# What have you rented from Netflix lately? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 25, 2007, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-rented-from-netflix-lately/423950 "2007-10-25T12:37:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-rented-from-netflix-lately/423950/41 "2007-10-28T00:59:12Z")
[QUOTE=Queen Bruin] \*Scarface \*and _Dr. Strangelove_ are on queue for next week. [/QUOTE] Have you ever seen **Scarface**? I hadn’t, and found it terribly disappointing when I finally watched it courtesy of Netflix–horribly dated, with bad sound, bad music, and a protagonist so utterly unlikable that I didn’t particularly care what happened to him. It’s hard to have a tragedy when you don’t care what happens to the tragic (anti-)hero. I’d be curious to hear what someone else coming to it with fresh eyes thinks of it. My last 3: **Witness for the Prosecution** : Loved this. I put it all together about two minutes before the big reveal at the end. **Sunset Boulevard** : Loved this too! “I _am_ big! It’s the _pictures_ that got small.” \*\*Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight! \*\* @ Home: **Ordinary Decent Criminal Mad Max Key Largo** On deck: **The Road Warrior Bullitt The Wire: Season 3, Disc 1 _et seq._** ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-rented-from-netflix-lately/423950/42 "2007-10-28T01:10:16Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur Catta] Have you ever seen **Scarface**? I hadn’t, and found it terribly disappointing when I finally watched it courtesy of Netflix–horribly dated, with bad sound, bad music, and a protagonist so utterly unlikable that I didn’t particularly care what happened to him. It’s hard to have a tragedy when you don’t care what happens to the tragic (anti-)hero. I’d be curious to hear what someone else coming to it with fresh eyes thinks of it. [/QUOTE] No I haven’t seen it - just the pop references to it. While I’m here, _Beowulf and Grendel_ was the worst movie I’ve ever seen, and I just watched _Manos_. At least \*Manos \*had a good excuse for sucking ($16,000 budget). \*B and G \*was just…terrible. But it’s clear they had the resources to make it awesome. They had all the money to make a sweet epic and they used the money instead to rape one of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-rented-from-netflix-lately/423950/43 "2007-10-28T01:20:16Z")
Just finished the very last DVD of the final season of Danger Mouse. The MST3K version of The Killer Shrews just arrived. Since I only had cable with MST3K late in its run, I’m working my way through them in no particular order. Next up is Volume 4 of Danger Man/Secret Agent. We finished the half hour shows and are working on the hour ones. I watched as a kid, and they’re even better than I remembered. Next is His Girl Friday, and then Rocky and Bullwinkle Season 3, vol. 1. I own seasons 1 and 2. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-rented-from-netflix-lately/423950/44 "2007-10-28T01:49:35Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur Catta] Have you ever seen **Scarface**? I hadn’t, and found it terribly disappointing when I finally watched it courtesy of Netflix–horribly dated, with bad sound, bad music, and a protagonist so utterly unlikable that I didn’t particularly care what happened to him. [/QUOTE] Are you talking about the 1932 version with Paul Muni? I’ve seen the 1983 version with Al Pacino, and there was nothing wrong with the 4-track stereo sound. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-rented-from-netflix-lately/423950/45 "2007-10-28T02:01:52Z")
I’m actually running low on things, and with the fall season, just don’t have much time. I’ve got the new Spider Man movie & Day Watch due to ship on Monday. Besides that, I’ve decided to work my way through Odyssey 5 & Space 1999, which I never got to see the first times through. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-rented-from-netflix-lately/423950/46 "2007-10-28T07:30:13Z")
I loved “Scarface”! But then, I love cheesy disco music you can dance to. And I love Al Pacino. So I was actually more impressed than I thought I’d be. I know, the accent is bad. He chews scenery. They do coke. It’s painfully 80s, from the music to the decor. But I dig all things Pacino, and that’s why “Scarface” is one of my favorite movies, and why I advocate that any big fan of him see it. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-rented-from-netflix-lately/423950/47 "2007-10-28T14:47:19Z")
[QUOTE=Walloon] Are you talking about the 1932 version with Paul Muni? I’ve seen the 1983 version with Al Pacino, and there was nothing wrong with the 4-track stereo sound. [/QUOTE] I think it may be more a matter of “bad in perspective” rather than “bad in context.” The gunshots–of which there are several, y’know?–sounded weak and tinny, in particular. The whole thing reminded me of an 80s made-for-TV, or an episode of Columbo, in its production values. That may be the result of a less than stellar DVD transfer (a google search turned up a few other folks complaining), or it may’ve just been the way it was and I came to it with unfairly high expectations. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-rented-from-netflix-lately/423950.md?page=2)