Netflix Recommendations Thread 3.0

fin12 · 10-12-2020 08:15PM

Prominent_Dawg wrote: »

Virgin River is a good watch

I love that show, can’t wait till season 3 but prob be waiting ages.

Charlie19 · 10-12-2020 11:09PM

I liked Hillbilly Elegy.

I thought Amy Adams and Glenn Close were nearly unrecognizable.

peteeeed · 11-12-2020 08:59AM

A Giant Jack Christmas
When Santa crash-lands in the junkyard on Christmas Eve, Hank, Trash Truck and their animal friends all have a hand in rescuing the holiday for everyone.

Canvas
After a heartbreaking loss, a grandfather struggling to reclaim his passion for painting finds the inspiration to create again.

Giving Voice
Six ambitious student actors audition for the prestigious August Wilson Monologue Competition, culminating in a riveting final round on Broadway

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

The Mess You Leave Behind (Spanish)
A teacher starts her job at a high school but is haunted by a suspicious death that occurred there weeks before... and begins fearing for her own life.

The Prom
Ryan Murphy’s take on the Broadway musical follows Dee Dee Allen (Meryl Streep) and Barry Glickman (James Corden) who are New York City stage stars with a crisis on their hands: their expensive new Broadway show is a major flop that has suddenly flatlined their careers. Meanwhile, in small-town Indiana, high school student Emma Nolan (Ellen Pellman) is experiencing a very different kind of heartbreak: despite the support of the high school principal (Keegan-Michael Key), the head of the PTA (Kerry Washington) has banned her from attending the prom with her girlfriend, Alyssa (Ariana DeBose). When Dee Dee and Barry decide that Emma’s predicament is the perfect cause to help resurrect their public images, they hit the road with Angie (Nicole Kidman) and Trent (Andrew Rannells), another pair of cynical actors looking for a professional lift. But when their self-absorbed celebrity activism unexpectedly backfires, the foursome find their own lives upended as they rally to give Emma a night where she can truly celebrate who she is.

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11-12-2020 10:33AM

The prom sounds complete ****e and that was before i realised James Corden was in it

I will of course be watching it

EltonJohn69 · 11-12-2020 11:07AM

Elisa Shapely Scatterbrain wrote: »

The prom sounds complete ****e and that was before i realised James Corden was in it

I will of course be watching it

Is this sarcasm ?

fin12 · 11-12-2020 01:26PM

EltonJohn69 wrote: »

Is this sarcasm ?

No they will watch it.

11-12-2020 02:17PM

EltonJohn69 wrote: »

Is this sarcasm ?

You must not be familiar with my posts
I watch a lot of ****e

EltonJohn69 · 11-12-2020 05:53PM

I do not like James Corden. He seems to have stolen Rickey Gervais act but made it a whole lot worse. His whole act is playing on being fat or pretending he is gay.

Hurrache · 11-12-2020 05:54PM

I'm looking forwarding to watching it tonight with the kids anyway.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 11-12-2020 07:04PM

So I watched The Prom. I love musicals and I was genuinely quite looking forward to it, despite hating Ryan Murphy, Corden and Meryl Streep.

It's....... okay?

It's very long, which is to be expected from a musical lifted from the stage, but it feels too long at times, and like the focus is in the wrong place. I'm not familiar enough with the stage version to know if the adult characters are the main focus there too but the kids storyline felt very underdeveloped and there were several numbers that could have been cut to trim the length down, or give more time to Emma and Alyssa.

Overall though there's a lot to enjoy and the final number is pretty uplifting. If you like musicals you'll probably like it, if you hate musicals, well.... you probably shouldn't be watching it.

RandomViewer · 11-12-2020 08:07PM

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Just don’t be tempted to watch The Cloverfield Paradox - that worthless film was a serious ‘****ing yikes!’ after the fun, playful Cloverfield Lane.

Chris O Dowd did himself no favours appearing in possibly the dullest sci-fi film ever

Hurrache · 11-12-2020 09:50PM

The Prom was longer than we expected too, but good fun all the same. The cesspit that is IMDB's user reviews have an obvious concerted plan to rate it as a 1 because of Corden but he played the part quite well.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 11-12-2020 10:20PM

Hurrache wrote: »

The Prom was longer than we expected too, but good fun all the same. The cesspit that is IMDB's user reviews have an obvious concerted plan to rate it as a 1 because of Corden but he played the part quite well.

I don't rate his acting at all but his singing is as good as any of the rest of them and he clearly loves musicals and looks really comfortable performing the big numbers.

Mad_maxx · 11-12-2020 10:29PM

Unbelievable with Toni Collette

very good , about the hunt for a serial rapist , less about the rapist than the victims and one in particular , better than it sounds

Charlie19 · 11-12-2020 10:43PM

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Unbelievable with Toni Collette

very good , about the hunt for a serial rapist , less about the rapist than the victims and one in particular , better than it sounds

Yeah I thought it was a great little mini series.

Great chemistry between the two female detectives and based on a true story from what I remember.

Mad_maxx · 12-12-2020 11:45AM

Charlie19 wrote: »

Yeah I thought it was a great little mini series.

Great chemistry between the two female detectives and based on a true story from what I remember.

really liked the other actress who i had not seen before , collette is always good

the young actress was very good too as was the boneheaded lazy cop

Optimalprimerib · 13-12-2020 08:57AM

Elisa Shapely Scatterbrain wrote: »

The prom sounds complete ****e and that was before i realised James Corden was in it

I will of course be watching it

The prom hits the three kinds of heat for ****ness

Ryan Murphy-nope
Meryl Streep-nope
James Corden- 404 error.

I would avoid that as much as I'd avoid my coughing uncle who is complaining about his tasteless dinner.

peteeeed · 13-12-2020 09:03AM

Bumblebee
Fleeing from the Decepticons in 1987, Bumblebee hides out on Earth. But after he befriends a sad teen, the battered Beetle's foes are hot on his trail.

Hitman Redemption (Asher)
After meeting a teacher during a botched job, a weathered hitman strives to escape his indentured life to start a free one with her.

Manhattan Murder Mystery
When an elderly neighbor in good health unexpectedly dies, New Yorker Carol Lipton is convinced that the woman's death was no accident.

Welcome to Marwen
After a violent assault shatters an artist's mind and memory, he creates a miniature world to process his trauma and to learn how to live again.

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khalessi · 13-12-2020 09:06AM

Welcome to Marwen lovely movie

gmisk · 13-12-2020 09:50AM

peteeeed wrote: »

Bumblebee
Fleeing from the Decepticons in 1987, Bumblebee hides out on Earth. But after he befriends a sad teen, the battered Beetle's foes are hot on his trail.

Hitman Redemption (Asher)
After meeting a teacher during a botched job, a weathered hitman strives to escape his indentured life to start a free one with her.

Manhattan Murder Mystery
When an elderly neighbor in good health unexpectedly dies, New Yorker Carol Lipton is convinced that the woman's death was no accident.

Welcome to Marwen
After a violent assault shatters an artist's mind and memory, he creates a miniature world to process his trauma and to learn how to live again.

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Bumblebee is surprisingly excellent...a world away from the Michael Bay films

gmisk · 13-12-2020 10:16AM

Ava

I thought looked good with that cast (jessica chastain, John Malkovich, Colin Farrell, Geena Davis) and a normally pretty good director...but it is so so poor and formulaic.
Despite Jessica Chastain giving it her all.
The rest of the acting and the story is all over the shop....the family stuff in particular is dreadful, whoever played the sister is absolutely painful as is the ex....stilted and awkward in every single scene.
Just watch Atomic Blonde again

Hurrache · 13-12-2020 10:34AM

Optimalprimerib wrote: »

The prom hits the three kinds of heat for ****ness

Ryan Murphy-nope
Meryl Streep-nope
James Corden- 404 error.

I would avoid that as much as I'd avoid my coughing uncle who is complaining about his tasteless dinner.

You'll be missing out on some fun.

Different people like different movies, just because it's not to your taste doesn't mean it's ****e.

pixelburp · 13-12-2020 11:00AM

gmisk wrote: »

Bumblebee is surprisingly excellent...a world away from the Michael Bay films

At the 6th time of trying, Hollywood finally made a good Transformers movie. It blatantly riff on ET and all those "coming of age" 80s movies but the end result was entertaining.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 13-12-2020 11:07AM

pixelburp wrote: »

At the 6th time of trying, Hollywood finally made a good Transformers movie. It blatantly riff on ET and all those "coming of age" 80s movies but the end result was entertaining.

It was written by Chritina Hodson, who also wrote this year's Birds of Prey, which I thought was a lot of fun. I'm pretty sure she's been hired to write a couple more WB properties and Margot Robbie and her have some sort of deal going and are doing a Pirates of the Caribbean reboot.

pixelburp · 13-12-2020 11:48AM

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

It was written by Chritina Hodson, who also wrote this year's Birds of Prey, which I thought was a lot of fun. I'm pretty sure she's been hired to write a couple more WB properties and Margot Robbie and her have some sort of deal going and are doing a Pirates of the Caribbean reboot.

Interesting as I found Birds of Prey really underwhelming, a bit muddled trying to give Robbie the focus while trying to work as an ensemble piece. And the comedy wasn't great either, no "6 laughs" passing hefe. To be fair I could see what the script wanted to be, and the shoot sounded messy, so a bit of leeway given there.

... And I'm just now reading your last line and despair at Hollywood. Rebooting Pirates already, ye gods. Maybe CoVid killed that project.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 13-12-2020 12:45PM

pixelburp wrote: »

Interesting as I found Birds of Prey really underwhelming, a bit muddled trying to give Robbie the focus while trying to work as an ensemble piece. And the comedy wasn't great either, no "6 laughs" passing hefe. To be fair I could see what the script wanted to be, and the shoot sounded messy, so a bit of leeway given there.

... And I'm just now reading your last line and despair at Hollywood. Rebooting Pirates already, ye gods. Maybe CoVid killed that project.

I agree about the focus in Birds of Prey, it felt like it was never sure who it was about. I had also just watched the new animated Harley Quinn series before watching BoP. I highly recommend that for anyone who is a fan of the character, but it kind of coloured my view of BoP a bit. It did a much better job of delving into Harley's character and establishing her as her own person post Joker breakup, but then it had like 20 episodes to do that in.

But all that said I still thought the film was a lot of fun and more enjoyable than most of the DC films.

As for Pirates of the Caribbean, I think it was only announced during Covid

It sounds like they're really only keeping the title, obviously as a link to that sweet Disney cash, and they'll be in no way connected to Depp's series.

den87 · 13-12-2020 12:47PM

The Christmas Chronicles was one of the best movie experiences I had in a long time, so much fun.

khalessi · 13-12-2020 12:57PM

den87 wrote: »

The Christmas Chronicles was one of the best movie experiences I had in a long time, so much fun.

Kurt Russell born to be Santa.

ShineOn7 · 13-12-2020 08:14PM

Optimalprimerib wrote: »

The prom hits the three kinds of heat for ****ness

Ryan Murphy-nope
Meryl Streep-nope
James Corden- 404 error.

ShineOn7 · 13-12-2020 08:19PM

peteeeed wrote: »

Bumblebee
Fleeing from the Decepticons in 1987, Bumblebee hides out on Earth. But after he befriends a sad teen, the battered Beetle's foes are hot on his trail.

91% on RT!

Is it that good?

Apart from the first one, Michael Bay's Transformers films are among the worst blockbusters of all time

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