Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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

now i kinda want to watch more mike leigh movies and i don't have any to watch. i kinda forgot about him. i never saw Another Year or All Or Nothing. i don't really want to see Mr.Turner. i don't want to watch Topsy-Turvy or Vera Drake. i want the family ones. don't need to see Naked again anytime soon either...

Another Year was good.

i wanna see Grown-Ups! don't think i've ever seen it....

this is when those exhaustive artsy video stores of yore came in handy...

All Or Nothing is on Youtube...

i can rent another year from sony for 3 bucks and watch it on youtube...good to know, i guess.

Leigh's Nuts In May is good family friendly fun

i love that movie.

High Hopes is a great family one

finally finished Out 1. took me awhile. i just never had a whole day to watch. plus, i watched other stuff. saw the last 3 hours yesterday. i still like the first chapter the best.

i just finished _autism in love_ and bawled my eyes out about 3 times. recommended.

Life Is Sweet is one of my fav Leigh family films.

I haven't actually seen it, but this seems like a safe recommendation.

Premature - Caught in an ejaculation time warp, randy teenager Rob must find a way to quell his desires to avoid repeating the same humiliating day over and over.

i'm finishing daredevil season 2. one episode left. i dug it. might have even liked it better than the first season. not quite as disgusting violence-wise. the walking dead guy is a good punisher. elektra definitely a good elektra. i think i totally forgot that there was a jennifer garner elektra movie. never saw it. she seems a little too vanilla to play elektra. though obviously fetching in an elektra suit.

i mentioned upthread that i was looking for another way to get around netflix's region restrictions and i think i've found it. unlocator.com seems to be working for me at the moment so anyone else who's looking might wanna give it a try too

they're currently running a promo where you can get a year's access for $37 but i think i might just go month-to-month given the swiftness with which unblock-us got locked out

heh, you can pay by bitcoin

does it give access to any regions apart from USA?

started watching The Assassin and it really does look cool but i think it would be even cooler if i was really stoned when i watched it.

anyone ever see Easy Living series? i might watch that.

also started watching Meek's Cutoff which is a total stoner western and i might go back to that if i ever get stoned. haven't been getting stoned lately. maybe have an Assassin/Meek's Cutoff stoner feature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rhNrz2hX_o

netflix put up so much stuff on may 1st that i don't want to see.

tracer, yeah, it's supposed to give access to all regions as far as I can tell. i've tried mexico as well as the us and it seemed to work fine.

borderless also works.

I love how all these guys have changed their marketing to be about security: "take your privacy back by proxying all your dns traffic through a server in barbados owned by a company with a po box address and no phone number who can't accept paypal!"

(lets me watch frasier tho, so.)

lol

three volume Arabian Nights is up and i might dig in. it's only 6 hours so after Out 1 it will feel like a breeze.

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

"1971" abt the break in at a Media, PA FBI office makes a nice companion to that PBS doc about the camden 28...