Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

I got an email from Netflix a couple weeks ago claiming that they had added a new movie and thought I might like it.

It was The Expendables 2

:/

detective dee is dope

oh man, i really hated that. also hated paprika – thanks, max.

civilians don't care about this stuff, right?

http://flavorwire.com/404511/why-is-netflix-secretly-cropping-movies

i sure do :(

Yeah I don't care.

Doubtful that it's entirely Netflix's fault. The studios are probably sending them files that have been cropped for TV and Netflix doesn't do their due diligence to find out if it's the original aspect ratio.

See note at bottom of article

I care a lot, but I feel like this should be a setting, something to the effect of "do you actually like the art of film or are you a crybaby who hates black bars"

i've seen pan&scan stuff on netflix, its infuriating

also im pretty sure the version of lukas moodysson's together i watched the other night was from a VHS copy, it had horrible hard-subs and it was letterboxed but not anamorphic so basically the picture was floating on my screen with bars on all sides

and it was shit quality

"secretly"

I hate pan & scan, but does Netflix still do this? That article mentions Starz, and also how that is no longer the source. But two of the three movies screen capped in the piece are not currently even streaming on Netflix.

Huh, yeah, Man in the Moon is indeed 1.85-ish. Weird. Anyway. I've noticed this worse on Amazon Prime, I want to say. My usual 'Scope test is John Carpenter movies.

i will turn off any movie on netflix with p&s/wrong ratio/shitty transfer within the first 5 minutes because it pisses me off so much. and yeah, theres plenty of it. the current netflix battle royale stream looks like it was filmed with a tripod camera

That Tumblr makes me jealous of all the movies streamed overseas but not here. That's an equal injustice!

I was surprised how different the Netflix selection is in Canada!

max not on fire

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Last_Kind_Words/70272856?trkid=2361637

My buddy Kevin's movie is streaming on Netflix now! Southern Gothic ghost story, gorgeously shot in rural Kentucky. Highly recc'd. Some music by our roommate (P.G. Six)

hah ian, I never made the PG6 connection before.

but haven't you MET pat????

yeah, I didn't know he was dat guy!

(I haven't known who ppl in bands are for eons, you know that)

I think a friend of my friend Geoff plays w/ him, in fact

that wldn't surprise me!

My buddy Kevin's movie is streaming on Netflix now!

Your buddy Kevin? My buddy Kevin! How do you know Kevin?

music stuff, mostly! he's friends with a lot of ppl i know, he would come into the record store where i used to work, etc. i think the first ppl i met kevin thru were 0tt0 h and d4v3 l3rn3r?

Huh. I went to school with Kevin (undergrad) and played in a band with him. So I wouldn't be surprised if we had a few other mutual friends as well.

huh! wild. i bet we do...

is The Glades any good? never even heard of it until i saw it was on netflix. but i don't have cable anymore. would watch alligator cop show if its halfway decent. a chicago cop is REALLY a fish out of water in this spicy crime drama.

they're REALLY convinced i'll like that one.

i think because i watched the bones spinoff set in florida or on an island or something like that.

but i tried to watch csi miami and felt discomfort and existential self-loathing so i'm not so sure about florida.

they think i'm gonna love THE GLADES too. i blame that episode of longmire i watched, and also rockford.

The Glades was okay in a guilty pleasure kind of way in the first season. They had a marathon one weekend and I was sick and watched the whole thing. Second season was essentially an hour-long Kia commercial every week. The most hackneyed, embarrassing product placement ever. I felt sorry for the actors having to say their stupid lines about the stupid Kia. Haven't seen Season 3 but my husband assures me it's still terrible, still a Kia commercial.

I watched Orange is etc etc. not bad!

i'm watching pilot of glades now. its okay. standard stuff. probably don't need 30+ episodes in my life.

i could watch longmire all night long. watched them all.

I binge-watched those after in orbit mentioned it in Facebook. Longmire!

I tried The Glades, thought it was terrible. But...Longmire!!

I oly drink Rainier

I am very late, I know, but I just began watching Sherlock. I've been informed that I am now obligated to post Benedict Cumberbatch gifs on my tumblr.

i watched the first episode of Psych last night. pretty entertaining (even though completely implausible). i might watch more of those. never saw it before.

their Twin Peaks episode was great

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T9YZ9E88L.jpg

Saw this the other night. It was hilariously bad. At one point a woman gets killed BY A TURTLE.

I love Psych. They have good jokes.

i finally started sherlock last night. fell asleep halfway through the first one though but it was late. like it although it's hard not to think Cumberbach is doing the Doctor as Sherlock and makes me sad that because he did one he wouldn't be able to do the other, because he'd be awfully good

otm

he's a v good inscrutable Holmes

my only gripe with Sherlock is that it looks like it was shot on Instagram; and the constant sound effects get a little maddening at times

Not having ever really watched Doctor Who, I guess I'm bless that I won't keep making constant comparisons.

we watched TWINS last night. pretty bad movie. but i love danny devito.
should i really watch more longmire? he seems so... not tough. like the sheriff from no country for old men if he was a wuss.

helen started to watch The Killing after I fell asleep, she is hooked. should i watch that? i have to catch up.

i like the middle of nowhere thing about longmire. and the indian reservation thing. and last but not least the kara thrace thing about longmire.