Netflix Instant Watch September Preview

• Haywire - such a wonderfully underrated little action flick with a great cast
• Traffic - more greatness from Soderbergh
• Dark Tide - sure it was DTV, but a movie with Halle Berry in a bikini can’t be all that bad
• Super 8 - the best movie (that I saw) of 2011
• The Expendables - so much less fun than it should have been
• Piranha - so much more fun than it had any right to be
• Battle Royale - The Hunger Games but far more intense
• Wilfred - hilarious TV show starring Elijah Wood and a man in a dog suit
• Captain America - see more of what came before The Avengers
• God Bless America - Bobcat Goldthwait continues to be one of the most unique filmmakers working today
• ESPN’s 30 for 30 series - if you’re a fan of sports or documentaries, you should seek these out

Hold on to your butts, because we’re in for a HUGE month:

New on Netflix Instant Watch September 1st:

• Abduction - Taylor Lautner running around from people
• The Descent 2 - the first Descent is a classic, but the sequel is no slouch either
• Titan A.E. - Don Bluth brings his animation to space
• African Queen - Bogart + Hepburn
• Everybody Loves Raymond - the highly-rated TV show for old people comes to a service old people don’t use
• Coming to America - Eddie Murphy at just about his peak
• Mean Girls - apparently its sequel also hits Netflix on the 1st too
• Chaplin - RDJ before he became the world’s biggest movie star
• King Kong - the goofy Jeff Bridges version
• Clueless - kinda like Mean Girls but 10 years prior
• Beverly Hills Cop - the first and second movies hit Netflix as news is released that Murphy is trying to bring back his character in a TV show
• Tommy Boy - the perfect comedy?
• Pootie Tang - quickly becoming a cult classic
• Hot Rod - another great little comedy that flew in under the radar
• Eddie Murphy Raw - funny, but hard to view through today’s more politically correct worldviews
• The Omen - the original
• The Longest Yard - the Adam Sandler remake
• The Conversation - Coppola’s stealth masterpiece
• Beavis & Butthead Do America
• Footloose - the original
• Black Dog - Swayze.
• The Mummy - the original
• I.Q. – cute rom-com about Einstein
• Network - I’ve thrown out the word “great” a lot in this post, but this movie truly is one of the all-time greats
• Dog Day Afternoon - Al Pacino robs a bank
• The Night of the Hunter - I’ve thrown out the word “great” a lot in this post, but this movie truly is one of the all-time greats
• Braveheart - Mel Gibson at the peak of his abilities to be tortured
• A Night at the Roxbury
• Double Jeopardy - Ashley Judd in the most Ashley Judd “thriller” that ever existed
• Highlander - 1 and 2!
• Varsity Blues & Basic Instinct - movies known for one scene
• Insomnia - semi-early Christopher Nolan
• Passenger 57 – Wesley Snipes on a plane
• Sunset Blvd - I’ve thrown out the word “great” a lot in this post, but this movie truly is one of the all-time greats
• Exlporers - very strange, but kinda watchable, family sci-fi from the 80′s
• Mission: Impossible – 1 and 3
• Clue - proof that board games can make movies that are slightly watchable
• Shooter - insanely good Mark Wahlberg action movie
• What Women Want - Mel Gibson shows his sensitive side
• Face/off - I was just telling my wife Netflix needed more Nic Cage movies…
• Star Trek Insurrection - The Next Generation crew gets a movie
• We Were Soldiers - more Mel Gibson
• The Thing - Keith David is just the best 
• Soapdish - RDJ behind the scenes of a soap
• Days of Heaven - Terrence Malick’s masterpiece
• South Park: Bigger Longer Uncut and Team America - that’s a strong double-feature for a lazy Sunday afternoon
• Ghost - Swayze.
• Deep Impact - so much better than Armageddon, but still pretty lousy
• Serpico - Al Pacino is a cop

• Dinosaurs - the TV show from the 90′s

• Marley - the new Bob Marley doc

• There be Dragons - crazy great title, not so great movie

• Terra Nova - Netflix originally wanted to try and produce a second season of this failed series on their own. I guess we’ll just have to live with being able to watch the first season

• The Grey - Liam Neeson vs. wolves

• Alias - a fun spy TV show

• A Good Old Fashioned Orgy - great cast, not quite so great movie

 *As always, these are totally subject to change at Netflix’s whim so they may not be 100% accurate…