Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

was kinda happy to see a new griffin dunne flick pop up - who doesn't love griffin dunne? - but my patience for the patented sundance mid-life crisis live & learn is about zilch. didn't last long. it's almost two hours long! sullen teen kids. road trip. age-old parental conflicts. wacky historical reenactments. the movie equivalent of the writing workshop novel.

still probably better than that horrible bruce dern faux-slice-of-life thing that i couldn't watch last year.

Nebraska was way better than most of those movies

i highly recommend Uncle Grandpa...

YES

nothing repels me faster than the stench of sundance. which is sad because i'm someone who would seriously consider getting a Ruby In Paradise tattoo. maybe a Ulee's Gold tramp stamp. frinstance watching the trailer for Joe i got that sinking feeling and didn't want to go near it. and i felt bad about that. i'm a big larry brown fan and i liked the book a lot. the idea of dirty fingernails nic cage is a good idea. i was a fan of DGG's early nu-malick things. thought they were exciting as far as amerindie film festival things go at this late date. i couldn't even finish that prince avalanche movie and i wanted to like that. or maybe i fell asleep...i did like pineapple express...watching the griffin dunne thing just made me want to watch exhibition again. or watch some of the jacques demy movies that have popped up on hulu. i haven't seen ANY of them except for Umbrellas of Cherbourg. don't even know where to start.

rufus said he wants to watch better movies. i put on black sheep after dinner last night and he said..."do we have to keep watching this...?" hahaha! message received loud and clear! (i just put things on that a 12 year old AND a 9 year can watch..) so, i went through the criterion list with him and said he could watch any of them as far as i was concerned. then i showed him the piano scene from House! i'm more than happy to have a seven samurai/watership down/eraserhead triple feature sometime soon.

Scott, I started with Lola, his first feature, the other night and really enjoyed it.

good to know!

yes, chron order is fine for Demy, at least thru Donkey Skin.

i saw seven samurai for the first time around 12 or so and it had a MASSIVE impact on me; that's gonna be fun.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt <3

can't wait!

. the movie equivalent of the writing workshop novel.

i like this phrase

The first episode of "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" was well worth it just to watch Ellie Kemper make faces.

http://i.imgur.com/KKQC4Tr.gif

it's okay and i say that as an avowed 30 rock hater and having only seen one episode of UKS

Kemper is appealing

xp 2 eephus - yeah danger 5, although stepping on some well-trod ground, is super hilarious

Watched UKS, I get the charm in a kind of abstract way but did not in fact laugh at any point. "Buckley" as name for privileged child an unusually dull, on-the-nose gag for a Fey show. Only the landlady really shone in this.

did you get to martin short on unbreakable...insane.

it gets better. and funnier. as it goes.

scott, 'Joe' is pretty good! and isn't really sundancey at all. there was some true, earned grit. i'm glad i watched it. cage is wonderful. DGG cast an non-actor homeless man as the kid's abusive father and he's great-he died on the streets shortly after.

I absolutely loved the first ep of UKS. Happy to hear it gets even better and funnier. Also, "Buckley" is a perfect comedy rich kid name, on the nose or no. Fey is pretty good about not overthinking details.

I wouldn't say UKS gets better necessarily, but then I really enjoyed the first one anyway, Jane Krakowski is basically just playing Jenna Maroney again, and I can do without the step-daughter sub-plot, but the Kimmy/Titus/Lillian scenes are pretty much always really good.

Only watched first ep. I am high on 21st century Martin Short after watching "Inherent Vice" so if he's coming up I'll give it a shot.

OK ep 2 substantially superior to ep 1 and there wasn't even any landlady or Martin Short in it!

episode three had ma laughing and laughing.

had ME laughing and laughing...

there was one line where she talks about seeing a monkey in the zoo and she says something like: yes, that's right, the monkey was female - women can be anything these days!

and i just kept laughing and laughing every time i thought of it.

Martin Short's character in this is one of the craziest, funniest things he's ever done I think.

it's up there for sure.

i discovered that Il Sorpasso is on Hulu now, one of my all time faves

Baz Luhrman + "a ragtag crew of South Bronx teens":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEbRXzKu__8

excited about that. but 2016?

man that's gonna be so bad

Moulin Rouge meets 80 Blocks From Tiffanys.

not going to damn it from a 20 sec trailer just yet

damning it by the mix of director and subject matter.

forks otm

Les Demoiselles de Rochfort is now on Netflix USA, Hard Target is now on Netflix UK. Would struggle to pick a favourite there.

Let me help you out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STL7nx3zg40

the rattle bite is so classic

I only know the soundtrack album of demoiselles but those songs are killllerrrrr

Why does everyone love this Unbreakable show so much? The jokes are snappy but the acting is terrible, the delivery is terrible, and everything between the jokes is terrible and over acted or broad or whatever the technical term is.

did you watch 30 Rock? it was equally cartoonish in style.

No.

you should, it's funny.

i watched two episodes of unbreakable, i'm done now.
Force Majeure just went up.

just binge-watched all of broad city up to its current episode, and i tried the unbreakable kimmy schmidt tonight and it seemed so try-hard and not-funny in comparison. i think broad city has ruined me for all other comedies.

everyone should really just start with episode 3 of kimmy. the first two are not great. it gets way better. this is the last time i will say this on here, i promise!

i watched the french Point Blank last night. really dug that. although i couldn't help think about who they were gonna get for an american version. liam neeson probably a little old to be playing a student nurse. they could make him a doctor though...