Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

hmm perhaps I will give it a slight chance. I think maybe I just hate the sitcom format in general.

you're like the guy on the tao lin thread who said he hated tao lin because "who would write a NOVEL in 2013 ANYway"

I was under the impression that Tao Lin is kind of a gimmicky non-trad novelist and The New Girl is a traditionally-styled situation comedy so they're kind of the opposite sitch

Preview looks terrible but New Yorker makes Orange is the New Black sound promising.

Yeah. Getting a lot of good buzz.

It'll be a miracle if it isn't racist and/or annoying.

Troll Hunter is available tho

this movie is highly worthwhile if you haven't seen it

otm

^^^

ditto

hmm perhaps I will give it a slight chance. I think maybe I just hate the sitcom format in general.

I like that even though the New Girl has been around for two years, some of us are still wrestling with ourselves over whether or not to grant it its right to exist.

it took me like 20 episodes in to get a truly dud episode. the one AFTER the martin starr episode (and he of course gave his usual guest-starr star turn) where they pushed things too far with the one guy sleeping with college girls and they gave winston a horrible unfunny speech designed to get the college girls out of the apartment. that one was dumb. and i kinda hate the dermot mulroney character cuz he always plays that character and the rich guy thing is just dumb. the only good rich guy scenario was when the one dude went into his study and fell in love with his desk and kept describing the smells in the room.

I'm looking forward to Orange is the New Black. I know eventually everyone turned against Weeds but the creator was very good at establishing characters.

oh, I have no ability to grant things rights to exist or whatever, there was just little chance of me watching it

I mean, unless you're implying things don't exist until I watch them.... oh shit, the world exists only in my imagination, doesn't it?

(existential crisis)

i think you'll live if you don't watch it. the world will live! i was just happy to find something frothy to watch that i didn't hate. not a lot of great sitcoms i haven't already seen on netflix.

I trust you guys a lot more than my coworker who recommended it but also loves the Big Bang Theory

The new girl is ok. I continue to be a fan of zooey deschanel's hairstyle

wanna bone hannah simone

shes attractive

hot rhyme

Netflix seems to be the cause of problems I've had w/ various devices. To wit: Two nights ago I tried to watch something on Netflix on my Apple TV and it crashed like crazy. When I went to Netflix on my laptop, it also crashed like crazy. Both devices froze for a while, and on my laptop, even after I killed the browser, everything was sloooow, including animations that happen when you open or close a window.

Then today I checked Netflix on my work computer and the same thing happened. It bogged down the whole system and I had to restart.

Anybody else?

I had apple TV streaming via iTunes issues on... Sunday?

orange is the new black was on last night!!?? i thought it was going on streaming later in the week. damn i would have watched last night. watched DVDs instead. okay, will watch tonight with maria. i tried to watch spring breakers last night and i got bored. and i was even stoned. don't know what's wrong with me. looked cool though. then i watched Red. which was not very good but i watched it anyway. bruce willis movie.

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

i watched the first ep of orange is the new black - was ok. writing is a lil cringe-y in spots but not like unforgivably so

The stills I've seen look horrible, but I didn't like what I saw of Weeds.

so on the doc front, "The Imposter" is a very well done film abt a incredibly bizarre story. director def spent a lot of time watching errol morris stuff, but incorporates it the right way. highly recommended.

i got bored of weeds really early on. i wanted to like it i really did. i like her she's so cute. but it was dumb. or not compelling enough for me to want to follow. i didn't really care what happened to anyone. but women in prison show, i mean, i gotta at least give it a shot.

The New Yorker had a good article a few years ago about the guy in that Imposter doc.

is it just me or or are there fewer and fewer streaming titles every month?

Heard good things about Dead Man's Burden. I'll watch it this weekend.

finally got around to watching cave of forgotten dreams. don't wait like i did, people. it's as mindblowing as everyone said.

Happy People is up now too! I haven't watched it yet though.

The New Yorker had a good article a few years ago about the guy in that Imposter doc.

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in a lot of ways the movie seemed like a response to the NYer article, which was a lot more critical/suspicious of the family's role in the kid's disappearance

Happy People is worth a watch; it's kind of overly standard Herzog. The footage is all from someone else, he just reedited it and narrates. very middle of the pack.

I know all that and yet I don't care -- it's still gonna be better than the avg "this is how these ppl live" doc!

If they were trying to some up the gist of the show as this:

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/orange-is-the-new-black.jpg

I think they were trying to sum it up as "don't watch this." But it's been well received...

Lechera OTM

i might be out after ep 2 of orange idk

you're like the guy on the tao lin thread who said he hated tao lin because "who would write a NOVEL in 2013 ANYway"

we tried out that new "MAX" recommendations gadget yesterday... was kind of amusing but was obviously just a bit of a built-on frame over their recommendations interface (with the exception of being able to hear a 30-second "pitch" for a recommended movie, which was actually kind of anice touch.)

it recommended "safety not guaranteed" and i lasted all of 5 minutes before i turned it off in disgust.

That movie suuuuuuuuuuuuucked.

i couldnt deal with it

like from the very first childhood flashback thing that seemed to have nothing to do with the movie... why is she applying for a job if she works at a newspaper (i know she's an intern, but it just seemed confusing)... and the way the classified ad is introduced, just like some guy in a meeting saying "the sales guys emailed it to me"... that's how you intro your big plot hook?? you couldn't even have aubrey plaza find it and try to pitch it as her way into the paper? it was just so bad

yeah that movie was garbage, and i think max recommended it to us when i tried it out too. the voice and music of the recommendation engine just kept making me think of that old "you don't know jack" video game

reading s1ocki shutting off a movie due to disgust is almost as good as watching movies

I tried Max and he recommended me SNL in the 2010s. I said no and he recommended me SNL in the 2000s. I said no again and he recommended me SNL in the 1980s. After he recommended me SNL in the 1990s, I watched Cheers instead.

Then Max came for me...

Lost skeleton of cadavra is up

tsui hark's detective dee is up

I got an email from Netflix a couple weeks ago claiming that they had added a new movie and thought I might like it.

It was The Expendables 2

:/

detective dee is dope