Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

i actually watched DVDs last night. i had to return a faulty Wii game at the dumb cd store and i swapped it with a used copy and ended up with credit so i bought some DVDs. watched Taken and Battle: Los Angeles. i basically came to the conclusion that i will watch liam neeson and aaron eckhart in any movie they are in. Battle: Los Angeles featured quite possibly the dumbest cinematic Marines I have ever seen in my life. even i know that if you are trying to avoid being killed by an army of aliens being AS LOUD AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE isn't the best way to go about it. plus, they were just dumb. and so slow. and they stop to pet dogs when an alien army is trying to kill them. plus, when they need to get on a helicopter because an alien army is trying to kill them they take their time and look around wistfully before getting on the helicopter. plus, they were so fucking stupid and loud. but i do love watching aaron eckhart.

sorry, off-topic. gonna watch Taken 2 tonight. got that 2.

i did really like that Punisher sequel that i never would have known to watch if people hadn't been like hey that Punisher sequel is really good. so, i would watch universal soldier sequel.

oh yeah, Punisher: War Zone is crazy and fun

Thick as Thieves is decent -- entertaining enough.

watching the wallander series of bbc dramas. i thought i watched them all, but i guess i only watched the first four.

okay i know this doesn't belong here but after watching Taken and Taken 2 i can't BELIEVE that they didn't get liam neeson to play jack reacher in the Reacher movie! he would have been PERFECT. sheesh.

liam neeson is gonna play matt scudder in the upcoming movie version of "A Walk Among The Tombstones" so at least you have that to look forward to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Scudder

i mean he basically plays Reacher in the Taken movies except for the having a family part.

okay i know this doesn't belong here but after watching Taken and Taken 2 i can't BELIEVE that they didn't get liam neeson to play jack reacher in the Reacher movie! he would have been PERFECT. sheesh.

― scott seward, Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:56 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bit long in the tooth for reacher, who i always imagined as being pretty youthful (so is cruise i guess but he has a younger aura than neeson)

still, he was very capable as badass in the Taken movies. you don't need to know his chronology from the books. he could be an older guy. if he could be four feet tall in the movie he could be older too.

liam has ten years on cruise.

i dont doubt he's a #1 badass but i think he's got too much sadness in his eyes to be reacher

the new girl is abysmal

incorrect, interestingly!

it's shocking to me that that style of sitcom is even produced any more tbh

i attempted to watch s03e01 & my wife said "so it's like friends?" and i was like, i guess so

what style? one camera, no laugh track? that's like... the most common comedy format of this era

whatever boss, i'm just saying the style feels dated as hell to me

and it's always a bad sign in my book when "friends" feels like some kind of classic masterwork in comparison

yes it's a sign you're getting old

http://www.babywit.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/a/r/arf688_1_1.png

(replace "loud" with "whimsical and frothy")

the actors seem like they're probably nice people, i feel bad for them that they're stuck inside such a deeply shitty television show that is apparently just successful enough to keep cranking out episodes

M. Night Shyamalan's The Devil is on Netflix now. I'm trying and failing to come up with a reason not to watch it.

New Girl is the best show on television. If you don't agree you are dumb.

http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/2/4/1/7/1/2/3/hes-right-you-know-93164244350.jpeg

haha i knew selzer couldn't let that pass

Xpost I've heard Devil is pretty good. M Night didn't direct it just produced it iirc

Anyone seen Popatopolis?

Popatopolis follows veteran B-movie auteur Jim Wynorski as he attempts to produce the soft-core film The Witches of Breastwick on a three-day shoot.

I've heard Devil is pretty good. M Night didn't direct it just produced it iirc

if m night didn't write the scene where a panicky catholic dude tries to prove the devil is near by dropping a piece of butter toast (which lands butter down because of the devil) then it was written by someone on m night's wavelength

not say i don't highly recommend watching devil, tho. just watch it knowing that m nightness abounds.

tracer's reaction to 15 minutes of the new girl is cute cuz it reminds me how much i hated arrested development based on one and a half episodes

The Marc Maron standup is sort of entertaining.

I couldn't make it through New Girl either. Seems like Happy Endings minus the likable characters and laughs.

http://www.ibtauris.com/~/media/Images/Book%20Covers/Television/9781845115111.ashx

tracer's reaction to 15 minutes of the new girl is cute cuz it reminds me how much i hated arrested development based on one and a half episodes

― da croupier, Sunday, October 20, 2013 7:05 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i too hated arrested development but i certainly didn't stick around for an entire episode and a half to make sure

this is useful.

i started rewatching new girl, aside from a bit of singing it's on its strengths basically from episode 2, much earlier than i had remembered. they set up the relationships very fast, too, from the pilot/second episode.

they get a lot out of their reaction shots.

liked happy endings more than new girl but if you actually think happy endings had more likeable characters you may be a sociopath

Fine, I just don't like Zooey Deschanel. There I said it. Can one of you recommend one specific episode that brings the lolz and might change my mind?

TRUE AMERICAN

i too hated arrested development but i certainly didn't stick around for an entire episode and a half to make sure

fair nuff, I just know that when you have a violent "this is overrated when it is the worst!!!!" reaction to a show, 75% you'll wind up loving it if you invest a little more time. but old people don't do that, I get it.

Can one of you recommend one specific episode that brings the lolz and might change my mind?

weekly serials don't really lend themselves to single episodes that will make grumps unfold their arms, imo. I'd say watch the first disc of season 2, if you're still "THIS IS THE WORST THING EVER!" after giving yourself a chance to get into the groove, then move on.

i never got into Friends, but I didn't really try so I have to assume there's a point where you give a rat's ass about those buttfaces the way I liked the buttfaces on post-friends "zany urbanites" shows.

with the exception of a show like Parks & rec, where s1 was crazy short, "watch the first disc of season 2, if you're still "THIS IS THE WORST THING EVER!" after giving yourself a chance to get into the groove, then move on" is my recommendation for just about every sitcom

i loved Friends. they were my friends.

Just watched The Queen of Versailles, christ alive what a twat that David Siegel is

I think every thread for sitcoms that ended up being ILX faves, including New Girl, started out with lots of "Not feeling it" posts and eventually just became a bunch of quotes and gifs. But now that we have Netflix there's a new opportunity for posters to watch the first episode of these shows and come tell us that they suck.

s/o ppl getting annoyed that other people dont like 'new girl' lmao

interrupting this neverending thread about sitcoms to say that the 1978 movie entitled ARE YOU IN THE HOUSE ALONE? is not a horror movie, but more of an afterschool movie about rape. a girl even gets a picture of herself stuck in her locker that says RAPE on it and then she gets raped.

it gave me fierce hair envy on top of being not a very good movie. can't recommend it even though it seemed like it would be good. it does star some attractive actors and has appealing set design. i guess that's something.

i watched that! way overplotted and SEMI-SPOILER the identity of the stalker/rapist totally bummed me out, but definitely tv-movie entertaining

actually i ffwed like half of it so i guess i shouldn't say it's "tv-movie entertaining"

Absolute BS

Haha, wrong thread