about a few years ago I sort of just dropped off the cinema train entirely; I replaced movies for the most part with comic books in eveyr facet of my movie. id really like to start watching movies again but
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scrolling through Netflix is daunting because I just can’t choose anything I don’t even know what besides anime… lemme tell you, pal
I had a list of netflix stuff I was going to watch at some point that I semi-recently went back to only to discover that none of it is on netflix anymore.
Here’s some movies I think is cool as I remember them. My tastes are maybe a little conventional! I’ll leave others to provide the necessary weird goodies.
There’s three Stanley Kubrick films on right now: Clockwork Orange, 2001 and Eyes Wide Shut.
Paul Thomas Anderson! Boogie Nights/Punch Drunk Love/There Will Be Blood/The Master. Inherent Vice is on HBOGo.
Good Dialogue Movies: Howard Hawks’ His Girl Friday, Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, A lot of Quentin Tarantino. I am on the hunt for Good Dialogue Movies! If anybody is reading this and knows some please bring them up!
Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha is on there.
Joshua Oppenheimer’s Act Of Killing and The Look of Silence are on there! I think these are the best two films of this decade. They contain a kind of drama which is completely unique. Start with Act Of Killing Director’s Cut if you’re interested!
Louie is a TV show on Netflix and I think it’s the been the best show on TV for years. Every episode is a little 22 minute art film! When I am intent on forcing upon myself a uncompromising, hard to watch, 3 hour movie (which reminds me, “Hard To Be A God” is on there), and I just don’t give a shit that particular day, I can put on an episode of Louie. I know that each episode is going to take me to a good place or feeling, it is here to show me something, with brevity and competence. I’m constantly surprised by it.
Good Luck finding cool movies! They’re out there somewhere!
The best movies on the Netflix are the BBC world nature documentaries. Pure cinema. They help me sleep.
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without a Netflix account is there a way to look at what is on Netflix so that I can guide this skeleton on the correct (read:entertaining) path.
Like Art of Killing is uh…important and really good but it is also super super tough.
Get Hulu and I will drown you in Criterion Recommendations. Everyone get Hulu and watch A Flame On The Pier.
Mostly I am for Human Rights and all that, but sometimes I think humanity should forcefully extend David Attenborough’s life as long as modern medicine will allow solely to enslave him in a perpetual voice over recording session.
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I’m pretty sure netflix has a bunch of scott adkins movies
yeah, Instantwatcher.com has the netflix catalog in a much easier to use format than using netflix itself.
2001
The Exorcist
Tangerine?
The Princess Bride
Anna Karenina has really neat sets
Groundhog Day
Battle Royale
u_u’s site is recommending Robinson Cursoe On Mars but there is almost nothing to that.
I quote Contact about twice a week.
Monsters fuck yeah! (don’t know about the not by Gareth Edwards sequel)
Select Button 2006 official choice Mind Game
Disney’s Robin Hood!
Always wanted to see Dead Man
oh fuck just watch Arabian Nights Part 1 2 3 and tell us how that is! That’s what I would do. I should see if THAT is on Hulu.
I used to have a Dead Man poster
Gary Farmer’s pretty good in Dead Man
I was pretty excited when they added the Arabian Nights movies, but now I’m faced with actually sitting down and watching them.
First rule of government spending: why build one when you can build two at twice the price?
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The Life of Birds. Or anything else Attenborough.
I watched a movie with Dlop Lundgren, Tony Jaa, Michael Jai White, and Peter Weller in it last weekend called Skin Trade that was pretty entertaining as action movies go, and did feature MJW blocking a kick from Tony Jaa with his chest, as in he just takes the kick to the chest but flexes while doing it and just yells like a boss/super seiyan and doesn’t move.
So, you can tell if you want to watch it based on that.
everytime he comes up i feel obliged to mention that robocop has a phd in renaissance art
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and also voiced batman in the animated version of Dark Knight Returns.
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Searched the forums for “Attenborough” on a lark, ended up watching a Tony Jaa movie.
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It was Skin Trade, but Kill Zone is next. The Protector is sadly unavailable to stream or else I’d watch it again.
On the Attenborough front, Life Story is fantastic. Lots of strange and elaborate animal behaviors.