It looks like Netflix has curtailed their need to add old TV shows this round, but that doesn’t mean they’ve upped their standards any. I counted eleven fishing/boating instructional videos and five teen after-school specials in this round, so if you’re into teens and seamen, this update was made for you.

For the rest of us, it was the usual slew of bad movies and concert videos. Any cool points that I could’ve awarded Netflix for adding Fishbone, Iggy Pop, and Obituary videos were retracted due to the addition of a second Europe concert video. Did we ever need one? Who is asking for Europe concert videos these days? If it’s you, I’m begging you to put down the aqua net, get rid of strip out of your acid washed jeans, and stop requesting that the 80’s come back. I’m looking right at you there, Chi-town.

DOOdaLOOO doooo… Doodaloo doo doo…

To make matters worse, JC In the Hood was added. What? You never heard about the miraculous story of Jebus and the Satan fighting for control of the ‘hood? I tried to resist its power, but I couldn’t help myself. I only made it through fifteen minutes of really bad acting and accidental camera glances, but I’m telling you that there is a good reason why Zombies vs. Satan: Meat for Satan’s Icebox (check the list. It’s there.) got a higher rating with a mere 1.9 stars. I wish that the worst of it, but a Pat Morita Movie called Hammerlock was added despite having no more than a 1 star rating anywhere in the known universe. Shouldn’t any movie that is worse than JC In the Hood be stopped from wasting gigs of disk space and internet bandwidth? Are there no standards?

In the “So Bad, They’re Good” category, Netflix added New Jack City and a couple of bad kung fu movies. New Jack is so horribly 90’s that I kept expecting Bobby Brown to show up with his tenderoni, and the kung fu movies are, well, bad kung fu movies. Within a minute of the opening credits of Ninja Vs. Mafia, a guy gets attacked on the street for no reason and calmly asks his attacker, “My friend, what are you doing?” The reply? “You want to know? I’m going to kill you, BASTARD!” Then, a fight breaks out. That’s pretty much how it goes for 80 minutes. The other movie, Crash Masters Collection: 2 Great Cavaliers, is much of the same, which is only bad if you’re not a kung fu fan.

Despite the tremendous amount of bad, there was a bit of good in this round. Eight seasons of Red Dwarf were re-added, which I’m happy about because I never got through season 1 before they deleted it last time. If you like British comedy and sci-fi, the series is a good bet.

If I had to recommend only one movie for everyone from this batch, I’d tell you to check out Cashback. It had volumes of tasteful nudity for the men, sci fi for the geeks, and a love story for the ladies. I liked it so much that I watched all the features on the DVD and gave it 4/5 stars.

All of the recommendations, additions, and deletions are listed below, but if I missed something good (or included something bad), be sure to let me know in the comments.

Recommended Netflix Watch Instantly New Additions (8)

Netflix Watch Instantly Additions Since July 10 (181)

25th Anniversary of the Marquee Club
30 Years of Academy Award Winners
100 Boating Mistakes & How to Avoid Them
100 Sailing Mistakes & How to Avoid Them
100 Saltwater Fishing Mistakes
The Adirondacks
Alex Grey: The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
Already Dead
America’s Most Scenic Drives
The Annapolis Book of Seamanship: Vol. 1
Annapolis Book of Seamanship: Vol. 3
Area 51
Aussie Park Boyz
Autumn Hearts: A New Beginning
Backdraft
Best of the Big Bands: Shaw & Friends
Blood, Guts & Gears
Blushing Bloopers
Bobby Darin
Bobby Rush: Live at Ground Zero Blues Club
The British Invasion: The 1960s and 1970s

Brothers: On Holy Ground
Brum: Crazy Chair Chase and Other Stories
Brum: Stunt Bike Rescue and Other Stories
Bullrider
Caramel
Cashback
CBGB: Punk From the Bowery
Charleen / Backyard
Cheezy Horror Trailers: Vol. 1
Cheezy Sci-fi Trailers: Vol. 1
Children’s Cartoon Classics
Class Act
Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies
Coach: Nick Bollettieri
Code 7 II
Cool Space Stuff
Craig Shoemaker: That’s a True Story!
Crash Masters Collection 2
Dancing for Dollars
David Bowie: Spiders from Mars: Interviews

Dean Martin: Memories Are Made of This
Death at Love House
Devo: Live in the Land of the Rising Sun
Draining Lizards
Duck
Earth vs. Radiators: First 25 Years
Easy Listening
Encyclopedia of Saltwater Sport Fish
Europe: Live from the Dark
Eve of Destruction
Exiled
Fag Hag
Falling Like This
Fawlty Towers: The Complete Set
Fishbone: Critical Times
Fishing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel
Fleetwood Mac: Unbroken Chain
Flick
Frank Sinatra Memorial
The Frank Sinatra Show: High Hopes

Garmin Forerunner 101, 201 & 301
Geography Tutor Series: Vol. 7

Ghost in the Shell: SAC: 2nd Gig
Good Neighbors: Complete Series 1-3
The Haint
Halfway Decent
Hammerlock
Handling & Anchoring Your Boat
The Headless Ghost
Heavy Weather Power Boating
Heroes of World War II
Hip Hop Time Capsule: 1992
Hip Hop Time Capsule: Best of RETV 1993
The History Channel: Busting the Mob
Hollywood Couples Collection
Hollywood Musicals of the ’50s
Horror Planet
Horseland: Taking the Heat
Iggy Pop: Live San Fran 1981
Improve Your Sailing Skills

In Concert Series: Eddie Fisher
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Into the Arms of Strangers
Jay Jay’s Big Mystery
Jay Jay’s Wing Wigglin’ Mystery
JC in the Hood
Jonathan Winters: Rare & Riotous
Jupiter Moon: Fires of Io
Kung Faux: Vol. 2
Kung Faux: Vol. 4
Learn to In-Line Skate with Debbie Merrill
Learn Yu-Gi–Oh!: Level 1: New Duelist
Lene Lovich: Live from New York
Leonardo DiCaprio: Double Feature
Living ’til the End
Lowrance iFinder H2O & Pro
Luchamania: La Batalla por Mexico
Lullaby of Harlem
Marx Brothers: Inside the Marx Brothers
Meat for Satan / Wiseguys vs. Zombies

Merle Haggard: In Concert
Metallica: Phantom Puppets
Method Man: Live from the Sunset Strip
Michael Schenker Group: Live in Tokyo 1997
The Michael Schenker Group: Worldwide
Morgan Heritage: Live
Nat King Cole: Soundies and Telescriptions
Nature: Extraordinary Animal Behavior
Nature: Kusasi & Snowflake
Never Forever
New Jack City: Special Edition
Newton’s Wagon: Understanding Motion
Ninja vs. Mafia
NRBQ: One in a Million
Numb
NYC Ballet: Complete Workout: Vols. 1 & 2
Obituary: Frozen Alive
October
Offshore Fishing: Deep Dwellers
Old Skool Killaz: Jade Dagger Ninja

Old Skool Killaz: The Silver Spear
Old Skool Killaz: Young Hero of Shaolin 1
Old Skool Killaz: Young Hero of Shaolin 2
The Passions of Howard Hughes
Player 5150
Poi Dog Pondering: In Seed Comes Fruit
Powerboat Navigation with John Rousmaniere
Real Life Teens: Alcohol
Real Life Teens: Bullies and Harassment
Real Life Teens: Media and Influences
Real Life Teens: Racism on Campus
Real Life Teens: Staying Focused
Red Dwarf: Series 1
Red Dwarf: Series 2
Red Dwarf: Series 3
Red Dwarf: Series 4
Red Dwarf: Series 5
Red Dwarf: Series 6
Red Dwarf: Series 7
Red Dwarf: Series 8

Remember the Daze
Rivalries: Georgia vs. Florida
Rolling Stones: Satisfaction: Interviews
Ronald Reagan: His Life and Times
Room 314
Rules of the Road and Aids to Navigation
Salome / Lot in Sodom: Double Feature
Sharks & Crocs
Sinatra: Singing at His Best
Sixties Rock
Sky Dancers
South Beach Raw
Steve-O Video Vol. 3: Disc 1
The Superhero
Tall Tales & Legends: Casey at the Bat
Tall Tales & Legends: Davy Crockett
Tall Tales & Legends: John Henry
Tall Tales & Legends: Pecos Bill
Tall Tales & Legends: Ponce de Leon
Teletubbies: All Together Teletubbies

Teletubbies: Go!
Teletubbies: Here Come the Teletubbies
Teletubbies: Time to Dance!
Teletubbies: Time to Play!
Teletubbies: What’s That?
A to Zeppelin
Ultimate B-Boy: City vs. City
Understanding Magnetism
Understanding Science: Vol. 4: Ecosystems
Using Acrylics: Introduction to Still Life
Vecchi: L’Amfiparnaso
Victory / The Wicked Darling
Waddlers and Paddlers
Watercolors: Introduction to Still Life
The West Wittering Affair
Whiz Kids
Without the King
Women in Space: Profiles
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Zoe

Netflix Watch Instantly Deletions Since July 10 (59)

49 Up
All of It
The Alley Cats
Angel on the Right
Aristide and the Endless Revolution
Been Rich All My Life
Born in ‘45
A Boy and His Dog
Buffalo Boy
Cemetery Man
The Champagne Safari
Charulata
Dangerous Living
Daughter of Keltoum
Eloise in Hollywood
Eloise: Eloise Goes to School
Female Misbehavior
Female Trouble
Forgiving Dr. Mengele
Fuse
Go For Zucker
The Goebbels Experiment
Heavy Petting Detective
Hollow City
Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral
The Internationale
Into the Fire
Joi Baba Felunath
Kapurush
Lakki: The Boy Who Could Fly
Mahapurush
A Man of Success
Margarette’s Feast
Me, Eloise
Monumental: David Brower’s Fight
Mother’s Day
Motherland Afghanistan
Nayak
The Night of Truth
Nowhere Man
One Bright Shining Moment
Peach / A Bitter Song / Lavender Limelight
Psychic Force
Shadow Kill
Shakespeare’s Women and Claire Bloom
Silent Waters
Six O’Clock News
Slight Fever of a 20-Year-Old
Surf Nazis Must Die
Theory of the Leisure Class
Therese and Isabelle
Time Indefinite
Today and Tomorrow
Torremolinos 73
Uniform
The Way Things Go
Whisky
Women’s Prison
Working Girls

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