Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

my local library also has a huge criterion dvd collection -- but it's also in the 6th borough.

xxxxxpost Tyler they are making it look like a twin peaks ripoff but it's absolutely nothing like twin peaks. If it's trying to bit anything it's the Wire, with all its attn to ~ripples~ and ~layers~

(just finished episode 8)

my queue is at just under 250, half are either films I've already seen or TV shows. And of the 120 or so films I haven't already seen, two are by Uwe Boll. So my net may be wider than most.

my instant queue is @ 500 -- FEEL THE WEIGHT OF MY MOVIE-GEEKNESS

s1ocki, I think as the Criterions' contracts with Netflix expire, they're not being renewed, and they'll switch to Hulu under that contract. (2 by Buñuel expire on April 1st)

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.

― bamcquern, Sunday, March 18, 2012 2:38 PM (7 hours ago)

you're doing it wrong. instant is such a small percentage of films, you've gotta surf the instant-only list and pick things out you want. once you find a couple titles you're interested in it's pretty easy to build out an instant queue, since every time you add something it suggests similar titles.

I've got over 300 titles in my instant queue and this is the first 10, it's not exactly a wasteland of crap

The Return
Untold Scandal
Code Unknown
The Third Man
Film Noir Collection: Scarlet Street
Lust, Caution
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Together
Brother's Keeper: 10th Anniversary Edition
The Red Balloon
The Age of Innocence

Those may not be 10 objectively "bad" movies, but seriously, I wouldn't waste your time with any of them. Life's short, man.

The Third Man dog.

Life's too short for the number of times you should watch that movie.

The Third Man Dog is lesser Mamoulian

There are about 4 good movies on Netflix, and they are all nature documentaries

fie on the man that disses Scarlet Street

yeah, there's a lot of great stuff still on Instant View ... depends on yer taste, of course, but Instant has a pretty good selection of really good recent Korean and Japanese films for instance.

You're a nature documentaries

Oh wait, it does have Peep Show, I'll give it that.

if i may get film-snobby here, i think that getting rid of the lion's share of Starz films got rid of a lot of the crap that was available via Netflix Instant.