Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

"I Am Love" is pretty fascinating

if you liked "The Wild World of Batwoman", make sure to check out "Eegah!"

I did and it was great!

barking dogs never bite - korean black comedy about eating the dogs
we jam econo - awesome minutemen doc

if i start posting on this thread i will be participating in 3 different netflix streaming threads which seems excessive

There's two other streaming threads? Did I miss something?

dont feel bad, one of them is my own self-indulgent fault and the other is on I Love Games.

JJJUSTEN MAKES ONE SENTENCIRIFIC REVIEWS OF ALL THE CRAP THAT HE WATCHES LATE AT NIGHT ON NETFLIX STREAMING XBOX SOMETHING WHY BECAUSE HE BORED ALSO BECAUSE
Netflix Streaming Film Recommendations: Because You Can't Always Play With Yourself

one is jjjusten's personal joint and the other has a tmi title

xp

Sorry jjjusten! I totally missed your thread. Thought I did a search first. Look forward to reading those threads.

Tales from the Script has interviews with everyone from Richard Rush to Paul Schraeder to Shane Black about big-studio screenwriting. Lots of guys I'd never heard speak before. Good documentary.

the documentary about milton glaser (hugely important graphic designer) is on instant netflix. can't wait to see it.

Exit Through the Gift Shop (aka "The Banksy documentary") is an unexpected mindfuck, and surprisingly isn't really about Banksy at all. I recommend!

yeah that looks good

^Had me all fucked up over art, commerce, life in general, for a couple days.

Recent watches:

Soul Kitchen
Vengeance
Valhalla Rising
Centurion
Rewatched first five eps of Party Down Season 2
Planet B-Boy

Another thumbs up for Exit Through the Gift Shop. Just watched the Joan Rivers doc this weekend, too.

The Eyes of Tammy Faye is a good doc, not sure if it's on Netflix instant.

Rewatched first five eps of Party Down Season 2

when are they going to put up the final 5 is my question

they took mall cops away :(

i only got to see, like, 4 episodes.

you could write, like, ten doctoral thesiseseses just watching that show and never leaving your couch. amerikkka writ sad.

Just watched Black Narcissus -- so good.

when are they going to put up the final 5 is my question

up now

Milton Glaser doc is good btw.

Just watched Black Narcissus -- so good.

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Beautiful stuff like these seems worth waiting for the disc to show up, no?

I just watch Hoarders and old SNLs

Exit through the gift shop is so awesome

I know the disc would be better quality than streaming, but streaming is definitely better quality than regular tv -- there are far fewer compression artifacts than I get on cable. Maybe Netflix can tell I have decent downstream bandwidth (10 Mbps), I dunno. Turn off the lights in my office, watch fullscreen on the larger monitor, in with the earbuds, ask the family not to mess with me for two hours (or watch in the morning before they get up), a nice near-cinema experience.

"Beautiful stuff like these seems worth waiting for the disc to show up, no?"

Not with my TV, no.

ah good point

i'm a little of worried that Netflix is gonna phase out discs before the internet connections get good enough for streams to be disc-quality

I'M STILL HERE, one of the greatest and most underrated films of the year, is now on instant. Time will be very kind to it.

Just watched Moon, pretty good.
Now starting the Red Riding Trilogy.

Just watched "I Think We're Alone Now" about two disturbed dudes obsessed with Tiffany. Pretty interesting, if a bit depressing.

Come to think of it, both of the dudes are probably ILM regulars.

"probably"

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work was great, I really enjoyed it.

nova eps on dogs and dreams were both p tite, origami doc 'independent lens: between the folds' had some peak moments

did they just add an HD feature/button today or did i just get it/notice it today?

No, they've been offering some stuff in HD for a while now.

aight, maybe it was just 'no reservations' then

2 bad no Life of Brian

they had it for awhile

Rockers the other night.

they took mall cops away :(

i only got to see, like, 4 episodes.

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ive been watching this too. I had no idea it was gone :(

Watched Cool Hand Luke - they're taking it away Jan 1st. Never seen it before and it was AWESOME.

so i watched the joan rivers, my god this lady

Yeah that Joan Rivers doc is pretty great. She's kind of simultaneously terrifying and amazing at the same time.

a profoundly confused person

"ive been watching this too. I had no idea it was gone :("

i goofed or something. i watched the first couple episodes and then couldn't find it on the netflix menu on my t.v. and then i found it on the "recently watched" menu. so i got to watch the whole first season. such a sad show in a weird way. i don't know why it wasn't on the regular t.v. menu anymore. they just add and remove things randomly i guess.

the black/white thing is pretty stark on mall cops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUlB9yQZKPo

They Took My Show Away

yeh, we were 5 episodes into Archer (so great) and it's gone

the whole taking things away angle of netflix is no cool

need to concentrate on building

The Harlen Coben ones are just nutso. I almost admire how they cram MOAR into everything. I reckon when I'm granny age I'll be up for watching them.
James Nesbitt lost a lot of my goodwill with the execrable recent series of Badlands too.

we watched Coben's The Stranger and hated it by episode 4 but watched till the end for resolution

that’s the curse of the coben

Aggretsuko season 5 more sweet, smart and funny business

More fun from netflix descriptions:

This 2021 action thriller featuring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Woody Harrelson was co-produced by Bryan Unkeless

Co-produced by Bryan Unkeless! Shit, let me drop everything to watch it!

watched life (2017) on netflix last night, basically "what if alien was set on the international space station". it's kind of funny how it doesn't depart one iota from the template (except, no spoiler, theres no evil android) and just how much it borrows. and though it tries even ryan reynolds & jake gyllenhaal can't make the characters a tenth as likeable or memorable. nevertheless it's the kind of corny sf I love, it's very well paced with a few good shocks and though the ending was predictable and ridiculous it somehow still freaked me out a little.

You might like SPUTNIK, a Russian version of the same basic ingredients.

yes i've seen it! that one's worthwhile for doing something a bit different with the story

the ending of Life is soooooooo hilarious, was worth it alone for that

I literally forgot that movie existed, but yea, iirc it was a fun time. Some even theorized that it was a stealth "Alien" prequel.

Fucksake etc

Some news about Lockwood and Co. I’m very sorry to say it’s not being renewed. Here’s more…
⚔️ #LockwoodandCo pic.twitter.com/DXR0TGZuRf

— Jonathan Stroud (@JonathanAStroud) May 12, 2023

Very disappointing, was flawed but much more interesting and smart than most of the stuff Netflix push:

Definitely.

I suppose at least with adaptations like that you can read the books if you want to complete the story.

Dragon Prince season 5 on July 27th!

cyrus and maria and i loved *The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House* but i don't think i know another living soul who has watched it. (actually i think we might even have a couple of episodes left. we should get on that...)

my wife watched it without me and enjoyed it.

Thanks for reminding me - love Hirokazu Kore-eda's films so have been meaning to give it a go.

Speaking as a fan of the comics, the Nimona movie is quite disappointing.

Man, the Dragon Prince has some of the biggest swings in quality of a show that I fundamentally enjoy, newest season is kind of bad: I don't think it had a single joke that landed for me, and they stretched the plot out to fill the 9-ep season to its breaking point. The last episode is pretty good though.

I gave up on it after the very weak fourth season; thanks for confirming I made the right decision. First three seasons were great tho

I actually thought the fourth season started off brilliantly, but it kind of treaded water for the rest of it.

Maybe I was not in the mood for it when I watched, but your description of the fifth season is exactly how I felt about the fourth: failed joke after failed joke. Got painful after a while, was barely able to finish it and vowed not to waste more time

Well, the finale ends on a character curling up and waiting to die, which for a kids' show, makes me want to give it a chanec.

"Well, the finale ends on [show hidden text], which for a kids' show, makes me want to give it a chanec."

let me guess. Hitler's birthday?

Flanagan's The Fall of the House of Usher out tomorrow.

Can't wait

S7 of Big Mouth just dropped

Previous to seeing this I had never even considered the scenario of a Psyduck softly resting its head on my shoulder, and now I know I will die an unfulfilled man because this will never happen to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zmhHLVrq0

Same studio as the excellent Rilakkuma and Kaoru I see.

Anyone watched the new season of Sweet Home yet? Didn't realise it was back

This is good!
https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/movie-anniversaries-2024

Triple Frontier is like Very Bad Things meets a shitty Peter Berg movie about Navy SEALs.

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yes

it was great fun and far better than these things usually are despite being totally predictable

I liked The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House but fell behind! It's cozy in a way that I think will reward fall/colder weather viewing while something stews in the kitchen.