Merged two threads with same premise.
My suggestion: OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies. Very funny French Bond/spy spoof.
Catch the French movie District B13. The plot is absurd, but the action makes Jason Bourne look arthritic. I ended up getting the DVD from Netflix, so I could watch it with subtitles instead of the dubbing.
It isn’t a secret, but you can also stream The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
If your Netflix home page is like ours, at the top you’ll have
Watch Instantly – Browse DVDs – Your Queue – Movies You’ll {heart}
If you click on the fourth tab (with the heart) you should see:
Suggestions – Rate Movies – Taste Preferences – Movies You’ve Rated
Rate some movies and tell them about your tastes and you should have a decent array to choose from. They’re maybe 75% accurate in our case. We’ve rated 2351 movies and have 185 Recommendations!
Under Browse DVDs you should see:
Home – Genres ↓ – New Releases – Netflix Top 100 – Critics’ Picks – Award Winners
Examine those for more choices.
Good luck!
(This was posted in a thread that was closed because of “no action” in less than an hour’s time. May not be relevant here.)
Loved this! His Cinnabon portion was to die for. I also see, by this stand-up, why he and his wife divorced the following year :eek:.
216 episodes of Comedy Central Presents are on Instant. I almost died when I saw it. Granted, many are people I don’t know, but the highlights include Greg Giraldo (just watched, was good), Jeff Garcia, Jim Gaffigan, Kevin Hart, Louis CK, Ron White, and Zach Galifinakis. Here’s the catch: you can’t add people’s individual episodes, you have to add the whole thing and go to the actual page to select which episode. So you can’t hit “play” from your “Instant” page; you have to click on “Comedy Central Presents” and scroll to find what you want.
Fargo is available till 8/29, so get it now!
ETA: Antinor01, we’ve decided to drop cable and get a Roku. I’m VERY excited. When Sezmi comes to Pittsburgh, I’ll get it as well. For $150 for the equipment plus $20/month, I can’t see the downside. For Mad Men and It’s Always Sunny, we’ll get Itunes season subscriptions. Otherwise, all the shows we watch are on basic or their select cable channels.
More recommendations! I realize I’m watching far too much these days.
MST3K - I don’t know if it’s all on there, but large portions are. Very nice.
SNL - every season of it. Delightful.
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. What’s not to love?
Waiting for God. Britcom.
Dog Bites Man. Just one season on Comedy Central, but it has Matt Walsh and Zach Galifinakis. Galifinakis is funnier in this than in anything (besides the Vegas movie).
Did anyone mention the Tudors? 3 seasons are on instant. Brilliant.
I checked out Jekyl and really enjoyed it! Thanks for the recommendation. BTW Dr. Who fans, it was written by Stephen Moffat.
Well it’s October, time for new recommendations!
Conviction is a one season NBC show clearly based on (the original) Law & Order but better. With the utterly gorgeous Anson Mount and Eric Balfour.
Other good stuff: Robin Hood: Men in Tights and the Young Victoria.
The Messenger is available on streaming and worth a look. It’s a very sad movie, but shows an aspect of war that’s not been covered very much in film. The story centers around two soldiers whose duty is to go to the home of a casualty’s next of kin and inform them of their loss… the notification scenes are extremely difficult to watch.
If you like Tommy Lee Jones even in less than **** movies, look into
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/In-the-Electric-Mist/70112380?trkid=147042
I also enjoyed http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Suspect-Zero/70001560?trkid=438381 although not as much as the first one.
Has it really been 6 months since we updated this thread?
If anyone has yet to get a streaming device to your TV, go get one now. Seriously, it’s worth its weight in gold. So far we’ve been working our way through 24. Every season is available for streaming.
The SO is watching an anime series called Baccano, based on our likes of Ponyo, Cowboy BeBop and Firefly.
Months ago I watched Fargo (again) and Annie Hall. I really enjoyed Annie Hall.
Friday night we wanted something funny, easy and throwaway so we watched From Paris With Love starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Two weekends ago we saw The Jerk, classic Steve Martin.
Also last weekend we watched War of the Roses, a fantastic super 80’s movie on a divorcing couple starring Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. I highly recommend this for any DeVito or Douglas fans.
We’ve also been watching some Reno 911, which I swear is one of the most underrated shows on TV.
The whole series of Twin Peaks is available streaming. I hadn’t seen it before, and am only a few episodes in, but if you haven’t seen it give it a shot.
I also recently watched a documentary call The Parking Lot movie based on a recommendation, and loved it. It’s about people who work in a parking lot at a college, and it really interesting.
Annie Hall was briefly available to watch instantly last fall. Hasn’t been since then.
Phenomenal movie, though.
Dogtooth is available on Netflix instant. It’s a really strange and interesting Greek movie about a man and woman who keep their grown children sequestered at home and deliberately feed them misinformation about the outside world. It’s kind of disturbing and occasionally shocking. A little like a David Lynch movie.
It really holds up, especially once you get to the midget dream.
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Baccano is AWESOME. Question, though: is it in Japanese or English? (Or does it give you a choice?) There are English dubs I like, but Baccano’s wasn’t one of them.
Aw crap, thanks Cisco. I was going through my recently watched instant list and figured it was all still available. My mistake!
SO says its dubbed, yup.
That’s what I figured. Oh well, I’ve got it on DVD anyway. And it’s neat that it’s available at all.
Given that Netflix provides streaming for a great many un- or barely-watchable horror movies, here are a few horror/suspense films that might be worth a viewing.
Masters of Horror: a TV series that aired on Showtime, each episode a standalone horror film by a known director. Some I particularly enjoyed were: The V Word; The Screwfly Solution; Incident On and Off a Mountain Road; Norio Tsuruta. Avoid: Imprint (the most torture-iest of torture porn—I needed brain bleach after watching); Deer Woman (hokey); We All Scream For Ice Scream (the worst sort of low-budget Tales From the Crypt rubbish).
Severance: British comedy horror. A bit by-the-numbers, but it’s quite amusing in parts and I recall a few genuine scares.
The Signal: Some loosely-collected short stories about an outbreak of murderous insanity. A few tonal issues; I recall that the individual parts were by different directors and it shows. Those parts are well put-together, though.
The Machinist: Christian Bale might be a jackass, but he’s one of the most talented big-name actors working today (IMO). He gives a great performance here in an intriguing film, although the resolution is a letdown.
Pandorum: Science fiction and horror is a combination that really hits the spot for me; I found this film intensely enjoyable. On the other hand, the critics disliked it and on paper it’s kinda hard to argue with them. The plot holes are glaring and you’ll see all the twists coming a mile away.
Netherbeast Incorporated: Extremely cute (if not all that funny) black comedy, vampirism as a metaphor for corporate America.
Session 9: Recommended almost without hesitation. Creepy, suspenseful, with a good ratio of questions answered to questions remaining.
Dead Snow: Another by-the-numbers horror film (this time from Norway), but it’s executed perfectly and the premise—Nazi soldiers rising as zombies to protect their treasure—is frankly almost too awesome.
Exam: Not really a horror movie, I guess, but it’s entertaining and quite dark (and it takes place almost entirely in one room; with a few changes it’d be great on the stage).
Primal (2009): Australian supernatural horror in the style of the first Evil Dead, except it’s a better movie. Very well crafted.
The Disappeared: British ghost story with a touch of Japanese horror. Not great, but I wasn’t sorry I watched it.
Deathwatch: British WWI soldiers find themselves holding a trench within German territory; crazy shit goes down. Frankly I watched this as I lay in bed with miserable insomnia and I couldn’t tell what was going on for the middle third. But it wasn’t the usual dreck anyway.
A few that I’ve heard good things about but haven’t gotten around to watching: Grace (not at all a remake of It’s Alive, despite what impression a brief synopsis would give); The House of the Devil (goes all out trying to replicate the 80s horror film); Carriers. It’s a pity that the previously-mentioned Triangle (2009) is no longer available for streaming. It’s a damned fine film.
I watched *Primal *recently via Netflix Instant and enjoyed it a lot. Good low-budget horror.
This was okay. It’s kind of a zombie movie without the zombies. The acting is pretty good and it’s an interesting study of moral/ethical dilemmas.