Merrigan Able's comments

The Cat Came Back (1988)
LaserGuy 7 points 3 years ago.

Ahhh great, this.. Along with ‘The Big Snit’, Log Drivers Waltz, and Black Fly are some of the BEST NFB shorts.

Merrigan Able 1 points 3 years ago.

‘The Apprentice’ is hilarious ~ boing… It was my fave short, back in the Super Channel era.

Percy Vs Goliath (2021)
JadeEnigma 5 points 3 years ago.

It’s definitely on my watch list. The documentary about this story (I’m sure it’s here somewhere if some kind-hearted soul will look it up for me because I’m a lazy-a**) is really something as well.

Merrigan Able 3 points 3 years ago.

Yeah, the doc was great “David vs Monsanto”. Percy is dead now, he died in 2020.

Percy Vs Goliath (2021)
Merrigan Able 3 points 3 years ago.

This looks worth watching. Walken portrays Percy Schmeiser vs Monsanto. With an internet release date of April 30 (so sayeth IMDB).

The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash (2019)
WLK-MaStRKiLL3r 5 points 3 years ago.

Surperb doc! Johnny was a legend!

Merrigan Able 2 points 3 years ago.

Yes, this does look good. I’ve seen a lot of docs on Johnny, but not this one.

Leonardo (2021) S1 E1
becishere 0 points 3 years ago.

thanks so much for writing on this. i had no idea about it, and i love shows like this.

Merrigan Able 1 points 3 years ago.

😀 np, I was just happy to see links, and in english…

Leonardo (2021) S1 E1
Merrigan Able 0 points 3 years ago.

Woohoo! Good links are here, thank you uploaders!

Border (2018)
Merrigan Able 1 points 3 years ago.

What a dark and extraordinary film this was. One of the best of 2018, if not THE best… A strange and marvelous work of art, from Iranian-Swedish director Ali Abbasi. Highly recommend it!💯

Frailty (2002)
Merrigan Able 1 points 3 years ago.

One of my faves… Paxton’s always so smarmy, but in this it wasn’t unpleasant. Of course, it also stars McConaughey and that debbel Boothe. The best kind of thriller, *cool n creepy.

Killer Joe (2012)
Merrigan Able 0 points 3 years ago.

McConaughey is so nasty in this, he was brilliant, so is this film…

Never Grow Old (2019)
Merrigan Able 0 points 3 years ago.

This got badly low-balled on IMDB, so fck that sht. This is a great little film! I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Light of My Life (2019)
Merrigan Able 1 points 3 years ago*.

Man, this film was gorgeous. Even though it (almost) rips off the similar plot of ‘The Road’, I loved it…

A Ghost Story (2017)
Valkyrie -3 points 4 years ago.

slow and boring, 27min in and i cant stand it anymore, this is insanely stupid, its litterally a man whith a sheet over his head with holes cut out. then you watch his wife eat for 10 min while he just looks at her. i usually play movies while i study, but this isnt even good enough for that. 1/5

Merrigan Able 1 points 3 years ago.

LOL, I love your review, very humorous, Gave me a chuckle. So this film was another ‘flight’ of the Valkyrie, for you. heh heh 😀

A Ghost Story (2017)
SparklyB 4 points 3 years ago.

Sad and beautiful.

Merrigan Able 1 points 3 years ago.

I thought so too. 5/5 ⭐.

The World to Come (2021)
Merrigan Able 0 points 3 years ago.

This was a really effink good flick! Another ‘under the radar’ gold nugget? Probably…sigh.
Anyways, I’m becoming seriously impressed with Casey Affleck. He’s come a long way from his (flakey turd) role in, ‘Good Will Hunting’. His film role choices are building a portfolio of very fine work. I think I must love him now, yes…

A similar thing happened with Bruce Willis, after he was ‘Butch’. Before ‘Pulp Fiction’, he was kinda lame IMO. But Bruce lately wtf. Hmmm, could he be having financial difficulty? One wonders…

Dracula Untold (2014)
Merrigan Able 1 points 3 years ago.

Another fantastic ‘Dracula’ pic! It almost pushes Coppola’s (Gary Oldman/Dracula) out of it’s top spot, almost…😎

Bill Burr: Paper Tiger (TV Special 2019) (2019)
ac1d 2 points 3 years ago.

had no idea who this guy was but in under 3 min i have tears running down my face from laughter -gunna watch all of his i can find

Merrigan Able 2 points 3 years ago.

💯 LOL! Another hilarious ‘Bill’… I love the banter between Burr and Joe Rogan, and his appearances on Conan O’Brien. Bill also had a part in Breaking Bad, and the (current) Mandalorian. He created ‘F is for Family’. You should check out his YT podcast.
I recommend watching all of his ‘stand-up’. Burr is one of a few ~ truly funny ~ comedians.

Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Merrigan Able 3 points 3 years ago.

💯IMO, this is the best vampire film, made so far. It has everything that makes vampires ‘cool’. Jim nailed it, he knew what he was doing, and he cast the right (top notch) actors.
I’m with gypsy soul, I love this film too, and will watch it again and again…

Willa (2013)
Merrigan Able 1 points 3 years ago.

Thank you uploader! 😊

Heavy Metal 2000 (2000)
Merrigan Able 1 points 3 years ago.

Julie Strain was only 58 when she died, this past January. She had been in the later stages of dementia, before her death. How awful… :(

Heavy Metal (1981)
Merrigan Able 1 points 3 years ago.

First saw this when I was a kid in summer of 81. We snuck in to the drive-in to see it (R rating and we had no car). Still my (all time) favourite animation.

Hemingway (2021)
Merrigan Able 2 points 3 years ago.

Thank you contributors for the variety in host links! Been waiting for this series.

Reign of Fire (2002)
Merrigan Able 5 points 3 years ago.

💯The dragons in this are fantastic… (IMO) I think this film’s depiction is the best example of what dragons (wyverns?) are supposed to be like. I love everything about this movie, the cast, plot, premise… My favourite dragon flick.🐲

True Detective (2014)
expresso 1 points 3 years ago.

Go back for Season 3

Merrigan Able 0 points 3 years ago.

Ya reckon? Okay, so skip Season 2 completely? And carry on to 3…

The Mandalorian (2019)
Merrigan Able 1 points 3 years ago.

My Bro is a huge star wars geek, and he asked me to watch this with him. And after seeing the fantastic cast list ~ I had to agree. I mean, it even has ‘Wuhnuh’ in it! Wtf Herzog?!
We were both thoroughly entertained. Yodababy stol dis one…💖

Six Feet Under (2001)
Merrigan Able 4 points 3 years ago.

💯! This is the first series, in a long long while, that made me change my (at the time) bad attitude about stuff on the ‘tube’. And now that it’s here, you can binge watch it, commercial free…

Ozark (2017)
Merrigan Able 5 points 3 years ago.

💯! I love Jason Bateman and I love Laura Linney, and I love this series! Just patiently waiting for more…

Our Friend (2021)
Merrigan Able 1 points 3 years ago.

💯! Full stop, this is a beautiful film… It is based on the Esquire article, “The Friend”, by Matthew Teague. You can google-search to find the article online, but watch the film first!
Another best of 2021…

I Care a Lot (2021)
Merrigan Able 0 points 3 years ago.

💯! Just when I thought “they’re never gonna make anything great again”, I come across this wicked little piece of work… And, it stars three of my favourite working actors ~ Peter, Rosamund and Dianne! One of the best, so far, of 2021…

Game of Thrones (2011)
Merrigan Able 0 points 3 years ago.

💯! Okay, I admit that my initial interest in this HBO epic was the ‘dragons’!
“There be dragons here…” Of course, once I was balls deep into it, I had much respect and gratitude for the excellence in story/plot, cast/character development, and the spectacular filming locations.
I’ve never read the books that this series is adapted from, and even after watching this HBO rendition, I have no desire to…
It seems to me, that George Martin ran out of steam, in his authoring further books, once HBO got a hold of the story… ka ching $ ka ching $
The series soon caught up to, and surpassed, where George was ~ with his published GOT saga…
Nevertheless, although I was ‘wtf’ waiting to see the dragons, after every ep, the journey was a grand one. I would chant, “we need more cowbell”, I mean dragons!

Gwendoline Christie and Peter Dinklage were my favourites. Their character portrayals really stood out. Hopefully we’ll see much more of these two in future projects…

Better Call Saul (2015)
Merrigan Able 2 points 3 years ago.

💯! Another masterpiece created by Vince Gilligan. A spin-off prequel to his “Breaking Bad”. It tells the story of how ‘slippin’ Jimmy NcGill, becomes Saul Goodman…Binge worthy, indeed!

Breaking Bad (2008)
Merrigan Able 3 points 3 years ago*.

💯! My personal opinion ~ THE BEST TV series off all time…It is my base, ‘high bar’ standard, that every genre (old and new) TV, will be measured by…
If you’ve not seen this yet, YOU MUST!
And happily, for those folks that are gonna see it here, you can binge watch it ‘commercial free’ ~ enjoy biotches! 😈😊

True Detective (2014)
guerito 4 points 3 years ago.

Season 1 is the only True Deeq

Merrigan Able 3 points 3 years ago.

I agree… After watching the first few eps of the second season, I realized the first season was a ‘one-off’. Season 1 stands alone as the only “True Detective” I needed to see…
(First season) The chemistry between McConaughey’s and Harrelson’s characters was a joy to watch!

At the Drive-in (2017)
Merrigan Able 7 points 3 years ago*.

This is a fantastic documentary… I highly recommend it!

How many people were first conceived in the backseat of their parent’s car, while they were parked at some drive-in movie date?
Designed for the suburbs of the 1950s, many people missed the golden age of the drive-in, as most shutdown by the 1980s… But the drive-in theater found a new role in the summer of 2020, as a covid safe site for collective entertainment.
With most live events on pause, the drive-in movie theater became covid summer’s go-to venue…
For most people, there’s something heartwarming and affirming about seeing other humans who are all there for one thing, because they want to be entertained…

Will the lingering pandemic spur a drive-in rebirth? 😊

The War Zone (1999)
Merrigan Able 3 points 3 years ago.

This is an extremely intense film…let’s call it a ‘black’ hidden gem. Probably not for most people’s taste, certainly not mainstream…but, it’s a great piece of work.
A directorial debut for Tim Roth, with stellar cast Tilda Swinton and Ray Winstone.
Brutally brilliant…

The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986)
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Merrigan Able 2 points 3 years ago.

There are new links with English dialogue subtitles (for Neanderthal parts only). For streaming, the streamtape and dood.watch links have selectable subs in their player settings. For downloading, only the dood.watch link keeps the subs. I tried to add a mixdrop link for this version, but the mixdrop slots are already maxed out with the Swedish subs version.

Lolly-Madonna XXX (1974)
Merrigan Able 4 points 3 years ago.

One of my all time faves! I first saw this on the late night telly when I was a kid. It’s one of those films, seen in childhood, that you never forget.
It was never released on VHS…
For years I tried to find a bootleg copy online. It was the driving force that lead me into the world of private torrent trackers, where I was able to find a digital copy from a VHS TVRip. Man was I chuffed ‘my precious’! The quality wasn’t bad either, totally watchable. I was so happy…
Then finally, (in 2014?) the DVD was released by the Warner Archive Collection… YAY!

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Merrigan Able 4 points 3 years ago.

Have no problem watching this trilogy again and again. Saw them all when they first hit the big screen at the Vue Cinema North Finchley, London… 💯👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

A History of Violence (2005)
Merrigan Able 1 points 3 years ago.

Second only to Cronenberg’s other brilliant film with Viggo (Eastern Promises)!💯👍

The Road (2009)
Merrigan Able 0 points 3 years ago.

Bleak and Brilliant, loved it! 💯👍

Captain Fantastic (2016)
Merrigan Able 3 points 3 years ago.

💯👍

Falling (2021)
Merrigan Able 0 points 3 years ago.

Very well done, and it’s Viggo’s first film as director and writer! 💯👍

Eastern Promises (2007)
Merrigan Able 1 points 3 years ago.

Fantastic, love it! 💯👍

Flesh+Blood (1985)
Merrigan Able 2 points 3 years ago.

One of my faves, love it! 💯👍

Scandal (1989)
Merrigan Able 3 points 3 years ago.

Excellent film, love it! 💯👍

Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History (2018) S1 E1
Merrigan Able 1 points 3 years ago.

OMG the evil popes! LOL 😲😈

Honest Thief (2020)
Merrigan Able 1 points 3 years ago.

Another with Liam, I’ll give it a go!

Wild Man Blues (1998)
Always at The Carlyle (2019)
Merrigan Able 2 points 3 years ago.

Very interesting doc! Thank you.

Oprah with Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetime Special (TV Special 2021) (2021)
Merrigan Able 2 points 3 years ago.

Was waiting for this! Yay you beat RARBG!