Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

I half get it, but the late addition of the previous season of a show only a couple of weeks or days before the new season premieres makes me irrationally angry.

I'm guessing the idea is to create hype for the next season, maybe if you see it too far ahead, you'll be less inclined to pay actual money to see new episodes. Personally, I'm just very patient and will wait a full year after something airs to get to see if for free.

yeah, i don't get why they don't add it at least a month ahead of time to build up hype for the next season. a couple days makes you have to burn through a whole season/series in a weekend which is hard to commit to off the bat

Detectorists (mentioned upthread) is great. Mackenzie Crook very against Office-type (and I guess Pirates of the Caribbean type too).

Caught up on Broadchurch. What's next for depressing overseas crime/social rot wallowing? The Fall?

yes! Fall is pretty great

at least the first season of the fall....

I've said it before but it can't be said enough: the ending to the first season of Broadchurch is the worst ending to any season of any show I've ever watched at least one season of.

It was the "and eventually they were rescued by, oh, let's say...Moe" of dramatic denouements.

the original version of The Bridge is pretty good for that (xp Jon)

Caught up on Broadchurch. What's next for depressing overseas crime/social rot wallowing? The Fall?

― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Monday, February 22, 2016 10:39 AM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

happy valley

Mad Dogs has its moments, there's an A Simple Plan vibe to it, but 3.5 episodes in it's not got any rhythm. Everything situation is just one-upping whatever came before without any kind of release, with dislikable characters that's kind of boring.

Yeah happy valley is my favorite of this bunch.

thx would have overlooked happy valley

is The Bridge still on streaming?

happy valley was pretty brutal

Mad Dogs has its moments, there's an A Simple Plan vibe to it, but 3.5 episodes in it's not got any rhythm.

Boring? I can see "unlikeable characters" (though I don't really care about that) but for me it was as fun and full of left turns as anything since...what, I don't know....Mike White's Enlightened? Try to stay with it if you can—it gets smarter and weirder and better looking/sounding each episode. I hope the people who made this stay together....

Dude, don't go comparing a show to Enlightened unless you really mean it. That was the best new show of the past five years.

Obv. it doesn't approach Enlightened in emotional complexity or character development—it's a diffferent animal, a caper w/ a fair amount of absurdities. (Fewer though than a lot of pretty good shows, e.g. Breaking Bad.) I'm making the comparison in terms of how fast and fun it moves, how well edited and "oh shit now THIS is happening" quotient

I watched the pilot of Mad Dogs last year. It had a strong Entourage vibe iirc?

speaking of mad dogs, one of the best recommendations i ever got on ilx was to watch Terriers because i know for a fact i NEVER would have watched it otherwise. i really liked that a lot. and i was actually happy that it got cancelled and had one great season and didn't drift into badness like so many of these shows do.

and it's still on netflix if anyone here hasn't seen it. so good.

the full-length theme song is permanently on my phone and it always, always makes me feel good when i hear it.

still amazed that you guys watch nothing but tv series on this thing, no matter how shitty their film selection is

i watch movies on netflix.

i don't want to watch that gaspar noe movie though.

i have a TON of DVDs to watch. a daunting amount of them. all stuff i want to see. i just need a week of peace and quiet. which will never happen.

still amazed that you guys watch nothing but tv series on this thing

that's what fandor is for

Morbs, I think you just responded to your own amazement. Netflix's movie selection is like the bargain VHS bin at a Blockbuster ca. 2002.

of course they also have DVDs...

only film ive watched on Netflix in last 3 or 4 months was tangerine

DVDs i've been meaning to watch. many of which i've never seen:

anna christie
cecil b. demille collection box (sign of the cross, four frightened people, cleopatra, the crusades, union pacific)
the last days of pompeii
boudu saved from drowning (last time i saw this was on vhs...)
black narcissus (sadly i am not a P&P superfan. i couldn't even make it through col. blimp a couple of weeks ago...)
the high and the mighty (cuz i will watch all john wayne)
musical box set (ziegfeld follies, till the clouds roll by, three little words, summer stock, it's always fair weather)
das boot uncut ( i dunno, we'll see but i've never seen an uncut version. don't know what version i saw a million years ago.)
the night of the hunter (cuz it's been forever and will i still love it?)
the rules of attraction
the september issue
anna kerenina
the testament of dr.mabuse
il posto
a nous la liberte
the war wagon (john wayne!)
house on telegraph hill
clark gable box set (wife versus secretary, san francisco, mogambo, dancing lady, china seas, boom town)

i've watched a couple of good movies on netflix recently. that indie comedy i talk about above somewhere. and that canadian movie about the gay former child star who fakes his way into a guidance counselor job at a high school. i liked that a lot.

i caught a bunch of war wagon this weekend on tcm. It was pretty bad. Fun fact: same director as the Hulk Hogan film Suburban Commando, which is superior imo ;)

Netflix has some good movies but they're definitely of the variety that it can be slow going at the end of a long day. Queen of Earth and the Experimenter are most recent movies I've watched.

best netflix movies of the recent past for me were definitely: the one about the family going skiing in the alps. i LOVED that movie so much. i think watched it 2 or 3 times. love love love. the one about the house with the woman from the slits in it. LOVE LOVE LOVE. best movie ever. that asian movie about the dad trying to make ends meet that is like an insane fever dream and one of the most beautiful movies i've ever seen. also loved Confucius a lot. with chow yun fat. also another martial arts one with amazing battle scenes and one of the most amazing musical interludes i've ever seen in a movie. but i can't remember the title of that one either. but it was great. Red Cliff! that movie is amazing.

you know what movie i remembered liking and that was really bugging me a couple of weeks ago? The Shop Around The Corner. the original. every character was getting on my nerves and it seemed endless. the voice of that delivery boy was completely demented and it was this deep dead end kids accent and i was like why the hell did they set this in budapest? did not hold up. probably a case of me seeing too much t.v. since i last saw it. plus jimmy stewart toying with and tormenting poor margaret sullavan just seemed cruel.

force majeure! i really want to see that!

we watch tv on netflix rather than movies because we have a toddler and are so exhausted that two hours of meaningful awakeness after baby bedtime are a rare luxury. i am now (8 episodes in) LOVING Love though. Gillian Jacobs is great, and her character has depths of sadness and complexity that are really compelling.

shop around the corner is classic what're you smokin' dawg

no but i get what scott means about the budapest setting, and jimmy stewart being a dick

Can anyone fill in the other missing titles from Scott's post? They sound good

House woman slits is Exhibition.

dad trying to make ends meet is stray dogs, maybe?

OMG, yes, Stray Dogs. jeez, what a movie. and yes Exhibition! i felt bad that i didn't like the movie by the same director about the family going on vacation. didn't like it as much anyway. i know there is a thread for the director and people liked that one a lot. everyone should watch Exhibition though. everyone!

"force majeure! i really want to see that!"

i think there were a couple of people on here who weren't feeling it, but man i just love everything about that movie. from first scene to last. that is a real movie right there.

Re: Love. I'm on board after the 4th episode, though I have little to no confidence in it really impressing in the way, say, You're the Worst did.

I stopped watching You're the Worst after the part where the leads bonded over hating Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I'll be damned if I'm watching a show about two Cameron-haters falling in love.

I would like to wholeheartedly second every film Scott Seward (eventually) named. Except perhaps Red Cliff, it's OK, but you just need the short version.
But what I really wanted to say was in terms of dark British cop bisnes: RIVER, with Stellen Skarsgard. The twist at the end of the first episode is predictable and done so many times before, but get past that and it's good Broadchurch/The Fall/Happy Valley bisnes

I watched The Hustler a while ago. That might squeak through Morbs' approval process

I dedicate hours daily to watching shitty films by a "master filmmaker", no approval from the Doctor, only contempt.

"I stopped watching You're the Worst after the part where the leads bonded over hating Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off."

okay, these people are officially my new best friends and i have to see this now.