Netflix Recommendations Thread 3.0

bottlebrush · 29-01-2021 7:57pm

Finished Informer last night. Would recommend.

Liked 'The Vanished' too.

Gruffalux · 29-01-2021 10:02pm

budgemook wrote: »

The Dig is supposed to be good - there were a few reviews in the Irish media last weekend. Will check it out tonight I'd say.

I am loving it so much that I am saving half for tomorrow night!!

alchemist33 · 29-01-2021 10:07pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Call my Agent, je l'aime beaucoup

Best thing on TV, honestly. It's hard getting up in the morning when you've stayed up waaaay too late because you don't want to stop watching.

santana75 · 29-01-2021 11:58pm

pottokblue wrote: »

Fritz Laings "Womaninthewindow" classic film noir screening until 31/1/21

By chance I came across a great interview William Friedkin(The Exorcist, French connection)did with Fritz lang in 1975. It's on youtube and it's an absolutely fascinating watch. Well worth checking out.

Charlie19 · 30-01-2021 12:14am

bottlebrush wrote: »

Finished Informer last night. Would recommend.

Liked 'The Vanished' too.

I found that The Vanished was way over the top, I watched about an hour of it but I probably will finish it though.

Watched the 1st episode of Informer and thought it was interesting so I'll definitely continue with it.

RandomViewer · 30-01-2021 12:31am

Started to watch The Vanished, got bored looked up the plot, meh

budgemook · 30-01-2021 12:49am

Ended up watching Wild Rose instead of The Dig tonight. Would recommend it - predictable enough movie about a young country singer in Glasgow trying to balance her dreams of going to Nashville to sing with being a mother to two young kids. Great performance from Jessie Buckley.

dublin49 · 30-01-2021 1:08am

watched the Dig tonite,what I would call a worthy film .the sort the brits do really well.If ts excitement you are looking for. look elsewhere.

Curb Your Enthusiasm · 30-01-2021 1:27am

Pineapple Express

Always worth a watch. Very funny.

4Ad · 30-01-2021 1:40am

Just finished White Tiger.
Thought it wasn't great.
Actually I thought it was rubbish.
Depicted India well, a corrupt kip...
Nice food though...

Fysh · 30-01-2021 10:12am

I stuck on Vampires Vs The Bronx last night and it was good fun, essentially a pre-pandemic update of the likes of Lost Boys or Fright Night set in the Bronx.

newirishman · 30-01-2021 10:46am

4Ad wrote: »

Just finished White Tiger.

Depicted India well, a corrupt kip...
.

Well, that’s because it is, essentially.

Doesn’t mean there aren’t beautiful places and nice people as well though.

flasher0030 · 30-01-2021 11:23am

RandomViewer wrote: »

Started to watch The Vanished, got bored looked up the plot, meh

I wouldn't consider it in any way boring. watched it last night, and it's fairly intense. The acting is woeful, but the whole concept of it is good in my opinion.
Maybe the acting is supposed to be like that for a reason, after thinking about it retrospectively. If not, the 2 main characters would fit right in to an episode of Fair City.

km79 · 30-01-2021 11:40am

1st episode of The Informer watched
Looks really good

joe40 · 30-01-2021 11:47am

km79 wrote: »

1st episode of The Informer watched
Looks really good

I have seen some great BBC shows on netflix, collateral, unforgotten, are 2 that spring to mind. Currently watching the informer as well and agree it's great.
BBC do good drama.

Lucas Hood · 30-01-2021 11:56am

joe40 wrote: »

I have seen some great BBC shows on netflix, collateral, unforgotten, are 2 that spring to mind. Currently watching the informer as well and agree it's great.
BBC do good drama.

Unforgetten was a ITV show.
Still good though.

Larsso30 · 30-01-2021 11:58am

flasher0030 wrote: »

I wouldn't consider it in any way boring. watched it last night, and it's fairly intense. The acting is woeful, but the whole concept of it is good in my opinion.
Maybe the acting is supposed to be like that for a reason, after thinking about it retrospectively. If not, the 2 main characters would fit right in to an episode of Fair City.

Thought it was tripe myself. Decent idea there but so many holes in the story, just so so bad

joe40 · 30-01-2021 12:07pm

Lucas Hood wrote: »

Unforgetten was a ITV show.
Still good though.

Oops sorry,

RandomViewer · 30-01-2021 2:20pm

flasher0030 wrote: »

I wouldn't consider it in any way boring. watched it last night, and it's fairly intense. The acting is woeful, but the whole concept of it is good in my opinion.
Maybe the acting is supposed to be like that for a reason, after thinking about it retrospectively. If not, the 2 main characters would fit right in to an episode of Fair City.

It was too slow,too dull, spoiler: The unlikelyhood of the 2 parents imagining the child was with them was too much)

Mebuntu · 30-01-2021 2:39pm

dublin49 wrote: »

watched The Dig tonite,what I would call a worthy film .the sort the brits do really well.If ts excitement you are looking for. look elsewhere.

I also watched this last night. An hour 52 of pure cinematic treasure. Was in the area on holiday some years ago and visited Sutton Hoo but didn't know about this story.

AdrianII · 30-01-2021 2:50pm

Hotel Armitas - rubbish, not my taste at all

The vanished - ok, nothing to get excited about.

Standard of films on Netflix is extremely poor at the moment

RandomViewer · 30-01-2021 3:09pm

AdrianII wrote: »

Hotel Armitas - rubbish, not my taste at all

The vanished - ok, nothing to get excited about.

Standard of films on Netflix is extremely poor at the moment

Is the hotel a spin off from John Wick, saw the trailer and reminded me of that, Judy Foster bank balance must have been creeping into the red

RandomViewer · 30-01-2021 3:11pm

AdrianII wrote: »

Hotel Armitas - rubbish, not my taste at all

The vanished - ok, nothing to get excited about.

Standard of films on Netflix is extremely poor at the moment

Standard of telly on all platforms isn't up to much at the moment,

Diairist · 30-01-2021 3:14pm

Netflix doesn't need to have good stuff at the mo. Everyone is praising Bridgerton. (See Nicola Coughlan on the Late Late Show?)

Basq · 30-01-2021 3:17pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

Standard of telly on all platforms isn't up to much at the moment,

'It's A Sin' on Channel 4 is the best thing I've seen on telly in months!

fin12 · 30-01-2021 4:37pm

Basq wrote: »

'It's A Sin' on Channel 4 is the best thing I've seen on telly in months!

What type of show is it?

fin12 · 30-01-2021 4:39pm

I was just thinking could Netflix add concerts to their catalogue. I watched a simply red one recently on tv was really good, just wondering why they don’t add concerts to their libabry.

flasher0030 · 30-01-2021 6:24pm

Larsso30 wrote: »

Thought it was tripe myself. Decent idea there but so many holes in the story, just so so bad

Ok. I'm not really concerned about plotholes. At the end of the day, I just wanted to be entertained for a couple of hours. And I was. Watching something suspenseful, not knowing how it was going to unfold. I won't be watching it again, but ticked the box for me.

Spoiler

The only ridiculas thing for me is that the Park owner has a room full of child porn in his property (and in which he himself stars in), and there's a girl after going missing 50 yards away. Obviously, the property is going to be searched. But he still has the videos there 5 days later. I'm sure there's lots of silly little things wrong in the film, but I don't watch to critically analyse things like that.

DVDM93 · 30-01-2021 9:58pm

Coming to Netflix on the 24th of February I see.

I love Tom Hardy & was looking forward to it when first I heard about it but it's supposed to be absolutely brutal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J5OE16C_zY

alchemist33 · 30-01-2021 10:09pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

Standard of telly on all platforms isn't up to much at the moment,

There's lot of good tv shows on netflix, especially non-english, but the film selection really is poor.

runawaybishop · 30-01-2021 10:14pm

alchemist33 wrote: »

There's lot of good tv shows on netflix, especially non-english, but the film selection really is poor.

Plenty of good films, I think some of us have just watched them all

If you were new to streaming you wouldn't know where to start.

Pacifico · 30-01-2021 10:50pm

The Vanished was hilariously bad!

alchemist33 · 30-01-2021 11:31pm

runawaybishop wrote: »

Plenty of good films, I think some of us have just watched them all If you were new to streaming you wouldn't know where to start.

Actually I'm watching Colossal now, which is ... interesting. It might even be very good.

30-01-2021 11:31pm

alchemist33 wrote: »

There's lot of good tv shows on netflix, especially non-english, but the film selection really is poor.

They want Customers who keep renewing their subscription so they offer series.
I found the selection of films just not good enough to renew my subscription.
I'm not their target market. Both they and I know it.

Mehaffey1 · 30-01-2021 11:36pm

DVDM93 wrote: »

Coming to Netflix on the 24th of February I see.

I love Tom Hardy & was looking forward to it when first I heard about it but it's supposed to be absolutely brutal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J5OE16C_zY

Same as yourself thought it would be great. Lasted 20 minutes of it, god it was awful.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 31-01-2021 12:09am

I watched The Dig tonight. I love Carey Mulligan and will watch anything she does, but I wasn't expecting too much from this, to be honest.
But I was pleasntly surprised by how engaging it is and it's very moving too. It's beautifully shot and a very pleasant way to spend a couple of hours.

FunLover18 · 31-01-2021 12:13am

DVDM93 wrote: »

Coming to Netflix on the 24th of February I see.

I love Tom Hardy & was looking forward to it when first I heard about it but it's supposed to be absolutely brutal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J5OE16C_zY

From the director who brought you the 2015 Fantastic Four.

All that fandango · 31-01-2021 12:16am

Looking forward to checking out Superstore. From the look of it, it reminds me of Rostered On, which was brilliant.

New2Dubs · 31-01-2021 12:22am

joe40 wrote: »

I have seen some great BBC shows on netflix, collateral, unforgotten, are 2 that spring to mind. Currently watching the informer as well and agree it's great.
BBC do good drama.

The Informer is a fantastic series. Loved it.
Strike on iplayer is worth a watch too. (Sorry I know this is a Netflix discussion).

km79 · 31-01-2021 12:24am

Bumblebee
Absolutely NO WAY I would have watched it without this thread
Brilliant and surprisingly moving

80s nostalgic fest too .
Great family movie . Very highly recommended

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 31-01-2021 12:28am

km79 wrote: »

Bumblebee
Absolutely NO WAY I would have watched it without this thread
Brilliant and surprisingly moving
80s nostalgic fest too .
Great family movie . Very highly recommended

I watched it last week (because of this thread) and was so bored by it

There's always one.

Potential-Monke · 31-01-2021 12:41am

It's been said already, but steer clear of Outside the Wire. It's complete muck. It could have been so much better.

I genuinely thought half way through that I twigged how it will end, with it all being an AR/VR/mind game to make the young fella realise what it's really like, but as it went on it became clearer that no, they intended to keep it "real" and just majorly fcuked it up. I watched until the end just to be sure there was no surprise, and I really should have given up way earlier.

Terrible film.

Addle · 31-01-2021 12:45am

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

I watched The Dig tonight. I love Carey Mulligan and will watch anything she does, but I wasn't expecting too much from this, to be honest.
But I was pleasntly surprised by how engaging it is and it's very moving too. It's beautifully shot and a very pleasant way to spend a couple of hours.

Watched this evening and loved it.
Didn’t realise it was a true story ‘til the end-amazing.

Addle · 31-01-2021 12:47am

fin12 wrote: »

I was just thinking could Netflix add concerts to their catalogue. I watched a simply red one recently on tv was really good, just wondering why they don’t add concerts to their libabry.

Homecoming.

paddyref · 31-01-2021 1:32am

Addle wrote: »

Watched this evening and loved it.
Didn’t realise it was a true story ‘til the end-amazing.

Agree wholeheartedly, great film although the sideline love interest with lily Jones rather took from the real story and wasn't necessary.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 31-01-2021 1:37am

paddyref wrote: »

Agree wholeheartedly, great film although the sideline love interest with lily Jones rather took from the real story and wasn't necessary.

I think they wanted to add to the idea of life being fleeting and grabbing the good things while you can and all that kind of thing. Young love on the eve of war and all that. I didn't mind it.

Homelander · 31-01-2021 12:06pm

Potential-Monke wrote: »

It's been said already, but steer clear of Outside the Wire. It's complete muck.

Unfortunately agree. It had potential and there are some really cool design aspects but the film itself is as flat as a pancake, particularly after the half-way point it's a complete slog to get through.

Not even one I'd give a pass to based on popcorn entertainment value, just a bad movie.

Tom Mann Centuria · 31-01-2021 12:48pm

Outside the Wire is indeed toilet. Anthony Mackie hasn't really shown he can lead a TV series or film at all for me, will be interesting to see how the Falcon series goes on Disney.

Wrongway1985 · 31-01-2021 1:36pm

fin12 wrote: »

I was just thinking could Netflix add concerts to their catalogue. I watched a simply red one recently on tv was really good, just wondering why they don’t add concerts to their libabry.

There's a bunch of them on Prime.

pottokblue · 31-01-2021 1:45pm

I love the nostaglia of watching concerts on TV the days of crowds and no social distancing, recently watched Dolly at Glastonbury and Coldplay in Brazil...

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