Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

btw I watched Django Unchained for the first time recently & found it fun (if occasionally burdened by cringeworthy contemporary resonances)

speaking of Tarantino in the same post-cluster as Nymphomaniac: Kill Bill is another two-parter I never saw prior to its appearance on Netflix Instant Watch (saw the 1st in theaters, but missed the 2nd and couldn't decide how best to arrange an at-home viewing)

wow, Nympho pt 1 was... really something

i straight out hate von trier; is it good for lolz?

I don't know if I can answer that question

but yes, it is funnier than e.g. Antichrist or Dancer in the Dark

if you're into 'dry humor'

So! My Netflix was hacked last week. I called customer support when I could no longer access my account, and the friendly phone man confirmed I've been jacked. Some clown in Calgary has been watching w/ my user ID, and the Netflix fraud folks have been able to track him to a single fixed IP address (residential). They reset my password/account, and are going after him, guns a-blazin'. Apparently he's been watching the R-rated soft porn titles. They gave me a free month (small yay) of service, but I've gotta start a new account and my ID and ratings (which I've held since early-adopter 2000 days) are all wiped out. Last night I sat and rated a dozen movies, but my old account had about 5000 movies rated. My queue/history are zeroed, and now I have no idea what I have/haven't watched. So, important question, what movies should I watch/rate to recalibrate the suggestions? Key titles already logged include:

Repo Man
Tillsammans
Fanny and Alexander
Good Morning / I Was Born But...
Browning Version
Kiss Me Deadly
Yi Yi
Morgan: A Suitable Case
Uncle Buck
The Live by Night
Glass Key

good selection

you take netflix much more seriously than I do

I'd like all of my recommendations to be based on a history of watching soft core porn

but seriously is that the lengths Canadians have to go to get erotic material?

Netflix was way more in-your-face about the user data aggregation back in the day - I'm seeing 1015 ratings on my account

there's soft core porn on netflix? what a world

Well most hbo isn't actually available

netflix T+A user reviews

It's all v. '90s erotic thriller, apparently.

Not sure if Netflix is putting out press releases or what, but Time Out Chicago just posted this calendar:

Available January 1
101 Dalmatians (1996)
Bad Boys II
Batman & Robin
Bruce Almighty
Cast Away
Dallas: Season 3
Get Low
Election
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Fort Bliss
Friends: Complete Series
Jeepers Creepers 2
Mean Girls
Shall We Dance?
To Be Takei
The French Connection
The Quiet Man
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Wayne’s World 2

Available January 3
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
White Collar: Season 5

Available January 7
Brick Mansions

Available January 8
Frank
Psych: Season 8

Available January 9
Z Nation: Season 1

Available January 13
Being Human: Season 4

Available January 15
Wolfblood: Season 3

Available January 16
The Adventures of Puss in Boots: Season 1
The Fall: Season 2
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Available January 23
Iliza Shlesinger: Freezing Hot

Available January 28
Chef
Beauty & the Beast: Season 2

Wolfblood: Season 3

Phew, finally the wait ends!

Tracy Flick for President!

i enjoyed Brick Mansions. a fitting tribute to the legacy of Paul Walker.

WHITE COLLAR 5, JESUS FINALLY.

Last Saturday, nursed hangover with back-to-back anxiety-upping selections: Blue Ruin and All is Lost. Both good. Well, AiL is a bit old guy got mad experience and knowledge porn, but it's effective. At least until the very last scene, which is a bit lol.

Blue Ruin a crazy little one. No-one-wins revenge tale. And it has a crazy sequence featuring Buzz McCallister, Kevin's big brother!

Happy Valley is fantastic.

I think this might only be on Prime but Night Moves was really good.

Excited to see Frank and Child of God (despite Franco).

wanna watch happy valley. gonna watch 2nd season of the wrong mans on hulu first...

The Fall: Season 2

Hang on, what?! I totally missed that S2 had already aired.

white collar: god help me i want that rooftop apartment so bad

OK, so the MPAA has that new-ish site that lets you search for streamable movies and TV. I think it's wheretowatch.com. It seems pretty solid, except every time I search for something I know is streaming on Netflix, Netflix does not come up as an option. Any ideas/conspiracies? I think a centralized site that allows me to search what's available across Amazon/Netflix/Hulu et al. is useful, since it's so hard to figure out otherwise with everything that's constantly being added and deleted to and from each service (for the longest time The French Connection II was on Netflix, but not the first movie), but if it's erratic or not comprehensive it's no sub for painstakingly stalking each individual service for what I want.

Broadchurch was a waste of time. Terrible ending sabotages anything worthwhile that came before.

franc connection is back on netflix btw JiC

I just tried that service. Hopefully typed in Phantasm III, a movie I can't find anywhere. And a result popped up! Flixster! So I navigated to the flixster site only to get a message that Phantasm III is not available at this time.

white collar: god help me i want that rooftop apartment so bad

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, January 8, 2015 8:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We all do.

"Broadchurch was a waste of time. Terrible ending sabotages anything worthwhile that came before."

I disagree, plus, season 2 just started and upends things a bit.

I loved broadchurch. ALL OF IT.

There was lots I liked about it. Don't want to get spoiler-y but I'm sure you can understand frustration with that ending. I'll see if I can find the new season streaming somewhere, would be a cool move if they're able to pull off something that messes with the ending of Season 1.

i know this on hulu but can i just say that the scene in episode 1 season 2 of the wrong mans where the DEA woman hands the one mans the bongos in the airport was the loudest and longest i have laughed out loud at something on t.v. in a million years. like, uncontrollable laughter! just the sight of those bongos for some reason...

i don't really know what was so frustrating about the ending of season 1. it was a 'surprise' I suppose but did you want it to be obvious?

also, their attempts at american accents in the airport...oh god...

White Collar seems different this season. It seems...terrible. They've started referring to neighborhoods in outer boroughs, which makes no sense--half the show's charm was the illusion that nowhere outside of Manhattan exists. The plots and cons are so far deplorably thin, and the cast sound like they're mouthing nursery rhymes they learned by rote.

I am desolee, which I think means my shoes have a hole in the bottom.

yeah it's p thin

Suit and Mrs Suit are totally faking it! And their love was the best thing about this show that isn't named Matt Bomer!

totally!! its sad what it has all become now

Frank: i didn't really know anything about it going in, but it was really really good. "i love you all" is amazing.

We Are The Best is wonderful: Swedish movie from the director of Together, about 3 12 year old girls who form a punk band.

^Yeah Frank is great! I was fearing two hours of the ultimate indie-quirk house band. Don't be scared off! Lots of left turns wld watch again.

Second We Are The Best!—I took my 11- and 8-year old daughters to see it at the local art house, replete with subtitled fucks/cunts/assholes which was kinda tough BUT it was "uplifting" in the least offensive way.

Watched the movie wondering how long it'll be till my 8-month-old daughter has enough hair to cut it like Karla's, tbh.

Bird People, which is absolutely worth seeing
Wetlands, which I haven't seen yet and am curious about

We Are the Best is awesome

Watched We Are the Best! last night and loved every minute. Those gals are so precious!