Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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

chuck is dope in it iirc

NETFLIX

"wretches and jabberers" - two men with severe autism, who work travel around educating people on autism.

"loving lampposts" - a brief sort of overview of how autism should be looked at as a different way of experiencing the world, rather than a disease or disorder.

The UK selection looks really limited in comparison to LoveFilm and hugely inferior, in terms of quality, to Mubi. The TV shows look like the best reason to stick with it for the moment.

Just watched Black Power Mixtape. Quite good.

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

really want to see this^^

i would like to recommend the tv show damages.

w/glenn close + rose byrne + tate donovan.

now that's a man who acts with his CHEEKBONES.

much love

Hmmm anybody know why that South Park doc "6 Days To Air" is mysteriously removed?

Ne Change Rein (Change Nothing) is streaming now. Been waiting awhile to see it.

Eames: The Architect and the Painter is wicked awesome. Must see for any designers of any kind.

Beginning the Vampire Diaries in 3..2...1...

Claire Denis' 35 Shots of Rum
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do they remove films intermittently? this isn't showing for me

They do. It went down at some point in the last few months I guess. Usually they come back at some point, but who knows what the rights issues are for each film.

Less than a week before North is gone forever (as well as other Starz properties, but the important thing is North).

The 1994 Elijah wood movie?

Or Norwegian North, ie "Nord"...because THAT is A+ viewing if it's that one

They added the 2004 Punisher and it's pretty cool

Blank City, the early '80s nyc doc

Death race 2000!

Watching it as we speak!

The 1994 Elijah wood movie?

Yup. Not out on DVD, and imo the worst big-budget movie ever. Ebert's too, probably.

OMG, this new Netflix original show Lilyhammer has a racist Norwegian cop named Geir who apparently does some kind of Elvis impersonator act under the name Geir Elvis! The show is not great but I had to come here to post that.

Just watched Battle Beyond the Stars, the Roger Corman ripoff of Star Wars / Seven Samurai. It was really slow but I still enjoyed it. John Sayles wrote the script!

Ooh. Absolutely loved Battle Beyond the Stars as a youngun. Would stay up late to catch it on HBO. Even made my own "book" about it wherein I illustrated the major scenes from memory and wrote out the basic plot and bound up the whole thing with yarn. I was about 6.

Just spent the last three days watching the docs "Not Quite Hollywood" and "American Grindhouse"; both good, both could've been 20 minutes longer; and Tobe Hooper's "Eaten Alive," which I had never seen and now wish I hadn't.