Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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)

oh 'gomorrah' is good too. i had to turn off 'tiny furniture' cos it was too annoying and i generally like 'girls'

Everybody seems to have hated snowpiercer but I thought it was pretty good.

Fish tank is excellent but it's very hard to watch.

big bad wolves outstays its welcome but it's ok. not great.

Snowpiercer is a turd.

This reminds me, has anybody seen the documentary Wolfpack? Maybe the single most wtf thing I've seen on Netflix in the past year.

Holy Motors, maybe not with the kids...probably goes w/o saying but pairs very well with a local smokable Movie Help. I've kept it in my queue to go back in and re-watch a scene or two. I also liked the Carax documentary.

Helper

i watched wolfpack movie. someone told me it's a big movie with teens/teen girls. cuz those guys are kindly oddly vampirish.

For most of it I had a hard time telling them apart...my only disappointment was not seeing/hearing more of their music, seems like it wld be interesting.

current arty/intl movies in my queue that i've put off watching because i can watch dr. who or some marvel shit while playing with my phone

only lovers left alive
tangerine
ex machina
it's such a beautiful day
we are the best
beasts of no nation
blue ruin
short term 12
holy motors
blue is the warmest color
foxcatcher
a separation
sin nombre
mr. turner
no
uncle boonme

plz watch blue ruin

it's so good

everyone itt: watch blue ruin if you haven't already

Yeah Blue Ruin's amazing

r. butt, go directly to A Separation, do not pass Go. One of the best films of the past quarter century.

And I would advise skipping Mr. Turner, kinda stupid I thought.