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Netflix Recommendations Thread 3.0

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  • #6482
    pixelburp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    RandomViewer wrote: »
    Critics love misery, the more empty and miserable you make the film the more they'll love it,

    Critics love misery? Please. 99% of Irish culture, be it books, songs or film wallow in self-flagellation and despair. Whole generations were raised on Peig after all, and other "why life sucks" stories before we got to make our own films. Heck just read the Current Affairs / After Hours forum here, it's wall to wall moan. The Irish are a welcoming people, but ye gods we'll always find a cloud in any silver lining also.


  • #6483
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Basq wrote: »
    We're Irish.. clearly, we love the misery too. Look at the Late Late on a Friday night talking about abortion, cancer and the like.. all while Norton has a riot over on the other side.

    Sat through it on Friday night, first time in about 2 years, I think I'll wait 3 years next time


  • #6484
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 24,023 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    Gloomtastic! wrote: »
    Can someone please make a happy Irish film please? I thought Irish people could find humour in anything. Why does this not extend to filmmaking? :rolleyes:

    Handsome Devil is on Netflix, I think. Fairly light watch and generally happy. The Young Offenders film is great too.
    Not on Netflix but I'd reccomed A Bump Along The Way, Gold, Dating Amber, Grabbers, The Runway, Last Rights, You're Ugly Too, and My Brothers. Varying degrees of happiness and quality but mostly a "worth a watch" rating or above.


  • #6485
    km79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,598 ✭✭✭✭km79


    Gloomtastic! wrote: »
    Hmmm. Which to believe? Would love to go with the latter but past experience tells me the former, unfortunately.

    Can someone please make a happy Irish film please? I thought Irish people could find humour in anything. Why does this not extend to filmmaking? :rolleyes:

    Probably best you don’t watch Calm with Horses so :D
    Or Garage


  • #6486
    Laura2021
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭Laura2021


    I started watching The Office USA never watched it when first came out on season 4 at the moment


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  • #6487
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    km79 wrote: »
    Probably best you don’t watch Calm with Horses so :D
    Or Garage

    Calm with horses isn't great and Garage is just boring, Bad day for the Cut is another no_no unless you are into Deathwish mid Ulster style
    Man about Dog might raise a giggle or two


  • #6488
    Gloomtastic!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,670 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    km79 wrote: »
    Probably best you don’t watch Calm with Horses so :D
    Or Garage

    I got 5 minutes into Calm with Horses. I managed to finish Garage, just to see if it would get funny at some stage. God, it was desperate.

    My personal favourite is Michael Inside. There should be a suicide warning before and after that one. :rolleyes:


  • #6489
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,725 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Garage isn’t a comedy.


  • #6490
    km79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,598 ✭✭✭✭km79


    Gloomtastic! wrote: »
    I got 5 minutes into Calm with Horses. I managed to finish Garage, just to see if it would get funny at some stage. God, it was desperate.

    My personal favourite is Michael Inside. There should be a suicide warning before and after that one. :rolleyes:

    Oh yes I forgot about that one

    Your username doesn’t check out :D


  • #6491
    Gloomtastic!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,670 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    Garage isn’t a comedy.

    But yer man Pat Shortt is a comedian so you'd think.......:confused:


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  • #6492
    Bruno Spicy Syntax
    Posts: 5,926 ✭✭✭ Bruno Spicy Syntax


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    Garage isn’t a comedy.

    I’d say it’s one of the most depressing films I’ve ever seen :(


  • #6493
    Bruno Spicy Syntax
    Posts: 5,926 ✭✭✭ Bruno Spicy Syntax


    Laura2021 wrote: »
    I started watching The Office USA never watched it when first came out on season 4 at the moment

    It’s brilliant isn’t it! I’m gonna rewatch it I think


  • #6494
    Synode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Synode


    Basq wrote: »
    Try Extra Ordinary.

    It's.. grand!

    Watched it a few weeks ago. Not a Maeve Higgins fan at all but enjoyed this a lot.


  • #6495
    km79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,598 ✭✭✭✭km79


    Must watch extraordinary so


  • #6496
    AidoEirE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭AidoEirE


    Laura2021 wrote: »
    I started watching The Office USA never watched it when first came out on season 4 at the moment

    Me and the gf started it when I got tested positive 2 weeks ago. Up to season 7, never watched it before so gave us some laughs. Thought it got a bit weaker as the seasons went on but still a brilliant show.

    We both said we'd happily work in that office


  • #6497
    Laura2021
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭Laura2021


    Elisa Shapely Scatterbrain wrote: »
    It’s brilliant isn’t it! I’m gonna rewatch it I think

    Yes it's very funny didnt think it would be would definitely recommend it


  • #6498
    seligehgit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭seligehgit


    Anybody got a new flick they'd highly recommend?


  • #6499
    Canyon86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,234 ✭✭✭Canyon86


    Baptiste
    Nightstalker two of the recent ones i watched


  • #6500
    SteelyDanJalapeno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,473 ✭✭✭✭SteelyDanJalapeno


    Is garage on Netflix now?


  • #6501
    AidoEirE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭AidoEirE


    seligehgit wrote: »
    Anybody got a new flick they'd highly recommend?

    Falling down
    Fruitvile Station
    Last samurai
    Last of the Mohicans
    Goon
    Venom
    Nightcrawler

    Few i enjoyed

    Edit: none of them new but a decent watch off the top of my head


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  • #6502
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 31,446 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    seligehgit wrote: »
    Anybody got a new flick they'd highly recommend?

    Babyteeth, Proxima and Les Miserables were all added recently and all worthy of a look.


  • #6503
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,595 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    seligehgit wrote: »
    Anybody got a new flick they'd highly recommend?
    Saint frances


  • #6504
    holly_johnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭holly_johnson


    Just finished Summer of Rockets. A BBC drama with a great cast. Was quite an intriguing story!


  • #6505
    Gloomtastic!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,670 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    Ok, grovel hat on. Broken Law was not too bad. ;)


  • #6506
    fin12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    Gloomtastic! wrote: »
    Ok, grovel hat on. Broken Law was not too bad. ;)

    Weren’t there some funny bits? I thought so anyway...


  • #6507
    Gloomtastic!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,670 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    fin12 wrote: »
    Weren’t there some funny bits? I thought so anyway...

    Must have missed those. Story was ok. Acting was good, despite the cop brother slipping into a culchie accent a couple of times. And it looked like it was all filmed near me in Dublin 3 so plenty to keep you interested. :)


  • #6508
    peteeeed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    I AM A KILLER Season 2
    Death row inmates convicted of capital murder give firsthand accounts of their crimes in this documentary series.

    Damsel (Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska,)
    With his horse and a boozy preacher, a wealthy pioneer gallops across the American frontier to marry his fiancée but finds her in unexpected distress

    Added


  • #6509
    TomTomTim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,841 ✭✭✭TomTomTim


    Gloomtastic! wrote: »
    Ok, grovel hat on. Broken Law was not too bad. ;)

    I thought it was pretty poor. It was well shot and John Connors played his role quite well, outside of that though I don't see many positives.

    “The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.”- ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov




  • #6510
    djr15
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 164 ✭✭djr15


    Some good Comedies i would recommend:

    TAG
    Game Night


    Dramas/Action:

    The Martian
    State of Play
    Imitation game
    Apollo 13
    Everest
    10 Cloverfield Lane

    Special mention to some "Prime" films.
    Knives out
    The Upside


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  • #6511
    DavyD_83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,992 ✭✭✭DavyD_83


    Charlie19 wrote: »
    Sun Dogs.

    This film was so silly but yet funny and sad at the same time. It's about young man that has his heart set on joining the military but after continually getting rejected he finally catches a break.

    Sounds like Captain America :p


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