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

whoa, potential game changer here:
http://www.hulu.com/criterion

"We will continue to support Netflix on the package goods side and continue to work with them to provide Blu-ray and DVD copies of the films we release, but all of the films that are currently on Netflix streaming will be down by the end of the year. In case you're curious, we're as committed as ever to the physical goods side of our releases and will publish more DVDs and BDs this year than ever before."

am i gonna have to pay eight bucks a month just for criterion? fuck.

the fact that you cant just see every movie ever on one streaming service is a black eye for capitalism democracy and freedom itself

has anybody (like ever in the history of the world) tried hulu plus on ps3? How's it look?

Hulu sucks. Team Netflix!

Day Break with Taye Diggs and Moon Bloodgood! It starts out kinda shaky but I'm a sucker for shows with a time-travel premise and unabashed sentimentality.

Holy shit @ Little Otik. Saw this years ago in LA, pretty amazing, holds up.

i think all of rocky & bulwinkle which blows my mind i need a fan guide/index

also a show from a&e called 'rookies' which if u <3 cops like i do is pretty sweet

fan guide: watch all of fractured fairy tales

"Ruby Yacht" from season 5 is a classic

Sesame Street too!

restrepo is powerful. usually stay away from serious movies on streaming but put it on thinking I would half pay attention and turn it off if I got bored, neither of those things occurred. feel like it should be required viewing in high school.

feel like it should be required viewing in high school.

^otm

Holy shit @ Little Otik. Saw this years ago in LA, pretty amazing, holds up.

lol a feast for the senses ill give it that

what is a good "guy movie" that i haven't seen that i can watch while my wife is out of town?

that is on netflix streaming

maybe i'll just watch 'aliens' again

Crank: High Voltage

seen it

has anyone seen "north face" or "police, adjective"? not typical guy movies but movies my wife probably wouldn't want to watch. also movies i can't watch while working due to subtitles

Caddyshack and an assload of porn

Police, Adjective has a lot of long takes of the policeman protagonist standing around on the street waiting for a pot deal to occur where very little happens. There are two conversation sequences (one between him and his wife, the other with his boss) that pay off, but the film is definitely tough-going arthouse fare.

huh, not what i'm in the mood for. thanks.

which movies have you seen

my last bit of netflix guy movie excitement was gi joe: burned

so i started asking other questions, just saying

i just started watching "from beyond." thanks guys.

thanks FOR NOTHING.

I kinda liked MONSTERS, reminded me of a low-budget District 9/Children of Men/Jurassic Park.

The ending is kinda whatevs, but it's entertaining.

they def. dont tend to put newish good action on the streaming side

have to assume youre not into kung fu, otherwise...

thanks FOR NOTHING.

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pfft you ignored my reccy - I dont even know what you've seen anyway

Is Caddyshack a guy movie?

There are lots of movies about bears on netflix streaming. Of the ones I've seen, I rank them:

1. Grizzly Park
2. Grizzly Rage
3. Bear

n/a have you seen ong bak 1 or 2

i think all of rocky & bulwinkle which blows my mind i need a fan guide/index

i mostly only know the first few seasons but:

the (extremely long) first story arc starts out pretty rocky (HA HA) but gets good about halfway through--at least by the time they go to Pottsylvania, which is around episode 13.

box tops robbery (last six episodes of S1) is essential, as, basically, is upsidasium (beginning of S2) but there's a lot of dead air in upsidasium.

wailing whale is so-so but an early episode contains The Best Rocky And Bullwinkle Joke; it is utterly flawless; it involves a shipping magnate. i am laughing thinking about it. your mileage may vary of course but i mean i would be pretty surprised if someone could stand rocky and bullwinkle at all and did not think this was hilarious.

all the fractured fairy tales are worth it; most of the aesop and sons are too but you'll miss edward everett horton; dudley do-right is fun if you're in the mood; fuck peabody and sherman.

there's one great peabody and sherman opening where it just fades in abruptly on peabody and he says "hello out there. peabody's my name. i suppose you know yours." but it's downhill from there.

fuck peabody and sherman.

aghhhhhhhhh MAN, i was so on board with you until this

don't get me wrong, peabody and sherman aren't the main attraction, but c'mon

i dunno i mean i spent my childhood watching tapes of these over and over and over again so maybe they wouldn't seem so bad to someone who wasn't already sick of them (cf. also CAPTAIN PETER "WRONGWAY" PEACHFUZZ, THE WORLD'S WORST SAILOR) but--and this is gonna sound just completely ridiculous--they're so contrived.

like, william tell has gone blind and can't hit the apple, so peabody places a "small but powerful magnet" in the apple, attracting william tell's arrowhead and making him hit it dead-on, which like okay maybe it is just how smug peabody is with his little bow tie about his Genius Solutions that could not possibly ever work that gets on my nerves

but then i mean i guess that is the point of peabody and sherman

i dunno

haha well i watched them over and over too, but that was at an age where i wasn't likely to dismiss anything for being contrived. for me all the supplemental shorts were like broccoli to get to the rocky & bullwinkle dessert, but peabody & s-man always felt like the best of those to me.

i definitely need to revisit this stuff with ~adult eyes~

oh, i did not become militantly anti-peabody until i was an adult. fair.

i usually only see r&b these days when i visit my parents, when my dad and i generally settle in for one or two sessions per visit. between segments we hold efficient and informed quorums re: whether or not this next one should be skipped. my mom rolls her eyes in a different room.

i know the animation gets knocked a lot but R&B are among my favorite character designs ever, i could stare at this all day:

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/35164_469705949198_602254198_6442641_397531_n.jpg

and the bumper where they grow in the ground like flowers... how did they even think of that??? that's just flat out brilliant animation.

haha thats great

bullwinkle appreciation was definitely a thing that was passed onto me by my dad. he'd take me to the bar with him when i was like 5 and i'd sit around drawing bullwinkles for hours and then the bartender would stick them on the beer fridge.

the internet went down in the middle of this important conversation and it became a housewide crisis involving 4 of the 6 residents standing around behind each others' shoulders saying HEY TRY CLICKING THAT but i'm back and here is the post i saved in a text file before rebooting my computer:

r&b always has great design, like all four of the main characters are just perfect and expressive and awesome, and i love things like the two opposing mirrored short/tall duos, and the flower bumper, and Fearless Leader's scarred wedge-head, but the actual animation was i believe farmed hurriedly out to a mexican studio and done really cheaply and last-minute and without a lot of communication and that's why it's always weird and distorted and has demented perspective and fucked-up colors and lacks any kind of consistency from episode to episode. but then that mirrors the plot; that is kind of its whole charm. so yeah i love it.