Your Netflix Recently Watched Complete History of Questionable Choices and Possibly Shame

Because sometimes you just need to watch something, anything
Netflix Recently Watched -> See Complete History = kind of a mind fuck!
How could i possibly have watched all 9 episodes of short-lived tv series My Own Worst Enemy starring Christian Slater?? oh it was JANUARY...
sometimes you just need to watch something, and maybe it's winter, maybe it's not, no shame, well, maybe some shame

as a recovering completist, i had to get through the end of season 3 and all of season 4 of The Unit, back in November. phew.

ok apparently i gave three stars to the movie Sex Drive but remember ABSOLUTELY NOTHING that wasn't on the movie poster

It had a bus in it maybe? That's all I really remember.

ah
I Could Never Be Your Woman
so terrible

i'm going to try my best to avoid Sex Drive

I don't think it was a terrible movie, but my memory of it is very hazy.

I always have good intentions about watching more documentaries or artier films, but usually ending up watching the dumbest stuff imaginable.

my queue is full of documentaries and artier films...

I have no regrets at seeing something so perfectly idiotic like .com for Murder.

Strange Sex, season 2 episode about feederism and a dude gonna castrate himself

watched "The Big Year" with bf last night

bonus: discovered Morbz slam review too late

I don't know what is "The Big Year". I rewatched "Lost in Translation" last night hoping I'd hate it less, nope, hated it more more more, fell asleep angry, woke up angry.

bonus: discovered Morbz slam review too late

timing, sweetie! I watch that shit so you don't have to.

I don't know what is "The Big Year".

A Canadian tax dodge.

Alternately.

considered watching something called L!fe Happens last night but a friend called and I wound up not watching anything.

Pootie Tang here. So disappointed we already have a thread for the all-important question, Pootie Tang: Sepatown or Wa Dah Tay?

Ooh a bird-watchy movie? I'd like to see one of those. Netflix really saved me some time last week, after watching six ep.s of Community I jumped ahead to season three for a few minutes before making the smart decision

I know there's a whole Lost in Translation thread but my experience in Japan touring with a college choir half-filled with ugly Americans really REALLY made me relate to that movie, particularly with ScarJo's Ivy background and the alienated bafflement with which she was engaging with the culture around her; I think it's hard to put into words exactly how much of a barrier the total disconnect between written English and written Japanese is unless you spend a week or two there, and that's something I thought the movie did really well.

Of course, I've only seen it once; maybe a rescreening would change my mind.

wait for a good birding movie (could be awhile, that one bombed v deservedly)

That alienation can just as easily turn into wide-eyed wonder as it can nihonophobia. Me and bf saw "no gay people" in our two months there, and were still getting "this is special gaijin menu, enjoy your fried chicken" treatment but generally felt pretty "that's how bitches be" about the whole thing.

Not shrugging at your alienation, mind, just that in that movie I felt an aggressive, even hostile, level of non-engagement with non-American culture. It did remind me of being in Wburg for a few weeks and losing my mind there, though. But my alienation never went further than a "yo do any single mothers live up here or what" quip

i tend to watch a bit of Lost in Translation every year because i like the tone of the film if not its content

i watch parts not the whole

Let me clarify; I was not talking about MY alienation, I was talking about the alienation of half of the guys I was traveling with, particularly the blonde guys. I saw the whole trip as a cool adventure encoded in a secret language, plus any side-eye I got as a black man wandering around Japan was much more polite than the side-eye I have received wandering around the US as a black man.

Our whole trip was a cycle of bus-concert hall-hotel for 17 days with very little down time for sightseeing or relaxation; our main outlets for fun were hitting beer vending machines and arcades after concerts with the occasional hotel bar trip her or there; the bubble our tour existed in seemed very, very similar to the bubble ScarJo was in as Ribisi's +1, only with even less freedom to wander around. My reaction to Japan was nothing like hers or Bill Murray's, but I saw enough people who DID have that reaction that the whole movie resonated very strongly with me.

i haven't seen LIT a long time, but for me it resonated specifically as a portrait of people who are too wrapped up in their own problems to appreciate what's around them. I can definitely understand someone saying "why do I want to watch two assholes not make something of their amazing lives and experiences" but i didn't get the sense some did that the film was a celebration of non-engagement.

though admittedly any movie that spotlights something is in some sense a celebration of it. the film definitely says two jerks not appreciating a culture is a subject worth your time and consideration, just as a film like trainspotting suggests being an addict is a big deal worth staring at even if it suggests there's a downside.

there's some flawed logic in there

one can focus on a subject without celebrating it

yeah I thought a good chunk of LIT was a criticism of ScarJo's and Murray's refusal to engage with the visually amazing, bewildering world around them; neither comes across particularly sympathetically in the movie and I though that was intentional

da croup generally otm. My biggest problem with LiT (aside from a couple of the wacky culture jokes) was not giving a damn about Scar's bad marriage.

i would say it's more of a sympathetic close observation of non-engagement
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one can focus on a subject without celebrating it

we can debate what "celebrating" means but i do think that a film inherently "glamorizes" its subject to some degree just by saying it's a worthy subject for a movie.

ah well yeah, it's a very romantic- and somewhat glamorous-feeling movie that is actually super harsh on romance (and i mean romance not in the coupling sense but in the way-of-being sense). mostly it's a movie about being sad.

it's probably 100% percent episodes of Dinosaur Train due to a certain little person in my house

xpost yeah i liked it, though i was in a pretty sad, self-absorbed spot at the time myself

I watch a ton of Star Trek.

all the Star Trek movies are on Canadian netflix

re: LiT: i know that some people read it as straight-up romantic though, as it's very pretty and nothing all that harsh happens - it's a bubble world that can't last, and the two main characters don't really want it to anyway; it's all play and ennui - which is quite harsh if you think about it in terms of living your life with some kind of relative-to-you real meaning. that's why i like it.

dear god if i posted some of mine none of you would ever talk to me again

Vulgar (2000) - IMDb
www.imdb.com/title/tt0120467/
Rating: 5/10 - 2884 votes
A man who performs as a children's birthday party clown tries to piece his life back together after being gang-raped.

produced by kevin smith!

i watch old star trek (which i'd never really seen before) when i'm on my own for dinner, but i rarely get around to watching any of the random 100 films i have on my queue, as i'd rather websurf and explore spotify once my hands aren't holding takeout.

it's probably 100% percent episodes of Dinosaur Train due to a certain little person in my house

Yes, mine is mostly episodes of Avatar and My Little Pony. At least she's tired of Dora now, it really is the worst.

that is what this thread is for!!
like, i once watched at least 35 minutes of some low-budg movie that was supposedly about "artists" but was actually just soft-core porn
xps to jjusten

I'm glad I don't have Netflix, I wd prob just watch everything with Chris Evans' unshaven chest in it.

What's Your Number is a really great film for that.

I watch a ton of Star Trek.
Raised hand, over here

i'm geeky enough that I have my pile of 100 or so movies my wife has no interest in seeing set by order of predicted rating, and watch the lowest ones first since i figure i'm more apt to stop them before they're done and move on.

My current bottom ten awaiting verdict: Rampage, Trespass (the Cage/Kidman one, I already know I love the Cube/T/Paxton one), Sex Drugs & Rock'n'Roll, Deadly Intent, Enter The Void, The Ward, Sometimes They Come Back, Blitz, The Golden Child and John Pinette: I'm Starvin'.

i just looked up Trespass and it's not on Cdn netflix but what came up instead were all the Tremors movies and all the Star Trek movies

season 1 of Switched at Birth

i watched two seasons of Dollhouse in a few days, but...
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hulu's most popular items makes me wonder about who's using it. they have a huge mess of criterion films available, but the most-watched criterion ones are those that titles and descriptions seem the most like softcore

well, I guess that does make sense

Killer Elite <-- how can you have Statham, Clive Owen, and De Niro and still have such a bad film

This was so dull and awful.

yeah that was a heartbreaker

no explanation why i watched this list

dc cab
my tutor
private parts
morning glory

also somehow unconsciously i watch rounders, ronin, and the seven ups every three months or so

haha wow, i have so far resisted watching morning glory

i saw DC Cab in 1984. i was too young for DC Cab.

omg I have had the urge to watch horrible tv show ALIAS for a while and they just added it to netflix

okay this is totally lol because now I can see what my wife watched without me, like Transformers: Dark of the Moon

I watched that without Carl. Yet I do not hang my head in shame.

oooohhh

Super High Me
O.C. and Stiggs
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (couldn't finish)
Hollywood Boulevard (amusingly cobbled together using footage from other Corman movies)
Invasion of the Bee Girls
Hell On Wheels, entire season 1 (why did I watch the whole thing?)
The Game (already saw it, it's kind of boring, no idea why I sat through it again)
White Dog
The Final Countdown

What's great is looking at all of the stuff my father in law watched while he was staying here, not realizing we can see it all. He only made it 6 minutes into Me You and Everyone We Know, 10 minutes of Trainspotting, and 3 minutes of I Spit On Your Grave, but he finished Audition.

oh the secrets netflix can tell

if you are using o.c. and stiggs as an example of shame i swear to god man

robt altman peak imo. if any of you say you prefer the player u are dead to me fyi

wait, there are FOUR Tremors movies???

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, October 4, 2012 10:23 AM (12 hours ago)

Am I the only one who has seen Tremors 4? jjjusten?

Tremors 2 is in my queue - the only one of the four I have not seen btw

ha guilty as charged

whoa wait you havent seen tremors 2!! that is actually the best one. srsly

O.C. and Stiggs has a lot to like but overall it's kinda bad. Peak Altman to me is Long Goodbye and California Split. But yeah it's not really wall of shame material I guess.

I guess the shame stems from the fact that I didn't go into it in the spirit of checking out an Altman film I hadn't seen but out of an impulse to watch any random '80s teen movie.

I recently watched all of Happy Accidents w/Vincent D'Onofrio and Marisa Tomei. What a clever movie buried inside a shit movie.

I can never find my stuff in the queue because Mrs. Phil D. clogs it up with a bajillion documentaries and episodes of Firefly.

you know you can add her to your account as a separate person and segregate out her stuff from your stuff, right (or at least you used to be able to do this)

I don't think you can for streaming-only plans.

omg I have had the urge to watch horrible tv show ALIAS for a while and they just added it to netflix

The first two seasons of Alias = PERFECT TELEVISION. I will be watching this like crazy.

i liked Alias but only watched part of the first season way back when. it's not on cdn netflix (yet)!

shame-wise, i'm just gonna say i'm glad that Sex and the City isn't on netflix

the new 90210 is though...

SatC isn't shameful until you look up and you realize you've spent a week watching the adventures of Carrie Bradshaw

or much of january 2007

hahaha

What is the worse shame, watching several seasons of something on Netflix or looking for a place to download episodes Netflix does not have so you can watch them all?

i think netflix shares the blame/shame for getting you hooked in the first place

we all know you're talking about the last season of gossip girl btw

but yknow, i dl-ed and watched all of Terranova earlier this winter. now i see it's on netflix; i feel fine.

well, Gossip Girl, Californication, Damages, um... some others

room in rome

the algorithms were recommending it so heavily, i'm sorry

ordered from my 'love film' list: Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice
received instead: Johnny English

Oh I've got one. Tuff Turf.

15-year-old me recommends Tuff Turf. James Spader + "Witch Mountain" girl, A++ would watch again.

I loved it, no lie. But it's pretty terrible.
Also: RDowneyJr., Jim Carrol band.

I may have watched it on hulu.

Abduction FTW

Lol I watched abduction on amazon - so so sooooo terrible

i am going to see that eventually because i am not just team jacob but team Four Brothers.

The basic premise just doesn't make any sense AT ALL - such a lazy excuse for a taylor lautner movie

But the ” how did this get made?!” Podcast about it is hilarious

is there a special point of shame for noticing when original music is missing from a tv series and they've replaced it with soundalikes? even worse, they just imitated the originals most of the time

No that's not bad. Sometimes iconic stuff is swapped out and replaced.

Big mystery why Netflix does not allow you to delete recently watched history. I always feel (a little) bad when my kids are looking for "Phineas and Ferb" and scrolling past all my scary-looking horror choices.

My history of mostly RuPaul's Drag Race and Law & Order: SVU is producing some odd combinations of reccommendations.