Netflix Recommendations 2.0 *READ FIRST POST*

Mantis Toboggan

brick tamland wrote: »

Anyone know what's going on with It's always sunny? Not up yet

Same, been waiting around all day for it..

Heckler

As a huge fan I'd say it was a bad season. Something really off about it. Maybe time to put it to bed.

KERSPLAT!

retro:electro wrote: »

Oh god I don’t know. I was expecting it to be quite dark like The Fall but it was just overtly Americanised cliched gack.

It doesn't really change from that but does get better in other ways IMO. I finished it and thought it was good.

Definitely not realistic if that's what you're looking for

JohnCreedon81

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

It doesn't really change from that but does get better in other ways IMO. I finished it and thought it was good.

Definitely not realistic if that's what you're looking for

I flicked through the remaining episodes after watching the first one fully, and it really really doesn’t improve. It gets more ridiculous and the characters and acting get even worse.

My advice is if you dislike the first one, scrap it and count yourself lucky you only wasted 45 minutes on this horsesh!t.

stampydmonkey

JohnCreedon81 wrote: »

I flicked through the remaining episodes after watching the first one fully, and it really really doesn’t improve. It gets more ridiculous and the characters and acting get even worse.

My advice is if you dislike the first one, scrap it and count yourself lucky you only wasted 45 minutes on this horsesh!t.

Going through it now. Not the worst. Quite clichéd alright but still has its funny moments

Hurrache

retro:electro wrote: »

Oh god I don’t know. I was expecting it to be quite dark like The Fall but it was just overtly Americanised cliched gack.

But there's very few clichés around the story, or I'm just not watching enough TV. There's few shows like it?

retro:electro

Hurrache wrote: »

But there's very few clichés around the story, or I'm just not watching enough TV. There's few shows like it?

Archetypcal one dimensional characters for starters. I could see most of the plot coming a mile off. And don’t get me started on when

she started getting off to a pillow with no curtains, bloody ridiculous. The sterotypical nerdy kid with the douchy abusive step-dad. Yer one being so blotto she falls and nearly kills herself on the train tracks but has the mental wherewithal to remember the song the drunk on the platform was singing and write the lyrics in the book. The douchy ex boyfriend ugh it’s just all so obvious.

Again, I’m only judging it on one episode and perhaps it’s an unfair judgement but I’m not enticed enough to watch any more of it.

Hurrache

But it's not obvious, nor are any of the characters one dimensional, but you're only basing your comments on one episode so there's a lot you won't know. Never watched Gossip Girl but it's nothing like Desperate Housewives.

Sure the description of the show gives away the plot, there's no great insight there.

It's doing great on both Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB (the latter I rarely agree with) so it's unfair for people to say it's ****, it's most likely just not their cup of tea.

JohnCreedon81

It’s sh!t

NIMAN

Watched Roma last night.

Well, I say watched it. Stopped after the hour mark, tripe. Wil' boring.

Sometimes I can't understand rave reviews for what I see as bad films. Then again perhaps I'm a philistine. Hated Moonlight too.

Synode

NIMAN wrote: »

Watched Roma last night.

Well, I say watched it. Stopped after the hour mark, tripe. Wil' boring.

Sometimes I can't understand rave reviews for what I see as bad films. Then again perhaps I'm a philistine. Hated Moonlight too.

I watched it a few weeks ago. Beautifully shot but like watching paint dry. Stuck with it to the end though

NIMAN

Synode wrote: »

I watched it a few weeks ago. Beautifully shot but like watching paint dry. Stuck with it to the end though

Beautifully shot sh1te though.

Ilovethe bonesofyou

NIMAN wrote:

Sometimes I can't understand rave reviews for what I see as bad films. Then again perhaps I'm a philistine. Hated Moonlight too.

I'm the same. Could see Roma was well made but found it boring myself. Watched it until the end just in case it would pay off but alas I was bored til the end. I didn't like Moonlight either. Maybe the importance of the topic outweighed the quality of the film when it came to the critical acclaim for Moonlight.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Roma was very static, distant if beautiful cinematography. It was slow but I did get into it. Not everybody’s cup of tea.

Bird man would also not be a cuppa for the masses but I’m enjoying it more than I thought. The exact opposite to Roma, it’s a tracking camera following the actors in one long movie length (fake) tracking shot. Hard to see the editing though.

They are both very technical movies, appealing to cinephiles more than normal punters. Hence the reviews.

johnny_ultimate

I genuinely was completely immersed in Roma. There's just something so rewarding to me about seeing a master tell a story with such breathtaking clarity and cinematic fluency. How the long takes are so rich with detail and little moments. How the camera gracefully pans across a scene, taking everything in at its own leisure. How Cuaron picks the moments to zoom in close for an emotional reaction... and how he picks moments to step away a bit, or to leisurely dole out key information through overheard conversations or hints. The sheer beauty of the compositions, or the impeccable staging of sequences like the forest fire or the climactic beach scene or the shopping trip gone wrong. How it combines this deeply intimate story with brilliantly-realised period detail. That I totally bought into the emotions and narrative of the thing helped of course :pac:

Truly one of the most beautiful films I've seen in the last few years, and would have been my favourite of 2018 if Lee Chang-dong hadn't gone and made a masterpiece as well. Kind of film that makes me excited about the whole artform all over again, to be honest. Definitely can see how it's not for everyone, but would urge people who haven't watched it yet to give it a chance and see if it washes over you. There's many, many pleasures to be found in it.

Bunny Colvin

Season 13 of It's Always Sunny is now uploaded

shamrock55

Seems like netflix are producing more bad then good these days

mrmorgan

just switched on annihilation....

Tea drinker

mrmorgan wrote: »

just switched on annihilation....

I found it good

peteeeed

Catwalk: Tales from the Cat Show Circuit
This fun, charming documentary follows the exploits of some very feline-friendly folks as they strive to get their kitties crowned Canada's top cat
added today
and as mentioned above its always sunny has arrived for its 13th season

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

shamrock55 wrote: »

Seems like netflix are producing more bad then good these days

This.

EPAndlee

I'm finding Season 13 of Sunny better second time round

Ginger83

All is lost.....good film

Mantis Toboggan

EPAndlee wrote: »

I'm finding Season 13 of Sunny better second time round

Always sunny is like that, the more you watch it the better it gets.

BBFAN

What's Always Sunny?

BBFAN

I enjoyed Birdbox, gripping from start to finish and I don't even like Sandra Bullock.

mikhail

BBFAN wrote: »

What's Always Sunny?

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Very popular sit-com in which four friends run a bar. Danny DeVito was so taken by season 1 that he joined the cast as the dad of two of the characters.

BBFAN

mikhail wrote: »

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Very popular sit-com in which four friends run a bar. Danny DeVito was so taken by season 1 that he joined the cast as the dad of two of the characters.

Thanks, not a mad sit com fan although my son kept telling me to watch Brooklyn 999 and I have to admit it gives me light relief and a giggle when I'm in need of light viewing.

Hurrache

It's a disservice to call it a sitcom, it's 22 minutes of insane hilarity surrounding a gang of psychopaths.

It's in a different league than Brooklyn 99.

BBFAN

Hurrache wrote: »

It's a disservice to call it a sitcom, it's 22 minutes of insane hilarity surrounding a gang of psychopaths.

It's in a different league than Brooklyn 99.

Thanks Hurrache, I'll give it a go.