Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

I'm a big tim and eric fan but I couldn't get even halfway through the movie.

it was a very sad departure from their show. I think they did tha on purpose becuase they are msichevious and like to mess with people

i had high hopes for Rum Diaries-- the director of my favorite film lured out of semi-retirement for the first time in almost 20 years-- but it is thoroughly mediocre despite some great performances. I suspect the problem is the hunter s thompson original which depp and robinson seem too eager to be faithful to.

Oh shit Tom Noonan's amazing What Happened Was... is on there now! Recommended x 100.

― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Monday, March 12, 2012 8:55 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i watched this the other night, it's p great

Wow this Tim and Eric movie is something

Annoyingly, a smattering of Miami Vice episodes, which are otherwise streaming, are disc-only. I gather this is music rights related, but still - fuck you netflix.

they pulled that with Magnum P.I., then pulled it from streaming, and now it's back with all eps, I think. And Magnum wouldn't have had music issues, so who knows.

they should replace the problematic Miami Vice music with crappy cover versions like WKRP did.

Why else would I watch the show if they take out the music cues?

they did do that with miami vice - there is a sound alike girl just wanna have fun in episode one

They should have hired Mary Margaret O'Hara to rerecord THAT one.

"Hot Dog: The Movie"

Amazing how gritty and class-conscious a lot of these '80s movies are, even (or especially?) these late night cable specials.

OK, maybe not class-conscious, but definitely working class oriented.

i started watching case 39 for some unknown reason. it was so bad. got about half way and had to stop. tbh because i was scared.

listen, shut up

it's a p conflicting set of emotions when something is very successfully scaring the pants off of you but it is also so completely crappy

totally gonna have to check out case 39 then.

haha yeah don't. ...i didn't come here just to post about case 39 but clearly i didn't get to it. hmmmmm. i wonder what it was.

anyway, there are two versions of apocalypse now on instant. original and a 2001 re-edit. do i bother with the new edit? or was it some bullshit george lucas move?

i dont care for the redux, orig is better imho

Being Elmo was great. Kevin Clash is so rad.

watched the apoc now redux for the first time a couple months ago. It's chock full of new, mostly uninteresting scenes better left on the cutting room floor. Original is where it's at.

the extra 3 minutes of Brando are cool.

Amazing how gritty and class-conscious a lot of these '80s movies are, even (or especially?) these late night cable specials.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, June 9, 2012 3:46 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel like every ski/snowboard comedy is this way. Always those fucking snobs picking on our plucky hero ski bums.

plucky hero ski bums

yeah mostly it's the extended playboy bunny stuff and the waaaaaay too long plantation stuff that had me rolling my eyes. XP

the plantation stuff has a ghostly vibe that i dig and i like that it brings french colonialism into the movie's universe (but i guess this is an overreach? as the movie is about the American Experience In Vietnam, or is it) but yeah it goes on forever in a movie that already does that. i don't remember what parts of the playboy bunny scene are added (i've seen redux more than the original, unfortunately -- saw it in a theatre totally empty except for me and my small town's paper's movie critic when it came out, tho, which was a lucky experience) but i don't really remember much about the playboy bunny scene period.

i don't like the scene of kurtz in the light because i like kurtz being in shadow -- maybe it is cheesy but it isn't any less cheesy when it's inconsistent.

i canceled my netflix account the other day (i'll reinstate it eventually) but before i did that i mostly just watched PBS American Experience documentaries and buffy. (hence the cancellation.) i noticed they have peeping tom tho!

iirc, the new Bunny stuff is a sequence where the guys on the boat and the Bunnies get stuck together at a port due to a sudden rainstorm. Chef then has a three-way in a helicopter and I think the other guys get laid too.

Just added:

Don't Go in the Woods - A group of indie rockers seek solitude deep in the woods to write songs for a new album. But they soon realize they're not alone when a sledgehammer-brandishing intruder arrives in this chilling musical slasher directed by actor Vincent D'Onofrio.

(haven't seen it; more fascinated at its existence than anything.)

Haven't seen this ^, but alternate history where Bon Iver or Grizzly Bear get sledged in their cabins while making their heartfelt indie bro albums is pretty funny concept IMO.

I was about to say, this is stirring epic fantasy.

"Softly I sing my whispered tunes of GARGH!" *guitar neck seen protruding from chest*

re: being elmo
i saw it in the theaters at the NY premiere and clash came out afterwards to talk to the crowd
one guy gave an impassioned speech about how much his autistic child loved elmo (kid screamed ELMO! from the crowd the whole movie everytime the puppet was on screen) and how elmo was one of the only things the kid could connect to. Clash promptly pulled out the puppet and waded into the crowd and took three minutes just to talk to the kid. After the screening and q+a, he hung out for photos and autographs for three and a half hours until everyone got their moment. dude is a superhero.

some of you guys are unaware of the critical reputations of films that aren't Prometheus, huh

SORRY MAN

Watched Argento's Inferno the other night. Like just about all Argento that isn't Deep Red or Suspiria, it's not great but had some neat moments.

Started watching Fulci's Don't Torture a Duckling. Got about halfway through before I had to go to bed. Really good so far! Looking forward to finishing it up tonight.

Watched Don't Go in the Woods last night. It took a looooong time to get to the killing.

The song Vincent D'Onofrio is singing in the beginning is horrible and amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdJB1Fz39FQ

Downhill from there until death by melodica.

okay i'm done with battlestar bless the gods and i could write poetry forever about that show and i have to watch caprica now just because i have to. and i've actually been watching buffy but i can come and go from buffy. buffy will be there. and i want to watch all of jericho because i liked the ones i saw and i missed a bunch. and me and the the end of the world go together like peas and pods. but what about these other shows. i want to try a bunch of them. for some reason i have no interest in stargate shows or all the star trek spinoffs i have missed or anything dr. who related. sorry who fans! and i'm not really into vamps/werewolf action (aside from buffy). which ones are the best and must see t.v.

lexx (this looks good)

outcasts

roswell

the guild

farscape (this looks good too)

merlin

united states of tara

earth 2

space precinct (space precinct!)

eureka

i assume you've done firefly already?

united states of tara has a good cast, but it is pretty terrible imo.

i mean if someone told me that stargate atlantis was ESSENTIAL viewing or something i would probably give it a try...

i actually watched firefly when it was first on t.v. but i could probably watch it again. i forget a lot of it. and i might have missed a couple of episodes. and i still need to see the movie...

i mean i really liked the show when i saw it.

which star trek spinoffs did you miss? ds9 is the last good one imo

i've just never watched entire runs of any star trek other than the original. i could go for ds9. i just don't want to watch 400 episodes of next gen or anything.

you should

start with season 3

i want to see season one of falling skies. hopefully that will come on demand one of these days.

farscape is ok then zzzz then gets good

if you're considering manga SF, you might try FLCL or Monster

from what I remember, LEXX was fucking horrible