Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

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

― killa amc (admrl), Monday, March 19, 2012 12:47 AM

if I had wasted my time on them they wouldn't be in my queue now would they PARADOX

Netflix Instant has all the orig Twilight Zone. Nuff said

why after midnight does ilx film threads get all morbz-ed out?!?

Netflix Instant has all the orig Twilight Zone. Nuff said

I don't necessarily watch "criterion stuff," forks. Some of the movies I want to watch are on Image, Alpha Video, VCI or some other no budget publisher. Instant didn't even have Ghostbusters or Role Models. I mean, when you guys mention Netflix dropping Starz - that's the caliber of movie I think of when I think of Netflix Instant.

You're the calibre of movie I think of when I think of Netflix Instant

silver lining to starz getting pulled is no more pan & scan surprises on my fucking laptop monitor in fucking 2012 [/whitewhine]

god p&s on netflix instant is so inexcusable

"You're a nature documentaries" was better, but I like the format of this joke.

Anyway, you guys pay for this, enjoy it, that's cool. I don't enjoy it, don't pay for it, that's cool too.

After watching TV mostly via Netflix and HuluPlus lately, it feels like an imposition to have to put in a disc to watch the first season of Justified.

yo where that first world thread at

bam, there's certainly a number of streaming indy film services if that's more your cuppa.
i tended to torrent for that stuff meself.

god p&s on netflix instant is so inexcusable

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, March 19, 2012 1:44 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"You're a nature documentaries" was better, but I like the format of this joke.

― bamcquern, Monday, March 19, 2012 2:01 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this wasnt a joke haha

tbf its probably the most embarrassing thing you've ever said

then i'm doing pretty darn good

Durn tootin' even

You're a nature documentaries

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Sunday, March 18, 2012 11:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i LOVE a nature documentaries! of the four, what is the best one on netflix? that's what i want to know.

I know it's a derail, but did you watch Frozen Planet last night?

what are the best naytchdocs on netflix

Netflix Instant has all the orig Twilight Zone. Nuff said

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, March 19, 2012 1:09 AM (9 hours ago)

started watching twilight zone, og star trek, and mission impossible on netflix in HD recently. they all look fantastic, and the latter two were shot on 35mm. some of those star trek episodes look like they were made by bava with their freaky alien planet color schemes.

the thing about instant is I probably wouldn't have bothered getting a gazillion discs of those shows but if they're streaming hey why not.

twilight zone looks incredible ya

i LOVE a nature documentaries! of the four, what is the best one on netflix? that's what i want to know.

― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, March 19, 2012 9:54 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm partial to "Orthopods of the Pacific: More Interesting Than You Might Think!"

No I did not watch Frozen Planet -- was it good? What channel?

I have a gazillion TZ discs :-/

It was pretty good! Same people who made Planet Earth. It was on six different channels last night at the same time! Discovery is really flogging the hell out of it.

OOOOOOO will look for, thx!

Nothing can beat the Caves ep of PE though.

^^^yes. The giant cone of guano crawling with roaches. 'Freakout Crevasse'.

YES. Everything about that episode is O_O -- the silkworms, the bats, the roaches, whoa

I like the wacky categories instant starts coming up with based on yr preferences, two of mine are:

Scary Suspenseful Korean Movies
Dark Movies based on a book from the 1970s

Suspenseful Family Adventures Where The Dog Doesn't Die