Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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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")

Somehow my 11th-grade French class went to see that one in the theater. Uncomfortable opening shot.

Hahahaha, wow. Was it NC-17?

Trollhunter was tons of fun.

I think it was "Not Rated."

Betty Blue is long enough. Never felt the need to watch the 45 year long version.

wow, trollhunter was great!

The Bill Cunningham movie was something special.

Death Wish II !!!
One of the greatest soundtracks of all time

adding to the trollhunter praise. good fun.

Found "Athens. GA: Inside/Out." Great mid-80s doc of the Athens music scene.

David Byrne Flick - True Stores, Why have I never heard of this before?

best part in true stories is DB driving the car down the interstate, talking about how they will appear like roman ruins in the future

wait, i lied. this is the best part, especially from 1:20 on.

Best part is the end credits that Tibor Kalman designed.

Best part is the couple walking hand in hand through plowed fields, ending with the girl asking if the boy farted.

Who are we kidding. Its the Spalding Grey dinner table scene.

Anyone seen Born To Win? Also Panic At Needle Park is available. Really good early Al Pacino movie.

if you're nostalgic for baby-boomer nostalgia, The Wonder Years is now up.

'the man from nowhere' - exceptionally entertaining, extremely violent, OTT sentimental korean action thriller that is often pretty moving

Gimme a good horror movie that is on instantview. I wanna get in the witchy spirit.

alice

oh, witchay woman

Hey, Wallace Shawn's The Designated Mourner, with Mike Nichols's only acting gig in decades, is streaming.

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woah been wanting to see that

I watched an anime called "Dead Leaves" the other night. 70% of it was the best, most psychedelic shit ever, and 30% was awful bullshit. But watch it for the good parts.

Been watching Raising Hope. Sort of over the top and ridiculous sitcom but i've really enjoyed it.

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doc i have heard very favorable things about called "Machete Maidens Unleashed!" about 70's/80's exploitation films filmed in the philippines just showed up and i am stoked.

ummmmm.....

should we be concerned?

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"Machete Maidens Unleashed!" btw was pretty so-so. It pretty much ends up just another doc about '70s exploitation, albeit focused on the cheap monster/slasher/women in prison movies made in the Philippines. By the usual suspects (Jack Hill, Roger Corman). With the usual talking heads (John Landis, Joe Dante).

Tried to watch Midnight Cowboy streaming through the Blu-ray and the audio was about 2 seconds out of synch w/ the video and when I tried to report the problem I couldn't b/c the title wouldn't show up in my Recently Viewed list (I had watched 12 minutes of it, which should have been enough). If you look at the reviews you can see that people are reporting the same problem there. And giving low star ratings b/c of it....

Fortunately it worked OK on my computer, but I would really like to see it on a bigger screen.