Netflix Recommendations 2.0 *READ FIRST POST*

Caegan

cdgalwegian wrote: »

Didn't Netflix's algorithm not help you out?:P

Depends on what you liked about it- some people on this thread thought it was boring. What were the elements that tickled your fancy that could aid suggestions?

I enjoyed the style of the show, I also liked the way their work mirrored some of the happenings in Tench's personal life.

I'll check the Netflix suggestions, just thought I'd ask here as there's been a lot of good recommendations reading through the thread 😊

cdgalwegian

Caegan wrote: »

I'll check the Netflix suggestions

Are you serious? I was only messing!:eek::D
Recommendations are notoriously dodgy, with humans as much as computers, but if you like a slow-burner series- evocative of the time- involving a serial killer(s), I loved The Alienist.

km79

Marty McFly wrote: »

Manhunt Unabomber is excellent imo. Also fairly similar in style to Mindhunter.

Yep this is prob as close as you will get to Mindhunter
2 excellent shows

Fan of Netflix

The Hangman, starring Al Pacino, is rubbish. One to avoid.

Caegan

cdgalwegian wrote: »

Are you serious? I was only messing!:eek::D
Recommendations are notoriously dodgy, with humans as much as computers, but if you like a slow-burner series- evocative of the time- involving a serial killer(s), I loved The Alienist.

Ah I got you were joking 😀

Just checked the Alienist there and I think I'll be putting that on the watch list, thanks.

cdgalwegian

Caegan wrote: »

Ah I got you were joking ��

Just checked the Alienist there and I think I'll be putting that on the watch list, thanks.

I'm putting Unabomber on mine.

Gadgetman496

Marty McFly wrote: »

Manhunt Unabomber is excellent imo. Also fairly similar in style to Mindhunter.

Due to return in 2020 with A manhunt begins for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bomber

Mr Crispy

Caegan wrote: »

Ah I got you were joking ��

Just checked the Alienist there and I think I'll be putting that on the watch list, thanks.

I'm a huge Manhunter fan, but I hated The Alienist. Great premise, and some decent production values, acting etc, but just so damned clichéd. Inconsistent pacing too.

Mehaffey1

https://acidmath.com/blogs/acidmathblog/the-twisted-and-magnificent-life-of-hunter-s-thompson-is-being-adapted-into-a-tv-series

Maybe see it on Netflix at some point I wonder

peteeeed

Dirty Dancing
The Pianist
Jonah hex
West side story
Shameless (USA) season 8
Moving Art season 3
Experience nature's art as filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg highlights the beauty that lurks in oceans, forests, deserts and flowers.

Wanderlust: Season 1
Toni Colette stars in this BBC miniseries, which explores marriages and commitment with a surprisingly adult, mature manner.

Brampton's Own
After 12 years in the minors, a struggling baseball player retires, returns home and faces the last person he struck out with -- his ex-girlfriend

Elena
In this documentary, the director remembers a sister who left behind her life under Brazil's dictatorship and moved to New York with dreams of acting

For the Birds
A woman with a passion for fowl keeps a menagerie of birds that draws the ire of neighbors, animal rights advocates and even her own family

Mokalik (Mechanic)
A young boy's life shifts when he's sent to work at a mechanic's shop far from his suburban home until an opportunity forces him to make a tough choice


Olmo & the Seagull
A pregnancy forces an actress out of her latest play and into a difficult confrontation with her own rapidly transforming reflection

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fin12

cdgalwegian wrote: »

I didn't bother, coz:

I unfortunately saw it in the cinema. I really liked his previous films so thought this would be good.
Couldn’t believe how sh*t it was.

peteeeed

10 to Midnight(charles brosnan )
2012
Anaconda
Angels & Demons
Arbitrage
Black Rock
Deliver Us from Evil
The Delta Force
Radio Days (excellent)
The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3(unfortunately , its the remake)

added yesterday also

gmisk

peteeeed wrote: »

Arbitrage
added yesterday also

This is well worth a watch IMO love Richard Gere

tigger123

Arbitrage is excellent. Very memorable.

Juwwi

alchemist33 wrote: »

Thanks to everyone here who flagged up Money Heist. After ignoring it because of the silly title (the original Spanish title is so much better) we're thoroughly enjoying this. I really want to see the actor playing Berlin in a Bond villain role.

Thanks for posting this just finished it yesterday it really is excellent

extra gravy

Just finished watching The Family.

What a bunch of nutjobs.

alchemist33

CastorTroy wrote: »

Away this weekend so won't get to watch Dark Crystal until Sunday. Thought it was going to be half hour episodes, but they're between 46 and 61 minutes. Looking forward to it

Watched ep 1 and it was very good. Good for the kids (but maybe scary if very little) with a solid fantasy story for the grownups.

cdgalwegian

cdgalwegian wrote: »

I didn't bother, coz:

I'm disappointed to hear this as I really enjoyed the Denis Lehane book that it was adapted from. It's the second book in a trilogy. As I was reading them I really thought they had the makings of good movies. Pity Affleck botched the job.

CrankyHaus

Ward J. Littell wrote: »

I'm disappointed to hear this as I really enjoyed the Denis Lehane book that it was adapted from. It's the second book in a trilogy. As I was reading them I really thought they had the makings of good movies. Pity Affleck botched the job.

Affleck going back to the well after Gone Baby Gone revived his career.

Honestly Live by Night is far too long a book to adapt into a single film. Better suited to a series. The Given Day would make a better film too.

CrankyHaus

CrankyHaus wrote: »

Affleck going back to the well after Gone Baby Gone revived his career.

Honestly Live by Night is far too long a book to adapt into a single film. Better suited to a series. The Given Day would make a better film too.

Yeah I preferred The Given Day too. A series would have been a better vehicle for them alright.

peteeeed

Girl (Belgian)
Fifteen-year-old ballet dancer Lara faces physical and emotional hurdles as she prepares for gender confirmation surgery. Inspired by a true story.

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Gloomtastic!

Dead in a week. Dreadful load of crap.

johnny_ultimate

peteeeed wrote: »

Girl (Belgian)
Fifteen-year-old ballet dancer Lara faces physical and emotional hurdles as she prepares for gender confirmation surgery. Inspired by a true story.

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God, this film. For the first half you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s a sympathetic, compassionate story of a trans teenager’s transition. But it becomes increasingly misguided until its ugly, ill-judged ending that makes it if anything a step backwards for trans representation in cinema. Skip it.

Tony EH

So, is that Dark Crystal TV show any use?

pixelburp

Tony EH wrote: »

So, is that Dark Crystal TV show any use?

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057746103

TLDR: I've only watched the first episode but it's impressive; as exotic and otherworldly as the original movie, with probably 5 times the budget. Uses CGI but only to accentuate the world. Only quibble would be the Gelflings are as stiff as that movie's.

CrankyHaus

Anyone else watch Hip-Hop Evolution on Netflix?

The NY coverage is truly excellent, with in-depth interviews of many of the central musicians, producers and others. The other stuff on the South, LA and Bay Area is merely good. You get the impression that your man presenting just loves east coast hip-hop and would have done a 12 episode series on NY alone if Netflix let him.

The falling inn

8/10...so good

*disclaimer...currently suffering post electric picnic PTSD

Boom_Bap

CrankyHaus wrote: »

Anyone else watch Hip-Hop Evolution on Netflix?

The NY coverage is truly excellent, with in-depth interviews of many of the central musicians, producers and others. The other stuff on the South, LA and Bay Area is merely good. You get the impression that your man presenting just loves east coast hip-hop and would have done a 12 episode series on NY alone if Netflix let him.

Yeah, as a bit of a hip hop fan, I love it.
The interviewer is also a rapper from Canada called Shad and is a hip hop nerd. Given were he grew up and the affiliations he built up, he'd drift more to the east.

CrankyHaus

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Yeah, as a bit of a hip hop fan, I love it.
The interviewer is also a rapper from Canada called Shad and is a hip hop nerd. Given were he grew up and the affiliations he built up, he'd drift more to the east.

Yeah I looked him up and thought the same. Season 2 ended on a high with Wu-Tang, Biggie and Nas. Looking forward to Season 3

CastorTroy

https://www.fatherly.com/news/netflix-is-ditching-the-binge-will-start-releasing-episodes-weekly/

Not sure if this article is reading too much into some weekly releases

RocketRaccoon

Kai Mango Transition wrote: »

The falling inn

8/10...so good

*disclaimer...currently suffering post electric picnic PTSD

What's this? All that shows up is what looks like an awful movie with Christina milian.

RocketRaccoon

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

What's this? All that shows up is what looks like an awful movie with Christina milian.

Yes it’s awful. I loved it

peteeeed

Submergence
Separated by their jobs, a British spy and a deep-sea scientist look back on their whirlwind affair from their respective, isolated circumstances.

Wanderlust season 1
Unable to revive their fading sex life after many years of marriage, a therapist and her husband decide to start dating other people.

The World We Make
A teenage equestrian and a local football player fall for each other, but simmering racism in their small town puts their relationship to the test.


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Mr E

Between Two Ferns, the movie was announced yesterday (or trailer dropped anyway). Out later this month on Netflix. It does look pretty funny. Huge list of guest stars too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjljgkCQv5c

pixelburp

Between Two Ferns?? Holy hell, there's a blast from the past of ... ... *checks notes* 2008. Man, the iPhone was only a year old and the Internet hadn't completely descended into a garbage fire. Halcyon days.

peteeeed

Avengement
Betrayed by his loan shark brother, a hardened convict escapes from prison while on furlough to exact revenge against the people who made him a killer.

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gmisk

peteeeed wrote: »

Avengement
Betrayed by his loan shark brother, a hardened convict escapes from prison while on furlough to exact revenge against the people who made him a killer.

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They really were struggling for a title if thats the best they could come up with lol

peteeeed

The Spy: Season 1
Sacha Baron Cohen stars in this new series about Israel’s most prominent spy Eli Cohen, who in the beginning of the 60s operated undercover in Syria. His unprecedented infiltration into the top military and political echelons changed the face of the Middle East but came at a very high personal cost.

Elite: Season 2
The Spanish thriller returns to the country’s best and most exclusive school, where the elite send their children to study. It’s also where three working class kids have just been admitted after their academy was collapsed and the local council divvied up the students between other schools in the area. They thought that they’d lucked out, but maybe they weren’t so lucky after all – because by the end of Season 1, a dead body had turned up and a suspect had been found…

Hip-Hop Evolution: Season 3
Shad Kabango traces the growth of hip-hop subcultures in New York, the South and Oakland, California, in the ’80s and ’90s.

Travels with My Father: Season 3
Two years ago, Jack Whitehall and his father, Michael, embarked on a South East Asian odyssey, fulfilling Jack’s lifelong dream of a gap year, and against all the odds they both survived. Now, they’re back on the road again for a third voyage.

The Modest Heroes of Studio Ponoc
Yoshiaki Nishimura discusses Studio Ponoc's founding, their creative principles and the inspiration behind their three "Modest Heroes" shorts.

Modest Heroes: Ponoc Short Films Theatre
Two underwater siblings surviving on their own. A boy with a serious egg allergy. A man invisible to the rest of society. Three short animated tales.

Hell Fest
A serial killer picks off a group of friends, one by one, as they make their way through a hell-themed amusement park.

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el Fenomeno

I have to say, I'm really liking Working Moms. We're onto season 3 and there's really some laugh out loud moments.

peteeeed

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco season 1
Two highly skilled detectives from the UK team with their US counterparts and use their code-cracking talents to investigate a series of murders.

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Fysh

peteeeed wrote: »

The Modest Heroes of Studio Ponoc
Yoshiaki Nishimura discusses Studio Ponoc's founding, their creative principles and the inspiration behind their three "Modest Heroes" shorts.

Modest Heroes: Ponoc Short Films Theatre
Two underwater siblings surviving on their own. A boy with a serious egg allergy. A man invisible to the rest of society. Three short animated tales.

I'm delighted to see these turn up, I was lucky enough to catch Studio Ponoc's first film Mary And The Witch's Flower at a screening last year and really enjoyed it, a strong vibe of early Miyazaki/Ghibli to it. I'm hoping that they'll carry on the Ghibli torch

fin12

Anyone watching the spy? Sasha Baron Cohen is in it. It’s pretty good. On third episode.

https://entertainment.ie/tv/netflix/netflix-review-sacha-baron-cohen-compelling-the-spy-418499/

johnny_ultimate

They’re pretty good shorts in Modest Heroes. I wasn’t mad on Mary and The Witch’s Flower (it’s good and beautifully drawn but felt derivative of Ghibli and a few other things). The first film in the set is the weakest, and feels kinda like an Arrietty spin-off despite looking lovely. Picks up considerably in the second short, which has a more unique style and feels like a very different type of film in a good way. The third then is its own thing again, with another distinctive and fetching look to it.

It’s all very short at under an hour, but it gives me hope that Ponoc will go on to make things that don’t just feel like a straight continuation of Ghibli minus its most iconic directors.

whatawaster81

fin12 wrote: »

Anyone watching the spy? Sasha Baron Cohen is in it. It’s pretty good. On third episode.

https://entertainment.ie/tv/netflix/netflix-review-sacha-baron-cohen-compelling-the-spy-418499/

Yep. On episode 7. Enjoying it as well.

seligehgit

cml387 wrote: »

Mother! is certainly thought provoking.
It reminded me for some reason of "The Day Of The Locust" in it's bizarre and violent ending and it's dislocating narrative. Also in the fandom that brought both to an insane climax.
Probably not a date movie though.

Really didn't enjoy it!:(

cdgalwegian

cml387 wrote: »

Mother! is certainly thought provoking.
It reminded me for some reason of "The Day Of The Locust" in it's bizarre and violent ending and it's dislocating narrative.

seligehgit wrote: »

Really didn't enjoy it!:(

Well that's art for ya. This one was full of symbolism that required a lot of thinking (or researching) to unlock its meaning. I couldn't be bothered after seeing it tbh.

extra gravy

fin12 wrote: »

Anyone watching the spy? Sasha Baron Cohen is in it. It’s pretty good. On third episode.

https://entertainment.ie/tv/netflix/netflix-review-sacha-baron-cohen-compelling-the-spy-418499/

I've finished it, was enjoyable. I didn't know what to expect of him in a more serious role but he was good.

FunLover18

Three things I watched over the weekend;

A Simple Favour - very strange film but I enjoyed it. None of the characters are particularly likeable the performances are strong and the plot moves along at a decent pace.

Tomb Raider (2017?) - Ben Wheatley was announced last week as directing the sequel so I thought I'd give this a go. It's fine, its definitely aimed at a younger audience and it feels like they've made an effort to make the kind of action set piece you might get in a game.

Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special - if you like Lonely Island and I Think Should Leave I don't see how you wouldn't like this. It's hilarious.

gmisk

FunLover18 wrote: »

Three things I watched over the weekend;

A Simple Favour - very strange film but I enjoyed it. None of the characters are particularly likeable the performances are strong and the plot moves along at a decent pace.

its bonkers.....really enjoyed it too.

Redneck Reject

The Narcos series and The Dark Crystal are very good.