Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

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...

but anyway if you like good lean & mean action movies, that one is a good one.

staying away from the kimmy thread until i've finished the series but omg martin short

id recommend staying away from the kimmy thread period, it is basically half "i enjoyed this show" and half "if you enjoyed this show you are an irredeemable racist" which i now realize is kind of a recurring theme across much of ilx so i guess post retracted

ok yes that sounds like good advice

I watched almost all of Kimmy Schmidt last night and I like it but I don't think I ever actually had a real, deep laugh while watching it. It's amusing. I'm also jaded.

it helps if you have a big pot brownie. i thought i was gonna die the night i watched 8 in a row.

i watched a horrible nic cage movie last night. i guess i was feeling masochistic. i mean, i watched Salesman and F For Fake on Hulu a couple of days ago, so maybe i thought i was watching too many good movies. anyway, this movie was kinda like a movie that usually stars a professional wrestler or a mixed martial arts fighter, but it had nic cage in it instead. and danny glover! poor danny glover...the "surprise" in this movie was not a surprise if you have ever watched more than one episode of Law & Order, but the "surprise" made everything that happened in the movie completely senseless and pointless. like the movie! which is kind of a meta-take on a movie like this. in a way. i just kept starring at nic's hair. and hairline. and his face. his weird lumpy face. he screamed and cried so much in this movie. it was like a liam neeson revenge movie without the subtlety. peter stormare plays a gangster in a wheelchair and in five minutes his accent goes from russian to irish to bronx to marbles and it is really something to see.

"staring" not "starring". but his hair is kinda the star these days.

Kimmy is no Broad City, but I enjoy it in a comfort giggle tomato soup kind of way.

I laughed atypically hard at Kimmy Schmidt.

I really didn't like the pilot of broad city, should I have persevered? is it on netflix? unbreakable is making my gf LOL on the reg, and she is obsessed with the theme song

holy shit that theme song gets stuck in my head all day

broad city is on hulu - highly recommend it

broad city is good if you don't like workaholics or girls or one of the dozen brit lad shows. or the new girl.

am i the only person who liked the wrong mans? can't remember it being mentioned on ilx but i never searched for it on here...

i like girls, and love the first couple of seasons of new girl.

i didn't get past the Broad City pilot either. maybe i'll give it another chance someday, it's on amazon prime

everyone should really just start with episode 3 of .... the first two are not great. it gets way better.

This seems like a recurring theme with so much TV. "Skip the first couple of episodes! Skip the entire first season!" Etc.

rectify s. 2 is up

Don't skip the first season.

It's a recurring theme because all but a very few shows take a few episodes or an entire season to get cast/writers/etc to gel

I don't believe in skipping. You should just tough it out - incredibly few shows (sitcoms especially) are good straight out of the gate and take several eps to find their footing
xp yeah

yea. Early episodes have to do a lot of explaining and introducing. this makes them worse, but they are important.

id recommend staying away from the kimmy thread period, it is basically half "i enjoyed this show" and half "if you enjoyed this show you are an irredeemable racist" which i now realize is kind of a recurring theme across much of ilx so i guess post retracted

really? I don't think anyone says anything remotely close to that on that thread.

yeah, there are a few mentions of the "Dong" jokes, but no one riding through on a self righteous horse afaict

perfume movie is terrible don't do it

perfume movie is terrible don't do it

it's not up to the book standard

uhhhhhhh so I missed the beginning of that movie while cooking and I may have thought it was supposed to be an inspirational tale of a dude who was good at smelling things

so I was really confused that he killed that woman, and I turned it off after he killed the cat.

so that was my fault

but seriously, who can smell stuff that's deep underwater and many feet away. how many ppm wet stone and frog eggs could have been under his nose? that was stupid.

Force Majeure is sooooooo friggin' good. everyone here HAS to watch it. if you haven't already.

was trying to think of an american director that could make a movie like this and i couldn't think of any. of course an american version would star ben stiller and be some awful greenberg-esque "dark" comedy.

sounds better than FM to me.

yikes, really? i already want to watch Force Majeure again.

I thought it peaked early, with Dad hauling ass.

that is one of the best set-ups for a movie i've ever seen. could watch that scene on repeat forever. but it sets up great stuff. like the look on mom's face when she's brushing her teeth in the bathroom with dad. best look ever! plus, i loved mats.

speaking of sundance, anyone watch the Red Road series? Lisa Bonet! Tom Sizemore!

watched Force Majeure with Rufus last night. he really liked it.

I can imagine many ilxors thinking it worse than cancer, but I really enjoyed the first episode of garfunkel and oates

I know I should give Garfunkel and Oates a fair chance, but at a distance it looks like unfunny trust fund comedy.

i never got a "trust fund" vibe from them but ymmv

Well, my impression has more to do with IFC's batting record than any real assessment of G&O.

it's not terrible except when it is.

A bunch of Joe Swanberg movies have been added recently (searched post-WTF). I've only seen Drinking Buddies but I liked it a lot, going to try the Anna Kendrick one tonight.

BELLY

Garfunkel and Oates show is not objectively that great, but I find them so unstoppably likable that I'm watching it anyway.

yeah, that's pretty otm

loved the pilot but the second ep was stanky

Just found out that if you're willing to use a VPN or unblock-us, some Louis Theroux docs that are hard to find in the US are available on UK Netflix