Netflix Recommendations Thread 3.0

Spon Farmer · 15-05-2020 2:25pm

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

There's an awful lot of backtracking and withdrawing going on! It's very civilised, you must all be new to the internet

Sorry I’m very tired and was not thinking about my behaviour.

Allow me to apologise by saying “**** you all”

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 15-05-2020 2:29pm

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

There's an awful lot of backtracking and withdrawing going on! It's very civilised, you must all be new to the internet

This thread has been weird the last few weeks. First it was the Michael Jordon spoiler wars, now it's flipped completely and it's apology wars. Strange times.

FunLover18 · 15-05-2020 2:29pm

Watched Extra Ordinary last night, it's very funny. Maeve Higgins acting isn't great and the last 15/20 minutes are ridiculous but it's a grand way to while away 90 minutes.

mikhail · 15-05-2020 2:30pm

peteeeed wrote: »

The American (2010) G Clooney

I quite like that. It's slow-paced, but it kept me engaged. Clooney plays a gunman hiding out in a remote and pretty Italian town, and starting to weary of his lonely lifestyle. It wears its inspiration from westerns on its sleeve, even playing Once Upon a Time in the West on a background TV at one point. He befriends a prostitute and a priest. There are a few violent scenes, but they're more garnish than the point. It's directed by Corbijn, probably more famous for Control. The dialogue is sparse, and the photography is lovely.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 15-05-2020 2:37pm

FunLover18 wrote: »

Watched Extra Ordinary last night, it's very funny. Maeve Higgins acting isn't great and the last 15/20 minutes are ridiculous but it's a grand way to while away 90 minutes.

Watched this myself the other day. There were a couple of jokes in the opening sequence that had me in stitches but the rest of it never quite lived up to the opening. Still, as you say, not a bad way to kill 90 minutes

Spon Farmer · 15-05-2020 3:36pm

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

This thread has been weird the last few weeks. First it was the Michael Jordon spoiler wars, now it's flipped completely and it's apology wars. Strange times.

I’m guessing you are referring to a show or documentary about the famous basketball player and not series that follows my cousin around in his day to day life?

Also If a couple of apologies are that big a deal what kind of people are you interacting with here.

Synode · 15-05-2020 3:40pm

The Wrong Missy just got slated on Moncrieff. Will probably still give it a watch

Caranica · 15-05-2020 4:01pm

Synode wrote: »

The Wrong Missy just got slated on Moncrieff. Will probably still give it a watch

Clint on radio Nova gave it 3.5/5

Hercule Poirot · 15-05-2020 4:51pm

I will not be watching The Wrong Missy because I refuse point blank to watch anything with David Spade in it

Spon Farmer · 15-05-2020 6:07pm

Hercule Poirot wrote: »

I will not be watching The Wrong Missy because I refuse point blank to watch anything with David Spade in it

I didn’t know some people needed to make a conscious decision about such a thing.

Thought it was instinct.

peteeeed · 15-05-2020 9:03pm

Oblivion
The soloist
The interpreter
Indside man
Elizabeth the Golden age
Closes circuit
Added as well

RocketRaccoon · 15-05-2020 11:10pm

Watched The Wrong Missy tonight, it won't win any awards but it passed 90 minutes and I didn't turn it off which has happened to previous Netflix movies. It's grand, nothing more.

Ozymandius2011 · 16-05-2020 3:55am

Hollywood. A new drama series depicting the gay (and sometimes straight) casting couch culture in Hollywood before the MeToo movement. Also depicts the problems ethnic minorities had getting acting roles in the Hollywood of old. Depicts historical figures like Henry Wilson and Rock Hudson.

Ardillaun · 16-05-2020 4:36am

I'm watching Mad Men again before it disappears from Netflix and the subtitles are on to clear up stuff I missed before. What exquisite acting and writing. Why do I identify so much with the wretched Pete Campbell? Back in those days, a relative of mine bought an E-type Jaguar he could certainly not afford and was always complaining how unreliable it was - thus I had to laugh when Lane tried to kill himself in such a vehicle and the bloody thing wouldn't start. One mystery solved this time: Peggy Olson explains in a phone call that while her father was Norwegian and Lutheran, her mother was Irish and Catholic, hence a Norwegian Catholic. Her snobby Swedish roomie says they won't mention the fact that she's Norwegian, a little bit of Scandinavian animosity there. So many wonderful details.

I have a few minor quibbles about, say, the peculiarly generic French from France and not very Montreal accents of the Calvets, esp. the mother. Even Jessica Paré, the native Montrealer who plays Don's second wife Megan (Megan?), doesn't sound local. Montreal is not far from New York - these are odd artistic decisions to make. Did Weiner unconsciously choose the name Calvet, very rare in Quebec, because of his own state Maryland's founder Calvert? Some of the British stuff is strange too. I can forgive Lane for talking American but not his chums in London, and who in Britain could afford to buy an American ad agency in the early Sixties? They barely had enough to keep the heat on.

Anyway, Mad Men is a magnificent achievement, up there with the Sopranos, the Wire and Breaking Bad for me. Ozark showed the same ambition. I'm basically looking for a solid fifty or so hour movie about 'real life', more or less. Zombies etc. need not apply. So if you spot anything near that on Netflix, please give me a shout.

JoeExotic81 · 16-05-2020 7:39am

Interesting ^^

You're not the first to notice this error - https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a21720/mad-men-french-canadians/

Is it leaving Netflix?? And yes, it's an all time classic!

Heckler · 16-05-2020 7:48am

I was on the fence for the first few episodes of Schitts Creek but stuck with it and glad I did. One of the best series I've seen in a while. Very touching without being schmaltzy. Anytime it was going to go cheese it was reigned in in by someone.

Fantastic outta 10 Beh Beh!

Caranica · 16-05-2020 9:39am

Ozymandius2011 wrote: »

Hollywood. A new drama series depicting the gay (and sometimes straight) casting couch culture in Hollywood before the MeToo movement. Also depicts the problems ethnic minorities had getting acting roles in the Hollywood of old. Depicts historical figures like Henry Wilson and Rock Hudson.

It has so much potential, and fails miserably.

peteeeed · 16-05-2020 9:48am

Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: A Schitt's Creek Farewell
From unseen footage to the last table read, this documentary takes an inside look at the final season of the acclaimed comedy series "Schitt's Creek."

South Park season 22

Added

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 16-05-2020 10:09am

JoeExotic81 wrote: »

Interesting ^^

You're not the first to notice this error - https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a21720/mad-men-french-canadians/

Is it leaving Netflix?? And yes, it's an all time classic!

It's leaving on the 9th of June

Caranica · 16-05-2020 10:49am

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

It's leaving on the 9th of June

Better get started on that so. It's been on my list forever.

Addle · 16-05-2020 11:14am

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

It's leaving on the 9th of June

Mad men is my favourite show ever.
I always go back to it. Will miss it.

cdgalwegian · 16-05-2020 12:38pm

Ardillaun wrote: »

I'm watching Mad Men again before it disappears from Netflix.. So many wonderful details.

It's renowned for its attention to detail:
https://mashable.com/2015/04/19/mad-men-historic-details/?europe=true

mooseknunkle · 16-05-2020 12:40pm

The last dance is the best show Netflix have made,episode 7 is amazing.

Irish_rat · 16-05-2020 12:45pm

Ragnarok is a Norwegian fantasy series worth watching. It could be a little more serious but decent viewing.

The Photographer of Mauthausen is excellent. Gives a grim view of a photographers account in the Nazi concentration camp.

ZeeKane · 16-05-2020 1:03pm

Loved the first season of Dead To Me. Hoping to binge the second season soon, it just dropped a few days ago

cdgalwegian · 16-05-2020 3:48pm

Irish_rat wrote: »

Ragnarok is a Norwegian fantasy series worth watching. It could be a little more serious but decent viewing.

I gave up on the third episode; it was a nice idea/angle, but was a little too slow, with teenage angst parts not doing it for me. Environmentalistic moralism a little too on the nose, but its heart is in the right place. With some tightening up, and as you say- making it a little more serious- I think I might have stayed.