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

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

Last of the Living - this is like some asshole's attempt to make a cool zombie flick. shaun of the dead minus the creativity.

I heartily recommend the MST3K episode "The Wild Wild World of Batwoman" to everyone with Netflix

I wish I could watch a non-MST3K version of it. I prefer to generate my own inane commentary.

you really do NOT want to watch a non-MST3K version of this movie

like, I can't imagine anything less fun

well actually pounding spikes into your eyes would be less fun

I dunno, you should see some of the garbage I've enjoyed.

maybe they're overloaded from the new PS3/Wii updates
lol goddam
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371260,00.asp

"For service providers, this is a double-whammy: not only are they losing revenue to these over-the-top offerings, ..."

because all isps sell movies too, you see

some of these shovelware film descriptions kill me:
BRAZIL: 1944 - The plot is set in motion by authoress Nicky Henderson (Virginia Bruce), who has hit the best-seller charts with her latest tome, Why Marry a Latin?

CHASING THE KIDNEYSTONE: 1996 - When his grandfather comes down with a mysterious ailment, young Simon (Torbjörn T. Jensen) shrinks himself to miniscule size and embarks on an odyssey through the old man's body to seek and destroy the culprit: a nasty kidney stone. On his unusual expedition, Simon meets all sorts of curious characters, including a cute little blood cell and an irate bile duct. Vibeke Idsøe directs this inventive children's adventure.