Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

MY LITTLE PONY

name a good one cuz i'm looking on instantwatcher and i still don't see anything i want to watch.

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i'm always looking for some new-ish big-name glitzy hollywood thing that i never would have seen at the movies but that i would watch at home and i never find any of those.

you should watch Rare Export, Scott. It's supposed to be insane.

i've seen that one! it's great.

Have you watched Rango? It won an Oscar, which is usually the kiss of death, but it's a lot of fun.

i'm always looking for some new-ish big-name glitzy hollywood thing that i never would have seen at the movies but that i would watch at home and i never find any of those.

True inner peace can only be found by letting go of the possibility that Netflix Instant will ever not be shitty at that sort of thing.

rare export is the movie with the evil santa dug up from under the mountain, right? it was good!

watched most of rango with the kids the other day. i was REALLY impressed by that opening highway sequence. truly imaginative.

meanwhile, how did i never notice that there are TWELVE jean rollin movies on netflix! surely there are some i've never seen. just have to remember which ones. all those erotic vampire titles blend together.

The Night of the Hunted
The Shiver of the Vampire
Lips of Blood
The Living Dead Girl
The Nude Vampire
The Rape of the Vampire
Two Orphan Vampires
Requiem for a Vampire
Demoniacs
Dracula's Fiancée
Fascination
The Grapes of Death

best trailer ever, by the way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MahBykdmoj4

i was gonna say that days of heaven and serpico just started to stream, but i don't think that either is what you're looking for scott?!?

well, days of heaven is my second favorite movie, so, its fine. and serpico is cool. its not like there aren't good movies on there. i think i might actually watch bad company, the 1972 jeff bridges movie. or maybe the naked city. or maybe both.

but i definitely see a jean rollin marathon in my future. lots of french wine and cheese and just watch the blood flow. so demented and wonderful.

skot otm rollin is the best

finders keepers just put out a comp of music from jean rollin movies that's fantastic

Watched Altman's 3 Women the other night and it was fantastic. Duvall at her ... well, alien best. Just bizarre. Apparently he let her roll with the adlib and it shows but it's really integral to the tone I think. So good. And she's like a damn insect in that swimsuit.

Love the bar outside a town where they just shoot guns out back and ride dirt bikes.

Bad Company is a good one for you dudes who haven't seen it. i haven't seen it since vhs days.

thx for the bad company tip

other gritty 70s stuff I added to my queue but will never watch

joe
dirty mary, crazy larry
tracks (dennis hopper as a shellshocked vietnam vet on a surreal cross country train ride how can this not be good)
deadhead miles
cutter's way
bad timing
inserts
blue sunshine
busting (elliot gould and robert blake!)