Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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?

The problem with the vast majority of the anime is that it's dubbed (not to mention that the giant batch the other day was mostly just renewals of stuff that had already been there). Honey and Clover is subtitled, but it's a little too slice of life for my taste. I've heard good things about Eden of the East, but it's dubbed. I have watched through Death Note and Nana, both of which are subtitled, and both of which I enjoyed for entirely different reasons.

― NWOBHamster (J3ff T.), Wednesday, March 7, 2012 9:07 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Watching Death Note now. I prefer dubbed, because fuck reading a TV show. But I still have the subtitles on and it's hilarious how different it is from what the dubbed version is saying. And TBH, the dubbed is much much better. Subtitles are... a little simplistic? Feels like what I'm reading is a couple of grade levels down from what I'm hearing.

this thread feels a little to heavy right now for me to tell you guys how much i loved "danger 5"

Hitler jumping out the window gets me every time

i highly recommend Uncle Grandpa...

I couldn't stand Grandpa's voice at first, but the show eventually grew on me, mostly because of Mr. Gus and Pizza Steve. Still, mostly watch it on cable because it surrounds other better CN shows

thisll be up on Friday - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbreakable_Kimmy_Schmidt

huh 2 weeks later, this thing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodline_(TV_series)

cast looks good

i will watch Linda Cardellini in pretty much anything
also I loved Damages so that's a plus

also looking forward to Kimmy Schmidt!

was kinda happy to see a new griffin dunne flick pop up - who doesn't love griffin dunne? - but my patience for the patented sundance mid-life crisis live & learn is about zilch. didn't last long. it's almost two hours long! sullen teen kids. road trip. age-old parental conflicts. wacky historical reenactments. the movie equivalent of the writing workshop novel.

still probably better than that horrible bruce dern faux-slice-of-life thing that i couldn't watch last year.

Nebraska was way better than most of those movies

i highly recommend Uncle Grandpa...

YES

nothing repels me faster than the stench of sundance. which is sad because i'm someone who would seriously consider getting a Ruby In Paradise tattoo. maybe a Ulee's Gold tramp stamp. frinstance watching the trailer for Joe i got that sinking feeling and didn't want to go near it. and i felt bad about that. i'm a big larry brown fan and i liked the book a lot. the idea of dirty fingernails nic cage is a good idea. i was a fan of DGG's early nu-malick things. thought they were exciting as far as amerindie film festival things go at this late date. i couldn't even finish that prince avalanche movie and i wanted to like that. or maybe i fell asleep...i did like pineapple express...watching the griffin dunne thing just made me want to watch exhibition again. or watch some of the jacques demy movies that have popped up on hulu. i haven't seen ANY of them except for Umbrellas of Cherbourg. don't even know where to start.

rufus said he wants to watch better movies. i put on black sheep after dinner last night and he said..."do we have to keep watching this...?" hahaha! message received loud and clear! (i just put things on that a 12 year old AND a 9 year can watch..) so, i went through the criterion list with him and said he could watch any of them as far as i was concerned. then i showed him the piano scene from House! i'm more than happy to have a seven samurai/watership down/eraserhead triple feature sometime soon.

Scott, I started with Lola, his first feature, the other night and really enjoyed it.

good to know!

yes, chron order is fine for Demy, at least thru Donkey Skin.

i saw seven samurai for the first time around 12 or so and it had a MASSIVE impact on me; that's gonna be fun.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt <3

can't wait!

. the movie equivalent of the writing workshop novel.

i like this phrase

The first episode of "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" was well worth it just to watch Ellie Kemper make faces.

http://i.imgur.com/KKQC4Tr.gif

it's okay and i say that as an avowed 30 rock hater and having only seen one episode of UKS