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Netflix: Local Flavor
Elki
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Netflix has an underused feature that we should use the hell out of: Local Favorites. Instead of checking random cities myself, maybe you guys could check out your city (or whatever is closest to it) and come up with half-baked theories about why the movies there are there, and let us determine what city sucks ass.
Nashville:
#1 is a pattern repeated all over the place. The Whites got play in the local art-house theater a while back. The two Coens film are there for some reason. Nashville is music city, so that explains Nowhere Boy; music documentaries usually dominate in streaming locally. Twin Peaks is there hooray! Nicole Kidman lives in the suburbs, so that helps her movie.
How does your city look? I want to find something I've never heard of.
Nashville:
#1 is a pattern repeated all over the place. The Whites got play in the local art-house theater a while back. The two Coens film are there for some reason. Nashville is music city, so that explains Nowhere Boy; music documentaries usually dominate in streaming locally. Twin Peaks is there hooray! Nicole Kidman lives in the suburbs, so that helps her movie.
How does your city look? I want to find something I've never heard of.
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No wonder I have trouble discussing film with anyone local.
Just one of the reason why I love this place.
I ask because I'd love to see this, but I don't see it anywhere in Canadian netflix. And I live in such a repressed community that I'd truly love to see what people are watching.
There are a couple of other movies related to Missouri-ish things on the list ("The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" [Jesse James was shot by said Coward about 50 miles from where I sit] and "Winter's Bone" which takes place in the Ozarks)
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EDIT: That's the instant watch list. The DVD list has a little more variety, but seems to trend more toward the Hollywood action flicks and terrible comedies. Seems my rental of Fugazi's Instrument wasn't enough to inject something of substance into the list
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Colorado is predictable, basically.
This is for Evanston, IL, where I work.
Waukegan, IL, where I live, isn't on the list...
Best Laid Plans
Comanche Moon: Road to Lonesome Dove
The Shadow Riders
The Quick and the Dead
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
Carriers
Pure Country 2: The Gift
Amish Grace
Crossfire Trail
Conagher
... I have never heard of any of those (Except Quick and the Dead), although I can at least gather what #2 is.
Of those I can identify:
#16: Madea's Family Reunion
#17: The Happening (Really, Tyler? REALLY?)
In fact, in the top 25 I don't think there are any I can both identify and also say were worth watching, except Quick and the Dead.
Damn you for making me go look, Elki.
The only redeeming thing is the Sherlock series.
1. Departures [Okuribito]
2. Babe
3. Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
4. Masterpiece Mystery!: Sherlock: Series 1
5. Frost/Nixon
6. Heartbreaker
7. The Sicilian Girl
8. The Station Agent
9. Love Actually
10. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
I am glad I no longer live in Jacksonville.
I've seen 2 3 4 5 6 9 and 10.
Carriers is actually pretty danged good. I saw Wild Hearts Can't be Broken a long time ago but I think it was decent. The rest are just standard westerns. Granted, opinions may vary because I can't stand Quick and the Dead.
Holy shit that is a lot of Madea. So sad how popular those are..
D&D, do I live in "the hood"? [Yes/No]
#1 Raising Helen (that's weird)
#2 Moondance Alexander (I don't even know what this is, some kind of straight to video cheesy family drama looks god awful)
#3 Lego: Hero Factory: Rise of the rookies (how can a movie title have two colons in it? We must love us some legos too)
#4 The Edge (some Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin thriller with them fighting bears, or so the cover leads me to believe)
#5 The Rescuers Down Under (finally something that looks watchable)
#6 My Own Love Song ( has Renee Zellweger and Forest Whitaker, and is described as a tearjerker. I've never heard of it though, maybe limited release? It is a 2010 film)
#7 The Ultimate Gift (looks terrible from the description, a kind of Brewsters Millions style movie, but a drama. Looks like I might have gotten eye cancer just by reading it)
#8 Old Dogs ( Cheesy disney comedy? Has Robin Williams though and Seth Green, and Travolta. They probably couldn't save this though)
#9 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas ( one little Nazi kid plays with the concentration camp kid, pretty much the saddest movie premise ever)
#10 Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story ( some Kurt Russel and Dakota Fanning feel good schlock. Looks like it has horses too)
That's the top 10. Also notable is #23 Charlie St. Cloud. GET IT! Durf! People be dum!
edit: there are better movies further down the list, but the masses really love those feel good schlock movies.
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1.Marriage Counselor
2.The Astronaut Farmer
3.Love Chronicles: Secrets Revealed
4.Madea's Big Happy Family: The Play
5.Blessed & Cursed
6.Kevin Hart: I'm a Grown Little Man
7.Not Easily Broken
8.I Can Do Bad All By Myself
9.Open House
10.Something New
11.Mandingo
12.The Lazarus Project
13.Cover
14.Cleaner
15.Heartless
16.For Colored Girls
17.Finding Forrester
18.Preacher's Kid
19.Running Scared
20.Lottery Ticket
21.The Last House on the Left
22.Stomp the Yard: Homecoming
23.Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring
24.Clue
25.Live Free or Die Hard
Technically I live in a small suburban town next to Memphis, but there wasn't enough information to create a specific list for the place, I imagine though that the list would be a bit different if there was.
1. Exit Through the Gift Shop
2. Rachel Getting Married
3. Restrepo
4. The Good Shepherd
5. Princess Kaiulani
6. The Illusionist
7. The Young Victoria
8. The Wildest Dream
9. Rabbit Hole
10. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Pretty much stuff semi affluent somewhat liberal white people like.
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Maui likes Hawaiian historical movies and surf/ocean movies, totally unsurprising.
1. Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway
2. Kevin Hart: I'm a Grown Little Man
3. Next Day Air
4. The Foot Fist Way
5. AllThe Corner
6. Wings of DesireDer Himmel über Berlin / Les ailes du désir
7. Madea's Big Happy Family: The Play
8. Midsomer Murders: The Black Book
9. Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey
10. Ghost World
11. Planet Hulk
12. Dirty Pretty Things
13. For Colored Girls
14. Ride with the Devil
15. Shopgirl
16. The Madness of King George
17. The Deer Hunter
18. Good Hair
19. Louis C.K.: Hilarious
20. Love Actually
21. All-Star Superman
22. A Single Man
23. The Secret in Their Eyes El Secreto de Sus Ojos
24. AllMasterpiece Classic: Emma
The only things I like off that list are near the bottom, which is depressing. The things I like/have seen off that list:
Deer Hunter
Louis C.K.
A Single Man
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Top Ten for Nashua, NH (which I live outside of):
#1 Raging Bull
#2 Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale
#3 88 Minutes
#4 Pi (Pi: Faith in Chaos)
#5 The Savages
#6 The Fighter
#7 The Secret of Moonacre
#8 Little Fockers
#9 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Pt 1
#10 The Hurt Locker
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Rest of the list is mainly the usual Oscar/Oscar bait stuff. This is DVD, no idea how to even get to Instant.
There is something hilarious about Raging Bull (why that's #1 I have no idea) on a list right next to Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale. I would imagine there would be very little overlap on those two.
Couple of other good ones down the list...
But The Wild and Wonderful Whites is on there... What the..?
That depends entirely on which one.
G-town? C-ville?
Thing not on that list which surprises me: Hustle and Flow
If you know anything about Lynchburg then some of these might not be a surprise. I'm including both the top-20 of the regular "local favorites" as well as what it suggests to me on the front page, because those results are just so...so...wholesome.
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15. Taxi Driver
16. Stranger than Fiction
17. S.W.A.T.: Fire Fight .
18. Takers
19. Charlie Wilson's War
20. The Road
21. Dear John
22. Moon
23. The Bourne Ultimatum
24. Due Date
25. Ip Man 2
1. The Unforeseen
2. Slacker
3. Winnebago Man
4. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
5. Foot Fist Way
6. Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage
7. Days of Heaven
8. Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox
9. Lemmy
10. Lone Star
Yep, Westerns(ish), music, and topped off by environmentalism and pieces about Austin.