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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai  

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Consuela - Jul 13, 2011 11:56:25 am PDT #15377 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I only watch streaming on the computer, but then I'm single. It's much less of an option for couples or families.

I suspect the comments on that article are pointing out a lot of these issues.


tommyrot - Jul 13, 2011 12:34:45 pm PDT #15378 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

From Slashdot: Bruce Campbell Confirms New Evil Dead Movie

"Dread Central reported last night that a fourth Evil Dead film is up for production in Detroit, and editor Bob Murawski, who worked with Sam Raimi on all three 'Spider-Man' films and 'Drag Me to Hell,' is gearing up to start on the project. Bruce Campbell recently joined Twitter and left one of the best comments to a fan confirming this rumor 'Believe in the remake, dawg! The project is real. In the works. Cool as hell. Scary as hell.'"

Source story seems to be Slashdotted....


§ ita § - Jul 13, 2011 12:41:58 pm PDT #15379 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I saw somewhere that he tweeted it was a remake, not a 4th.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 13, 2011 12:45:14 pm PDT #15380 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

So now there will be three remakes of The Evil Dead in a four-movie franchise?


Polter-Cow - Jul 13, 2011 12:45:51 pm PDT #15381 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Directed by Fede Alvarez, Uruguayan director of the short film Panic Attack! I watched it last night, and it does have giant alien robots and massive destruction, so that's fun. I'd never seen Montenegro before, and now I've seen it destroyed!


§ ita § - Jul 13, 2011 12:51:49 pm PDT #15382 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Another link to the DKR trailer.


Sheryl - Jul 13, 2011 12:58:57 pm PDT #15383 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

I haven't used streaming Netflix yet. Until we got Fios, we didn't have the speed to watch things that way. There isn't much in my queue that's available that way, anyhow.


Steph L. - Jul 13, 2011 1:48:47 pm PDT #15384 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Some episodes are available free and some are available for Plus only.

For example Bob's Burgers-Episodes 1-5 are free (although it looks like a few are set to expire soon) and episodes 9-13 are Plus only.

I misunderstood what you were saying. I thought you meant that Hulu Plus had full seasons of some shows but only 5 episodes of some shows. I knew that regular non-Plus Hulu often has 5 episodes of certain shows, but then I totally mis-read your post.


askye - Jul 13, 2011 3:18:25 pm PDT #15385 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

I'm sorry if I wasn't been clear, I changed some things and then didn't re-read for clarity.

It's hard to compare the Hulu Plus and Netflix because they don't offer the exact same things.


Rayne - Jul 13, 2011 3:23:49 pm PDT #15386 of 30000
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire

There is a free one week trial for Hulu Plus (or a month if you have a .edu email). I just tried it and hated it. The commercials were a big issue for me. Not just because there were commercials, but because they seemed to play at the drop of a hat. I rewound a show a bit because I'd missed something and had to sit through the same commercials again. As far as I could tell, it also didn't save your progress like Netflix does. So if I stopped an episode midway through, it didn't remember where I was, so when I went to play it again, I had to sit through the commercials AGAIN and then fast forward to where I was. Hulu Plus also paused a lot more often than Netflix does (we were watching through our PS3). Several times it just stopped altogether and I had to restart my system and try again. (Which of course led to more commercials).

I was also really disappointed in the selection. It's just not big enough. I think there were less than 600 complete tv series available, which may sound like a lot, but it's really not. I was hoping for that last season of Community. Nope. Only 5 episodes available. I thought I'd give Cougar Town a try. Too bad, only season 2 was available. They did have Spaced, but no IT Crowd. And the movies weren't even worth looking at. I browsed a bit and then quickly stopped because I didn't recognize any of them.

We cancelled before the free week was up (after we burned through season 3 of Parks and Recreation).

I'm not thrilled with Netflix for the huge price increase, so we'll probably be cancelling our live streaming. (And if Blockbuster lowered it's prices, I'd switch to them in a heartbeat). I figure if there's a bunch of stuff we want to watch on live streaming, we can activate it for a month, burn through everything, then cancel again.