Netflix Recommendations

[Pam Cummings 9423]

16 hours ago, Skipper said:

Well climber is the exact scene I was thinking of.  That is the episode I left off yesterday.  Ridiculous.   Show is still solid enough for what I need out of it (something to watch while doing cardio) but that's some lazy fucking writing.  Or maybe just intentionally bad in that respect? 

It got worse as it went on and i found the finish to be not good.

 

Also yeah the Cowboy character was just unbelievable and dumb.

Edited February 16 by Pam Cummings

[DDD Dad 14076]

We just finished episode 3 and the writing is laughably bad. Also first episode-transporter just leaves patient outside hospital alone to take a phone call?  Yeah that happens all the time. SMH. 

Edited February 16 by DDD Dad

[bolverk 29097]

On 2/15/2024 at 2:28 PM, Storm the Field said:

Watched the first episode of Killer Paradox last night. Will definitely stick with it. Korean crime drama that just came out last weekend. About a timid college kid that "accidentally" kills a guy and the detective assigned to investigate. 100% on RT and user scores are very good too.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/a_killer_paradox/s01

I've watched three so far and have enjoyed its novelty. Dubbing has been a distraction a couple of times (especially early on), but I really like the storyline with all the goofy connections.

Edited February 17 by bolverk

[Texzilla58 4687]

Netflix?

Oops. Peacock.

[Texzilla58 4687]

What the fuck as I smoking?. Yep RA is on Netflix. First 2 seasons.

[veritas aequitas 436]

 

This wasn't terrible, but the dub is. My kid says watching it in Japanese with subtitles is better but I can't read that and do other stuff at the same time.

[naija 2804]

watched it with subtitles. It was very enjoyable. The action scenes, especially the one-on-one fights, are very well choreographed. 

[shadow_operative 15931]

On 2/14/2024 at 8:35 AM, Vic Mackey said:

Lover Stalker Killer true crime doc was pretty wild.

i figured out what happened pretty quickly, but that’s only because this isn’t the first true crime doc of its kind, and i’ve seen scenarios like this one play out before. bottom line:

Spoiler

bitches. be. crazy. jesus fucking christ. i mean the fact that i knew it was liz pretty early on simply because i’ve seen women do this shit before is bad enough, but this bitch is next level kookoo for coco puffs. this soulless fuckin bitch burned her own pets alive because the guy she was causally seeing/barely knew started casually seeing another chick. absolute fucking psychopath.

also, makeup companies should just use courtroom footage paired with free world footage and photos for their advertising. it’s amazing how these chicks age 20 years and go from “meh” to fugly when you take away their use of makeup, fake hair, fake eyelashes, lips, teeth, etc.

 

Edited February 23 by shadow_operative

[billfromlaketravis 11291]

Shot Caller is back on. Shawshank is the undisputed GOAT prison movie. But Shot Caller might be Number 2. 
 

My sincerest apologies to Green Mile, Escape From Alcatraz, and American Me. All great films. 

Edited February 24 by billfromlaketravis

[veritas aequitas 436]

3 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Shot Caller is back on. Shawshank is the undisputed GOAT prison movie. But Shot Caller might be Number 2. 
 

My sincerest apologies to Green Mile, Escape From Alcatraz, and American Me. All great films. 

Someone hasn't seen Cool Hand Luke I guess

[billfromlaketravis 11291]

19 minutes ago, veritas aequitas said:

Someone hasn't seen Cool Hand Luke I guess

Yes. I’ve seen it. Top 10 for sure. 

[RomaVicta 29589]

A Killer Paradox  

Korean movie that starts slow but becomes very good. It's got the usual Korean narrative curveballs and some very good characters. 

I love the range from quirkiness to a few scenes that are very moving. It's not immortal, but it's enjoyable. The director/editor has a mania for scene transitions that are clever but so good sometimes that I get confused about where we are.

[Speedtrucker 2059]

Warrior

It was apparently a Cinemax show that HBO picked up for its 3 rd season. On Netflix now.

Wife and I are started S2 this week.

Pretty decent little show about the Chinese immigration to 19th century San Francisco and the Chinese Tongs.

I guess it used the original Bruce Lee ideas pre-Kung Fu show.

It’s amusing how they use Chinese w/ subtitles, English between the Chinese people and then when a Chinese person speaks English to an American they have a heavy “accent”.

[bernorange 8341]

Resident Alien

Not something I would have picked to watch - the premise sounds dumb.  My wife selected it and I humored her.

This might be the best series the SYFY channel has ever made.  And while that is, IMO, a fairly low bar, this show is actually quite entertaining.  It is dumb, but it doesn't take itself too seriously, so it kind of works.  It's based on a comic book apparently.

Beginning of season 2 at UFO convention brought the funny.

2 seasons available on Netflix without commercials.  First few episodes of season 3 available on Peacock (with commercials).  New episodes for season 3 airing on SYFY on Wednesdays.

[pyrohornIII 4772]

I'm probably late to the party on Brooklyn Nine Nine, but damn that show is funny.     

[Mez2 4013]

On 2/23/2024 at 9:18 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

Shot Caller is back on. Shawshank is the undisputed GOAT prison movie. But Shot Caller might be Number 2. 
 

My sincerest apologies to Green Mile, Escape From Alcatraz, and American Me. All great films. 

Blood in blood out!

[Deej 76218]

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I'm probably late to the party on Brooklyn Nine Nine, but damn that show is funny. 

2013 says "Hi!"

Edited March 2 by Deej

[BrazilHorn 6565]

On 2/29/2024 at 1:01 PM, Speedtrucker said:

Warrior

It was apparently a Cinemax show that HBO picked up for its 3 rd season. On Netflix now.

Wife and I are started S2 this week.

Pretty decent little show about the Chinese immigration to 19th century San Francisco and the Chinese Tongs.

I guess it used the original Bruce Lee ideas pre-Kung Fu show.

It’s amusing how they use Chinese w/ subtitles, English between the Chinese people and then when a Chinese person speaks English to an American they have a heavy “accent”.

It was good show especially if you fast forward every scene with the mayor’s wife or her sister in it. They were each an absolute beating. Found myself rooting for Mayor during fight scene. 

[6th Street 6298]

Spaceman with Adam Sandler and Cary Mulligan. Boring AF

[SubliminalHorn 6403]

On 3/2/2024 at 12:12 PM, 6th Street said:

Spaceman with Adam Sandler and Cary Mulligan. Boring AF

So boring

[henrygandorf 28874]

On 3/1/2024 at 4:37 PM, pyrohornIII said:

I'm probably late to the party on Brooklyn Nine Nine, but damn that show is funny.     

 

[Michael Knight 12725]

On 3/1/2024 at 6:37 PM, pyrohornIII said:

I'm probably late to the party on Brooklyn Nine Nine, but damn that show is funny.     

[Vic Mackey 46716]

I'm probably late to the party on Brooklyn Nine Nine, but damn that show is funny.     

Great show indeed.

[Texzilla588 766]

Couple episodes into The Tourist. Pretty good so far.

This should have been better than it was but the writing sucked in the last three. We thought fucking Issa Lopez wrote it.

So the location was Ireland because Jamie Dornan refused to go back to Australia and wanted to stay near the family for filming.

[Pokoloco 1242]

Just finished One Day with the wife. Complete chick show..there was a movie in 2011. Leo Woodall is really good. 

[MAROON 442]

On 3/4/2024 at 12:32 PM, Pokoloco said:

Just finished One Day with the wife. Complete chick show..there was a movie in 2011. Leo Woodall is really good. 

Actually a nice little series.  Wife cried the last two episodes, and is still talking about the series. 

[Speedtrucker 2059]

It was good show especially if you fast forward every scene with the mayor’s wife or her sister in it. They were each an absolute beating. Found myself rooting for Mayor during fight scene. 

We are in the middle of S2, the sister is killing us!!! My wife and I both Wanna slap her hard

[TexEx15 17326]

Just finished episode 1 of The Gentlemen. Promising.

[Pokoloco 1242]

Started Full Swing season 2.  Love Joel Dahmen even more.  DJ and Brooks are still douches and their wives are insufferable twats.

[4th&Five 41243]

48 minutes ago, TexEx15 said:

Just finished episode 1 of The Gentlemen. Promising.

I'm a few ahead of you and agree.  Great cast and pretty classic Ritchie feel.

[Chips O'Toole 1318]

13 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

I'm a few ahead of you and agree.  Great cast and pretty classic Ritchie feel.

I never saw the film.  Should I watch that first?

[4th&Five 41243]

Yes, because it’s good but you wouldn’t miss anything. 

[LonghornSean 3911]

On 1/9/2024 at 5:10 PM, WashHorn said:

I’ve reread the series several times and recognized very little from the trailers. This being one of my all-time favorite series, I have major concerns B&W are improvising far too much. They did such a great job adapting GOT seasons 1-5, I had high hopes for this. I’ll watch but my expectations are greatly diminished. 

 

On 1/11/2024 at 12:31 AM, atomheartbevo said:

Reading the article mentioned above, they decided to adapt it for a global audience since they already had a Chinese TV series, made for Chinese audiences (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Body)

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The three creators (Benioff, Weiss, and Woo) spoke to author Cixin Liu on Zoom early in their creative process and received the novelist’s blessing to adapt his work — and he encouraged them to make necessary narrative changes. Some of those key changes include chronological shifts, character tweaks, expansions, additions, and setting the present-day story primarily in the UK. 

 

First two eps of Three Body Problem premiered at SXSW tonight and review embargo is lifted. I’ll definitely watch, but with tempered expectations.

All eight eps out March 21

[ajax 2568]

Damsel with Millie Bobby Brown

Can a movie get more cookie cutter than this? Every plot turn is telegraphed. Every character is predictable and paper thin. It's not so much of a story as it is a series of pivotal "moments". Everything in-between just leads up to those moments.

It's not terrible. It's just lazy and forgettable. And if MBB can act, this movie doesn't showcase it.

[Js1 83620]

Just now, ajax said:

Damsel with Millie Bobby Brown

Can a movie get more cookie cutter than this? Every plot turn is telegraphed. Every character is predictable and paper thin. It's not so much of a story as it is a series of pivotal "moments". Everything in-between just leads up to those moments.

It's not terrible. It's just lazy and forgettable. And if MBB can act, this movie doesn't showcase it.

I watched it via Tudum a while back. So forgettable 

[tbone_ 13991]

I thought Fool Me Once was pretty good.

[Sgt Hulk 13537]

Everyone’s talking about the program.  Not the program we know. Starting defense place at the the table. But some private school behavior stuff

[The Original Greaser Bob 2732]

El Conde was awesome and a complete surprise.

[The Original Greaser Bob 2732]

On 2/23/2024 at 9:18 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

Shawshank is the undisputed GOAT prison movie. But Shot Caller might be Number 2. 
 

My sincerest apologies to Green Mile, Escape From Alcatraz, and American Me. All great films. 

This is a laughable take on "prison movies". 

A Prophet, Le Trou, A Man Escaped, In the Name of the Father, just as far as Euro prison movies.

Papillon, Bad Boys (Sean Penn), Midnight Express

Edited March 10 by The Original Greaser Bob

[Texzilla588 766]

The signal. German space sci-fi. It kinda sucks.

[TexEx15 17326]

The Gentlemen was excellent. 

[bolverk 29097]

4 minutes ago, TexEx15 said:

The Gentlemen was excellent. 

Rather.

[Guadaloopy 10802]

On 3/9/2024 at 12:35 AM, LonghornSean said:

 

First two eps of Three Body Problem premiered at SXSW tonight and review embargo is lifted. I’ll definitely watch, but with tempered expectations.

All eight eps out March 21

https://www.ign.com/articles/3-body-problem-review-netflix-benioff-weiss

I'm stoked for it.  Benedict Wong as Da Shi is pretty much perfect casting.

[NorthLoop 13954]

On 3/10/2024 at 1:33 PM, Sgt Hulk said:

Everyone’s talking about the program.  Not the program we know. Starting defense place at the the table. But some private school behavior stuff

It's a story that needs to be out there and an issue that needs to be dealt with...... that being said, the doc was irritating as hell as the girl making it and her friends spent half the doc acting like dumb little giddy teenagers. 

[nineliveslost 2691]

On 3/10/2024 at 1:25 PM, tbone_ said:

I thought Fool Me Once was pretty good.

I have 2 episodes left. I am leaning towards enjoyment, but some of the coincidents are a stretch. I have no idea how she keeps her kid since she abandons the kid frequently. I would not have written the kid in the series since she serves no purpose, well, besides to be left a lot. 

added:

The chick who plays Maya is beautiful. Distractingly so

Edited March 11 by nineliveslost
added chick comment

[tbone_ 13991]

I have 2 episodes left. I am leaning towards enjoyment, but some of the coincidents are a stretch. I have no idea how she keeps her kid since she abandons the kid frequently. I would not have written the kid in the series since she serves no purpose, well, besides to be left a lot. 
added:
The chick who plays Maya is beautiful. Distractingly so

All relevant comments. I was able to look past that stuff and just generally enjoy it as a good whodunnit.

And yes she it hot af

[nineliveslost 2691]

1 hour ago, tbone_ said:

All relevant comments. I was able to look past that stuff and just generally enjoy it as a good whodunnit.

And yes she it hot af

Finished it. Strong last 2 episodes. Really liked how it wrapped up. Would recommend 

[Mdhorn 5837]

American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders is pretty damn intense.  It asks what's real or not in the way of proof or our personal skepticism.  Would love to read others views.  I think the government was dirty but again, there's no proof. Does this make me a conspiracist?   There's a lot to look at, but very little in the way of smoking guns.  It also becomes pretty easy to file this in the Cloak Room as well.  

[henrygandorf 28874]

38 minutes ago, Mdhorn said:

American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders is pretty damn intense.  It asks what's real or not in the way of proof or our personal skepticism.  Would love to read others views.  I think the government was dirty but again, there's no proof. Does this make me a conspiracist?   There's a lot to look at, but very little in the way of smoking guns.  It also becomes pretty easy to file this in the Cloak Room as well.  

it gave me some flashbacks to oliver stone's docuseries that used to be on netflix.  no idea where it lives now but it's worth a watch.  10-12 years old.

[troph 24028]

On 2/10/2024 at 10:40 PM, TexEx15 said:

Another vote for Loudermilk. I hope it gets revived on Netflix.

Binged this over a couple of weeks. Quality slap stick comedy is probably the hardest genre imo - close to none done well imo. Slowed mid second season but I’ve laughed quite a bit and now I’m near the end of the third season. Well done. 

Edited March 12 by troph