Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Nicole Holofcener has a new movie on Netflix for a month and I'm on hearing about it now?

yeah well, it's easily her worst movie so don't worry about it.

not on netflix but on amazon prime: Forever is really good. it's weird to be watching this concurrently with Kidding and see Catherine Keener on two shows at the same time (Kidding is also pretty good)

I am reading the book series of To All the Boys right now. They are fine. I am going to finish them. Unless one has a family I don't know why anyone would buy a tv anymore xpost. I get super annoyed when someone starts flipping through channels looking for something to watch but that is my peeve.

Unless one has a family I don't know why anyone would buy a tv anymore xpost.

to watch Netflix or Amazon Prime or iView or Filmstruck or Kanopy or Shudder or SBS On Demand or youtube or Vimeo or Hulu or DVDs or blu-rays or byNWR or iPlayer or Twitch or VOD or mp4s or mkvs on?

or play video games ?

Yeah, I do most of that on my computer. Although I don't even know what a couple of those listed above are ^^^. We do have a large tv though, it came with the place. I have a rowing machine in front of it that I watch stuff while exercising with the closed captioning on.

I don't think I could ever adapt to watching movies on my 15" laptop screen, even with Apple's decent enough speakers for a laptop.

I really like watching stuff on my computer. I don't know. Probably because I haven't had cable in over a decade and I am just used to it now and I don't have to be bound by someone's crappy tv selections. We also have a projector we use to project certain movies from our computer.

I have the attention span of a squirrel now, so when I watch a movie alone I have to black out my living room and actually turn off all my devices or I'll start pulling up IMDB profiles of performers who look familiar or looking up a song. Viewing anything on a computer just feeds into that.

My 2nd favorite way to watch Netflix/Plex is the iPad Pro in bed with good headphones.

Probably because I haven't had cable in over a decade

I have seen cable TV on two occasions in my life, both in the '90s (once for five minutes, once for a few hours). This does not mean that cinematography looks good on a 10" screen.

for clarification, I don't associate watching stuff with watching it on a tv. It's just easier and I am more accustomed to watching things on my computer. Which I assume is the point someone was making above about the teens in the movie.

funny i associate watching tv with watching anything on a screen

so if someone says papa what were u doin this weekend i say o watchin tv (sometimes i say netflix)

tv is best. i hate watching on computer or phone

that is tru tho

if that tv isn't at least a 50 inch i'm bailing

gimme a tv & surround sound any day over a laptop screen

I've proselytized on other threads - getting a projector and being able to show movies on the side of a wall has improved things 1000%. Plus you don't have to commit to a flat-screen that you have to adjust your furniture for.

veg otm

ive been itchin like i got crabs to buy a stereo surround system

I saw that motion smoothing effect that tvs now have for the first time 2 years? ago. It drives me crazy. It makes everything look like a reality show/soap opera.

i always see it in bar TVs. it drives this friend of mine so crazy that he takes it upon himself to ask for the remote so he can fix it for 'em when he sees it.

Surround sound drives me crazy too but that is probably just another weird sensitivity.

I’m all about a 3.1 sound setup

xpost, seriously that motion smoothing thing looks like complete crap. I had to read up on why anyone thought it was a good idea just to understand what was going on and how to turn it off.

anything with bass and clarity, not too loud, some popcorn, and i'm gucci

My in-laws LOVE that motion smoothing thing and it makes watching movies with them v v painful

I moved the couch a foot closer to the TV, now I am living the dream

i want a setup like soarin at disneyland where u can smell whats on tv

or the one where there were screens all around you and you sat down and things were coming from all angles, i dont think they have that anymore

It's completely reasonable to hate motion smoothing, and completely baffling that most new TVs come with it turned on. I nearly had a heart attack when I bought my TV, put on a favorite movie,cand it looked like utter shit. Then I turned off motion smoothing, and everything looked amazing.

The moral of the story is, a new, large screen TV is absolutely wonderful to watch movies,TV shows. YouTube videos, live streams, etc. Just remember to turn off the motion smoothing when you are first setting up your TV.

I have to resist adjusting other peoples' TVs to kill the motion smoothing.

don't resist

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/09/christopher-nolan-paul-thomas-anderson-motion-smoothing-tv

Action is being taken apparently

norm macdonald

hitlers dog

gossip

and trickery

Although technically, it's nice to have the opposite of air-brushing happen to aesthetically charismatic people.

I don't follow

It makes pretty people unattractive.

They all look like they're under the lights of a set of an '80s courtroom show.

You can see a lot of pores and bad skin.

But why not just turn it off?

It comes as the default on new tvs. A lot of people don't even know you can turn it off.

Uh

I know, and that sucks. As I said above, I had the same experience, and it was very frustrating, but once I figured out what was going on, it was all good. If you know ahead of time that motion smoothing is a thing you'll have to turn off when you set up a new TV, is that really a reason to avoid TVs?

Maybe I'm just confusing myself for no reason, feel free to ignore.

So, new Chef's Table! (I didn't mean to make not having a huge tv a thing, because I have a huge tv right now that is on at night to watch netflix or while rowing. But it's just me where I don't like tvs being the focal point of a room or being on all the time. This probably comes from growing up around family who were hard of hearing or socially stupid and they can't be around people without having the tv on at full blast all day long.)

Makes sense, I'm pretty much planted in front of the TV all day, but we have it set up in a side room so that it isn't in the middle of the main living room, and guests don't have to deal with obnoxious TV.

Started watching Hilda, it is very much my shit. I love her chill world. Almost seems inspired by platform games, at times.

I remember when growing up the stats showed that the typical american watched something like 6 hours of tv a day or something?