re: NetFlix Movie Thread Instant Stream + Instant Television Shows

TV Shows: Sports Night now on instant.


As far as movies the big updates come out on the 1st but in the meantime I might try and go through my movies see if there's anything I missed.

Foreign Drama

Dogtooth (2009) -- good if you like strange and disturbing artsy movies

I watched Irréversible over the weekend.



Wiki

A French Drama/Thriller. It has some pretty graphic sexual imagry (a lot of it homosexual so fair warning) and segments of intense violence to go along with one of the hardest to watch scenes I've ever seen in a movie; a prolonged rape/beating scene.

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Audience reaction to both the lengthy, violent rape scene and the murder scene has ranged from appreciation of their artistic merits to leaving the theater in disgust.[6] Newsweek stated that "If outraged viewers (mostly women) at the Cannes Film Festival are any indication, this will be the most walked-out-of movie of 2003." In the same review, Newsweek's David Ansen suggested that the film displayed "an adolescent pride in its own ugliness".[7]

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The movie is also structured similar to Memento in that it starts at the "end" of the action and progresses to the "initiation" of it all.

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Film critic Roger Ebert has argued that the film's structure makes it inherently moral; that by presenting vengeance before the acts that inspire it, we are forced to process the vengeance first, and therefore think more deeply about its implications.[5]

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A little hard to watch at times but very interesting and, if this sounds intereting to you at all I think it's worth watching.

ETA: Sorry if it's already been mentioned. I searched the first page of the thread and didn't see it.

The Transcendent Man is a documentary I watched the other night.

It's about Ray Kurzweil. The guy has some really wild predictions about where we are headed technologically. He won a national science fair when he was in his teens in the 60's for building a computer that writes music like a composer after listening to that composer. Also talks a lot about the technological singularity theory. LINK

(sorry about the link quality, on my phone and the best i can come up with)

Home Movies added to TV section


13 Assassins added as well. Fuggin awesome movie

I think some of these had already been on instant, were removed and now have been added back. Sure seems there is no rhythm or reason as to what gets selected to instant.



Hombre
Videodrome
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Memento
River's Edge
Skin Deep
Thing to Do in Denver When You're Dead
The Beguiled
Eight Men Out
Spaceballs
The Terminator
Henry V
The Pit and the Pendulum
American Me
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Dead End
Misery
City of Industry
Absolute Power
Ronin
Cleopatra

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but there is another site that shows new releases sooner than Netflix. It's www.vudu.com You create an account and can stream from your computer, iPad, etc. There is no month to month fee, you pay for what you watch. I use both, Netflix and then when they don't have a movie that is a new release, I go search vudu.

New instants for October for those that haven't cancelled.

The Big Lebowski
Chinatown
Once Upon a Time in the West
Lonley Are the Brave
Big Trouble in Little China
The Grifters
Coogan's Bluff
To Live and Die in L.A.
Jackie Brown
Kill Me Again
Warlock
The Great Train Robbery
Death Wish
Lady of Burlesque
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Harold and Maude needs to be added

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Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk) 2010

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This was pretty fricking awesome