Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Just watched Queen of Versailles -- amusing enough but ultimately not a great or very good documentary. I felt like it had no teeth, like it wasn't willing to take a firm stance on anything. The family was too likeable to be villainous, but not likeable enough to be pitied. Westgate represented the excesses of the financial crisis, or maybe it was a great company trying to take care of its employees, I couldn't tell.

All four Alien films on HBO GO now

This is Netflix, man. Netflix. HBO Go now is right.

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Just watched Queen of Versailles -- amusing enough but ultimately not a great or very good documentary. I felt like it had no teeth, like it wasn't willing to take a firm stance on anything. The family was too likeable to be villainous, but not likeable enough to be pitied. Westgate represented the excesses of the financial crisis, or maybe it was a great company trying to take care of its employees, I couldn't tell.

― --808 542137 (Hurting 2), Friday, April 5, 2013 11:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i agree that it wasnt that great, but i thought the family was totally reprehensible and unlikable. the dude seems to hate his wife and children and mistreats them constantly. the kid who let her pet die of starvation and was given no punishment and acted like a victim about it and did't care -!!

the dude is a total monster

the way the dog shit kept accumulating on the carpets - you saw it even in shots that didnt focus on it - was pretty incredib;e

what a point that makes me want to watch a film

JUSTICE LEAGUE and JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED up.

There goes my weekend.

i liked the shifting sympathies in QoV - at first u think the dad might be like a chilled out old dude with a dadjoke for every occasion, but then hes slowly revealed to be a repulsive monster. and the worse he gets, the better the wife comes off

yeah, and the fact that she was a computer engineer was a pretty awesome character detail

The dad in QoV is the only person I included in my dead pool this year out of hope.

Yeah, the guy is such a dick, and the woman is pretty horrible, at least a lot of what she does she does out of love - taking care of animals, taking care of kids, etc.

In the wiki:

"Whenever I saw a negative article about (Al) Gore, I put it in with the paychecks of my 8,000 employees. I had my managers do a survey on every employee. If they liked Bush, we made them register to vote. But not if they liked Gore. The week before [the election] we made 80,000 phone calls through my call center—they were robo-calls. On Election Day, we made sure everyone who was voting for Bush got to the polls. I didn’t know he would win by 527 votes. Afterward, we did a survey among the employees to find out who voted who wouldn’t have otherwise. One thousand of them said so.

Justice League and Unlimited are so god damn good. I recommend them to everybody, but it's tricky, because the first season is only okay, so it sometimes scares people off before they get to the amazing stuff starting immediately in the second season and beyond.

I kinda liked The Hunger Games!

yeah it's definitely the that the guy starts out seeming ok and seems like a monster by the end, but at the same time I couldn't tell whether I should have been rooting for the company to come back or what (all those jobs lost, etc.). Timeshares really strike me as a scam but I didn't think the movie actually played this up that much, like it could have gone a little more into what the finances of them are like for the typical family who buys them. The wife was very sympathetic by the end, and her self-assessment seemed pretty accurate that she "isn't a dumb person" but was living in a fantasy land. She comes off as pretty naturally sharp but probably mentally softened by years of not having to work or challenge herself.

the thematic stuff about the economy at large was sort of blurry for me -- on one hand there are parallels between the company and the economy, on the other hand we're supposed to be gagging at their excesses in the face of ordinary people's losses...but we're also supposed to be in suspense as to whether they'll lose everything.

The way I read the movie was that they became ludicrously wealthy by scamming people in the same way that so many mortgage lenders had down in the run-up to the big economic meltdown. The irony is that they were every bit as ignorant about the economy and borrowing beyond their means as the people they scammed so that they ultimately suffered the same downfall on a massive scale.

hurting i think all that unresolved complexity was a p good thing, there is no one to "root for" in this sitch & the movie is ok with that

Ton of MGM/UA stuff expiring this month.

still watching Army Wives. luv you guys. take care of yourselves. (might take a Dunst break soon and watch Bachelorette though...)

Detroitopia.

Sorry, "Detropia."

Ton of MGM/UA stuff expiring this month.

― Johnny Hotcox, Thursday, April 18, 2013 11:17 AM (1 week ago)

This dude is worried too: http://whatsonnetflixnow.blogspot.com/2013/04/expiration-watch-death-by-twos.html

I'm a relatively new subscriber so I don't know what the ebb and flow of titles is.

"Lord Love a Duck" was the best of my soon-expiring binge.

Goodbye netflix, hello Warner Archive Instant: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/04/30/netflix_queue_to_become_netflix_list_maybe_also_many_movies_no_longer_streaming.html

Streaming media is really going to become the new VHS-vs-BETA, HD-DVD-vs-Blu-ray, huh.

Is it Roku that has the multi-service search? That kind of thing seems like a good interim solution. To my understanding, you can search for a movie and depending what services you have it'll tell you where you can stream or rent from.

http://www.canistream.it/

Was hoping it was a staring contest and someone would blink.

does anyone have a good site that just scrapes EVERYBODY'S streaming stuff and posts new/recommended?

ahhhh way too much stuff expiring

Man so much is expiring from my queue. Last night was a tough triage decision. I went with The Dunwich Horror. I guess there's one more night? Maybe Terrorvision tonight...

Hour of the Wolf nooooooo

hour of the wolf has been on my queue forever, I think I watched about the first 10 minutes of it once before snoozing off. There may be a lesson in this somewhere...

I managed to watch Dunwich Horror a while back, it was pretty nutso.

My instant queue is rather modest, but because of the mgm purge, I've caught up with Lemon Popsicle (aka The Last Israeli Virgin), The Music Lovers and That Sinking Feeling over the past few days. I think I'll check out Big Time, the Tom Waits concert doc tonite.

Every single studio and network should just start charging to stream their content exclusively. Because better to just get it over with and push everyone to illegal downloading all at once.

about 60 titles that were in my queue at the beginning of the month were set to expire tomorrow. luckily, i had advance notice through Instantwatcher (and way too much free time on my hands this month), so i got to watch some of the must-sees -- like the Bergman, Loach, Rohmer and Aldrich titles that are going bye-bye. the rest, it looks like i'll either have to settle for DVDs or Amazon Prime Instant (if not this Warner Archive Instant thing).

dunwich horror (1970) is so great

Eight movies leaving my queue tonight that aren't available through Netflix on DVD - Golden Needles, The Visitors, Crawlspace, Beer, Gypsy Girl, Last Embrace, Theater Of Blood and The Landlord. Watching Golden Needles now, it's basically Mitchell In Hong Kong, with Joe Don Baker galumphing, smirking and gutpunching Chinese mobsters. Shame to have to ffwd through so much of it but like INXS said, there's not enough time.

oh shit peace out Cutter's Way and American Heart, good pair of Bridges joints

The Apple too

dunwich horror is gone off the net because of UA

Oh no crawlspace! I'll never be able to get my wife to watch that tonight.

Instantwatcher's servers seem to be getting hammered right now. Slooooow loading and frequent timeout errors.

I'm going with a _Cult of the Damned_/_Golden Needles_ double-bill.

Here's what's going missing from my list for future reference:
The Decameron
Elvira Madigan
Hidden Fear
The Passionate Friends
Cul-De-Sac
The White Bus
Blithe Spirit
Passion of Anna
Navajo Joe
Mulholland Dr.
Countryman
The Lady Vanishes
The Stranger
A Tale of Springtime
Hour of the Wolf
Young and Innocent

Highly recommend the last, a British Hitchcock with all the elements leading to a perfect denouement.

Honestly, there are so many movies in my queue at this point that I have no idea how many will vanish. Over time I've sort of learned to appreciate the erratic Netflix catalog, since it keeps me focuses on fewer films (I still won't get to watch for month) at a time.

Elvira Madigan is suppsedly amongst a group Bo Widerberg films coming soon from Olive films (who, btw, don't supply netflix w/discs).

Thanks, will keep an eye out.

Feel better now that I made that tiny list, given the disproportionate amount of effort spent wresting with the clunky interface to find stuff worth watching.

Sure your all too busy watching to post. I'm not going to go crazy like on The Weekend of the Streaming Criterions, just watched some bits and pieces of stuff soon going to crash.