Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Every time I check out this service these days the selection is more and more wretched, really just the dregs and the worst of the worst that they try to pawn off on you. Real bargain basement, gas station DVD, Target during January sales misery.

It does have Peep Show still though, maybe I should watch that again.

Yeah, I find that if you view it as an on-demand tv service that happens to have movies, it seems much more realistically like a product that its parent company is banking on the success of.

tyler, i did think the premiere of season 2 was pretty strong though. It's streaming free on AMC's site, at least today it was...

how can a streaming service with ace in the hole, cosmos, twilight zone, twin peaks and T2 be bad

Ken Russell's The Music Lovers (not currently available on DVD) is on Instant Watch

Netflix Instant is like if you wanted to do some serious grocery shopping but you stumbled into this weird hole in the wall that has a few of the things that you actually wanted to buy but mostly just, like, Chocodiles and Crystal Pepsi and other stuff where you're like, oh, I haven't seen that in forever...I guess it'll do.

it's more like a bizarre aisle at the grocery store, really.

or like walking into a macy's at the mall where they're out of jeans but there's a lot of weird and vintage consignment shit in the back

If it all fit me, that would be a dream come true. New life for old things!

tetsuo: the bullet man now streaming

now shooting

think i recommended Busting upthread. Basically a proto-80s cop buddy movie. Plot-wise pretty dumb, but its got Gould!
The Killing is pretty good so far, but I'm worried that I'm going to be angry at it by the end of the season. Am I going to be angry?

― tylerw, Tuesday, April 3, 2012 4:58 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah Busting is almost a great movie. A so close yet so far kinda thing. Robert Blake and Elliot Gould hanging out in the bathroom is pretty great stuff.

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For the Moodymann/KDJ fans there's a sample or two buried in this one.

El Bulli doc on Netflix now. Also, Demolition Man. And, um, for Community fans, Ken Burns' Civil War ends after the weekend, so get watching!

taxi zum klo now available

"he died with a falafel in his hand" with noah taylor from flirting

"the double hour" is an italian thing from a few yrs ago, is good. not avail on dvd in R1 i dont think

i've never been able to get into taxi zum klo

a few months back i watched "salsa: latin pop music in the cities", a doc on salsa in nyc from 1979 - intimate performances and interviews with fania peeps, sociopolitical angles, the palmieris teaching some grade school kids, it's pretty great

ooh that sounds rad!

This just in: second season of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic just added!

lol, we were looking at the first season of that, wondering if it'd be ok for our kid to watch. crazy! what happened to the little ponies' faces?

Botched plastic surgery.

Tiny Furniture

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7092/7186329742_caf3c59612_o.jpg

for real tho, i just watched the black sabbath paranoid installment of classic albums. could barely understand a word ozzy said!

I watched the "Face Value" one and it was pretty good!

Dark!

I liked in the Sabbath one where they play Ozzy's nonsensical but classic working vocal from 'Paranoid'

i believe that face values is dark! i hope they interviewed michael mann for it.

I watched the Sabbath thing too! It was surprisingly interesting. I loved the old footage and Geezer talking about how he was into hippie shit.

I saw that yesterday! Geezer comes across as the most genuine human ever. And when they solo out his bass track... wow.

so far the steely dan aja is my favorite from that series (but i would say that).

Ha, my friend Stripey is all about this series and loves that episode as well.

re: the Sabbath one - I had no idea about the skinhead connection w/Fairies Wear Boots.

The Tom Petty one is p good too

I totally misread the sabbath discussion and ended up finding this

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

But here's what was mentioned (at around 4:35)

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

best moment in any classic albums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUKCQfLY7nQ

All of the Up movies are on streaming. I'm rewatching in preparation for 56 up

Tom Petty one was ok, I guess I just don't get the big deal about that album. Nice to learn Jim Kelter played uncredited shaker on "Refugee."

The best bit of "Aja" is when you hear all the different guitarists and solos that didn't make the cut for the album.

My faves may be Fleetwood Mac and the Band, but I'm not sure either is streaming.

Wait, take it back, "Rumours" is there.

a few months back i watched "salsa: latin pop music in the cities", a doc on salsa in nyc from 1979 - intimate performances and interviews with fania peeps, sociopolitical angles, the palmieris teaching some grade school kids, it's pretty great

Cannot recommend enough. Remarkable footage and Felipe Luciano as narrator is perfect.

Seems like these days the ol' Netflix account exists primarily for docs. The fictional content keeps getting worse.

That reminds me that I mean to watch that salsa doc -- three reminders = just enough apparently.

the bbc's SNUFF BOX

I was very happy to see the on some days totally unsung masterpiece "The Game" is in the proper aspect ratio. I was worried, especially after watching "Rango" in altered form.

That's the M. Douglas joint? I'd watch that.

fincher too

Refn's Drive now available. We all watched it tonight; I liked it well enough, but my wife and daughter were fed up pretty quickly. Taking note of the nonstop teal and orange was kind of entertaining.

drive was my favorite film of last year

for some reason, I was able to suspend disbelief for the action scenes in Drive, but not the love story.