Netflix Watch Instantly: Gems and Finds - Page 55

+1 for Tucker & Dale vs. Evil. Very clever, well-acted, and funnier than most movies that are reputedly "hilarious".

The HD quality is awesome as well. This is the first title on Netflix streaming that I really feel is a step above upconverted DVD quality. (Roku 2 XS)

Go watch peep show if you like British humour.
it gets even better as the series progress

I went to the bottom of the page, under "More Like Lucky" there is a pretty interesting lineup.

I picked "A Fork In The Road" and about died having smart fun, great, absolutely great comedy of errors, with the right ingredient of all human instincts:



http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/A_...?trkid=4213507

I appreciate the recommendation for 'Lillyhammer'...great series, outstanding PQ & AQ.

For you Dr. Who fans, season 6 is now available.

I watched Outrage on Bluray last night but as of yesterday (?) it's also available streaming. Good action film about a conflict between Yakuza families and actually I enjoyed the extras on the BD. Takeshi "Beat" Kitano both acts and directs.

Kitano fan myself , had bought the BD of Outrage also. Good film to be able to stream.


Sonatine http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Sona...?trkid=2361637 by Kitano, can also be streamed on Netflix in HD, and the subs are correct vs the dvd.

Love the soundtrack done by the great Joe Hisaishi. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hisaishi

Netflix has "re-issued" the Millenium Trilogy films as "Dragon Tatoo Trilogy: Extended Edition". They chopped it into six pieces. I wonder who was responsible for this (the studio from whence they came or Netflix) and if they improved the truly horrendous PQ of the final two films (which was in evidence in the BDs as well).

EDIT: I watched a little of it and I think that it's a new transfer with improved PQ (they still have the old titles and I watched a bit of them for comparison); there's a patina of grain, but it all seems much sharper now. It would have been pretty disappointing if they hadn't worked on that since it's a new edit (the "extended" part). They've wrapped it up like a BBC mini-series, with "previously on" sequences at the beginning of each segment and TV-esque title sequence graphics. I think that I might watch it over.

EDIT: EDIT: I see that this has been released on BD and that it has 3 hours of added feature content, supposedly more closely following the books.

I admire your fortitude, anything in SD is a no-go for me.

The audio is pretty bad too IMO, but it is for most of the British shows on Netflix for some reason.

Okay, I won't. Kidding. Usually when someone says SD I think regular DVD quality without upscaling which I don't think anyone (willing) does anymore. When SD is not upscaled it looks pretty bad on a 120" screen.

I was under the impression that the original movies were made from a Swedish TV miniseries.
So, I think this new release might be to present it in its original TV release format.


Mitch

I thought they were three separate feature films.

They were released as individual films first in February, September and November of 2009, then shown in this extended form on Swedish television in 2010. From the Wikipedia article:

So this new version is that extended-length TV cut, adding about an hour to each of the three films.

Watched "Quarantine 2" and liked it much better than the first one.

The Ernie Kovacs Collection.

If you don't know who he was, start with the last few episodes of this collection of visual and musical humor and character sketches.

+1

I was reading the recently-released-to-disc list at RottenTomatoes.com and noticed that this was a mondo gigantic critical hit: enjoyed by 95% of critics and 92% of audience members (see this).

Nice find! It's at the top of my queue. I see it's made a cool $100,000 so far.

Dead Snow. Excellent zombie movie, and excellent pic quality.

Arsinee Khanijan, Atom Egoyan's wife at her best, i watched this movie
the second night with the wife, even better than the first time!

Plot around inhibited mostly homebound dutiful Arabic daughter
in a patriarchal family dominated by the older brother. Everything
changes when she meets a Canadian carpenter. Interestlngly enough,
Atom Egoyan's parents owned a furniture shop in Egypt, you notice
the connection in the movie:



http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Sa...?trkid=2361637

Of course lurking around i had be reminded again about the Armenian Genocide in "The Lark Farm"
another of Arsinee's movies. I read Franz Werfel's "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" as a teenager
and it left a deep impression. I did not have the nerve to watch this movie knowing the horrors
described in the book.

The housemaid"

Another good/crazy Korean movie

Yet another +1 for Tucker and Dale vs. Evil. It has Wash (Firefly) and Sock (Reaper) as the two leads... A quirky, bloody comedy.

I recommended this before, almost exactly two years ago, but I'm going to mention it again. I really enjoyed Skins, a BBC drama about a group of kids in senior high school (which they call "sixth form college"), in the city of Bristol. Very raw, no holds barred stuff, well written and acted. Netflix has 5 seasons, or "series"--series 6 is airing now. Each cast gets two series (someone's little sister bled over into series 3), so series 5 starts a 3rd cast. (One of the series 1 & 2 actors went on to play the lead in Slumdog Millionaire).

It came to mind today because I heard Spandau Ballet's "True" in a television car ad and thought of a cute scene in Skins which used the song very creatively (series 4, episode 6 at 43:30). I looked up the scene on Netflix and played it. I think that I'll go back and watch the whole thing over (and I haven't watched series 5 at all yet).

I found a TV show called "Fear Itself," which was apparently aired on NBC during 2008. It's an anthology horror series with each episode featuring a different director, cast, and writers -- similar to Masters of Horror.

I watched the first episode entitled "The Eater" last night. It was pretty good for TV horror. The ending seemed a bit abrupt and forced, but all in all it was very good for a TV horror show. Thumbs up.

Lilyhammer seems like a good tv show