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Netflix Recommendations Thread 3.0

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  • #2252
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,395 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    mailburner wrote: »
    I watched this last night

    I can only echo every single word there.
    It's as good a movie as i've seen in years

    It seems to be a remake of a Korean film with the same name from 7 years ago.


  • #2253
    mailburner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,923 ✭✭✭✭mailburner


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    It seems to be a remake of a Korean film with the same name from 7 years ago.

    It is and there's an indonesian one also
    All three are very highly rated, korean one probably as good although
    the acting in this turkish one is superb.


  • #2254
    mailburner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,923 ✭✭✭✭mailburner


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    I'm watching a film called Tigertail and I can't figure out if it's supposed to look like it does, or if it's the reduced quality bandwidth whatever thingy?
    Some of it looks like kind of old grainy film, but it's flashbacks so I thought maybe it's an aesthetic choice, but now there's some night time sense and the dark spaces look sort of blocky and like a poor quality stream.
    I've been watching stuff most days since the measures came in and have never noticed any real issues.

    My god that was a tough movie to get through! not a bad movie but thoroughly depressing.


  • #2255
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    mailburner wrote: »
    My god that was a tough movie to get through! not a bad movie but thoroughly depressing.

    Yep. I've been reading a few bits and pieces about it and apparently it's a common immigrant story. A whole generation of people who basically sacrificed their lives so the next generation could have the life they wanted themselves. I'm sure there's plenty of Irish people with the same story.


  • #2256
    mailburner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,923 ✭✭✭✭mailburner


    pheasant tail wrote: »
    I just finished watching Caliphate. I assume it’s been mentioned here already. What an amazing show. Scandinavian TV at its best as always.

    pure coincidence that the last two movies I watched were foreign in tigertail and miracle in cell block no. 7
    This was to be my next watch, will definitely be now after reading that, cheers.


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  • #2257
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,306 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    Watched Outbreak late last night

    It has not aged well. And it wasn't that strong to begin with
    Agreed.
    I would recommend the hot zone tv version.

    Outbreak was supposedly based partially on same source...but they used very little of the source.


  • #2258
    cdgalwegian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,966 ✭✭✭cdgalwegian


    peteeeed wrote: »

    Giri/Haji: Season 1
    In a London apartment, a man lies dead with a sword in his back. In Tokyo, a man sits at a table in a diner, looking at a photo of the crime scene. The two seem like their worlds couldn’t be farther apart. The fact that Giri/Haji, BBC Two’s jaw-dropping thriller, manages to connect the two at all is impressive. The way it does it, though, elevates it from a gripping drama to a truly remarkable piece of television. Tokyo detective Kenzo Mori is sent to London to find the brother he thought was dead, now reappeared and wanted for a vicious killing that threatens to tear both cities apart. One of the year’s most original and unique series, blending animation, cinematic flashbacks and neon visuals, this globe-trotting thriller is a remarkable piece of TV.

    Great to see this added. Aired originally with little fanfare, and probably had little amount of viewers due to its bi-lingual and unorthodox narrative, but really is well a worth a look.
    Thread for it here:
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=112264762


  • #2259
    cdgalwegian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,966 ✭✭✭cdgalwegian


    peteeeed wrote: »
    #blackAF: Season 1
    Pulling back the curtain, #blackAF uncovers the messy, unfiltered and often hilarious world of what it means to be a “new money” black family trying to get it right in a modern world where “right” is no longer a fixed concept. The Netflix original series stars Kenya Barris as a fictionalised version of himself and Rashida Jones as his wife Joya.

    Blurb made me think of it as a mash-up between two non-Netflix shows:
    a “new money” black family trying to get it right in a modern world; as in 'Survivor's Remorse'
    and with the 'AF' tag- as part of episode names, Issa Rae's Insecure (Two black women who are best friends navigate the pitfalls of their personal and professional lives in south Los Angeles)
    Saw the trailer, and Issa Rae is in it. Well, there ya go.



    I never watched Kenya Barris' Black-ish, so if this any good I might go and give that a look also.


  • #2260
    peteeeed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    cdgalwegian wrote: »
    Great to see this added. Aired originally with little fanfare, and probably had little amount of viewers due to its bi-lingual and unorthodox narrative, but really is well a worth a look.
    Thread for it here:
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=112264762

    it was on bbc2 right ? think i have it recorded


  • #2261
    cdgalwegian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,966 ✭✭✭cdgalwegian


    peteeeed wrote: »
    it was on bbc2 right ? think i have it recorded
    Yeah; "BBC Two’s jaw-dropping thriller".:p:)
    Actually, I'd hesitate to call it a thriller, as that would heighten expectations of what you're gonna get in terms of pacing. It does have some action elements at times, but it's more of a drama, with bits of excitement thrown in occasionally.


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  • #2262
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    cdgalwegian wrote: »
    Yeah; "BBC Two’s jaw-dropping thriller".:p:)
    Actually, I'd hesitate to call it a thriller, as that would heighten expectations of what you're gonna get in terms of pacing. It does have some action elements at times, but it's more of a drama, with bits of excitement thrown in occasionally.

    I saw the trailer a few times when it was on BBC but I can't say it appealed to me. Seen a lot of people raving about it since it's been on iPlayer though.


  • #2263
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,286 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    peteeeed wrote: »
    Too Hot to Handle: Season 1
    Hot on the heels of Love Is Blind comes this new dating series with an equally outrageous hook: on the shores of paradise, gorgeous singles meet and mingle, but to win a $100,000 grand prize, they’ll have to give up sex.

    Sounds like easy money to me. :pac:


  • #2264
    mikhail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭mikhail


    Netflix have it prominently marked "TEEN". What's that about? It doesn't look like something for teenagers.


  • #2265
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    peteeeed wrote: »
    Too Hot to Handle: Season 1
    Hot on the heels of Love Is Blind comes this new dating series with an equally outrageous hook: on the shores of paradise, gorgeous singles meet and mingle, but to win a $100,000 grand prize, they’ll have to give up sex.

    A bit like marriage.......


  • #2266
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,068 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    mikhail wrote: »
    Netflix have it prominently marked "TEEN". What's that about? It doesn't look like something for teenagers.

    It doesn't look like something for anyone.

    We're truly in the idiocracy.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • #2267
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,286 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »
    It doesn't look like something for anyone.

    We're truly in the idiocracy.

    It has electrolytes.

    I'd say the reason for the Teen rating is simply due to not containing anything to earn it a higher rating. Like probably little to no nudity. And more sexual references than actual sex.


  • #2268
    peteeeed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    Catfish ( the documentary movie. I hated it, manipulative piece of sh!t)

    Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials


    Added


  • #2269
    tigger123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,521 ✭✭✭tigger123


    peteeeed wrote: »
    Catfish ( the documentary movie. I hated it, manipulative piece of sh!t)

    Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials


    Added

    Agree on Catfish. Awful documentary, in lots of ways.


  • #2270
    cdgalwegian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,966 ✭✭✭cdgalwegian


    peteeeed wrote: »
    Catfish ( the documentary movie. I hated it, manipulative piece of sh!t.
    tigger123 wrote: »
    Agree on Catfish. Awful documentary, in lots of ways.

    It was of its time really. I really enjoyed it when it first came out 10 years ago, despite reservations about its authenticity; it contributed to my dislike of social media platforms, which I have never used. It of course spawned 8 series (which I never bothered with), so is more than jaded at this stage, and so wouldn't watch the original again, but it is quite memorable; the origin of the title still sticks with me.

    510045.png


  • #2271
    peteeeed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    After watching it I felt they knew what they had so tried to make it look like they were finding out as they went along, horrible people


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  • #2272
    Blondie919
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,454 ✭✭✭Blondie919


    I finished watching A Year In Space last night. A very good and interesting documentary which follows 2 astronauts/cosmonauts who spend a year on the ISS. The episodes are only 12-15 minutes long so you'll fly through it.

    Also, started Life On Mars after someone here said it was added. Fitting, really after that documentary.


  • #2273
    tigger123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,521 ✭✭✭tigger123


    cdgalwegian wrote: »
    It was of its time really. I really enjoyed it when it first came out 10 years ago, despite reservations about its authenticity; it contributed to my dislike of social media platforms, which I have never used. It of course spawned 8 series (which I never bothered with), so is more than jaded at this stage, and so wouldn't watch the original again, but it is quite memorable; the origin of the title still sticks with me.

    510045.png

    I also saw it when it came out first.

    Posting the Rotten Tomatoes rating isnt really going to change my mind.

    Its supposed to be a documentary, and it's not, it's a fabrication.


  • #2274
    cdgalwegian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,966 ✭✭✭cdgalwegian


    tigger123 wrote: »
    I also saw it when it came out first.

    Posting the Rotten Tomatoes rating isnt really going to change my mind.

    Its supposed to be a documentary, and it's not, it's a fabrication.

    Jeez, relax; I wasn't trying to change anyone's mind- just give food for thought to anyone who hasn't yet seen it. The RT addition was more about the review- I was agreeing about the crass exploitation part, and acknowledged it's dubious authenticity, but that aside, it was also an effective commentary (10 years ago) on just one potential abuse of social media.


  • #2275
    mooseknunkle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭mooseknunkle


    wanderer100 wrote: »
    Miracle in Cell No 7 is one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. I'm not one to shed tears watching a film but this one definitely had me in my feels. Highly recommend
    mailburner wrote: »
    I watched this last night

    I can only echo every single word there.
    It's as good a movie as i've seen in years

    I watched this last night too and i can honestly say its the saddest film I've ever seen,but it's a really good film with great acting and well made.


  • #2276
    RocketRaccoon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,539 ✭✭✭RocketRaccoon


    mooseknunkle wrote: »
    I watched this last night too and i can honestly say its the saddest film I've ever seen,but it's a really good film with great acting and well made.

    Is it the Turkish one you are talking about?


  • #2277
    mooseknunkle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭mooseknunkle


    RocketRaccoon wrote: »
    Is it the Turkish one you are talking about?

    Yes the Turkish one that's on Netflix


  • #2278
    Gloomtastic!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,626 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    Loved Unorthodox. Good story, well told.


  • #2279
    BSK
    Registered Users Posts: 92 ✭✭BSK


    Sergio was decent


  • #2280
    Lisha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,695 ✭✭✭Lisha


    Gloomtastic! wrote: »
    Loved Unorthodox. Good story, well told.

    The making of it clips are great too.... I did think her new life bits could have been done better but I still really enjoyed it. Fantastic story and wonderfully acted.


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  • #2281
    mailburner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,923 ✭✭✭✭mailburner


    Gloomtastic! wrote: »
    Loved Unorthodox. Good story, well told.

    Looks really good, gonna start that later.


  • #2282
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Jaysus, I'm going to need this lockdown to last till Christmas to get through all this material


  • #2283
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    I watched A Silent Voice this morning. It's a Japanese animated film. I never know what to say about these films, they're so serious in their themes it's hard to imagine them being marketed at kids. Then again maybe they're not, or maybe we in the English speaking world are so used to having animation relegated to "family" films. I dunno.

    Anyway.... it starts with Ishida, aged about 17, about to kill himself by jumping off a bridge. Flash back to grade school and Ishida is the ringleader when a deaf girl who starts at his school is bullied. He pushes things to the point of physically hurting the girl resulting in her changing schools and everyone getting in trouble for it. Ishida is then ostracized by the rest of the class and spends the rest of his school days alone and sad, leading us up to were he is when the film opens. Except he doesn't jump. Instead he sets about trying to make up for his behaviour as a child, which leads to him reconnecting with a lot of the kids he used to know, and low and behold he's not the only one with issues and low self esteem.

    It's just over 2 hours long but it flew by for me. There's loads of life lessons to be learned but they never feel like you're being beaten over the head with them and nobody's past behaviour is just forgotten about but the idea that it's never to late to change, or that trying to change is maybe as important as succeeding, is prevalent throughout.

    Long story short, I'd recommend it for anyone looking to explore some non Ghibli anime.


  • #2284
    fin12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12




    Out next Sunday.


  • #2285
    freak scence
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 442 ✭✭freak scence


    fin12 wrote: »


    Out next Sunday.

    other seasons good ?, has not being on my radar atall


  • #2286
    fin12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    freak scence wrote: »
    other seasons good ?, has not being on my radar atall

    Yes it’s brilliant.


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  • #2287
    fin12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    Too hot to handle is pretty crap, The narrator is awful.


  • #2288
    seligehgit
    Registered Users Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭seligehgit


    pheasant tail wrote: »
    I just finished watching Caliphate. I assume it’s been mentioned here already. What an amazing show. Scandinavian TV at its best as always.


    Couldn't agree more.

    Absolutely superb.


  • #2289
    This is it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,688 ✭✭✭This is it


    mooseknunkle wrote: »
    I watched this last night too and i can honestly say its the saddest film I've ever seen,but it's a really good film with great acting and well made.

    Watched it based on the few recommendations here. Brilliant.


  • #2290
    Rjd2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,157 ✭✭✭✭Rjd2


    Just a reminder Tomorrow morning we should get the first 2 parts of the Chicago Bulls doc of the golden era with Jordan. Insanely excited about this and from reviews it won't be a generic look as Jordan has admitted he will probably not come across that good .

    For two decades,the footage was locked away as Jordan controlled the rights. Only a few years ago did he agree for the footage to be used in the documentary.

    Trailer, the first five minutes of episode 1 and glowing reviews in that order below.




    https://twitter.com/LauraRutledge/status/1251141588333531136

    https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-last-dance


  • #2291
    S. Goodspeed
    Registered Users Posts: 418 ✭✭S. Goodspeed


    Elisa Shapely Scatterbrain wrote: »
    Had to turn off love wedding repeat after 20 mins
    It was just all so incredibly annoying and the worst acting

    Rest of the movie isn’t much better either... Olivia Munn was a bizarre casting, she’s far far too attractive relative to everybody else in the film.

    Just finished watching “The Last Thing He Wanted”... Very boring and confusing. Whatever parts of the plot I could follow didn’t make any sense. Disappointing because it’s a pretty loaded cast


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  • #2292
    Bruno Spicy Syntax
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ Bruno Spicy Syntax


    fin12 wrote: »
    Too hot to handle is pretty crap, The narrator is awful.

    Oh it’s total crap!

    I’m really enjoying it!


  • #2293
    RocketRaccoon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,539 ✭✭✭RocketRaccoon


    Watched the first 4 episodes of season 3 of Unforgotten last night, just as good as the previous 2 seasons. Surprised it doesn't get spoken about more.


  • #2294
    holly_johnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭holly_johnson


    RocketRaccoon wrote: »
    Watched the first 4 episodes of season 3 of Unforgotten last night, just as good as the previous 2 seasons. Surprised it doesn't get spoken about more.

    I binged this. I love it. Fantastic acting & really strong storylines. Super tv.


  • #2295
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,068 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    RocketRaccoon wrote: »
    Watched the first 4 episodes of season 3 of Unforgotten last night, just as good as the previous 2 seasons. Surprised it doesn't get spoken about more.

    Nicola Walker usually means something is worth watching.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • #2296
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    RocketRaccoon wrote: »
    Watched the first 4 episodes of season 3 of Unforgotten last night, just as good as the previous 2 seasons. Surprised it doesn't get spoken about more.

    Hang realised season three had been added, great stuff!!


  • #2297
    RocketRaccoon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,539 ✭✭✭RocketRaccoon


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    Hang realised season three had been added, great stuff!!

    Either had I until last night. Wish I'd spotted it earlier in the evening.


  • #2298
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    RocketRaccoon wrote: »
    Watched the first 4 episodes of season 3 of Unforgotten last night, just as good as the previous 2 seasons. Surprised it doesn't get spoken about more.
    Just started this today as well, not realising it was back until I saw it in another thread (I think it got missed in our daily updates!).
    Wonderful show and it really humanises the victims far more than nearly any other crime drama.


  • #2299
    Charlie19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,787 ✭✭✭✭Charlie19


    RocketRaccoon wrote: »
    Watched the first 4 episodes of season 3 of Unforgotten last night, just as good as the previous 2 seasons. Surprised it doesn't get spoken about more.

    I went back to season one and binged S1 and S2 over two days:)


  • #2300
    try_again
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56 ✭✭try_again


    mailburner wrote: »
    I watched this last night

    I can only echo every single word there.
    It's as good a movie as i've seen in years

    Just watched this. Great movie, wouldn't have watched it without the recommendations here so thanks all.


  • #2301
    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,299 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    try_again wrote: »
    Just watched this. Great movie, wouldn't have watched it without the recommendations here so thanks all.


    sorry, what film?


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