Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Radio Free Albemuth is fucking terrible, at least the 50 minutes I sat through.

Alan Yuens' Firestorm
Bertolucci's The Conformist
Carax's Boy Meets Girl
The Original Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Season one of Agents of SHIELD
The Complete Bomb Girls
Lazmann's The Last of The Unjust
Eska's The Retrieval
Mr. X (Carax doc)
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just watched and really enjoyed "The One I Love"

Black Mirror!

good catch

ah, finally.

Phase IV is pretty great (trypophobia alert)

xpost to Darin

also watched The One I Love the other night, odd film, had a kind of indie Truman Show quality to it

Yeah, I went into it knowing nothing which probably helped.

The One I Love is one of best movies of the year.

Milius is good. Not as hagiographical as I worried it would be, and I didn't see the twist at the end coming.

yeah the one i love was really great!

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^^ watch'em

los angeles plays itself is great, but i keep stopping to read up about the movies it covers, and see if they're on netflix/youtube. its taken me two nights so far and i'm barely halfway through. also i'm desperate to see the exiles.

does that black mirror show get better after the first one about the prime minister and the pig? because that one is really dumb.

I really liked the second one. Only seen the first two. Didn't dislike the first one as much as you though. Thought it was fun if stupid.

yeah, the second and third eps were better.

just seemed...completely...implausible. i mean i have no problem with mostly implausible scenarios. i watch a lot of t.v.

I hear the pig grows up to be Batman

a batman that is tortured because his batarang is too powerful

he longs for the simpler times with simpler villains that he'd plonk on the head with his simpler batarang.

then the batarang AI becomes envious of batman and once manages to sleep with batman pig's wife before returning to him. batman pig never trusts batarang or his wife again.

watched the first two of BM and i thought the pigfucker one was way better than the idol show matrix commodify your dissent one

third one is better than both of those

yeah, the media thing in the first one...made me yawn a little. made me want to go back to the good wife and chumhum.

all art about present and future bad effects of TECH on SOCIETY feels a bit hacky tbh

i just get the feeling that some people think they are being zippy and clever with ideas that were well-worn sci-fi cliches in the 50's.

all art about present and future bad effects of TECH on SOCIETY feels a bit hacky tbh

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I get a different vibe from it, that the tech isn't inherently bad, it's just that people generally suck and ruin everything fun. One of the reasons I like the show so much.

Also I want to live in the world where I can get credits and by pointless stuff by riding an exercise bike.

i really liked the pigfuck episode for how they played it so straight instead of doing it as some rollicking farce

every episode of black mirror has this really hand-wringy quality that i had to try really hard to ignore but once i did i really enjoyed them

there's probably some tech that helps you ignore hand-wringiness

like if you approach them as meditations on the conflicting and daunting task of constantly squaring lizard-brain instincts with a rapidly changing world instead of oh-so-scary technology i think they're really poignant and effective

yeah, and I think it's easiest to view the 3rd ep like that.

i might try a couple more. i was just thinking of that s.h.i.e.l.d. thread where someone says once you get past the first 11 horrible episodes it gets really good. (!!!!) #wehavewaytoomuchtimeonourhands

let's not say 'really'... but it becomes pretty fun to watch

well there's only 6 of black mirror so

what are the best five?

episode 2 is the least good imo

off topic but Fruitvale Station is the best thing I've seen on Netflix, or anywhere, in a long time

3 and 4 were the best episodes.

I watched the first 3 and don't know if I'll watch the next 3.

Thought the first two eps of BM were kinda... dumb. And a little smug and self-impressed with its own ~piercing satire of these times~. Ep 3 seemed promising but turned it off because it was probably a bad thing to watch when hungover and feeling a little anxiety.

it definitely wouldn't help anxiety, but it's good!

Yeah, will at least give that ep another run at a better time.

went into How to Survive a Plague preparing for a complete bummer, but found it to be really inspirational. glad I watched it.

I really want to see that

a number of ACT UPers dispute that doc, say it distorts in favor of the whitest and richest members

but y'know, "print the legend"

fwiw I liked it, but I wasn't there

seems like there's always been that gap for them. kinda wish that they had something to hang their hat on & proud of, but also from what i gather they, as in act up, are kinda difficult to please collectively?

or is that not true

charles willeford fans may be interested to know that there is an adaptation of "The Woman Chaser" on Netflix now. Relatively close to the book & stars Seinfeld's David Puddy.

You guys are nuts that pickfucker episode was hilariously fun.

Thank you to whoever tipped this show upthread! Just cuz they're timeworn dystopias doesn't make them irrelevant.