Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

just showed up on netflix here, too

i bailed on the returned after one episode. with so much to watch i can be arbitrarily picky though. i can take all kinds of supernatural hijinx on t.v. but the reaction of the parents of the girl on that show made no sense to me and neither did the murder later. probably the first murder in that town in 500 years. like i said, arbitrary!

is the premise basically the inverse of The Leftovers? seems like there's crossover potential

dead people wake up and aren't dead anymore. and they don't know that they were dead. and they go about their business. and wonder what all the fuss is about. and there is this one creepy kid...

but then i stopped. i dunno, it's suitably moody. i just didn't feel like investing in it. there is an american version too.

The Returned was awesome and yes has a lot of weird similarities to The Leftovers, mostly an elk.

The american version, I watched 4 minutes. It was terrible.

is season 2 good?

Yeah it was good. But we were hooked already. I can't remember if we were satisfied though! They rushed some revelations, but also kept a good deal of mystery (and layered onto that mystery). If you like the first season you should definitely watch the second.

yeah i liked s1 a lot, gonna check this out

wait, did a VEGEMITEGRRL see the movie Headhunters? cuz now i'm thinking it's something you might dig. it's clever and fun and moves fast.

Headhunters completely rules.

yr description caught my interest, i like jo nesbo a lot!

i will check it out for sure

i'd watch Headhunters too.
the one Nesbo I read was "the redbreast" and I enjoyed it but it was a bit bogged down by having dual full-time plots.

w/e tho. scandicrime is like candy to me, i want to watch it all

otm

In other Canadiana on Netflix: I finally gave Schitt's Creek a chance and it's better than I expected and pretty funny, or at least Catherine O'Hara is

i watched In The Loop last night. i enjoyed it though it seemed funnier in the first half. the 2nd half had me drifting a bit. also seemed like the shape of television to come. though maybe television was already like that in 2009, i can't remember.

definitely gonna watch the new pee wee movie tonight.

Just watched Dope -- fun flick. Some of it was a little on the nose but overall didn't take itself too seriously.

Yeah, I liked Dope. I also liked Pee-Wee.

The whole time I was watching Dope, I was thinking "jeez, this girl reeeeeally reminds me of Lisa Bonet!" and then I saw in the credits that it's Zoë Kravitz. lol

lol I had the exact same thought and did not see the credits. In fact I thought "Man, kinda cliche to go for the Lisa Bonet type in this role"

Dope was really good!

Also noticed that that Tessa Thompson in Creed was styled and played kind of similarly.

Yeah, Dope was great.

Pee Wee movie was fine but it might have helped if i had known who that dude Pee Wee was in love with was. That tree house scene was super-romantic!

you would have to pay me fifty dollars to watch this movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMtNpu6xBvU

$100

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyWralJ2pkk

I assume Joe Manerinean was Channing Tatum is an early draft.

Here's his big scene in MMXXL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd8qocJNO7Y

the pee wee movie was great!!

Results - sw0le thread + mumblecore guy directing + Robin from HIMYM + Guy Pearce = meh.

i kept thinking "what movie is he talking about?" when i realized the first "-" should have been an "="

i still watch pee wee's big adventure/playhouse/hbo special all the time and find them joyous and inspiring and i was really bummed out by the new pee wee movie..it felt so uninspired, and it looked cheap and ugly, like watching a bunch of webisodes. paul reubens has lost the chops to sell the weaker jokes like he used to, and he can't really do the voice anymore. it felt like nostalgia of the life-denying type to me and i felt drained and unhappy after i watched it.

Thanks for the minority report.

i warned my 7-y-o: 'he's a lot older now..' - movie comes on, my son says 'he looks exactly the same daddy'

Haven't watched the Pee-Wee movie yet, but slam dunk's reaction sounds like my reaction to the new(er) Muppet movie. I still engage with the classic stuff regularly so the new version felt like a hollow simulacrum.

(I did watch the SNL episode hosted by Pee-Wee this weekend, though, which is classic and highly recommended. The only episode I can think of hosted by a character who stayed in character for every sketch.)

it felt totally 80s, same sweet vibe, same corny jokes

i went in expecting to have slam dunk's reaction but idk it's a blast. it misses the scale of big adventure but nails everything else. I thought I'd be bothered by the voice too but nope

I'll have to watch the SNL episode and maybe the movie. Paul Reubens is great, imo. He's been showing up in a handful of tv shows lately!

I had a more muted version of slam dunk's reaction. Reubens' spirit is willing, but his voice and general energy level just aren't there.

CG Herman

yeah, it didn't feel manic like big adventure, it just felt rushed. kind of empty? still fun to watch. his change in voice didn't really bother me, I always loved the way his face reacts to things way more expressively than anything he says, and he still nails that.

The Pee-Wee SNL episode is from '85, btw, in case that wasn't clear.

i loved the balloon thing with the Amish just cuz it reminded me the most of old pee wee. something annoying/funny that goes on longer than you think it will.

omg i loved that part

stuff i still want to see on netflix that i haven't watched yet:

the queen of versailles

snowpiercer

hard to be a god

goodbye to language

wetlands

tiny furniture

memphis

gomorrah

upstream color

in fear

holy motors

stuff on netflix that looks interesting that i might be too chicken to watch:

fish tank

blue car

american mary

crave

big bad wolves

I might be too chicken to watch Wetlands.

it sounds so punk rock i kinda have to watch it. but we shall see...

upstream color is very intense, make sure you watch it with the sound up, especially bass

A few of those there's no way I'll ever watch, but the ones on there I've seen I've loved, save "Big Bad Wolves." Particularly "Upstream Color" (which is indeed very intense, in an honest sort of way) and "Holy Motors" (which alternates between batshit and profound). Been saving "Blue Ruin" for a rainy day, since I know I'll love it.

watched the first episode of that Flaked Will Arnett thing and ... it was pretty bad.

from scotts list - i love the queen of versailles (fun movie, a bit of social commentary and sly comedy), snowpiercer (ridiculous premise but it works! i found it oddly touching which i wasnt expecting tbh) and fish tank (ye olde brit-grit, i love that shit anyway)