Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

Roger Dodger

Roger The Cabin Boy

Rick Hall looked like a tool in the Muscle Shoals doc. It seemed clear to me he was a megalomaniacal - if talented - clown.

enjoying the first few episodes of The Returned -- but can't decide whether it's going to end up like a French version of LOST or something. Still, good atmosphere, nice Mogwai soundtrack. is it a self-contained thing or is there more than one season?

more than one season. so you'll have to wait for resolution, but it stays good throughout this season imo.

I've talked up 'Best Kept Secret' on numerous threads in the past and it just came available. It's one of my favorite films from last year, very deeply effecting. It's a look into the public school system in Hoboken and how they handle autistic students.
http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Best_Kept_Secret/70287268

The Muscle Shoals doc is just fine, not racist, but also a view of the time sort of painted by Rick Hall's recollection. When you finish watching it, you're not going to leave with any inaccurate information and if you can't handle one minute of screentime from Bono acting like he knows something then I have no idea how you've lasted all the way to 2014. Basically, forks is a dork and anybody/everybody should watch Muscle Shoals.

a friend had a lot of his photos used in the doc, he's down with forks' view

Muscle Shoals was way better than that 20 Feet From Stardom dreck. Talk about ruining an important and interesting subject with bullshit.

Yeah, 20 Feet was definitely a disappointment except that it turned me on to Lisa Fischer's fucking AMAZING voice.

Check out the top billing on Netflix...

https://scontent-a-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1.0-9/1972548_10153963293505066_554703125_n.jpg

charlie countryman -vs- danny deckchair

Lisa Fischer rocks.

oh but did anyone watch Bullet? maybe i'll watch that one. wanted to know if it was worth my precious time.

friend of mine said i should watch this:

http://instantwatcher.com/titles/180323

I watched Slavoj Žižek's The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology last night. It was quite a slog, a lot longer than it needed to be. It had it's cute moments where he inserted himself into various scenes from famous films, but overall didn't feel like it added up to much. I expected him to fire off some really contentious or controversial ideas, but it was mostly just standard critical theory. Mostly I found myself wishing that someone would give him a hankie because he kept wiping his nose with his hand and sniffling a lot as he spoke.

Basically, forks is a dork

and anybody/everybody should watch Muscle Shoals.

and again, i wouldn't call it racist so much as borderline racist

as for 20 feet, tastes can vary but the popular revival of several of these women's careers on the back of it has to be universally positive right? I mean fuckin darlene love at the oscars!