Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

credit info online on this is not easy to find, its makers have 71 and 91 twitter followers respectively rn, im gonna make a thread for this

https://twitter.com/allHs
https://twitter.com/filmgreek

I liked "A Very Murray Christmas" a lot. Looking forward to the next full-length Sofia Coppola joint.

Best Of Enemies is good but I'm finding Buckleys preening, affected manner and risible politics very hard to stomach.

i really liked the first season of Helix more than i thought it would. such a crazy show. but very entertaining. only watched the first episode of season two and that episode alone is completely nuts. also has a weird alternate timeline thing going on a la Lost in season two. i guess it stems from Lost. back and forth in time. and they are on an island.

anyway, if you like madcap scifi virus shows, you should check it out. also if you like the arctic circle. and sorta zombies but not really zombies. just viral people. i give it an A for effort given that they didn't have a ton of money to work with.

Watch Amour Fou and Tangerine, thread!

4 episodes into Making a Murder and this is FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE.

Netflix show Making a Murderer - Steven Avery case, etc

Guys, "Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films" is a blast.

― circa1916, Thursday, December 17, 2015 11:12 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Seconded

― Are you fondeling the computer. (stevie), Friday, December 18, 2015 4:21 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Watched this last night. It was fun, but I wish they would've slowed it down at some point. Clips, interviews, etc all just kept coming too fast and I was never really able to settle in to it.

4 episodes into Making a Murder and this is FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE.

I had no idea Electric Boogaloo was on Netflix. The DVD is still sadly sitting unwatched on my shelf, and if I get the Cannon box set I've been strongly hinting for Christmas, I'm about to have two copies.

If you're feeling like you didn't quite scratch the Golan & Globus surface, keep in mind that there were two Cannon docs released this year!

our plan is to finish Making a Murderer by wednesday.

keep in mind that there were two Cannon docs released this year!

Yeah, they allude to the other one at the end. Golan & Globus declined to appear in Electric Boogaloo because they were producing their own. Living very much in character.

Watched this last night. It was fun, but I wish they would've slowed it down at some point. Clips, interviews, etc all just kept coming too fast and I was never really able to settle in to it.

it moves at quite a clip, but I feel if they'd slowed down they wouldn't have been able to cram so much into it. from what i understand that other doc is v much a hagiography.

at first it felt way too fast and rushed but once they started getting to the auteur phase, i understood that the story (if there was one) was how Cannon stayed in business in spite of a neverending conga line of cheesy movies
i enjoyed the scenery from what i saw as it whizzed by on the screen and the ending montage was fantastic

Started watching Making of a Murderer and suddenly realised halfway through the episode that I'd heard a Radiolab episode about the same case

http://www.radiolab.org/story/278180-reasonable-doubt/

Very strange having the way I'd visualised the crime scene from the Radiolab episode suddenly crash into the pictures on TV.

The Mend is up.

Studio 4°C put up a bunch of movies this week: the kinda Ghibli-esque Princess Arete, the two Genius Party anthologies which are hit or miss but each has at least one killer short (Masaaki Yuasa's "Happy Machine," Koji Morimoto's "Dimension Bomb") and most importantly MIND GAME, which is one of the best goddamn animated films ever.

― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), (3 months ago)

Queen of Earth now up too.

season 2 of Helix is completely bonkers. too bad it got cancelled. how bad does a show have to do to get cancelled from the syfy network?

anyway, i know its a hard sell because you would kinda have to watch the first season to be invested in the second season, BUT if you smoke a LOT of pot or just like to watch crazy shows that are not predictable....

i mean it's pretty fucking nuts. the 2nd season. and i'm not even done with it yet.

DePalma's Snake Eyes is perfect for Netflix -- not worth seeing, except for the opening continuous tracking shot.

Fast-moving but with an ineffable coolness http://www.netflix.com/watch/80093400

haha

Narcos is such a drag. The pieces seem to be there but something's missing. It feels a little like an after school special or weekend TBS movie. The blonde lead reminds me of Macaulay culkin and is generally lifeless. I can't figure out why nothing seems to be happening when things are happening.

i don't know if i'm up for it tonight, but this trailer is nuts. also, check out the voice-over. someone had fun writing that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzPgN8eEI-c

Maron season 3 is up today

Horse Money for you Costa fans.

That VO sounds like the trailer guy from the 70s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP_1T4ilm8M

Best Of Enemies (which I finished last night) was fab. Buckley was an awful and intolerable mothefcuekr.

Slow Learners made me laugh out loud! for realz. there are some choice moments in that movie.

you guys should watch Slow Learners AND Guidance. for the funny. make it a double feature.

Queen of Earth is amazing.

yeah, i'm gonna watch it.

i made rufus and maria watch Slow Learners after they got back from canada tonight and they cracked up even more than i did when i watched it the first time. it still had me cracking up a second time though.

Tangerine was great, and very funny. I was put off a bit at first by the transgender angle (expecting some sort of sanctimonious liberal "issue" movie) and the fact that it was shot on iPhones (thinking it would be all shaky handheld shots), but am glad to report I was totally off base on both counts.

watch Fresh Meat, o american ilxors - it is a wonderful series.

Bone Tomahawk is up on Amazon Prime.

pissed off that The Wild Bunch was yanked on Jan. 1 hours after I started rewatching.

oooh i've been meaning to see bone tomahawk

"The Ridiculous Six, by way of example, in the first 30 days on Netflix it's been the most-watched movie in the history of Netflix," said Ted Sarandos. "It's also enjoyed a spot at #1 in every territory we operate in, and in many of them it's still #1."

gross

i hope to god that's because universal or whoever threw zillion$ at netflix for promo

you gotta blame the people for that one

Correction: 'Ridiculous Six' isn't Netflix's 'most-watched movie ever,' Sarandos just meant the most views in first 30 days. Big difference.

oh hm yea that was wild misleading

Loved Bone Tomahawk.

obvs i suppose but i imagine many people queued up 'Ridiculous Six' halfway thinking they were gonna see a tarantino movie

bone tomahawk was p good --- not as much 'horror' as i expected but what there was was just like o_O

yeah, after a certain point bone tomahawk just abandons all restraint and goes all-out on the gore. i thought it was alright overall but my love for kurt russell was outweighed in this case for my dislike for patrick wilson, a human-shaped black hole from which no screen presence or charisma can escape

also i was regularly distracted from the movie by wondering whether kurt's hateful eight whiskers were grown before the ones he sports in bone tomahawk or vice-versa