Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Anyone watch this European production Borgia: Faith and Fear series they have no Netflix? It's a pretty much an evil and totally gory PBS historical drama. The cast is uneven, some of the episodes are pretty dense but the production is quite good. I'm hooked on it enough that I will finish the series.

In honor of Ray Manzarek...I guess:

http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70008669&trkid=2450709&t=Love+Her+Madly

So no more Expiring Soon on instantwatcher. How to decide what to watch?

just watch stuff that looks good and you're in the mood for

okay, maybe my favorite film from last year just came on netflix
EVERYBODy go watch Neighboring Sounds. It's amazing.

Also The Flat is good

That is great news about Neighboring Sounds. I was in a theater full of freshman college students who were in attendance for "cultural sensitivity" purposes. They were a terrible audience but it didn't detract from the film at all. I've thought about it a lot since seeing it.

it floored me when i saw it. Cannot wait for more from that director.

just watch stuff that looks good and you're in the mood for

;-)

some chabrols & radley metzgers expiring that id like to get to but we'll see

Found out that last night they have 3 volumes of the Ren & Stimpy shows on instant stream.

i think those might be the fucking absolutely terrible "adult party hour" things they did for spike or w/e

almost done with Army Wives :(

hey, if you are young and robust and like to drink and enjoy having other young and robust drinkers over at night, i'm PRETTY sure the word "sorry" is spoken on Army Wives at least 15 times per episode. on average. could sweep college campuses worldwide. warning: you could die if you decide to play this very dangerous game.

i think those might be the fucking absolutely terrible "adult party hour" things they did for spike or w/e

No, they have the classic ones as well. Just watched the one where Ren's teeth fall out and the tooth beaver chews on his nerve endings last night.

i can still do the my beloved ice cream bar bit from memory

No, they have the classic ones as well. Just watched the one where Ren's teeth fall out and the tooth beaver chews on his nerve endings last night.

That episode is horrific.

The show is pretty horrific!

That ep is followed by the Rubber Nipple Salesmen one, which has that surreal and bizarre scene where a rubber-wearing Mr. Horse asks for a rubber walrus protector, brings out a walrus, and it cuts to a close-up of the walrus, terrified, pleading "Call the police!" It's mind-boggling that this was allowed to be made.

heh, i recreated that episode daily in high school with my friends
DID MY WIFE SEND YOU?

I know spongebob was going for the same vibe but no one has evermade anything half as insane as R&S for mainstream usage imo, paul reubens inclusive

ren & stimpy all time horrifying and awesome

the animation, even when they have tired eyes or ear wax is just so OTT and gross I love it so much

ren & stimpy is only good for the first ten episodes, after that nickelodeon fired the creator and had someone else make it

those first 10 episodes should be in the smithsonian though

true

john k was the oozing pestilential heart of that show

The ones after John K are still pretty good if you pretend that the first ones never existed.

i never got that into R&S, but i could probably watch the space madness one like 1000 times in a row

The production design is just utterly brilliant. When i was a kid the gross-out and/or absurdist humor was my favorite part, but now I'm jopping my draw at nearly every single frame being designed as lovingly grotesque parallel dimension 50's/60's Charley Harper/Mary Blair homages. This is from before computers took over animation, so I'm pretty curious about the techniques they used because some parts of the show are even filtered/noised-up with proto-Instagram stylization. Like the Log commercial. It looks exactly like it was made in the 60's, from the character designs down to the distorted colors and extra film grain. The music that plays when there is a giant gross close-up of something or someone makes me LOL every time.

As for the main characters and their shenanigans, they are clearly in the comedy lineage of the Marx Bros. or the Three Stooges. The dialog is as stylized as the animation, but I don't think I've seen enough episodes lately to comment on the content. The most abstract serial animation ever? David Cronenberg is a big influence? Eraserhead?

the main influence is old school warner and fleischer animation! you read john k's blog, yes?

da hip hop witch is on netflix now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tftp5xCNbw

the main influence is old school warner and fleischer animation! you read john k's blog, yes?

Tex Avery yo

MGM as well, yes

also perhaps worth noting that John K got his start with Bakshi

mighty mouse! that was a good one.

didn't they do the nu-mighty mouse together? that was a good cartoon.

yep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrYNgFdxw4g

i bought a Ren & Stimpy background and cel recently that i still need to get framed.

both characters?

<3 Valhalla Rising, way more interesting than Drive.

According to my gf, not a movie to watch if you're high.

valhalla rising is my first, and best experience with Refn. It is excellent

ren & stimpy is not available on my (us) stream for some reason

http://www.flickr.com/photos/96195697@N06/8798094976/

I just signed up for UK netflix (for Arrested Dev) - is there a UK-specific thread? The selection is pretty crappy so far. A few sitcoms I'd be interested in catching up on and they're not available.

I'd say something that lets you use other netflix regions like like unblock-us (~£4/mo, works at dns level, choice of country) or hola unblocker (free, browser plugin, I think only lets you watch us content?) is key. I don't know that I'd keep netflix if I only had access to the uk stuff, but with unblockus it's well worth it.

(UK thread would be good though!)

the fall now up

Are there any worthwhile comedies streaming right now? I know I've asked this in the past, but it's the genre I'm most afraid to dive into without having my hand held.

I think they've got some Buster Keaton on there, you might give him a try.

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lol

love this cover
http://cdn-1.nflximg.com/us/boxshots/gsd/70047801.jpg

lololol