White God

[Drunk Monk]

I watched White God on Netflix, an odd Hungarian film that premiered at Cannes last year to good reviews. The story: Lili loves Hagen. Hagen loves Lili. But they are separated. Lili looks for Hagen. Hagen gets captured and brainwashed to become an underground fighter by a brutal coach who drugs him, tortures him, and even sharpens his teeth with a grinder. Hagen escapes to get caught by the government and is scheduled for execution, but Hagen leads a rebellion, freeing 250 of his cellmates, and reigning terror and revenge on his former oppressors. Oh, and Hagen is a dog. That's actually the coolest part of the film, which is mostly predictable. Hagen is played by two dogs, Bode and Luke, and they are better actors than most humans. The dog scenes are amazing. They won this years' Palm Dog award, a special award for dogs there that has been going at Cannes since 2001. I wouldn't really recommend this film, not unless you are super into dog films.

[cranefly]

Currently checked out, and with 5 holds.
Not certain I'll pursue it. Then again, man, am I starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel in the library racks.

Might sign up to Netflix. Anyone else doing that? Even considering the DVD-by-mail option from Netflix.

Mostly want movies -- and mostly foreign ones.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

I don't know how long I have had Netflix. Since it started maybe. I also have the streaming.

Some months it is good. Some months I just have to shake my head at how few films they haveI want to see.

[Drunk Monk]

It's cheap and there's a ton of stuff to watch, but mostly I wind up surfing and queuing things that I'll never watch. It's not great for foreign although Netflix works with WellGoUSA so a lot of the bigger Chinese and Korean titles come out. It's Bollywood is mediocre but seems to be improving (iTunes is best for Bollywood now). Hulu+ is much better for vintage foreign because they have the Criterion Collection of which I've barely scratched the surface.