Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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not quite hollywood is the best, everyone should see it

^^^

Also, "Eaten Alive" is absolutely terrible, and the first of several validations that Tobe Hooper did not direct "Poltergeist." It's just piss-poor.

this one? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0996966/

The story of "Ozploitation" movies - a time when Australian cinema showed an explosion of sex, violence, horror and action. Includes anecdotes, lessons in maverick filmmaking and a genuine love of Australian movies. It moves through Aussie genre cinema of the 70s and early 80s

looks p awesome

I'm with jjj - that documentary was great.

I got to see "Patrick" for the first time not long ago: took me a while to get used to the slooooow pacing but it was pretty lol, I enjoyed it.

I remember seeing Patrick back on Cinemax when I was like 11 and being all o_O.

The thing that kills me about Eaten Alive (and Hooper generally) is that, while it isn't Welles or Kurosawa or anything, TCM is very competently staged and directed, with clever shot selection and camera placement and action. (Salem's Lot was decently done, too.) Eaten Alive is barely Herschel Gordon Lewis level competent. The lighting, the sets, the inexplicable acting choices, the stultifying master-shot-reverse shot choices . . . everything about it is strictly amateur hour.

ELITE SQUAD (the second one) is now on NF. Presume the original will be soon?

Not Quite Hollywood was fascinating. I never realized that there was this whole history of a kind of homegrown Australian camp sensibility. I actually stupidly thought that was some kind of unique Baz Luhrmann thing.

My Dad loved the Stork, Bazza McKenzie, Alvin Purple stuff. Boobs and beer, lol. And Mum and Dad were into Number 96, they talked about it all the time later on...pretty raunchy for Oz tv then.

not quite hollywood is a lot of fun

"ELITE SQUAD (the second one) is now on NF. Presume the original will be soon?"

I think it was for a while (or maybe I rented the DVD.) I hear that seeing Bus 174 isn't really required though to see ES.

i liked elite squad. watched it the other night.

i've always liked eaten alive! (i still own it on vhs) i always liked the sets. like the weirdest play ever staged. in fact, someone really should stage it.

also, in tobe's defense, he didn't even make the whole movie. he got pissed at the producers and left the set. but i still like it.

and spielberg did kinda half direct poltergeist its true. no mystery there. but salem's lot and funhouse are really fun! dude knew how to make a movie.

or more than half-directed. but that's okay. alls well that ends well. tobe had a lot of bad/weird luck with producers and companies. although his remake of the toolbox murders was a return to form.

dude knew how to make a movie.

Yeah ... singular. But my God, "Eaten Alive," "Lifeforce...." these movies are absolutely terrible, and he has no one to blame but himself. They're just poorly directed. I tried to make it through "Funhouse" a few months ago, since I'd watched it a lot as a kid, and man is it dull. Ever see "The Mangler?" "Crocodile?" He likes to make excuses, but those movies are just flat-out camera pointed in the wrong place badly directed. I feel bad for the guy that things never worked out in his favor, though.

BTW, there still is "Poltergeist" mystery! That story has never been definitively told, and everyone on record remains very cagey about it (per producer Frank Marshall on the WIki blurb: "It all depends on your definition of director."). But the fact that "Poltergeist" is a very well directed film, and miles slicker than anything else Hooper did, and is fully Spielbergian in theme an execution, stands out as a red flag to me.

Is "Elite Squad" that movie about the renegade Brazilian cop? A couple of Brazilian friends had me watch it three or four years ago, and I didn't really dig it as more than fascist escapism, however based in fact it may be.

come on dude LIFEFORCE

i think spielberg basically edited the movie and did the sound and put it together after the fact and had final say on just about everything. so, you know, do the math.

i like funhouse. salems lot. eaten alive. tcm2. some other stuff. toolbox murders is really good but i won't try to sell it.

i mean its a good movie if you are a horror fan. i won't try to sell it to normal people.

i mean did he ever make a movie as good as tcm again? no. no he didn't. but hardly anyone has, so that's no big deal to me.

anyway, we watched the first installment of the extended swedish t.v. millennium saga/girl with the thorn in her side epic and we both liked it. doubt i will need to see the american versions once these are done. i didn't read the books.

come on dude LIFEFORCE SPACE VAMPIRE BOOBS

just sayin

Is Tobe's Toolbox Murders a patch on the luridness and bad taste of the original?

WEEKEND, A TOUCH OF FROST are both on Netflix. DIE NIBELUNGEN is not on Netflix Instant. Neither are THE TRIPODS or MOONFLEET or PENDA'S FEN.

THE MOON AND THE SLEDGEHAMMER is also not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98e4DxOCKCw

Has anyone mentioned 1966's THE ALLEY CATS? It's full of smut, v stylish and um light on plot.

http://www.posters555.com/pictures/The-Alley-Cats-%281966%29-picture-MOV_1f0c09ea_b.jpg

So many things expired last night. Sigh. I managed to sneak in HAPPY GO LUCKY and SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW before the deadline, but not SWAMP THING or THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY...

That was the big Starz apocalypse, right? Starz always pissed me off for cropping their films, but that was the only plus I could find for losing such a big catalog.

Yeah, Big Trouble in Little China bit the dust apparently, among so many others.

big trouble in little china was shown on netflix streaming at 1.85 as opposed to the proper 2.35, fuck starz

I refused to watch any Starz Netflix titles because they all looked like absolute shit so this is no great loss.

Yeah I started watching Flesh & Blood before the deadline and it was 'full screen' aspect and I was like fuck this, I take my epic fantasy wide.

They even cropped "2001!"

I was like fuck this, I take my epic fantasy wide.
words to live by imo

ronin was 1.33 : /

RONIN

there should be a law

Ronin's Law of Aspect Ratio

i just ambushed you with half a cup of coffee

punishable by firing squad and bee helmet

I won't watch any Scope film shoehorned down. Won't do it. Made a rare exception for "Sorcerer" not long ago, because only pan and scan exists. And even then. Friedkin was, like Kubrick, loose with his aspect ratios.

there is literally no reason why netflix should show ANYTHING at 1.33

1st season of Lassie. Awesome.

do i need to see syriana? i still haven't seen it. i hated traffic. same guy, right? or writer or something.

If you hated Traffic, you might want to avoid it. I thought it was alright though.

I thought Syriana was better than Traffic by a fair margin. Not a great movie, but I hated Traffic.

Syriana was like a dramatization of a nyt magazine piece from 2005

They just added Buckaro Bonzai!