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Netflix Reviews Part 3.

21. The Dead Kennedy's-The Early Years Live
Mix of live footage and random interview type clips. Highlights are tv spots/interviews from Jello's mayoral run. Not mindblowing, and pretty short, under an hour, but worth watching.

22. The Office-Season 2
Starting with the Dundies and ending with Casino Night, pretty untouchable. I don't want to talk about how wrapped up I've gotten in the Pam/Jim thing, and how much that ending killed/thrilled me. The current season (3) has been even more of a rollercoaster. Ah, love.
Oh, and it's fucking hilarious.

23. Surburbia
Not the Linklater one, which rules as well, but in a different way. Skinner is pretty great, and it's pretty much the archtype for any and all punk movies to come. "I hate cops to the max."

24. The Basketball Diaries
I'm probably the only guy my age who didn't see this within the first ten years it came out. The first half of the movie is all "man, being a little bastard is AWESOME!", and the second half is all "man, being a little bastard who gets into herion SUCKS!" Oh, but he became a writer, so it's a-okay. The cliff jumping part just made me wnt to go back to the Rexford Bridge. Really good movie, probably would have had a bigger impact on me if I saw it when I was 15 instead of 25. And by that I mean I would have gotten fucked up and stolen a car, then robbed a soda fountain. ON WEED.

25. The Propostion
Oh, so you think you're bad-ass, huh? You think you can kick ass and take names, huh? WELL NOT IN THE AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK MOTHEFUCKER. BANG! Grittiest movie since....True Grit? I don't know, I'm basing that strictly on the title. But jesus, this movie was so good. Ray Winstone is the fucking man, between this and Mr. French in the Departed, so underrated. John Hillcoat and Nick Cave are working together again, adapting a Cormac McCarthy book, can't remember which one. Suffice to say, it should be awesome.

26. The Wire-Season 1
Pretty much the only serious show I've ever really gotten into. And, because of that, I have nothing to say about that. Essentially it's every other cop/lawyer/crime/political show if all the shitty parts were replaced with pure, undiluted, awesome.

27. Scum
I put this on my queue after somehow mistaking it for this TV show "Made In Britain" where Tim Roth is a crazy teenage skinhead. This is a movie about British reform schools/juvenile detention center type thing. Ray Winstone is really young and still hard as nails as the new kid who comes in and takes over as the "Daddy" or basically the head badass kid. He leads a revolt after one kid kills himself, but it gets put down by THE FUCKING MAN. Meeting the leader of the black kids with the pipe for the fistfight though...ridiculous. Really fucked up/great/fucked up movie.

28. Bukowski- Born Into This
Documentary about Bukowski from childhood until the end of his life. Really well put together with lots of old footage of Buk himself mixed with current interviews of people who knew him ranging from his ex-wife and John Martin to Tom Waits and Sean Penn. I watched this after reading "Charles Bukowski- Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life" by Howard Sounes, which is one of the better Bukowski bio's out there, so it was awesome to see and hear all the people I'd already read about. It's no big secret that I've got a massive hard-on for Bukowski, so maybe I liked this more than the average person would, but if you have even a passing interest in him, it's definitely worth seeing. As a side note, I just saw "Factotum", which was also pretty awesome, despite the fact that Matt Dillon is way too good looking to be Buk. But yeah, check that out too.

29. Sympathy For Mr. Vengance
I can't remember where this falls in the trilogy. I THINK this is first, then Oldboy, then Lady Vengance, but I could be totally wrong. This started out really slow, and I was pretty let down until everything fell in motion and it got awesomely fucked up, just like Oldboy. The end isn't quite as "HOW COULD LIFE EVER EVER GET THIS FUCKED UP AND SHITTY" as Oldboy, but it's close. I can't begin to fathom what it's like living inside Chan-wook Park's head. Probably kind of like a japanese Hubert Selby, but with more murdering. Fuck.

30. Fletch Lives
So for some reason Netflix doesn't carry Fletch. I blame it all on Kevin Smith and his ill-fated plan to remake Fletch that shit the bed a few years ago. Bear with me- it's also near impossible to find Fletch on DVD for less than 20 bucks, and it's the most basic DVD, with no special features, and the shitty cardboard case. The only thing I can figure is that Universal was holding out to release a special edition to coincide with the remake that never happened. And I'm going to blame that for the fact that Fletch is STILL on my "saved" list. I'm pretty steamed about it, to be honest. Fletch Lives is readily availabe in affordable format AND on netflix, so it hasn't been a total wash. Great movie either way. "We call them Klookies."