Netflix - What gems have you found?
Discussion
Gadgetmac said:
quigonjay said:
Lost In Space season 2 is up, enjoyed the first one
I’m 2 episodes in to season 2 and so far it’s more of the same really.Like The Witcher I’m not blown away by this incarnation of LiS.
I never truly feel they are “lost” in the same sense that they were in the original series or even the film.
It’s a 6/10 series for me thus far.
I watched the Irishman last night. The movie was good, had overtones of Goodfellas (not surprisingly given who made it and who was in it) and felt suitably period. The cars were great. The denouement is disputed, not least by Chuckie, but it's as plausible as any as to the demise of Hoffa.
Just two gripes. It was way too long and could easily have been cut by an hour. And De Niro, whilst magnificent, was way too old to play the young Frank. In the scene where he was giving the shopkeeper a kicking Frank would have been in his late 30's. De Niro looked 75, which is what he was. Apart from that it was great. Pesci was excellent, quietly menacing as opposed to his usual M O. Pacino was Pacino which is good and there were nice cameos from Ray Romano, Jessie Plemons and Bobby Cannavale among others. If you have 3 1/2 hours to spend it's well worth it..
Just two gripes. It was way too long and could easily have been cut by an hour. And De Niro, whilst magnificent, was way too old to play the young Frank. In the scene where he was giving the shopkeeper a kicking Frank would have been in his late 30's. De Niro looked 75, which is what he was. Apart from that it was great. Pesci was excellent, quietly menacing as opposed to his usual M O. Pacino was Pacino which is good and there were nice cameos from Ray Romano, Jessie Plemons and Bobby Cannavale among others. If you have 3 1/2 hours to spend it's well worth it..
borcy said:
I watched evil genius, very good a fair few twists and turns in it. Couldn't quite believe it was a true story. A very good documentary.
I thought it was dreadful, didn't see many signs of genius in any of the assembled suspects, just selfish, greedy scumbags. Geniuses don't get caught. Evil morons may have been a better working title?Binge watched the witcher.... Having never read the books nor played the games... Was a bit confusing at first but once I figured out storylines simultaneously run were on different timeliness then some sense was made and it all tied up at the season end quote nicely..... Never got into Got..... But really enjoyed this... IMHO has real promise for future seasons.....
Fighting With My Family - comedy drama about the wrestler who went on to be WWE's youngest women's champion. Plenty of funny moments but handles the more serious stuff well, especially when it focusses on her brother and the effects that not making the cut had on him. Only slightly jarring aspect is they make clear from the start it's all predetermined, but the climax gets treated as if it's an actual fight. Still recommended though, even if you have zero interest in wrestling.
The Two Popes, can’t speak highly enough of it, really really enjoyable film.
https://youtu.be/T5OhkFY1PQE
Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce star.
https://youtu.be/T5OhkFY1PQE
Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce star.
A Winner Is You said:
Fighting With My Family - comedy drama about the wrestler who went on to be WWE's youngest women's champion. Plenty of funny moments but handles the more serious stuff well, especially when it focusses on her brother and the effects that not making the cut had on him. Only slightly jarring aspect is they make clear from the start it's all predetermined, but the climax gets treated as if it's an actual fight. Still recommended though, even if you have zero interest in wrestling.
Yeah, standard British feel good (at the end) film. Well worth a watch. jammy-git said:
PurpleTurtle said:
Am halfway through Unbelievable on recommendation from a friend and seeing it noted on here. Gripping stuff.
The 'flix' part of Netflix I find frustrating - in my view it is pretty poor for movies, unless you want to watch stuff from the 80's. However, every so often it throws up a gem of a short series like this and I love it. That and the raft of good kid's stuff on it keeps my subscription going!
Do you think there are other sources that have a better selection of films? I've had Sky Movies in the past and that seemed crap. Amazon Prime is awful for it's selection of movies. iPlayer and Channel 4 have the odd gem but a very, very small selection....The 'flix' part of Netflix I find frustrating - in my view it is pretty poor for movies, unless you want to watch stuff from the 80's. However, every so often it throws up a gem of a short series like this and I love it. That and the raft of good kid's stuff on it keeps my subscription going!
It was always the case that 99% of the videos were total junk. It soon dawned on me that this wasn’t because these shops were really bad at what they existed to do but rather that 99% of films are total junk. For some members of the community this figure is lower and there were enough of them to make the business viable.
Despite all the enormous technical changes of the last decade or so that aspect hasn’t really changed. Most films are still rubbish. But today we don’t have to walk down the road to stand in a shop in despair trying to find something that is watchable and we have threads like this which are brilliant for helping find the 1% that we like.
The real change is with TV. I would go so far as to say the enormous budgets now available to TV means that box sets have almost become better than movies and bar the odd box office movie or movies for my children, I pretty much use these services for TV shows. I’m struggling to find anything new on Prime having had a great year finding some great shows and also some generic pulp with likeable characters. The Expanse just put out its latest series as has Man in the High Castle but I’m waiting for most of the others to release their next batch so yesterday I decided I’d try Netflix.
I’ve started with Witcher as that is an obvious one. It seems pretty formulaic andnis running to that other formula of taking the fantasy stuff we enjoyed as children and adding tits and blood to make it appeal to us now we are older. I don’t know how the story will unfold. As will all of these things there is always the risk that the producers haven’t the courage to end their current job so start delivering emergency Bobby Ewing dream sequences to string out their pay packets. This is why I usually wait until the whole thing is over, read the final reviews and then decide to commit etc.
Obviously at some point I’ll look for movies but generally I consider these services to be brilliant TV channels rather than movie services.
Couple of things i've watched:
The cat killer thing - interesting.
Underground 6 - truly abysmal. Not sure what it wanted to be? A comedy? If so where were the jokes?
Witcher - i've played the game so had an idea about the characters etc, would have been hard to keep up otherwise i think. The timeline being all over the place seemed unnecessary at times, just appearing to make it look deeper than it was. Overall though i enjoyed it.
The cat killer thing - interesting.
Underground 6 - truly abysmal. Not sure what it wanted to be? A comedy? If so where were the jokes?
Witcher - i've played the game so had an idea about the characters etc, would have been hard to keep up otherwise i think. The timeline being all over the place seemed unnecessary at times, just appearing to make it look deeper than it was. Overall though i enjoyed it.
unrepentant said:
I watched the Irishman last night. The movie was good, had overtones of Goodfellas (not surprisingly given who made it and who was in it) and felt suitably period. The cars were great. The denouement is disputed, not least by Chuckie, but it's as plausible as any as to the demise of Hoffa.
Just two gripes. It was way too long and could easily have been cut by an hour. And De Niro, whilst magnificent, was way too old to play the young Frank. In the scene where he was giving the shopkeeper a kicking Frank would have been in his late 30's. De Niro looked 75, which is what he was. Apart from that it was great. Pesci was excellent, quietly menacing as opposed to his usual M O. Pacino was Pacino which is good and there were nice cameos from Ray Romano, Jessie Plemons and Bobby Cannavale among others. If you have 3 1/2 hours to spend it's well worth it..
Agree with much of that. The shopkeeper scene is painful to watch it’s that bad a fight, they should have used a body double.Just two gripes. It was way too long and could easily have been cut by an hour. And De Niro, whilst magnificent, was way too old to play the young Frank. In the scene where he was giving the shopkeeper a kicking Frank would have been in his late 30's. De Niro looked 75, which is what he was. Apart from that it was great. Pesci was excellent, quietly menacing as opposed to his usual M O. Pacino was Pacino which is good and there were nice cameos from Ray Romano, Jessie Plemons and Bobby Cannavale among others. If you have 3 1/2 hours to spend it's well worth it..
Pesci’s was by far the best turn in the film. Harvey keitel’s cameo also decent.
Watched the new Kevin Hart : don’t f**k it up docuseries.
6 parts following a turbulent 2 years in his life.
As the title suggests, he has a habit of f
king things up.
He clearly has a goal - he talks about it a lot, he is monumentally driven, lives a pretty hard life in the pursuit of what he wants. In trying to become a billionaire, he will be feels he will be accepted. A way to show you can come from nothing and be successful.
I don’t personally find him that funny but lots of people do so I was more interested in how these super famous people live their lives and the answer:
Disfunctionally.
His upbringing was a mess, his current life is a mess - constantly surrounded by people to say yes to him, living at 100mph.
Interesting but nothing I wasn’t expecting.
6 parts following a turbulent 2 years in his life.
As the title suggests, he has a habit of f
king things up. He clearly has a goal - he talks about it a lot, he is monumentally driven, lives a pretty hard life in the pursuit of what he wants. In trying to become a billionaire, he will be feels he will be accepted. A way to show you can come from nothing and be successful.
I don’t personally find him that funny but lots of people do so I was more interested in how these super famous people live their lives and the answer:
Disfunctionally.
His upbringing was a mess, his current life is a mess - constantly surrounded by people to say yes to him, living at 100mph.
Interesting but nothing I wasn’t expecting.
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