Instant Netflix Thread

[LoathsomePete]

Sadly, if you run a Linux OS you cannot use Streaming Linux as I just found out. Luckily I have a Nintendo Wii that does nothing but collect dust and disgust me and now have put it to good use, although trying to type in the name of a movie can be quite troublesome.

[Burning Down]

Originally Posted by Exoskeletal

It's the same thing but has a different function. Netflix had two services...

DVD by mail.
Instant streaming.

You can set up your plan to have as much as four DVDs sent to you at a time.

Streaming can be done on almost anything. My damn blu ray player has a damn netflix application. Mostly every video game console can play netflix. Your smart phone and computer can as well. Some smart TVs can also do it. It's fun.

Okay, that's what I thought it was. My parents have the Netflix channel on the Wii, so I've used it

Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

Sadly, if you run a Linux OS you cannot use Streaming Linux as I just found out. Luckily I have a Nintendo Wii that does nothing but collect dust and disgust me and now have put it to good use, although trying to type in the name of a movie can be quite troublesome.

You can plug most USB keyboards into the Wii to type stuff in.

[ThePhanastasio]

I watch the hell out of some Netflix. I'll throw some recs your way:

TV Shows:
Twin Peaks
Archer
Arrested Development (already mentioned, but seriously)
Home Movies
Mad Men
South Park
Breaking Bad
The IT Crowd
Weeds
Lost
Monk
The Office
Louie
Trailer Park Boys
Jericho
King of the Hill
Reaper (Freaking awesome show; Ray Wise is the man)
The Twilight Zone
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Chappelle's Show
Ugly Americans
Futurama
The Kids in the Hall
30 Rock
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Bravestarr
Batman: The Animated Series
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Important Things With Demetri Martin
The Sarah Silverman Program
Stan Lee's Superhumans
Murder She Wrote

Documentaries:
Confessions of a Superhero
Burzynski
Dear Zachary
Ken Burns: Jazz
DMT: The Spirit Molecule
Grizzly Man Diaries
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
When You're Strange
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows
Marwencol
The Rockafire Explosion
Soundtrack for a Revolution
I Like Killing Flies
Stephen Fry In America
Waiting for Superman
Loving Lampposts
I Need That Record!
Wetlands Preserved
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
The Parking Lot Movie
These Amazing Shadows: The Movies That Make America
Grizzly Man
My Winnipeg
The Nine Lives of Marion Berry
Magic Trip
Light Keeps Me Company
Obscene
Limelight
CSA: Confederate States of America
200 Motels
The Last Mountain

[FETCHER.]

I had netflix until I could no longer have the US version, so I cancelled it. It's a shame really because it was excellent.

[Burning Down]

I wish Netflix had more Canadian content available. Like films and such. Unless it's already all there and I just missed it... I don't think so though. Everything is so American lol!

Glad that they have Kids in the Hall though. I watched all the episodes.

[Frownland]

Great idea for a thread. Here's a couple of other great films that are on Netflix:


Melancholia

It's easily among Lars von Trier's best work. It has some amazing cinematography and a scifi plot that evades cheesiness and it is a great character study of those with depression in times of distress.


Sayat Nova or The Color of Pomegranates

This is a fantastic art film that explores Armenian culture and the life of poet Sayat Nova. It definitely requires multiple viewings and should not be taken lightly, but it is one of the most beautiful and astonishing films ever made. I'd recommend this to anyone who loves classic art films or just art films in general.

That's all for now.

[Unknown Soldier]

I've been thinking about getting Netflix, just wondered how good it was for older films and tv series from the 1960s etc?

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

I've been thinking about getting Netflix, just wondered how good it was for older films and tv series from the 1960s etc?

I'd say it's very good for stuff like that.

[LoathsomePete]

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

I've been thinking about getting Netflix, just wondered how good it was for older films and tv series from the 1960s etc?

They've got a pretty mixed bag of classics and even some Pre-Code era movies like Un Chien Andalou and White Zombie (in the US market at least). They've also got a decent little selection of '60's and early '70's material like Breakfast at Tiffany's, Chinatown, Bonnie & Clyde, The Wolfman, Peeping Tom, House on Haunted Hill, The Last Man on Earth, The Masque of the Red Death, and a whole lot of Westerns of which I'm unaware of their pedigree.

Again keep in mind this is from the American side, I'm unsure of what is available in the U.K. but for what the service costs I think you get a lot of bang for your buck so long as you use it.

[Mojo]

Originally Posted by FETCHER.

I had netflix until I could no longer have the US version, so I cancelled it. It's a shame really because it was excellent.

*Puts hand up*

I'm still using it!

The UK Netflix library will, I'm assuming, continue to expand and hopefully quickly. It really isn't great to be honest. I noticed that Thor was just added to the US library? There is no way that you will find content like that added to the UK library so quickly. I'm flicking between the US and UK libraries and although the US one is by far and away the better of the two, the UK one has a few little advantages and so I cant really grumble.

Even the British TV section of the US library is better than the UK library and that just makes perfect sense, doesn't it?

PS. Although the US one doesnt have Red Dwarf. 1-0.