Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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

Farscape always looks too much DragonCon sexytime for me.

Farscape is good. Gets a bit crap in the middle but it's really meaty, storywise. That and DS9 prolly my all-time favorite sci-fi series.

I think I spent an hour of Merlin marveling at how much better it was than I expected it to be before admitting to myself that I still hated it

John Doe was on Roswell.

I like The Guild a lot but it's mostly because half of it is WoW guild in-jokes, I have no idea how it would come across to someone who hasn't spent a lot of time in that environment

i think the guild is basically low budget "community".

ha that is scarily OTM

I tried watching The Guild. I got exactly as far as the woman neglecting her kids for World Of Warcraft before I decided that, while that may be an accurate portrayal, these are not people I want to spend any time with.

Scott: watch the Dr. Who revival! It is THE BEST. Even when it's terrible.

oh that's a good call

Also, both seasons of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic are on there.

I was so happy about that because I could clear them off of my DVR -- but then it just gets filled with Max and Ruby episodes, and that show is so much worse.

Max is a sociopath a la Macauley Culkin in the Good Son, yet somehow his antics are supposed to be cute?

Sociopaths are ADORABLE.

Also, now that the entirety of the original G.I. Joe animated series is on there, you all have to watch the "Cold Slither" episode. Trust me on this. It is delightfully insane.

animated godzilla is great/terrible

and godzoooookeeee

Fishbone doc is def great if not a bit depressing

BREAKING NEWS

Transformers: Dark of the Moon has just been added!

BREAKING NEWS

the Eames documentary that was on PBS last year is on there now, it's really interesting

Lots of stuff! "Devil's Double!"

SATURDAY THE 14TH.

Norwegian Ninja is excellent & apparently highly misunderstood by imdb reviewers.

It's like Spy Kids for adults with Gondry style visuals.

The Tents, about how the tents at bryant park for fashion week came about and established new york as a global fashion capital, i don't even like fashion but loved this

also: SHE-RA, back then never realized how sweet the music is at times

The Cult of the Damned (orig title: Angel, Angel, Down We Go) (1969)

daughter of a dysfunctional rich couple wahs about being unhappy and overweight and joins a cult led by a psych band singer, has rando gay / parental / american social status themes, love that it's by American Pictures International, it's like their dark side

um API? i meant AIP.

ilx api

Finally got around to watching Up the Yangtze last night. Really good stuff. I need to finally watch Still Life now.

:D

"Fired!" by an actress fired by woody allen, goes on to do a documentary around the concept of firings and different people being fired. i recognize her from ghostwriter lolz

Fishing with John yall

no way!

fuck ya

"Shut Up Little Man", which made me kind of nostalgic for those days of pre-YouTube underground obsessives trading tapes of prank calls and such.

I do nto reccomend "I Spit on Your Grave"

I disagree, sir! It is totally worth watching, especially if you are into nihilistic exploitation with no redeeming social value whatsoever.

oh hell yeah fishing with john

I really really want to see that!

(secretly wishes jjjusten would start a thread where he tells us about Fishing With John)

Just watch it, it's great

tacho has transformed himself!

transformers 3 actually kind of rules, it's like someone edited everything that usually sucks about bay down to about 10 minutes of the real film rather than hours

Wait, so the movie is only 10 minutes long?! That's awesome, and attention-span appropriate, given its target demo.

pretty girl standing in slow-mo + military vehicles taking off over the water while dramatic music plays was about 10 minutes ; the movie is like 2 and a half hours long but didn't drag

Absentia, which I've stanned for a few times on the post-2005 horror thread, is up on netflix now.