Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

I didn't watch this, but when I got home and heard about it, I wish I had!
1973 - The Baby

A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them at first - consisting of the mother, two grown daughters and the diaper-clad, bottle-sucking baby. The problem is, the baby is twenty-one years old.

Lordy

From the director of Beneath the Planet of the Apes and Magnum Force!

Comes highly recommended from a guy who knows his shit, just sayin

Will watch tonight!

i love the baby! i still have it on vhs. i've actually had baby parties before. where i make people watch that movie.

so demented. a true classic in every way.

haha! awesome.

just watched the first 5 minutes. uhhh can't wait to screen this.

i've actually had baby parties before. where i make people watch that movie.

thank god for that second sentence

A lot of the Herzog titles they used to offer are gone. I recently watched the Antartica one which I found about as dull as I find Antartica. Also probably the most Herzog-by-the-numbers Herzog I have seen.

u find antarctica dull?

i mean pretty but not that interesting

u mad

damn, really? that is like my favorite movie of the last 5 years.

My favorite part of the poster for The Baby:

http://parental-advisory-ratings.findthedata.org/sites/default/files/867/media/images/PG_Parental_Guidance_Suggested_Movie_Rating.jpg

at some point when you are watching the baby it just kind of dawns on you that this was a real movie that someone made and put out and not actually a fever dream you are having.

Encounters at the End of the World is great. Probably my most viewed Herzog doc.

IDK maybe it's just having seen it after so many others

I will be watching The Baby.

are you ready for
MY GIRLFRIEND IS A GUMIHO
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/static/images/thumb/7/72/MyGirlfriendGumiho.jpg/225px-MyGirlfriendGumiho.jpg
After meeting a mysterious yet very beautiful girl, a wannabe action star discovers that she's, in fact, a gumiho -- a legendary fox with nine tails -- who longs to transform herself into a true human.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2255085/

Also the original 70's namesake George C. Scott film version of They Might be Giants

i posted abt the baby on 1 of the horror threads

the baby is streaming on netflix now. the end sequence was sorta genuninely frightening but it def takes a real level of comittment to see it thru 2 there. idk it also gets pts in my book for being so bound to its (ridiculous) premise

― johnny crunch, Thursday, February 23, 2012 8:39 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

xpost oh no is Herzog's My Son My Son What Have Ye Done gone?

my son is still up, i know b/c it's in my Instant Queue.

bad lieutenant is gone, but that's b/c it was offered through Starz.

and yes, bad lieutenant is well worth watching ... Nicolas Cage and Werner Herzog together is like a wet dream come to life.

Otm Bad Lieutenant is so good

Pandaemonium!

Just finished My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done. For the first 30 minutes or so I worried this was going to amount to mere quirk. But by imperceptible means the quirk took on more and more weight and became tragedy and the movie is actually fucking great. For recent Herzog i would rate it above both Bad Lieutenant (a delicious romp) and Rescue Dawn (an intense but narrow immersion exercise). It's funny about the Lynch production credit because this does feel like a blend of their two strains of id-touch. It is helped tremendously by Ernst Reijseger's score, one of the best scores I've heard in a LONG time, which I am ecstatic to see is available on Winter & Winter records (Reijseger also did the cello work on Rescue Dawn which blew me away at the time).

Will definitely rewatch before it expires next month.

i watched the original girl with the dragon tattoo and it was exactly like the us one. i think i will watch the rest of the series.

so it's like the let the right one in/let me in relationship?

(haven't seen the american dragon tattoo, i've seen the swedish ones and they were better than i thought they'd be.)

Actually I thought the diffs between Let The Right One In and Let Me In were really fascinating and made both versions worthwhile

Ernst Reijseger did the score for Cave of Forgotten Dreams too, I think? I liked it iirc. He's no Florian Fricke but who is.

Has anyone watched the extended versions of the Dragon tattoo movies? I watched the originals when they first showed up, and those were long enough as is. Mostly just wondering if the extended versions fix some of the giant plot holes (especially in the third one).

Everybody, go and watch Please Vote for Me right away. I am very serious, I want to talk about it.

guess hyperlink doesn't work, but go watch it right away

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/pleasevoteforme/

and

http://pleasevoteforme.org/

also about it

Prompted by a Jennifer Westfeldt profile, I watched "Kissing Jessica Stein", which was pretty good. They also have "Ira & Abby".

i watched 'please vote for me' a few months ago! really good.

Just rewatched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. ^_^

finished first season of Damages last night. very enjoyable. a little suspension of disbelief is needed to enjoy, but i'm all about ignoring reality.

Oh shit Tom Noonan's amazing What Happened Was... is on there now! Recommended x 100.

been watching STANDOFF, which i gave a pass when it aired because ticking-timebomb/hostage scenarios seemed sooooo boring at the time.

but it's really entertaining! smartly conceived episode plots, and the thru-narrative is compelling - the leads (ron livingston and rosemarie dewitt) are negotiators who start up a relationship when they're not supposed to which then becomes public in the pilot episode. then there's kind of a working-relationship-with-mutual-admiration/stupefying love theme going on. gina torres as the boss, michael cudlitz as the gung-ho swat-type guy. apparently livingston and dewitt got married after this, they've got good chemistry onscreen.

also, always pretty hilarious to hear livingston sounding like peter gibbon.

wait so there are dragon tattoo movies that are longer than the 2.5hr ones? or are those the extended versions?
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jesus christ

the swedish t.v. versions are longer than the swedish theatrical versions. netflix has the t.v. trilogy.

i think each one is closer to 3 hours.

The Dragon Tattoo Trilogy contains more than two hours of additional footage not seen in the theatrical versions of the original Swedish films. Amassing a total of 9 hours of story content and presented in 6 parts, this complete version of the international hit series restores notable characters and subplots from Stieg Larsson's best-selling novels.

i watched the first one. i've had enough. i'm just really not in the mood for serial killers these days. i think i noted that upthread.

or maybe on the action poll thread. whatever.

I don't think I can watch those again.