Netflix Recommendations Thread 3.0

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 14-08-2023 06:52PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120977600#Comment_120977600

I dunno. BBC can have years between series.

Keith186 · 14-08-2023 08:43PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120974239#Comment_120974239

I went to watch that as well. Clicked on it, started playing and it had started on S4 instead of S1. Not gonna bother with it now.

Gloomtastic! · 14-08-2023 11:50PM

Painkiller is a limited series about the Oxy epidemic in the states. Binged 4 out of the 6 tonight. It’s quite addictive.

Sixtoes · 14-08-2023 11:52PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120979355#Comment_120979355

😀 I’m hooked too..

johnny_ultimate · 15-08-2023 08:51AM

It’s not on Netflix at the moment, but can strongly recommend the documentary All The Beauty and the Bloodshed enough for a very personal, intimate look at the Oxy crisis in the US. It follows the artist Nan Goldin as she and other campaigners go to museums across the world to protest against Sackler money. A really powerful and suitably politically charged look at radical art and protest.

jj880 · 15-08-2023 02:49PM

As usual Untold's latest episode "Hall Of Shame" is excellent. Some good interviews and other details of Conte's steroid setup I hadnt seen anywhere else. Available today.

The Black Oil · 15-08-2023 05:43PM

Maestro - the highs and lows of Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. Has a theatrical run in late Nov, before reaching the platform on 20/12.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU6GbM5c9aE

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 15-08-2023 06:45PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120982505#Comment_120982505

This one has big Oscar hype, although completely unseen as of yet, I think. Looking forward to the discourse around Mulligan playing a Latina, I'm sure the internet will have lots of thoughtful points to make.

Agent Coulson · 15-08-2023 07:40PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120982729#Comment_120982729

Cooper being Catholic playing Bernstein has already been called ethnic cosplay on the internet.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 15-08-2023 07:44PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120982945#Comment_120982945

Maybe the double outrage will cancel each other out.

jj880 · 15-08-2023 08:51PM

https://youtu.be/IfN9F93xr_g

Shouldn't watch but probably will.

Out tomorrow.

#mydogsteppedonabee

#megapint

Edit: Looks like only available in the US

Mobius2021 · 16-08-2023 01:57PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120974706#Comment_120974706

Absolutely agree with all that, Dopesick seems better to me. Have watched both to completion - Dopesick is more gritty (with the exception of the Painkiller openings) and seems (stressing seems) more believable and close to the bone than Painkiller. Painkiller does go a bit over dramatic - particularly with how it portrays the sales people - although maybe it was that crazy.

Both are worth a watch though.

pixelburp · 16-08-2023 03:17PM

That new, animated Scott Pilgrim adaptation - the one that confusingly has the same cast as the live-action version - just got trailer:

https://youtu.be/ompoD7V42DM

Mr Crispy · 16-08-2023 03:23PM

No Beck for the soundtrack this time, I'm guessing.

Fysh · 16-08-2023 07:19PM

Tbh the Beck tracks were good but not necessarily a great fit for a scrappy garage band in their early days. Doesn't help that the finished film only included part of the best sonh Beck wrote for the band, the knock-off-Pixies-tastic "No Fun", which the band are playing when Scott arrives at the Chaos Club.

I really like the comics and the film adaptation, and find myself confused, more than anything, by this new version. Yes, the fill cast were IMO very good, but so much so that they should be brought back for another adaptation almost 15 years later? Hmm.

pixelburp · 17-08-2023 09:47AM

Looks like Netflix are heading into Streaming Games now: was already something that I doubt many Netflix subscribers even knew they had access to, but streaming directly from any device would at least put the games in more people's hands. I don't think the majority of the titles available would remotely tax people's bandwidth (compared with stuff like STeam Link, or Google Stadia fadó)

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/testing-games-on-more-devices

Caquas · 17-08-2023 08:25PM

Georgetown is first-rate, with an amazing cast.

Vanessa Redgrave was playing Shakespeare opposite Laurence Olivier over 60 years ago but she still has the vigour to match Cristoph Waltz, probably the finest European actor in Hollywood and he also directs this film. Annette Benning is wonderful as the daughter bent on justice for her mother.

I love these true story movies where the story is so bizarre that no scriptwriter would dare invent the plot.

Spon Farmer · 18-08-2023 03:34AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120982729#Comment_120982729

how an unreleased and unseen movie have awards hype? I suppose it just shows that the whole awards thing is stupid.

Her father was a white American and I believe Felicia didn’t look Latino at all but open to correction on that.

Spon Farmer · 18-08-2023 03:38AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120982945#Comment_120982945

I believe the Bernstein family are involved in the film or have at least given it approval of some kind.

So if they are okay with it then those claiming cosplay is criticism of them which is anti-Semitic.

i think. Is it?

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 18-08-2023 08:49AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120993558#Comment_120993558

Yes the whole awards thing is stupid. Occasionally something surprising gets in the mix but generally speaking the Oscars, and other big awards, can be predicted based on the release dates alone. Studios know what they're backing before they're even filmed. Traditionally September to December is Oscar season. If you're in there, you're gunning for Oscars.

boccy23 · 18-08-2023 09:16AM

Just finished Kalifat (Caliphate), a Swedish series about young girls being radicalized and travelling to Islamic State from Sweden coupled with a plot by ISIS to terrorise Sweden and Sapo trying to stop them. I think its fairly old, but a good watch all in all.

pixelburp · 18-08-2023 09:24AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120993562#Comment_120993562

The Bernstein children released a statement basically denouncing the "jewface" stuff as being a load of disingenuous nonsense & people should get over it - their dad had a big schnozz, it's OK. I'm sure those who just wanna be angry about something will choose to dismiss or ignore the children's sentiments tho'.

https://twitter.com/LennyBernstein/status/1691818410273869854

cdgalwegian · 18-08-2023 10:36AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120993969#Comment_120993969

Watched this years ago; thought it was really good. Nuts and bolts stuff, but very believable, and gripping towards the end.

gmisk · 19-08-2023 03:56PM

Has anyone watched The Chosen One yet?

I have watched episode 1 pretty interesting, looks really well, kids are decent, l went into it totally blind maybe that is best.

Blurb (possible spoilers if you don't want to know anything about it)

Jodie, a 12-year-old boy living in Baja California Sur, discovers he has Jesus-like powers; he must decide whether to answer his calling and fulfill his destiny.

appledrop · 20-08-2023 08:10PM

Watched 2 out of 3 episode of documentary about Boston Marathon bombings, very sad but very good.

Masala · 20-08-2023 10:59PM

Top Boy - Series 2 (2022) is up on Netflix. Around 8 episodes...... recommended.

Fysh · 20-08-2023 11:16PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121000269#Comment_121000269

This'll be the adaptation of American Jesus by Mark Millar. I wasn't massively impressed by the story in the original comic, because it was a fairly plain idea:

What if the second coming of Jesus was actually the first coming of an Antichrist?

The official premise is carefully worded to neither give away, nor explicitly preclude, that interpretation. But it's not a particularly interesting story idea, so I suspect a lot will depend on how good the cast and writers are, and how much latitude they have to add their own voice to the material.

eightieschewbaccy · 21-08-2023 05:41PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120993558#Comment_120993558

Not really that odd. It's Bradley Cooper's second directorial movie since A Star is Born, it's timed for Oscar season as is the likes of Killers of the Flower Moon. Topic and stars involved has always had award season speculation imho.

jj880 · 21-08-2023 10:33PM

https://youtu.be/ezHiQwwzEjU

Available tomorrow. Enjoyable.

I recommend watchin first 45 seconds to get the idea. Its 1 of those trailers that gives the whole feckin movie away.

FullBack Jam · 21-08-2023 11:00PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121009866#Comment_121009866

I like Gerard Butler movies. I saw this and it's not great. All set in a jail as far as I recollect. But doesn't have enough going for it to make it interesting as one of those set-in-the-one-location type films.

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