Netflix - What gems have you found? (NO SPOILERS) (Vol. 2)

Netflix - What gems have you found? (NO SPOILERS) (Vol. 2)

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Smollet

10,834 posts

192 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2023
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Just finished watching The Recruit. Very well acted with a good cast. Basically about a CIA lawyer who gets embroiled in an op that goes wrong.

CardinalBlue

888 posts

79 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2023
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Watched the first two episodes of Physical 100 last night...... Think as it as a cross between Squid Games and Gladiiators/Steve Austin's Broken Skull Challenge

Pit Pony

8,937 posts

123 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2023
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Not Netflix, but similar cost.

National theatre On line.

https://primafacieplay.com/

Jodie Comer is one of the best actresses in the business at the moment.

suffolk009

5,524 posts

167 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2023
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illmonkey said:
Yea, was good. Typical film where the noise is louder than the actors voices. Do people not watch these type of films and give feedback?
I have a friend (he's a BAFTA winning sound engineer) he said there are enourmous numbers of compalints about just about any program/films sound when watched on the TV. He simply points out that the sound is not a problem in the cinemas, and it is 95% the TVs/AV gear that are the cause of the problem.

illmonkey

18,307 posts

200 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2023
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suffolk009 said:
illmonkey said:
Yea, was good. Typical film where the noise is louder than the actors voices. Do people not watch these type of films and give feedback?
I have a friend (he's a BAFTA winning sound engineer) he said there are enourmous numbers of compalints about just about any program/films sound when watched on the TV. He simply points out that the sound is not a problem in the cinemas, and it is 95% the TVs/AV gear that are the cause of the problem.
It probably would be a problem if I could have my telly or amazing sound system as loud as the cinema. But a lot of people have neighbours, or families.

Could it not be altered from screen to tv as well? I imagine a very small number of people use anything but the tv speakers.

RB Will

9,686 posts

242 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2023
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suffolk009 said:
I have a friend (he's a BAFTA winning sound engineer) he said there are enourmous numbers of compalints about just about any program/films sound when watched on the TV. He simply points out that the sound is not a problem in the cinemas, and it is 95% the TVs/AV gear that are the cause of the problem.
I have more of a problem with it at the cinema to be honest. Top Gun Mav sfx were so loud it was almost uncomfortable

Pit Pony

8,937 posts

123 months

Thursday 23rd February 2023
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RB Will said:
suffolk009 said:
I have a friend (he's a BAFTA winning sound engineer) he said there are enourmous numbers of compalints about just about any program/films sound when watched on the TV. He simply points out that the sound is not a problem in the cinemas, and it is 95% the TVs/AV gear that are the cause of the problem.
I have more of a problem with it at the cinema to be honest. Top Gun Mav sfx were so loud it was almost uncomfortable
If 95% of Tv's are the problem then the problem is the sound engineer being arrogant and treating the audience as an inconvenience.

suffolk009

5,524 posts

167 months

Thursday 23rd February 2023
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Pit Pony said:
If 95% of Tv's are the problem then the problem is the sound engineer being arrogant and treating the audience as an inconvenience.
I think the point he was making is that the TVs are all different to each other.

pquinn

7,167 posts

48 months

Thursday 23rd February 2023
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I'd bet too many mixes rely on wild assumptions about a centre channel existing and having certain levels of performance, dumping a load of the speech onto it, then either a downmix to 2.0 or something else cocking it all up.


Vipers

32,970 posts

230 months

Thursday 23rd February 2023
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I was going to suggest "The Mist", by Stephen King, the first episode looked good...................

My advice having watched the rest of the 7 episodes, don't waste your valuable time. Total tosh.

Gadgetmac

14,984 posts

110 months

Thursday 23rd February 2023
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Yeah, I'd agree with that.

kowalski655

14,741 posts

145 months

Friday 24th February 2023
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Just got round to watching Knives Out. Very good indeed.
Started Glass Onion but it doesn't seem as good

pquinn

7,167 posts

48 months

Saturday 25th February 2023
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So... Mr. Bride

Another in the tradition of sumptuous Korean costume dramas set in the Joseon era, but wrapped around a plot that mixes in something utterly unrelated.

In this case it's a story about a male chef who has an accident in the modern day and wakes up stuck in the body of the new queen. Bit odd but entertaining enough.

Though I'd rather watch another season of Kingdom.

Clockwork Cupcake

75,192 posts

274 months

Saturday 25th February 2023
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pquinn said:
So... Mr. Bride

Another in the tradition of sumptuous Korean costume dramas set in the Joseon era, but wrapped around a plot that mixes in something utterly unrelated.

In this case it's a story about a male chef who has an accident in the modern day and wakes up stuck in the body of the new queen. Bit odd but entertaining enough.

Though I'd rather watch another season of Kingdom.
This almost intrigues me.

But I have a low embarrassment threshold and I get quite enough misgender embarrassment in RL frown





pquinn

7,167 posts

48 months

Saturday 25th February 2023
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Clockwork Cupcake said:
This almost intrigues me.

But I have a low embarrassment threshold and I get quite enough misgender embarrassment in RL frown
There isn't really any sort of misgender embarrassment, it's more that the character is behaving in a way nothing at all as expected from a highborn queen and it confusing those around them. Like Kingdom the whole thing is played like a normal costume drama just with odd things happening.

From what I've seen so far the only slightly gender driven part has been the desperate attempts by the 'queen' to dodge their wedding night.

AndrewCrown

2,289 posts

116 months

Saturday 25th February 2023
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Manifest

Series 4 has appeared on UK Netflix.. But not the previous 3 series?... you can find these on Sky Max

Started watching the first series on my Netflix in France last week.

An Aeroplane takes off in 2013 and lands in 2018 with all the discombobulation that would entail.
The surviving passengers develop supernatural complications.
Easy enough watch and quite entertaining.

TwigtheWonderkid

43,824 posts

152 months

Saturday 25th February 2023
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pquinn said:
So... Mr. Bride

Another in the tradition of sumptuous Korean costume dramas set in the Joseon era,
I've just started on Mr Sunshine, another Korean costume drama. Christ knows what the budget is for these things, episode one contained a battle scene on a par with saving Private Ryan. Every minute seems to be no expense spared.

Doofus

26,463 posts

175 months

Saturday 25th February 2023
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AndrewCrown said:

Manifest

Series 4 has appeared on UK Netflix.. But not the previous 3 series?... you can find these on Sky Max

Started watching the first series on my Netflix in France last week.

An Aeroplane takes off in 2013 and lands in 2018 with all the discombobulation that would entail.
The surviving passengers develop supernatural complications.
Easy enough watch and quite entertaining.
I'm not sure I finished series 1. Somebody on here told me about a Turkish spin-off about a submarine. That was bloody hard work too.

Bullett

10,907 posts

186 months

Saturday 25th February 2023
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We Have a Ghost - No.1 on Netflix films. I'm not sure how they rank them but it's probably the number of people who start it.
Black Family buy a run down house, it has a ghost, they video the Ghost and it becomes viral.
Potentially an interesting idea, pitched as a comedy/horror but the 40 minutes we watched were neither funny or scary, pretty much the whole family are dreadful and other characters are clichés (quirky girl next door?) . We gave up.

JagLover

42,794 posts

237 months

Sunday 26th February 2023
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Into the Deep was interesting.

It had a unique focus as it mainly used footage from a film-maker making a documentary about Peter Madsen's rocket company, so the primary focus is on the volunteers and interns working there and their reactions.

The style is a bit strange as it keeps cutting backward and forwards. Worth a watch as a human study but don't expect to learn much about the police investigation and any other aspects of the crime.