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Mickeroo · 12-05-2017 8:34am

hefferboi wrote: »

Watched train to busan last night thought it was excellent. Never watched a south Korean movie before but was very impressed. Any recommendations for more good foreign movies, south Korean or other?

I love a good crime\detective\thriller so anything along those lines.

Not sure how many of these are on netflix but in terms of South Korean films it's worth checking out Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr Vengeance and I Saw the Devil. Oldboy in particular is a must watch imo.

The Host, Lady Vengeance, Memories of Murder, The Good, the Bad and the Weird, Joint Security Area and A Bittersweet Life are all really good too.

You've really been missing out over the last 20 years if Train to Busan was your first korean movie

Synode · 12-05-2017 9:18am

Watched the 2nd Season of Love last week and really enjoyed it.

Started watching Lovesick last night. Made by Channel 4 I think. Watched about 4 episodes and it had some good laughs

b_mac2 · 12-05-2017 10:28am

hefferboi wrote: »

Watched train to busan last night thought it was excellent. Never watched a south Korean movie before but was very impressed. Any recommendations for more good foreign movies, south Korean or other?

I love a good crime\detective\thriller so anything along those lines.

There is a good Korean one about a nuclear disaster on Netflix... I'll get the name later.

conorhal · 12-05-2017 11:15am

hefferboi wrote: »

Watched train to busan last night thought it was excellent. Never watched a south Korean movie before but was very impressed. Any recommendations for more good foreign movies, south Korean or other?

I love a good crime\detective\thriller so anything along those lines.

If you haven't seen 'Oldboy' then you're in for a treat.

spacecoyote · 12-05-2017 3:27pm

conorhal wrote: »

If you haven't seen 'Oldboy' then you're in for a treat.

Whilst I wholeheartedly agree with you re this statement, I've come across a couple of people who didn't quite have the same reaction.

Recommended it to 2 lads in work, one absolutely loved it, the other one

who has a daughter

was thoroughly disturbed by it

Charlie19 · 12-05-2017 4:05pm

Old boy is crazy. Well worth a watch.
Notable mentions for these three.

Irreversible. French.

City of God. Brazilian.

Untouchables. French.

Corvo · 12-05-2017 4:54pm

Charlie19 wrote: »

Old boy is crazy. Well worth a watch.
Notable mentions for these three.

Irreversible. French.

City of God. Brazilian.

Untouchables. French.

Found a certain scene in that very disturbing.

Charlie19 · 12-05-2017 5:24pm

Corvo wrote: »

Found a certain scene in that very disturbing.

Yup it was a tough watch, my oh couldn't watch it.

Rjd2 · 12-05-2017 6:04pm

Obnoxious, but fascinating individual, documentary just arrived on netflix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IPyv4KgTAA

fin12 · 12-05-2017 7:28pm

Suite Francais, really recommend this film, a love story between a French woman and German officer in Nazi-Occupied France.

Gloomtastic! · 12-05-2017 8:37pm

Can't find Oldboy or Train To Busan on Irish Netflix. Am I meant to?

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 12-05-2017 8:50pm

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

Can't find Oldboy or Train To Busan on Irish Netflix. Am I meant to?

Nope. They're not on it.

looie · 12-05-2017 8:55pm

looie wrote: »

Coming to Netflix on the 12th.

Mindhorn

Scratch that. Looks like Occono's right.

Occono wrote: »

I suspect that might be all territories worldwide EXCEPT the UK and Ireland.

JaMarcusHustle · 12-05-2017 9:33pm

JaMarcusHustle wrote:

I see clips from "Love Me" being posted on Reddit this week. It's a documentary about guys using mail order bride services. It looks cringe-tastic, almost Louis Theroux-esque. Is it on Irish Netflix?

fin12 wrote:

That was on Netflix before, I watched it.

Watched it today. Watched most of it from behind my hands. Absolute cringe festival. Thoroughly recommended.

tigger123 · 13-05-2017 7:44am

JaMarcusHustle wrote: »

Watched it today. Watched most of it from behind my hands. Absolute cringe festival. Thoroughly recommended.

Its great watch, really enjoyed it.

That Roger Stone documentary looks great too.

Mickeroo · 13-05-2017 4:38pm

Looks like Fast & the Furious 7 was added.

rocky1813 · 13-05-2017 10:03pm

Deer wrote: »

We are watching Last Tango in Halifax on Netflix at the moment. Loving it. It's about two pensioners who are reunited and fall in love and their extremely messed up families . Well worth a watch if you haven't already seen it.

Completely agree. Really enjoying this at the moment. The two actors playing the pensioners are excellent.

rocky1813 · 13-05-2017 10:07pm

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

I've been so engrossed in Mad Men the last few weeks I'd totally forgot this thread had been rebooted.

Some nice recommendations here, thanks!

Still haven't figured out why Mad Men is so addictive but I'm glued every evening.

Loved Mad Men too. Watched all 7 seasons in about 2 weeks. Now watching Last Tango in Halifax which I'm enjoying a lot.

FunLover18 · 15-05-2017 12:43am

Watched 'Love & Friendship' this evening and thoroughly enjoyed it. Jane Austen adaptation starting Kate Beckinsale in fantastic form and wonderfully silly performance from Tom Bennett. A very pleasant way to pass an hour and a half. Also shot mostly in Ireland.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 15-05-2017 12:46am

FunLover18 wrote: »

Watched 'Love & Friendship' this evening and thoroughly enjoyed it. Jane Austen adaptation starting Kate Beckinsale in fantastic form and wonderfully silly performance from Tom Bennett. A very pleasant way to pass an hour and a half. Also shot mostly in Ireland.

Entirely in Ireland, I thought.

Not that it matters, obviously, it's still a very enjoyable film either way.

johnpatrick81 · 15-05-2017 2:12am

That Roger Stone doc is frighteningly open. Like a thief telling you how they stole your money while you watch them spend it!

cathalj · 15-05-2017 2:35am

kunst nugget wrote:

Watching and really enjoying Inside No. 9 as well - an anthology series from two of the guys behind The League of Gentlemen. Shares the same twisted vibe of TLOG with a heavy nod to Tales of the Unexpected. If you like TLOG, you'll like this and if you haven't watched TLOG - what are you doing? All three seasons are now up on Netflix. Get on it.

Great shout with "Inside No.9"..... brilliantly written and acted..... and I wholeheartedly agree about "The League of Gentlemen" - absolutely genius of a TV show.

peteeeed · 15-05-2017 9:18am

selma added today

kunst nugget · 15-05-2017 1:48pm

cathalj wrote: »

Great shout with "Inside No.9"..... brilliantly written and acted..... and I wholeheartedly agree about "The League of Gentlemen" - absolutely genius of a TV show.

The episode of Inside No.9 with Sheridan Smith was great. She did an amazing job in it.

Watched White House Down. It actually feels like a parody of an action movie at times. Totally over the top and completely daft but it's good fun, bolts along at a good pace and never gets dull. A good movie for turning the brain off to.

Agent Coulson · 15-05-2017 2:05pm

Bowie: The Man Who Changed the World documentary added today.

maximus02 · 15-05-2017 2:09pm

cathalj wrote: »

Great shout with "Inside No.9"..... brilliantly written and acted..... and I wholeheartedly agree about "The League of Gentlemen" - absolutely genius of a TV show.

Indeed "The League of Gentlemen" is great stuff, as is it's follow-up "Psychoville".
(N.B. Don't watch Psychoville is you're scared of clowns!!)

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 15-05-2017 2:13pm

kunst nugget wrote: »

The episode of Inside No.9 with Sheridan Smith was great. She did an amazing job in it.

That episode was on BBC a few weeks ago and someone I follow on twitter kept banging on about how great it was so I tuned in to see what the fuss was about. I had heard of Inside No. 9 but didn't realise it was an anthology thing. That episode was enough to get me watching the rest on Netflix. I thought the episode with Gemma Arterton was particularly good too.

pilly · 15-05-2017 2:26pm

maximus02 wrote: »

Indeed "The League of Gentlemen" is great stuff, as is it's follow-up "Psychoville".
(N.B. Don't watch Psychoville is you're scared of clowns!!)

Ah stop, the clown is hilarious!!

rob316 · 16-05-2017 4:14pm

kunst nugget wrote: »

The episode of Inside No.9 with Sheridan Smith was great. She did an amazing job in it.

Watched White House Down. It actually feels like a parody of an action movie at times. Totally over the top and completely daft but it's good fun, bolts along at a good pace and never gets dull. A good movie for turning the brain off to.

Thought Olympus has fallen was better than WHD. Absolutely brainless stuff

kunst nugget · 16-05-2017 4:15pm

rob316 wrote: »

Thought Olympus has fallen was better than WHD. Absolutely brainless stuff

Ah, yeah. I'll make no bones about it - it's completely brainless. It actually feels like it's taking the piss out of itself half the time.

FunLover18 · 16-05-2017 4:26pm

rob316 wrote:

Thought Olympus has fallen was better than WHD. Absolutely brainless stuff

kunst nugget wrote:

Ah, yeah. I'll make no bones about it - it's completely brainless. It actually feels like it's taking the piss out of itself half the time.

This is why I preferred WHD, it's far more tongue-in-cheek and doesn't take itself nearly as seriously as OHF. But there you go, different strokes.

Whichever you prefer, avoid London Has Fallen at all costs.

Mr Crispy · 18-05-2017 12:26pm

New trailer for Okja.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjCebKn4iic

Arrives June 28th.

rob316 · 18-05-2017 1:55pm

FunLover18 wrote: »

This is why I preferred WHD, it's far more tongue-in-cheek and doesn't take itself nearly as seriously as OHF. But there you go, different strokes.

Whichever you prefer, avoid London Has Fallen at all costs.

Absolute ****e.

Sugarlumps · 18-05-2017 2:39pm

rob316 wrote: »

Absolute ****e.

I watched it for five minutes, that was all it took.

Mr Crispy · 18-05-2017 6:29pm

I had no idea this was happening, but Netflix and Jim Henson's Workshop are working on a Dark Crystal series. With actual models and puppets. Excite!

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

peteeeed · 19-05-2017 8:55am

the keepers a true crime doc made by netflix

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/may/19/the-keepers-review-netflix-true-crime-breathtaking-brave-making-a-murderer

pitch perfect 2

added today

19-05-2017 2:42pm

Fargo is back

Mr Crispy · 19-05-2017 3:59pm

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season 3 added today as well (I love Ellie Kemper).

johnny_ultimate · 20-05-2017 7:42am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwy806RC2-Q

The latest Netflix original film is a deeply misguided effort to adapt a truly great piece of graphic storytelling.

Tsutomu Nihei'a Blame! in it's original form is extraordinary: a stark, expressive art style full of life and mystery is used to conjure up this vast, oppressive cyberpunk world. Long stretches are almost completely devoid of language, the vividness of the delivery instead saying everything it has to.

The anime take has none of that. The names, the settings, the concepts are borrowed - it's Blame! on the surface. But the CG-heavy art is dreadfully bland, and characters never stop ****ing talking & dropping tedious exposition bombs on the viewer. This is more The Matrix Revolutions than the bold, experimental source material it draws from. Only a few action sequences and establishing shots hint at the power of the original work, but nothing ever sparks the way it should.

I'm obviously not recommending this. But if it does pop up on your feed and seems like something you'd be interested in, or you watch it and find yourself intrigued? I'd instead recommend hitting up your comic / online book store of choice and picking up volume 1 of the manga. That Blame! the film isn't very good is perhaps the biggest disappointment of Netflix's largely uninspiring film slate to date, but if it directs some viewers towards the source material then at least something will be gained from its existence.

20-05-2017 12:34pm

rob316 wrote: »

Thought Olympus has fallen was better than WHD. Absolutely brainless stuff

Olympus Has Fallen is utter tripe. And London Has Fallen is one of the worst action movies of recent decades. With WHD it totally just gave into the ludicrous premise and has so much fun with it.

This is one of my favourite scenes -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q38nJLVS5OM

Turtwig · 20-05-2017 2:45pm

Olympus has fallen was also a piss take. The assault on the white house was stupid but fun pop corn entertainment. Actually found it more fun than white house down.

Sixtoes · 20-05-2017 10:26pm

Enjoyed 'Tramps' tonight. 7/10 worth a watch.

johnpatrick81 · 20-05-2017 10:42pm

I don't feel at home in the world anymore -

Quality indie flick crime caper, very much enjoyed it! Elijah wood and the lead were great together.

Agent Coulson · 21-05-2017 5:39pm

Watched The Keepers over the last few days I think it may be the best documentary series Netflix have made.

pilly · 21-05-2017 5:44pm

Agent Coulson wrote:

Watched The Keepers over the last few days I think it may be the best documentary series Netflix have made.

I'm watching it too, not finished yet but it's gripping..

johnpatrick81 · 21-05-2017 8:08pm

The Drop -

Maybe a tad disappointing but it's certainly gripping and well worth a watch, simply for the main man Gandolfini and a solid show from Hardy and Dragon Tattoo lady.

johnpatrick81 · 22-05-2017 8:39pm

Sixtoes wrote: »

Enjoyed 'Tramps' tonight. 7/10 worth a watch.

Yeah, very enjoyable! The 2 leads are so cute together.

StringerBell · 24-05-2017 3:16am

The Keepers

Just finished it now, it is fantastic in a horrific way. Highly recommended, I'll say nothing about it other then that.

jcsoulinger · 24-05-2017 10:50am

I thought The Keepers was only ok, It's far to long for what it is tho, they could have covered the story adequately in 3 episodes, also I feel the ending failed to deliver, I know it's a documentary and they can't create a better ending, but after 7 hours I was left thinking, "is that it"?

looie · 24-05-2017 11:49am

I felt that way after just the second episode. Finished the fourth a few nights back and I'm not in a rush to watch the rest. I will at some point but there's a lot of filler there that's making it difficult to continue with it.

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