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[BikerDude]

When nothing is on the regular TV (often) I've been streaming a couple shows.

Californication. Not sure if Hank is a Dude or not really.
http://www.amazon.com/Pilot-HD/dp/B0027EOAEE/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1391182968&sr=1-1&keywords=californication

And Brotherhood.
http://www.amazon.com/Mark-8-36-HD/dp/B0044QI8CI/ref=sr_1_2?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1391182907&sr=1-2&keywords=brotherhood+season


Both are free on Amazon if you have a prime subscription.

[meekon5]

I generally don't watch a lot of TV but do watch a lot of films.

At the moment I am digging through late Mizoguchi films.

For those that don't know Kurosawa, Ozu, and Mizoguchi are the three great Japanese post war directors.

Kurosawa's Seven Samurai being the breakthrough film for Japanese cinema into the west when it was used as the basis for the Magnificent Seven.

Ozu's Floating Weeds is quoted as an influence for the last Wolverine film (amongst others), but do see the original, because I can't see the influence myself  having seen both.

A vast part of Mizoguchi's films have been lost which is a shame, but he himself only rated the later product as good.

[BikerDude]

I generally don't watch a lot of TV but do watch a lot of films.

At the moment I am digging through late Mizoguchi films.

For those that don't know Kurosawa, Ozu, and Mizoguchi are the three great Japanese post war directors.

Kurosawa's Seven Samurai being the breakthrough film for Japanese cinema into the west when it was used as the basis for the Magnificent Seven.

Ozu's Floating Weeds is quoted as an influence for the last Wolverine film (amongst others), but do see the original, because I can't see the influence myself  having seen both.

A vast part of Mizoguchi's films have been lost which is a shame, but he himself only rated the later product as good.

That must be exhausting.

[Hominid]

When nothing is on the regular TV (often) I've been streaming a couple shows.

Californication. Not sure if Hank is a Dude or not really.
http://www.amazon.com/Pilot-HD/dp/B0027EOAEE/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1391182968&sr=1-1&keywords=californication

And Brotherhood.
http://www.amazon.com/Mark-8-36-HD/dp/B0044QI8CI/ref=sr_1_2?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1391182907&sr=1-2&keywords=brotherhood+season


Both are free on Amazon if you have a prime subscription.

+1 for Californication.  Canada's Netflix hasn't caught up to the latest.  But ya, great show.  I'm about to watch the last episode of season 3 of Justified...   Love that one.

I'll have to check out Brotherhood.

[DigitalBuddha]

The Big Bang Theory, zesty coitus with Penny.

[jdurand]

We're watching Big Bang from the beginning, up to season 3 now.

Rarely watch live TV, but do record things to watch a day or so later.  Colbert Report is on right now and just saw this video:
http://youtu.be/2kFgeZtkAb8

[Masked Dude]

The Big Bang Theory, zesty coitus with Penny.

Hell yeah, dude!

[Rev. Iconocclesiastes]

Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations on the Travel Channel.  Right now I am watching Tony do some whippits in a tapas bar in Madrid somewhere.

[meekon5]

The Big Bang Theory, zesty coitus with Penny.

Big Bang is becoming almost as bad as friends on UK TV it's spreading faster then clap in a whore house, it's everywhere.

[Rev. Iconocclesiastes]

The Big Bang Theory, zesty coitus with Penny.

Big Bang is becoming almost as bad as friends on UK TV it's spreading faster then clap in a whore house, it's everywhere.

Blech.  I personally cannot stand neither Friends nor The Big Bang Theory.  Actually, I dislike sitcoms in general, being more of a news-and-documentaries kind of a guy.  But that's just me.

[Rev. Gary (revgms)]

All the good science shows, waiting for Cosmos, Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Colbert, Daily show, Real Time, NOVA, Family Guy and Big Bang Theory.

Crap my wife suckers me into watching, American Horror Coven, Justified, Hotel Impossible, Young and the Restless, General Hospital and sewing with Judy(?). I may know that Heather has kidnapped Carly to frame Franko on General hospital but my wife knows who Brian Cox and Michio Kaku are and NDT is going to host Cosmos, we all have our crosses to bear.

[Rev. Iconocclesiastes]

All the good science shows, waiting for Cosmos, Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Colbert, Daily show, Real Time, NOVA, Family Guy and Big Bang Theory.

Crap my wife suckers me into watching, American Horror Coven, Justified, Hotel Impossible, Young and the Restless, General Hospital and sewing with Judy(?). I may know that Heather has kidnapped Carly to frame Franko on General hospital but my wife knows who Brian Cox and Michio Kaku are and NDT is going to host Cosmos, we all have our crosses to bear.

Yeah, my wife makes me watch stuff like Judge Mathis and The People's Court.  One learns to choose one's battles in a marriage, does one not?

[Shagbeard]

Good husband leaves the toilet seat down.

[Yeti]

If any of you are into foreign art-house films, check out the 90s Japanese gangster (Yakuza) movies by "Beat" Takeshi Kitano. The best are Sonatine and Hana-bi.

Kitano used to be part of an alternative comedy team in Japan in the 70s (sort of like a Japanese Cheech and Chong) and later his movies and the lead roles he plays are equal parts Dudeism and violent gangster shenanigans. My personal favorite, Sonatine, has an extended sequence in the movie in which Yakuza gangsters hide out at a beach house and things get incredibly Dude-ish.

He made a great quirky non-Yakuza movie called Kikujiro, in which a crazy ex-gangster and an orphaned kid travel across Japan. Equally funny and heart-warming.

There is a terrible film he made in the USA called Brother. He co-starred with Omar Epps and it's, well, horrible. I'm not sure about anything he's done since then.

[meekon5]

I'm a fan of Takeshi "Beat" Kitano myself.

I like the stories of him turning up to one of the big film premiers dressed immaculately as a geisha.

The best description I've heard is he is the equivalent of Benny Hill doing "Lock Stock", and not the way Benny did in the original "Italian Job".

Sonatine is a classic. Well worth a watch.