So I signed up for Netflix. What should I rent?

"Milk" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013753/
"Doubt" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0918927/
"The Lucky Ones" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0981072/
"Last Chance Harvey" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1046947/

I liked them all!

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I have now watched The Fugitive so many times I'm almost sick of it. I'm now watching Pirates of the Caribbean 3 online. I watch Pretty Woman, Wild Things, Armageddon, a lot of good ones. And they just put up WALL-e, which I got on DVD from them and thought was so-so cute.

I like movies that portray people's oddities and humanness... "Son of Rambo" and "Gran Torino" are a couple others that are good. Make lots of popcorn, I like mine with olive oil and hot sauce

edit--- MILK is great!

just noticed your byline- Love Wendall Berry, I used to teach homesteading and he was a great source of inspiration...

Mulholland Drive
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Masculin Feminin
Eyes Wide Shut
The American Astronaut
Brand Upon the Brain!

Inland Empire and The Face of Another.

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That feature alone is worth the dues.

Still Netflix is one of the better deals going.

If you haven't seen it already, check out It Happened One Night, the first screwball comedy and I think the best.

It's not horror, like the poster and subject matter may have you believe.

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That was incredible.

I love NetFlix for the obscure/older stuff you would never find at the local rental place more so than for the new releases.

On that line check out Chronos and The Wages of Fear.

Warning: The DVD's default into horribly dubbed English. Set them up for the original language with subtitles.

I would recommend buying a Roku DVR and dropping your subscription to the $8.99 plan. There are thousands of movies and TV available via the Roku player (you can also watch them online on your computer without the Roku DVR). The Roku player just allows you to watch the instant movies for free on your TV. The number of movies you can watch is unlimited. Some of the latest generation Blue-Ray players have the Netflix interface built in, which means you don't need the Roku device.

When Netflix upped their Blue-Ray fees I got pissed at them and switched to Blockbuster. I miss the instant movies most of all, though. There's a lot of great stuff available.

They have some subscription options that let you return movies directly to their stores and check out movies locally.

The Netflix selection of older movies used to be better, but I'm not sure if that is still the case.

Back in the day you could get unlimited in store exchanges at blockbuster. With the 3 at a time plan, I was swamped in movies.


https://www.blockbuster.com/signup/rp/regPlan

I've been on netflix for about 2 months and have rated almost 400 movies and TV shows that I've watched over my life and that I remember well enough to rate. The more you rate things you've already seen, the more and better the recommendations that netflix will give you for new things to rent.

It is hard to suggest movies w/o knowing what you like and don't like. I personally enjoy juvenile comedies and serious documentaries, and some of the ones netflix recommended to me were amazing, even though I'd never heard of them before.

I highly recommend "Lone Star" with Kris Kristofferson, Chris Cooper and Elizabeth Pena. It is definitely one of my all-time favorites, and I just watched it again this weekend. Been around awhile, but it really holds up.

To watch again:

Fargo
As Good As It Gets, About Schmidt if you're a Jack Nicholson fan
Chocolat
Laughing Out Loud

I highly suggest it if you are in the mood for a funny bloody cheese night. (Not for some kids) *Japan*



Ghost Town is a main stream comedy which is actually really really funny. *USA*



Milk is punk rock, check it out. *USA*



Ninja Scroll is one of the best movies in the world. (Not for kids) *Japan*




Oldboy is super awesome. It is about a guy who is kidnapped for 15 years for unknown reasons and then released just so he can figure out who and why. (Not for kids) *Korea*

Some of these are not current movies, but they are ones I've rented recently because I'd not seen them. (four out of five stars or higher according to me)

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
In Bruges
The Host (good Korean monster flick)
The Sand Pebbles (Steve McQueen movie)
The Man From Earth (low budget sci-fi done right...good script)
All five seasons of The Wire (the best TV series I've ever seen.)
Synecdoche, New York (directed and penned by Charlie Kaufman, starring Phil Seymour Hoffman. Sad, deeply weird, and occasionally very funny.)

because I grew up with that series.

They've got all kinds of TV shows, not just movies and the bonus is NO commercials.

I instantly fell in love with these women.

Amelie - with Audrey Tatou

Happy-Go-Lucky - with Sally Hawkins

Avenue Montaigne - with Cecile De France

And after you have watched these, check out a film that stars two of these actresses in very different roles: Audrey Tatou and Cecile De France in "The Spanish Apartment."

Find a book on film history and catch up on the classics, foreign films, the ones that never made it to your local multiplex, as well as worthwhile television series that either never made it to the U.S. or were not on a channel available to you or were before your time.

Here are the first few items in my queue:

Lovejoy, Season 3 (British comic mystery)
Extras, Season 1 (HBO comedy)
Doctor Who, Robot (old series)
Kavanagh QC, Series 2 (British courtroom drama starring John "Inspector Morse" Thaw)
American Blackout (documentary)
Taggart, Series 2 (Scottish police drama)
Life After People (documentary)
DaVinci's Inquest, Season 1 (Canadian forensic science drama)
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (anime)
Kavanagh QC, Series 3
The War Game (what-if pseudo-documentary about nuclear war)
The Last Detective, Series 2
Executive Action (conspiracy thriller)
A Touch of Frost, Seasons 9-10 (British mystery)
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant film--made in Portland, which is why I'm renting it)
Naked City, Season 2 (early 1960s TV series)
Maiko Haan (Japanese film)
DaVinci's Inquest, Season 2

I'm sort of on a TV series kick at the moment, but, for example, if you're interested in a certain country or part of the world, you can go to "Browse DVDs," select "foreign films," and then select the country or language you're interested in.

Explore!

:-)

So many movies, so little time.

OSS 117: Cairo, a Nest of Spies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwA6ir86slQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHtHs7cLV1E

part of the charm is that you have NO idea what is happening in the movie till later on...

Another O'Toole gem {i}My Favorite Year

Series you've missed or want to get into - I never watch the stuff live any more, I just wait for the DVD to come out and miss all the commercials. They're especially good at the British stuff. If you've never seen "Coupling" - there's a treat in store for you - it's like Friends, only much edgier and sexier.

The Wire

It has drama, comedy, and a little bit of action from your prefences you said. My favorite part about the show is they don't manipulate emotions with score, it is raw and real. Give it sometime as it has a long drawn out plot and requires an attention span because something you might've missed however how small plays a big role later on. It follows from season 1, the drug war, the ports, the government, the school system, and last but not least the news media. I highly recommend and not only is it my favorite show it is also Obama's favorite show.

Guaranteed.

other things we have gotten:

Ballykissangel (BBC Ireland series, 6 seasons)
Last of the Summer Wine
Madagascar
Sleepers (an old Masterpiece Theater series that was great fun)
Monarch of the Glen


things we own that I would recommend:

Undercover Blues
I, Claudius
Good Neighbors
To The Manor Born
The Irish RM
The Great Race
Victor, Victoria

Stuff coming up in my queue:

The Tudors
The Forsyte Saga
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Deadwood
Reilly, Ace of Spies
The First Churchills
Hamish MacBeth
American Dreamer

Starring Vanessa Redgrave.

A small movie that is unbelievably touching, especially if you have grown up with family members that struggled with substance abuse issues. The only movie that i immediately started again as soon as it was over.