The 'What actually doesn't suck on instant viewing Netflix' thread.

[ultimatebob]

I like Netflix instant streaming... but even now, it seems like 90% of the stuff I wanna watch isn't available unless I order the DVD's.

My wife loves it for watching cheesy 90's movies, though.

 

[classy]

I would like to say I watched Tucker & Dale vs. Evil yesterday and it was absoluting hilarious. I laughed so hard at some of the parts I literally cried.

 

[Crono]

I would like to say I watched Tucker & Dale vs. Evil yesterday and it was absoluting hilarious. I laughed so hard at some of the parts I literally cried.

It was a fun movie

 

[Kaido]

Troll Hunter.

I kid you not. The fun factor is up there with the Goonies...brings you back to that feeling of why you used to watch movies - for FUN! PS - don't bother with the trailer, it's no good - just watch the movie.

 

[pontifex]

Night Watch
Not sure if Day Watch is on there, but if it is add too.

I think I watched Red Dwarf on there also.

 

[sandorski]

Jeremiah--Survivors of a plague that killed all Adults have grown up and are trying to rebuild the world

Dollhouse--People sign contracts to become "Dolls". Unique Personalities are downloaded into them and they are contracted out to clients who use them for various purposes. At first the show seems to focus on the various tasks the Main Character(a Doll) is tasked to do each episode, but soon a common thread begins to reveal an insidious sub plot.

Firefly/Serenity(movie based off Firefly)--Cowboys in space. Excellent, albeit short, Adventure series.

Survivors--British series about survivors of a plague that wipes out >99% of the population.
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the above were Science Fiction series that were cancelled prematurely. All except Dollhouse have incomplete closure. Dollhouse had time to cobble together a decent finale.

Walking Dead--Zombies
Breaking Bad++

Top Gear is also worth watching if you like Cars and have never seen this show. Nothing like North American Auto shows, it's actually entertaining. Also filled with Exotic cars.

 

[Triumph]

I'm discovering that the popular/well known movie catalogue on Netflix is pretty poor, seemed to have dropped a lot since the Stars fallout. But also the interface through my Wii does not give me a good sampling of what's actually available. If you go online and look, there are tons of things that you'll never see in the Wii menus. For some reason, each category (action, documentary, drama, sci-fi, etc) is limited to only 75 listings on the Wii. I've found a lot of documentaries just thumbing through online and adding to my queue that would never come up through the Wii.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Poolhall Junkies. Real cheesy but has some funny moments.

 

[Malfeas]

Load of BBC shows, including my favorite:

Wire in the Blood.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Sherlock is a good 3 - episode BBC series with the Holmes and Watson characters moved to the 21st century. The co-creator is Steven Moffat (Dr. Who).

 

[NuclearNed]

Shaun the Sheep

Some of the best entertainment anywhere.

 

[waggy]

I'm discovering that the popular/well known movie catalogue on Netflix is pretty poor, seemed to have dropped a lot since the Stars fallout. But also the interface through my Wii does not give me a good sampling of what's actually available. If you go online and look, there are tons of things that you'll never see in the Wii menus. For some reason, each category (action, documentary, drama, sci-fi, etc) is limited to only 75 listings on the Wii. I've found a lot of documentaries just thumbing through online and adding to my queue that would never come up through the Wii.

netflix has lost a lot the last few years.

yeah noticed the issue with my wii too. also i don't care for the PS3 menu

 

[slayer202]

last two things I watched

The House of the Devil
Secret Sunshine

some other newer picks:

Everything Must Go
Submarine
Senna

 

[slayer202]

Or you can check out my entire queue :sneaky: Somewhat organized by genre but eventually it gets mixed up. And ouch, the format got messy lol...

The Man Who Loved Women Page One: Inside the New York Times Sleep, My Love Antichrist Seven Days Phoenix The Square Harry Brown Marriage Italian Style Le Quattro Volte A Woman Is a Woman The Son Do You Remember Dolly Bell? Forbidden Games Metropolis Restored California Dreamin' Sonatine Barking Dogs Never Bite Two Women The Battleship Potemkin Summer Hours Gomorrah Even the Rain The Man from Nowhere Kagemusha 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Brother Bad Day to Go Fishing Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance Lady Vengeance Please Vote For Me Three ... Extremes A Somewhat Gentle Man I Saw the Devil Flame and Citron Still Walking Mesrine: Part 2: Public Enemy #1 White Material The Men Kes The Naked City The Stranger Black Narcissus Film Noir Collection: Scarlet Street Scarface Videodrome Smoke I Love You Phillip Morris The Extra Man Rockers This Is England Cop Land Before the Devil Knows You're Dead The Fighter Trainspotting The Long Good Friday Gridlock'd Naked Trust Brick Julia The Messenger Witness for the Prosecution Enter the Void Still Bill Marwencol God Grew Tired of Us The Art of the Steal Hoop Dreams Restrepo This Film Is Not Yet Rated Moment of Death The Wild and Wonderful Whites Food, Inc. The Pluto Files: Nova Dominick Dunne: After the Party Mugabe and the White African To Market to Market to Buy a Fat Pig Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child Deep Water Ralph Nader: An Unreasonable Man Brother's Keeper: 10th Anniversary Edition Frontline: The Released Lost in La Mancha Dogs Decoded: Nova Buck Seoul Train Vanishing of the Bees Bill Cunningham New York Delhi Belly Eternity and a Day The Return The Oath Le Professionnel Silmido Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema Winnebago Man Septien The Gold Rush Kansas City Confidential Street Thief Dark Days Pulling John Pocket Money The Andromeda Strain Red State Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Red Riding Trilogy: Part 1: 1974 Red Riding Trilogy: Part 3: 1983 Red Riding Trilogy: Part 2: 1980 Withnail and I The Modernism of Julius Shulman Assault on Precinct 13 Moscow on the Hudson Life in a Day The Escapist Illegal Going Places Castaway on the Moon The Landlord This Is Spinal Tap Paper Moon Viva Riva! The Thin Red Line Sangre de Mi Sangre Sin Nombre The Cow The Vanished Empire The Secret of the Grain The Girlfriend Experience Waiting for "Superman" Dead Heat The Island Senna Vincent & Theo Heartbeats Weekend Certified Copy Tuesday, After Christmas Head-On The Photographers Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 8 1/2 Tucker & Dale vs. Evil The Crook Sukiyaki Western Django True Grit The Myth of the American Sleepover Salvador The Trials of Henry Kissinger The Crimson Rivers The Great Happiness Space The Man Who Knew Too Much Neds Cocaine Cowboys Nobody Knows Uncle Boonmee Poetry The Devil Came on Horseback Dead Man's Shoes Pusher 3: I'm the Angel of Death Election Moss Funny Games Shoeshine District B13 Timecrimes Seven Up / 7 Plus Seven Persona The Way Back American Experience: My Lai Crossing the Line Radio Bikini Cave of Forgotten Dreams A Film Unfinished Army of Crime The Aura The Serpent's Egg Hell and Back Again Special The Thief of Bagdad Un Chien Andalou Frontline: The Confessions The Hard Way How I Ended This Summer Doctors' Diaries Last Tango in Paris Buffalo '66 Paper Man A Shot in the Dark (Untitled) Elite Squad: The Enemy Within What Are Dreams?: Nova Dirty Money Two Lovers From Paris with Love The Exorcist Film Noir Collection: Detour Outrage Witness for the Prosecution The Apostle Deliver Us from Evil City of Life and Death Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Ran Grizzly Man Broadway Danny Rose The Long Goodbye Across 110th Street Punch-Drunk Love Affliction Can We Live Forever?: Nova scienceNOW Bad Lieutenant Last Train Home Which Way Home Pressure Cooker Touching the Void How Does the Brain Work?: Nova scienceNOW Waste Land Mysteries of Lisbon The Lovers on the Bridge The Trial El Bulli: Cooking in Progress What's the Next Big Thing? Nova Where Did We Come From? Nova scienceNOW The Double Hour Bonnie and Clyde Oldboy Amadeus Triad Election No Escape Submarine Ace in the Hole Arsenic and Old Lace Tora! Tora! Tora! Metropolitan Burma VJ Topkapi Downfall Knuckle 21 Up 28 Up 35 Up 42 Up 49 Up Into the Abyss Animal Factory La Cage aux Folles Everything Must Go Dinner for Five Che Quantum Leap Columbo Carlos: Miniseries Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey Charlie Chaplin Collection The Twilight Zone (Original Series) Twin Peaks Battlestar Galactica Doctor Who Mr. Bean: The Whole Bean Sherlock The Universe Thomas Jefferson The Kennedys Cold Case Files: The Most Infamous Cases Mad Men Masterpiece Contemporary: Place of... Sleeper Cell Crime 360 Intelligence Lockdown Skins When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions Warehouse 13 Stephen Fry in America Two Weeks in Hell Cosmos Wire in the Blood Jekyll Survivors The Planets Wild China Circus Lilyhammer The Riches

 

[rh71]

The Colony

think i saw colony season 2 was coming to instant

 

[Triumph]

Cool website my friend sent to me recently:

http://instantwatcher.com/

Basically a trending tracker for Netflix streaming. Interesting is the "ending soon" listings at the bottom.

 

[Jadow]

Dr. Terribles with Doogie Howser

 

[hans007]

I don't watch much TV and Netflix instant let's me catch up on years of sci fi I've missed. I basically watch TV only while eating so instead of getting cable I got netflix.

All the star treks and star gates to watch. I'm watching sliders from the start having never watched an episode as a kid. Instant is great for older stuff

 

[MayorOfAmerica]

H2O -Just Add Water

 

[Crono]

Letting everyone know that "Drive" is on instant streaming now

Great movie, just don't expect it to be all about the actual driving.

Added "White Collar" to my recommendation list.

 

[Modelworks]

I was disappointed last year when they pulled Babylon 5 from streaming, it still hasn't returned
I watch a lot of documentaries on netflix.

windfall
A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms
King Corn
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
The One Percent
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Frontline: The Medicated Child
Generation RX
CNBC Originals: Remington Under Fire: A CNBC Investigation

 

[SirStev0]

there are always gems.

 

[waggy]

Cool website my friend sent to me recently:

http://instantwatcher.com/

Basically a trending tracker for Netflix streaming. Interesting is the "ending soon" listings at the bottom.

oh glad I read this thread again. i lost that site and couldn't remember what it was called.

 

[DaveSimmons]

The Killer Elite remake with Jason Statham and Clive Owen was decent, and still having it set in the '80s made it more interesting than a generic current-day action movie.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

oh glad I read this thread again. i lost that site and couldn't remember what it was called.

Here's another work checking out: A Better Queue "Filter and browse Netflix instant movies with Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer."

And another: NetFlix "Instant Watch" Tracker