Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Kind of stoked to watch this new Ray Harryhausen doc that turned up.

the grey rules!

it's been on Netflix since it came out on DVD too!

otm

i really liked it. but i love snow movies. even more than empty highway end of the world movies. this was even bleaker than the road actually. or rougher to survive anyway.

if you watch it make sure you watch the credits to the end!

watched Sniper:Reloaded last night. pretty boss. bought discount dvds at fye but now i see skyfall is on netflix so might watch that first. dvds i got were: colombiana (a scandalous blend of action, sex, and violence), babylon a.d. (with over 10 minutes of additional explosive action), faster (the best straight-up action film of the year), rampart (tense, shocking, complex, mesmerizing), unknown (neeson kicks even more butt in unknown), and the contract (the only thing standing between an assassin and his target is a father who must protect his son).

unknown ZZZZ

but he kicks even more butt!

haven't watched yet though.

bourne ripoff, i enjoyed it but it's not taken or the grey. bruno granz has a fun role in it though.

Tabu overrated. liked the modern story more than the retro.

Wrong but modern story is great.

just watched Computer Chess, dreadful film.

Curious about Europa Report. Anyone seen it?

Europa Report. I liked it. Others may not.

― Jeff, Friday, November 8, 2013 4:37 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I should write movie reviews for a living.

I liked Computer Chess

i might watch Europa Report. looks kinda cool.

― scott seward, Friday, November 8, 2013 11:42 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I didn't like it.

― polyphonic, Friday, November 8, 2013 11:45 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

okay its settled then i won't watch it.

― scott seward, Friday, November 8, 2013 11:46 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ilx: 2
Darin's reading comprehension: 0

would like to see a low budget SF movie that wasn't set mostly in cramped quarters space pod. a little imagination goes a long way. hey, how about setting your movie on another planet with aliens as main characters? maybe try befriending set designers and makeup artists.

Or film a Stalker-style movie in a vacant lot

No more Cube, is what I am hearing

seriously so many awesome sf novels, so pitifully few good sf films

so true. oh man yeah would kill for one idea as good as the cube. doing so much with so little.

making one friggin' room an endless universe. they should have won the nobel prize for physics.

my misanthropic side:

When Is Someone Gonna Make A Sci-Fi Show Or Movie Without Any People In Them?

makeup is expensive bro! probably more expensive than space CG these days

computer chess rules

scott did you watch the little scifi film i posted recently (that i made)? no space pods. https://vimeo.com/48492387

just watched Computer Chess, dreadful film.

lol i'd like to show you some actual dreadful films

i did watch it! it's weird!

i can't remember how i watched it. someone must have put it on facebook.

babylon a.d. was not very good. i kept falling asleep. it seemed to last forever. the only "sci-fi" in it was blade runner billboards on the sides of buildings. talk about saving money. Faster was pretty good. pretty brutal. i liked billy bob in it. i mean it was bad but i enjoyed it well enough.

babylon a.d. is on netflix now? I'd rewatch it. It's not very good, but the book it is sort-of based on has some interesting goofy stuff

no, its not on netflix. sorry. i bought dvds. i listed them upthread.

ah, I missed that, continue on

I wish the movie took place in s1ocki's neighborhood like the book did

which book??

oh cool, an intentionally awkward/stilted film in which pretty much nothing happens but lol the uptight nerds hang out with a pair of new age swingers thats just classic material

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/babylon-babies

mostly kidding, I think they are in the other part of MTL although they do blow up a house

obviously the edition on Semiotext(e) is twice as cool as the movie cover, even if it does feature Vin Diesel

Watched Denzel's drunk pilot movie Flight last night. Very effective at being a super downer. Well mostly effective. Egregious abuse of "Gimme Shelter" blasting over slomo walking down hallway bits. And when the son visits him in prison at the end I just had to turn the thing off. Couldn't stand to watch the final four minutes if that's how it was all gonna go down. Will say that it had one of the most breathless plane wreck sequences I've seen since 'Lost', haha.

Couldn't make it through Computer Chess. Switched to Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan.

Watched the docu about the filipino guy who became Journey's singer. Pretty fluffy but I guess bc of my soft spot for Journey I had a dece time.

Deen Castronovo seems like a person with something bad behind the eyes

started watching skyfall last night and zzzzzzzzzzzz....i still have 50 minutes to go tonight! yeesh, longest movie. not very good either. dreary bond. Dame Lady M kinda my least favorite character in film though. stiff upper bulldog thing with her is just dreary. she's kinda one of my least fave britsters.

they should have had an action movie director direct that movie. the only sam mendes movie i like is road to perdition.

Europa Report was all right! despite what some dudes are saying on the internet, very much not horror, although, you know, bad things happen to people and stuff.

I thought Europa Report was Blair Witch Project in space. Really great while you were watching it, totally vacuous in retrospect.

Barbara, Only God Forgives, A Hijacking, and Frances Ha are all up.

this is my fave netflix movie right now:

what maisie knew - loved this movie - so good

i tried to start a thread on I Love Film about Barbara but i'm banned from starting threads on that board.