Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

If you liked Crystal Fairy, consider checking out Magic Magic - they filmed it while waiting to film Crystal Fairy, has the same director and some of the same actors (including Michael Cera), also takes place in Chile, but instead of being a quirky dramedy, it's a terrifying psychological horror movie. I really enjoyed both movies.

Interesting. I thought the brothers were great, considering they're amateurs. I saw the director was listed as a castmember as well but couldn't remember where he was in the movie?

"Coffy!"

"Targets!"

"Lair of the White Worm!"

love love love lair of the white worm

targets is kinda garbage imo

also theres the wenders movie 'hammett'

but mostly i dont have time for any of those cuz im addicted to the la complex

Targets is SOOO good! You crazy.

Lair of the White Worm is a lot of fun.

i watched Starlet. it is terrible.

next time I can't sleep I'm going to watch CONVOY.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/Convoy_film_poster.jpg
i had forgotten how weird ali macgraw's hair is in this movie.

omg i loled when i looked up at the poster and saw her poodle perm topknot

it must've looked good for about a week and a half in 1978

Post Tenebras Lux is up if you wanna do that

lair of the white worm! yes!

i should check out the crystal fairy

fuck ozon

this is v watchable - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_LA_Complex

s2 <<< s1 i think - largely bcuz the blonde dancer leaves and theres an ep w/ a rapper named "infinite jest"

saw a little bit of that on the air just for Jewel Staite, it seemed like typical light fluffy soap stuff

British detective shows I have seen recently (I am not a britisher):
The Fall- really good, strangely moving
Hidden- generates tension but too convoluted, and ultimately dumb
Luther- corny but engaging due to Elba.

in that bbc mystery vein, Wallander (w/ kenneth branagh) is good, though sort of hilariously glum. beautiful swedish scenery.

or just watch Wallander. (and The Bridge)

(ie the original swedish Wallander)

Am I going to want to see both?

so the swedish wallander is better? is it all the same story lines or...?

there's some overlap, yes. the Lassgard below is more a series of films and sticks close to the same books as the Branagh. the Henriksson is more of a weekly tv series and more based on the character than the actual books (none of which i've read) but is v watchable (series 2 heartbreaking because of what happened to the actor playing his daughter). the branagh suffers from having people dressed in swedish uniform but speaking in english accents and it just seems odd at times.

Branagh (English):
Sidetracked
Firewall
One Step Behind
Faceless Killers
The Man Who Smiled
Fifth Woman
An Event In Autumn
Dogs Of Riga
Before The Frost
+ more to come according to imdb

Krister Henriksson:
2 x 13 stories

Rolf Lassgård:
Faceless Murderer (1995)
Hounds Of Riga (1995)
White Lioness (1996)
Sidetracked (2001)
5th Woman (2002)
Man Who Smiled (2003)
Firewall (2006)
Pyramiden (2007)

The Swedish ones are frequently wonderful and really benefit from the talent of Ola Rapace and Johanna Sällström in the secondary roles. But yes, the Sällström back story makes series two almost unbearably poignant at times.

I have never made it more than about half way through any of the Branagh ones. They aren't bad, per se, but feel odd and a bit redundant.

I've enjoyed all the Jack Taylor eps immensely. Each one has at least one instance of hilariously cornball dialogue, but mostly the tone, pace are great. And Iain Glen is so damn likable.

that's the guy from the game of thrones series, right? (and probably a billion other things). Need to check that one out. These BBC mystery things are definitely good in that my wife and I both enjoy them.
the branagh suffers from having people dressed in swedish uniform but speaking in english accents and it just seems odd at times.
yeah this is always weird -- obviously a decision they made to only use british actors, but it is a little bizarre to have these amazing swedish landscapes and not a swedish accent to be heard.

and when someone is reading an email or a newspaper it's in Swedish!

my taste in bbc is pretty old ladyish, i'm really into foyle's war right now haha

What Foyle's I've seen is good. I also liked The Bletchley Circle, so maybe I'm an old lady too.

Foyle's gets progressively worse, but there are plenty of entertaining episodes in the first few seasons. It is fairly old lady-ish, but it makes me feel like I'm watching something with my long-gone grandmother. She would've loved it.

Foyle's War is great, though I couldn't really get into the most recent season. I consider "old-ladyish" to mostly be a good thing though.

i'm mostly just gently pleased that a person named 'honeysuckle weeks' exists

"honeysuckle weeks" is the best name

oh man it really is. and she's almost as adorable as her name.

we've watched a lot of inspector lynley too, though mainly that one is unintentionally hilarious. lynley has to be one of the lamest "heroes" of any TV show.

jesus christ i had no idea about Johanna Sällström. or about what happened to her in thailand. just totally awful.

what is really odd is this: a film about a swedish policeman, played by original wallander, whose fictional wife and daughter died in the tsunami.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/041011four.html

Will not recommend "The Iceman" which despite the cast was as rote a gangster flick as you could possibly imagine. The biopic formula is so rigid that in the one scene that's not set up with title cards giving you the date and location, one character actually says, "I can't believe it's June 28th, 1979 and here we are in Hackensack".

couldn't get ten minutes into that

I fucking loved it

'drug war' is pretty amazing and its ending is unremittingly bleak for almost all parties involved. it's also got one of those great HK film characters, a guy named "HaHa" whose primary characteristic is laughing at everything (reminding me of overweight characters named "fatty" usually played by eric tsang in "gems" like 'hard boiled 2')

yoooooo drug war was terrific. it being his first movie shot in mainland china, too, to really effectively subverts their more black-and-white policies toward morality

yup its awes

Always keep meaning to catch up on my Johnny To, added.

Yeah it's great. Starting Berberian Sound Studio but I am suspecting that nothing will be better than fake opening credits.

On Wallander front I just want to point out everyone should skip the adaptations and just read the books.

try the documentary talhotblond if you are into murder porn and reading long sex chats of v deluded ppl

forget the wallander UK adaptation, or the tv series, or even the books, i suggest you just meditate for 20 minutes with an image of wallander in your head

forget the wallander UK adaptation, or the tv series, the books, or even meditating on an image of wallander. I suggest you travel to Sweden and think long and hard about national identity.

just booked my flight, looking forward to it.
in other news, i understand the recent Big Star documentary is going to be streaming soon.

last night after I wrapped all the presents and everyone else was asleep, I figured I'd celebrate Christmas and watch 'dredd'. not just good but excellent imo. enjoyed the whole cast, nicely directed, brutal w/o being nasty abt it, and moments of actual beauty (the final plunge in particular.) thumbs up!

I liked dredd. also thought Solomon Kane was surprisingly decent for a relatively unknown action film. Some good cast (Pete Postelwaite, Max Von Sydow, Mckenzie Crook with small rolls)