Since I installed the Xbox Media Center I started downloading movies from the web again. I stopped downloading movies along time ago because it was a pain watching them on my computer. Now with the Xbox Media Center I stream all the movies onto my TV in the living room. I downloaded 7 movies this weekend, Sin City, The Jacket, Monthy Python and the Holy Grail, The Ring Two, Napoleon Dynamite and Anchorman. I only managed to watch 3 movies though.
Sin City turned out to be great. I had totally forgotten how the actual comics were made up of short stories so I was glad to see this got transferred into the movies. Mickey Rourke was the best thing about the movie, I am glad his career is back on track now.
The Jacket was so so. My brother thought it was an amazing movie so I was expecting it to be so, but I found it un-eventual and slow. They could have done so much more with this movie. Adrien Brody is a good actor though, I like him.
Napoleon Dynamite was hilarious. I have never seen such sad looking characters in my whole life, they are the most incredibly dorky and geeky people you could ever meet, and they fucking kicked ass. Pedro is like the man!
Tonight I am probably going to watch Anchorman. I am also downloading the A-Team season 1, hopefully that will turn out to be as good as I remember it.
Overall the quality of the movies were really good, like DVD quality and all were actually DVD rips not in movie recordings. The only downside is that from all the movies I downloaded non of them have Dolby Digital so I am stuck watching all the movies in Stereo mode only.
13 replies on “Movie Bonanza”
Mark, where do you get your movies from? I started using Morpheus (which connects to NeoNet, Gnutella networks) but the d/l rates are pathetic.
I tried torrents but can’t seem to get a get good d/l speed with that either.
(Not that I’m ever going to watch illegally downloaded movies. This is just for educational reasons so that I know what *not* to do =)
well i use torrents. i had some bad downloading issues also but then tivo-guy told me i needed to forward the torrent ports on my router to my mac and then i started downloading at around 50kb. i got my movies from https://www.mininova.org/
i download 3 movies at a time and if i start in the morning they are done by evening.
also make sure the movies are “DVDrips” and that the file size is over 1GB. that way you get really decent video quality.
Yeah Rourke, does not die at all!
Sincity was just amazing..one of the best movies i’ve gotten to watch lately.
Sin City is brilliant! Monty Python is an absolute classic, but for some reason it does not register as one in female minds!
yeah u noticed that, for some reason woman can’t find it funny!
i just got band of brothers and A-team DVD from the usa
man i’ve had that setup forever, the XMC smb etc streaming. it’s awesome, the xbox is probably the best console EVER made, bc i can play most of my pc media on it and also most of the old console games via emulation. i think i have every single fucking NES/SNES/mega drive game ever made and a few duplicates from different regions, i also have N64/mega cd/GBA/PS1/MAME/Neo Geo etc. it’s insane the amount of shit that can be done with a modded xbox and a 120 gig HD.
i like napoleon dynamite, i have it on dvd, very funy movie,
pedro is !!???
??!?!?! PEDRO! he’s napoleons best friend. Vote for Pedro!
i know pedro and i like him but i mean i dont have word to decribe how funny he is
so
vote for pedro
that coolest thing about napoleon TNT was his nerdy jungle-fever bro. The rest of the film was just trying too hard to be alt. and just ended up being complete shite.
i about fell asleep with a big :rolleyes: around when napolean was dancing around on stage for pedro’s campaign.
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