Instant Watch Treasure Hunt

[The Real Uncle Bob]

Netflix seems to be putting more effort into expanding the number of "instant" titles and, while this has resulted in a floodtide of crappy horror and flakey religious titles, there's quite a few gems flowing in as well.

Even though Stephen King disliked it, I continue to enjoy rewatching Kubrick's The Shining.

Who doesn't love The Treasure of the Sierra Madre?

I've been waiting 15 years to see Falling Down, and I'll be firing that up right after this post!

The Mission would be brilliant if all it had going was scrumptious cinematography of Brazil's rainforests, amd Morricone's heartbreaking score -- but it has much more than that!

Anyone else spotting anything special in the recent additions?

[Adrian]

We recently made a change that increases the rate of updates to the Top50 IW Titles, so check back to that page more often to see what people are finding. Its not calculated the same way as the DVD Top100, which is a "since the beginning of time" list that updates very slowly. In the last few weeks the Top50 has added Grindhouse, 9 1/2 Weeks, 2 Days in Paris, Eyes Wide Shut.

Adrian from Netflix

[The Real Uncle Bob]

Top50

Sounds very handy, Adrian! Thanks!

[MrCarbohydrate]

Empire of the Sun and The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen are on Watch Instantly. Those are two films I personally think are fantastic.

[Xilpaxim]

Dexter Season 1 from Showtime is on there. Awesome awesome awesome.

Project A-ko - Classic anime that is actually supposed to be a spoof of sorts about, well, anime. Very funny.

Ghost in Shell - Movie and Season 1 TV series. If you like cyberpunk sci fi, this is a must watch movie and show. The second movie was horrible slow and pretentious in my book, but there are people that like it. Second season of tv show also very highly recommended.

[The Real Uncle Bob]

Not only A-ko, but its worthy sequels Uncivil Wars and Love and Robots.

Nevertheless, I generally avoid watching any Instant Watch anime, because I'm a subtitle snob, and IW seems to always use the dubs.

[2McAbre]

Lets see, some of these are foreign titles but still excellent non the less…

The City of Lost Children

Cautiva

The Italian Job

Hellraiser (Hidden in Independent Movies).

[The Real Uncle Bob]

nice finds.

Fans of Asian horror must not miss

Three...Extremes

An anthology featuring three Asian directors of International repute, Takashi Miike, Fruit Chan, and Chanwook Park -- respectively, the men responsible for Ichi the Killer, Public Toilet, and Oldboy.

[mlynn]

3 Extremes - I found this DVD in a bin at our local, small-town video store for $3 about a year ago. Then all of a sudden all these other amazing asian horror DVD's started showing up in that bin for very similar prices. I'm still to this day not sure why our little video store even had the DVD's to begin with (our town is waaaaay out in the middle of nowhere & they don't get a lot of foreign films here), but I'm definitely not going to complain! I ended up finding at least a dozen DVD's for under $5 a piece. Very happy! :)

Some of the others I found whilst treasure hunting at the video store;

Tale of Two Sisters
Ringu 0
Mail
The Eye
The Eye 2
Ju-on
Kairo (Pulse)

I also found the Cowboy Bebop Series 1, Versus, & Last Life in the Universe. Last Life I would recommend to anyone...it's a brilliant film!!!

Anyways, sorry this doesn't have much to do with IW, I just saw 3 Extremes was mentioned & had to respond!! :)

[mlynn]

I just realized Last Life in the Universe is available on IW!!! So I guess my response is related to this thread after all! Haha. So again, great film, watch it! :)

[The Real Uncle Bob]

2McAbre, as a fan of cheese you're surely familiar with The Beastmaster, a low-budget but very likeable sword & sorcery epic from the director of Phantasm and its sequels. The villain, played by Rip Torn, wears a fake wax nose, which started melting while they were shooting in the desert; he finally got fed up and ripped it off, refusing to wear it for the rest of the shoot, so a good drinking game is a shot whenever his nose changes.

[The Real Uncle Bob]

I just discovered that writer-director Herschell Gordon Lewis, and producer David F. Friedman, both emerged from retirement to reunite for 2002's Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat, depicting the crimes of the grandson of Fuad Ramses, the protagonist of 1963's Blood Feast.. I think the 39-year hiatus between Blood Feast and its same-director sequel must be a record.

The trailer on the Blood Feast 2 page is surprisingly amusing, considering how few of the films Lewis made in his prime meet anyone's standards of "quality filmmaking," and there are a number of positive reviews from Netflixers.

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[droidmaker]

NOTE TO ALL: It is REALLY helpful if you'll hyperlink the names of the movies you suggest to their Netflix Movie Page.