Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Enjoyed Happy People: A Year on the Taiga. I'm not entirely clear on what was done by Herzog vs the other director (I had originally thought it was shot by the other guy for Russian TV and re-edited/narrated by Herzog, but I'm not sure), but it's definitely more straightforward and earnest than the standard Herzog film. Certainly has a lot of his standard themes. Very visually beautiful and even kind of inspiring.

Dredd was pretty solid! Thanks for the tip. Like a more entertaining version of The Raid (imo) crossed with a Robocop reboot. Appreciate how it justifies all the ramping.

okay if this was as good as the raid, i gotta try it

Fwiw, I didn't like The Raid.

u get the side eye

Dredd made me want to see Trespass again. and every movie where people have to shoot their way out of a building.

It kind of made me want to see Lockout again.

Parker is streaming now. #Statham4ever

Parker was a fine action film but didn't feel much like a Parker film, if you know what i mean.
The opening heist scene is cool but there were several things later in the film that seemed wrong to me.

Something about Statham to me seems like he should be right for that role, but isn't? But I still haven't seen it.

haven't seen the parker movie but it seems like while statham has the right face and attitude for the character, he's maybe not big enough? parker is always described as huge and hulking while statham seems like he might be short.

Hooboy, by that criteria you'd better avoid Jack Reacher.

i don't mind non-hulking action guys and i like statham. it's just that parker is supposed to be BIG and SCARY.

it could be that Statham is such a known commodity now it's hard to take him seriously enough. (and I am a fan! but he will never top Crank)

would have preferred statham as reacher, that's for sure. maybe too young though. kinda hard to tell how old statham is though. neeson in top form would have been perfect reacher. yeah, he's not perfect in parker. his americanisms are way off, but i didn't care, it was fun enough.

i said it before and i'll say it again, other than neeson, the governor would have been PERFECT reacher.

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dude has the ex-military bearing, the bulk and height, and he looks like he could snap you in two. and he looks like he doesn't have a problem being really quiet for weeks at a time.

when i read parker books i vacillate between picture him as lee marvin à la point blank and, for some reason, burt lancaster

hey u guys, movies have never been beholden to physical attributes in a novel. Rooster Cogburn is sposed to look like Grover Cleveland.

that would have just confused people

i'm going off the previous movies and comics tbh, not even the original book

I'd already seen Point Blank and Payback when I read the first Parker novels, but in my head he looked like a 30-something Robert Mitchum.

Croupier-era Clive Owen would work, if he were less cool.

Yeah, you all tell Statham he is too small.

the physical stuff about statham in the parker movie doesn't bother me. nor even his acting, particularly. but the writers make him do things that parker just wldn't do, imo. especially in the final scene wherein he breaks into an office guns blazing to off some baddies -- parker is much more subtle than that, and prefers to avoid killing ppl.

Hitchcock's Frenzy, apparently

(warning: maybe his most graphic and disturbing film)

Thankfully broke the surprisingly dull losing streak of the previous three movies. Is that the only Hitchcock up right now?

they used to have some UK-era hitchcock, don't know if that's still the case

dull losing streak of the previous three two movies

don't be dissin' Marnie, JiC

xp!

Yeah, Marnie is pretty good.

Y'all be lovin' "Marnie." That's cool. But for sure it's a drop-off of his, say, '51-'63 streak, no? Either way, man, this director had an impressively fruitful output, in several prolonged bursts.

I'd take it over at least half the films in that "streak." (Which actually starts in '46. Or '43. Or '40.)

Hitchcock does "The Streak."

You'd take "Marnie" over half of these?

Strangers on a Train (1951)
I Confess (1953)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Wrong Man (1956)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)

There are four I'm not so hot on but the rest are pretty unimpeachable.

I think this is another streak:

Rebecca (1940)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Suspicion (1941)
Saboteur (1942)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Lifeboat (1944)
Spellbound (1945)
Notorious (1946)

I didn't want to consider 40-63 a streak because in between the above comes The Paradine Case (1947) Rope (1948) Under Capricorn (1949) and Stage Fright (1950), which I consider less than what came before or after. Obviously those "lesser" films all have a lot going for them!

The only ones in the first group I'm SURE are better than Marnie are Rear Window and the last four (except I'm wobbly about The Birds).

But anyway, Frenzy is as perverse and bleak as a prime Bunuel, even.

how can you be wobbly about the birds? its the birds!! i got kinda unconditional love for that movie though. could probably watch it once a week.

oh hey wow i get to watch To The Wonder on streaming netflix now. i'll break out the good weed.

i still can't bring myself to watch there will be blood. its 4 hours long, right? and there are tons of brimstone preacher scenes? i hate that shit. unless its elmer gantry or a face in the crowd or night of the hunter.

if you end up not liking the brimstone preacher, then the movie will do things for you eventually

re: Hitchcock streaming, North by Northwest is on Amazon Prime

There Will Be Blood

I'm never watching it.

why not?

btw it's a misnomer there's never really any blood

a few milkshakes, though

more like bloodshakes

i thought it was pretty good

it is not 4 hours long

turn it off 20 mins before the end

I think "There Will Be Blood" is incredible, even the ending. There are much harder movies to watch. Certainly if you like "Night of the Hunter" you'll dig this one.

it's also pretty humorous, nowhere near as dry as some ppl might lead you to believe