Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

leee: repirt back when you've finished it. idk if i can be assed watching it now tbh

leee: repirt back when you've finished it. idk if i can be assed watching it now tbh

hah haven't finished it yet but I spotted a Dum Dum Girls poster and am now fully on board.

Going to watch the last episode of The OA tonight. Think I'll start a dedicated thread so we can discuss with spoilers.

Has anyone watched the Duplass Bros "Blue Jay"? <3 Sarah Polley and the sorta-mumblecore thing is right up my alley but after Togetherness I'm wary.

i try to avoid that alley as a general rule :)

Also, that alley contains Sarah Paulsen, not Polley

Regarding OA and its ending *Spoilers*

I'm a bit conflicted about how they left the show ending so open ended. I honestly wonder if the creators even know themselves because they said they are prepared to give answers if there is enough demand for season 2. There's not enough evidence to confirm either way if the stories of the prisoners are false or real. I'm not sure if this is good writing or poor writing, but it's been bothering me all week after being so invested. If the show does not get renewed, are we just supposed to never know?

Went back to Love after quitting on episode 3, improves greatly with the fourth.

I thought the whole point of the OA was that it's an unreliable narrator scenario. if you follow her story through, there's literally no evidence that any of it is true - even her young childhood could easily have been made up. That said, there is also a lot of evidence that it's NOT not true (the books in her room were fresh out the box, unread. had they been planted?)

Yeah, OA is definitely an unreliable narrator. I read an interview with the creators recently where they said it's up to the viewer to decide based on their own personal beliefs. That's nice and all and I appreciate interpretive art like David Lynch, but it disappoints me with this show because it seems like a cake and eat it too premise.

Maybe you could have a separate thread for OA? I haven't watched it yet, and it'd kinda hard to avoid glancing at spoilers while checking this general Netflix thread.

#latepass af but Chef's Table is SO breathtaking and cinematic in a way I was not prepared for!!

I've tried Chef's Table several times and I just can't do it. It's like the anti-Mind of a Chef.

Green Room is on UK Netflix now.

^^^doubly recommended if you are a punk fan and/or have spent a lot of time in dingy punk dives (and uh aren't squeamish)

i really liked green room's simple, brutal 70s/80s style approach to an action/thriller/quasi horror thing after all these bloated super hero CG flicks

i don't actually know how much time i want to take to think about the OA. if there were a thread devoted to it. i definitely watched the whole thing. but i might have felt a little Shyamalaned by the end of it.

we been watching the OA. i like to watch things slower than Helen does. First couple eps were not that great but we just watched episode three and it was good. certain parts made me feel like i was gonna have a panic attack. so tense. and so creepy. prepareing myself to be annoyed by the end.

we also watched COMPULSION which is a cool movie I had never seen.

all of this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_television

http://www.avikinginla.com/2016/09/guide-to-norways-slow-tv-on-netflix/

Binged the OA the last two days, And because most people did that, and do that these days, it feels silly to open a new thread for it if we can't discuss it on a weekly episode basis to gawk over. Anyway,

***spoilers***

It was a mess, but a very entertaining mess imho. The Kathun scenes were excruciating. But I decided after episode two that despite the obvious cheesiness to justgo with it and ride it out. And it was very entertaining, had some nice stuff to think about. I was captivated, despite the airy fairy stuff.
The ending though, God I hated it: as a viewer I don't want to be reminded of mundane, real, worries like "will there be a next season, and if so, what the hell are we going to do with it, whilst also wrapping it up sortof in case we don't get a second season." Also one of today's tv problems, more than ever. I don't want to be bothered by that shit, but it's exactly the note on how it ended. Guns (literally) blazing with the school shooting - which didn't offend me morally as it did some reviewers, but more as a viewer: you don't need this HUGE event to somehow tie stuff together and keep us guessing when the whole series is chock full of it already.
The Amazon box of books is another very cheap trick. She constructed this whole story through four books she bought, seemingly unread, and keeps them together in one box? A highly paranoid woman who while blind and in captivity for years learned to pay attention to every minor detail leaves that box under the bed? O rly? And if not, the opposite is just as awful: someone planted that box of books? For the boys to suddenly find out? O rly? GTFO. That finale felt like watching the writers trying to balance the fate of the show instead of writing the show and the story they want to write.

And yet, despite all those huge flaws I was still captivated. They did something right alright. I just hope enough people are entertained/frustrated for Netflix to give them carte blanche, so the writers can focus on the story instead of on survival of the series itself.

Totally agree with your post Le Bateau Ivre - and also why I was frustrated. The show ends up feeling like a beta version that will get passed off as final if it's not renewed. I really enjoyed the show over all though and have went back and watched Brit's "Another Earth" film, which was like a more mainstream Melancholia.

Ohhh, 'mainstream Melancholia' scratches me right where I itch, will watch that!

(For despite my criticism I truly did feel OA was perfect holiday season fodder, this stuff is made for the season isn't it?)

Nicholas Ray's offbeat Joan Crawford western 'Johnny Guitar' is on Netflix atm. I watched for the first time last night

Johnny Guitar is an amazing movie. Watched it in a bunch of classes in college. Lots of talk about the communist witchhunt of the time.

yeah that movie is pretty damn good

Also the gender roles. It's called Johnny Guitar but the movie is about Joan Crawford vs Mercedes McCambridge (voice of the demon in the Exorcist!). Her performance in Johnny Guitar is one for the ages.

This is UK only?? Was watching Ray's king of kings last night

i think it is u.k. only. maybe the u.k. ilxors can have their own netflix thread on the I Love Snooker board. it's very confusing.

Not available in US, but and more's the pity. It's been on my list for years.

Damn I was excited

There is a uk Netflix thread I think

I watched Triple 9 (via a t0rrent-but it is on netflix) earlier and can see why it got bad reviews but it was still a hell of a lot of fun.

But... it's on amazon for rental at $2.99?

sorry, as a proliferate t0rrent user I didn't notice that - but google said it was on netflix

some new stuff up on netflix:

an american in madras (Extensive film clips and interviews tell the story of American filmmaker Ellis R. Dungan, who spent 15 years in India and helped define Tamil cinema.)

boogie nights

braveheart

caddyshack

the day the earth stood still

E.T.

el dorado

hugo

the inn of the sixth happiness

the land of the enlightened (In the rugged mountains of Afghanistan, armed bands of young boys survive by scavenging for old land mines, mining lapis lazuli and trading in opium.)

the manhattan project

menace II society

the shining

the sons of katie elder

superman I/II/III/IV

v for vendetta

vanilla sky

but you've seen all those.

so Ally McBeal is.... something

i never got into that

There's a documentary on there called Minimalism which is about how extremely good looking people with MacBook pros can feel better about their lives by reducing the amount of possessions they have. Quite a good hate-watch if you're in that mood.

i think i read about that one guy in the new york times. wanted to plop him down in the middle of the Amazon jungle with a penknife and a granola bar.

whatever happened to becoming a monk? used to be a thing. just walk away from it all. didn't have to make a big deal about it.

I think you can do without a couple of limbs too

Oh, you can watch that stuff all the time on regular tv, what with the deluge of tiny homes shows (which I've always felt would be much improved with the addition of a check-in 6-12 months later, when the couple has unsurprisingly divorced because they invested very little forethought in what it actually means to constantly be within thirty feet of your partner).

I do have a troublesome limb

tiny homes? you mean apartments?

no, there's an actual number of people (all of whom have probably been interviewed or the subject of an article) who live in houses the size of a storage shed or shack. some of them are a little wiser and just have an airstream trailer or something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_house_movement

"the forest is my living room"

split the difference and put your tiny house in a wal-mart parking lot