Netflix recommendations

Tek7

Tek7

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Since my and my wife's new TV has a built-in Netflix app, since we'll have times when we're holding the baby and able to do little else, and since standard television is 90% D-U-M dumb and packed with commercials, my wife and I started a Netflix free trial.

I've already added some movies (e.g. Iron Giant), TV shows (e.g. Bones), and anime (e.g. Gurren Lagann) that I had wanted to watch anyway to our Instant Queue.

What all do you recommend on Netflix?
 
I can definitely recommend a lot... what are your interests? Most of my stuff is action/adventure, some comedy, and documentaries.
 
The Amazing Grace, Sliders, STNG, Voyager, The Munsters, Horatios's Drive: The first American road trip, The Myth Busters, Through Deaf Eyes, Sherlock Holmes: The sign of the four, Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstien, When We left Earth, Daughter from Danang: American Experience, The Ramen Girl, Outsourced, Veggie Tales (anything), Gojira, The Canterville Ghost (Patrick stewart at his best), Harry and The Hendersons, Farscape, Elizabeth R., Driving Miss Daisy, Animaniacs:Wacko's Wish.
This are just a few in my queue that we have watched. And a bazillion documentaries for me. I have an instant queue of over 200, and a DVD queue of about 310. We have no cable TV so Netflix is it and worth the money.
 
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I can definitely recommend a lot... what are your interests?
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Fairly varied. I've already queued Bones, King of the Hill Season 7, Gojira, 30-Second Bunnies Theatre, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Appleseed, Blassreiter, The Cosby Show, and Robotech.

EDIT: YES! Ikiru is on Netflix! Added it to the Instant Queue.
 
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Double woot for the Jericho series. I totally passed on this series when it was on television. I gave it a second chance and it was very cheesy and campy at first, but stick through the first 3 episodes. Great great show.
 
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If you like Bones - there is a show I missed on TV that I watched both seasons (and there were only two) - Life. About a cop who went to prison for a crime he didn't commit and finally got out and went back to the force. It was pretty good.
 
I will second the Firefly nomination and the Psych one as well. Both are great shows.
Chuck, Burn Notice, Lie to Me, Monk, pretty much anything on the USA network is good. There's a ton of good TV out there. I just got Netflix as well and have been burning through a ton of stuff. It's so good.
 
All anime I've found on Netflix so far has been dubbed, which, for me, makes it unwatchable.

And I was so excited when I found series like Mushishi and Robotech on Netflix. :(
 
We have found Netflix to be a great entertainment investment for years - and even more so now that we use the streaming option. A lot of great shows and movies.
 
First recommendation for Netflix is to 1-star all the teen sex movies...they will mostly go away.

Another nod for Firefly and Jericho. FF has a few racey scenes but all in all isn't too bad in that sense. I'd throw in Avatar: The Last Airbender if you like those type of shows. Don't watch the movie, though.

For those who enjoyed Jericho, you should check out Survivors. It's a BBC 2 season miniseries on a deadly (read pretty much everyone dies) flu outbreak.

I love netflix - finally got rid of cable, and no more annoying commercials.
 
All good suggestions. Keep 'em comin'!

Oh, and for those who take an interest in bizarre Japanese films: Do yourself a favor and skip Big Man Japan. The movie's slow (even by Asian film standards), the laughs are sporadic, and the ending, so far as I can tell, devolves into a heavy-handed social commentary using Ultraman-era tropes. Also: It's depressing.

I know we all love strange Japanese films, but--wait, that's just me? Nevermind then.

Oh, and I <3 30-Second Bunnies Theatre. Especially the Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer short.
 
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We have found Netflix to be a great entertainment investment for years - and even more so now that we use the streaming option. A lot of great shows and movies.
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Yes, same here. In fact I was able to just go to basic cable which saves a lot of money. Netflix + Hulu = $ saved :)

Most of my instant queue are foreign movies. Here are a few favorites:

Voces Inocentes (Innocent Voices) - Spanish
El Bola (Pellet) - Spanish
Sin Nombre (Without Name) - Spanish
Entre Nos (Between Us) - Spanish
Wake Up Sid - Bollywood
Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year - Bollywood
For My Father - Hebrew
Ajami - Hebrew
Rabbit Proof Fence - Australian

The entire series of Heroes is on instant as well :)
 
I actually started watching the Cosby show from the beginning. It's been great! Good clean fun. I also just watched "Fat Head" it's a response to Morgan Spurlock's "Supersize me". If you haven't seen Supersize me. I'd watch that first. I've also been enjoying some of the other documentaries as well. If you haven't seen "Second Skin" that very interesting, all though it may hit too close to home for some of us ;)
 
I also added several titles to my DVD & Instant queues based on this thread. Watching the first few episodes of Survivors tonight :)
 
Ok this thread has finally pushed me into making a thread I've had in mind a long time. I cannot understand why people must watch new stuff and can't stand to watch old stuff. The old stuff is often the source for the good in the new stuff, plagiarizing things but doing it worse. Go here if you can stand to try something that will leave you with a good feeling without the objectionable content.

EDIT: I'm not condemning everything on this thread, my Mom likes Monk and I like it ok too, just a few of the shows are ugh and the lack of older ones gets me. Ursen had a few good old ones though.

About Firefly though... I watched some of this a while back and while I thought some of it was stupid I could agree with some of it too.
Propeller blades + bad guy yeah my attitude would be reluctantly doing that too.
However I kept getting an increasingly uneasy feeling culminating in...
The priest getting his hair washed by the prostitute hmmm seems familiar.
At this point I wanted to know for certain just what point this is all leading up to and it turns out it's the writer is a rabid atheist who doesn't believe in quote "the sky bully" i.e. God.
A clip of the show I saw shows the priest dying and saying "I don't care what you believe just believe it". Oh pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeasssseeeee ugh.
Anyway me no likely show that the point is atheist preaching. Also Wheaton's other shows are the moronic non-nonsensical duo Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I will say Firefly is written better than them but their is no way I could enjoy it if we are going to do the whole winsome atheist thing.
 
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Ok.. I just got Netflix thru my pc, as I don't have a tv. Free month started 2 days ago, and I believe the 7.99/month is ridiculously cheap and I am happy :D heehee
 
Instant Queue is a list of movies that you can select from your Netflix enabled device and watch right now.
The regular Queue is for the physical DvD/BRays that will ship to your house.
 
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