Netflix - What gems have you found?

[Crook]

I’m probably well behind the curve on this but just finished watching “The nice guys” and I thought it was excellent.

Sufficiently idiotic with a fair amount of plot and acting.

[defblade]

irocfan said:

Shockwave Tunnel - Chinese action film and very good

Enjoyed, a decent thriller, cheers

[rodericb]

Sammo123 said:

gadgetmac said:

Extinction.

Good and with a twist but it will leave you thinking of another current show thats quite popular.

Currently 37 minutes in to this and I'm turning it off. Not grabbing me at all.

It's a bit lame for the first half. All the cliches get ladled out, creepy humanoid aliens, hovering space ships with jets and tentacles, searchlights and so on. There's a huge plot twist which adds a lot to the story. It's when they've reached "the storage" or whatever it's called and they're being pursued by the predator who lost his gun. If you haven't reached that bit, stick with it!

[rodericb]

Russian Troll Bot said:

I felt the twist was a good idea, but the way it was done just left more questions than answers. For the first half we're supposed to believe it's the usual humans vs aliens, which opens up questions such as where were the military, why were factory workers suddenly weapons experts or how could he override the biometric gun. But after the twist I was left wondering why the humans would pretend to be aliens in the first place, why synths feel pain or who would create child versions of them. A better way would have been to show they were synths from the start who thought they were protecting humans, unaware it was they who drove them from the planet.

Ah

The humans were dressed like that as they didn't know if they could even breathe on Earth. So they have a 'space suit' of sorts and probably wired up with comms and weapons stuff. That watch thing for example. They synths think they can feel pain bit in reality they don't, as shown when that guy cut himself open to get at his battery or whatever it was. So any emotion is just programming. Same with the child synths. They were probably produced so childless humans would have a 'child' and the concept carried on to synth families. Interactions between synth adults and children is programming.

[Russian Troll Bot]

rodericb said:

Russian Troll Bot said:

I felt the twist was a good idea, but the way it was done just left more questions than answers. For the first half we're supposed to believe it's the usual humans vs aliens, which opens up questions such as where were the military, why were factory workers suddenly weapons experts or how could he override the biometric gun. But after the twist I was left wondering why the humans would pretend to be aliens in the first place, why synths feel pain or who would create child versions of them. A better way would have been to show they were synths from the start who thought they were protecting humans, unaware it was they who drove them from the planet.

Ah

The humans were dressed like that as they didn't know if they could even breathe on Earth. So they have a 'space suit' of sorts and probably wired up with comms and weapons stuff. That watch thing for example. They synths think they can feel pain bit in reality they don't, as shown when that guy cut himself open to get at his battery or whatever it was. So any emotion is just programming. Same with the child synths. They were probably produced so childless humans would have a 'child' and the concept carried on to synth families. Interactions between synth adults and children is programming.

That still doesn't make much sense though. If you're planning on invading an entire planet then surely you'd send a probe down first, or the fact there are still vast forests suggests the atmosphere hasn't changed. Child androids would be the same age forever, which would be a bit awkward for the adoptive parents, and also raises the question as to why none of the family noticed that they hadn't aged a day in 50 years

[anonymous-user]

Russian Troll Bot said:

rodericb said:

Russian Troll Bot said:

I felt the twist was a good idea, but the way it was done just left more questions than answers. For the first half we're supposed to believe it's the usual humans vs aliens, which opens up questions such as where were the military, why were factory workers suddenly weapons experts or how could he override the biometric gun. But after the twist I was left wondering why the humans would pretend to be aliens in the first place, why synths feel pain or who would create child versions of them. A better way would have been to show they were synths from the start who thought they were protecting humans, unaware it was they who drove them from the planet.

Ah

The humans were dressed like that as they didn't know if they could even breathe on Earth. So they have a 'space suit' of sorts and probably wired up with comms and weapons stuff. That watch thing for example. They synths think they can feel pain bit in reality they don't, as shown when that guy cut himself open to get at his battery or whatever it was. So any emotion is just programming. Same with the child synths. They were probably produced so childless humans would have a 'child' and the concept carried on to synth families. Interactions between synth adults and children is programming.

That still doesn't make much sense though. If you're planning on invading an entire planet then surely you'd send a probe down first, or the fact there are still vast forests suggests the atmosphere hasn't changed. Child androids would be the same age forever, which would be a bit awkward for the adoptive parents, and also raises the question as to why none of the family noticed that they hadn't aged a day in 50 years

You would also think they would make the kids less annoying, especially the youngest

[Bullett]

Bullett said:

telecat said:

Anybody picked up on "Final Space". Cartoon series but very dark and odd.

Watched the first last night, not really sure but will give it another go.

Sorry, self quoting.

Finished this, it get a lot darker and better as we go through. A real hero's journey, genuinely emotional.
Recommended.

[SpudLink]

Chuffedmonkey said:

When are we expecting season 3 of The Expanse to be released in the UK. I started watching it with no great expectations but I ended up really enjoying it.

I have nothing else that takes my fancy on Netflix at the moment having watched a few series recently including;

Lost in Space, good.

The Punisher, brilliant and very dark for Marvel, probably the best series I have seen in ages. I have not watched any other Netflix Marvel series.

Altered Carbon, again very good.

I like Sci Fi

I also like all of the above, although Lost in Space was too flawed to call it ‘good’. I enjoyed it nonetheless.

If you liked Punisher that much, you really should watch season one of Daredevil. When you get to ‘that moment’ with Wilson Fisk, you’ll see Marvel’s NetFlix adventure has always been pretty dark.

[Davie_GLA]

Better Call Saul S4 is back on the 7th. Also loving the latest orange is the new black.

[Bullett]

garyhun said:

Russian Troll Bot said:

rodericb said:

Russian Troll Bot said:

I felt the twist was a good idea, but the way it was done just left more questions than answers. For the first half we're supposed to believe it's the usual humans vs aliens, which opens up questions such as where were the military, why were factory workers suddenly weapons experts or how could he override the biometric gun. But after the twist I was left wondering why the humans would pretend to be aliens in the first place, why synths feel pain or who would create child versions of them. A better way would have been to show they were synths from the start who thought they were protecting humans, unaware it was they who drove them from the planet.

Ah

The humans were dressed like that as they didn't know if they could even breathe on Earth. So they have a 'space suit' of sorts and probably wired up with comms and weapons stuff. That watch thing for example. They synths think they can feel pain bit in reality they don't, as shown when that guy cut himself open to get at his battery or whatever it was. So any emotion is just programming. Same with the child synths. They were probably produced so childless humans would have a 'child' and the concept carried on to synth families. Interactions between synth adults and children is programming.

That still doesn't make much sense though. If you're planning on invading an entire planet then surely you'd send a probe down first, or the fact there are still vast forests suggests the atmosphere hasn't changed. Child androids would be the same age forever, which would be a bit awkward for the adoptive parents, and also raises the question as to why none of the family noticed that they hadn't aged a day in 50 years

You would also think they would make the kids less annoying, especially the youngest

I quite enjoyed this. Didn't see the twist coming although it was fairly obviously human vs human. I was going to go for time travel.
The reveal answered a few oddities about the whole initial set up which didn't really make sense.

They covered the synthetic kids (just like real kids or something) on an advertising poster in the past. Programmed not to notice not aging? no one was eating either.

Apart from some terrible CGI the thing that annoyed me was the train at the end, why bother with the collapsing bridge, just build a tunnel.

[smn159]

How It Ends

...Not soon enough for my liking - avoid.

[DoubleSix]

Godless

Apologies if this has been mentioned previously but it is seriously good. And thankfully a mini-series with a beginning, middle and end rather than a weak idea stretched out over 18 tedious seasons.

[popeyewhite]

DoubleSix said:

Godless

Apologies if this has been mentioned previously but it is seriously good. And thankfully a mini-series with a beginning, middle and end rather than a weak idea stretched out over 18 tedious seasons.

It has been mentioned previously and I think everyone agrees with you.

[Beefmeister]

Really enjoyed Final Space, gets quite dark in places yet still very funny.

CHOOKITY!!!!

[Beefmeister]

smn159 said:

How It Ends

...Not soon enough for my liking - avoid.

Really? I thought it was great. I love a disaster film and this was taken from a different perspective, I thought it was a good watch.

[BrabusMog]

Beefmeister said:

smn159 said:

How It Ends

...Not soon enough for my liking - avoid.

Really? I thought it was great. I love a disaster film and this was taken from a different perspective, I thought it was a good watch.

I enjoyed the film right up until the ending! I thought it was going to continue, so I was a bit miffed at that.

[Beefmeister]

Ah yeah I wish it had gone on a bit more too!

[immigrant]

Ended up in perma-scroll mode with only half-baked US dross like Suits and Power looking like options for me. The latest Bridge on iPlayer provided some relief along with Bosch on Prime.

As ever, foreign series proved to be really compelling. The French and Belgian stuff was really good (La Mante, Frozen Dead, The Forest) and I'm now devouring Fauda and Hostages. I did also enjoy Mr Mercedes which you can get free through a Starz trial on Prime.

[fizz47]

immigrant said:

Ended up in perma-scroll mode with only half-baked US dross like Suits and Power looking like options for me. The latest Bridge on iPlayer provided some relief along with Bosch on Prime.

As ever, foreign series proved to be really compelling. The French and Belgian stuff was really good (La Mante, Frozen Dead, The Forest) and I'm now devouring Fauda and Hostages. I did also enjoy Mr Mercedes which you can get free through a Starz trial on Prime.

If you like foreign stuff then try 'The Bureau' on prime - its excellent

[smn159]

BrabusMog said:

Beefmeister said:

smn159 said:

How It Ends

...Not soon enough for my liking - avoid.

Really? I thought it was great. I love a disaster film and this was taken from a different perspective, I thought it was a good watch.

I enjoyed the film right up until the ending! I thought it was going to continue, so I was a bit miffed at that.

Maybe just me then but I found the whole thing unsatisfying. That story has been done many times before and I didn't think that this bought anything new to it - formulaic best described it for me

IMO, YMMV etc