Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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

marnie's my fave non-cary grant hitchcock

I'm totally going to revisit Marnie!

marnie is great, there will be blood is "fine" but definitely a movie i have 0 interest in seeing a second time.

same

Daniel Day Lewis acts so hard in that movie it's almost difficult to watch him

ditto with these guys

Like his performance is supposed to be brilliant because he has two very memorable lines and does a really good job at that old-timey voice, even though I get no feeling of any kind from him

i cld watch gangs of new york again. it's been a while. that movie, i thought, was more 'fun' than TWBB. and i like fun, believe it or not!!

Fun! That's exactly it. Movie should have been called There Won't Be Fun.

You guys are craaaazy, Blood was super fun.

For what it's worth, TWBB has the best brimstone preacher scene in history. Not the best brimstone preacher, though. That'll forever be Mitchum.

blood was super fun, every time ddl started talking and introducing his son, i loved it

I keep thinking bc of some sort of synaptic cross link that TWBB is a film of And The Ass Saw the Angel. Did anyone make a 4 hour movie of that yet with dd Lewis in it?

Marnie: the original tracks of herrmann's score need to come out in non-bootleg form by the end of 2014 or I give up on this fucking planet.

Why do people keep saying TWBB is four hours long? It's a whopping 2.5 hours or so, more or less 10 minutes longer than "The Avengers."

...and 8 minutes less than Django Unchained.

God, that movie could have lost (at least) 30 minutes.

watched Frenzy; great!

I watched Parker, pretty low key, had a couple moments

Parker books are so good... movie is kinda eh. Wifey thought it was awful. I have a higher tolerance for stupid action movies than her.

It was not a Parker movie and it didn't quite gel but it's still better than some British Statham films. British action films sure are some shit.

TWBB just feels like an eternity

i watched dragonslayer -- is good in its total expectedness, fn crust punk sk8ers are all the same

i couldn't hang with twbb. i watched half of it. i think i got to about the third or fourth thing falling down a well and hitting someone. so, that was probably enough. i couldn't tell if you were supposed to care what happened to anyone. and the music was really really bugging me. movie music for dummies.

has DDL ever directed anything? feel like if he made movies they would be more interesting than what other people give him to do. he's an interesting guy.

There are much harder movies to watch.

lol that this is a recommendation. "Not as excruciatingly painful as a lot of other stuff!"

No, I mean, it reminds me of when I saw "Tree of Life" in the theater, and these dudes were all "now I'll never get those two hours of my life back!" And I was thinking, kids, it's only two hours! Of pretty pictures! A Bela Tarr commitment it is not.

every time i see a PTA movie i think hey this guy has watched movies. he must like movies. sometimes having no knowledge of anything but movies can work for a person. i think it works for tarantino. but with PTA its like writers like franzen who write about things from the perspective of someone who has read about those things and never actually witnessed or experienced them. i mean that's how it reads to me. its possible franzen has seen a tree or whatever in the wild. and i'm sure PTA has seen someone working outside once or twice in his life.

See also: a lot of directors. But I will concede that as far as movies go, PTA is pretty movie-y.

You could say he sees ... the Big Picture.

watched SOLOMON KANE last night.
why do i keep watching movies about fictional characters that i love? i just get angry. "THE REAL SOLOMON KANE WAS NEVER A GODDAMN PIRATE."

it was fun though.

did you see john carter? that movie is great. dunno if you've read the books though.

i haven't seen john carter. is it on the netflix? maybe i'll watch that later. i read a few of those books. i bought a huge box of (Edgar Rice) Burroughs books at a stoop sale last year, mostly for the Mars/Venus books, rather than the Tarzan/lost world ones. I didn't read them all though.

john carter is fun