Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

has DDL ever directed anything? feel like if he made movies they would be more interesting than what other people give him to do. he's an interesting guy.

There are much harder movies to watch.

lol that this is a recommendation. "Not as excruciatingly painful as a lot of other stuff!"

No, I mean, it reminds me of when I saw "Tree of Life" in the theater, and these dudes were all "now I'll never get those two hours of my life back!" And I was thinking, kids, it's only two hours! Of pretty pictures! A Bela Tarr commitment it is not.

every time i see a PTA movie i think hey this guy has watched movies. he must like movies. sometimes having no knowledge of anything but movies can work for a person. i think it works for tarantino. but with PTA its like writers like franzen who write about things from the perspective of someone who has read about those things and never actually witnessed or experienced them. i mean that's how it reads to me. its possible franzen has seen a tree or whatever in the wild. and i'm sure PTA has seen someone working outside once or twice in his life.

See also: a lot of directors. But I will concede that as far as movies go, PTA is pretty movie-y.

You could say he sees ... the Big Picture.

watched SOLOMON KANE last night.
why do i keep watching movies about fictional characters that i love? i just get angry. "THE REAL SOLOMON KANE WAS NEVER A GODDAMN PIRATE."

it was fun though.

did you see john carter? that movie is great. dunno if you've read the books though.

i haven't seen john carter. is it on the netflix? maybe i'll watch that later. i read a few of those books. i bought a huge box of (Edgar Rice) Burroughs books at a stoop sale last year, mostly for the Mars/Venus books, rather than the Tarzan/lost world ones. I didn't read them all though.

john carter is fun

anyone watched the mind of a chef (w/david chang)? production is too flashy in places but it's fun enough

joe beef's foie gras double down had me like

started watching a low-budget indie called The New Year but got bored. its been a while since i've watched a low budget drama where it looked like they just cast non-actor friends and neighbors in most of the roles.

I've watched a bunch of mind of a chef. It's fairly entertaining although they hit a lot of spots that have shown up on various similar shows hosted by Anthony Bourdain. Also, it looks like they got footage from a small handful of trips and then stretched it out into many episodes.

Not sure why I hadn't started watching it until now. It's basically the same (Chang + Meehan) people who head up Lucky Peach magazine. A lot of the material on the show was written up in there.

We watched the New Year the other night trying to find something at least somewhat funny. "Indie comedy" it was not. "Indie snoozefest" 100% accurate.

there just seems to be a flood of dull, middling, predictable 'indie' comedies/romcoms lately -- a formula has emerged

the only time i laughed during the new year is when her brassy friend recounted the dream about the bucket of vaginas on the beach.

I watched Electrick Children over the weekend. The premise was decent: teenage girl who lived her whole life off the grid in a pseudo luddite Christian enclave suddenly finds herself pregnant, in Las Vegas, and romancing a grungified Rory Culkin. Unfortunately, it required too much suspension of disbelief to hold up.

watched the first half of Swimming WIth Sharks last night. I guess it was "good" in as much as Kevin Spacey is good at being a douchebag on film, and it was a bit rewarding to see his harried assistant exact revenge, but it didn't make me feel good, and in fact it made me feel kinda gross. It is a movie for ppl who are really into that Donald Trump show where he yells at ppl. Note that I didn't turn it off cuz I was bored or offended, it was just time to go to bed. Will probably finish it tonight.

I want to say it goes someplace more unexpected?

watched parallax view last week, pretty good 70s hair, plot is lightweight 70s conspiracy stuff overall tho, at least compared to the competition.

okay, i guess i should finish a movie before i complain abt it.

<3 parallax view.

yeah, it was good, i think i was just expecting something slightly heavier. A+ car chase, great character actors, good west coast 70s vibe. the kinda avant brainwashing sequence too!

not sure why, but I went back and watched the last two seasons of Weeds that I'd never gotten around to.

kinda scared of watching to the wonder for some reason. is it supposed to be like a toast? To the wonder! might need stronger weed...

i believe it is a reference to this place which features heavily in the movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_St._Michel

Parallax has a great avant paranoid score by Michael Small, kind of a goldsmithy thing.

I'll throw a rec in for Ironclad-- not a great movie but a great castle siege flick. Put me in the mind of Flesh+Blood.

yeah Ironclad is pretty great for a ridic low budget castle movie

it was slated to be a big budget thing with Megan Fox and then the bottom fell out and they were left with a bare-bones cast and no money

there's an article about it somewhere

hold plz

aha! found it

http://variety.com/2010/biz/news/ironclad-overcomes-finance-obstacles-1118018859/

eighteen (!) executive producers

Parallax View is like one of my fave movies ever. The sound design is so killer. Times where you can barely hear the conversation because of water or wind. The crazy montage training film thing. Sure, it doesn't have the gravitas of The Conversation, but it's definitely a top 70s conspiracy movie.

I watched Valhalla Rising last night. Found it fairly perplexing and gruesome. Reminded me a bit of Aguirre, the Wrath of God.

In other Netflix news, lately it's been doing very poorly with staying in HD. It keeps going back and forth between HD and highly pixelated, which I'm finding ever more aggravating.

started parker last night and don't know if i'll finish it, esp. if the beginning is supposed to be the best part. not very good.

i dug valhalla. just don't see stuff like that very much. plus, i'm a sucker for long journeys. #milo&otis4ever

needed more cute cats 'n' dogs 'n' pigs, less entrails

i like that movie on netflix about the dudes breaking out of siberian prison and traveling thousands of miles. can't remember title. and there is ANOTHER one about a woman breaking out of siberia to save her kid, but i haven't seen that one yet.

Sounds interesting. Valhalla Rising I am coming.
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same director who did Drive. which i also liked a lot and which was also kind of gruesome at times.

Maybe I had gone extra soft because it was shortly after my daughter was born, but I found myself unable to watch Valhalla Rising.

Valhalla is slow as hell but pretty haunting.

Likewise, I watched Enter the Void a few weeks back (is it still on there?). It's really long and pretty slow at times and I went into thinking it was just going to be colorful and while watching it I was mostly like "this is pretty ridiculous" but it's really stuck with me and now I think I loved it.

i want to watch his Pusher trilogy but they only have the 3rd one on netflix streaming.

enter the void is unique, that's for sure!

kind of an endurance test.

Enter the Void is all downhill after the credits.

scott you watch scandal? second season up

I thought the whole movie (enter the void) was going to be like the credits so I braced myself and was surprised how slow it was. But I did end up liking it. Took me a few days to decide that though.

mads mikkelsen as a captive of vikings, how can you not love it re: VR

Enter the Void is so self-indulgent

its one of those movies that kind of punishes you for liking movies like von trier and haneke and some people really enjoy being punished. i can usually take like 30 minutes of any of their movies and i get the concept and move on.

like, if i thought they were brilliant or something i might hang longer. but i don't think they are brilliant. they have kinda cool eyes.