Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Preferred the Schemel doc to the Big Star one, mainly because the Schemel one is just more human and involving I guess. Also, I can never quite gauge whether I actually like on balance like Big Star or not. I'm ambivalent about a lot of Hole stuff too so I guess the difference was the difference here.

Must stop watching music docs before my recommendations get ruined.

Too much likes there

Amityvilles one through three are up!!!

Launching now, hello evil window eyes and lalo schifrin

:D

they have frances ha now, in case you are harboring a residual fascination with greta gerwig and are willing to maybe see if you can make it through another one of her movies

and the final season of futurama!!

Frances Ha is great.

But if you're looking for a litmus test for "that sort of thing", Drinking Buddies is also up.

xp nice, i can finally delete all those Futurama episodes from 2012 off my DVR

The 7 up series is up

the bronies doc is very sweet! i didn't really know anything about it going in, apart from "bronies are grown dudes who like my little pony".

^yeah, it is well done as to not be terribly exploitative, etc

i also watched all the boys love mandy lane which was reasonably ok, tho the end is deeply stupid

I wanted them to mercilessly slay the sad little freaks tbh

dug the ricky jay documentary, 'deceptive practice.' he's just fun to watch and knows so much about his craft.

watched 'the yellow sea', a korean thriller from the director of 'the chaser'. it was good, like 'the chaser', but also like that film not much fun to watch. the best bits are this harrowing journey where the lead character is smuggled via boat from Yanbian Prefecture to South Korea (really quite quickly establishes better than most films i've seen how terrifying a sea journey can be) and later the same guy staking out an apartment building where he's supposed to carry out a murder. the last act is pretty ludicrous and betrays a lot of what came before it and the villains' motives are murky. still worth a watch because of the lead performance and some impressively gritty imagery but it gets a little tedious towards the end and seems to strike a poor balance between realism and ludicrous brutality.

The Hunt is up for fans of Mads

does he eat anyone in it y/n

N but he shoots a deer

drew struzan portrait of the artist is pretty good even if it's ultimately just tons of nerds and movie stars talking about dude and then he's all like "yeah, i painted a thing"

iirc quite a lot of All The Boys Love Mandy Lane is surprisingly beautiful. The cinematography and tone are substantially better than yr standard cheapo teen horror flick. The ending is really silly, as mentioned, though.

anybody wanna stan for last stand?

I want to, but I didn't like it.

oh my, but drinking buddies is some straight up garbage

i also watched all the boys love mandy lane which was reasonably ok, tho the end is deeply stupid

― johnny crunch, Sunday, January 5, 2014 6:13 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i didn't hate this one, but i also didn't really see the point. the attempt to keep the title character mysterious so as to make the ending "shocking" just translated into title character being a dull cipher.

i thoroughly enjoyed dredd. cinematography was really smart, mix of a variety of film-like and video-like effects to good purpose. i guess it bombed pretty badly, not even making back its (not all that high) production budget internationally.

dumb question, but does netflix just pay a lump fee for a bunch of films or do they actually keep track of "views" and provide royalties on that basis? if something is a "hit" on netflix, does the studio see any more money, as they would with physical-media sales?

i didn't hate Mandy Lane, either, but the ending wasn't shocking in the least imo---the fact that the baddy was outed fairly early on made the "shocking" ending pretty well telegraphed, i thought.

dumb question, but does netflix just pay a lump fee for a bunch of films or do they actually keep track of "views" and provide royalties on that basis? if something is a "hit" on netflix, does the studio see any more money, as they would with physical-media sales?

been wondering this too...

lump fees that get negotiated on a regular basis, from what I've been told.

The Act of Killing is up.

Excellent. That's my late evening sorted.

awesome

i am HIGHLY recommending "The Waiting Room"

http://www.altruistmusic.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/netfux.jpg

They are streaming The Square at last, it seems, since it got the Oscar nomination.

i am HIGHLY recommending "The Waiting Room"

The enchanting british indie or the doco?

doc

the fugazi song

the Umphrey's McGee cover of the fugazi song

will not recommend

http://gloriousnoise.com/2009/umphreys_mcgee_is_a_jam

grape_is_a_jam, cherry_is_a_jam, umphreys_mcgee_is_a_jam

Miranda July's "The Future" expiring 1/22. Anything else expiring from people's lists?

the naked city expires on the 25th

Naked City shows up in my "quirky movies" list.

naked city rules, everyone please watch it

gr8080 otm

Re-recommending NEW WORLD, I hope some of you took me up on that one before.

I did! definitely dug it. elevator knife fight!!

Very Bad Things is a pretty good time if you haven't seen it

VBT not streaming.
Naked City and New World thirded and fourthed!

Re-recommending NEW WORLD, I hope some of you took me up on that one before.

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, January 18, 2014 2:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I did! definitely dug it. elevator knife fight!!

― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Saturday, January 18, 2014 2:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya man, q'orianka kilcher owns in that scene

lol