Netflix Instant recommendations thread

[InspectorHound]

I watched TINY FURNITURE last night. While wonderfully shot, it's been a while since I have seen a movie where I wanted to strike every single character. (Well, there is one character who walks away from the main character's BS so she is exempt from the punching but the rest...ew boy.) I could not relate to anything in this film.

How old are you? Sadly I know waaaaaaaaaay too many people like the ones in that movie. I liked it tho.

I'm 44. Why?

I think that most of the postgrad, mid-to-late-twenties crowd and post-art school crowd can relate to those kind of people.

For the record, I graduated with an art degree. I can relate to post-grad art students just fine. However the characters in this film had such thin affectations disguised as character traits I just couldn't like them or root for them in any way. Not even to fail. I just didn't care.

I can see the appeal of the film and I am not trying to take your enjoyment of it away from you. But it annoyed me because I KNOW that there are many people (young and old) like them. And I don't like them.

I love how the trailer for Girls, Lena Dunham's new HBO Judd Apatow-produced comedy, literally features the same exact actors retreading the same tired themes from Tiny Furniture.

[danner]

Topsy-Turvey.

I'm only recently getting into Mike Leigh stuff but this film blew me away. It's nearly three hours so it is a time commitment. But this look at Gilbert and Sullivan is just superbly acted and directed.

Such a great film.

God, I'm so spoiled. I started to watch this on Netflix last night, but I couldn't get past the crappy letterbox (not anamorphic) presentation that they have streaming, so I turned it off after just a couple of minutes. I did finally watch The Producers though.

[wood and iron]

Topsy-Turvey.

I'm only recently getting into Mike Leigh stuff but this film blew me away. It's nearly three hours so it is a time commitment. But this look at Gilbert and Sullivan is just superbly acted and directed.

Such a great film.

God, I'm so spoiled. I started to watch this on Netflix last night, but I couldn't get past the crappy letterbox (not anamorphic) presentation that they have streaming, so I turned it off after just a couple of minutes. I did finally watch The Producers though.

Yeah, I agree that was terrible and did give me pause. But I was stuck with it. I think I'm going to try and snag the blu-ray from criterion next time there's some sale on.

[mostlymeat]

I don't have Netflix, but I've been told that the terrific TV show Terriers is now available on Netflix Instant.

I watched this whole season on your recommendation and certainly fell in love with it. Great show, I wish they made more. I just found out that the main guy in Terriers was the same guy who played Jimmy the cabdriver on MTV in the '90s!

jimmy mcbride on the presidents of the USA

I guess he roadied for the Lemonheads too. Weird!

[Crusherkc]

Snuff Box
2006 NR 1 Season

Brit Matt Berry and Yank Rich Fulcher play a hangman and his assistant, respectively, in this exceedingly dark BBC comedy series. With much of the action taking place at "a gentleman's club for hangmen," the lads run into awkward situations aplenty.

[Bryan]

I watched TINY FURNITURE last night. While wonderfully shot, it's been a while since I have seen a movie where I wanted to strike every single character. (Well, there is one character who walks away from the main character's BS so she is exempt from the punching but the rest...ew boy.) I could not relate to anything in this film.

Everything about Tiny Furniture sounds like something that I would hate, but it worked for me, for some reason. I agree that almost every single character was punchable (especially the men in it!) but despite that, it somehow charmed me. I agree with Paul de P. that it's a young person's film, and maybe I was forgiving it quite a bit on that basis. The gender dynamics were seriously depressing - is this what 20-something women put up with these days?

I think that the main thing that I liked about it was the specificity of the world it was portraying. I found the central mother/daughter relationship honest, convincing (I guess that's Dunham's real mom) and also touching.

[danner]

I finally watched Broadway Danny Rose last night. I've been on a big Woody Allen kick lately--re-watching stuff I've already seen and catching up on the ones I haven't. I can't believe I had put off seeing this one for so long. It's easily in my top 10 Woody movies.

[MC Shakespeare]

I watched TINY FURNITURE last night. While wonderfully shot, it's been a while since I have seen a movie where I wanted to strike every single character. (Well, there is one character who walks away from the main character's BS so she is exempt from the punching but the rest...ew boy.) I could not relate to anything in this film.

Everything about Tiny Furniture sounds like something that I would hate, but it worked for me, for some reason. I agree that almost every single character was punchable (especially the men in it!) but despite that, it somehow charmed me. I agree with Paul de P. that it's a young person's film, and maybe I was forgiving it quite a bit on that basis. The gender dynamics were seriously depressing - is this what 20-something women put up with these days?

I think that the main thing that I liked about it was the specificity of the world it was portraying. I found the central mother/daughter relationship honest, convincing (I guess that's Dunham's real mom) and also touching.

I'm 19 and I completely hated this film. I know far too many people like this. Untalented liberal arts majors that expect the world to hand them a crown for doing absolutely nothing. They all need a healthy dose of Rollins Band's Do it.

Incidentally, I despised "The Future" for the exact same reasons.

[Omar]

I was thrilled to see Paul Schrader praise TINY FURNITURE, particularly its visual pleasures, in one of the Criterion supplements.  This guy gets it.

[dave from knoxville]

I really liked "The Future".

[Mark in Helsinki]

Just a couple days ago I noticed that Pawn Stars is on the Netflix streaming, and already have watched the first 10 episodes. They're like Cheez Doodles, completely pointless and free of nutrition but once you have one you end up eating the whole bag.

[masterofsparks]

Four Lions is currently available on NI, so if you haven't seen it, now's the time.

[fonpr]

Examined Life is pretty great.

[MC Shakespeare]

Four Lions is currently available on NI, so if you haven't seen it, now's the time.

So is In The Loop.

[Mark in Helsinki]

Just a couple days ago I noticed that Pawn Stars is on the Netflix streaming, and already have watched the first 10 episodes. They're like Cheez Doodles, completely pointless and free of nutrition but once you have one you end up eating the whole bag.

Still mainlining the show. It's like Antiques Roadshow For Dummies, but I can't stop watching. Help!