Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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?

a+

ps todd barry's crowdwork is available through this service & it is v funny

i watched the todd barry thing. it was AMUSING. but not really LOL.

i mean he is really good at that thing. no doubt. i loved how most of the people he talked to said they were something and then it turned out they weren't really that thing much. artist/DJ/musician...

standup comedy is a dead medium. there are no funny standups.

disagree but ok

except george wallace of course

http://i.gyazo.com/ca9563b1fcad36e8b7053a26bb01e431.png

george is the best

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.

― scott seward, Thursday, July 30, 2015 9:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Meet the Press?

― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Thursday, July 30, 2015 9:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Posts Very Much In Dr Morbius' Character

really loved obvious child btw

I Dream of Wires, for all the analog synth fans out there

Some Shaw Bros. productions are trickling in. Any recommendations?

It's been a while but I remember really liking "Come Drink With Me" and "Heroes of the East".

Both good!
Recommend: The Avenging Eagle, Executioners from Shaolin

Finished Mad Men, I've watched and re-watched all the good HBO series, not interested in rewatching Breaking Bad.

What show should I watch next? The Bridge?

have you seen the shield? it's got some corny 'this ain't network television' extreme aspects and there's a heavy homicide influence in the early seasons but it's pretty great imo and really holds up thru the end and feels it's actually building toward it's conclusion in the same way breaking bad did. it's only streaming on hulu plus though. i'd suggest homicide as well, esp if you liked the wire obv, but it's apparently not streaming nor available for digital purchase anywhere.

Good call on the Shield. I wanted to try that a couple of years ago but it wasn't streaming anywhere at all.

i think the shield might work better streaming, a common complaint i heard of it while it was on the air really didn't come into play as much for me when i could just blow thru it in a few weeks

Shield is one of my top 3 shows of all time.

Shield finale a gold standard serial payoff.

The first ep/pilot is definitely all like trying to hard to SHOCK YOU with all the CRAZY ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN DEATH, but it does get a lot more nuanced after that. Stick with it, right to the end.

Also, events of the very first episode haunt and affect the series right up until the end.

daredevil is fun btw

milo have you seen Carnivale or The Comeback or Oz? they are all HBO and excellent and slightly underrated compared to like The Wire/Sopranos/6FU

the comeback is incredible.

Pretty upset that, after it being on there constantly since probably the whole streaming aspect of Netflix started, Magnum P.I. has been removed. Oh my GOD!* It was my go-to. I could shell three pounds of purplehull peas in an episode. I didn't binge watch or whatever. Just spread em out over a few years there. I was working through season 4 when it happened. It was a shit season so far, to be far. Far too many silly episodes and not enough 'Nam flashbacks or other serious troubles, but still. Pretty bummed. Rockford Files will take over that slot in my life.

*Higgy Baby voice of course

The first ep/pilot is definitely all like trying to hard to SHOCK YOU with all the CRAZY ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN DEATH, but it does get a lot more nuanced after that. Stick with it, right to the end.

― Jeff, Sunday, August 23, 2015 7:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also, events of the very first episode haunt and affect the series right up until the end.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, August 23, 2015 10:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i think the death in the pilot was just great storytelling....it's a gunshot to the stomach that all of the main characters slowly bleed out from for the entire series, and it definitely felt like it was planned that way by the writers. i also think the first season is really strong, tense genre fiction and i don't get why it's always dismissed by fans of the show.

I am currently 3 eps into Narcos - the P Escobar series, it is decent so far.

so they're apparently losing a huge chunk of their streaming movie selection and pivoting hard to Original Programming.