Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

do you think they get paranoid about dying?

I thought 56 was the best one in awhile.

i saw 56up in the theaters when it first came out and the jockey guy was outside shaking hands and it BLEW MY MIND
he's short btw

I got a kick out of the guy who returned to the series after 30 years to promote his band.

i finally watched a cabin in the woods. what took me so long? that was fun. better late than never. trying samsara now with some silver haze. its cool in that tripped out national geographic way. the music is corny though. they should have paid someone to write a cool electronic score for it. old ruins do not have to have the same old ambient world music playing in honor of their oldness. i want to see old stuff with micro krautbeats in the background. did anyone see this at like an imax place? that would be far out. i just wish my t.v. were bigger.

uh oh some worldbeat action. GR8eeee!!! who is that dude who puts the make-up on and goes nuts with straw and becomes a scarecrow. that guy is nuts. wow.

why do people always have to speed up factory assembly lines when they put them in documentaries? i've seen super-speed assembly lines my whole life on t.v. and movies. maybe it would be soothing to watch an assembly line at normal speed. give it a chance.

scott, you want "How It's Made" for that (which is on Netflix!)

lots of normal-speed production processes

"the fall" is so depressing and good

man real talk

oh believe me i have seen plenty how it's made episodes. cyrus is a fan. michael stearns was the music guy on this. on samsara. they should have let him do all the music though. he's an electronic pioneer.

and lisa gerrard did stuff for this of course. i feel bad cuz i love DCD but she is just kind of a trademark of quality now that is almost anonymous.

this is the guy! this guy is my new hero.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-S862p69B0

he's a national treasure. i hope he gets paid lots of money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rhaAZWggSM

that's pretty heavy, i like

he's a human Bacon painting.

i wanna do that the next time i'm in the pottery studio and just freak out the plebes

Watching "Dredd". Not sure why. It sucks much less than i expected. So far.