Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

I have a hard time hearing about 1/3 of what people say on New Girl though. I'm not sure if it's the dialogue mix or they talk to fast. Or maybe I'm old and fucking deaf. I can't hear anything anyone says on walking dead either but I figure most of that dialogue is 'oh fuck zombie arghghghghg'

some good new stuff

56 up
dont look now
ken burns the dust bowl
the parallax view

ken burns prohibition too. should i watch that?

I enjoyed it.

Hot coffee is a pretty good doc about the push for tort reform in the US. Kinda shocked by some of the stuff it revealed, since I've always bought into ” lol america and its frivolous lawsuits”.

The House I Live In is up

Might have to rewatch The Parallax View. Unfortunately it's a movie, and i only watch TV shows, but if I pause it every 21 minutes I might be able to get through it.

hahah

Might have to rewatch The Parallax View. Unfortunately it's a movie, and i only watch TV shows, but if I pause it every 21 minutes I might be able to get through it.

Man, between shuttling kids around and having them hanging around the house, this is totally how I watch movies these days, 21 minutes at a time over the course of a week.

If you love the syrupy production values of the early 80s and want to see Yvette Mimieux romance a man 20 years her junior AND you have Netflix streaming, I seriously recommend 1982's FORBIDDEN LOVE. Bonus: you will go crazy trying to figure out whose voice is singing the awful theme song, and then you will remember that man's name is DAN HILL.

Recommended!

Wow, the Dr. Bronner's doc is a weird trip.

Haven't seen it yet but Starlet is up.

confirmed: new girl is funny

fuck that show

kewl w/e

i think its a good time. i like the dude characters more and more as the first season moves along.

both white guys in the apartment act like stage actors. in a good way. or like they could have been in scorsese movies in the 70's.

i can see them in some movie like the wanderers or lords of flatbush.

yea they are well cast

hmm perhaps I will give it a slight chance. I think maybe I just hate the sitcom format in general.

you're like the guy on the tao lin thread who said he hated tao lin because "who would write a NOVEL in 2013 ANYway"

I was under the impression that Tao Lin is kind of a gimmicky non-trad novelist and The New Girl is a traditionally-styled situation comedy so they're kind of the opposite sitch

Preview looks terrible but New Yorker makes Orange is the New Black sound promising.

Yeah. Getting a lot of good buzz.

It'll be a miracle if it isn't racist and/or annoying.

Troll Hunter is available tho

this movie is highly worthwhile if you haven't seen it

otm

^^^

ditto

hmm perhaps I will give it a slight chance. I think maybe I just hate the sitcom format in general.

I like that even though the New Girl has been around for two years, some of us are still wrestling with ourselves over whether or not to grant it its right to exist.

it took me like 20 episodes in to get a truly dud episode. the one AFTER the martin starr episode (and he of course gave his usual guest-starr star turn) where they pushed things too far with the one guy sleeping with college girls and they gave winston a horrible unfunny speech designed to get the college girls out of the apartment. that one was dumb. and i kinda hate the dermot mulroney character cuz he always plays that character and the rich guy thing is just dumb. the only good rich guy scenario was when the one dude went into his study and fell in love with his desk and kept describing the smells in the room.

I'm looking forward to Orange is the New Black. I know eventually everyone turned against Weeds but the creator was very good at establishing characters.

oh, I have no ability to grant things rights to exist or whatever, there was just little chance of me watching it

I mean, unless you're implying things don't exist until I watch them.... oh shit, the world exists only in my imagination, doesn't it?

(existential crisis)

i think you'll live if you don't watch it. the world will live! i was just happy to find something frothy to watch that i didn't hate. not a lot of great sitcoms i haven't already seen on netflix.

I trust you guys a lot more than my coworker who recommended it but also loves the Big Bang Theory

The new girl is ok. I continue to be a fan of zooey deschanel's hairstyle

wanna bone hannah simone

shes attractive

hot rhyme

Netflix seems to be the cause of problems I've had w/ various devices. To wit: Two nights ago I tried to watch something on Netflix on my Apple TV and it crashed like crazy. When I went to Netflix on my laptop, it also crashed like crazy. Both devices froze for a while, and on my laptop, even after I killed the browser, everything was sloooow, including animations that happen when you open or close a window.

Then today I checked Netflix on my work computer and the same thing happened. It bogged down the whole system and I had to restart.

Anybody else?

I had apple TV streaming via iTunes issues on... Sunday?

orange is the new black was on last night!!?? i thought it was going on streaming later in the week. damn i would have watched last night. watched DVDs instead. okay, will watch tonight with maria. i tried to watch spring breakers last night and i got bored. and i was even stoned. don't know what's wrong with me. looked cool though. then i watched Red. which was not very good but i watched it anyway. bruce willis movie.

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

i watched the first ep of orange is the new black - was ok. writing is a lil cringe-y in spots but not like unforgivably so

The stills I've seen look horrible, but I didn't like what I saw of Weeds.

so on the doc front, "The Imposter" is a very well done film abt a incredibly bizarre story. director def spent a lot of time watching errol morris stuff, but incorporates it the right way. highly recommended.

i got bored of weeds really early on. i wanted to like it i really did. i like her she's so cute. but it was dumb. or not compelling enough for me to want to follow. i didn't really care what happened to anyone. but women in prison show, i mean, i gotta at least give it a shot.

The New Yorker had a good article a few years ago about the guy in that Imposter doc.

is it just me or or are there fewer and fewer streaming titles every month?

Heard good things about Dead Man's Burden. I'll watch it this weekend.

finally got around to watching cave of forgotten dreams. don't wait like i did, people. it's as mindblowing as everyone said.