Amazon Prime Video, what gems have you found? (NO SPOILERS)

Amazon Prime Video, what gems have you found? (NO SPOILERS)

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anonymous-user

54 months

Tuesday 1st August 2017
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'Polar Bears Making Love'

Good for Prime, offering something for everyone, no matter how niche their interests.

bazza white

3,562 posts

128 months

Wednesday 2nd August 2017
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The Angels Share. I think it was Amazon not Netflix. Worth a watch if your bored.

Cotty

39,555 posts

284 months

Wednesday 2nd August 2017
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bazza white said:
The Angels Share. I think it was Amazon not Netflix. Worth a watch if your bored.
Yep Amazon Prime. I thought it was ok
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Angels-Share-Roger-Allam/...

Edited by Cotty on Wednesday 2nd August 17:17

Mark Benson

7,519 posts

269 months

Wednesday 2nd August 2017
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Cotty said:
bazza white said:
The Angels Share. I think it was Amazon not Netflix. Worth a watch if your bored.
Yep Amazon Prime. I though tit was ok
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Angels-Share-Roger-Allam/...
Bit formulaic and twee (also slightly morally dubious) but it wasn't a totally wasted 90 mins. Well, I didn't turn it off anyway.

DoubleSix

11,715 posts

176 months

Wednesday 2nd August 2017
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Into The Wild

Like a modern day Jeremiah Johnson (also on Prime).

A young man ventures into the Alaskan wilderness to live off the land. Very enjoyable.

anonymous-user

54 months

Thursday 3rd August 2017
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I'm watching The Red Road. It was released as 12 hour long episodes in 2015, but I had never heard of it.

It's really quite good, and disappointing that it was cancelled after the 12 episodes.

But it's worth a watch for sure.

lemmingjames

7,460 posts

204 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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Think its been mentioned before but Hap & Leonard is worth a watch and season 2 is on there as well now

Carl_Manchester

12,218 posts

262 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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Ray Donovan.

Un-putdownable, pure television magic. Great actors, great script and production and wow how good is John Voight !

Am also re-watching the X-files biggrin

My 8 year old daughter also thinks 'Just add magic' is one of the best kids TV shows she has seen. Whomever they got to produce it must have been poached from Disney.

AJB88

12,448 posts

171 months

Wednesday 9th August 2017
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Finally finished Preacher season 1, got to admit the first 3 episodes I was thinking nah this isn't for me but now I like it.

Watched episode 1 of season 2 so will carry on now.

Mikeyjae

912 posts

106 months

Wednesday 9th August 2017
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AJB88 said:
Finally finished Preacher season 1, got to admit the first 3 episodes I was thinking nah this isn't for me but now I like it.

Watched episode 1 of season 2 so will carry on now.
I have just watched S2 EP7 and I think its a very good series. Without spoiling, I think the scene with the 2 British chaps in the hotel room in Season 1 is comedy gold.

AJB88

12,448 posts

171 months

Wednesday 9th August 2017
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Yeh haha

eps

6,297 posts

269 months

Thursday 10th August 2017
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I'm way behind the curve on a lot of this stuff, but I really enjoyed Halt and Catch Fire. It is one of the best series I've ever watched. So well put together and excellent, excellent music choices as well. I was pleased to read there will be a Season 4, but a shame that it will be the concluding Season as well.

Really enjoying Ripper Street as well which is on there from Season 1. Massively behind the curve on that one - but it is very, very good. smile

Bullett

10,888 posts

184 months

Saturday 12th August 2017
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Comrade detective.

It's pretending to be a Romanian Cold War cop show which is dubbed into English. Very amusing.

ukaskew

10,642 posts

221 months

Sunday 13th August 2017
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Pretty impressed with some of the movies Amazon pick up for Prime members now. Not masses of stuff but they tend to go for independent / critically acclaimed movies when picking new stuff up and seem to be getting them pretty quickly.

Arrival, Free State of Jones, I Daniel Blake, Train to Busan, Swiss Army Man etc. Not bad at all. I'd rather that than them putting all their eggs in the basket of one studio with a big exclusive deal or something. For movies they're much closer to Netflix now.

Now TV is still well ahead but as we have all 3 I'm very impressed with the stuff coming through on a regular basis.

GetCarter

29,392 posts

279 months

Monday 14th August 2017
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Pawn Sacrifice.

Spiderman meets Ray Donovan, meets Fargo, meets The Magnificent Seven.

Okay, that's just the actors.

It's a movie about Bobby Fischer - the seriously dysfunctional / paranoid / PITA / genius chess player and the world championship against Spassky. "WW3 on a chessboard"

I found Tobey's acting a bit OTT but the film grew on me, as did Howard's music. I'd give it a solid 7/10

It will probably be better to those that are not old enough to know who won (sadly I am). It's difficult to imagine now how big this was at the time. Chess as a spectator sport for God's sake.

At least you can tell the Mrs. you've been watching a pawn movie.

Edited by GetCarter on Monday 14th August 15:58

MOBB

3,618 posts

127 months

Tuesday 15th August 2017
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eps said:
I'm way behind the curve on a lot of this stuff, but I really enjoyed Halt and Catch Fire. It is one of the best series I've ever watched. So well put together and excellent, excellent music choices as well. I was pleased to read there will be a Season 4, but a shame that it will be the concluding Season as well.
Just started watching this, thanks for the tip, I think its superb :-)

kowalski655

14,647 posts

143 months

Wednesday 16th August 2017
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Not even out yet but this cannot fail to be awesome...surely(everything crossed!)
Good Omens

bodhi

10,520 posts

229 months

Monday 21st August 2017
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Definitely behind the curve on this one, but finally watched the Pilot for Jean Claude Van Johnson at the weekend - loved it. Very funny at times (Go one at a time, you'll run into each other), well shot, and JCVD definitely seems able to take the mick out of himself.

Waiting for the rest of the season now, struggling to find a release date - anyone know when it is due?

SpeckledJim

31,608 posts

253 months

Monday 21st August 2017
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Arrivals was good.

That's my review.

Cotty

39,555 posts

284 months

Monday 21st August 2017
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SpeckledJim said:
Arrivals was good.

That's my review.
I assume you mean Arrival (no S). That was my thought, it was like oh ok that was nice

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543164/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Edited by Cotty on Tuesday 22 August 11:56