Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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

oh man, i really hated that. also hated paprika – thanks, max.

civilians don't care about this stuff, right?

http://flavorwire.com/404511/why-is-netflix-secretly-cropping-movies

i sure do :(

Yeah I don't care.

Doubtful that it's entirely Netflix's fault. The studios are probably sending them files that have been cropped for TV and Netflix doesn't do their due diligence to find out if it's the original aspect ratio.

See note at bottom of article

I care a lot, but I feel like this should be a setting, something to the effect of "do you actually like the art of film or are you a crybaby who hates black bars"

i've seen pan&scan stuff on netflix, its infuriating

also im pretty sure the version of lukas moodysson's together i watched the other night was from a VHS copy, it had horrible hard-subs and it was letterboxed but not anamorphic so basically the picture was floating on my screen with bars on all sides

and it was shit quality

"secretly"

I hate pan & scan, but does Netflix still do this? That article mentions Starz, and also how that is no longer the source. But two of the three movies screen capped in the piece are not currently even streaming on Netflix.

Huh, yeah, Man in the Moon is indeed 1.85-ish. Weird. Anyway. I've noticed this worse on Amazon Prime, I want to say. My usual 'Scope test is John Carpenter movies.

i will turn off any movie on netflix with p&s/wrong ratio/shitty transfer within the first 5 minutes because it pisses me off so much. and yeah, theres plenty of it. the current netflix battle royale stream looks like it was filmed with a tripod camera

That Tumblr makes me jealous of all the movies streamed overseas but not here. That's an equal injustice!

I was surprised how different the Netflix selection is in Canada!

max not on fire

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Last_Kind_Words/70272856?trkid=2361637

My buddy Kevin's movie is streaming on Netflix now! Southern Gothic ghost story, gorgeously shot in rural Kentucky. Highly recc'd. Some music by our roommate (P.G. Six)

hah ian, I never made the PG6 connection before.

but haven't you MET pat????

yeah, I didn't know he was dat guy!

(I haven't known who ppl in bands are for eons, you know that)

I think a friend of my friend Geoff plays w/ him, in fact

that wldn't surprise me!

My buddy Kevin's movie is streaming on Netflix now!

Your buddy Kevin? My buddy Kevin! How do you know Kevin?

music stuff, mostly! he's friends with a lot of ppl i know, he would come into the record store where i used to work, etc. i think the first ppl i met kevin thru were 0tt0 h and d4v3 l3rn3r?

Huh. I went to school with Kevin (undergrad) and played in a band with him. So I wouldn't be surprised if we had a few other mutual friends as well.

huh! wild. i bet we do...

is The Glades any good? never even heard of it until i saw it was on netflix. but i don't have cable anymore. would watch alligator cop show if its halfway decent. a chicago cop is REALLY a fish out of water in this spicy crime drama.

they're REALLY convinced i'll like that one.

i think because i watched the bones spinoff set in florida or on an island or something like that.

but i tried to watch csi miami and felt discomfort and existential self-loathing so i'm not so sure about florida.

they think i'm gonna love THE GLADES too. i blame that episode of longmire i watched, and also rockford.

The Glades was okay in a guilty pleasure kind of way in the first season. They had a marathon one weekend and I was sick and watched the whole thing. Second season was essentially an hour-long Kia commercial every week. The most hackneyed, embarrassing product placement ever. I felt sorry for the actors having to say their stupid lines about the stupid Kia. Haven't seen Season 3 but my husband assures me it's still terrible, still a Kia commercial.

I watched Orange is etc etc. not bad!