Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

dear zachary... jesus fucking christ

like a hallmark card with a springloaded boxing glove inside

Just added that Girl Groups doc and was recommended another "instant only" title--Tom Waits' Big Time.

i disagree and thing the gg doc is largely worthless but ymmv

xp to robyn - omg that was our fave film of all time when me and my best girls were teenagers! and for exactly the same reason! but we loved troy and hated ben stiller's character. then i rewatched it last year for the first time since then and troy completely repulsed me. he's such a douche! like in every way! ugh

It's probably just the free aspect, but, in the way I streamed a bunch of Tony Scott action movies a few months ago, I just really enjoyed Salt.

yeah Salt was surprisingly watchable, my first Jolie flick! Big fan except when she looked like a bloated Ralph Macchio.

dear zachary... jesus fucking christ

like a hallmark card with a springloaded boxing glove inside

OTM – a big boxing glove that makes me cry & yell at the computer.

there was a lot of crying and yelling @ the television when we watched it last night

have gun will travel!

need more old tv westerns thanks.

i'm not a huge samurai/kurosawa fan but most of his stuff is expiring next tuesday, may try to take a stab at 7 samurai/rashomon this weekend.

Have you never seen Seven Samurai? It's a real important movie for me.

I tried once a few years ago, I'll give it another shot.

i tried viewing Rashomon on it the other day but the connection was crazy bad.

<3 <3 <3 Seven Samurai but already have the Criterion collection dvd /braggin

picked up that criterion blu ray a few weeks ago /HDbraggin

I recall really enjoying Yojimbo.

I too enjoyed Yojimbo. I think it's better than 7 Samurai.

Watched "The Parallax View" the other night. Don't know if it's as good as its recent reputation, but it's got good performances, great Gordon Willis cinematography and is weirdly loopy in places. But the "training film" in the movie is as amazing a piece of short filmmaking as I've ever seen.

Suspect Zero - pretty good mindless romp with Kingsley and Aaron Eckhart and the ever-boring Carrie Ann Moss squaring off. Commendable representation of concept of 'remote viewing' psyops - otherwise 'eh ...

Just saw how many Criterion are now missing. Netflix is basically turning into the equivalent of Starz - whu happpennndd?

Criterions are mostly on Hulu now.

Holy cow, that "Parallax View" thing is on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNMi8fXi5Os

i watched jacques audiard 'un prophète' on netflix instant not long ago - very good i thought

i've probably watched about twentyfive Kurosawa films and I think Ikiru and Seven Samurai are tops for me. Rashomon, Sanjuro, Yojimbo, Hidden Fortress, all the genre flicks are great but Seven Samurai was the first ART movie I ever saw to leave a heavy imprint on my mind. I catch it about once every two years.

enjoying this right now. really interesting look inside maximum security prisons in the US.

My Beautiful Launderette, guys. so good.

It's Star Trek day.

letters from iwo jima
paper moon

is 200 motels worth watching

its a complete mess of a movie iirc but has its moments. your mileage will depend on how much you dig Zappa and OTT experimental/psychedelic film effects.

abt what i thought, ty

That new Bill Hicks doc is now streaming.

more like now steaming (pile of crap) amirite

so many columbo episodes are up. leonard nimoy one is great, ruth gordon one is great, and the dick van dyke one is even better

All the tv shows in my queue have gone wonky (watching on roku). can only hit play to watch s1e1, no other episodes show up. anyone else having similar troubles?

Dear Netflix,
Thanks for pulling Louie Season 1 from streaming when I was only 2 eps in. How about putting expire dates on these things? Huh? HUH??
Sincerely Fuck You,
Love Me

http://instantwatcher.com/

I had a jones to watch it and was bummed when it was pulled. Wound up buying it today, so I guess their ploy worked.

they just released Louie on DVD so not surprising that they pulled it

why does instant watch suck so much more than hulu

watched Billion Dollar Brain the other night, pretty stupid but awfully fun. Also just learned that there is a twilight parody streaming, called (wait for it) Taintlight.

watching more older ozon -- Water Drops on Burning Rocks is a pretty fun/dark fassbinder homage (& based on a short story by him); Ludivine Sagnier (same girl from Swimming Pool) is just crazily gorgeous

Watched Night Moves last night. Good stuff. Pros: 70s Hackman in troubled gumshoe, self-aware noir mode ("Who do you think you are, Sam Spade?"), great pacing, slew of great/weird scenes, great dialogue, hyper James Woods as comically suspicious mechanic, and more. Cons: the actual mystery kind of dud, but arguably that's the idea.

Small Town Gay Bar and Before Stonewall both so, so good! And both on instant! WATCH THEM, WATCH THEM NOW!

I watched a fairly good documentary this weekend about Bernie Worrell called Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth. Lots of synth freakouts to enjoy.

R.O.T.O.R.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098156/

Best cheesy movie I've seen in a long time.

patrice o'neal - elephant in the room

so so so so funny. evil funny. don rickles uncomfortable type shit.

Cop Land. This sat on my to-see list for over a decade, finally NFWId it last weekend. Love love LOVED it. Seems like the world was meh about this film? Maybe the ridiculously starry cast was too distracting? This was James Mangold's 2nd film and it has the feel of a big-ass second novel where a young writer just fuckin' GOES FOR IT.

yeah i always really dug that movie. stallone just kills it.

I think general consensus was that there was a lot of scenery chewing. Honestly I can't remember anything about the movie at this point.

Definitely the best James Mangold movie. Ick Identity.

yeah i always really dug that movie. stallone just kills it.

― max, Monday, August 8, 2011 1:49 PM

^^

The 'deaf shootout' climax fucking ruled.