Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Like, Netflix is great, UNLESS you hate movies, in which case, you're out of luck.

Well exactly. I'm going to need an endless supply of episodes of PEAKY BLINDERS and CROSSING LINES, and y'all can let me know when SCANDAL gets onto nf. Otherwise, nah.

Netflix doesn't have enough Vines.

endless TV, just what the hell

i think the problem is more that netflix conditions most ppl to casual lazy comfort-viewing, like aw man look they have 5 haneke films ive been meaning to screen, maybe some day **checks hulu for new parks & rec episode**

Really the other problem is that I don't have a DVD player or drive, so I only get the instant options. Which is especially disappointing after checking for a bunch of stuff I did want to see, and them not having it on Instant.

some recommendations:
Child's Pose: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70270821
Manakamana: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/80010744
Like Father Like Son: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70275749
The One I Love: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70299863
Watermark: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293817
Stranger by the Lake: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70285670
Blue Ruin: http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/70278931
Bird People - http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Bird_People/80008461
Gideon's Army: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70267832
Finding Fela: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70299905
Particle Fever: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70296323
We are the Best! : http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293818
The Unknown Known: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70292939
Exhibition: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70296526
Gloria: http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Gloria/70270790
Stop at Nothing: Lance Armstrong
Ida: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293721
Memphis: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70301276
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70274594
Frank: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70299856

Queue:
The Missing Picture: http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/70285668?
Miele: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70285698
Venus in Fur: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70275370
Violette: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293814
The Last of the Unjust: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70285696
The Double: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293645
Virunga: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/80009431
Test: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70288488
The Immigrant: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70275521
The Retrieval: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70272892
Oculus: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293316
13 Sins : http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70291114
Big Bad Wolves: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70274589
The Taking of Deborah Logan: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70301341
Stray Dogs - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293821
Joe - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293723
Last Hijack - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/80014767
Fifi Howls from Happiness - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/80011705
Abuse of Weakness - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70292975
Dormant Beauty - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70257739
Norte End of History - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70285700

Yeah, but what else do you have to recommend.

I'm looking for a home film festival, not a date night.

1 channel and nothing on

started watching death comes to pemberley -- pd james' jane austen fanfic starring the dude from the americans! looks nice, will probably be sorta silly.

Yeah, but what else do you have to recommend.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, February 6, 2015

can't bring myself to watch nic cage dirty fingernails joe movie. i see ulee's gold is up and i'd much rather watch that for the 5th time. i am sad comfort netflix too...

i REALLY don't want to watch that big head frank movie after seeing the trailer. you guys really liked that movie? the trailer looks like everything i would ever run from.

I have problems committing to the time a movie takes tbh. Maybe if I could smoke indoors and had someone to trade comments with during it? And if it's a "slow" movie, you can absolutely forget it.

i'm on the nicotine gum. and pot brownies. so, i'm good. if maria hasn't seen ulee's gold and next stop wonderland i kinda want to watch them with her. and she should see stray dogs. but then there is that whole season of parenthood we haven't watched yet on hulu....

Frank is a little precious but there's some good acting (Gyllenhall aside) and it's very much of the current moment. Not a bad watch.

Blue Ruin is a great, Coen Brothers influenced flick
Gloria is a 60something gets her groove back
Particle Fever will teach you things you never knew about CERN
Watermark is good eye candy
Gideon's Army is a moving look at the public defender system

not to mention nashville...

Oh I love Next Stop Wonderland!!

I'm thinking of watching Kids for Cash but I can only handle so much heartbreak at once.

had someone to trade comments with during it?

yep, stick to TV.

i finished watching The Fall with scully as the ice queen with a heart of mulder. kinda getting sick of the netflixoriginal tone. i liked the first season of the killing a lot but all these shows require SOOOOOOO much suspension of disbelief that it gets a little hard to keep watching sometimes.

rufus and maria and i did watch we are the best cuzza you guys and we liked that.

donald sutherland eurocrime netflix show is really really bad. even for me! just all kinds of terrible and also nevergonnahappen moments every five minutes.

Haha I love it though. Yeah it's that bad.

the hologram "tech genius". hoo boy...

i always kinda liked that hound dog-faced american actor though...

no way in hell i'm watching that bird people movie. that thing reeks of sundance. plus, got so sick of looking at that dude's face on the good wife.

bird people is worth watching for the second half sequence and the very interesting filmwork of bird perspectives

that guy's face though...

eh, he reads as sports night to me so um yeah okay i get your point

sorry. we just watched a lot of good wife. that face wears on you. don't really know why they didn't cast someone cool and handsome. love is apparently blind though. and yeah he reads as sorkin to me too which is another negative.

i mean i guess it was GOOD casting as far as what a lot of smug rich lawyers are like. i liked everything about the good wife except for him.

don't really know why they didn't cast someone cool and handsome.

https://ethicsalarms.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/arnie-becker.jpg

a real lawyer

i think the problem is more that netflix conditions most ppl to casual lazy comfort-viewing, like aw man look they have 5 haneke films ive been meaning to screen, maybe some day **checks hulu for new parks & rec episode**

― gr8080, Friday, February 6, 2015 9:39 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^this

when i first got it i cued up (and still have cued) loads of interesting films i've been wanting to see for ages and now i'm just the laziest junk watcher

We Are The Best! was good stuff, thanks for the recommendations. I think since I generally hate children in movies and TV, when they can actually act realistically I tend to love it. Also HATA SPORT!

It's Such a Beautiful Day was good
http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70259089?trkid=13462100

i REALLY don't want to watch that big head frank movie after seeing the trailer. you guys really liked that movie? the trailer looks like everything i would ever run from.

I thought it was WAY precious, and was honestly surprised that so many people on this tread liked it.

Just watched Frank on netflix...I thought it was mostly wonderful: a quirky and touching film about making music. Didn't think it was 'precious' at all - if by that you mean self-indulgent and over-sure of its own worth.

I'm curious what scott would make of it.

I was pretty disappointed that Frank had nothing to do with Frank Sidebottom besides the head.

It's Such a Beautiful Day was good

It was. Did a lot of things I didn't expect it to. It actually reminded me in some ways of Tree of Life, except I liked Beautiful Day a lot more.

i was really looking forward to the overnighters, but it was not what i expected and it was super fuckin depressing (and i watch a lot of really depressing stuff).

it also seemed rather empty except for the two very specific 'dramatic' plot points (if neither of those things had happened, would it have been a better or worse documentary?).

man, I thought it was spectacular! lots of really really real moments and meaningful questions.
That sequence with the guy tweaking for two minutes and he hits a climax of "my mom was raped, my father was the rapist" and the pastor just holds him utterly floored me
mind you when i write that it looks a lot more depressing than i guess it felt at the time.

hmm

xp there was just no levity to balance all the grimness. and i wanted to hear more about the lives of the ACTUAL overnighters, rather than about the pastor's personal life.

well they had numerous sequences with the guys striving to make it work and i felt like their stories were, sadly, kind of one-dimensional and very very depressing
and it's not levity exactly but the tortured humanity of the pastor, his deep desire to be real and make a difference and the gentle nagging that creeps out that he is not quite being honest to himself as to his motives... i found that all terribly moving and painfully real.
for me it's a film about how far charity goes, what real giving is about, how faith can either move us to great things or moments of great pain
when he stops the car to wave at a train because he remembered how good it felt as a child! When his right hand man half-murderously lectures him from the car before peeling off! the pastor running from the reporter down the sidewalk! the woman with the shotgun outside the RV! There were just so many impossibly honest and surreally real scenes. I dunno. It never made me feel sad. Everyone seemed to be TRYING in the face of sure failure and that felt so noble.

those guys appeared one-dimensional bc they got so little screen time! we didn't really get to know any of them. and even tho i'm terribly voyeuristic, i thought it was really... exploitative or something, when he confessed to his wife ON CAMERA and ALSO in a public place. i'm sure she signed away her rights when they started filming the doc, not contemplating for a second that this moment would take place. and now it's permanently and publicly documented for her and the kids.

I gotta say it never felt exploitative when dealing with the overnighters. Less complex, yes; but the filmmakers came expressly for the story of the pastor in the first place. Apparently they slept in the church.

And the story on the confession with the wife is as unlikely as they come but maybe less so if you have a guy with a camera following you around for several months:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/10-things-to-know-about-the-overnighters

“It was very surprising to me,” Moss said. “My understanding was he was going to tell her in a private place without me present. Which I thought to be entirely appropriate... I think it got away from Jay in a way he didn’t plan for it to happen,” Moss said. “I don’t think either of them thought about the fact that I was there, and then suddenly, they were having part of this conversation in this grocery store with me there. It was actually a very short conversation, in which he told her what he tells her. Never once did they look at me and ask me to turn the camera off. I would have done that.”

also fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck this follow up story with graves is so bizarre and weird; he's either being railroaded by the very same paper that broke the story in the first place or he's a genuine monster and, after seeing the film, i don't know
http://www.willistonherald.com/news/in-the-shadow-of-a-monster/article_542d953e-2590-11e4-a4bd-001a4bcf887a.html
http://www.willistonherald.com/search/?t=article&d1=1+year+ago&q=keith+graves

i specified the confession scene as exploitative, not the interviews with the guys. and i think it's all good and well for the pastor to be okay with it - he's not the one i'm concerned about. his wife didn't know what he was about to confess, and maybe she was too shocked to really say 'no, not here, not in front of the camera'.

the stuff about graves is creepy as fuck! i wondered about his story - like, what proof did the family have that it was just him being 18 and his gf being 16?