Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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

never saw potc but i dig apocalypto

curious abt tony manero

anyone seen it?

the spy who loved me and for your eyes only are the best of the Roger Moore Bond films available via streaming.

i'm also rather fond of you only live twice.

Tony Manero's was okay IIRC.

DUMPLINGS! is available to watch instantly (this is the Bai Ling eats fetuses to stay young movie.)

Even though it sounds like it should be, it's not a documentary.

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff is currently blowing my mind.

i am really excited to watch that

watched straight time w/ dustin hoffman, theresa russell, gary busey, harry dean stanton etc. maybe not a masterpiece, but the cast is great, some good 70s socal locations. a young kathy bates, which was weird. never seen anything with her pre-Misery, I think and this is at least a decade before that.

That one's worth it alone for the highway scene w/M. Emmet Walsh

yeahhh, that guy! so good in everything. that scene really took me by surprise, the film had been such a low key character study up til that point.
harry dean stanton is amazing in this. theresa russell looking pretty cute, though her interest in hoffman's character is pretty unbelievable.

First 3 seasons of Breaking Bad are up.

Blackmail is My Life! So much fun.

I'm on a Japanese exploitation tear. About to watch STRAY CAT ROCK: SEX HUNTER.

the arbor is worth checkin out imo

So is conans tour dvd streaming on NFX or am going to have to pony up 7.99 to watch it on demand?

watchin cypher, p good loosely futuristic corporate espionage thing.

Tons of Discovery channel stuff today.

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends! Watch them fight Video Man! Watch their dog save them from the clutches of the Chameleon! Revel in the poor animation of 1981!

Mentioned this in the movie's own thread, but Bill Cunningham New York is streaming; good doc.

Barcelona is streaming. Watched it last night for first time in a decade and it's still great and Chris Eigeman is still funny as hell. They may as well stream all Whit Stillman.

I watched most of "Conan the Barbarian" the other day, and the entire time I kept thinking, man, you could never get away with anything this slow and dull today. And then I remembered there was a totally not slow and dull remake that came out, like, mere weeks ago that flopped hard with a vengeance. So basically I revised my thoughts and figured, you know, they probably just shouldn't make "Conan the Barbarian" movies.

I've had Netflix for a week, btw, and boy does it piss me off that the aspect ratios are often wrong. "2001" isn't even in 'Scope! (!?!?!)

didn't much like barcelona back in the day ... the travails of 90s yuppies in Barcelona didn't have much appeal to me then. perhaps i'll watch it again though.

i may check out hank and mike ... potty-mouthed unemployed Canadians in rabbit suits, yo!

Twin Peaks
Carlos: Mini Series
Zardoz
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene

a show that maybe only i like called Wicked Attraction; it's a true crime thing & really heavy & twisted sometimes but theres something abt the budget editing, etc. that lightens it enough that i find it wildly entertaining

Watched Zardoz recently, although not on netflix instant. Supremely bad-good.

Hank & Mike is A+...feels sorta like "It's Always Sunny".

Eisbaer, you're waaaaaaay off. They're 80s yuppies.

i liked Hank and Mike way more than I expected to, its pretty great

sunny, the conan thing is up on netflix now

Adjust Your Color isnt showing up for me which is ;_;

watching sports night, lovin it

Oh, is it on there? That's great.

Hey, season one of Louie is back on, too.

watched this over the weekend
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCHkHffSqS8/TD9VqmRjndI/AAAAAAAABFM/7Y2gmXTn-b4/s1600/KL_BustingCov72.png
ummm, worth it if you like 70s elliot gould (and who doesn't) but not exactly a lost classic.

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adjust your color is gone. it was up only a few weeks ago. my apologies.

great doc, and some excellent chuck brown soundbites to go with it.

sports night is great

The other night I wanted a movie to have on while I did some work in the living room. I picked one called Four Lions, and it turned out to be surprisingly good. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Lions
A group of young Muslim men living in Sheffield have become radicalised and aspire to become suicide bombers; Omar (played by Riz Ahmed), the leading member who is deeply critical of Western society; his dim-witted friend Waj (Kayvan Novak); Barry (Nigel Lindsay), a bad-tempered White convert to Islam, and naive Faisal (Adeel Akhtar), who tries to train crows to be used as bombers.

Sports Night and Two and a Half Men are my most hated television shows of all time.

Four Lions is by Chris Morris of Brass Eye/The Day Today fame.

four lions is great but how can u put sports night on equal footing with two and a half men

Well, it's obviously a far better show in objective ways, but really I would much rather watch Two and a Half Men (either Charlie or Ashton) than Sports Night.

When I was out of town, I got hooked on the Mt. Everest trek reality show...

I think it's called Everest: Beyond The Limit or something.

that is pretty good. think it saw that when it was first on.

trollhunter is a lot of fun

this is not:

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Johnny/70142639?trkid=4375098

Chuck Lorre presents: Four and a Half Lions.

i will also vouch for trollhunter!

Watched Bunny and the Bull last night. It was decent, probably better if you are a fan of The Mighty Boosh, definitely had some humorous moments, but overall I had a tough time making sense of it.

Also watched a David Bowie: Spiders From Mars Interviews, which was horrendous. It was a completely random assortment of very low quality interviews taken from throughout Bowie's career with little rhyme or reason. I ended up skipping through most of the 30 minute long Outside press conference that ended the video.

I really wish there were a better assortment of music films and videos on Watch Instantly. I feel like that isn't too much to hope for.

Betty Blue (aka "37°2 le matin") showed up today... Saw this in an arthouse theater overseas and was pretty crazy. Also it is interminably long.

Haha, what a recommendation!

ummm, worth it if you like 70s elliot gould (and who doesn't) but not exactly a lost classic.

also features an insanely young Michael Lerner! agree it's not a good movie but the whole premise of it is so stupid/ridiculous I lol'd for all the wrong reasons at it ("yeah Elliot, show that runaway junkie prostitute who'e boss! uh... waitaminit")