Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

yuck i don't want to see that i don't think. i loved snow on tha bluff though.

even tougher sell if you become aware that all the drug use depicted is real drugs & that the lead actress literally od'd in real life as it started playing festivals o_O

that sounds horrible
i enjoyed the 2003 doc 'girlhood' recently and happy valley was really good too (kinda gave me the chills to observe herd mentality so clearly but also interesting)

what's a good horror movie from this list (canadian netflix) http://www.imdb.com/list/ls051028129/

watch all the David DeCoteau 1313 movies and prepare to have your life changed forever.

you HAVE seen The Descent, right? i mean you must have seen it.

The Snowtown Murders shouldn't really be on there. as horrific as it is. kinda essential viewing if you ask me. we talked about it a lot on here somewhere.

but when in doubt watch The Seventh Sign.

or Pumpkinhead. most of the good movies on that list are old. watch Mimic or The Mist.

Anyone watch Advantageous?

A poster I designed for a local health service is visible for a few seconds in the background of a scene in Snowtown. My claim to fame.

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tried to watch Toad Road but got distracted & made a bunch of shitty vines instead
https://vine.co/u/1153589421040627712

(I was attempting a Snow On Tha Bluff/Toad Road double-feature, so maybe *I'm* the one who OD'd, on shaky cams

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v bold bernard snowy

newly up

Pi
From here to eternity
how to marry a millionaire
grandmas boy
captive f/ huppert (2012)
road house
rocky 1-5

that third vine is my 9th fav movie of 2015, keep it goink

you HAVE seen The Descent, right? i mean you must have seen it.

― scott seward, Monday, June 29, 2015 9:42 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is actually my single greatest fear

Hard To Be A God looks cool. never even heard of it.

speaking of russia, i still haven't seen night watch/day watch.

Hard To Be A God is from a Strugatsky Bros sci-fi novel, Scott: the book is great, and I've only heard good (if grim) things about the film

yeah, i saw that! about it being from the novel. looks cool. on the other hand, i kinda like my sci-fi to look a little more sci-fi...but i will watch it this week, i think.

man i just got Netflix last week and it's rly hard to find good stuff on here it seems

Bookmark this site: http://instantwatcher.com/

It does a lot better job of telling you what's new on Netflix than Netflix itself does.

netflix's browse doesn't surface a lot of the catalog which is fucking annoying.

it keeps recommending me the same damn things over and over and over, idgi

I currently have Netflix and Amazon Prime. Is it worthwhile adding Hulu? I'm tempted by all the TV shows + Criterion.

If you like current TV shows, then yes. We have all three. Probably use Netflix the most, then Hulu and Amazon about the same.

www.mubi.com

i hate browsing on amazon, they bury half their prime catalog & the only way you can find it is by searching

yeah i use all 3 of those services and they're all a pain in the ass to find things to watch, badly need menu redesigns

they can still have whats hot & whats popular to promo what they need to, everyone does that

but at LEAST make an alphabetical browse by genre that shows everything and dont put the same movies in all genres

and no shade on snowboarding its cool but how many fucking snowboarding documentaries does the world need

I have to assume there's some kind of deplorable audience cultivating motivation for why they don't allow simple alphabetical browsing - it would be so easy to offer

it's maddening

There's also probably some tiering for distributors. I had a friend who had a movie on Netflix at the lowest tier, where you could only find the title via a direct search.

yeah i def think that is a lot of what is going on with prime. but still. how is that effective for anyone, including amazon if no-one watches half the movies you offer?

It sucks as a user, but for Amazon there's really no incentive to have a huge library of non-buzzworthy old/obscure movie titles for people to flip through.

i just look at instantwatcher and the hulu site to check stuff out.

i never browse the actual streaming netflix/hulu. takes too long.

i don't know if i've ever watched a non-criterion movie on hulu. i never even look to see what they have movie-wise.

i DO NOT recommend C.H.O.M.P.S (Cainine HOMe Protection System) starring Wesley Eure, Valerie Bertinelli, Conrad Bain, Jim Backus and Red Buttons which i watched at 4am last night.

if you have a Roku, their search (also on the phone app) is pretty good at nailing stuff on different services, though not always up to date

HFS names to conjure with xpost

netflix's browse doesn't surface a lot of the catalog which is fucking annoying.

― akm, Friday, July 3, 2015 9:19 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this. it's like there's a whole catalogue of stuff on netflix instant that's just submereged underneath the same 100–200 titles that keep showing up in the lists they choose to show me.

my guess is there's some kind of pay to play thing going on, wher ethe terms of the deals netflix strikes w/ distributors include "featuring" their films in some kind of predictable rotation, and the films not subject to those deals are largely buried by their algorithims (sp?).

just reaffirmed you CAN do a-z browsing by genre on Netflix's website

xp it's not pay-to-play, but from my info there is a wide, wide disparity in what Netflix pays for each individual title and from what studios, depending on each deal. payment isn't per stream, it's a set fee for a set time period, regardless of actual use. not only that, the studio doesn't actually get the viewer info! so the stuff that pops up a lot is probably the stuff Netflix paid the most for, not counting their original material.

Yeah scrolling through a-z on their site, there is a LOT of dross, so I can see why they'd rather remind us all of the same big draws over and over even if us needs get frustrated

Us nerds, I mean

i have the house to myself this week so i think it's gonna be hell on wheels the whole way. #dadrock