary/

It was a great way to watch a lot of dumb-fun movies I'd never seen. If it was too serious and slowly paced, it killed the conversation. But movies with crazy visuals, fun needle drops, period fashion, chases and explosions, etc., were perfect.

haha, i wrote this on Facebook in 2022. i stand by it pretty much.

The 5 most popular themes in American entertainment today.

1) I am tired of being "good" and I am going to be "bad". I am the audience surrogate.
2) I am bored and/or disgusted with my job and/or my relationships. I will steal or kill. I am the audience surrogate.
3) I have been traumatized. I will kill. I am the audience surrogate.
4) I am mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore. I might need to kill. I am the audience surrogate.
5) I used to kill. I think I could probably remember how to kill again. I am the audience surrogate.

David Cronenberg's daughter, Caitlin, has a new movie up on Hulu called Humane. I might watch it. That's my kind of nepo baby. It's about the end of the world but it looks like its mostly confined to one house where people turn on each other. Which makes it less tempting, but maybe its good. Peter Gallagher. Jay Baruchel. ubiquitous television actor Enrico Colantoni.

i can't stop watching Chopped though...i'm so pitiful. it's my cold weather comfort food. what can i say? the format of that show was MADE for my brain.

i'm definitely going to watch Cuckoo tonight on Hulu. that movie looks awesome.

i loved cuckoo but a lot of ppl were split on it. i kinda think it's like no other movie i've ever seem. same goes for the director's previous film luz

Humane was kind of a horror-thriller, the other Cronenberg nepo baby's Possessor was more interesting (but also more directly "I learned it from watching you, dad").

I liked Possessor but the Cronenberg son’s first movie Antiviral suuuuucked. I think I lasted half an hour.

how was his last one? With it's infamous pool semen shot or whatever?

I finally watched the last Cronenberg and I enjoyed it but it did feel a bit like self-parody. Just so totally on the nose with all the very blatant Cronenberg schtick.

Best recent Cronenberg was his acting turn as an evil patriarch in one of the Slasher seasons.

I've now watched two episodes of Paradise on Hulu and if you are looking for a show that's deeply convinced of its own intelligence and seriousness while actually being pure boneheaded, goofy bullshit, oh man, get in here.

I enjoyed Cuckoo. Pretty crazy. That young actress was cool. Her reactions to things were cool. She was really trying to create a character. I liked her song too! I thought it was kinda crazy that the movie ends with a song from the Straight To Hell soundtrack. "Money, Guns, And Coffee" by Pray For Rain. I always liked that song on that soundtrack. How many movies end with an original track from another soundtrack? I would have to ask Quentin Tarantino.

i was trying to think of who the actress in Cuckoo reminded me of and this is when it pays to have a best friend from high school who thinks like you and who has one of the best horror movie websites on the internet. it was anne carlisle! from liquid sky. that's who she reminded me of. Cuckoo one of those movies where i liked it and didn't care that the plot made no sense to me. it didn't matter.

I watched The Juggler on TCM. A 1953 movie starring Kirk Douglas as a tortured Jewish Holocaust survivor who becomes a refugee in Israel. It's a nightmare! Produced by Stanley Kramer. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Music by George Antheil. The first American movie ever made in Israel. It's pretty scary. It's Kirk's The Day the Clown Cried. It's weird and fascinating.

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/B81DJJ/the-juggler-year-1953-usa-kirk-douglas-director-edward-dmytryk-B81DJJ.jpg

noticed a couple of series on Amazon I'm pretty sure won't be good but make me curious, adaptations of Len Deighton's SS-GB and China Mieville's The City and The City

Two happy side-effects of watching *The Pitt*
1) now rewatching ER season 1. I watched it here & there when it was on & knew the characters but i never fully locked in on all the storylines so this one is kinda fun to go back to
2) I now am fully crushing on Noah Wyle. Never cared for him as a puppydog in ER or much else, but now he’s grown? DAMN :D

i love & admire ppl who are cool cucumbers in crisis (bcz i am NOT that)- my brother in law was a paramedic & later a captain in the fire department, and a lot of our family friends are higher ups in that EMT/Fire world as a result -
ppl in that world are often a bit broken somewhere inside but hand to god there’s nothing better in the world when you are In The Shit & they just calmly & quickly lock eyes w you and walk you thru what’s gonna happen & just shepherd you through the worst day of yr life
it’s a superpower & Grown Noah Wyle captures it beautifilly

The Librarians wasn't your kinda thing? Seems like it might have been.

i keep wanting to watch Supernatural for some dumb reason. there are like 50 seasons i think.

i forgot about Falling Skies! Noah's apocalypse show. can't remember if i ever finished it. it was okay.

i never watched The Librarians, it didnt grab me i guess?

yeah same here. but i know some people like it. or i guess it was movies first before it was a show. i could never tell if they were for little kids or not. but then i forgot about them.