Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

xp
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...

(two individuals participated in both actions)

The Twisted Sister documentary is great, whether you like the band or not. Excellent story of the work they put in and the popularity they achieved before getting a record contract.

Agreed, I couldn't care less about TS or metal/hard rock in general, but this doc was really entertaining to watch. Some dodgy apologism is included (apparently during their "disco sucks" era they used to lynch an effigy of Barry White on stage, and they claim they didn't realize the implications of such act until some racist club owner commended them for "hanging a n*gg*r"), but mostly the band members came off as interesting and eloquent characters. It was also a good choice by the documentary makers to focus only on a certain period in the band's history instead of the usual full biography, because it allowed them to give a proper theme (the long, hard work TS went through to finally make their breakthrough) for the movie.

Did you guys see the Quiet Riot doc? That was pretty good too.

i can't remember the last time i watched a behind the music kinda thing. i didn't even watch that nina simone one. i watched the rick springfield one. that was more my speed. all about his crazy fans.

Twisted Sister were always playing near me growing up. in bars. i would see their name in the paper all the time at like a bar in Brewster, New York. them and the Good Rats. long before i ever heard them.

I'm really enjoying Easy Living! I'm not that far along, so i don't know if it stays good, but it's good so far. Finnish dissatisfaction and petty crime was never so entertaining. 3 seasons on Netflix. In the U.S. anyway.

Just in case you need a new t.v. show to watch...

Listening to people speak Finnish kinda its own reward too. It never quite resembles anything else on earth. I swear sometimes it sounds like a blend of Russian, German, Swedish, and Chinese.

i think mark s had a theory that it was actually literally the same language as chinese

Always reminds me the most of Japanese. With the accent always on the first syllable and stuff.

My wife and I grew up in a place where a ton of Finns ended up 100 years ago and our parents and grandparents grew up speaking it or at least hearing it spoken a lot. It's also dramatically influenced the local accent and dialect so hearing it spoken by real Finns is oddly comforting to me.

Duluth?

i seem to remember hearing somewhere that, linguistically, finnish was most closely related to japanese (which, iirc, is also very much estranged from the other languages in its geographic area).

xp Upper Michigan, about four hours east of Duluth.

Hungarian is the language that is from another planet though, right?

I've just been watching a lot of Chinese martial arts movies, so Chinese was the first thing I thought of when listening to Finnish. those inflections I only hear from Asian countries. It's cool!

the subtitling is not the greatest on Easy Living, but it's not too distracting.

Finnish and hungarian are related and unlike anything else. There's a Finnish saying about their own speech: It's not a language, it's a throat infection.

i don't know if they have Easy Living on Australian Rules Netflix, James, but if they do, check it out.

I had a Hungarian friend in high school and listening to her talk to her parents was SO much fun. oh man, could have listened to them all day.

Finnish and hungarian are related and unlike anything else

Very distantly related (both in the Uralic family, which has supplanted the old Finno-Ugric classification) but Finnish has a handful of related languages such as Estonian and even Hungarian kind of has a couple. Compare to Basque, which is a true isolate with no living relatives.