Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Another twenty years of this and we're just going to have to content ourselves with an entertainment industry populated entirely by androids.

I know. She's not snobby at all about people's looks IRL, but she's very used to Hollywood's standards for appearances on TV and movies (e.g., "Ugly" Betty is not in the least ugly).

Also I think she didn't care for the really real sets - the kinda dirty bathroom looks like a typical real kinda dirty bathroom, which is grosser than an OTT dirty bathroom that you might see on TV. If that makes sense.

never change, scott

i like peep show okay but i don't love it. maybe i would love it if i lived in south london. i don't love the cast which is most of my problem.

yeah if you don't get charmed by these horrible horrible people peep show is prolly a slog. but even though the social discomfort angle is kind of played out as a thing, I like how far and long they've gone with it. one of the last episodes of series 7 has a horrific, stomach churning christmas day dinner, can't even say it was funny but it is unforgettable. the show's so committed to dwelling on cowardice, delusion, and self-sabotage.

watched a little bit of the 1st season again last night, I really enjoy the grimy grimness and stupid life details... like mark fighting the desk drawer at his office with a neurotic combination of frustration and complacency:

(mark struggles to pull the key out)
Why don't I get this fixed? Why don't I ever get this fucking thing fixed?! Every night it's f...
(key comes out)
Ah, it always comes out eventually, fuck it.

haha ya

It's a south london thing

Yeah, it took me a while to get past all of the region-specific references to things like stuck keys and closet frottage, but I persevered.

... "closet frottage"?

I now see the UK in a whole new light

bullshit POV camera stuff
isn't this carried on throughout the whole series? maybe it gets more subtle, but i think every shot is supposed to be POV.

the first few episodes (and the first especially) are particularly bad though, like "breaking the waves" bad

I was surprised by the proportion of references to American culture to region-specific ones. In UK The Office and Ab Fab I felt like even with a better than average American's knowledge of UK culture, I was missing quite a few references. I wondered if they were trying to make it more American-accessible.

the first few episodes (and the first especially) are particularly bad though, like "breaking the waves" bad

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this is wrong in a number of interesting ways

I like the massive fisheye closeups of the first few eps - enter the pit of sarlacc, little crisps!

they started throwing more establishing shots into later eps, maybe because this

Producer Andrew O'Connor cited the POV filming style as the reason for the low ratings: "It made it feel original and fresh and got it commissioned for a second series, but it stopped it from being a breakout hit and stopped it finding a bigger audience."[35] Bain and Armstrong agreed that the POV style stopped it from becoming mainstream.

but I'm glad they never abandoned the POV stuff

United Red Army (overlong and starts slowly and confusingly, but still well worth it your time--definitely of a piece with Carlos and Baader Meinhoff Complex and Che.)

just finished still bill, in part due to bill withers thread revival this week. recommended.

my favorite movie theater's twitter feed informs me that the 1990 tv movie leona helmsley: the queen of mean is now streaming.

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Leona_Helmsley_The_Queen_of_Mean/70108619?trkid=2361637

Cool, gonna start that tonight.

Watching Stir Crazy. Forgot this movie used to be a thing. It's like watching some alternate universe comedy.

what's also interesting about stir crazy -- it was directed by Sidney Poitier.

Sir Crazy.

lol

Oh, shit, Jonathan Banks has a tiny role in Stir Crazy! That makes two random Netflix movies I've seen in a row (the other being Buckaroo Bonzai) to have a bit of Banks!

Cannot stop watching The Killing.

Good thing it ends!

They have like ten movies now. You guys should have some dignity and cancel.

? don't get it ?

My neighbor insists he can't find anything to watch on Netflix. I find that so hard to believe. My queue is something like 50 films long!

xxp no idea what you are talking about.

They only have 10 movies if you look through their filmstrip-layout suggestion menus. Instantwatcher.com or die.

If anything the problem I have is that there is TOO MUCH to watch and I find myself spending a lot of time deciding what to actually start.

ya me too then i watch an episode of cheers and fall asleep on my couch

I mean that recently searching by director or actor, I could see that their catalog had been heavily cut back. They have one Lubitsch on instant watch. No Mamoulian. For everything I could think of to watch, Netflix shut me down. I never use the filmstrip layout.

it changes all the time, stuff goes and comes back, just like life

If you're looking for a mythically comprehensive service, you're pretty screwed. What I like about Netflix i actually its limitations, since it somewhat ameliorates the paralysis of choice.

watched buck rogers with the kidz this morning. erin gray 4ever.

I never have trouble finding stuff to watch. And when there's a specific thing I want to watch I get a disc in the mail instead of having it magically beamed into my apartment.

What I like about Netflix i actually its limitations, since it somewhat ameliorates the paralysis of choice.

this, very much so

Watched Humanoids from the Deep. Second best fish rape movie I've seen.

oh nice, didn't know the killing was on there, interested in that. its not just a twin peaks rip?
just saw that the jarmusch/neil young movie year of the horse is now streaming. it ROCKS.

bam, the criterion stuff mostly went to hulu. Between both services, you'll have most of what you need but you also must have a computer to browse. The xbox/ps3/wii/roku OS for the service is for shit.

only one lubitsch and no mamoulian, count me out

I said good DAY sir

Netflix may not have the criterion stuff anymore, but they DO have the Jean-Claude Van Damme-Scott Adkins vehicle Assassination Games, which is way better than you would expect from a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie from 2011. Has some boring bits, but it's made up for with some pretty rad moments.

I went to the Criterion Facebook page, which is very active, and asked how long the Hulu deal is for. If I get any response I'll report it back here. It looks like they're making a few films per week free to watch without needing Hulu Plus -- I watched The Exterminating Angel a couple of weeks ago. Last week was debut films; this week is a selection of final films: L'Atalante, Confidentially Yours, Street of Shame, L'Argent and An Autumn Afternoon.

The xbox/ps3/wii/roku OS for the service is for shit.

yeah, with roku OS, the best method (or at least my method) is to add stuff via computer, rather than search via roku. I think I spent like 5 minutes on the Roku getting it to select Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me which I had started watching the night before and didn't finish.

are you being sarcastic there, max?

there are still some criterion-licensed titles there...

my local library has a huge selection of criterion dvds -- wonder if this is true at other libraries that aren't smack-dab in the middle of a movie-industry city.

nah, my local library out here in colorado has a ton of criterion titles -- i think it's probably the media librarian's go-to for "classy" DVDs at this point.