The Best Things To Watch On Netflix Instantly... [Archive]

delhalew

1/4/2012, 12:49 AM

delhalew

1/4/2012, 12:52 AM

Stones in Exile was very good.

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delhalew

1/4/2012, 01:01 AM

This one kicked @ss.
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delhalew

1/4/2012, 01:02 AM

The best making of an album I can remember.

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SanJoaquinSooner

1/4/2012, 02:53 AM

The Edge of Heaven

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Soonerchaz

1/4/2012, 05:43 AM

Are documentaries.

I watched this one tonight.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378378/
Not very well done, but I find the subject matter fascinating.

What have you found available for streaming that you would recommend?

Ha! Just watched that as well! Robert Moog is an interesting guy; and great interview with Rick Wakeman. FYI...if you have an iPhone/iPad....there's a killer Moog app called AniMoog. I have no idea what I'm doing...but you can make some ridiculous sounds.

"King of Kong" is hysterical. Billy Mitchell is a such a dick!

SanJoaquinSooner

1/4/2012, 12:18 PM

Ha! Just watched that as well! Robert Moog is an interesting guy; and great interview with Rick Wakeman. FYI...if you have an iPhone/iPad....there's a killer Moog app called AniMoog. I have no idea what I'm doing...but you can make some ridiculous sounds.

"King of Kong" is hysterical. Billy Mitchell is a such a dick!

I enjoyed King of Kong, as well.

IBleedCrimson

1/4/2012, 01:32 PM

The Fog of War

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/

One of the best documentaries ever made, and thats not an opinion!

Midtowner

1/4/2012, 02:47 PM

How I met your mother.

SoonerJack

1/4/2012, 10:58 PM

not sure if it is on Netflix OD or not, but one of the best music documentaries is Standing in the Shadows of Motown, featuring the various musicians behind the Motown sound. So good.

does anybody know if they have a method by which you can request stuff for them to stream?

Lott's Bandana

1/4/2012, 11:52 PM

Save It For The Stage: The Life of Reilly - Charles Nelson Reilly's autobiographical one-man show was incredibly interesting.

Especially for someone who grew up watching him on television their entire childhood.

delhalew

1/5/2012, 10:15 PM

King of Kong is not available for streaming. Some of you are missing the point.

Lott's Bandana

1/5/2012, 10:23 PM

I actually watched a documentary about the Helvetica font once on Netflix.

Seriously.

SoonerStud615

1/5/2012, 10:34 PM

I love the Helvetica documentary! However, it may be because I am a designer. The same guy did another documentary called Objectified that is very interesting too.

I watched one called the Parking Lot Movie that was pretty great. The Story of Pixar is a must see as well.

sappstuf

1/5/2012, 10:36 PM

Cocaine Cowboys.

Just don't watch the second one...

SanJoaquinSooner

1/5/2012, 10:43 PM

in the streaming documentary category,

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delhalew

1/6/2012, 12:15 AM

I actually watched a documentary about the Helvetica font once on Netflix.

Seriously.

I had a group of friends that made an entire albums worth of ethereal, strange ,musicish type stuff entirely centered on Helvetica...and the Swiss. Seriously.

Soonerchaz

1/6/2012, 12:38 AM

King of Kong is not available for streaming. Some of you are missing the point.

I saw it via streaming...I guess Netflix cycles some of their material.

Brothers Keeper is another good one.

If you're a Minutemen fan...We Jam Econo was alright.

delhalew

1/6/2012, 12:40 AM

I saw it via streaming...I guess Netflix cycles some of their material.

Brothers Keeper is another good one.

If you're a Minutemen fan...We Jam Econo was alright.

My bad. The bastards must have yanked it from the lineup.

Lott's Bandana

1/6/2012, 10:18 AM

Netflix just added a boatload of classic movies to their streaming lineup.

cantwait48

1/6/2012, 02:59 PM

anyone seen man on wire? it is supposed to be sort of a documentary about a guy who tight roped between the twin towers. just wondering if it is worth watching

8timechamps

1/6/2012, 04:45 PM

No question that Netflix is best for docs.

The two that I enjoyed the most were:

Restrepo - Chronicled a unit sent to fight in Afghanistan, and the subsequent death of one of their men (Restrepo). Great view of the war from the soldiers. It was a National Geographic production (which are usually good anyway).

(I may have the name wrong) = Exit through the gift shop - Doc about street art (with work from Banksy). Follows a guy (self-named Mr. Brainwash) that spent years shooting footage of street artist that he planned to make into a film. He ended up becoming a street artist (or a fake). Good flick.

Not sure if they're still on Netflix. I really don't like Netflix because the selection of new movies sucks balls.

SanJoaquinSooner

1/6/2012, 05:10 PM

anyone seen man on wire? it is supposed to be sort of a documentary about a guy who tight roped between the twin towers. just wondering if it is worth watching

outstanding. Combo documentary/reenactment. Made me pee-in-my-pants nervous.

Dwight

1/6/2012, 06:56 PM

The Office.

En_Fuego

1/6/2012, 07:29 PM

Is nothing..........Netflix streaming video sucks bigtime........I've seen most of those movies hundreds of times

dwarthog

1/7/2012, 10:22 AM

The Man From Nowhere (kung fu action, subtitles)

IP Man (kung fu action, subtitles)

180 South Travel Adventure Documentary

Loads of National Geographic specials.

SanJoaquinSooner

1/8/2012, 03:28 AM

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WATCHED WAITING FOR SUPERMAN TODAY.
Better than I expected. They oversell Charter schools, but tell the truth about the difficulty of firing incompetent public school teachers - they just get transferred to a different school.

SanJoaquinSooner

1/8/2012, 03:34 AM

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I made the mistake of reading a review of this before I watched it. It's best if you have no knowledge of the story

Ike

1/9/2012, 11:32 AM

Shows we missed when they were on the air.

Currently, we are coming up on the end of BSG. We didn't have cable when it aired, so this is our first time to watch it. Love it.
Also, slogging through past seasons of Mad Men (although thats starting to get a bit boring) and Weeds (also, starting to get boring).

For movies though, yeah, there's not the kind of selection I would have hoped for.

landrun

1/11/2012, 10:59 PM

You're all wrong. :excitement:

The best thing to watch on Netfix is the TV series "Lost".

I never watched this when it was on TV. Not one episode.

But my son started watching it one night while I was at my pc working. He watched 4 episodes or so. And I started half working/half watching too.
After that first night I was hooked.
My wife and I have now watched the first 3 seasons since Christmas break. That's 75 episodes!

Its awesome because you can go from one episode right to the next and there are no commercials.

yermom

1/12/2012, 08:49 PM

8timechamps

1/12/2012, 09:02 PM

I can't imagine watching Lost without waiting for random intervals inside the season

BSG and Mad Men were engrossing.

I'm in the middle of Parks and Rec and How I Met Your Mother now.

Restrepo was really good, Exit Through the Gift Shop was a little boring, I thought

Exit through the Gift Shop did drag a little at times, but Restrepo is awesome. I just got in to Parks and Rec too. After Steve Carell left The Office, I was looking for another Thursday show, so I gave Parks and Rec a try. I liked it so much I went back and watched some older episodes...funny stiff!

Has anyone watched Catfish? It's a doc about a guy that starts a relationship with a girl on Facebook only to learn the "girl" is really an older married woman with two disabled kids. The knock is that the film may have been set up and not real. After watching it, I can see that being a possibility because it's hard to believe there are people that "off" out there.

salth2o

1/12/2012, 09:14 PM

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The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia.

They are a freaking train wreck.

yermom

1/12/2012, 09:36 PM

Exit through the Gift Shop did drag a little at times, but Restrepo is awesome. I just got in to Parks and Rec too. After Steve Carell left The Office, I was looking for another Thursday show, so I gave Parks and Rec a try. I liked it so much I went back and watched some older episodes...funny stiff!

Has anyone watched Catfish? It's a doc about a guy that starts a relationship with a girl on Facebook only to learn the "girl" is really an older married woman with two disabled kids. The knock is that the film may have been set up and not real. After watching it, I can see that being a possibility because it's hard to believe there are people that "off" out there.

i had to bittorrent Catfish, does it stream now?

i too am a bit skeptical on that one...

8timechamps

1/13/2012, 12:34 AM

i had to bittorrent Catfish, does it stream now?

i too am a bit skeptical on that one...

I think I caught it on HBO OnDemand or something. Netflix does have a lot of docs available, so I don't know if they have it or not. I remember when The Cove won an Academy award, I was able to catch it on Netflix the next day.

sooneron

1/13/2012, 03:58 PM

Restrepo, Friday Night Lights, Creature From The Black Lagoon, This movie will make you feel like less of a loser.. http://www.gotigersfilm.com/home.asp

Arrested Development, Larry Sanders Show. There's lots of good stuff on there if you know where to look.

Lott's Bandana

1/13/2012, 05:44 PM

The best edits of the Top Gear UK series going.

SanJoaquinSooner

1/16/2012, 02:45 AM

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Just watched this. Really cool flick.

SanJoaquinSooner

1/16/2012, 12:03 PM

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If any of you youngsters never saw this film, I highly recommend. It's Netflix instant.

TUSooner

1/17/2012, 08:39 AM

I watched the first episode of the Rockford Files last night. Some guy who was not Noah Beery played Rocky.

Lott's Bandana

1/18/2012, 04:42 PM

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If any of you youngsters never saw this film, I highly recommend. It's Netflix instant.

I'm not a youngster, but I'd never seen it. I watched it last night on your recommendation. My favorite part of the movie was the Bionic Woman driving a Chevy Vega wagon. That was awesome.

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I've recently been getting into foreign war movies. Interesting perspectives from a non-Ami point of view. The guy that plays Citron in this one is fascinatingly disturbing.

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TUSooner

1/18/2012, 04:52 PM

I've recently been getting into foreign war movies. Interesting perspectives from a non-Ami point of view. The guy that plays Citron in this one is fascinatingly disturbing.

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I saw that Flame and Citron flick. Not bad. Interesting to see a different viewpoint of ww2, as you said. Still not sure why they didn't off that one guy....

Lott's Bandana

1/18/2012, 05:19 PM

Four more I consider excellent viewing:

French film from 1969, on many lists as one of the best movies ever made.

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Similar Norwegian version of Flame and Citron:

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More modern conflict from Israeli perspective. It AMAZES me how casual and nonchalant the discipline is in the IDF, yet they did their job:

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Another Danish perspective, this time in the modern Middle East. Really well done.

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dwarthog

1/18/2012, 06:01 PM

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Just watched this. Really cool flick.

Good call on this one.

Thanks

SCOUT

1/18/2012, 07:13 PM

I realize this is not a documentary, but Breaking Bad deserves a mention for Netflix streaming

delhalew

1/18/2012, 11:34 PM

I realize this is not a documentary, but Breaking Bad deserves a mention for Netflix streaming

Didn't even know they had that available.

Much like Lost, I'm all caught up. Otherwise, I'd be all over it.

SanJoaquinSooner

1/19/2012, 09:19 AM

I'm not a youngster, but I'd never seen it. I watched it last night on your recommendation. My favorite part of the movie was the Bionic Woman driving a Chevy Vega wagon. That was awesome.

Bionic Woman Lindsay Wagner was at a Comic Con I attended a couple of years ago, at an autograph table. I stopped and watched her for a few minutes. She was quite gracious acting and gracious looking at age 60.

Taxman71

1/19/2012, 12:09 PM

I realize this is not a documentary, but Breaking Bad deserves a mention for Netflix streaming

Half way through season 1....how did I miss this series up to now?

Note: Also watched every MadMen episode on Netflix...worth the $$ right there.

Lott's Bandana

1/20/2012, 10:35 PM

dwarthog

1/21/2012, 11:23 PM

I watched this last night.

Simply the best war movie I have ever seen, and one of the best all-time movies I have ever viewed.

Finding this on Netfix has easily made a year's worth of subscription fees worth it.

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I would enjoy discussing this with anyone else that has seen this excellence, or will see it. At this point, I don't have enough adjectives...

Wow. This is about as visceral as it gets. So many different emotions. The way the movie uses the sequence of events to tell the story along with the use of black and white, very powerful.

I would have missed this one. Thanks for sharing

Lott's Bandana

1/22/2012, 12:44 PM

Wow. This is about as visceral as it gets. So many different emotions. The way the movie uses the sequence of events to tell the story along with the use of black and white, very powerful.

I would have missed this one. Thanks for sharing

Thanks for sharing that you saw it. I was wanting to scream how good this movie is, realizing nobody else had likely seen it. I'm glad you got a similar reaction.