Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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. ^_^

finished first season of Damages last night. very enjoyable. a little suspension of disbelief is needed to enjoy, but i'm all about ignoring reality.

Oh shit Tom Noonan's amazing What Happened Was... is on there now! Recommended x 100.

been watching STANDOFF, which i gave a pass when it aired because ticking-timebomb/hostage scenarios seemed sooooo boring at the time.

but it's really entertaining! smartly conceived episode plots, and the thru-narrative is compelling - the leads (ron livingston and rosemarie dewitt) are negotiators who start up a relationship when they're not supposed to which then becomes public in the pilot episode. then there's kind of a working-relationship-with-mutual-admiration/stupefying love theme going on. gina torres as the boss, michael cudlitz as the gung-ho swat-type guy. apparently livingston and dewitt got married after this, they've got good chemistry onscreen.

also, always pretty hilarious to hear livingston sounding like peter gibbon.

wait so there are dragon tattoo movies that are longer than the 2.5hr ones? or are those the extended versions?
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jesus christ

the swedish t.v. versions are longer than the swedish theatrical versions. netflix has the t.v. trilogy.

i think each one is closer to 3 hours.

The Dragon Tattoo Trilogy contains more than two hours of additional footage not seen in the theatrical versions of the original Swedish films. Amassing a total of 9 hours of story content and presented in 6 parts, this complete version of the international hit series restores notable characters and subplots from Stieg Larsson's best-selling novels.

i watched the first one. i've had enough. i'm just really not in the mood for serial killers these days. i think i noted that upthread.

or maybe on the action poll thread. whatever.

I don't think I can watch those again.

Haven't watched it yet, but Shut Up, Little Man! popped up fairly recently. If you're familiar with that utterance, the documentary is apparently exactly what you think it is.

Today's Watch Instantly Pro tip: avoid movies with awesome VHS box art that were made in 1987.

strongly disagree

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

― scott seward, Monday, March 5, 2012 9:07 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just finished it. Was awesome.

anyone watching 7up series?

many xposts: how are you managing to watch standoff on instant play? it says it's not available.

haha, i'm not, it's on hulu. but i did look it up first on netflix so that my post wouldn't be off topic! guess i should have done more fact-checking.

Watched the one about Paul McCartney being dead today. Wow, it's hilarious and badly made. Pretty much the complete PID compendium, with plenty of 'clues' I had never heard of. Also the fake Paul is referred to as Faul, and there's a George Harrison interview at the end where they overdubbed it to sound like he's says "Faul".

Also, for some reason they think Rubber Soul was released in 1966. Also, they went to India to see if the Maharishi could find Paul's spirit and make it enter Faul's body. Lol

anyone watching 7up series?

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, March 12, 2012 10:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think i have seen them all, tho maybe theres a new one

The next one is apparently coming in May. I'm looking very forward to it (just watched the rest a month or so ago). I do wonder how many of the participants are holding fast to their stated refusal to do further installments.

xp Look, I love terrible movies, but man, 1987 was a particularly foul vintage.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0k0zxEqOv1qz6siko1_400.jpg

ooh far from home is streaming.

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Far_from_Home/70103442?trkid=2734329

i still have that copied from cable onto vhs.

How do I check if a movie is available for streaming without having a Netflix acct?

http://instantwatcher.com/

Leaning toward Meek's Cutoff for tonight, dissuade me now if it sucks.

No, it's good! Esp if you like slow movies with lots of bonnets.

hahha

I mean it! I love slow movies, and I love bonnets. I thought it was really enjoyable.

its great

The Baby was unadulterated pain. Hope I forget soon.

in weird netflix stuff, i watched videodrome a while ago and i still can't shake it.

Oh, you should probably watch The Brood next, then.

atlas shrugged pt. 1 is a hoot so far.

^^^^yes

really looking forward to pt. 2!