Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

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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

the architect dad reminded me of a hipster dad of today
sadly i watched the whole thing waiting for it to be a horror movie

been watching THE ROCKFORD FILES. if nothing else, great for amazing vintage L.A. location porn.

architect dads are hipster dads

i'm probably just allergic to the zany urbanites genre. i saw a few episodes of seinfeld again recently and was surprised at how lame it seemed

i think possibly just the entire brightly-lit couch steez is ruined for me by the office, alan partridge, curb, the thick of it, louis, etc

omg the main girl in the movie is married to thomas dolby! weird.

been watching THE ROCKFORD FILES. if nothing else, great for amazing vintage L.A. location porn.

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, October 20, 2013 5:18 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so good.

rockford also essential for the music, the car chases and the zingy repartee btwn rockford and his cop frenemies.

do you ppl realize how close we came to a rockford files remake starring dermot mulroney?

which would have been more sand in the eyes after terriers, being the true rockford heir, getting canceled.

every time someone mentions Terriers, it's like a knife in my heart

same here

So the x-gf in Arrow has my first name, that's disconcerting. I keep turning around to see who called me. Getting some sympathy for all you Chrises and Johns.

what about Michaels

Hm. No, you guys are on your own.

also re: the rockford files, it's been years since i'd seen anything w/'70s-era lindsay wagner and...good lord, she's like a 12 out of 10 on the bailey quarters '70s attractiveness scale.

one of the NYT Mag's "Meh List" choices recently was "The movie selection on Netflix," which if true explains why u ppl are always talking about TV shows I've never heard of.

Rockford Files is the best detective show in the history of US TV, full stop. (It's true it's not chockfull of detection-type stuff BCZ WHO CARES.)

it reminds me of sort of a sunnier version of 'night moves' occasionally. MUCH sunnier.

there used to be criterions on netflix but in general the movie selecsh is p.sucky

good for horror I guess

The selection is not a total lost cause. In my queue My List right now:

American Mary
Orange Is the New Black
A Talking Cat!?!			
Miami Connection
Top of the Lake	
The ABCs of Death
After Fall, Winter
Bernie
Dark Horse
Beyond the Black Rainbow
5 Broken Cameras
Elena	
How To Survive a Plague
In Another Country	
The Imposter
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
The Kid with a Bike
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth	
Sound of Noise
Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Louie		
Portlandia	
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
The Tall Man	
Absentia	
Session 9	
Headhunters	
Dawning
Mutant Girls Squad
Nazis at the Center of the Earth	
Seed of Chucky	
White Material
Mum & Dad
The American Scream
Pina
The Adventures of Tintin
Klown
House of Pleasures
Waste Land
The Snowtown Murders
M/Other
Vibrations
Goon
Breakdown
The Young Girls of Rochefort
The Sacrifice
The Tempest
Moment By Moment
Murder by Decree
The Good Son
The Paperboy
Alps
Keep the Lights On
Goodbye First Love
Neighboring Sounds
Cosmopolis
The Deep Blue Sea
The Turin Horse
Upstream Color

I mean, I've seen a number of them already, but I'm glad I have them at the ready for a rewatch.

lol at the idea that A Talking Cat (which cracked me up, don't get me wrong) is an argument in Netflix's favor

You know this is true.

Arrow is hilarious btw. The main guy does crossfit in his deserted mysterious warehouse space (which it's never explained how he owns the space or anything), and he's a total nutbag vigilante. Meanwhile, Harry Dresden, who imo is suspect #1 on the list of ppl who are not jjjusten, is totally miscast as this bullying police officer dad of a public interest lawyer who lets him boss her around patronizingly.

I can't believe writers still make anyone say "surfing the net" btw. That's just cruel.

i want to watch arrow but helen is strongly opposed. so we just watch more star trek.