Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

anyone watching 7up series?

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, March 12, 2012 10:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think i have seen them all, tho maybe theres a new one

The next one is apparently coming in May. I'm looking very forward to it (just watched the rest a month or so ago). I do wonder how many of the participants are holding fast to their stated refusal to do further installments.

xp Look, I love terrible movies, but man, 1987 was a particularly foul vintage.

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ooh far from home is streaming.

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Far_from_Home/70103442?trkid=2734329

i still have that copied from cable onto vhs.

How do I check if a movie is available for streaming without having a Netflix acct?

http://instantwatcher.com/

Leaning toward Meek's Cutoff for tonight, dissuade me now if it sucks.

No, it's good! Esp if you like slow movies with lots of bonnets.

hahha

I mean it! I love slow movies, and I love bonnets. I thought it was really enjoyable.

its great

The Baby was unadulterated pain. Hope I forget soon.

in weird netflix stuff, i watched videodrome a while ago and i still can't shake it.

Oh, you should probably watch The Brood next, then.

atlas shrugged pt. 1 is a hoot so far.

^^^^yes

really looking forward to pt. 2!

THE BROOD IS SO GOOD!!!

Love that movie.

DAGON expires tomorrow. I liked it a lot. Though everyone will have their own idea of what a Lovecraft movie should be like. I thought its degenerates were wonderful.

Please Vote for Me was cute, but I didn't think it much more than that.

started watching murder by decree last night, gotta finish it tonight, expires 3/15. here is where I once again observe that bob clark has a weird filmography.

other stuff in my queue expiring 3/15

swamp thing
escape from new york
down from the mountain
buena vista social club
alphaville
army of shadows
le cercle rogue
bob le flambeur

started watching murder by decree last night, gotta finish it tonight, expires 3/15. here is where I once again observe that bob clark has a weird filmography.

Haha, I did the exact same! Looking forward to finishing it tonight.

Impossible to watch it with pre-Alan Moore eyes, of course...

lol

anybody want to recommend one of those melvilles?

you cant really go wrong

i guess army of shadows is the 'famous'/'best' one? i dont know what people say about melville tho. all three are dynamite imo.

weird, I always think of army of shadows as one of his least-known, it was never released in the US and languished in obscurity for decades!

Army and Cercle are both great, but pretty different.

i prefer le cercle rouge but other folks seem to prefer army of shadows. both are excellent choices.

(another melville film - le doulos -- will expire on April 1st, BTW)

hmm maybe i just think that b/c it was a big deal when it got released on dvd

bob le flambeur is sort of a precursor to Godard and the whole French New Wave thing ... so if that's your thing and you can only squeeze in one Melville film today, that would be the one to watch. (the others are much more sedate cinematographically.)

yeah army of shadows was "rediscovered" and had a theatrical run so there was a lot of press at the time

hmm I'm a big godard fan so maybe in the interest of science I will go w/ bob

"at the time" being 2006

Nat Geo multi-episode version of Guns Germs and Steel is pretty sweet.

sequel to rats lice & history?

oh shit ed III thx for the heads up on alphaville expiring, now i must make time before it vanishes

Is the "Netflix nerd" a new type, checking their list for expiry dates, etc?
Do you think Netflix is "fucking cool"?

Do you think about where Netflix movies go when they expire, or is it too awful to contemplate?

I really wish Corman's World was on this.

"you can't really go wrong" otm honestly.

yeah, Army of Shadows was rather overrated when it finally got salvaged about 5 years ago; it's good, but far from his best.

http://www.theyshootpictures.com/melvillejeanpierre.htm

bob rules. i forgot i even wrote a <a href="http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2002/091202/film3.html";>review</a> of it once!

facepalm

Do you think about where Netflix movies go when they expire, or is it too awful to contemplate?

― hbo with a shotgun (admrl), Wednesday, March 14, 2012 3:35 PM (36 minutes ago)

obv what's on instant is a small portion of what's available, but it serves a similar function to the (extinct) local video store. limited selection, but I can watch something *right now*.

sure, I could watch murder by decree at any time, but I've wanted to see that movie since missing it in 1979 when it played for a single week at the downtown theater. if a netflix expiry date gave me the prod to finally watch it, what's the big d? I've watched films for dumber motivations before.

yeah, i reckon that if a movie's in my Instant Queue then it's there b/c i want to see it. and if i know that it's going to expire relatively soon and i have time to watch it before it's gone, then i'd like to know that. nothing about "being cool" at all.

also, some Netflix Instant movies aren't available on DVD -- only Instant.

just wanna reiterate that peep show series 1-7 are on instant. I have series 1-5 on DVD, and it was great to be able to blow through 6 and 7 in the last couple weeks. greatest sitcom ever.

watched the first few episodes of peep show and did not like it. does it improve? otherwise might just not be for me.

did you watch the one where they go to the party straight from the grocery store, that one is pretty amazing

i think that was the last one i watched and it had its moments...