Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

zombies don't count of course. everyone has to watch the walking dead. plus, it's a family show.

I'm a parent and was not blown away by The Babadook. Above average but not as great as I expected after hearing all the praise (and I saw it in the theater).

i don't know WHAT to think about that movie now. great title though.

Will finish watching it tonight I think

savage.

i hate being scared and i had no problems w/ Babadook, aside from it turning into a boilerplate horror film after the first hour.

Not a parent, enjoyed Babadook but was not deeply affected by it. Enjoyed the grey house and the actors' faces a lot.

Piece about films that parents might want to avoid
http://www.fright.com/edge/KillingKids.htm
I've definitely seen people like that on imdb who freak out at any amount of child suffering in films. People on imdb making death threats to the long deceased Shuji Terayama for Emperor Tomato Ketchup.

As I said on the new horror films thread, Kotoko is a really unpleasant film for parents and the two stars had their own children in the film. I highly recommend it.

Badabook was disappointing for me but more than anything it seemed a promising debut with solid work on far too familiar elements.

i was not warned about the dog or dental violence either

"Charlie Victor Romeo" is pretty good and tense-making: basically a series of claustrophobic little plays which are re-enactments of black-box recordings from aircraft in trouble.

i remember seeing a news story on the play. definitely plays on my worst fears as someone who hates to fly.

yeah The Babadook just kind of bummed me out more than anything else. felt less like a horror movie than a heightened depiction of misery, with characters that only existed to be miserable.

just like real life!
more movies need to reflect the misery of raising children

A claim jumper (Tommy Lee Jones) and a pioneer woman (Hilary Swank) team up to escort three insane women from Nebraska to Iowa.

story of my life...

i highly recommend The Homesman.

the pilot of halt and catch fire was one of the worst, most cliched and poorly written things I have ever seen.

Charlie Victor Romeo was made in 3D! They're showing it that way in Brooklyn next week.

wasn't the tomlin/fonda show starting today? read the nyt thing on it.

i agree on halt and catch fire, i can't imagine watching more
tomlin/fonda show has an amazing cast and a trailer that turned me off completely

the nyt thing was all yay old people but the trailer does look pretty lame.

plz tell me dolly parton guests in one episode...

June Diane Raphael is in it, she's funny.

Patiently waiting on Scott's review of Legit

ha, i watched two episodes. i like it. i'll go back to it. i have to say though i've kinda had my fill of men behaving badly shows. can't even bring myself to watch the seasons of workaholics on hulu that i haven't seen. (though the one later episode i saw where all three of the workaholics masturbate in a car together might be the uhhhhhhh height of this form as far as overthetopness goes.)

jesus christ, veronika decides to die is so so terrible

The Short Game was pretty great. Amazing to see a 7 year old swinging a little golf club and making a hole-in-one. Some of the parent-child stuff takes me back to Little League.

i loved the mail order bride documentary ("Love Me"), but then of course i would.

did you guys watch Rectify? finishing season 2 now. very very watchable! and its even from the Sundance channel, and Sundance is my favorite genre to make fun of, but i really like how this show is written. and its not typical. in a good way. there was a thread on the show but not many people saw the show. third season is starting this summer. i also like that i don't recognize a lot of the people who are on the show. i mean i sorta do, but i can't really place them.

i've been watching the Fonda/Tomlin show, Grace And Frankie, and enjoying it way more than i thought i would

sell me? the promo made it look very much like WHOOPS WE MARRIED GAY MEN AND NOW WE ARE WACKY BEST FRIENDS

yeah the trailer was the worst thing.

oh my god am i annoyed at myself for wasting two hours of this beautiful afternoon on Force Majeure. what am i missing here?

love that movie.

me too

only watched the grace and frankie pilot, but lily tomlin and her husband are in a much better sitcom than jane fonda, who is terrible, and the scripts seemed very joke-light and not very good.

Force Majeure is amazing.

^

seriously, though, you guys, Rectify is worth your time if you like family drama and fucked up people. or fucked up families. or people in Georgia getting all weird.

great supporting characters too.

I liked that they chose an actor for the lead role who has a pretty unsettling look about him - he's not ugly or plain but he's not the typical male lead either.

he can be pretty great in it!

Yeah, I'm very alone in the Force Majeure sucks camp. Saw some fellow dissenters in the Last x Movies You Saw thread thankfully. Outside of the beautiful cinematography and a few scenes, I found it completely tedious. Wanted everyone outside of the Viking to die in an avalanche.

i thought Rectify almost entirely lost it's momentum toward the end of the second season, and i found the lead dude tiring, but yeah, it had some amazing moments and i found Tawney and her husband to be really compelling characters.

so many of the shows i watch on netflix tend to lose their momentum after the first season, but there is definitely enough to keep me going in the 2nd season. we have 2 or 3 episodes to go. the trip to florida episode made me uneasy in a way that a lot of shows don't. also the antique dealer party episode too! i always fear the worst...

when they're shooting the CDs with a shotgun...

Something Wild is up.

david cross made a movie but its p bad imo

LI'L QUINQUIN is also up

sense8 is bad

canadian show where everyone dies over the age of 22 is bad too.

quinquin is good, imagine true detective done as a french farce v bingeable

I'm slow, but I'm just now 4 episodes deep into Grace & Frankie and I'm liking it except for Sheen and Waterston who seem to play off one another terribly.