Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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'.

lol

The weird thing is that he actually already used the line "my hat is like a shark's fin" in "I'm Bad." It must have been a really cool hat, although I always pictured a novelty hat you might buy in the Tennessee Aquarium gift shop, with a floppy plush shark's fin sticking up off the top. Not discounting the possibility that LL owned one - it just seems a strange thing to repeatedly rap about.

huh, that was kinda renny harlin's last shot at gold. he's been reduced to directing episodes of usa network shows nowadays.

Also, before I wrap up what is clearly an extended recommendation that you all watch Renny Harlin's Deep Blue Sea on Netflix Watch Instantly, I also want to say that Allmusic used to list that song under the title "Deepest Blues."

deep blue see is awesome

also until just now I always thought it was 'my head is like a shark's fin'

see? sea

LL is vicious with his rhymes. Just like a shark fin poking out of water, he’s ready to attack when he’s wearing his hats.

Early in his career, LL was almost always seen wearing a black or red Kangol. These hat could resemble a shark’s fin when seen from the right angle. Here is a watercolor painting of LL Cool J from Rap Genius editor HaringDMC.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5329/8992509880_312d7ddc95_n.jpg

forget oreos eat cool j cookies

Shut Up and Play the Hits

Had no idea this was on there. Thanks!

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

There are options in the settings to limit quality if you have bandwidth caps, but more useful is the wee secret browser menu. Alt-shift-mouse click (on a mac anyway- not sure if it's the same on windows) in the video window will bring up a diagnostic menu, and the stream manager option lets you change bitrate manually. SD videos max out at 1750Kbps and HD at 3000Kbps I think. Netflix generally seems pretty good at working this out though, so trying to second guess it for a higher bitrate might lead to buffering.

Orange is the New Black is great so far.

we miss it already. we want more.

Chicken episode was A+ TV.

So...what will happen to me if I go down this New Girl-shaped black hole that I'm contemplating? Scott?

Man top of the lake is weird and good

Ugh I watched an entire New Girl season because of scott

I preferred the time I watched Longmire due to in orbit, tbh

Okay no I can't do this. She just broke a tv.

I just watched Happy People and it's definitely Lesser Herzog (like barely Herzog) and the music left something to be desired (considering the precedent he sets) but it's a great portrait of human-canine interaction!

i think often of the guy making skis like nbd