Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

finally watched house o fthe devil; like the dude's style but his movies really tend to sputter out

Did anyone other than scott watch Redemption? Need some Statham

i like safe, blitz, parker, killer elite, in the name of the king, the italian job, and the expendables 2 more than redemption. as far as streaming netflix statham goes. but i am scott.

I watched about 15 minutes. Maybe some other time. I have seen all of those other than in the name of the king. Also, Parker is ok

Canada just got Doctor Who (2005-). I am tempted. Do I need to know anything about the old series?

No

yeah, you can easily jump in with Eccleston

he is doctor who, he travels thru time in a box, humans are his friends

jump in, water's fine

j. otm

i watched "First Winter" over the weekend

it was pretty slow and unlikable for the first two acts but i'm glad i didn't give up on it because imo it redeemed itself in the end. very beautiful and haunting film altogether.

Huh... I think this is the film that played at the Tribeca FF that my coworker described as "American Apparel: The Movie".

your co-worker sounds delightful

Yes she is and she said the guy in the lead role was essentially a Dov Charney-esque sleazebag.

Maybe I'll add it to the queue and see what all the fuss is about.

Just started Brooklyn Castle and I'm already squeeing through my tears.

you know, Empire State is pretty good despite the incongruous presence of The Rock. 80's period piece about Greek-American dudes in NYC and crime gone awry. director was an 80's hardcore punk dude and the 80's vibe is nice. cuz if you look at the poster you'd just think it was a standard Rock vehicle.

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

silent black and white bullfighting fairy tale dwarf movie looks kinda cool.

although right now i'm watching Olympus Has Fallen cuz that's how i roll. best white house destruction porn ever.

Agreed. Best B+ movie of the summer.

Oh wait, I thought you were talking about White House Down.

c'mon man

new aziz special is p good

Denver newspaper reporter Garret Smith takes matters into his own hands when police fail to challenge a rogue band of Mormon avengers who may be harboring a serial killer in their midst.

cosigning on pruitt-igoe myth; what a solid doc

I watched the aziz special the other night, definitely his best so far. He's gotten "edgier" in his delivery.

now i'm watching The Bay. barry levinson eco-terror grossness. do not watch if you hate that ile hole-fear thread.

I know every time I see a good documentary I come here and tell you it's the best (Pruitt-Igoe--WAS I WRONG?). Today, Brooklyn Castle is the best. The BEST. And it's not even a sad cautionary tale about human folly, it's CHARMING and funny as heck.

i was watching multiple episodes of flashpoint t.v. show until i got to an episode that was even too dumb for ME. imagine! it was just...so ridiculous. this rich lady had to wear a bomb necklace that a Chilean dude put on her and then she had to watch her husband confess to something in front of a big crowd and it really made NO sense. and i was so mad at the one strikeforce woman who took her eyes off of the rich lady and let the rich lady get into the impossible mess in the first place. so, i stopped watching flashpoint. i was into it up until then. i've been having a really hard time quitting smoking and sometimes all i can really do is watch endless t.v. to keep sane.

was enjoying Chuck with Rufus but then Cyrus started watching and that night he said it scared him so now i can't watch Chuck in front of him he's such a baby. oh well.

so i started watching wacky timothy hutton equalizer show instead of strikeforce. i've always been fond of wacky crime shows. simon & simon, rockford, feather and father gang(!), all those. seems to do the trick. don't want to go insane.

New Aziz did pretty much zilch for me, think I'm tired of his voice. Genuine LOL at the Rango reference though.

btw Netflix has just acquired one of the year's hot docs, The Square (the last 3 years in Egypt), for distribution but I imagine it won't show up til later in awards season, so proceed with your TV shows about elves and bomb necklaces.

what happened in egypt the last three years? I was busy with Game of Thrones

we could have two threads. one for movies and one for t.v.

don't matter to me. if its aggravating for non-t.v. people to see t.v. talk. i just ignore shit i don't care about. like documentaries.

no, morbs should feel free to make us feel guilty for not watching movies that aren't actually on netflix, on the netflix thread

chillax kidz

the director of that documentary about Egypt went to Milton Academy and Harvard. score one for the whitewashed old boy network Egyptian-American NPR status quo disinformation machine!

scott, the timothy hutton show - is that Leverage? I really dug that for a while

I liked Leverage too, but my wife made us stop watching it because it was too dumb

your wife is right

(i say this as a lover of much dumb TV)

no way, watch all the Leverage

it is pretty dumb and yet its STILL not as dumb as Flashpoint.

i didn't even know that flashpoint was set in canada until i read it on wikipedia. so, i'm basically dumber than the show. canadian t.v.! i really have sunk pretty low...

always kind of liked the just shoot me! guy though.

if you need canadian television just watch continuum

as I've mentioned before, it's almost worth it to see the recycled vancouver actors

Flight, so there's one to pull from the dvd queue

also This Is Not a Film which looks great

hugh dillon on flashpoint was the leader of one of the most successful canadian rock bands of all time!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headstones_(band)

never heard of them.

flashpoint is not so loud and proud about being canadian but they do have a streak of canadiana

that one cop-gray's-anatomy show, rookie blue, is canadian and ashamed of it, so they just try to make everything seem generic in the hopes that foreign audiences will be into the show

hugh dillon also on continuum. and on The Killing on netflix.

see i noticed the canadian accents on flashpoint but i just figured they cast and filmed it there like a lot of shows. i thought it was supposed to be out west in california somewhere.

the bridge, the show with the dude from battlestar galactica as a swinging dick cop who fights for his union and uncovers corruption, also quite canadian, but as i recall their city was kept nondescript