Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

no idea. but as soon as i heard unblock us had problems a few weeks ago i cancelled it

the netflix reddit and related reddits have lots of users complaining

you have to dig through the threads to find a reliable vpn rec

Can't vouch for it, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that Entertainment (the Neil Hamburger movie) is up now.

^ wanted to see that, can't wait to get bleak

it's not a terrific film, but it did have lots of Neil Hamburger in it, so that was good

i REALLY liked The Queen of Versailles. i might even watch it again with Maria. she should see it. the interview portions were so perfect and cinematic. or good enough for a play. the nanny in the playhouse saying her father never got a concrete home but he did get a concrete tomb.............WOW. you can't make that stuff up. that might have been one of the saddest moments in a movie that i've ever seen. i just can't believe they filmed them throughout the rise & fall like that. and the lizard part!! that was amazing.

ya queen of versailles is fantastic. i wonder what luis bunuel would have thought of it.

that part when the dad is sulking in his office shirtless while shrek is playing...the housekeeper struggling to put on her rudolf the red-nosed reindeer costume for the christmas party..i gotta watch it again

yeah i'm kinda looking forward to watching it with maria. i need a witness.

they are all so totally human too. which is probably why i liked it as much as i did. they could have made the mom into some honey boo boo nightmare (i mean it's all in the editing), but she was really real. even that credit-drunk toy store visit, man, that was really something too.

the mom seemed really, really cool!

i loved that, too!

Documentary Now is streaming

What a gem

read online that the oldest daughter who was interviewed a lot in the queen of versailles died of an overdose a couple of years later when she was 18.

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Not on Netflix but I ponied up $5.99 to stream Sicario on Amazon last night. Has anybody seen this? Good movie.

so what's the new workaround now that Netflix blocks hola? will probably unsubscribe if i can't find something, Canadian netflix is so bad

Hey I'm curious does anyone here subscribe to Fandor? The catalogue is incredible...we've been watching more of this than Netflix for the past few months. It seems like every week they throw up a new batch of six or eight Criterion titles. There's a trove of ephemeral stuff in the <30mins range—industrial/political/PSA films and animated shorts, drug fantasia...plus the full (comprehensive?) slate of 'sploitation movies.

Also hundreds of hours of art/wallpaper fare, Jonas Mekas et al. The entire catalogues of Guy Maddin and Alexander Sokurov, maybe twenty Werner Herzog titles, every (?) Charlie Chaplin. They have all four Kelly Reichardt movies.

Also music docs galore, way too many to sort through. Off the top of my head Devo, Eno, Public Enemy, Harry Nilsson, Zappa, Googoosh, Tom Dowd, that Genesis P'orridge/Lady Jane and Norwegian black metal docs, all the Decline of Western Civ. movies, Heavy Metal Parking Lot etc you get it.

I know this is sounding a little street-team but yes it feels like a gift.

I have fandor. Not for Criterion since I already had that w/ Hulu, but the selections are great. Unfortunately I don't watch any movies ever. I think all I've watched on Fandor is Heavy Metal Parking Lot and Decline of Western Civ 1. And a really long and not that great Brian Eno documentary. I did put on Herzog's Nosferatu as wallpaper the other day though.

But one day I'll watch everything.

Sometimes I justify the expense by figuring that I'm supporting a good cause.

I think you are, kind of!

For some reason it doesn't give me the anxiety of choice that Netflix does...it's stupid but picking a movie sometimes seems absurdly high-stakes or stuff stays in my queue forever. On Fandor for some reason I'm comfortable just watching whatever's new or recommended w/ the idea that I can dip my toe in, and most of the time it's something worthwhile if not great.

here's a vote for mubi
https://mubi.com/films/showing

yeah Mubi is awesome. There was a point last year where I'd caught up with all 30 films, but then it all fell apart...

Wow, that looks good too. Added incentive of knowing the movie will expire seems a good idea.

We are def. in the Golden Age of something. I fear it's...procrastination. The golden age of sitting down.

i'm pretty sure i sat down a lot before the internet. it has always been a golden age for me.

Yeah but you're a trailblazer.

so what's the new workaround now that Netflix blocks hola? will probably unsubscribe if i can't find something, Canadian netflix is so bad

― flopson, Tuesday, March 29, 2016 11:12 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you know i was thinking about it... they should just cut a deal with the licensers or whoever owns the rights to the films, and you can pay 5$ per month more to get access to US/UK netflix

yeah that's not going to ever happen :c

im sure there's plenty of subscription vpns out there to use, im going to have to either choose one or cancel netflix as the canadian one is real bad in comparison with what the states gets.

vpn blocking was apparently at the "request" of studios

i know, but presumably there is some amount of extra $ they can charge + funnel to studios that would make studios better off than blocking vpn's

i imagine the studios etc. have manifold separate and distinct agreements regarding Canadian licensing, lasting different terms, involving different sums of money etc. and no bulk deal would be logistically feasible

lol flopson you have to be trolling bud

there's a lot of bureaucracy to getting licensing

like jim said this is something that will never change

i do imagine some countries get one or two highly popular shows just to keep people hooked

but living in canada we/you are screwed

it's one of few good things living stateside

distributors aren't helping though

but anyway

vpn + https://popcorntime.sh are some solutions

just do what we did in the old days, order a box set from the other country

i don't claim to understand the intricacies of movie and tv licensing bureaucracy, but presumably the people who own the licenses want money, so i don't think it's so farfetched that there could be arrangement where countries with shitty licensing pay more

in australia the stuff you actually want to watch has been snapped in exclusive deals by competing non-netflix VOD services who will probably die off over the next 5 years, but in the meantime mean you either subscribe to multiple shitty providers to still get less than the US for 5x the money, or else not watch anything good

the demise of unblock us has really bummed me out - i pretty much could always find something worth watching by picking another region at random and paging through their selection.

the crazy thing about the whole region-locking issue is that it'll just encourage more piracy. my wife and i had started slowly working our way through the x-files again on us netflix and i'm wondering now whether i should just torrent the whole thing in a totally pointless fuck-you gesture to netflix

Well, it would be a fuck-you to the rights-holders who caused this problem, so go for it!

ya, torrenting is just such a pain, but ultimately it is the best option

and now that you can stream it it works out pretty good

you guys are gonna make me feel bad for posting about cool movies you can't see because your netflix is so lame. can you petition the Queen or something?

when we were in england i could see "a walk among the tombstones" but i can't see it on US netflix :(

really been into myth hunters and ancient black ops lately.

Bizarro - are you in the UK? If you sign up to a free month of Ahummuszon Prime in the UK, they have X-Files on that.

There is still some good weird stuff on Netflix UK - I finally got to see A New Leaf, for example, which is awesome.

I'm finding Unblock Us still works for one show via Ipad, then I get the VPN warning. You just have to quit the app and restart after each show/movie.

if bizarro's in the uk then he can watch x-files on freeview on Spike at the moment. i think they are about 3 weeks in.

http://www.channel5.com/show/the-x-files

(oh, they are showing 1 a day so are on series 1 episode 13 already. it's also the place showing walking dead series 5, two at a time)

watched the movie Hard Labor last night. from Brazil. i enjoyed it. a slow drip of minimal strangeness. one of the best last scenes i've seen in a long time. kind of the perfect catharsis for what came before.

yeah, i'm in scotland and i do have amazon prime - must have overlooked that the x-files is on there, cheers for the heads-up.

the thought of looking for the x-files on actual broadcast television genuinely never occurred to me! unexpected side-effect of living in the future, i guess

they started the repeats immediately after the revamp finished...

(hadn't realised that Spike was channel 5 owned. makes sense seeing as the walking dead was previously on one of the 5s.)

poldark is streaming on prime if anyome likes brooding windswept period dramas about...mining

As Clive James once said, Poldark = an anagram of Old Krap

lol

I only had to hide my eyes once during Wetlands. at the end. what a movie...sigmund freud + john waters is some kinda combo.