Look what just moved to the top of my Netflix Instant Queue. 

Look what just moved to the top of my Netflix Instant Queue. 

ATTENTION EVERYONE

Hobo With A Shotgun is now available on Netflix Instant Watch. Plan the rest of your day, if not your entire life, accordingly.

Netflix Adds More Viacom Shows & Seasons to Streaming

Netflix announced on the company blog that they are adding more Viacom shows and episodes to streaming:

From Nickelodeon, now available to watch instantly for the first time is “Yo Gabba Gabba,” as well as additional episodes of “SpongeBob SquarePants,” “True Jackson, VP,” “iCarly,” and “Dora the Explorer.”

Yo Gabba Gabba on instant Netflix? My day just got a whole lot better.

Oh man, I can’t wait…

Oh man, I can’t wait…

I can stream Netflix to my iPhone now, so
I’ve got that going for me.

I can stream Netflix to my iPhone now, so I’ve got that going for me.

I’m making it a summer project to watch a bunch of Star Trek, if for no other reason than I want to be able to understand stevewhitaker’s jokes about it.

I’m making it a summer project to watch a bunch of Star Trek, if for no other reason than I want to be able to understand stevewhitaker’s jokes about it.

Netflix Self-Torture Experiment Trilogy Recap

Let’s do some quick math. I watched 69 movies during this year’s self-torture experiment, which lasted for 46 days. 69 divided by 46 equals 1.5. That means I averaged a bad movie and a half per day for a month and a half simply as an exercise in pointless masochism.

(Note: the preceding paragraph will soon be featured in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the least sexy paragraph ever to contain the number 69 and the word masochism.)

Here is the official list. Click on the links to read my reviews. Some of them are funny. Some of them are boring. One of them is a desperate cry for help during a moment of frenzied panic.

  1. Speed 2: Cruise Control
  2. Paul Blart: Mall Cop
  3. License to Wed
  4. Dead Moon Rising
  5. Freddy Got Fingered
  6. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
  7. Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail
  8. Corky Romano
  9. Monkey Trouble
  10. The Hot Chick
  11. Year One
  12. Race to Witch Mountain
  13. Tristan & Isolde
  14. Air Bud: Golden Receiver
  15. Boat Trip
  16. Kickin’ It Old Skool
  17. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
  18. P.S. I Love You
  19. Dragon Wars
  20. Shanghai Surprise
  21. Funky Monkey
  22. Masked & Anonymous
  23. Wild Hogs
  24. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
  25. Our Lips Are Sealed
  26. Toys
  27. Postal
  28. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
  29. Dirty Love
  30. Legends of the Fall
  31. Dumb Luck In Vegas
  32. Tape
  33. Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus
  34. Land of the Lost
  35. Mad Money
  36. The Pest
  37. The Fountain
  38. The Day the Earth Stopped
  39. All About Steve
  40. Dennis the Menace Strikes Again
  41. Life or Something Like It
  42. Hannah Montana: The Movie
  43. The Prince of Egypt
  44. Picture Perfect
  45. Extreme Ops
  46. Very Bad Things
  47. Caddyshack 2
  48. Sorority Boys
  49. Miss March
  50. 2012: Doomsday
  51. My Baby’s Daddy
  52. Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
  53. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
  54. Good Luck Chuck
  55. Killer Drag Queens on Dope
  56. Ed
  57. Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian
  58. Cat-Women of the Moon
  59. Fascination
  60. Half Past Dead
  61. Without a Paddle: Nature’s Calling
  62. The Meteor Man
  63. Bride Wars
  64. Jaws: The Revenge
  65. Bingo
  66. Buttcrack
  67. Mulva: Zombie Ass Kicker!
  68. Bring It On Again
  69. Baby on Board

This year’s bottom ten films were: Freddy Got Fingered, Boat Trip, Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2, Dragon Wars, Dirty Love, Dumb Luck In Vegas, The Pest, Bride Wars, Buttcrack, and Mulva: Zombie Ass Kicker!

I’d like to once again thank everybody who contributed movie suggestions and/or hearted my reviews because it really does make enduring the self-torture much more bearable to know some people are paying attention. You guys are the fucking coolest.

Netflix Self-Torture Experiment Trilogy #69: Baby on Board

Ugh, why did I choose yet another romantic comedy to be the final movie of this year’s self-torture experiment?

Synopsis from Netflix: Power couple Angela (Heather Graham) and Curtis (Jerry O’Connell) have a seemingly flawless marriage, but a surprise pregnancy could end up turning their carefully ordered world upside down in this riotous rollercoaster of a romantic comedy. Between their know-it-all best friends (John Corbett and Katie Finneran) and Angela’s task-master boss (Lara Flynn Boyle), the perfect pair could end up imploding before the bundle of joy’s even born.

My thoughts: I know that I often point out the inherent sexism in the movies I review, and that it might get tiring to read or that I might just sound like a radical pro-feminist looking for sexism when it isn’t actually there. To point out that I am not the only one who feels this way, witness these member reviews of some other Netflix users that I don’t even know:

Normally I do not take the time to write reviews, but I HAD to respond to the dunce who labeled this a family movie. I turned this movie off due to its depiction of women: the hookers, the insecure wives, the power-hungry and vapid female executive; and the gold-digging young wife. I have no words for how awful this movie is.

Also…

Possibly the worst movie I have ever seen. Mean spirited, stupid, unbelievable, crass, sexist, and boring. REALLY, REALLY bad.

And finally…

This movie was just sick. I had to turn it off 10 minutes into it since it was so dirty. Do not be fooled, this is not a nice romantic comedy or a family movie…..very demeaning toward women as well. Hated it!

The only objection I would raise out of these three examples is that there’s no way this could be the worst movie ever seen by somebody. I mean, I’ve spent the last three Lents watching hundreds of bad movies and there are many films worse than this one. (I’ll write more about that tomorrow.) It was really, really bad, though. [One out of five stars.]

I love Netflix but I think they still have some work to do on their recommendation algorithm. Seriously, Caddyshack?

I love Netflix but I think they still have some work to do on their recommendation algorithm. Seriously, Caddyshack?