Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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

Will watch tonight!

i love the baby! i still have it on vhs. i've actually had baby parties before. where i make people watch that movie.

so demented. a true classic in every way.

haha! awesome.

just watched the first 5 minutes. uhhh can't wait to screen this.

i've actually had baby parties before. where i make people watch that movie.

thank god for that second sentence

A lot of the Herzog titles they used to offer are gone. I recently watched the Antartica one which I found about as dull as I find Antartica. Also probably the most Herzog-by-the-numbers Herzog I have seen.

u find antarctica dull?

i mean pretty but not that interesting

u mad

damn, really? that is like my favorite movie of the last 5 years.

My favorite part of the poster for The Baby:

http://parental-advisory-ratings.findthedata.org/sites/default/files/867/media/images/PG_Parental_Guidance_Suggested_Movie_Rating.jpg

at some point when you are watching the baby it just kind of dawns on you that this was a real movie that someone made and put out and not actually a fever dream you are having.

Encounters at the End of the World is great. Probably my most viewed Herzog doc.

IDK maybe it's just having seen it after so many others

I will be watching The Baby.

are you ready for
MY GIRLFRIEND IS A GUMIHO
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/static/images/thumb/7/72/MyGirlfriendGumiho.jpg/225px-MyGirlfriendGumiho.jpg
After meeting a mysterious yet very beautiful girl, a wannabe action star discovers that she's, in fact, a gumiho -- a legendary fox with nine tails -- who longs to transform herself into a true human.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2255085/

Also the original 70's namesake George C. Scott film version of They Might be Giants

i posted abt the baby on 1 of the horror threads

the baby is streaming on netflix now. the end sequence was sorta genuninely frightening but it def takes a real level of comittment to see it thru 2 there. idk it also gets pts in my book for being so bound to its (ridiculous) premise

― johnny crunch, Thursday, February 23, 2012 8:39 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

xpost oh no is Herzog's My Son My Son What Have Ye Done gone?

my son is still up, i know b/c it's in my Instant Queue.

bad lieutenant is gone, but that's b/c it was offered through Starz.

and yes, bad lieutenant is well worth watching ... Nicolas Cage and Werner Herzog together is like a wet dream come to life.

Otm Bad Lieutenant is so good

Pandaemonium!

Just finished My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done. For the first 30 minutes or so I worried this was going to amount to mere quirk. But by imperceptible means the quirk took on more and more weight and became tragedy and the movie is actually fucking great. For recent Herzog i would rate it above both Bad Lieutenant (a delicious romp) and Rescue Dawn (an intense but narrow immersion exercise). It's funny about the Lynch production credit because this does feel like a blend of their two strains of id-touch. It is helped tremendously by Ernst Reijseger's score, one of the best scores I've heard in a LONG time, which I am ecstatic to see is available on Winter & Winter records (Reijseger also did the cello work on Rescue Dawn which blew me away at the time).

Will definitely rewatch before it expires next month.

i watched the original girl with the dragon tattoo and it was exactly like the us one. i think i will watch the rest of the series.

so it's like the let the right one in/let me in relationship?

(haven't seen the american dragon tattoo, i've seen the swedish ones and they were better than i thought they'd be.)

Actually I thought the diffs between Let The Right One In and Let Me In were really fascinating and made both versions worthwhile

Ernst Reijseger did the score for Cave of Forgotten Dreams too, I think? I liked it iirc. He's no Florian Fricke but who is.

Has anyone watched the extended versions of the Dragon tattoo movies? I watched the originals when they first showed up, and those were long enough as is. Mostly just wondering if the extended versions fix some of the giant plot holes (especially in the third one).

Everybody, go and watch Please Vote for Me right away. I am very serious, I want to talk about it.

guess hyperlink doesn't work, but go watch it right away

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/pleasevoteforme/

and

http://pleasevoteforme.org/

also about it

Prompted by a Jennifer Westfeldt profile, I watched "Kissing Jessica Stein", which was pretty good. They also have "Ira & Abby".

i watched 'please vote for me' a few months ago! really good.

Just rewatched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. ^_^