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Amazon Prime Film/TV Series Recommendations

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  • Registered Users Posts: 25 slang61


    I am relatively new to Amazon prime (using amazon UK as I am in Ireland.)

    There is so much that is "not available in your location".....

    am i missing something?



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


    Irish users use primevideo(dot)com, not the actual Amazon website. That might be your problem.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69


    6th day hidden gem/ underrated ??? Or late career Arnie trash ??



  • Registered Users Posts: 25 slang61


    OMG - I was just accessing through amazon website....... THANK YOU SO MUCH...... game changer......



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭Bowlardo




  • Registered Users Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭randomname2005


    I think they used prime video for com rather than the Amazon website. Prime video app works for me no problem



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,304 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Kevin can f##k himself....it's kind of amazing....i think...Annie Murphy..wow



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




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,304 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    It is indeed! Well worth a watch at least so far...only a few episodes in.



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




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭adelcrowsmel




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭artvanderlay


    The Gentlemen - Guy Ritchie film. Very light, funny and entertaining. Pleasantly surprised as I'm not much of a fan of any of the actors involved, nor Ritchie, but it was probably the most enjoyable movie experience I've had in a long time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,386 ✭✭✭Wrongway1985


    Selection of new titles/re-adds in the last week or so

    21

    Anna Lucasta 

    Betty Blue (Original Title: 37°2 le matin)

    The Big Caper

    Blade Runner 2049

    The Bone Collector

    The Condemned

    Crime of Passion

    Dive

    The Expendables

    The Expendables 2

    The Expendables 3

    The Expendables 3 (Extended Cut)

    Girl, Interrupted

    The Good Neighbor (Original Title: Unter Nachbarn)

    Gran Torino

    Groundhog Day

    Kill Me Three Times (Pegg)

    The Last Samurai (T.Cruise/K.Watanabe)

    Light of My Life (C.Affleck/C.Moss)

    Memorial Day

    Now You See Me 2

    Pavarotti (Ron Howard directed doc on the famous tenor)

    The Princess Bride

    Prospect

    Ratchet & Clank 

    Return to Paradise

    Snowpiercer (C.Evans/T.Swinton)

    Street Fighter

    Troy

    The Walking Target

    Thunder Road (R.Mitchum)

    The Vault (F.Highmore/Bergés-Frisbey/L.Cunningham)(Amazon Original)(2021)

    The Wonderful Country (R.Mitchum)


    KEVIN CAN F**K HIMSELF (Season 1)(2021)

    Fernando (Season 2)(Amazon Exclusive)(2021)

    R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour (Season 1-3)


    Expiring soon(That I'm aware of)

    The Front Runner - 5/9

    1917 - 9/9

    The Departed - 9/9

    Room - 9/9

    Chef - 11/9


    Also Justified & Unforgotten are both down to leave again on 9/9



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭hold my beer


    Must give The Departed a spin before it, ahem, departs. One of my favourite movies. Highly recommend if you've never seen it



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  • Registered Users Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Debub


    Anyone seen Solos? Reviews please?

    thanks



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,100 ✭✭✭EoinMcLovin




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,304 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    That looks kind of er cheap in places kinda surprised



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy


    Anyone here familiar with the book series?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,971 ✭✭✭spookwoman


    Haven't read it in a about 15 years and never got around to the last ones. Wasn't a bad series of books and I even got the PC game when it came out. Will be interesting to see how the series goes.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,630 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    Got round to watching Boss Level. It's good fun if you want to have something light and easy to watch in an evening. Did find the ending a bit underwhelming.

    I was shocked to learn Frank Grillo is 56. Looks amazing for his age.



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


    Finished it a while ago (all 14 tomes) but yes, it's a series with a lot of potential for a good TV show. There's a proper (finished!) story, good range of characters, monsters & magic, etc. It predates 'A Song of Ice and Fire'/'A Game of Thrones' and I don't really think they're alike but no doubt people will compare them anyway.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,386 ✭✭✭Wrongway1985


    It's pretty much badly written monologues by well known actors, was a pointless exercise imo not sure it would have existed if not for the pandemic. Wasn't a struggle to get through really due to the length of the episodes but not a worthwhile viewing.



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


    I watched a film called The Wedding Guest with Dev Patel, well made but quite slow. Dev is very good as a crim for hire type who arrives at a wedding in Pakistan with nefarious purposes. As I said it's slow and there's not much to the plot, could have done with a bit more tension as I never really felt the characters were in any danger.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,386 ✭✭✭Wrongway1985


    Selection of new titles/re-adds in the last week or so


    12 Years a Slave

    Across the Tracks

    The Addiction (Walken)

    Black Irish (B(re).Gleeson/M.Leo)

    The Blind Side

    Cinderella (Amazon Original)(2021)

    The Da Vinci Code

    Detroit (Boyega/W.Poulter/Mackie)

    Ellie Parker (N.Watts)

    Face 2 Face

    Far More (2021)

    G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

    The Grey

    The Guilty (B.Pullman)

    Hatchet II

    Hotel Transylvania

    Inferno

    The Informer (J.Kinnaman/R.Pike)

    Jerry Maguire

    Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies

    The Lincoln Lawyer

    The Meaning of Life (Gilliam/Chapman/Cleese)

    Molly's Game

    Northern Borders

    A Quiet Life (Original title: Una vita tranquilla)

    Red (Willis/Mirren)

    Red 2

    Snatch

    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

    Suicide Squad

    That Was Then... This Is Now

    Transcendence (J.Depp/R.Hall)

    Tremors (K.Bacon)

    Unforgiven (Hackman/C.Eastwood/M.Freeman/R.Harris)

    Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (G.Wilder)


    Castle (Season 1-8)

    Charmed (Season 1-8)

    Elementary (Season 1-7)

    Fungus the Bogeyman (Season 1)


    Expiring soon(That I'm aware of)

    Body of Lies - 14/9

    '71 - 15/9

    Love, Rosie - 16/9

    The Commuter - 19/9



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,253 ✭✭✭The White Wolf


    Went on a horror run yesterday across Netflix and Amazon.

    The Dark (2018) is the type of production I like when it comes to horror; low budget which means the effects and make up are forced to be resourceful, and if the idea is good enough it makes for a special effort that separates itself from the umpteen bad attempts on the same budget.

    It's quite good, would love to see it explored more. I'm surprised Amazon haven't tried to make more of it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭Knine


    Eden Lodge was a decent horror! Not what I was expecting 😄



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


    The Voyeurs (2021)

    This is a must watch movie just for the ending alone. I didn't know much about it prior to watching and this definitely added had an impact on my experience.

    Young couple move into their new apartment that over looks an adjacent apartment owned by a very adventurous couple who are not shy about what they get up to.



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


    I did not realise The Voyeurs was an Amazon Original.

    I've been watching LulaRich. A four part documentary about a multi level marketing company / pyramid scheme / cult mainly involving leggings.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,386 ✭✭✭Wrongway1985


    Selection of new titles/re-adds in the last week or so


    Angel of Death/El Angel (Original Title: El Ángel)

    A Nightmare on Elm Street (J.Earle Haley/R.Mara)

    Around the Block

    Beyond the Lights

    Chaos Walking

    Cloud Atlas

    Demoted

    Donnie Brasco

    Escape from Planet Earth 

    Exit Speed

    Indecency (Original Title: Mo)

    In Order of Disappearance (Original Title: Kraftidioten)(S.Skarsgard)

    Jasper Jones

    The Journey (Spall/Meaney/J.Hurt)

    The Lucky One

    Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

    Not Suitable For Children

    Rocky (I,II,III,IV,V & Balboa)

    Straight Outta Compton 

    The Voyeurs (Amazon Original)(2021)

    Walk of Shame (E.Banks)


    Ici c'est Paris, 50 ans de passion (Season 2)(Amazon Exclusive)(2021)(Also Season 1)(PSG Football Club doc)

    LuLaRich (Amazon Original)(2021)

    Mixte (Season 1)(Amazon Exclusive)(2021)


    Expiring soon(That I'm aware of)

    Pixels - 28/9



    Also The Green Knight; movie filmed here with Dev Patel/Alicia Vikander arriving 24/9



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  • Registered Users Posts: 520 ✭✭✭Full_Circle_81


    Can't believe they are getting The Green Knight so soon! Did Amazon co-fund it or just maybe splurge on the rights?

    I find David Lowerys movies to be extremely hit and miss, for me at least. Ain't Them Bodies Saints was fine, I enjoyed Pete's Dragon way more than I thought I would, I found A Ghost Story to be one of the most painful movie-watching experiences ever and then I loved The Old Man and the Gun. I'll be giving his latest a go at least!



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    I don't think they co-funded, perhaps Amazon just spotted a lot of social media buzz. They've been scooping up a few movies lately.

    I sometimes find it hard to rationalize the guy behind the charming Pete's Dragon remake also made A Ghost Story - and this (based on what I've seen of the trailer).



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


    I was completely unaware of this but looks like it's UK theatrical release was cancelled last minute as the delta variant emerged and there was a recent arrangement to have a parallel theatrical/streaming release next week.

    https://variety.com/2021/film/global/green-knight-uk-release-date-pulled-1235025640/

    https://variety.com/2021/film/global/green-knight-uk-amazon-theatrical-1235034716/



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,717 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Yeah it’s a UK / Ireland specific arrangement after the distributor here got cold feet. Amazon bought up the rights for here, albeit with the caveat from A24 I believe that it’d get some kind of big screen release (still being handled by the original distributor AFAIK).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,357 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    I watch ‘The Voyeurs’ knowing nothing about it really other than there would be nudity!! Jeez wasn’t expecting a film like that, well worth a watch. Serious babe main star in it.



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


    The Man Women's Ball

    Written, starring, and directed by Mélanie Laurent. This had it's world premiere at TIFF last week and is now on Prime. It's an adaptation of a book and is about Eugenie, a young Parisian woman in 1885. Having annoyed her father one too many times by having opinions, he takes the first chance he gets (her telling her granny she can see spirits) to throw her into a notorious asylum for "hysterical" women. There she is subjected to a string of horrific "treatments" at the hands of the most renowned doctor in the new field of psychology. Laurent plays one of the head nurses at the asylum who forms a bond with Eugenie because of her alleged ability to speak with the dead, and everything is leading up to the titular ball where the women patients are allowed attend a ball where the richest of Parisian society get their kicks mixing with the "mad" women.

    It's slow paced and doesn't shy away from the horrors these women were put through in the name of "science", but it's never exploitative or torture porn. It's probably not everyone's cup of tea but I was enthralled from beginning to end, and Lou de Laage is wonderful in the lead role of Eugenie, and having watched 3 of Laurent's films this year, I am a big fan of her work as a writer and director. (The first film I saw of hers as a director was Galveston, made in English, set in the US, and I wasn't a big fan, but she didn't write that one. So whether it's her writing or just working in her own language, I don't know, but she's definitely a talent)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,268 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    The world-building and story were great, the writing and some of the character development (or total lack thereof) was atrocious. It has huge potential for a television series as it's far, far too long a story to be told in film format and the mis-steps of the source material are so widely recognised by it's readership that it wouldn't take a genius to fix them (I'd imagine simply having a few women in the writers room would fix most of them tbh).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,386 ✭✭✭Wrongway1985


    Selection of new titles/re-adds in the last week or so

    2012

    Boy Wonder 

    The Bucket List

    Duplicity

    Everest 

    Everybody's Talking About Jamie (Amazon Original)(2021)

    Get Hard

    How to Be Single 

    Lemon

    Let's Kill Ward's Wife

    The Mad Women's Ball (Original Title: Le bal des folles)(M.Laurent)(Amazon Original)(2021)

    My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

    Nerdland

    Salt and Fire

    Star Trek Beyond


    Half & Half (Season 1-4)

    Moesha (Season 1-6)


    Expiring soon(That I'm aware of)

    Blood Diamond - 30/9

    The Great Gatsby - 30/9

    He's Just Not That Into You - 2/10



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,357 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    Running Scared has been added recently. Must be over 10 years ago that I watched it and remember it being very good. I think it is a modern twister version of red riding hood.



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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 9,012 Mod ✭✭✭✭mewso


    Watched Chaos Walking which I expected to be average enough but was pleasantly surprised. Nothing earth shattering but certainly passes the time reasonably well. Solid cast (Mads as the bad guy is always worth a look), interesting premise and I hadn't realised it was directed by Doug Liman of the first Bourne Identity (you know when the camera wasn't swinging all over the place during action sequences) and Edge of Tomorrow fame.



  • Registered Users Posts: 767 ✭✭✭Lefty2Guns


    Recently finished the Second Season of The Boys. Really enjoyed it and wouldn't have bothered with it only one of my mates recommended it.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,020 ✭✭✭maximo31


    Hotel Coolgardie well worth a watch. Documentary following two Finnish girls who go work in a pub in the Oz outback.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,386 ✭✭✭Wrongway1985


    Selection of new titles/re-adds in the last week or so


    5 Flights Up

    12 Strong (C.Hemsworth)

    100 Streets (I.Elba/G.Arterton)

    The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box

    A Few Good Men

    Aftermath

    An American Affair

    And Then There Were None

    Alison

    Ashes in the Snow (B.Powley)

    Barely Lethal (H.Steinfeld/S.Turner)

    The Baytown Outlaws

    The Beaver (M.Gibson/J.Foster)

    Big Daddy (A.Sandler)

    Bingo Hell (Amazon Original)(2021)

    Birds of Paradise (Amazon Original)(2021)

    Black as Night (Amazon Original)(2021)

    Boy (J.Rolleston/T.Waititi)

    Breaking Surface

    Bridget Jones's Baby

    Bringing Down the House (S.Martin)

    Cardboard Gangsters

    The Children

    The Contender (Oldman/Bridges/C.Slater)

    Dark Crimes

    Death at a Funeral

    Detour

    Don't Breathe

    Driving Miss Daisy (M.Freeman/J.Tandy)

    Dunkirk

    Eat Locals

    Elsa & Fred 

    The Escape (G.Arterton)

    The Escapist (B.Cox/D.Lewis)

    The Fly Room

    Ghost in the Shell (S.Johansson/M.Pitt)

    The Huntsman: Winter's War

    The Green Knight (D.Patel/Vikander)(Amazon Original)(2021)

    Happy Death Day 2U

    Heidi

    The Help

    The Holiday

    Hotel Coolgardie

    Igor

    Imperium (D.Radcliffe/T.Collette)

    Infinite (M.Wahlberg)(Amazon Exclusive)(2021)

    Jennifer Lopez: Dance Again

    Kong: Skull Island

    The Lego Batman Movie

    Life As We Know It 

    The Loft

    Love Actually

    The Maiden Heist

    Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (I.Elba/N.Harris)

    Man Down

    The Man Without a Face

    Misconduct

    Muriel's Wedding

    My Days of Mercy (E.Page/K.Mara)

    Odd Thomas

    The Perfect Host

    The Pirates of Somalia (E.Peters/Pacino)

    Poseidon (K.Russell/R.Dreyfuss)

    Raspberry Magic

    Renegades (J.K.Simmons)

    The Resident

    Selma

    The Shallows (B.Lively)

    Shark Tale

    Sister

    Smurfs: The Lost Village

    Spiderman (T.Maguire/K.Dunst/W.Dafoe)

    Sugar Mountain

    Superbad

    Two Night Stand (M.Teller)

    The Ugly Truth

    Us (Nyong'o)

    The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

    The Void

    The Wicker Man (Cage)

    Winter's End

    The Witches (A.Huston)

    Woman on the Run

    Wonder Woman (G.Gadot)


    100% Wolf: Legend of the Moonstone (Season 1)

    90210 (Season 1-5)

    All or Nothing: Toronto Maple Leafs (Amazon Original)(2021)

    The Bernie Mac Show (Season 1-5)

    Fresh Meat (Season 1-4)

    Goliath (Season 4)(Amazon Original)(2021)

    My Wife and Kids (Season 1-5)

    Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (Season 1-7)


    Expiring soon(That I'm aware of)

    Parasite - 6/10

    The Other Boleyn Girl - 11/10



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


    ^ I still haven't gotten around to Parasite yet. Might be the kick in the bum I need to sit down and watch it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,386 ✭✭✭Wrongway1985


    Parasite is excellent get on it, another 3 days is all.

    I watched Bingo Hell, not really a horror not really good either.



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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Do. Parasite is the exception of a best Oscar gong that absolutely deserved its plaudits. It's a deeply clever, entertaining, thrilling film - and has one of the creepiest single frames in modern cinema.



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


    I started watching Guns Akimbo with Daniel Radcliffe and had to give up after half an hour. A shame because I think Radcliffe has made some interesting choices since HP but this was just really poor and I was finding it incredibly difficult to suspend my disbelief at some bits.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,981 ✭✭✭✭~Rebel~


    It's a movie that I think will be really hit or miss with people - probably very few neutrals. I wasn't really expecting to like it to be honest, but for whatever reason that particular tone of playful hyper-stylised campy nonsense pulled me in and I found myself really enjoying it! I'd say being in just the right mood for it helps a lot too. I got some vibes of Tank Girl, and Birds of Prey - both of which I love - from it, albeit it's not as good as either.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,109 ✭✭✭The Raging Bile Duct


    I really enjoyed Guns Akimbo. I thought it was very funny - I think Radcliffe did a great job in the lead role. The scene with Rhys Darby was great from what I remember. That and Boss Level are films I'd rate the same and both have that ott, cartoony action that doesn't take itself seriously at all and is great for switching the brain off and enjoying the chaos.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69


    Boss level surprisingly good/entertaining… I didn’t think Frank Grillo had it in him to be a leading man….

    apparently the movie was finished years ago but it’s release was delayed because the studio thought it was a skunk.



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