Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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

Conrad Bain, Jim Backus and Red Buttons

one of those guys never got a dinner.

that's a serious love boat trio right there.

Hulu has been our worst experience by far. Not only do they interrupt your (paid) subscription with commercials, but they can't even lure good commercials, which forces you to sit through the same shitty borderline PSA commercials again and again. When my kids and I watched Masterchef Junior, all the ads for American Idol - the same one, again and again - very quickly started eliciting angry groans, which I'm sure was not the intent.

Weirdest is when Hulu interrupts shows that originally aired without commercials with commercials. There's no break or sign that it's happening, so it seems like the commercial is part of the show for the first few seconds

Yup. It's especially atrocious for the older full length movies they get, the ad breaks cutting in totally randomly. A real shame because they actually have a pretty good back catalog of HK and Japanese stuff from the 60s and 70s

really? even if you pay to subscribe, they interrupt movies with ads??

Yes.

hulu doesn't interrupt most of their mainstream movies, but they do all of the tv shows. it made watching in the cut abominable.

i don't have cable, so hulu has been good as far as new sitcoms/dramas. never would have seen nashville otherwise.

I wonder how many jokes the Netflix offices must make about Hulu's commercials. I'm guessing dozens a day.

We also have the Amazon streaming thing, but it's so cumbersome, making it really hard to distinguish between free content and pay per view content, and so clunky, requiring so many clicks to access the library, that we hardly ever use it. Can't believe a major tech company investing heavily in streaming has such an awful interface

I watched War Games with my son yesterday because he's into computer stuff and I had warm fuzzy memories of the film from way back when I was a kid. What I didn't remember was how much the concept of PG ratings has changed since then. There was a pretty constant barrage of cursing throughout the film, which made me cringe, but didn't really faze my son.

apparently Netflix has 7 Keaton silents right now.

What I didn't remember was how much the concept of PG ratings has changed since then. There was a pretty constant barrage of cursing throughout the film, which made me cringe, but didn't really faze my son.

Try watching The Bad News Bears, your son will learn lots of new ethnic slurs they don't put in kids movies anymore

yeah I've avoided that one; it comes up every year at little league.

ahhh...i didnt know about this:

Los tiempos de Pablo Escobar Season 1

Is that the same series that was on tv?

Could be good...anyone seen it?

if it's the same one that i saw on univision (i think?) it was quite good
i didn't watch the whole series, and was predisposed to be wary of the subject matter being sensationalized but i liked what i saw.
the journalist is a great character and her hair changes are charming
the guy who plays pablo escobar is also great

Wasn't this a plot line on Entourage?

haha...a pablo escobar movie yes

"Lost Angels" - good docu narrated by Catherine keener about LA's Skid Row neighborhood, mostly interviews with & footage of ppl who live there and ppl who have come out the other end of living there

did you guys watch Teacher of the Year? i don't know whether to recommend it or not. key of key & peele is so over the top i'm tempted to use that old cliche about someone being in a different movie than everyone else in the movie. and the mix of drama/mockumentary comedy is just....weird.

have you guys watched that series where murderers talk at length about how they murdered people? i think i might be too scared to watch it.

Meet the Press?