Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Q: Is there anything I can do to improve the awful netflix streaming picture quality? I'm getting really bad pixelation in darker areas of the frame.

Get a better internet connection?

I occasionally see that when it's a high-congestion time of the day for the netflix servers. The other thing to do would be to make sure you're using your ISP's DNS servers instead of Google DNS or whatever, but that can give mixed results, too. Maybe even try vice-versa. Sometimes their ability to detect where you are (topographically on the internet, not necessarily geographically) sucks and you end up with a bad server.

Possible that wiring in instead of connecting wirelessly would speed things up?

Possible, although that would lead me to believe that you might benefit from a new wireless router

What device are you using to watch Netflix?

dell laptop through hdmi cable into tv

Yeah, idk then

Maybe try a different HDMI cable? They can be finicky, especially the generic ones (Radio Shack, Amazon, etc.). HD or neo-HD streams like Netflix command a ton a bandwidth.

have you selected highest image quality

is your television plugged in

this thread is pretty much half miami connection talk.

― scott seward, Tuesday, July 23, 2013 4:06 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah no shade on anybody but i seriously think there are threads about dick jokes and whether it's safe to eat moldy bread that have more netflix watch instantly recommendadtions than this one

of course all i've been doing is marching through the first season of Samurai Jack after it became clear that Futurama was not going to bounce back from the horrible gender-swapping episode.

how bout this, here are some low-profile things that have been in my instant queue for upwards of a year, which ones should i watch:

The Stuff - This campy classic finds Americans gorging on the latest snack sensation: a no-calorie treat dubbed "the Stuff."

Erik The Viking - Erik the Viking is tired of living in the darkness of the Age of Ragnorok, so he begins a quest to ask the gods to bring sunlight to his people.

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale - In the frozen beauty of Finland, local reindeer herders race against the clock to capture an ancient evil: Santa Claus.

Dark Planet - Reeling from the destruction of World War VI, planet Earth is dying.

Sex Galaxy - Director-producer Mike Davis sets out to make history with the "world's first 'green' film" ... which is another way of saying it's cleverly compiled from public-domain movies other directors have already made.

Terminal Force - To rule the galaxy, a ruthless being called Kyla needs to hunt down a powerful crystal hidden on Earth.

Road, Movie - Reluctant to take over his father's flailing hair-oil business, young Vishnu (Abhay Deol) becomes the sole proprietor of a traveling cinema after he hops on a truck containing a library of film reels and a film projector.

Also, is any of the anime good at all? They never add any more, which is probably good because the last thing I need to do is lay in for a weekend of watching, like, Evangelion straight through like I'm 16 again. But still.

Just catching up on S-21 to compare/contrast with The Act of Killing.

I hated rare exports, so skip that

First 5 of sex galaxy are crazy annoying. Go for the stuff.

Possible that wiring in instead of connecting wirelessly would speed things up?

My picture quality improved dramatically when I connected my Roku via Ethernet rather than wireless. As I understand it, 802.11ac should stream video as well as ethernet but the good 802.11ac routers are still $$$. I had that kind of pixellation (solid areas of dark color would have a blockiness to the edge?) and it was solved.

Netflix and Time Warner still aren't playing nice so even with 50mbps my streams start out in low quality, after a minute move to the highest quality and then on occasion drop down to a lesser quality for a minute. I'd rather Netflix just let the damn movies buffer.

I thought Rare Exports was great. So is "The Stuff."

yeah no shade on anybody but i seriously think there are threads about dick jokes and whether it's safe to eat moldy bread that have more netflix watch instantly recommendadtions than this one

I have 250 or something movies in my queue. Want me to list them? Archer/Bob's Burgers? Parallax View? Orange is the New Black? Shut Up and Play the Hits? 56 Up?

I thought Rare Exports was great.

maybe not great, but i had a damn good time with it. recommended!

or, well, a good time at least

Also, is any of the anime good at all?

enjoyed the few episodes of mushi-shi i watched a while back. interesting stories, contemplative tone and some lovely imagery. rather slow and talky though.

dunno about the rest.

Parallax View is a great movie!
Archer >>>>>>>>> Bob's Burgers

I have 250 or something movies in my queue. Want me to list them?

No, thanks. But of the ones you list, the only ones I've seen are a couple of episodes each of Archer and Bob's Burgers. I got a few scattered chuckles here and there but generally neither was my thing. I gather that people who like that kind of thing tend to like both of those? If I had to pick I'd say Bob's Burgers was marginally funnier just for not wearing its shtick on its sleeve.

more generally, thanks everyone!

xp is there actually a setting in Netflix for "highest image quality"? I've never seen that.

Cocaine: One Man's Seduction

dennis weaver's just "a scotch man." but that was before his son, james spader, told him and his wife, mrs. ingalls, that he wanted to take a year off instead of going immediately to stanford upon graduation! the next week is a hellscape, a fiendish rollercoaster ride. the conveyance? primo yeyo. at first he thought it made everything better. turns out it was the exact opposite. it made most things not better.

primo yolo

ilx's jeff t. could give good anime reccs on here. i think he has on past threads? maybe he'll show up.

Basically, I fell off of anime completely right when I got to college in 2000 - so I'm sure tons of great stuff has come out since then but I don't know what it is or if Netflix has any of it. Probably a subject for a different thread though! There's something really samey about what they have, just glancing across the cover images and descriptions, but maybe that just reflects some big macro-trends in anime over the last fifteen years.

Top 40 in queue: Hemlock Grove, Cosmopolis, The Piano Teacher, Fantomas, 17 Girls, 5 Broken Cameras, Blue Valentine, The Company Men, How To Survive a Plague, The Lovers on the Bridge, Red Hook Summer, Sleepwalk with Me, God Bless America, The Turin Horse, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Mama Africa, The Bay, The ABC's of Death, Longmire, Jack the Giant Killer, Brother's Keeper, Buffalo Girls, Where Soldiers Come From, The Adventures of Tintin, Bones Brigade, The Deep Blue Sea, The King's Speech, Hugo, Suspense, Coriolanus, Sesame Street: Classics, A Man's Story, Kill Baby... Kill!, Bay of Blood, Chico and Rita, Night Train to Munich, Frozen, Oslo August 31st, The Salt of Life, 40 Minutes to Hell, The Story of Mr. Sorry

I've been leaning on Hulu a lot more lately.

No idea on any of those, have also had Hugo and Tintin sitting around for a while out of curiosity.

Fantomas I found more interesting than good, I pretty much loathed Tintin, Deep Blue Sea is fun if you shut off your head, and Bones Brigade is amazing. I have a bunch of those in my queue too but haven't seen any but the ones I mentioned.

piano teacher, brothers keeper & oslo aug 31 are all really good

I enjoyed Tintin a lot.

second oslo aug 31. hemlock grove is cool if you can handle some terrible acting.

brothers keeper is totally amazing

hugo is garbage btw

did any of you ever watch HELL? i liked that movie a lot. german end of the world movie. i might actually watch it again. i recommended it way back when. anyway, its cool. and you don't really know where its going as it goes. which i liked. i want maria to watch it befofe it goes away from netflix. she can brush up on her german.

i can't watch anime on netflix because most of the streaming titles are dub-only which drives me crazy, but just glancing through the anime section there's some good stuff. mushishi, trigun, darker than black, last exile, gunslinger girl, tokyo godfathers. i've also heard good things abt eden of the east.

I liked 5 broken cameras and how to survive a plague

brothers keeper is totally amazing

― nice moderating dude (jjjusten), Thursday, July 25, 2013 9:57 AM (18 minutes ago)

I really like The Princess of Montpensier

Last Exile has been in my queue for a while, maybe I'll check that out!

Are we talking about Deep Blue Sea, the mutant shark movie with the wonderful LL Cool J theme song?

i love the shark movie. best samuel l. jackson role ever!

am guessing that at least some of the ppl here mean the terence davies movie when they say deep blue sea

rachel weisz in a terence ratigan adaptation vs the glory that is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkKb9OvXXvk

MY HAT IS LIKE A SHARK'S FIN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMwmqp3GLMc

omg so awesome

Would love to see someone try to make Sphere and Deep Blue Sea into one movie through careful editing anchored on Samuel L. Jackson in underwater environments.

that's a pretty key scene, yes

in the ll biopic i hope there's a scene where you see ll in his trailer on the set of deep blue sea, notepad in hand, frustrated - he's blocked. then he catches sight of his hat and his eyes narrow, then widen, then he smiles. cut to 'deepest bluest'.