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Netflix Recommendations Thread 3.0

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  • #3602
    budgemook
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,064 ✭✭✭budgemook


    I am pretty sure that I have only missed the one before Fallout, Rogue Nation, and of course it's not on Netflix (I think it used to be). Should have watched it when I had the chance.


  • #3603
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,509 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    Without question the best Hollywood film of the last two years - a blistering, razor-sharp shot of adrenaline.

    Really enjoyable alright, but why aren't Netflix bringing movies like this to their platform in 4k?


  • #3604
    S.M.B.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,383 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    Without question the best Hollywood film of the last two years - a blistering, razor-sharp shot of adrenaline. Anyone who missed it in the cinema, this is up there with the likes of The Raid at the top-tier of modern action filmmaking. Still impressive Christopher McQuarrie (and of course Cruise himself as the de facto second director at this stage) went from its decent predecessor to this - major leap in confidence and quality.
    According to my letterboxd the only action movie from the past 5 years that I also gave 4 and a half stars or more to is Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation :)

    Unless you call Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse an action movie....


  • #3605
    peteeeed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    Hurrache wrote: »
    Really enjoyable alright, but why aren't Netflix bringing movies like this to their platform in 4k?

    would imagine the film companies want you to buy that on itunes or something similar


  • #3606
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,509 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Maybe, on Prime Video the only purchase options are SD & HD, so yeah, don't want to cannibalise their BluRay market.


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  • #3607
    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,505 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Haven't seen Orphan in years but I remember it being scary stuff.

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



  • #3608
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Is there any "Added Today" or "Added This Week" section on their Menu?

    It would be very handy


  • #3609
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,509 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Yeah, there's a new this week, and coming soon section, on my TV anyway. It's not comprehensive though.


  • #3610
    AaronMic95
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭AaronMic95


    Two episodes got to me the most. The Rey Rivera case and the Patrice Endres case. I think the best friend of Rey Rivera and the husband of Patrice Endres were involved in their deaths. Sadly, I think the Alonzo Brooks case was racially motivated.


  • #3611
    EoinMcLovin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,832 ✭✭✭EoinMcLovin


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    Is there any "Added Today" or "Added This Week" section on their Menu?

    It would be very handy

    The Netflix UK and Ireland twitter usually posts releases on the day


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  • #3612
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,541 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    Is there any "Added Today" or "Added This Week" section on their Menu?

    It would be very handy

    The app Upflix lists stuff that's added or about to be removed.


  • #3613
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,527 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Not sure if mentioned but safe house has been added. It's a solid action thriller set in cape town with Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds.

    Justwatch.com is excellent if you are looking to search what's on streaming platforms


  • #3614
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    gmisk wrote: »
    Not sure if mentioned but safe house has been added. It's a solid action thriller set in cape town with Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds.

    Justwatch.com is excellent if you are looking to search what's on streaming platforms

    Safe House is the definition of solid and I love it. Some really good action.

    I have the justwatch app but it's quite slow to update.


  • #3615
    Hercule Poirot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Hercule Poirot


    Watched the first three episodes of Unsolved Mysteries, third one technically is not a mystery but still a very creepy story (and a heads up that's in French)

    I like the way the story is told by the people involved, no outside interference, no narration - the viewer can make up their own mind

    The first episode, Rey Rivera, is particularly weird - I don't want to spoil it for others but something extraordinary happened there


  • #3616
    peteeeed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    Luther is officially gone


  • #3617
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,908 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    So I've watched two and half episodes of unsolved mysteries and Jesus h Christ the second episode the husband needs to be investigated more. He just dumps his wife's ashes on the table like it's a bag of flour. He's an asshole basically.

    The first episode the fact the best friend lawyered up to **** is weird. Also, the call that made him leave the house came from his work.

    The bit I've watched of the third episode makes you wonder.


  • #3618
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Hercule Poirot wrote: »
    Watched the first three episodes of Unsolved Mysteries


    I really want to watch this as it's a genre I love. But because it's associated with Netflix I don't trust it

    When you do cursory Googlling on any of their documentaries I always discover they're shams


  • #3619
    Hercule Poirot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Hercule Poirot


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    I really want to watch this as it's a genre I love. But because it's associated with Netflix I don't trust it

    When you do cursory Googlling on any of their documentaries I always discover they're shams

    I get that. With editing a documentary can always be spun one way or another but this is literally the people involved telling their version of events.

    Some of them make accusations, some of them are just bewildered and hurt by what has happened - I didn't get the feeling the show was trying to point me one way or the other, just shared people's beliefs about what befell their loved ones

    It's not like a docu-series where the drama needs to amped up to maintain interest because each episode is a mere snapshot of a particular event


  • #3620
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Good stuff

    Did Netflix produce it or just buy it?

    I've more confidence in it if it's the latter


  • #3621
    EltonJohn69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,236 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69


    Hercule Poirot wrote: »
    Watched the first three episodes of Unsolved Mysteries, third one technically is not a mystery but still a very creepy story (and a heads up that's in French)

    I like the way the story is told by the people involved, no outside interference, no narration - the viewer can make up their own mind

    The first episode, Rey Rivera, is particularly weird - I don't want to spoil it for others but something extraordinary happened there

    A hologram Robert Stack would definitely improve the show.


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  • #3622
    adrian522
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 16,747 Mod ✭✭✭✭adrian522


    ShineOn7 wrote: »
    Good stuff

    Did Netflix produce it or just buy it?

    I've more confidence in it if it's the latter

    Don't cut your nose off to spite your face, Netflix have produced a lot of great documentaries.


  • #3623
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    adrian522 wrote: »
    Don't cut your nose off to spite your face, Netflix have produced a lot of great documentaries.

    Great entertainment with some? Maybe

    Are you watching the truth with Netflix documentaries? Usually no. Their bending of facts is outrageous


    From a previous thread I started highlighting this:

    Tiger King was utterly batshít crazy and so funny in places. But if you believe more than 20% of it's contents are true or not twisted then you haven't copped onto Netflix's "documentaries" yet

    Baskin has refuted every single claim made against her and I'm leaning towards her telling the truth https://bigcatrescue.org/refuting-netflix-tiger-king/

    Don't believe Netflix's documentaries are full of shíte? Then you need to Google what they left out of Making A Murderer and how they flat out lied with their Game Changers vegetarian diet documentary.

    They're the Daily Mail of documentary makers. Even if they don't "make" them all in house, they always sign up ones that are 80% lies or exaggeration

    Take them as light entertainment, but don't go online then ranting about how X or Y is guilty or not. Anyone who knows how to use Google (and their brain) is just laughing at you


  • #3624
    S.M.B.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,383 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    And you could look into numerous high profile non Netflix produced documentaries and find issue with certain editorial decisions.


  • #3625
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    S.M.B. wrote: »
    And you could look into numerous high profile non Netflix produced documentaries and find issue with certain editorial decisions.


    Yes you could. The Staircase is one that springs to mind

    But Netflix's track record with them is particularly dodgy. I just don't trust them anymore


  • #3626
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 24,023 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    I don't think anyone should be taking any documentary as gospel. Regardless of whether Netflix made it or bought it. I treat any non fiction stuff I watch or read as a starting point to find out more.
    My main gripe with Netflix made documentaries is that their main purpose seems to be to entertain rather than inform.


  • #3627
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,535 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    I don't think anyone should be taking any documentary as gospel. Regardless of whether Netflix made it or bought it. I treat any non fiction stuff I watch or read as a starting point to find out more.
    My main gripe with Netflix made documentaries is that their main purpose seems to be to entertain rather than inform.

    The difference between those and the Ken Burns ones is pretty stark alright.

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



  • #3628
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 24,023 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »
    The difference between those and the Ken Burns ones is pretty stark alright.

    Definitely. Ken Burns ones are pretty densely packed with information but it's done in a very structured way. There's natural stopping points if you need a break, and they're not designed to binge watch for 6 hours. The Netflix ones are structured almost like soaps. They want you to keep watching episode after episode. Which is fine, if that floats your boat, but it wouldn't inspire confidence in me that they're presenting facts and nothing else.


  • #3629
    adrian522
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 16,747 Mod ✭✭✭✭adrian522


    Some great documentaries I've seen produced by Netflix listed below. There not all going to be 100% historically accurate but I don't think you get that from any source really, even reading historians you need to read multiple sources to get a balanced view.

    At the end of the day Netflix is about entertainment, and while I've no time for Tiger King or things like that I found all of the below at least interesting and in some cases fascinating. Obviously it depends on your interests and your knowledge of the subject matter as well.

    What Happened, Miss Simone?
    Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
    Icarus
    ReMastered: The Miami Showband Massacre
    ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads
    Knock Down the House
    Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
    The Edge of Democracy
    American Factory
    Ghosts of Sugar Land
    Last Chance U
    Sunderland 'Til I Die
    Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
    The Alcàsser Murders
    The Devil Next Door
    Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak
    The Pharmacist
    The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez


  • #3630
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,908 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    No documentary nor a film based on real events should ever be taken as gospel. I will always do more reading on both films and documentaries which are about a real person or event. You also need to understand that no film can cover everything about an event fully due to time restraints.


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  • #3631
    S.M.B.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,383 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    And a great new resource that assists with getting to the bottom of factual inaccuracies is the recent Truth vs Holywood podcast hosted by two of my favourites.

    First two movies covered are Goodfellas and The Social Network.


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