Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

"yeah iirc it was one of the big offenders in the "grab a bunch of scorsese regulars and a serious mood and your hack-y crime movie can also be a masterpiece" mid-to-late '90s thing."

We should have a poll!

So there was this, Sleepers, and...

It was anything with someone who had been in a tarantino or scorsese film plus have some blood on the poster

or a gun

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Featuring Tim Roth as a RUSSIAN!

This one's awful:
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Tarantino rip-offs are a whole different breed than Scorsese rip-offs though.

was gonna say. that's unleashing a whole new world of pain. we should stick to the Donnie Brasco's.

well there was a certain venn diagram thing happening between the two camps

What about De Palma rip-offs?

Well Tarantino was ripping off Scorsese to some extent so some intersection makes sense.

he was also ripping of de palma! may the circle be unbroken.

They Planned The Perfect Crime...Until It All Went Perfectly Wrong!

Intense!

thats like the best worst tagline ever

It's a film by Kevin Spacey.

are people still making these kinds of movies? they seemed to stop dead around 2000.

i guess the massive success of, and critical acclaim for, the boondock saints kinda shamed anyone else from even trying.

btw the documentary on the boondock saints guy, overnight, isn't on WI anymore, but i recommend it anyway. incredibly pathetic but hilarious viewing. and a pretty good, if slanted and silly and kinda sad, look at the shift miramax had made between pulp fiction and the matrix.

ah crap that was on my queue and i never got to it

For a horrible recent Scorsese ripoff look no further than "Kill The Irishman"...the WORST. Seriously, every 20 minutes = slow motion montage of beating people with bats set to random 70's AM radio track.

sounds like Pixar is finally out of ideas

For a horrible recent Scorsese ripoff look no further than "Kill The Irishman"...the WORST. Seriously, every 20 minutes = slow motion montage of beating people with bats set to random 70's AM radio track.

Former coworker who LOVE Boondock Saints excitedly came up to me to say that he wandered into an art cinema and saw this and thought it was the BEST film he had seen in YEARS.

i find people who love boondock saints to be v v untrustworthy wrt to movies in general

haha my deeply irish-identifying extended family LOVES the boondock saints w/o any sense that is in fact a terrible, campy movie. i wonder if they've seen this.

Someone should poll all of those shitty 90's ponytail thrillers like Killing Zoe and Things to do in Denver When You're Dead.

Cannot believe u guys are stanning for Cop Land, it is surely one of the worst movies I have ever seen

so you haven't seen armageddon yet

oh wait, i read that wrong.. one of the worst, not the worst

actually i just remembered that i saw this movie from 2009 not too long ago on cable, and it was like the terrible mid '90s crime/lowlife movie reborn, right down to the labored "clever" dialogue and wacky cast of oddballs. even though i don't really like boardwalk empire, i kinda hope buscemi never has to make another movie like this ever again.

the vector-graphics poster and cast are very 00s. but otherwise, wow.

Box Office
Budget: $3,800,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: $21,666 (USA) (31 January 2010) (2 Screens)
Gross: $102,645 (USA)

the appeal of boondock saints also escapes me. i'll rep for cop land, though.

ok boondock saints added to queue, u guys twisted my arm

also added: don't torture a duckling

the appeal of Boondock Saints is gritty bad ass dudes gettin' fuckin violent and being awesome and shit

in slow motion with catholic guilt

amon if you go into boondock saints expecting mostly unintentional lols, it's very entertaining

if you go into it expecting a GRITTY CRIME EPIC after a lot of nudniks have talked it up to you over the years, it's 0_o

also if you watch that overnight doc on boondock auteur troy duffy, you'll understand why harvey w was rethinking his "throw money at anything with lowlifes and guns" approach by 1999.

I will admit I caught Copland because of this thread (and also adamrl is seldom relevant on film threads).

While I am partly drawn to the slow reveal (SPOILERS: Superboy doesn't jump, guys Superboy shot didn't have a gun but a club, circumstances on how Freddy lost his hearing saved that woman's life, etc.), it was pretty flat and predictable in the 2nd half. The whole Ray Liotta arc ended up pretty awful (the arson/insurance scam, the bomb squad connection, capt. save a deafman). Stallone was surprisingly OUT OF CHARACTER (and pretty good as the bumbling towny sheriff!) until he turned into Deaf Rambo at the end there. And zero laugh ops for Janeane was pretty wasteful.

It was no Yakuza Papers.

Steve Shasta is seldom relevant

He's no Yakuza Papers.

Also this isn't a "film" thread, it's a streaming video thread

haaaa

Oh pardon me, Mr. Elderflower Gimcrax Flores.

Ms. Elderflower if you're nasty

Oh shit Winter's Bone! I know what I'm watching tonight.

hobo w/a shotgun ruled obv

The Hired Hand

Cold Weather is on Instant. I recommend it.

13 Assassins is up - really good movie although the final battle scene kinda wore me out.