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    We're in a heap o'trouble Tesiqurasa's Avatar
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    I've been searching through Netflix instant play for quite a while now, but I have already watched most of what I wanted. I've been trying to find a list of decent Westerns (spaghetti, classic, modern...basically anything except most acid westerns) available for instant play. There are ~200 movies under that category, so going through and finding reviews for all of them would take too much time/effort.

    Anyone have recommendations for decent Westerns or any other genre? (anything except romcoms, period dramas, anime, kids' shows, or awful action flicks)


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    Waterloo Bridge is an amazing romantic tragedy. Watch the 40s version though, apparently the 30s version has a hilariously bad ending.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhoenixRider View Post
    Waterloo Bridge is an amazing romantic tragedy. Watch the 40s version though, apparently the 30s version has a hilariously bad ending.
    I'll have to check it out. Although I haven't gotten too much into movies pre 1950, this looks interesting.


    Also, wth guys -_-
    Now someone just needs to recommend a romcom and period drama, and you've hit everything I asked not to hit.


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    idk about westerns but one of my favourite movies is Ghost World, which is like waaaaay underrated. it's like daria but with more angst and swearing

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    I like Firefly it's a ~*~Space Western~*~.

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    Donnie Darko
    噢如果超人会飞
    那就让我在空中停一停歇
    再次俯瞰这个世界
    会让我觉得好一些

    哦拯救地球好累
    虽然有些疲惫但我还是会
    不要问我哭过了没
    因为超人不能有眼泪

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    If you wanna see some interesting films forget the mass market stuff, and check out foreign films. Foreign romances are usually most known, but netflix actually has a good collection of foreign scifi/fantasy.

    As for tearjerker type I'd recommend Not One Less. It's a Chinese film about a really small town teacher, who due to underfunding, needs to keep her class size intact or she won't be paid. One of the children gets scouted for the athletics department ("Can you run? Great let's take her"), so technically the title isn't so, but another is lost in the city because his parents can't work. So the teacher, a 15-year-old girl how barely graduated high school, decides to go find him, with a month deadline. It's really good.

    I saw Bugmaster (pretty much Mushishi), and it was okay, though it felt more like a horror than a scifi.

    Jean du Florette and Manon of the Spring is a good series. Our french teacher showed it (it was kinda funny though, she "censored" Manon as there was a nude bathing scene, so she stood in front of it and watched. Pervert), and it's about this family of no-accounts that scam this hunchback's family out of their farm by blocking the water, and the hunchback's daughther's revenge (on the town).

    Wtf? The last I checked of Foreign Sci-Fi they had like 10 pages. Now they have two.
    Oh. You have to goto browse DVDs, then Foreign, then SciFi. I think the first was just the new stuff.

    I found Stagecoach boring as hell, then when we visited Tucson I figured out why. They were going around in circles.
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    Just finished Stagecoach and loved it. As campy as it seemed, it was a great classic western.

    It also suggested Wayne's Chisum, and Rio Bravo (which I have not seen for over a decade)
    Chisum was...odd...but pretty good for an older Wayne. I'll probably pick up Rio Bravo today and see if it still lives up to my memories.


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    The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya...and K-On The Movie

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tesiqurasa View Post
    (anything except romcoms, period dramas, anime, kids' shows, or awful action flicks)
    Wat

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