Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

season 1 was great. it got WAY ott/clowny for me by season 3 and i had to take a break. then i never watched it again and haven't really missed it. i don't think i care enough about the frobisher case or any of it.

i do still remember the sister -- she was my favorite character iirc

xpost -- Yup, that was exactly my deal with Damages. Like, the format/conceit/gimmick of the first season is all-out manipulative in a great way, purposefully maddening and fun to tear through. Awesome. Turn on season two. Same thing. No. Not doing this again. Definitely not doing it five times, if that's where this is headed. It is a really cool set-up ... once.

i would say it's worth watching any of the seasons or at least episodes with danson in them bc he's so good and i like what they do with his character

really irritated by S4's casting of this guy as an ex-marine
http://www.landmarktheatres.com/mn/images/Ira_and_Abby/ianda_1.jpg

don't tell jaymc

Chris Messina Appreciation Thread

s4 is the only one that i thought was bad

he has a cowardly face

he is clearly land based

http://youtu.be/qD8Kh7Pmzho

^^ At first I didn't like the full-length but I have grown to love it. I have been known to put it on repeat and listen to it like literally 8 or 9 times in a row.

i'm almost done with season one of Revolution. WHICH I WILL NOT RECOMMEND TO ANYONE. but i like it okay. and i get to see the many faces of Juliet from Lost. Bemused, pensive, anguished, frustrated. all variations on a theme.

i've never seen Supernatural. created by the guy who created Revolution. its on netflix. maybe i'll check it out.

(i really don't feel like going back and watching Fringe for some reason. kinda had enough of it but i know it gets crazier or whatever. just a little sick of the mad scientist and dawson's creek dude. talk about a leap of friggin' faith. that guy above is supposed to be a marine, but the dawson's creek crybaby is supposed to be a top notch gunrunner/con man/international man of mystery? yeah...okay.)

sick of walter?!?

sorta? sorry. i mean he's a good character i just......i dunno. i don't know if i can last through the whole thing. i might not care enough.

i love rose byrne but I bailed on season 4 also and didn't really miss it. 3 seasons was enough.

show just gets better too, almost definitely the one 'one and done' show i most wish had been renewed (even more than freaks and geeks).

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As much as I wish Terriers had been renewed I do like where it ended.

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In both cases, I would've loved to see more episodes, but I'm also happy with how they ended. Cliffhangers are only cool if you've been assured your show is getting another season. I'm looking at you, AMY SHERMAN-PALLADINO!

^^ha. I got done with the second (and final) season of Crime Story on disc the other week, which has to be one of the all-time cases of that.

^Re: cliffhangers

did not really enjoy greenberg. though i always love seeing my idol j.j. leigh. kinda couldn't get over how strange ben stiller looked. took me out of the movie a bit. i kept thinking i was watching a michael cera movie 20 years in the future.

also didn't like paul rudd's lebowski movie. just wasn't written very well. good people in it kinda wasted.

i should really just stick to jason statham movies and not bother with sundance stuff. god, that awful adam scott sundance thing that we couldn't watch for more than 20 minutes. same character as greenberg only worse and terribly written. (adam scott wasted in paul rudd lebowski thing too.)

greta gerwig also so meh in greenberg. such a nonsensical character even if she is a judee sill fan. we just watched her in damsels in distress too and she was cool in that in a gilmore girls minor character kinda way. she's no paris. (finally saw damsels! feel bad about that since i love WS and my bro-in-law edited it. i'm slow. maria and i are both slow.)

Sticking to Statham flicks is a solid plan no matter how you look at it.

i should really just stick to jason statham movies and not bother with sundance stuff

there are other films in between, big guy. Sundance has become kind of a catchword for indie films that take no chances but have a reliable niche audience in their sights.

but thank you for being the first person in this thread to watch something besides TV series in about a month.

xp ott otm

i'm gonna watch The Road next probably. still haven't seen it.

my suspension of disbelief powers are fading. its weird. i never cared about reality when watching movies. in that ben stiller movie he supposedly is a carpenter and it seemed like the most ludicrous thing on earth to me. i didn't believe it for a second. there is no way in hell that character learned how to be a carpenter.

speaking of The Road, watching No Country For Old Men on netflix i kinda just set my mind on the task of ignoring the fact that almost everything that happens in the movie is ludicrous and would never happen in a million years in real life.

see, with statham movies i never have to do this because nothing is believable hence everything is fair game.

Blitz is a solid Statham film that's worth it for Paddy Considine.

Dress is up and I rep for that. Gonna try Kiss of the Damned tonight despite misgivings.

scott have you seen parker? i'm sure it's sacrilege, etc but i found it very entertaining, kinda ridiculously loaded cast. it's not streaming on netflix though. i've started watching house of cards, not great and i'm glad i put it off til now so that the newsroom would be out there reminding me of how much worse it could be. at least fundraising is treated as a concern instead of just hilariously ignored like on the west wing. it's no scandal obv. scott do you watch scandal? highly recommended.

i havent seen newsroom but it cant be worse than HOC

I thought you meant Head of the Class and even then, yes it is worse

but thank you for being the first person in this thread to watch something besides TV series in about a month.

Morbs weirdly OTM.

I must admit, the repositioning of Instantwatcher has really messed me up. The list of expiring titles, accurate or not, helped push me in all sorts of viewing directions. Now I'm just swimming in the open ocean of Netflix, which leads to choice paralysis. I'm tempted to watch "13 Assassins" again. Scott, have you seen that one? It's a smart retread of "Seven Samurai." Been meaning to watch "Bernie" for a while, and still waiting for the right night to see "Upstream Color," which is ironic, given how excited I was to se it. Did anyone like "The Comedy?"

(the new miike 13 assassins is a remake of 1963 13 assassins.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057212/ )

I had no idea. I also had no idea this was Miike! Or at least I forgot. It's still really good!

i have seen parker. i got it on dvd. don't think i watched 13 assassins. i liked house of cards okay. i was gonna watch this koyannnisquatssssiii-like movie called samsara but then a facebook friend posted a clip from it where they show animals being processed into food and the clip ends with some guy getting prepped for liposuction and people eating at mcdonalds and i was like yeah no i don't need to see that now cuz it was totally a DO U SEE??? kinda thing.

yeah, the original is obscure, and part of a trilogy. i've seen exactly none of them 8(

miike remake is good, yes, especially the second half.

he also remade koboyashi's hara kiri (1962) the year after but that's a bit of a slower watch.

i did start watching a sad poignant french film about a little girl who tries to pass as a boy and it was good but i had to go to bed, i'll watch that again with maria sometime. she would like it. IN HONOR OF YOU MORBZ. it was actually kinda tense cuz she plays with all these boys and you don't want them to find out she's a girl. a real nail-biter!

i really liked valhalla rising but i probably already mentioned that on here.

i still think people should watch HELL. that movie was cool. come on, someone watch HELL.

samsara is awesome even if it is very DO YOU SEE in places-- not as good as baraka (and i still haven't seen any of the koyaanisqatsi trilogy) but its still very beautiful and trippy and wonderful

smoke a j and stream it, scott; thats my rec!

Portlandia suddenly gets like WAY better somewhere in midseason 2. An episode ends with Kyle McLaughlin's incredible "Portland Anthem" and then the next episode is Brunch Village.

not really in to portlandia but brunch village is good, they should do more episodes that are a single story arc, ditch the skits

yeah I don't mostly love the show, it's more just this default thing we put on when we want something short and light and can't decide on anything else. It's sort of comforting and rarely actually unpleasant to watch.

portlandia is funny! its okay if you guys like it you know. we won't tell anyone. its okay if you like Girls too. we are all friends here.

scott did you like the ep where they tried to take back mtv

i haven't seen them all! i need to watch the ones i haven't seen.

i was just gonna say that i enjoyed Ip Man on netflix and then i watch a youtube video that has a trailer for a movie produced by scorsese and samuel l. jackson called the grandmaster that is about ip man! i didn't watch ip man 2 yet though.

koyannnisquatssssiii

I laughed

The Grandmaster is directed by Wong Kar Wai! Was psyched to see it.

oh I watched Ip Man. It hit the spot as The Kind of Movie I Want To Watch When My Family Falls Asleep Early Enough For Me To Drink Two Beers Watch A Movie And Still Go To Bed At A Reasonable Time

Try this is martin bronner, its v good

Way psyched, I mean. I guess it's playing in theaters now. Maybe that's what I'll do today.

Watched 56 Up last night. Was OK. As good as most of those Up movies, although they're starting to feel a tad redundant to me. Kind of wish one of the people would freak out, quit their job, and become a drug mule or something just to spice up the series.

those poor Up people.