Amazon Prime Film/TV Series Recommendations

FunLover18 · 24-02-2021 1:11pm

Man Vs ManUre wrote: »

Watched Hustlers with the ball and chain the other night. It’s probably more a chick film but still pretty ok. The 2 leads Constance Wu and JLo are very good in it.

Great film! Wouldn't call it a chick film at all.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 24-02-2021 1:18pm

FunLover18 wrote: »

Great film! Wouldn't call it a chick film at all.

Me neither. I've seen it compared to Goodfellas a lot

Xaniaj · 24-02-2021 1:40pm

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Me neither. I've seen it compared to Goodfellas a lot

Because it isn't a chick flick by any stretch it the imagination?! But I suppose if the 'ball and chain' wanted to watch it....!

Man Vs ManUre · 24-02-2021 2:13pm

FunLover18 wrote: »

Great film! Wouldn't call it a chick film at all.

To me it’s a chick flick, something a gang of women might watch the day of their hen party. I thought it was good, but I wouldn’t put it in same bracket of films like goodfellas, wolf of Wall Street, casino, scarface, other male strong gangster films. To me it’s mean girls with drugs.

The Raging Bile Duct · 24-02-2021 2:38pm

Man Vs ManUre wrote: »

To me it’s a chick flick, something a gang of women might watch the day of their hen party. I thought it was good, but I wouldn’t put it in same bracket of films like goodfellas, wolf of Wall Street, casino, scarface, other male strong gangster films. To me it’s mean girls with drugs.

It's just something you'd watch wit da moth, wha.

The Raging Bile Duct · 24-02-2021 2:41pm

I watched Widows the other night. It was full of women like but the bird wanted to watch it and I was hoping to get me hole.

FunLover18 · 24-02-2021 2:45pm

Man Vs ManUre wrote: »

To me it’s a chick flick, something a gang of women might watch the day of their hen party. I thought it was good, but I wouldn’t put it in same bracket of films like goodfellas, wolf of Wall Street, casino, scarface, other male strong gangster films. To me it’s mean girls with drugs.

I don't why you wouldn't put them in the same bracket, Hustlers may not be as good or have the same reputation but it's a crime film about people trying to make something for themselves difference being the lack of dong. It's like saying you wouldn't put Ocean's 8 in the same bracket as the other Ocean's movie. The Mean Girls comparison feels very derogatory tbh (even though Mean Girls is another film). Calling a film a chick flick just because it has a largely female cast is very lazy.

Man Vs ManUre · 24-02-2021 2:47pm

Widows is a proper good heist film, doesn’t matter if it is chicks pulling off the heist, it’s not a girlie film like Hustlers, Mean Girls and Mama Mia.

S.M.B. · 24-02-2021 3:13pm

Must not engage. Must not engage.

johnny_ultimate · 24-02-2021 3:18pm

Mod note: Can posters please use more mature language than ‘chicks’ and ‘girlie’ please? We’re not 11-year-olds here. Thanks.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 24-02-2021 3:38pm

Man Vs ManUre wrote: »

To me it’s a chick flick, something a gang of women might watch the day of their hen party. I thought it was good, but I wouldn’t put it in same bracket of films like goodfellas, wolf of Wall Street, casino, scarface, other male strong gangster films. To me it’s mean girls with drugs.

I wouldn't consider Mean Girls a chick flick either, while we're at it.

witnessmenow · 24-02-2021 3:42pm

I know I'm super late to the party, but I watched Man in the High Castle over the last few weeks and really enjoyed it. I think it does slide a little in quality in the later couple of seasons but I didn't think it was anywhere near as bad as it's made out to, there are some amazing moments and themes/concepts in season 4.

I knew absolutely nothing about it going in other than it's based in a world where the Axis won the war, and season 1 was an absolute Tv series equivalent of a page turner!

Movies we watched on it lately:

Departed - Excellent
The Founder - thought it was good
GameNight - enjoyed it more than I thought we would, worth the watch
42 - Movie about the first coloured baseball player. Thought it was pretty good, although I wasn't mad about Harrison ford in it for some reason, i think it's generally thought of as a good performance but it felt really forced to me or something.

Something for the kids, my daughter really likes creative galaxy, it's a cartoon where the main guy uses art to solve something and then it cuts to a couple of kids giving you directions on how to make the thing the guy makes.

Prime control of what kids watch is aboslute garbage though, you can't block specific content like you can with netflix, and there is tonnes of crap from Youtube on it.

Man Vs ManUre · 24-02-2021 4:45pm

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

I wouldn't consider Mean Girls a chick flick either, while we're at it.

Lol. I googled ‘is mean girls a chick flick’ and in the very scentence returned it says -
‘Mean Girls is a popular teen film that was released in 2004 and easily became one of the greatest chick flicks of all time, or a cult-status classic as some would say.......’!!

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 24-02-2021 5:06pm

Man Vs ManUre wrote: »

Lol. I googled ‘is mean girls a chick flick’ and in the very scentence returned it says -
‘Mean Girls is a popular teen film that was released in 2004 and easily became one of the greatest chick flicks of all time, or a cult-status classic as some would say.......’!!

Oh, well if you Googled it.....

24-02-2021 6:46pm

Man Vs ManUre wrote: »

Lol. I googled ‘is mean girls a chick flick’ and in the very scentence returned it says -
‘Mean Girls is a popular teen film that was released in 2004 and easily became one of the greatest chick flicks of all time, or a cult-status classic as some would say.......’!!

Can think of loads of men who love Mean Girls, myself included. A female dominated film but it's pretty easy to appreciate regardless of gender.

FunLover18 · 24-02-2021 6:58pm

I had this discussion with a female friend recently and her view was that "chick flick" was a term used to prevent films mainly starring and about females characters and stories from encroaching on "proper films" like The Godfather, literally an example she used.

pixelburp · 24-02-2021 7:02pm

I'd agree with that. It's plainly a derogatory term, whether used intentionally as thus or not; it feels adjacent to describing something as essentially worthless trash. Oh it can't be a "proper" film, just some fluff; colours and shapes women might like but not something worthy. Like something Mel Gibson's character in "What Women Want" would use as inspiration.

Obviously, that's putting words in people's mouths here but I definitely read the term's use as a reduction.

mikhail · 24-02-2021 8:07pm

I guess it depends on how you use it. I do use it as a value judgement: weak genre films which target a female demographic, a counterpart to the kind of direct-to-dvd action junk that targets men. I wouldn't refer to Mean Girls as a chick flick, any more than I'd call Die Hard action junk. Mean Girls is one of the best comedies of the decade it was released.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 24-02-2021 8:15pm

mikhail wrote: »

I guess it depends on how you use it. I do use it as a value judgement: weak genre films which target a female demographic, a counterpart to the kind of direct-to-dvd action junk that targets men. I wouldn't refer to Mean Girls as a chick flick, any more than I'd call Die Hard action junk. Mean Girls is one of the best comedies of the decade it was released.

This is pretty much how I feel about it too. There is a certain type of film that is churned out with very little effort and targeted specifically at a certain demographic of women, and serve no other purpose than to mildly entertain for 90 minutes and never be thought of again. But for every Katherine Heigl unlucky in love film, there's a Jason Statham shooting at something film. Takes all sorts.

24-02-2021 8:35pm

Also the term 'chick flick' could easily be used as a description for much of the works of Shakespeare with the criteria that seems to make something into a 'chick flick', is 10 Things I Hate About You one? How about Gone With The Wind or Breakfast at Tiffanies? If anything, they're the type of stories that are universally accessible and have been for millenia.... :pac:

You might get the trashy stuff that's crap etc. But more than anything it's derivative and targeting a demographic in terms of production. But a female or male dominated film can be perfectly accessible to all audiences.

Anyway, might give Clueless a watch this weekend.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 24-02-2021 8:41pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Anyway, might give Clueless a watch this weekend.

Ah, the double whammy of a chick flick adapted from chick lit

secondrowgal · 24-02-2021 10:13pm

Just watched Bombshell and my god I want to through something or someone through a window! What a ****ing cesspit of a place.

DrumSteve · 24-02-2021 11:07pm

Man Vs ManUre wrote: »

Widows is a proper good heist film, doesn’t matter if it is chicks pulling off the heist, it’s not a girlie film like Hustlers, Mean Girls and Mama Mia.

Call it whatever you want, that film was absolutely God awful.

Only signed up for prime recently and watched all 6 seasons of Bosch... What a show.

Debub · 25-02-2021 4:00pm

DrumSteve wrote: »

Call it whatever you want, that film was absolutely God awful.

Only signed up for prime recently and watched all 6 seasons of Bosch... What a show.

agree - what a show... watched the first episode with the wife, she didn't like it that much so I binge watched it solo and also got hooked onto the music as well (have the full playlist on Spotify now)... suggested to the wife to give it another go - and she did and didn't stop till the end

fryup · 25-02-2021 11:41pm

why are nearly all the movies geo-locked ??

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 26-02-2021 1:06am

fryup wrote: »

why are nearly all the movies geo-locked ??

Are you on a UK account? I know there was a whole thing happened in January with Brexit and people had to change back to Irish accounts. There was lots of discussion abour it in the other General Amazon thread.

amacca · 26-02-2021 2:32am

DrumSteve wrote: »

Call it whatever you want, that film was absolutely God awful.

Only signed up for prime recently and watched all 6 seasons of Bosch... What a show.

Agree...I know it gets good reviews, critics seem to like it etc

And I still think.its criminally under rated :pac:

It's very well done imo.....and I too love the music like poster above...thing the opening credits sounds and looks fantastic

fryup · 26-02-2021 9:05am

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Are you on a UK account? I know there was a whole thing happened in January with Brexit and people had to change back to Irish accounts. There was lots of discussion abour it in the other General Amazon thread.

irish account,

Mickeroo · 26-02-2021 9:54am

fryup wrote: »

irish account,

It thinks your in the UK though. I had the same problem with an Irish amazon account. Try logging in to prime video through a web browser and see does it give you the option to choose your location on sign in, it did for me and when I set Ireland there everything was fine after that.

DrumSteve · 26-02-2021 1:24pm

Debub wrote: »

agree - what a show... watched the first episode with the wife, she didn't like it that much so I binge watched it solo and also got hooked onto the music as well (have the full playlist on Spotify now)... suggested to the wife to give it another go - and she did and didn't stop till the end

The music is incredible.

But I think the writing is just really good on it; its the sort of programme they could make 100 seasons of and I probably wouldn't get bored of.

Charlie19 · 27-02-2021 12:12am

I'm about 15 minutes into I Care a Lot with Rosamund Pike and it's making my blood boil.

What a horrible business to be in.

Pen Rua · 27-02-2021 10:00am

We cancelled Netflix, and went with Amazon Prime Video (half price compared to Netflix) to give it a go, as there's some movies I've been wanting to watch.

Started off last night with '71 (2014) which tells the story of a British solider who gets separated from his platoon when helping the RUC on a raid in a Catholic part of Belfast.

It was an excellent film, with high tension throughout and some interesting characters peppered through. A strong UK & Irish cast, including Jack O'Connell (Skins), Paul Anderson (Peaky Blinders), Barry Keoghan (Dunkirk, Chernobyl, Love/Hate), Killian Scott (Love/Hate). It kept me close to the edge of my seat, but for me, lacked something toward the end.

A solid watch and a comfortable 7/10.

Need a Username · 27-02-2021 12:16pm

Looking an action or adventure movie to watch this afternoon.

Loud and fun and not too serious. Smart or dumb doesn’t matter.

I spent must of last Saturday afternoon trying to decide.

Need a Username · 27-02-2021 12:20pm

fryup wrote: »

irish account,

What device are you using?

FunLover18 · 27-02-2021 12:58pm

Need a Username wrote: »

Looking an action or adventure movie to watch this afternoon.

Loud and fun and not too serious. Smart or dumb doesn’t matter.

I spent must of last Saturday afternoon trying to decide.

Demolition Man
The Losers
Both 48 Hours movies are there
Pacific Rim
Kong Skull Island

I think any of these would fit the bill if you haven't seen them, at least we know runtime won't be an issue

Need a Username · 27-02-2021 1:35pm

FunLover18 wrote: »

Demolition Man
The Losers
Both 48 Hours movies are there
Pacific Rim
Kong Skull Island

I think any of these would fit the bill if you haven't seen them, at least we know runtime won't be an issue

I will watch them all one after the other just to show you

Seen them all though and watched the last two recently.

But Demolition Man is bang on the type of movie I am wanting. Any recommendations for something like that?

flasher0030 · 27-02-2021 3:36pm

Need a Username wrote: »

I will watch them all one after the other just to show you

Seen them all though and watched the last two recently.

But Demolition Man is bang in the type of movie I am wanting. Any recommendations for something like that?

Looper
Blade runner 2049
Good heist movie is Den of Thieves. Not Sc-fi. But good pace.

bugsyb4 · 27-02-2021 4:10pm

Pen Rua wrote: »

We cancelled Netflix, and went with Amazon Prime Video (half price compared to Netflix) to give it a go, as there's some movies I've been wanting to watch.

Started off last night with '71 (2014) which tells the story of a British solider who gets separated from his platoon when helping the RUC on a raid in a Catholic part of Belfast.

It was an excellent film, with high tension throughout and some interesting characters peppered through. A strong UK & Irish cast, including Jack O'Connell (Skins), Paul Anderson (Peaky Blinders), Barry Keoghan (Dunkirk, Chernobyl, Love/Hate), Killian Scott (Love/Hate). It kept me close to the edge of my seat, but for me, lacked something toward the end.

A solid watch and a comfortable 7/10.

Keep the film reviews coming always appreciated! We have been trying the last few months to watch one every Saturday night and normally come to boards for recommendations.

Also which might not suit you but if get Eir broadband they give you Amazon Prime Video free for a year. Whatever they did on our order messed up so will have gotten it free for 18 months by time it is finished, will keep it on anyway. Have Netflix too but yeah it is pricey and definitely doesn't warrant the price difference that there is between both platforms..

Pen Rua · 28-02-2021 10:17am

Widows (2018) was up last night, a crime/thriller with a strong cast including Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki (Tenent), Liam Neeson and Colin Farrell. A group of widows band together after the death of their spouses to carry out the last planned heist their spouses had prepared. For me, the movie was very much two halves: the introduction to the characters, the premises, the set up for the first hour. That was slow. Hard to keep my attention, personally. The second half is the heist, no big spoiler there. This was well done and definitely more engaging than the first half. Both Davis & Debicki shone for me. Overall, for me it's a 7.5/10 on a totally arbitrary system...!

bugsyb4 wrote: »

Keep the film reviews coming always appreciated! We have been trying the last few months to watch one every Saturday night and normally come to boards for recommendations.

Also which might not suit you but if get Eir broadband they give you Amazon Prime Video free for a year. Whatever they did on our order messed up so will have gotten it free for 18 months by time it is finished, will keep it on anyway. Have Netflix too but yeah it is pricey and definitely doesn't warrant the price difference that there is between both platforms..

Sure, happy to share when I remember to. I've dropped a couple of posts like this in the Netflix thread too, some movies are on Prime too, I just happened to watch them on Netflix.

I had looked at Eir before but am put off by the horror stories.

Wrongway1985 · 01-03-2021 2:45pm

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

Anna Karenina (Knightley)
The Bank Job (Statham)
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
The Breakfast Club
The Catcher Was a Spy
Creed II
Daddy's Home 2
Death at a Funeral
Detours
The Dilemma
Distorted
Escape From Pretoria (Radcliffe)
Everyone's Going to Die
Ghostbusters II
The Grey
The Hatton Garden Job
Ideal Home
The Jane Austen Book Club
Johnny English
Johnny English Reborn
The Joke Thief
Kicking & Screaming
The Last Samurai (Watanabe/Cruise)
Lion (D.Patel/R.Mara/Kidman)
The Lorax
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
Mind Games
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
The Patriot
The Pursuit of Happyness
The Ramen Girl (B.Murphy)
Rogue (2020)
Shooting Fish
Smurfs: The Lost Village
Stolen Miracle
The Surprise (Original Title: De Surprise)
Underworld
Underworld Evolution
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Underworld: Awakening
What's Cooking?
The Witches (1990)
White Chicks
The Year of Getting to Know Us
Yogi Bear

Above Suspicion (Season 1-2)
The Slap

Expiring soon (That I'm aware of)

21 Jump Street - 8/3
22 Jump Street - 8/3
About Time - 9/3
300 - 13/3
300: Rise of an Empire - 13/3
The Princess Bride - 14/3

peteeeed · 05-03-2021 9:29am

coming to america 2 added today
the reviews are in
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/coming-2-america

deisedude · 05-03-2021 1:20pm

peteeeed wrote: »

coming to america 2 added today
the reviews are in
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/coming-2-america

I will give it a watch anyway but those reviews are not promising

hold my beer · 05-03-2021 4:19pm

deisedude wrote: »

I will give it a watch anyway but those reviews are not promising

Movie reviewer on Moncrieff just slated it. Said it's a complete rehash and is awful.

fryup · 05-03-2021 7:27pm

well the original was pretty sh!te anyway, so no letdown then

Man Vs ManUre · 05-03-2021 8:22pm

Is it as disappointing as the sequel to dumb and dumber?? At least Jim and Jeff had the sense to stay away from that one.

Man Vs ManUre · 05-03-2021 8:41pm

sugarman wrote: »

That was the prequel.

But you do release there was actually a sequel with Jim and Jeff a couple of years ago too, yeah?

Oh right, I was mixing up Dumb and Dumberer with Dumb and Dumber To. Seems Jim and Jeff were pretty dumb after all, and me to!!

Bill Ponderosa · 05-03-2021 11:14pm

I enjoyed dumb and dumber to, I was expecting it to be awful but was pleasantly surprised. I won't be watching coming to America.

DrumSteve · 05-03-2021 11:17pm

Bosch Spin off confirmed.

Titus welliver back, will focus on him and Money Chandler.

So I can only presume he leaves the police at the end of the last season in that case.

deisedude · 06-03-2021 9:19am

deisedude wrote: »

I will give it a watch anyway but those reviews are not promising

I made it 30 minutes in and turned off. God awful

donfers · 06-03-2021 12:23pm

The terror is a fantastic series, both seasons available

My only complaint is that the very first scene of the first episode basically removes some of the suspense, i hate when shows/movies employ this technique

still, a great show.

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