Netflix watch instantly :: Recommendations Thread

[cigsthecat]

Family Ties and Kids in the Hall are on instant now.

[Opaque]

I am bummed with how much of the anime on there fucking sucks. I've watched the things I would care about and that's only like 5% of what's up there.

[Josh]

Basing it off of cover art alone, they are all tittie shake fan pandering jerk-a-thons.

[Opaque]

Over the last ten years there's been an influx of the shitty anime in our market. It's a ton of vending machine crap.

[Josh]

Rebecca and I were just discussing this last night, actually. For a 2 year period (2001-ish?) almost everything hitting DVD was totally awesome. Then it all went to shit.

[Uriel]

Over the last ten years there's been an influx of the shitty anime in our market. It's a ton of vending machine crap.

It's simply a truer representation of the anime industry. Previously, it was a niche enough thing that what got released here was mostly the cream of the crop and/or appealed to western audiences. Now, with the vast majority weaboos having no taste or critical thought, they just want more of their favorite tropes.

Yeah the industry has gotten worse, but it sucked long before it became evident on Best Buy's shelf.

[YellerDog]

That Akira collectors edition thing was the last one of note. Capstone on the whole phenomenon.

[Uriel]

Manga Entertainment will still be pushing the same half dozen titles they've always pushed, 20 years after anime is a distant memory.

[Opaque]

It's simply a truer representation of the anime industry. Previously, it was a niche enough thing that what got released here was mostly the cream of the crop and/or appealed to western audiences. Now, with the vast majority weaboos having no taste or critical thought, they just want more of their favorite tropes.

Yeah the industry has gotten worse, but it sucked long before it became evident on Best Buy's shelf.

This is very true.

In the same vein, there's still two are three incredible anime releases every year. You just have to find them amidst the hundreds of things they're hidden in. Recently for example I watched Summer Wars, Eden of the East and Welcome the N.H.K. and all of them were incredible. They were just spread out over two years and there's nothing else I can remember coming out in the same time span that was nearly the same level of quality.

[Mr-K]

I watched a bit of Black Butler... it was okay. I agree with Yeller though. That tin set Akira release, I think, was the last anime DVD I bought.

Because of all of the Tree of Life hullaballoo that was all over the internet today, I decided to expand my distaste for Terrence Malick and watched The Thin Red Line, which is on instant. For about 2/3rds of the movie I thought I had misjudged Malick as being a boring pretentious tosser, and then at about 2 hours in I realized that this movie is about 40 minutes too long and I had my fill of wavy grass and contemplative snoozery.

It is still significantly better than The New Worl-zzzzzzzzzzz