Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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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.

same with day of the triffids and probably a bunch of other titles they will never fix

If you eventually report a problem, they'll credit a small amount of money back to you. They've done it every time I'd done it.

There was one movie, I can't remember which one, but every time I would play it, it would reboot my tv. It was bizarre.

Breaking Bad is available on Canadian Netflix now.

WOW. All but the most recent series of Peep Show is available in the US as of today. This is huge! They've still only released series 1 on DVD in the states.

o shit that is amazing

THE NET

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ crucial 4 u life

peep show's been on hulu for a while

peep show WAS on netflix for awhile, did it get pulled?

Re: out of sync stuff, had the same problem with Charade. Very frustrating.

idgi either. But yes, still funny.

If you eventually report a problem, they'll credit a small amount of money back to you. They've done it every time I'd done it.

I never noticed. I've reported several problems, and I go out of my way to do so. Good to know.

WOW. All but the most recent series of /Peep Show/ is available in the US as of today. This is huge! They've still only released series 1 on DVD in the states.

Oh good! I was looking for it last week and it wasn't available.

13 Assassins p. good

peep show is on Hulu Plus.

more importantly, downfall is now on Netflix Instant:

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

"dark days", a doc about a group of homeless people, is up - highly recommend

^^^great movie apapted from the dubious book The Mole People

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_people

A telling sign that this thread is fading?

there's really just too fucking much to watch honestly. I consistently have 3 to 4 hundred things in my queue

Meek's Cutoff is up.

Oh thanks for the heads up. That was at the top of my DVD queue.

has anyone mentioned Manufactured Landscapes yet?

Oooh--I didn't know it was streaming.

Rock-a-Fire Explosion doc

Winnebago Man

Just noticed "Into the Void" was in there. Wish I was able to see this on the big screen before it vanished,

ROCK A FIRE EXPLOSION!!!!!

Sorry, "Enter the Void."

Limitless today. Not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination but I found it entertaining. Feel free to mock me.

manufactured landscapes is dope

winnebago man is not

Rockafire is definitely worth watching, reminded me of King of Kong.

Winnebago Man is a decent profile of an all-American crank, was way overpraised in some quarters.

In the Loop is a terrifically funny "Yes Minister"/"The Office" styled imagining/reenactment of the internal clusterfuck at the U.K. Foreign Ministry and U.S. State Department leading up to the Iraq war.

Er, I meant "The Thick of It" rather than "Yes Minister". Anyway, a gloriously witty, profane, satire which doesn't stray far from the account gleaned from Seymour Hersh et al at the time.

winnebago's main character seemed interesting but the filmmakers didn't show us anything about him we couldn't have learned in 15 minutes... he wasn't a good doc subject, hammed it up and played to the camera for most of the film

that was interesting to me. i could have done w/ less intrusion on behalf of the filmmaker

he was so obv playing the character he thought we wanted to see, there was very little insight into the guy himself

and way too much of ppl talking about how much they like the video

anyone fancy giving us UK lot a quick primer about why this is so good, now that we are coming 'on board' with the whole thing?

B/c you can watch INSTANTLY!

anyone fancy giving us UK lot a quick primer about why this is so good, now that we are coming 'on board' with the whole thing?

It will really depend on how it rolls out. Netflix Canada has a notoriously inferior selection compared to Netflix US, for example. But generally the streaming service is a hodgepodge of the sort of movies that weren't seen by many people (documentaries, indies, some mid-high profile foreign films; but also a lot of terrible straight-to-video garbage) with a few popular major releases tossed in to keep things interesting. There are also a LOT of television shows. Spaced, Sherlock, The Office, Peep Show, Dr. Who, Black Books, IT Crowd, Black Adder, Louie, Arrested Development, 30 Rock, etc. etc.

I don't know how the UK offerings differ from the US, but in the US there are tons of documentaries, indies, and foreign films available to watch instantly. A big plus for me is all of the television shows available -- it's nice to know I can watch Buffy in its entirety whenever I want to without having to blackmail the ilx massive.

Jazz on a Summer's Day is up, documentary of the 58 Newport Jazz Fest, fucking amazing performances, monk, chico hamilton w/dolphy, anita o'day, bucnh of cool shit

that movie IS super rad

yeah i've watched Jazz on a Summer's Day like 12 times.
there should be more movies like that.

It helps that it's fifty years old and packed with truly legendary performers from head to toe

yeah and also i kinda love just watching ppl from the 50s, all the audience and stuff like that

some of it is a bit corny, the "hepcat" house stuff feels p staged but overall stunning