Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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"

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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

VBT not streaming.

weird i watched it 2 weeks ago? is it possible it's a canadian netflix thing? i thought we were more restricted

Last night I watched The Fruit Hunters and Berberian Sound Studio. It's difficult to say which film had more cut up fruit in it.

Argento's Dracula is up on Netflix US. Not sure if I can face it.

I briefly considered out of morbid curiosity but opted against it. The fact that I did the same thing for The Croods today says a lot.

dan clowes and ivan brunetti are featured a lot in the "shut up little man" doc, which is a little weird because i don't think i've seen them featured quite so much in even comic documentaries.

i watched in bruges last night and enjoyed it. not the best movie ever, but i liked it. funny and sad. i like movies whre SPOILERSSSSSS the main characters die

The Croods is not a good movie, but it does have some surprisingly trippy visuals after a very brown and dull first act - like a Yes album cover come to life.

it's up for an animation oscar iirc.

i really liked in bruges

Charley Varrick was awesome! I think it might be my favorite movie.

watched breaking away at the weekend, it was so wonderful!

i am HIGHLY recommending "The Waiting Room"

― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, January 15, 2014 2:29 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this was v good

saw it with an audience of nurses (some from the oakland area) and the Q&A after was petty, angry and occasionally deeply heartfelt
watched the first fifteen minutes of act of killing while eating tomato soup and promptly shut that down for less gustatory times

New World was great. Hobo killers maybe my favorite although garage fight was also amazing.

Europa Report is terrifying. Body count at 1 confirmed, 2 probable, and I can't watch these people pick themselves off 1 by 1 with bad decisions.

I enjoyed it. Scot Seward didn't like it. A line is drawn.

There's something wrong with people who enjoy the chilling inevitability of humans in a little tin can being snuffed out until none are left. I feel the same way about undersea "thrillers" only at least those are ON EARTH.

THAT'S THE LINE I'M DRAWING.

Which reminds me, I loved the Smithsonian Channel's Air Disasters series. Its greatest lesson: Don't fly in the 1970s. Also, flying is SUPER safe.

I am crazy addicted to that show for that very great reason as well as some salient secondary lessons like: don't fly through St. Elmo's Fire, don't fly over Africa when your plane is on fire, and piping in live POV video of your takeoff to passengers isn't such a hot idea when your plane's engine flips off the wing and you bank hard into a crash. Oh, and pilots probably shouldn't let their 15-year-old sons sit in the driver's seat and disable autopilot.

The episode about this incident was haunting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522

!! Just googled and there are 14 seasons! Only S1 is up on streaming, but it's good to know there are more.