Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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

My top category is "Critically Acclaimed Social & Cultural Documentaries" -- makes me sound like such a fucking snob/bore

my Netflix categories would make me sound like one of the subjects of the Quiddities/NYT thread so i'm not gonna mention them here (also, i'm at work so i have no Netflix access).

gonna rep for silmido, a really well done korean action flick. it was huge in korea but never got much attention in the US, don't think it even had a proper DVD release. liberally based on a true story about a group of south korean criminals serving life sentences who are offered a chance at freedom if they undertake a suicide mission to assassinate the north korean president (kim jong-il's dad!), it's a weird hybrid of the POW escape and elite force training genres, with that special korean flair for jacking up yr emotions (cf the host).

would've gotten big points from me in the action poll if I'd bothered voting.

Season 1 of Boris Karloff's Thriller expires tomorrow. Any advice on the essential episodes? Watched 'Grim Reaper' last night, was gonna do 'Pigeons From Hell' and one or two others tonight...

FANTASTIC early Jerry Goldsmith scores on a lot of them, BTW.

City of Life and Death is a really nicely done Chinese ensemble tragedy (in B/W) about the Rape of Nanking. Director got death threats because there's a sympathetic Japanese soldier.

ya i saw that it's good, i actually even interviewed the director

http://www.wicked-vision.com/images_rv/R/Robocop/PrimeDirectives-DarkJustice_cover.jpg

the villain in this film is named Bone Machine and he at one point says "You're boned, baby"

robocop 2 was so bad ... god bless (?) anyone who went past that one. (i caught one of the "prime directive" RoboCops on TV about four years -- it was damn near unwatchable.)

It's horrible. so horrible.

After about a month-long drought of new stuff, I'd advise people to check what's new today. A couple hundred high-profile movies, from the look of it.