Amazon Prime Film/TV Series Recommendations

The Raging Bile Duct

Filmage: The Story of the Descendents is on prime! Such a great documentary about a great band.

gmisk

I see greenland has been added.
Its a pretty decent end of the world type film, not totally filled with massive action scenes.
But a fun enough popcorn movie.
Surprisingly Gerard Butler is pretty decent in it.

steve_r

So "Sound of metal", the 2019 film was (part)produced by Amazon I think but doesn't appear to be on ROI prime?

S.M.B.

Did Amazon not just buy distribution rights after it was screened at TIFF a few years ago? I believe they only bought US rights and someone else got UK rights and it was recently released in cinemas.

Bowlardo

modern love fairly good cast . Really enjoyed it. New York looks amazing in it. Something sunny to watch on these grey days.

steve_r

S.M.B. wrote: »

Did Amazon not just buy distribution rights after it was screened at TIFF a few years ago? I believe they only bought US rights and someone else got UK rights and it was recently released in cinemas.

Must be the case

Wrongway1985

Bowlardo wrote: »

modern love fairly good cast . Really enjoyed it. New York looks amazing in it. Something sunny to watch on these grey days.

Irish director for the majority of it too, surprised this does seem to be overlooked clearly has one or two stinker episodes but overall brilliant.

Wrongway1985

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

3 Days to Kill (K.Costner/H.Steinfeld)
21
48 Hrs.
The Accountant (B.Affleck/A.Kendrick)
Another 48 Hrs.
Assassin
Beautiful Creatures
Beer League
Beverly Hills Cop II
Beverly Hills Cop III
The Beyond (Original Title: ...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà)
Bliss (O.Wilson/Hayek)(Amazon Original)(2021)
Captain Fantastic (Mortensen)
Catch and Release
City of Ember
Crank: High Voltage
Coming to America
Conan the Barbarian (Momoa)
Conscience Point (Documentary) (2019)
Cum On Feel The Noize (Documentary)(2017)
Dead Snow (Original Title: Død snø)
Dead Snow 2: Red Vs Dead
Disconnect (Bateman)
Dreamgirls
Ender's Game
Ex Machina
Filmage: The Story of Descendents/All
Forrest Gump
God Has A Rap Sheet
Greenland (2020)
The Host
The House on Sorority Row
The Inglorious Bastards (Original Title: Quel maledetto treno blindato)
An Interview with God
I Think We're Alone Now
The Life of David Gale
I Love You Phillip Morris
Last Chance Harvey
Lay the Favourite
Limitless (B.Cooper/De Niro)
Love in Paradise (L.Perry)
Love Happens
Magic Mike
Miss You Already
A Monster Calls
North of the Rio Grande
Outbreak
Parker
Passengers (J.Laurence/C.Pratt)
The Poison Rose (Travolta/Freeman)(2019)
Pompeii
Prime (U.Thurman)
P.S. I Love You
Puzzle (K.McDonald)
Quartet
Remember Me
Robot & Frank (F.Langella)
Salem Witch Trials
Sex and the City
Snatch
Something New
Sully (Hanks)
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Tracers
Troy (B.Pitt)
Vodka Diaries

Expiring soon (That I'm aware of)

Body of Lies - 14/2
Black Mass - 15/2
Cloud Atlas - 15/2
The Constant Gardener - 15/2
The Meg - 16/2
Sweeny Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 16/2
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - 17/2
J. Edgar - 17/2

Downton Abbey - 13/2
Bates Motel - 19/2

Man Vs ManUre

Disconnect is pretty good. Had never heard of it before watching, a very emotional film.

Mickeroo

Robot and Frank is a really good little sci fi comedy.

cdgalwegian

Mickeroo wrote: »

Robot and Frank is a really good little sci fi comedy.

I'd mark it down more as a drama, but it is a lovely bitter/sweet story that everyone should see. The sci-fi element is minimal, but despite that. like all good sci-fi, it does a great job in examining the human condition, Frank Langella is a joy in it.

EverythingGood

Can highly recommend Icelandic drama "Trapped". Was originally on BBC 4 - but an excellent series with 2 parts, 10 episodes each, but stand alone stories.

Wrongway1985

EverythingGood wrote: »

Can highly recommend Icelandic drama "Trapped". Was originally on BBC 4 - but an excellent series with 2 parts, 10 episodes each, but stand alone stories.

Indeed,great watch as far as I'm concerned too. First season dealing with a ship that is instructed to stay at port as it could have suspects in a recent discovery on board and the second season a man lights himself on fire in an attack on a political figurehead.

Wrongway1985

Watched "The Rental" the other night. As a big horror fan the 10's were a pretty gold standard period for horror movies, this is a throwback to the type of stuff that was 10 a penny in the late 90s/early 00's off the back of Scream and the like.

This though is also one of those vaguely horror but does enough to land the tag. A half-baked drama for the most part with characters you couldn't care less for something you might think would be almost impossible to get wrong with Dan Stevens and Alison Brie amongst the cast to begin with, but alas no. Pretty dire directorial debut from Brie's husband Dave Franco.

The Raging Bile Duct

Wrongway1985 wrote: »

Watched "The Rental" the other night. As a big horror fan the 10's were a pretty gold standard period for horror movies, this is a throwback to the type of stuff that was 10 a penny in the late 90s/early 00's off the back of Scream and the like.

This though is also one of those vaguely horror but does enough to land the tag. A half-baked drama for the most part with characters you couldn't care less for something you might think would be almost impossible to get wrong with Dan Stevens and Alison Brie amongst the cast to begin with, but alas no. Pretty dire directorial debut from Brie's husband Dave Franco.

One of the most unsatisfying movies I've seen in a while. It came to absolutely nothing in the end.

gmisk

Soulmates is really good if anyone hasn't watched it (well first episode).

Brief blurb below

In the very near future, a test is developed that incontrovertibly lets a person know who their soulmate is. The new science is clear, and no matter a person's current relationship status, whether they are single, dating or even married, this test will unmistakably point a person in the direction of their actual, scientifically determined soulmate

Praise be the TV series with many seasons during this Pandemic.

Rewatching The Shield 15 years later, had been saving it for a rainy day. Such a fantastic show. Kurt Sutter is a brilliant writer, no surprise he has had so much success.
First 3 seasons are outstanding, strangely with Glenn Close coming in for Season 4, being such a strong actress it took a serious dip, but Sutter seemed to disappear from the writing credits so no surprise. But Forrest Whitaker comes in for Season 5 and steals the show in his IAD role. Might well be his career best, as the show is for most of its tenured actors.

The style of shooting on this show really adds to its intensity, just like 24 it delivers a feeling that the actors are being watched by someone sinister. Very clever way to shoot.
One of the greatest.

steve_r

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Praise be the TV series with many seasons during this Pandemic.

Rewatching The Shield 15 years later, had been saving it for a rainy day. Such a fantastic show. Kurt Sutter is a brilliant writer, no surprise he has had so much success.
First 3 seasons are outstanding, strangely with Glenn Close coming in for Season 4, being such a strong actress it took a serious dip, but Sutter seemed to disappear from the writing credits so no surprise. But Forrest Whitaker comes in for Season 5 and steals the show in his IAD role. Might well be his career best, as the show is for most of its tenured actors.

The style of shooting on this show really adds to its intensity, just like 24 it delivers a feeling that the actors are being watched by someone sinister. Very clever way to shoot.
One of the greatest.

100% agree.

I’d started the shield a few years ago and then stopped after season 4. I picked it up again when it landed on prime and finished it recently. It’s got the best final season and best ending of all the prestige shows IMO

shrapnel222

Another vote for Saint Maud. Great little movie. actually got shivers down my spine in one scene

Captain Red Beard

shrapnel222 wrote: »

Another vote for Saint Maud. Great little movie. actually got shivers down my spine in one scene

On Amazon? I couldn't find it.

shrapnel222

Captain Red Beard wrote: »

On Amazon? I couldn't find it.

It's there for me. Only thing I can think of is that I'm in the UK (which I thought was the same offering as Ireland?)

S.M.B.

It's available for me to rent or buy on Amazon in the UK but that's it.

shrapnel222

S.M.B. wrote: »

It's available for me to rent or buy on Amazon in the UK but that's it.

yep, same

donfers

Two excellent movies on Amazon:

Disconnect

Greenland

I have incredibly high standards and very little impresses but both of these were entertaining. The second one I was not particularly hopeful for as Gerard Butler is in a lead role but it turned out to be a good watch

Mickeroo

Kermode gave Greenland a decent review so I am looking forward to watching it over the weekend. Been fairly starved for blockbuster cinema the past year so even a half decent one is welcome at this point.

johnny_ultimate

Greenland is an interesting mix of being a surprisingly grounded bit of survival cinema, and an absolutely ludicrous bit of disaster cinema. It’s oddly compelling. Certainly a cut above your Armageddons, if not quite at the point of being an unambiguously good film :pac:

darced

Yeah I'll give anther vote for greenland, pretty good alright, enjoyed it.

EverythingGood

donfers wrote: »

Two excellent movies on Amazon:

Disconnect

Greenland

"I have incredibly high standards"

I actually don't understand what that means? What's the base line? In comparison to who or what? Isn't taste subjective and not objective

secondrowgal

Greenland - definitely NOT excellent. A poor man's Armageddon, and that's saying something! Nevertheless, fine for a Friday night with a few glasses of vino.

killbillvol2

donfers wrote: »

Greenland

I have incredibly high standards

You really don't I'm afraid.