Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

A high school friend was on Oddities (steampunk goggles). He came off like a dick (not inaccurate iirc) and I loled at his Jimmy Cagney accent - dude lived in suburban Texas for his first 19 years.

Chaki was on the San Francisco spin-off.

^season 2 (not yet on netflix)

aah. Couldn't remember which season. I find the SF one a chore, so I haven't paid particular attention.

A high school friend was on Oddities (steampunk goggles). He came off like a dick (not inaccurate iirc) and I loled at his Jimmy Cagney accent - dude lived in suburban Texas for his first 19 years.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, March 28, 2014 6:34 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^ i wonder if i know this guy -- does he work in a cigar store now?

It's obviously occasional ILMer speculator. Steampunk a dead giveaway ;)

^^ i wonder if i know this guy -- does he work in a cigar store now?

He's that breed of American soccer fan who cosplays British soccer nut, down to an Arsenal tattoo on his neck.

Does Thomas die horribly? Can it please be soon?

"All the adult women on The Returned have really small breasts and never wear bras. It's weirdly specific."

they are french

Just finished watching The Returned. Thought it was really, truly great for the first six episodes but I'm not sure I'm entirely convinced by the direction of the last couple. I definitely want to know where they go from here, though. I also wish Mogwai had written a few more music cues - I really liked their score, but it got a bit repetitive by the end.

Also, I can think of at least four or five scenes where bras are in evidence!

The Punk Singer (Kathleen Hanna doc) is up

This is great.

"All the adult women on The Returned have really small breasts and never wear bras. It's weirdly specific."

they are french

'masters of sex' is like this too, you see some eventually but for a while you're like, what up 50s, underwear shortage from the war or what

just watched Crazy Love, which is classified as a "romantic movie"

what. the. fuck.

so glad i didn't know anything about this story going into it.

A twist!

a double twist, even!

I wish I could like The Returned! I found it totally boring/interminable/frustrating.

adam did you watch the end of the world movie set in the u.k. that is like an arty twilight with no vampires? i kinda liked it. not really the end of the world i guess. more like semi-wwIII or something. this is how we are now. or this is what we do now or this is something something. has some cool moments.

How We Live Now.

How I Live Now, rather.

Just watched Anatomy of a Seduction, a 1978 May-December romance starring Rita Moreno (although she was the mom of the younger man, not the woman having the affair). It was possibly better than the one starring Yvette Mimieux. Suuuuuper cheesy and enjoyable music/production values.

I thought How I Live Now was a pretty effective nightmare scenario movie with decent acting by kids. It got a bit corny trying to convey the protagonist's dreams etc, but generally well thought out and executed. A little more grounded than the Hunger Games etc.

A Touch of Sin, Bastards, and Let the Fire Burn all up.

ALI

GI Joe Retaliation, at last

Inequality For All, the Robert Reich documentary was fairly good. Pretty basic, but frames up our current economic and political problems in a way that should appeal to a wider audience.

Wake in Fright.

That was pretty intense.

Lost Girl - i'd never heard of it before but it came up on instant watcher and i ended up binge-watching all 3 seasons in the last few days. it starts off pretty ordinary but it's really quite different from its peers.

Here Comes The Devil is on US Netflix now. I recall it got a good response on the horror thread.

LOST GIRL!!!!!!

Another endorsement for Crystal Fairy and Mud.

The first great movie I saw streaming on Netflix was Five Minutes of Heaven, maybe about a year ago, and it's apparently still streaming!

not sure if this is the right thread, but Amazon Prime is adding a bunch of older HBO shows to their catalog.

Prime members will get access to every episode of The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, Six Feet Under, Rome, Eastbown & Down, Enlightened, and Flight of the Conchords; and select seasons of Boardwalk Empire, True Blood, and Treme.

If this extends to the UK then FUCK YEAH

bbc sez it doesnae :(

how do hbo shows work in the uk? do the shows just end up wherever like w/ other american shows? is there a legal means of streaming game of thrones over there?

Sky Atlantic owns the rights over there so it's up to them.

Don Jon... which may be worthwhile?
First two seasons of the Canal+ adaptation of the French espionage comic XIII which may be interesting!

Half a good movie in Don Jon.

The upper half.

Don

Crystal Fairy was not good

I disagree. I found it ultimately moving, albeit on a small scale.

Muscle Shoals

that is a fucking horrible and borderline racist movie

oh, word? [quietly removes from queue]

plz explain

I saw it at a doc showing and ended up leaving around halfway through. It's the sort of movie that perceives an endorsement by bono of the "Black Sound" of muscle shoals as being ringing and meaningful. It's pretty clearly a Rick Hall hagiography; the directors at the talkback copped to not knowing much about muscle shoals before they started filming. there's a lot of "we didn't see color" rhetoric juxtaposed with Percy Sledge as a "shucks i didn't know nothing" churchfearing man and wilson pickett as a renegade negro who had to be held in check. tons of nonsense and backstory about hall but none of it any deeper than his immediate perspective, which pretty clearly governs the tone and mythmaking.

Times Review is mostly right on but they liked it more than i did: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/27/movies/muscle-shoals-directed-by-greg-camalier.html

definitely give it a shot and let me know if i'm being overly sensitive or missing something but i remember yelling at the screen three times before i finally left.

like why the fuck do i wanna hear fifty minutes of WORDS O BACK SOUTH WISDOM from Rick Hall for fucks sake
everything 20 feet got right (focus on the artists, allow the story to guide you, get deep into the personal lives of the performers, sparingly speak with the legends and moneymen) this got wrong

Said it before on the dedicated thread, but if you want to learn about the Muscle Shoals sound scene you've gotta read Get A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues: The Arthur Alexander Story, by Richard Younger.