Netflix Recommendations Thread 3.0

Wonder how much they paid for Cats

Don't look up is a great movie, a lovely palate cleanser after the horrendous new Matrix movie. Genuinely funny and good performances by Dicaprio, Lawrence and Rylance in particular. The social commentary is a bit relentless but probably important in relation to the climate change parallels. Would definitely recommend it

2 episodes into The Silent Sea and it's good, although some of the dialogue and plot points are quite silly, which I presume is a translation issue.

Don't Look Up is way too long and flags massively in the middle. I wish I'd watched something else while staying up late on Christmas Eve

Don't look up looks terrible to me, watched the trailer and that was enough, there might be something to what you're saying too - as I detest Will Ferrell. My missus loves him but I just don't get it, I can't think of many actors who are less funny tbh

A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood is very good, more underplayed than what I was expecting and very slow. I think there's a version of the movie that is a lot more emotional but I liked the version we got, maybe if I'd grown up with Mr Rogers it might have had a bigger impact.

Who said he was? 🙄 I was replying to the previous poster who said the same director/producer did Will Ferrell movies.

No idea why you got 10 thanks on that, that makes 11 people who don't read threads properly

It is very good, but it will spoil the party. Definitely mark it down though as one to watch when in the right frame of mind. Simple story, excellent acting.

Don't Look Up. Thoroughly enjoyable satire, well acted, smart, sharp, funny. DiCaprio, Hill and Lawrence were all impressive.

Don't look up isn't great unfortunately. It's seriously overly long and scattershot. Comedies with huge budgets tend to be a bit of an oddity.

Some little fun parts and performances, Cate Blanchett, meryl streep, Lawrence and Jonah Hill especially are fun and do their best, but it was a disappointment to me, it just wasn't sufficiently funny or biting from a satire point of view.

The supposed notion that it was about climate change rather than Covid didn't really work, Streep's female Trump was shallow, Rylance's Gates/Musk character creepy but unlikely, some of the lesser characters basically written to allow cameos,

Too long, not funny enough, could have been much better

The movie had barely even started by 25 mins.

If you were watching this expecting an 'anchorman' style of comedy (given the cast and director) then I can see how it didn't meet those expectations, but if you see it as a kind of 21st century 'Dr Strangelove' where the comedy comes from watching increasingly ludicrous outcomes from bad decision making at key moments, and the dynamics of power and who really holds the balance of power, what motivates them to act the way they do etc

It's a film that grows into itself

I watched this expecting scandi noir but it's mainly set in Israel and surrounding areas.

It's not great but I suppose I stuck with it so it's not completely terrible.