Netflix watch instantly on 360 recommendations

malkav11 · 2012-06-10T12:55:15.000Z

DrDel:

what happens if this happens? do they ban your account?

I have no idea. I’m the only account holder for my account and am incapable of being in two places at once so I’ve never tried.

jason · 2012-06-10T13:11:39.000Z

I don’t believe they ban it, they just don’t allow it, as in whoever starts first wins, the other person will not be able to play anything.

Thor showed up on Instant this week if you didn’t catch it in the theater.

DrDel · 2012-06-10T15:13:51.000Z

How does Netflix decide their content?

First thing I looked up was “Lord of the Rings”… it ain’t got it!

Editer · 2012-06-10T15:21:12.000Z

You’re using Netflix wrong.

You don’t use it to find movies you specifically want to see. The library is nowhere near big enough for it to be useful for that. That’s what the PPV rental/movie purchase services are for.

You browse what Netflix has available in new movies or by genre, or you search for favorite actors or directors, and decide that way. It’s like going to a corner video store to see what’s in stock, at 10 pm on a Saturday when all the hot new releases are already gone.

If you want to watch a specific movie like the LotR series, you check Netflix first to see if by some chance they have it on streaming, and then if the don’t, you decide whether you want to wait for the disc to be delivered, or whether you’re just going to pay to rent it from Zune/Amazon/iTunes.

anonymgeist · 2012-06-10T15:31:37.000Z

Personally, I treat it like TV: a given movie or TV show I’m looking for may not be on then, but odds are there’s something else I’d like to watch that’s available. If there is something specific I really want to see, I just add it to my disk queue.

malkav11 · 2012-06-10T17:31:15.000Z

The sad thing is that that is exactly what the disc service is useful for - watching specific things that you want to see - because they almost certainly have it. And that was the entire magic of Netflix to begin with. I don’t see the streaming end ever recapturing that, and yet Netflix wants to dump it. -sigh-

Joe_O_Malley · 2012-06-11T12:00:03.000Z

I got the urge to watch “Roxanne” again last night. Given View Instantly having spotty availability on things or limited runs, I was pleased to see it was available. I know the schmaltz content is high, but I still think it’s a cute date movie.

Joe_O_Malley · 2012-06-11T12:04:15.000Z

Also, Weeds. The episodes are only 20-something minutes long, so they are fun. The show is ridiculous in a pretty good way, and the short episodes mean I don’t get bogged down.

JoshV · 2012-06-11T19:07:34.000Z

Justin D. Herd:

I’d recommend Bunraku. Crazy movie with Josh Hartnett and Woody Harrelson. Very interesting style to it that reminds me a lot of a cleaner Tarsem. I’m showing it for my movie night tomorrow.

Lots of recognizable actors, but really cheap sets and green screen work. I get that they’re trying to emulate that pop-book style that ties the film together, but it still just didn’t work for me. I’d also say that this film is not nearly as pretty as Tarsem’s The Fall, which was just amazing. Some decent fight choreography though, or at least interesting, and little to no wire fu.

Jupiter_Jones · 2012-06-11T19:16:58.000Z

Editer:

You browse what Netflix has available in new movies or by genre, or you search for favorite actors or directors, and decide that way. It’s like going to a corner video store to see what’s in stock, at 10 pm on a Saturday when all the hot new releases are already gone.

Yes, exactly. It’s perfect for this.

ElGuapo · 2012-06-12T21:21:40.000Z

Thor went up fairly recently. I was so-so on this in the theatre but after watching it again it definately grew on me. Middleton was not quite as scenery chewy in this movie, but still pretty good.

jpinard · 2012-06-19T18:23:28.000Z

ElGuapo:

Thor went up fairly recently. I was so-so on this in the theatre but after watching it again it definately grew on me. Middleton was not quite as scenery chewy in this movie, but still pretty good.

Cool, I’ll have to give this a try.

merryprankster · 2012-06-19T20:39:05.000Z

Been watching Jericho while I paint Warmachine minis. Gotta say it’s been pretty entertaining, definitely worth a watch/listen. :)

russellmz00 · 2012-06-20T14:49:19.000Z

here’s some japanese ripoff of the hunger games.*

*nerd rage thread here

ChristienMurawski · 2012-06-20T15:22:28.000Z

ElGuapo:

Middleton was not quite as scenery chewy in this movie, but still pretty good.

-xtien

Lake · 2012-06-20T18:32:11.000Z

Sneakers is twenty years old but it still holds up.

JetLagger · 2012-06-20T22:24:23.000Z

Posted this over at TV forum as well but Season 2 of Louie is up on streaming.

-Tim

tomchick · 2012-06-20T23:01:21.000Z

Christien Murawski:

-xtien

You don’t remember Kate Middleton in those comic book movies? Man, she would not stop chewing on the scenery. Literally!

-Tom

ObNetflixMovie: Zombie Apocalypse is a really bad zombie movie written by my friend Brooks Peck and former boss at Syfy, Craig Engler. It has a zombie tiger in it. Uh, so that happened. But it’s not quite as laughable as Devil’s Playground, another zombie movie newly on Netflix instant view in which the zombies do parkour.

VSys114 · 2012-06-24T15:12:03.000Z

Anyone know how to get subtitles for Battle Royale on IW for Sony Blu Ray player?

jason · 2012-06-24T18:16:14.000Z

Don’t know about the Sony, but on my Panasonic, in the Netflix app, when I select a movie, the bottom option (below play, add to/remove from queue, and rate) is audio, which is actually selections for audio and subtitle tracks.