Young @ Heart (2007)

[A Boy Named Seo]

Young @ Heart is documentary about a group of seniors in Massachusetts who play covers of contemporary songs like you never heard 'em before.

They rock your socks off and jerk tears from your eyes all at once.

Cool flick.

[metirish]

Queued it ....looks good.


Anyone else here have Netflix , Seo and I give each other recommendations , kind of cool actually. you add friends through email.

Edited October 11, 2008 by Guest

[A Boy Named Seo]

Yeah, I'm stoopid about movies, so it's been good makin' movie pals. A little embarrassing when I queue up stupid shit, but my friends won't judge me, right?

Right?

[Guest AG/DC]

Can you post the URL to your little community?

[A Boy Named Seo]

It's not so much a community like here, but you can add contacts on the "Friends & Community" tab in Netflix after you login.

Directly under the tab is a link to "Invite Friends". You plug-in their email address and after they accept, they appear under your "Friends and Favs". There you can see what they've watched, what they've queued, what they've rated, and using the "Notebook" feature, you can send recommendations and correspond through the site about movies. It's pretty cool. You even have Baseball-Reference style sim scores with your friends.

I think there's privacy features where you can keep peeps from seeing the stuff you watch, but I've not messed with it.

[Guest AG/DC]

Yeah, under "connnect now," it gave me the option of plugging in friends' emails or pasting a URL here on into an e-mail.

Mine is http://www.netflix.com/BeMyFriend/P7iYZ0FnWAkt7u9NovlF . But I figured yours was established.

Edited October 11, 2008 by Guest

[A Boy Named Seo]

Oh, I gotcha.

Mine's this:

http://www.netflix.com/BeMyFriend/PaK9HRgkbgJBK2aQDT61

Edgy, there's a period at the end of your link that's muckin' things up.

I always have to logout and log back in before I can see new buddies. Not sure if that's the deal for everyone else.

[metirish]

I clicked the link and got this - Error verifying the customer. Did you copy the URL correctly?


I can be added here

http://www.netflix.com/BeMyFriend/P8ot3TDdgolHMvblvRJ5

Edited October 12, 2008 by Guest

[metirish]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Yeah, I'm stoopid about movies, so it's been good makin' movie pals. A little embarrassing when I queue up stupid shit, but my friends won't judge me, right? Right?

I'm saying nothing about "P.S. I love you"

[A Boy Named Seo]

Yeah, that gay thing's not in my queue.

*cough cough*

At least you can blame it on your lady. I got nuthin'.

Edit: Oh, I thought you were gonna watch that, too. I'm the only dork here apparently.

[Edgy MD]

I'm not so down with this. You meet some wonderful folks, and you appreciate that they have this meaning at the end of their lives. But I feel, at some level, they're being exploited. The choir director kind of rubs me bad. His tan looks fake and his attitude seems self-serving.

He's sort of doing the opposite of Dewey Finn --- instead of raiding a middle school to find a band to back him in order to sustain his waning musical aspirations, he's raided a senior center.

I don't want to resent him too much, because none of the seniors seem to.

The videos appear to have been shot a coupla years before and they change the tone of it all to burlesque.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I get that.

Sometimes the audience laughter made it seem like a joke at first, but I think their laughter was kinda joyful, too. Seeing old people sing Sonic Youth is funny, but it also seemed to make everyone feel good - the singers, the audience, and the director. That guy does have his faults, for sure, but he no doubt genuinely cares about the members of the choir.

It made me feel good, so I liked it.

[Edgy MD]

Parts of it made me want smack that guy. And I could live without seeing the music videos ever again.

On the other hand, I didn't know a Coldplay song could break my heart. And I thank them for that.