The Netflix Thread

Conefed

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"The Institute" - part documentary, part scavenger hunt, part art project. Felt good all day after watching it.
 

Luthair

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The History of Future Folk. The best ever indie movie about a fictitious band from the planet Hondo. Knocks right on your feels at the end, everyone should play a banjo song for their special lady and they do it well.
Posted this in January
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Caliane

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TV series on netflix.

"Dark Secrets"
I am dying.
Netflix lists it as "TV SHOWS, Reality TV, Investigative Reality TV, and Scary"
well, it got one right. it is a tv show..

It's done as a Unsolved Mysteries homage. but its absurdly fake, all the while TELLING you its real.
Its so hilariously bad. I can't tell if its trying to be serious or what. theres alot of fake paranormal shows out there obviously. But very few will outright give you silly B movie props, and claim them evidence...
 

Oblio

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Oldboy hit Netflix recently and I was surprised at how much I liked it.

After some of the fight scenes I was wondering if it was based off some 1980's Arcade Game that was a Cult Classic that some how slipped by without me ever hearing of it.
 

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new Oldboy was surprisingly not terrible. Some odd decisions with what they decided to change and I feel like they just changed them to make it different and not in order to add anything but Brolin did a good job as the Dae-su Oh character I thought. Sam Jackson was completely arbitrary and Sharlto Copley was just odd. Lee did a good job with the things that Lee is always good at but the fights did trend towards arcadey, missed the impact of the original hallway scene.
 

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Not sure if anyone mentioned it, but the korean flick War of the Arrows is great. It's kind of like Apocalypto where half the movie is a crazy ass chase scene.
 

Conefed

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"World War Z" because everybody hated on it, but it was good and perhaps the best Zombie movieI'veseen
 

Caliane

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"World War Z" because everybody hated on it, but it was good and perhaps the best Zombie movieI'veseen
Its almost as funny as Shawn of the Dead.

I totally lost it at the "zombie in the airplane closet for 9 hours without making any noise, and in fact was even on the plane somehow before the zombies overran the wall" joke.
 

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Man From Beijing...Swedish Subtitled 2 parts
Murder mystery set in Sweden. Flashbacks to Chinese building railroads in 1800s Nevada, Also present day Beijing. Reminded me of "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Also, same guy is in it. (swedish version of GWTDT, which was better tan US) Lots of narrow escapes, beautiful scenery.
 

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I don't know if Netflix has this available, but my wife and I saw this really good Japanese movie that was pure water works. I swear we both cried upwards of 4 times in this film. It was really beautiful (in a moving kind of way). I only found it because I like to randomly give my wife Japanese shit, and this was one of the gifts. I'm pretty sure it won an Oscar for best foreign film.

Anyway, it's called "Departures". A movie about a guy that gets a job working for the Japanese equivalent of a funeral home, and all of the preparation work they do to the body so that the family can see it one more time. It's powerful. Also: subtitles.



Another movie that we both liked, but no where near the same caliber, is a german film called "Vitus". It's a movie about this genius kid that becomes a master of piano. It's a neat look at a happy story. This one is also subtitled.

 

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Man From Beijing...Swedish Subtitled 2 parts
Murder mystery set in Sweden. Flashbacks to Chinese building railroads in 1800s Nevada, Also present day Beijing. Reminded me of "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Also, same guy is in it. (swedish version of GWTDT, which was better tan US) Lots of narrow escapes, beautiful scenery.
If this was based off the Henning Mankell novel which it sounds like, thanks for the recommendation. I highly recommend his book as well if you like Swedish mysteries.
 

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The following were removed from Netflix streaming on July 1st:

10 Questions For The Dalai Lama
A Borrowed Life
A View to a Kill
AeonFlux
After Fall, Winter
Angel Heart
As Good as it Gets
Bad Company
Bang the Drum Slowly
Beavis and Butt-head Do America
Call Northside 777
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
Chinatown
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Comic Book Villains
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Death Wish 3
Death Wish 4
Desert Fox
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Dragonslayer
Event Horizon
Evil Dead II
Fist of the North Star
For Your Eyes Only
Freedom Writers
From Russia With love
Future By Design
Gattaca
Girl, Interrupted
Goldfinger
Hotel Rwanda
Howard Stern?s Private Parts
Killing Zoe
Lars and the Real Girl
Last Holiday
Less Than Zero
Live and Let Die
Look Who?s Talking
Look Who?s Talking Now
Look Who?s Talking Too
Monkeybone
Naked Ambition
Never Say Never Again
Nick Of Time
No Way Home
Only the Strong
Palo Alto
Party Monster
Point Blank
Poolhall Junkies
Resident Evil
Robinson Crusoe On Mars
Rocky
Rocky II
Rocky III
Rocky IV
Rocky V
Roger Dodger
Rubber
Some Time, Next Year
Spaceballs
Spanglish
Spirit of the Marathon
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Stuart Saves His Family
Taxi Driver
Tentacles
The African Queen
The Dust Factory
The Little Prince
The Living Daylights
The Night of the Living Dead
The Odd Couple
The Rat Race
The Running Man
The Terminator
Tokyo Godfathers

while the following were added (or will be shortly):

12 Angry Men
American Ninja (1985)
Ararat
Bad Santa
Basic Instinct
Best Defense (1984)
Blue Chips
Body of Evidence
Boyz In The Hood
Can?t Buy Me Love
Cheech & Chong?s Up In Smoke
City of God
Crimson Tide
Croupier
Dead Man Walking
Don?t Look Now (1973)
Eight Men Out
Fever Pitch (1997)
From Here to Eternity
Gandhi (1982)
Halloween Resurrection
Jersey Girl
Legends of the Fall
Madeline (1998)
Mean Girls
My Girl
My Girl 2
Patton (1970)
People I Know
Phantoms
Philadelphia
Primal Fear
Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek I The Motion Picture
Sugar Hill
The Babysitter
The Dark Half
The Hunt for Red October
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
The Karate Kid (1984)
The Karate Kid II (1986)
The Keys of the Kingdom
The Parent Trap (1998)
Venus
Walking Tall Part II
 

Seananigans

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Its almost as funny as Shawn of the Dead.

I totally lost it at the "zombie in the airplane closet for 9 hours without making any noise, and in fact was even on the plane somehow before the zombies overran the wall" joke.
I could be wrong, but it seemed like that door led to the elevator/dumb-waiter thing that goes down to the cargo hold, or whatever. So theoretically a zombie made it in through the landing gear, and found his way to that apparatus, and wasn't making any noise because he spent most of the time in the hold, until it was raised up for the woman to access it.

Shrug.