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   Message 28,166 of 28,343   
   Jack Bohn to Paul S Person   
   Re: Watched in May   
   06 Jun 23 04:41:48   
   
   From: jack.bohn64@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, June 5, 2023 at 12:10:34 PM UTC-4, Paul S Person wrote:   
   > On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 06:39:21 -0700 (PDT), Jack Bohn    
   >  wrote:    
   >    
   > >I don't think I've see that, although I don't know why I didn't go on to it   
   after renting "The Thirteenth Floor" and "World on a Wire."   
      
   > Is the latter what IMDb/Amazon have as /Welt am Draht/, a miniseries?    
      
   Yes!  The Amazon reviews under that title were in German, but when they   
   mention Fassbender, I remembered Fassbender was also mentioned on the disk, or   
   in the online research after watching, apparently being a big thing as a   
   director over there.   
      
   > Fortunately, Amazon also has /World on a Wire/ from Criterion on DVD    
   > and BD. And it has English subtitles. Streams on Criterion (of    
   > course), for $12/mo. This will require some thought. I could buy the    
   > DVD (or even the BD) for not much more.    
      
   Well, five other things to watch on the stream (and oh! what Criterion might   
   have! I'll have to look into it!) gets you down to the old $2 a disk rental   
   model, but does put you on a time crunch of having an average of five days to   
   watch it.   
      
   > /eXistenZ/ is indeed similar, but it is by Cronenberg and that makes a    
   > difference. Also, it's not so much an artificial world as an extremely    
   > immersive RPG. Not at all like the Jumanji "sequels", or even /Free    
   > Guy/, though.   
      
   Will keep it in mind.   
      
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   -Jack   
      
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