Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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.

Beyond the Hills

why isn't the Americans on Netflix?

^^Amazon exclusive

it's on amazon; FX has a deal with them for content.

bah. looks like season 2 is going to be on there come dec 29th though.

oh wait no, that's still just on amazon. well then.

All of Sweden is supposed to be undergoing a heat wave on this ep of Wallander and yet everyone is still wearing coats and cotton cableknit sweaters. And looking sweaty. HAVE THEY NO OTHER CLOTHES?

lol i thought the same thing watching that episode

god the americans is great.

i'm too scared to watch django and wolf of wall street. leo's face bugs me so much these days...he's such a dope. plus just the whole american badass/excess thing...

I'm not watching either of those movies either, although if I were forced to choose I'd prob go with WoWS.

Leo's smarminess plays well into the Django character, IMO

also plays well into the wolf of wall street character tbh. he should just embrace being a shitbag from now on

wolf of wall street is pretty solid, django is a bit of a letdown

wolf of wall street is redundantly putrid after the first 40 minutes

can't do too many cocaine booby rock montage scenes these days. spring breakers might have lasted me a lifetime.

and as far as the idea of tarantino and slave trading goes....i'll stick with the nazis.

I dare you to watch both.

Unless you are chicken.

i've watched both, would recommend watching neithre

get two tvs, watch them both simultaneously

Pee Wee's Playhouse... every episode and the Christmas Special.
Big news IMO!

Hated Django, loved Wolf. Leo is fine in both. Latter has better set pieces, former probably the worst Tarantino.

the worst Tarantino is actually Quentin

I laughed out loud at that, then watched the first hour of Nymphomaniac + now I am back on the Official ILX Netflix Instant Watch Recommendations thread

btw I watched Django Unchained for the first time recently & found it fun (if occasionally burdened by cringeworthy contemporary resonances)

speaking of Tarantino in the same post-cluster as Nymphomaniac: Kill Bill is another two-parter I never saw prior to its appearance on Netflix Instant Watch (saw the 1st in theaters, but missed the 2nd and couldn't decide how best to arrange an at-home viewing)

wow, Nympho pt 1 was... really something

i straight out hate von trier; is it good for lolz?

I don't know if I can answer that question

but yes, it is funnier than e.g. Antichrist or Dancer in the Dark

if you're into 'dry humor'

So! My Netflix was hacked last week. I called customer support when I could no longer access my account, and the friendly phone man confirmed I've been jacked. Some clown in Calgary has been watching w/ my user ID, and the Netflix fraud folks have been able to track him to a single fixed IP address (residential). They reset my password/account, and are going after him, guns a-blazin'. Apparently he's been watching the R-rated soft porn titles. They gave me a free month (small yay) of service, but I've gotta start a new account and my ID and ratings (which I've held since early-adopter 2000 days) are all wiped out. Last night I sat and rated a dozen movies, but my old account had about 5000 movies rated. My queue/history are zeroed, and now I have no idea what I have/haven't watched. So, important question, what movies should I watch/rate to recalibrate the suggestions? Key titles already logged include:

Repo Man
Tillsammans
Fanny and Alexander
Good Morning / I Was Born But...
Browning Version
Kiss Me Deadly
Yi Yi
Morgan: A Suitable Case
Uncle Buck
The Live by Night
Glass Key

good selection

you take netflix much more seriously than I do

I'd like all of my recommendations to be based on a history of watching soft core porn

but seriously is that the lengths Canadians have to go to get erotic material?

Netflix was way more in-your-face about the user data aggregation back in the day - I'm seeing 1015 ratings on my account

there's soft core porn on netflix? what a world

Well most hbo isn't actually available