Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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!

yeah, saw that. that they added that.

might actually watch amigo? i am a john sayles apologist. and i haven't seen it.

and i love chris cooper.

i hadn't even heard of amigo! am also john sayles apologist/chris cooper lover.

Huge anime update today.

i ended up watching episodes of damages. never saw that show. riveting! even ted danson was riveting!

I started watching "Not Quite Hollywood" - it seems to be mainly raunchy clips interspersed with droll commentary by industry insiders and goofy fanboy raves by a stoned Quentin Tarantino.

pretty much.

yes and

kind of excited to watch Being Elmo

it's great. Saw it in the theaters at the premiere and Clash was in attendance. He stayed to take pictures and shake hands for about five hours after, a real sweetheart.

Holy shit, Chasing Ghosts! FLCL!

Gonna need help with the new anime batch.
Will anyone rep for:
Baccano
Baka and Test
Birdy
Black Blood Brothers
Blue Drop
Blue Gender
Chrome Shelled Regios
Claymore
Corpse Princess
Darker Than Black
Desert Punk
Eden of the East
Ghost Hound
Hero Tales
Honey and Clover
Kaze no Stigma
Moriboto
Night Raid 1931
Shigurui
Soul Eater
Speed Grapher
Tokko
Tokyo Majin
Virus
XXXholic

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 watched barcelona again a few days ago ... it's a lot better than i thought it was originally. probably b/c i now realize that whit stilman thinks that ALL of the characters are horse's asses of one sort or other. and i've subsequently seen metropolitan and i'm older so i think i "get" stilman more now.

(i'm kinda looking forward to damsels in distress ... the world could use a new Woody Allen [or at least one better than the real one these days]).

midnight in paris pwns barcelona any day

i've heard good things about midnight in paris ... then again, i also heard good things about vicky cristina barcelona and was sorely disappointed. and i swore offa woody after enduring that whatever works tedious piece-of-shit.

The problem with the vast majority of the anime is that it's dubbed (not to mention that the giant batch the other day was mostly just renewals of stuff that had already been there). Honey and Clover is subtitled, but it's a little too slice of life for my taste. I've heard good things about Eden of the East, but it's dubbed. I have watched through Death Note and Nana, both of which are subtitled, and both of which I enjoyed for entirely different reasons.

I didn't watch this, but when I got home and heard about it, I wish I had!
1973 - The Baby

A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them at first - consisting of the mother, two grown daughters and the diaper-clad, bottle-sucking baby. The problem is, the baby is twenty-one years old.

Lordy

From the director of Beneath the Planet of the Apes and Magnum Force!

Comes highly recommended from a guy who knows his shit, just sayin