Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

Watched it yesterday. It was good fun. Also watched Rubber and, er, no.

looks like a bunch of new stuff just popped up? not sure when this was added but it was as good as i'd heard.

Jan Svankmajer: The Ossuary and Other Tales(The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer: The Ossuary and Other Tales)

the ossuary has been on instant for a while now. i know, i've had it in my instant queue for a very long time.

witch hunt, about the kern county child abuse cases of the 80s, is pretty good - pretty devastating to see more than a decade of these people's lives taken from them, and amazing to see how not-bitter they are about it.

Notting Hill kept coming up as a recommendation - like my watching Remains of the Day and some old Jane Austen movies is somehow related to this film?? bleh - and so i watched 20 minutes of it this morning - so bad! i remember it being bad but not THIS BAD. also weird how *everyone else* in the film is way more interesting than the two main characters.

(in instant watch obv)

Poetry is up, which I hope to watch later this week.

a whole shit-ton of old Paul Morrissey (read: Andy Warhol) films are set to expire on 9/1/11. so if yer curious about stuff like trash, heat, blood for dracula and flesh for frankenstein and/or you have a thing for joe dallesandro or udo kier, now's the time to check 'em out.

Murder Loves Killers Too is up for bleak horror fans

criterion movie i'd never heard of: "the hit" with old terrence stamp, middle-aged john hurt and young tim roth

Roy Orbison: Black & White Night is a good one-hour concert. All-star band: Waits on organ, Springsteen et al.

whoa

Apocalypto!

I've been thinking I needed to RESCREEN this one again. (NB: I didn't mind The Passion, thought it was way better than the critical pannings).

Also need James Bond recommendations.

OHMSS