Netflix Instant recommendations thread

[Kormodd]

I'll have to rewatch the ending. I wasn't sober when I watched the movie or wrote that post.

I wouldn't want to hang out with a GG Allin-type either (I did once and it wasn't pleasant -- having a man piss in his own mouth in your driveway can be unnerving). I was just fantasizing about thrusting him upon those characters like a plague. But now sober, that seems mean. I apologize, fictional people.

[Bryan]

I liked Frances Ha a lot, but I think Kormodd is quite right that the presence of Kevin Allin would enliven the film.

[Kormodd]

Inserting Kevin into most movies would make them automatically better. Too bad he died before he could get an acting career going.

Speaking of the horrific, check out THE PIANO TEACHER.

[Big Plastic Head]

Watched this. I liked the depressing ending, but I found the characters insufferable. It reminded me of Girls. A lot of quirkiness and people acting as if they lived in some sort of higher realm of existence because they're semi-educated and can look at things in a detached, ironic way. I found this to be amusing rather than annoying in Kicking and Screaming, but maybe that was because Chris Eigeman was in it and the characters were smarter and were quirky in a dorky rather than a "cool" way. I'd love for a GG Allin type to enter the lives of Frances Ha/Girls people and snort lines of coke on their dinner tables and demand money and cigarettes from them, and just shatter their dumb, self-important worlds. There needs to be some sort of violent upheaval. These people are obnoxiously complacent.

What was depressing about the end of Frances Ha? I loved the end and thought she came to a place of satisfaction with her life.

As for your comments about the "insufferable" characters...I'd much rather hang out with the people in Frances Ha than GG Allin. Except for maybe Adam Driver's character...

I watched this last night and I, too, see nothing depressing in the way it ended. At all. More subtlety triumphant really.

[Kormodd]

In my drunken state, I must have imagined an alternate ending in which she fails miserably -- or maybe it was the fact that it was subtly triumphant that was depressing. I can't say for sure, since I have no recollection of the ending. Sorry for misleading you guys.

[Big Plastic Head]

In my drunken state, I must have imagined an alternate ending in which she fails miserably -- or maybe it was the fact that it was subtly triumphant that was depressing. I can't say, since I have no recollection of the ending. Sorry for misleading you guys.

That's OK. People are always telling me the EASY RIDER has a depressing ending but I just don't see it.

[Kormodd]

Watch all eight series of Peep Show if you haven't.

[Eric Fishlegs]

Watch all eight series of Peep Show if you haven't.

Just started season 3. Completely stupid question- is "Jez" a common nickname in Englad for Jeremy or is it just that particular character's nickname?

[buffcoat]

Watch all eight series of Peep Show if you haven't.

Just started season 3. Completely stupid question- is "Jez" a common nickname in Englad for Jeremy or is it just that particular character's nickname?

I think the answer is the same for the less-referenced "is Mez a common nickname in England for Mark?"

[Steve of Bloomington]

In England they like to add a 'z' to the first syllable of your name. So my friend from Wales (almost England) calls his wife Sharon 'Shaz'.

[jimakaclark]

just finishing up watching Peep Show with the gf.  She hadn't seen it before, I've been watching it since season 1.  So amazing.  SuperHans is hilarious.

[Kormodd]

Aint no party like a Super Hans party

[buffcoat]

Funniest TV show ever.

[Scot]

Big Star documentary is up! Has this been mentioned already?

[Kormodd]

I saw it. It was kind of a mess, but entertaining. I don't think I would have liked it if I hadn't already liked the band.

Good movies that I recently watched on Netflix:

Love Story
American Psycho
Raging Bull
Targets
Hard Eight
The Paper Chase
Melancholia
Carlos
Becket