Netflix Streaming Film Recommendations: Because You Can't Always Play With Yourself

yeah signed up today. catalogue seems light so far, but hopefully that will improve.

A bunch of seasons of BBC shows just put up that I've never seen:
A Bit of Fry and Laurie
The Catherine Tate Show
Gavin and Stacey
Hyperdrive
Waking the Dead

Can some Britishers let me know which of these is worth watching?

Also the first season of SAXONDALE with Coogan is up for instawatch and holy fuck that's good.

Lake Mungo looks interesting

Gavin and Stacey very popular but also very everyday.
catherine tate funny in parts. actually, part. potentially interesting for doctor who fans.
Fry and Laurie probably the best of those, although i don't know how it's aged / travels.
i liked Hyperdrive but i was in a minority.

Fry & Laurie is pretty funny!

Lake mungo is terribly overrated and boring as he'll imo

God I hate iPhone autocorrect

Fry and Laurie IS pretty funny!

Almost a thousand new catalog films in the past week or so; if i were a kid i would just watch movies all day.
Recent TVadds: full runs of the new Battlestar Galactica (skip the last two seasons), Eureka, Psych, In Plain Sight, Monk, Parks and Rec and Damages (finally!)
Plus a LOT of anime (though not much that's got me excited) and scads of horror films and midnight movie stuff like Mondo Cane and Venus in Furs
Oh and don't miss Jules Dassin's The Law and Flaherty's Louisiana Story

Good updates but way too many green/Eco/sustainable/anti-gm food crap docs.

man I wish they would release Always Sunny to streaming. it's one of those shows I can be bothered to waste a DVD on, but would love to just be able to pop it in once in a while.

the pelican brief

Starting to see a few films and TV series that aren't available to rent, only to stream.

It's weird when those pop up, but I've been seeing those all year. Some are TV shows that didn't get a home release, or movies on out-of-print DVDs, where it's pretty nice to at least have an option to watch again.

man, code monkeys sucks

Louie! If you haven't seen it, watch it NOW

bear in mind the show can be really hit or miss, especially early on. i actually just watched the first half of the pilot that i never got around to seeing and wow it's not nearly as good as the second part with the date

Herzog and Cage's masterful collaboration Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is now up.

tom waits big time!

Paranormal Activity, which I watched last night and was pretty solid up until a slightly botched ending, but it did wig me out at like three in the morning when I halfway woke up as my bedroom door slammed.

Watching Doctor Who: The Ark In Space == yay. I do wonder how Better off Ted and Nip/Tuck showed up in my recently watched when I'd never watched anything prior to Who.

MUST WATCH: Intangible Asset No. 82
Great exploration of Korean music and of spirituality and performance.
amazing stuff

is there any site that lists their new additions by date? netflix.ca is worthless for this.

http://instantwatcher.com/titles/new_infinite

gamer! looks dumb as a post!

i know i already mentioned it but WATCH NOW: "The Law" with Gina Lollabrigida and Marcello Mastrioanni directed by Jules Dassin
minor masterpiece

What is this shit.

Whoa, wrong thread. Sorry.

so the PS3 streaming app is pretty great! easier to use OS, options to turn on/off commentaries and subtitles and the wait time is like 1/4 of what I'm used to on the xbox. all in all, a massive improvement. This is really going to impact how often i use my 360.

sounds rad. i stream directly thru my blu ray player, would luv an option re: commentaries

The Secret Life of Plants with Stevie Wonder soundtrack; always wanted to see this.

bahahahahahaha one of the shittiest horror movies ive ever seen just popped up on streaming - the mind-bogglingly bad "Monster Dog" starring Alice Cooper!

also there is something really annoying about the fact that the streaming program on my shitty wii supports search while the xbox app does not.

Oh sweet, commentaries on the PS3? I'm in.

i have like no special opinions on ps3. it seems like it's "play" or "stop". how do you get to these options?

it's on the launch page for the individual film: where you see "play" "more episodes" "rate".
not every film has the audio option, but many do.
and i should point out that i have not SEEN a commentary track yet, i just read that they were including them.

even the addition of regular subtitles/closed captioning would be great, though what i'd really love would be Japanese audio tracks for anime

Did Netflix offer anyone else 2% credit for streaming problems? The amount is stupidly amusing to me.

Yeah I got that too.

La Femme Nikita
Candyman
Creepshow

Just saw District 9! Damn, I slept on that one.

on the Honky Tonk Freeway, that's where I wanna be

here's what i watched in my first month (canada's first):

Hopscotch (1980, Neame)
Torn Curtain (Hitchcock)
Sabotage (1936, Hitchcock)
Witness for the Prosecution (Wilder)
Inherit the Wind (Kramer)
Odd Man Out (Reed)
Bananas (Allen)
Powaqqatsi (1998, Reggio)
Play It Again, Sam (1972, Ross)
Short Films of David Lynch
6 MST3K episodes, including the incredible "Monster a-Go Go"

still jealous of america's selection

my past week
Mondovino
Better Off Ted: Ssn 2: Mess of a Salesman
Better Off Ted: Ssn 2: Lust in Translation
Green for Danger
Unfaithfully Yours
Jackass 2.5
Hyperdrive: Ssn 1: Hello, Queppu (6 episodes)
Hyperdrive: Ssn 1: A Gift From the Glish (6 episodes)
Brother's Keeper: 10th Anniversary Edition
The Men
Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story
Secret Life Of Plants
David Cross: Bigger and Blackerer
Shaun: Ssn 1: Mower Mouth/Who's the...
The Law
Lexx: Series 1: I Worship His Shadow
Julie & Julia
Visions of Suffering
Intangible Asset No. 82
Little Norse Prince Valiant
Fritz the Cat

Dear Netflix,

Please add all season of Top Chef to streaming.

thx.

if i start logging all of the instant watch i do im going to start feeling really bad about how i use my time tbh

haha forks i see you watched visions of suffering - what a light hearted romp!

Hmm, what is up with them lately - second time this month I've gotten that "we're sorry streaming service was interrupted, have some account credit" email

maybe they're overloaded from the new PS3/Wii updates

yeah, i didn't get to the end of more than a few of those.
just the Julia Child parts on Julie and Julia, jumped around through visions of suffering/life of plants/fritz the cat, just the first twenty minutes of Lexx