Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

so not gonna happen:

https://www.tribecashortlist.com/preview/movies/all

shortlist indeed!

"curated by industry insiders..."

the VNYL of FLM

i just paged through their list and at least 60% of them are available on netflix

i guess i'll sign up for this one tho cuz i wouldn't know if some like it hot was any good unless gary oldman personally recommended it to me

I just noticed season 2 of Narcos is out, probably end up binge-watching it this weekend.

Is that show good?

It is has a certain amount of faults which I haven't got time to go into, but is also very watchable and addictive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swTWozTxQ-E

LAST CHANCE U

^^ so good!

so not gonna happen:

https://www.tribecashortlist.com/preview/movies/all

shortlist indeed!

― scott seward, Monday, August 29, 2016 1:57 AM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh man, GOON and THE BANK JOB, finally

streaming services have pulled the most amazing con w/r/t the movies they make available, they get people excited for what they pass up in the 50 cent DVD pile at yard sales.

otm

does anyone even use the original netflix dvd-in-mail model anymore?

yes, I do, although we've gone from a peak of 5 at a time to only 1

*raises hand*

mostly because new seasons of tv series and movies come out on disc way sooner than they start streaming, for the most part.

i use it to watch movies that aren't on streaming

i use it to watch movies that are on streaming bc i'm a fucking moron

i get blu-ray new releases on the regular.

No more discs for the last few years. Can't turn them over fast enough and don't care about new releases.

I've started paying the $2.99-6.99 for VOD again through the Google Play store. The bargain bin movies are fine for background noise around the house but when I'm able to actually make time for a movie night the Netflix options seem to have gotten weaker and weaker.

Bring on the TCM/Criterion streaming service

hulu's got em!

i get crippled by criterion hulu sometimes. i can't make up my mind. do i feel like japanese tonight or italian? it's best when i don't overthink it and go random.

LAST CHANCE U

― self-clowning cozen of ILX (cozen), Friday, 2 September 2016 18:49 (yesterday) Permalink

^^ so good!

― schwantz, Friday, 2 September 2016 19:23 (yesterday) Permalink

i can't bring myself to watch that milk carton kid documentary even though john waters likes it a lot. just not in the mood for missing kid grief...

what's the title? (though i do agree with you)

I still do disc service, as I have a 500 title queue of which only <10% is also streamable.

i probably won't watch it since i've had to hear about it my whole life and that ordeal is of the main reasons my parents didn't let me stray very far as a kid

"what's the title? (though i do agree with you)"

WHO TOOK JOHNNY

that movie is awful. not in a good way. like it's stupid.

do i really need to watch the u.s. shameless? people were talking about how good it was on facebook today. i kinda got tired of the u.k. one and stopped watching it. i briefly had showtime via hulu and didn't watch it then. but now its up on netflix.

well, no, i think i talked about this on some other thread. it's good in the way that the suburban mom is so perfect.

xp thanks for the save

like a lot of people i love watching people do hard stuff that i would never ever do in a million years. so, this was fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQmoxlUy33A

Good doc.

oh boy i am sooooo watching London Has Fallen. i loved that first movie where things fell.

The Wheelchair President is rubbish. I don't know what I was expecting - an FDR documentary with some weight or authority, I guess - but this spends way too much time with the annoying presenter, who keeps dropping wheelchair-related puns into the script. I wish they'd given it to a Ken Burns who, while dry, at least has a fair sense of tone and, for the most part, a lot of substance to his work.

Didn't Burns do an FDR doc or a tandem one with Teddy?

who keeps dropping wheelchair-related puns into the script

this sounds like something that'd be in a parody trailer for a FDR documentary!

many xposts

harbl i have been on the fence about watching, yr the first person i sorta trust who has said it's bad.

because i honestly feel like the mom is batshit bonkers nuts & there is so much conspiracy theory vs actual things that happened in this story that i sort of hate every retelling of it that accepts her ideas as facts

i watched Marcella last week. if u thought Happy Valley was a bummer, holy shit
it's great if you are a morbid saddo like me tho

sounds like my kinda show

srsly its so good

Has anyone watched Twinsters?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1txduZwL2Yg

As a twin, it probably affected me more than it should have but my wife was really touched and engaged with it as well.

It's a completely unbelievable story at any rate. Kudos to the one sister for having the foresight to begin documenting from the beginning.

http://www.netflix.com/watch/80047635

Been loving Chef's Table

We just watched Twinsters the other day. It began sort of cute and insufferable, all the on-screen texting and stuff, but then it got deeper and weirdly fascinating, though it never goes full nature-nurture. Like the way the two girls were so similar in many regards but so different socially, and how they had such different feelings about their adoption. Psychologically there are all sorts of things going on, but I found it really touching how the one sister felt wanted, because she was the third child and the first adopted kid, which made her feel like a choice, but the other sister felt like a runner up, that not only did her birth mother not want her, her adopted parents only chose her because they could not have kids of their own.

My wife told me (don't know where she heard this) that there is apparently a large subculture of adopted Korean-American kids rediscovering their roots and moving back to Korea, despite not speaking the language, etc.

please ask her where she heard that

Will do! It was certainly the first I'd heard of it.

Yeah, really enjoyed Twinsters

VG, I liked Marcella.

I haven't see Happy Valley yet.