Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

"100% behind the Big Star doc recommendations - it's tremendous. In a way it might actually have been a worse film if it was made a few years earlier - the lack of direct contributions from Chris Bell and Alex Chilton keeps the mystique preserved."

It would have to have MANY years earlier to get a direct contribution from Bell...

Good Burger

Death
Race
2000

In the midst of all the old catalogue coming back there lies James Franco's As I Lay Dying.

sailor who fell from grace is p cool

Oh, and Nostalghia

Rock'n'Roll High School! Red Dawn! 12 seasons of Murder, She Wrote!

Have something on my list called Color Me Kubrick or Colour Me Kubrick with John Malkovich expiring on the fifth. Is that any good?

My cat from hell season 3

yesssssssss

i watched 'new world' last night, which is this pretty incredible 2013 south korean gangster film. it's this almost perfect marriage between infernal affairs/the departed (undercover cop on a long-gestating assignment within a crime syndicate) and election/election 2 (two different crime bosses vying for a newly vacated throne.) loved it!

omg we watched miami connection last night and WOW
a little too much fighting but i loved the revenge of the nerds orphan house/band concept

what a grand picture that one is, we had the best time double featuring that w/'someone i touched' (that cloris leachman STD movie)

maybe i'll suggest that one for tonight! nothing says "snowed in" like topical cloris leachman!

"Topical Cloris Leachman" sounds like what you should use to get rid of an STD.

watched 'new world' last night, which is this pretty incredible 2013 south korean gangster film. it's this almost perfect marriage between infernal affairs/the departed (undercover cop on a long-gestating assignment within a crime syndicate) and election/election 2 (two different crime bosses vying for a newly vacated throne.) loved it!

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, January 2, 2014 11:08 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this sounds like pretty much exactly what i want to watch tonight

yeah i am intrigued

it's 135 min long but it flies by

have you seen 'Outrage'?

oh whoa New World is the same director that did 'I Saw The Devil', I'm definitely onboard.

def, that mob execution by car + rope + depressed accelerator was one outstanding moment in cinematic history

otm, so great! there's gonna be outrage 2 sequel in like, February I think.

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That is an amazing article

good stuff

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Preferred the Schemel doc to the Big Star one, mainly because the Schemel one is just more human and involving I guess. Also, I can never quite gauge whether I actually like on balance like Big Star or not. I'm ambivalent about a lot of Hole stuff too so I guess the difference was the difference here.

Must stop watching music docs before my recommendations get ruined.

Too much likes there

Amityvilles one through three are up!!!

Launching now, hello evil window eyes and lalo schifrin

:D

they have frances ha now, in case you are harboring a residual fascination with greta gerwig and are willing to maybe see if you can make it through another one of her movies

and the final season of futurama!!

Frances Ha is great.

But if you're looking for a litmus test for "that sort of thing", Drinking Buddies is also up.

xp nice, i can finally delete all those Futurama episodes from 2012 off my DVR

The 7 up series is up

the bronies doc is very sweet! i didn't really know anything about it going in, apart from "bronies are grown dudes who like my little pony".

^yeah, it is well done as to not be terribly exploitative, etc

i also watched all the boys love mandy lane which was reasonably ok, tho the end is deeply stupid

I wanted them to mercilessly slay the sad little freaks tbh

dug the ricky jay documentary, 'deceptive practice.' he's just fun to watch and knows so much about his craft.

watched 'the yellow sea', a korean thriller from the director of 'the chaser'. it was good, like 'the chaser', but also like that film not much fun to watch. the best bits are this harrowing journey where the lead character is smuggled via boat from Yanbian Prefecture to South Korea (really quite quickly establishes better than most films i've seen how terrifying a sea journey can be) and later the same guy staking out an apartment building where he's supposed to carry out a murder. the last act is pretty ludicrous and betrays a lot of what came before it and the villains' motives are murky. still worth a watch because of the lead performance and some impressively gritty imagery but it gets a little tedious towards the end and seems to strike a poor balance between realism and ludicrous brutality.

The Hunt is up for fans of Mads

does he eat anyone in it y/n

N but he shoots a deer

drew struzan portrait of the artist is pretty good even if it's ultimately just tons of nerds and movie stars talking about dude and then he's all like "yeah, i painted a thing"

iirc quite a lot of All The Boys Love Mandy Lane is surprisingly beautiful. The cinematography and tone are substantially better than yr standard cheapo teen horror flick. The ending is really silly, as mentioned, though.

anybody wanna stan for last stand?

I want to, but I didn't like it.

oh my, but drinking buddies is some straight up garbage

i also watched all the boys love mandy lane which was reasonably ok, tho the end is deeply stupid

― johnny crunch, Sunday, January 5, 2014 6:13 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i didn't hate this one, but i also didn't really see the point. the attempt to keep the title character mysterious so as to make the ending "shocking" just translated into title character being a dull cipher.

i thoroughly enjoyed dredd. cinematography was really smart, mix of a variety of film-like and video-like effects to good purpose. i guess it bombed pretty badly, not even making back its (not all that high) production budget internationally.

dumb question, but does netflix just pay a lump fee for a bunch of films or do they actually keep track of "views" and provide royalties on that basis? if something is a "hit" on netflix, does the studio see any more money, as they would with physical-media sales?