Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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

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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?

i imagine jonathan rosenbaum will soon rescind his endorsement of OUT ONE as the greatest film ever made?

we did indeed talk about it.

i even talked about it today!

or actually 20 hours ago...

we didn't really discuss it though. just got excited about it...

Mekons movie was good except for awful music critics in it, but I found Mekons themselves very charming (also reminded me to pull out Fear and Whiskey which is really their only album I come back to but it is a very good record).

there's a 0.0000000000001% chance i'll ever watch OUT ONE in its entirety, but if i do, i'll let you know :)

i'm digging it. i watch one installment a night. kinda. i can't stop watching The Booze Traveler.

nothing beats that first half hour rehearsal scene for me in Out 1 though. i loved that thing! i tried to get my kids to watch it and they looked at me like i was insane. and then i showed it to maria and she she BARELY made it through the whole scene. it embarrassed her and made her really uncomfortable. i thought it was awesome!

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

No :( not on Netflix Aus, of course. But I loved the book!

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/08/netflix-hitler-satire-look-whos-back

look who's back/er ist wieder da will be on netflix on april 9

i'm intrigued, anyone seen it? german humor + hitler seems like it could be... interesting

Happy Go Lucky isnt that grim! Certainly not by Leigh's usual standards.

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The Hitler comedy is coming on the back of a bestselling Volker Ullrich Hitler biography in Germany recently so I guess the German people's reaction to Hitler portrayals has changed since Downfall.

I wouldn't recommend it tbh mh, the joke wears thin very fast and the humour is very German in a sort of gaudy unfunny manner. Though idk some people might like it like that + find the idea of Hitler shooting a puppy dead hilarious. It also features lots of heavy handed stuff with Hitler interviewing real neo-Nazis and real racists, yeah I get it.

I am expecting more from Iannucci's forthcoming Stalin satire tbh

Yeah, I know the background, I just didn't know how well it played out in a film