Amazon Prime Film/TV Series Recommendations

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

S.M.B. wrote: »

I have a Just Watch account but mainly use letterboxd which uses Just Watch data.

Having a look at the Just Watch app now and I can't find where you see what service a movie is going to be on at a future date which is more what I was enquiring about. Or am I missing something obvious?

I don't think there is a service that will tell you that. The individual services sometimes release details of what's coming in the next month, like Netflix do. Or Amazon usually just promote their own stuff. You kind of just have to dig around yourself for that info.

FunLover18

S.M.B. wrote: »

I have a Just Watch account but mainly use letterboxd which uses Just Watch data.

Having a look at the Just Watch app now and I can't find where you see what service a movie is going to be on at a future date which is more what I was enquiring about. Or am I missing something obvious?

Sorry I misunderstood your query.

S.M.B.

It's a pretty minor issue but one that does annoy me. I often rush to watch a movie that's leaving a platform to then see it pop up in another a week later. I was hoping there may be some service that highlights that I was unaware of but as Elmo has said, it appears to require a bit of digging around by oneself.

Seeing the news of Dogville leaving means I may have to find 3 hours to sit down and watch it soon.

Wrongway1985

S.M.B. wrote: »

Seeing the news of Dogville leaving means I may have to find 3 hours to sit down and watch it soon.

Same it's been on my watchlist for months haven't seen it since it came out.

As an aside it's happened a number of occasions that a title gets removed only for it to return to Prime in a matter of weeks.

santana75

Star Trek Lower decks

This is absolutely brilliant. Its proper Trek, it has the look and the feel of TNG and DS9. Funny but still respectful. Guaranteed to lift your spirits in these current times.

pah

santana75 wrote: »

Star Trek Lower decks

This is absolutely brilliant. Its proper Trek, it has the look and the feel of TNG and DS9. Funny but still respectful. Guaranteed to lift your spirits in these current times.

I wholeheartedly agree, although I found the first few episodes frenetic it settles down and shines for the latter half of the season IMO. Give it a chance.

Klonker

Would ye guys still recommend it to non trekkies?

santana75

Klonker wrote: »

Would ye guys still recommend it to non trekkies?

Absolutely I'm not a die hard star trek fan myself. I do like TNG and DS9 but I wouldn't be someone who knows the finer details of characters or episodes. Lower decks is a lot of fun, I think anyone could watch it and enjoy it even if you didnt know much about the other shows.

EverythingGood

santana75 wrote: »

Absolutely I'm not a die hard star trek fan myself. I do like TNG and DS9 but I wouldn't be someone who knows the finer details of characters or episodes. Lower decks is a lot of fun, I think anyone could watch it and enjoy it even if you didnt know much about the other shows.

is it animated?

bugsyb4

Say for instance Dogville is leaving on the 30/01 (Sat), any idea what time it goes?

So would I have the whole day Sat to watch it. Sat is now movie night and that one looks good but won't get to sit down and watch it until after 8pm so be annoying if was gone before that!

S.M.B.

The last time I kept an eye on titles leaving I believe they were available on the date specified but I'm not 100%.

I've also no idea what time they get removed at either. Imagine sitting down at 9.00pm to watch Dogville pausing it half way through for a toilet break and then at midnight the stream stops and you miss the final ~20 minutes.

Wrongway1985

S.M.B. wrote: »

The last time I kept an eye on titles leaving I believe they were available on the date specified but I'm not 100%

I think that's right yeah, should be available till midnight where it then becomes the 31st. The expiry time ends up showing as hours closer to the time also.

garra

santana75 wrote: »

Star Trek Lower decks

This is absolutely brilliant. Its proper Trek, it has the look and the feel of TNG and DS9. Funny but still respectful. Guaranteed to lift your spirits in these current times.

Just for info in case anyone goes looking for this, this series is animated. So if you are like me and enjoy acting performances by actual humans, it may not be for you. This trend is getting tiresome now, just like electronic music!!

By the way, Sneaky Pete and Goliath are both worth a watch (no drawings included, except for a Vemeer or 2)

Man Vs ManUre

Watched Knives Out and Parasite the past week. 2 excellent films.

garra

Man Vs ManUre wrote: »

Watched Knives Out and Parasite the past week. 2 excellent films.

Agree with Parasite, really enjoyable watch. Not so much with Knives Out, which had a great cast but a bloody awful script, plot, smart-alecky humour and not an ounce of depth.. just vacuous nonsense really. For a comedy it didn't have one belly laugh moment, save the "eat sh1t" scene which again was more smart-alecky than genuinely humourous. Such a waste of a great cast.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

garra wrote: »

Agree with Parasite, really enjoyable watch. Not so much with Knives Out, which had a great cast but a bloody awful script, plot, smart-alecky humour and not an ounce of depth.. just vacuous nonsense really. For a comedy it didn't have one belly laugh moment, save the "eat sh1t" scene which again was more smart-alecky than genuinely humourous. Such a waste of a great cast.

I thought Knives Out was hilarious and far from vacuous. It was a pretty biting social commentary on racism and classicism in America.

Wrongway1985

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

I thought Knives Out was hilarious and far from vacuous. It was a pretty biting social commentary on racism and classicism in America.

Seems to be still up there, I thought it was well worth the watch too!

Wrongway1985

Selection of new titles/re-adds in the last week or so

Apparition
A Rainy Day in New York (Chamelet/E.Fanning)(2019)
Bandit Queen
Bicentennial Man
Blade Runner 2049 (Gosling)
The Bone Collector
Brides Maids
Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Comet
Constantine
Dark Shadows
Despicable Me 2
The Football Factory
Gangs of New York (Di Caprio/Day-Lewis/C.Diaz)
Girl, Interrupted
Gran Torino
Grimsby
Groundhog Day
Identity
Insidious: Chapter 3
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Kong: Skull Island
The Legend of Zorro
Legion (Bettany)
The Lego Batman Movie
The Long Walk Home (Spacek/W.Goldberg)
Little Nicky
Machete
Man of the House
The Mask of Zorro
Monsters (McNairy)
Mozart and the Whale
Pacific Rim
Practical Magic
Psycho (1960 original)
Quartet
Queens Logic (Bacon/J.L.Curtis)
The Rental (D.Stevens/A.Brie) (2020)
The River Wild
Secret Window (Depp)
Street Fighter
Superbad
When the Storm Fades
Wonder Woman (Gadot)


3 Caminos (Season 1) (2021)
The Great Escapists (Season 1) (2021)
Star Trek: Lower Decks (Season 1) (2020)

Expiring soon (That I'm aware of)

The Hateful Eight - 4/2
The Wedding Singer - 8/2
Miss Congeniality - 9/2
The Three Muskateers - 10/2

dubstepper

The Terror is excellent. Some great actors and writing. Absolutely recommended.

Also, from the above, it's worth catching The Hateful Eight again before it disappears. I watched it before Christmas and really enjoyed it, even though I had seen it before.

Unearthly

dubstepper wrote: »

The Terror is excellent. Some great actors and writing. Absolutely recommended.

Also, from the above, it's worth catching The Hateful Eight again before it disappears. I watched it before Christmas and really enjoyed it, even though I had seen it before.

Love The Hateful Eight. I think it's my favourite Tarantino film

mikhail

dubstepper wrote: »

The Terror is excellent. Some great actors and writing. Absolutely recommended.

It's been on RTE2 over recent weeks. I don't know if it'll repeat, but presumably possible. The book it's based on is by Dan Simmons, whose Hyperion is one of the great science fiction books of modern times.

The story is based on a true lost expedition, and the part about the dodgy tinned foods is true enough. Michael Palin wrote a book about it a couple of years ago, called Erebus (Erebus and Terror being the two ships).

jill_valentine

The Dan Simmons book has some truly weird **** in it that the show improves upon immensely imho.

The show's absolutely superb though. Unforgettable. Visually, thematically, everything about it got its claws in me. I was especially impressed they managed to give every ep a distinctly different look in an ostensibly monchrome setting.

Makes a brilliant companion piece with Chernobyl, and not just because of the cast crossover.

IrishHusk

Wrongway1985 wrote:

Apparition A Rainy Day in New York (Chamelet/E.Fanning)(2019) Bandit Queen Bicentennial Man Blade Runner 2049 (Gosling) The Bone Collector Brides Maids Charlie's Angels Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle Comet Constantine Dark Shadows Despicable Me 2 The Football Factory Gangs of New York (Di Caprio/Day-Lewis/C.Diaz) Girl, Interrupted Gran Torino Grimsby Groundhog Day Identity Insidious: Chapter 3 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Kong: Skull Island The Legend of Zorro Legion (Bettany) The Lego Batman Movie The Long Walk Home (Spacek/W.Goldberg) Little Nicky Machete Man of the House The Mask of Zorro Monsters (McNairy) Mozart and the Whale Pacific Rim Practical Magic Psycho (1960 original) Quartet Queens Logic (Bacon/J.L.Curtis) The Rental (D.Stevens/A.Brie) (2020) The River Wild Secret Window (Depp) Street Fighter Superbad When the Storm Fades Wonder Woman (Gadot)

Kong skull island is not showing up in my feed

garra

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

I thought Knives Out was hilarious and far from vacuous. It was a pretty biting social commentary on racism and classicism in America.

Fair enough I am probably in the minority on this one, perhaps it's biting social commentary about America is more palatable if you haven't already had a long life of hearing about these issues already (attitudes which have been around for donkeys years in the States... Boring!). It's still not funny though, I know that because it didn't make me laugh with joy.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

garra wrote: »

Fair enough I am probably in the minority on this one, perhaps it's biting social commentary about America is more palatable if you haven't already had a long life of hearing about these issues already (attitudes which have been around for donkeys years in the States... Boring!). It's still not funny though, I know that because it didn't make me laugh with joy.

Each to their own, obviously, but I found a lot of it to be relevant to the Trump era specifically, rather than the US's long history of racism and classicism. Humour is a personal thing though, if you didn't find it funny, you didn't find it funny.

Wrongway1985

IrishHusk wrote: »

Kong skull island is not showing up in my feed

A search shows its there for me anyway, not sure what you mean by feed if you mean recently added movies sure it probably won't appear there for 2 weeks or even in typical Amazon fashion!

dubstepper

garra wrote: »

Fair enough I am probably in the minority on this one, perhaps it's biting social commentary about America is more palatable if you haven't already had a long life of hearing about these issues already (attitudes which have been around for donkeys years in the States... Boring!). It's still not funny though, I know that because it didn't make me laugh with joy.

You weren't on your own. I couldn't see what the fuss was about at all. Stellar cast but not that good in my opinion.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

A Monster Calls has been added today. Can't reccomend this highly enough. It's a sort of dark fantasy drama, I guess, about a young boy, Conor, whose mother is sick with cancer and while trying to navigate all the changes in his life he ends up calling a tree monster (Liam Neeson) to his bedroom window. The monster makes a deal with him saying he will tell him 3 stories and when the last one is finished Conor has to tell the monster a story in return.

It's an incredibly moving and beautiful story, and it looks amazing too. They used a mix of practical and digital effects to create the monster and it looks amazing on screen. (The book, with illustrations by Jim Kay, is worth seeking out too)


Also added - Ex Machina, Captain Fantastic, Forrest Gump, Passengers, The Stanford Prison Experiment, I Think We're Alone Now.

S.M.B.

Nice, think A Monster Calls was there previously but I didn't get a chance to catch it. Saw a stage production of it here at the Old Vic in London and really liked it. I've heard good things about the film version so happy to see an additional recommendation here.

EoinMcLovin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMcQU2NQ4Dk