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delta_bravo

Not really festive viewing but I highly recommend the documentary "the bridge". It tells the story of various people that have or tried to end their life by jumping off the golden gate bridge. It includes footage of the actual attempts and interviews with family and friends. Very poignant and moving.

shortys94

Just watched Humboldt County, gotta say its a really good movie, check it out if you can, about a very uptight medical student who discovers an alternate lifestyle in California along with some really humble personalities.

Tipsy McSwagger

The West Wing is on US Netflix now.

sweetie

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Take this waltz by Sarah polley featuring Seth rogen and Michelle Williams.

grimm2005

Just noticed "Girls with Low Self Esteem" from Arrested Development was added recently on US Netflix. Turns out they've added a bunch of fake shows/movies that were mentioned in Arrested Development in the past which just link to the episode where it's mentioned.

Pretty amusing, obviously the beginning of marketing for the forthcoming new series.

http://jezebel.com/5970014/netflix-sort-of-releases-les-cousins-dangereux-girls-with-low-self+esteem-and-other-arrested-development-favorites

Sertus

Any chance could should start a thread for Irish netflix, most of the chat here is for US netflix.

Technocentral

Sertus wrote: »

Any chance could should start a thread for Irish netflix, most of the chat here is for US netflix.

Why have a weekend in Courtown when you could have a fortnight in the Seychelles for the same price?

krudler

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

The West Wing is on US Netflix now.

Been meaning to watch this for donkeys years, nows my chance

Tipsy McSwagger

krudler wrote: »

Been meaning to watch this for donkeys years, nows my chance

Me too. Watched the first episode last night and the presidents entrance is a classic. I actually had my brand new Raiders of the Lost Ark blu ray in the PS3 ready to play but watched The West Wing instead

Technocentral

krudler wrote: »

Been meaning to watch this for donkeys years, nows my chance

Same here, in the first two episodes the characters are so unlikable I wasn't going to bother, but then after watching 3 and now 4 I'm really getting into it!

johnny_ultimate

The West Wing addiction will set in quickly - it's a show to really gorge on.

Just watch out for the nasty Season 5 and the departure of Aaron Sorkin. Never seen a show take such a massive quality dive (although 'The Supremes' is one of the show's best episodes). Luckily it establishes a new and effective identity in season six and seven.

Sertus wrote: »

Any chance could should start a thread for Irish netflix, most of the chat here is for US netflix.

This has come up before, and we don't see any need to start another recommendations thread (there's overlap between this and 'what have you watched recently' already). As long as the country is flagged correctly, I don't see any problem. More posters starting to proactively recommending stuff from the Irish catalogue would be a postive step

Sertus

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

More posters starting to proactively recommending stuff from the Irish catalogue would be a positive step

That's where I coming from. I stopped using this thread because of it, and I imagine its off putting to other Irish Netflix users as well.

The vast majority of recommendations here are for US netflix. Now, I've no problem with people who hack US netflix or live in the USA, that's their own personal choice/morality. I don't live in the USA and I prefer to stay honest about it, and that's my own personal choice/morality. I'm just saying the people who would prefer to use Irish netflix, would prefer not having to wade through US netflix recommendations to find a few Irish ones. Look rather than start any conflict here, I'll just open an Irish Netflix thread.

Sertus

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Sertus wrote: »

That's where I coming from. I stopped using this thread because of it, and I imagine its off putting to other Irish Netflix users as well.

The vast majority of recommendations here are for US netflix. Now, I've no problem with people who hack US netflix or live in the USA, that's their own personal choice/morality. I don't live in the USA and I prefer to stay honest about it, and that's my own personal choice/morality. I'm just saying the people who would prefer to use Irish netflix, would prefer not having to wade through US netflix recommendations to find a few Irish ones. Look rather than start any conflict here, I'll just open an Irish Netflix thread.

There is no question of morality or honesty involved. Bypassing the region restriction is completely legal and Netflix couldn't give a damn about their customers doing so. They could easily stop it but recognise that it's a massive revenue stream for them.

Just so you know Johnny is a mod and as such when he says there is no need for a thread you take that as gospel. Going ahead and opening a thread when you were told not to means it may got locked rather quickly.

krudler

Sertus wrote: »

That's where I coming from. I stopped using this thread because of it, and I imagine its off putting to other Irish Netflix users as well.

The vast majority of recommendations here are for US netflix. Now, I've no problem with people who hack US netflix or live in the USA, that's their own personal choice/morality. I don't live in the USA and I prefer to stay honest about it, and that's my own personal choice/morality. I'm just saying the people who would prefer to use Irish netflix, would prefer not having to wade through US netflix recommendations to find a few Irish ones. Look rather than start any conflict here, I'll just open an Irish Netflix thread.

"hack" netflix? there's no hacking involved its a simple numbers change, netflix know well that people do it too, the US one is far better anyway

krudler

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

The West Wing addiction will set in quickly - it's a show to really gorge on.

Just watch out for the nasty Season 5 and the departure of Aaron Sorkin. Never seen a show take such a massive quality dive (although 'The Supremes' is one of the show's best episodes). Luckily it establishes a new and effective identity in season six and seven.

Did you watch any of The Newsroom? watched the first few episodes but it didn't seem to know what it wanted to be, and the usage of real life news stories was odd, became all shoulda coulda woulda about real life events.

Sorkin's stuff his hit and miss, he re-uses his own dialogue constantly and everyone talks like they're reading from a script, you'd never get a real life situation where so many people in one place have razor sharp wit and verbosity :pac:

johnny_ultimate

Sertus wrote: »

That's where I coming from. I stopped using this thread because of it, and I imagine its off putting to other Irish Netflix users as well.

The vast majority of recommendations here are for US netflix. Now, I've no problem with people who hack US netflix or live in the USA, that's their own personal choice/morality. I don't live in the USA and I prefer to stay honest about it, and that's my own personal choice/morality. I'm just saying the people who would prefer to use Irish netflix, would prefer not having to wade through US netflix recommendations to find a few Irish ones. Look rather than start any conflict here, I'll just open an Irish Netflix thread.

We've had this discussion before, and really we just don't want the forum getting clogged up with recommendations threads. Netflix is just a service provider at the end of the day, and recommendations - Irish or US - are going to be available elsewhere if you want to track down the films in question.

Again, as long as the recommendations are clearly flagged as Irish, US or whatever, I really cannot see the need for two threads when one will suffice. It's just too messy, and since there's only limited discussion potential in the threads, we'd prefer to encourage threads with more room for debate.

Sertus

As I said, I've no issue with those who want to excuse their access to US Netflix, that's their own issue, but there should be an alternative for people who don't want to go down that route. Anyways, clearly any discussions, questions or threads by people who want to stay above board is not welcome here, so i'll leave you to your activities.

Johnny The Fox

Sertus wrote: »

As I said, I've no issue with those who want to excuse their access to US Netflix, that's their own issue, but there should be an alternative for people who don't want to go down that route. Anyways, clearly any discussions, questions or threads by people who want to stay above board is not welcome here, so i'll leave you to your activities.

Get off your high horse big boy!

Technocentral

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

The West Wing addiction will set in quickly - it's a show to really gorge on.

Just watch out for the nasty Season 5 and the departure of Aaron Sorkin. Never seen a show take such a massive quality dive (although 'The Supremes' is one of the show's best episodes). Luckily it establishes a new and effective identity in season six and seven.



This has come up before, and we don't see any need to start another recommendations thread (there's overlap between this and 'what have you watched recently' already). As long as the country is flagged correctly, I don't see any problem. More posters starting to proactively recommending stuff from the Irish catalogue would be a postive step

Of course I was aware of its huge reputation but probably missed it on tv back in the days before easy recording and access and only seen a 3rd season episode and thought there's no point in watching it because I missed the first two seasons, but yeah of course its great once you get into it.

F1ngers

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

The West Wing is on US Netflix now.

Just saw this on their twitter feed, probably watch that after The Wire

Sertus wrote: »

Any chance could should start a thread for Irish netflix, most of the chat here is for US netflix.

What device are you using to watch netflix?

Mickeroo

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Sertus wrote: »

As I said, I've no issue with those who want to excuse their access to US Netflix, that's their own issue, but there should be an alternative for people who don't want to go down that route. Anyways, clearly any discussions, questions or threads by people who want to stay above board is not welcome here, so i'll leave you to your activities.

Nobody's excusing anything, its a service I pay for. It's freely advertised across the internet on the likes of facebook etc. Frankly I don't see why anyone wouldn't use it, but if you don't want to thats your choice.

Besides, there's plenty of films recommended on Irish Netflix on this thread. I only have to go back two pages to see about 12 film recommendations directly to you.

Technocentral

Sertus wrote: »

As I said, I've no issue with those who want to excuse their access to US Netflix, that's their own issue, but there should be an alternative for people who don't want to go down that route. Anyways, clearly any discussions, questions or threads by people who want to stay above board is not welcome here, so i'll leave you to your activities.

This has come up a number of times before, as long as people say which version a particular programme is on its not an issue, all comments are welcome here but judging people over petty shˆte like DNS's isnt.

johnny_ultimate

Sertus wrote: »

As I said, I've no issue with those who want to excuse their access to US Netflix, that's their own issue, but there should be an alternative for people who don't want to go down that route. Anyways, clearly any discussions, questions or threads by people who want to stay above board is not welcome here, so i'll leave you to your activities.

Actually, we take great pains to ensure this forum is extremely anti-piracy, and are always encouraging legitimate means of film viewing. If you want to recommend films here from Irish Netflix, I honestly fail to see what's stopping you? There's hundreds of posts in this very thread doing just that.

Anyway, everyone let's get back on topic please. Cheers.

MyBrokenKnees

Back to Movies Netflix Ireland. I watched Act of Valour a movie made with real Navy Seals. Sadly it is very bad even for a B movie.

johnny_ultimate

I've deleted the last few off-topic posts. Recommendations (and discussion of the recommended films / TV shows) only from here on out please, as is the thread's purpose. Cheers

Technocentral

MyBrokenKnees wrote: »

Back to Movies Netflix Ireland. I watched Act of Valour a movie made with real Navy Seals. Sadly it is very bad even for a B movie.

Not to mention horrible, pro military propaganda.

krudler

I tried to watch The Story Of Film, it looks really interesting, but that guy narrating it is horrendous, that drawling Nordie accent is beyond irritating, turned it off after a few mins

Bellu

Really like Netflix, which highly recommend in iFunia blog for watching movies on iPad, recently it appear error 139 sometime, but sometimes it works fine.

sweetie

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Enjoyed young adult on us Netflix. Charlize theron Patton oswalt Written by Diablo Cody.

krudler

sweetie wrote: »

Enjoyed young adult on us Netflix. Charlize theron Patton oswalt Written by Diablo Cody.

I quite enjoyed that, depsite my abject hatred of Cody's scriptwriting, Theron and Oswalt are both excellent in it.