Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

Of course, Clive James is an anagram of El Jive Scam

I just watched Queen of Versailles (thanks scott and thread!) - so well done. The filmmakers were even sued a couple of times by David Siegel, but he lost, and rightly so - because holy crap The Reality. You can't fake all that dog shit on the floor and a massive house full of compulsive spending and a mean old rich republican misogynist. I loved her though. And the wonderful nannies, they broke my heart most of all (I've seen docs and read about the Filipino nanny phenomenon so that prob affected that but still :( taking care of other people's kids while yours grow up without you? That makes me hate the bs financial system more than a rich guy getting his shit foreclosed upon. And Jackie's friend who was $1700 behind on her mortgage and the bank wouldn't accept her $5000 to get her house back?? And all the lost jobs?? Fffuck. But I guess that was the point.) Anyway, great film about the financial crisis and continued big finance bullshittery.

Er Ist Wieder Da (Look Who's Back)

Storyline

Adolf Hitler wakes up to find himself in the 21st century. From there he pursues a career as a standup comedian.

The Germans have got their Hitler satire out before Iannucci's Stalin one comes out.

Whoa, Rivette's Out 1 is up. Broken up into 8 episodes. Guess I'll finally watch this thing.

fuck that is crazy ya maybe will have to

yeah, me too! i know someone who saw it last year in nyc. at the movies. their liveblog play by play of the audience during intermissions was a hoot!

Thank God

watched the eGames documentary all about that stuff that Tombot loves. kind of a commercial for the league that holds tournaments and i wish they had actually talked to the people who make the games, but it had some interesting moments.

watched some episodes of The Booze Traveler which is very entertaining and funny. and it made me want exotic booze i will never find.

started episode 5 of Out 1 tonight. Netflix kinda the perfect way to watch it. since they hold my place and everything. watching Out 1 at night while also reading the Elena Ferrante books during the day is making me feel very cosmopolitan.

added these to my Netflix list. i never started a list before! but i am very forgetful and i should have done it a long time ago:

revenge of the mekons

inside man

i ought to be in pictures

happy-go-lucky

the birth of sake

3 women

16 blocks

in fear

gomorrah

goodbye to language

hard to be a god

snowpiercer

happy-go-lucky is NOT what it claims to be! the trailer for this (and the blurb) make it sound like a comedy but it's not - it's fucking grim and awful and you spend the entire movie waiting for something really awful to happen. but then it is a mike leigh movie.

I loved Happy-Go-Lucky. I wouldn't say it's grim, exactly, but there are stretches of agonizing tension. And the lead performances (Poppy and the driving instructor) are really impressive.

happy go lucky is great and would make a good doubleheader with gomorrah.
you can prob skip goodbye to language; watching it in 2-d on a television screen misses the point almost entirely.
hard to be a god may have the same caveat?

Snowpiercer is a lad of balls, but happy go lucky is very good indeed

Load of balls, i mean

ty for new screenname

ha!

did you see Hard To Be A God, James Morrison?

looks cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11sMDQIgggA

i don't think i've seen 3 Women since the days of VHS.

the brother from Ray Donovan is British! i did not know that. he's the driving instructor in happy go lucky.

"it's fucking grim and awful and you spend the entire movie waiting for something really awful to happen."

hahaha! it was not either! the end thing was scary though.

did we discuss how jacques rivette's OUT ONE -- all 13 hours of it -- is on netflix instant now?