Last night I thought I had come out the other side of Netflix, unable to find a single thing I wanted to see. UNTIL, while scrolling through nature documentaries, I found LEAVE IT TO BEAVERS--and it's just the most charming thing. Everyone in it made me very happy.
So clearly it was important to break my heart as quickly as possible, and the best tool for that was the doc ALIVE INSIDE about playing music for dementia patients.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 6 February 2015 13:58 (nine years ago) link
I can't understand people who claim to run out of things to see on Netflix.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 February 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link
Like, Netflix is great, UNLESS you hate movies, in which case, you're out of luck.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 February 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
Well exactly. I'm going to need an endless supply of episodes of PEAKY BLINDERS and CROSSING LINES, and y'all can let me know when SCANDAL gets onto nf. Otherwise, nah.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 6 February 2015 15:37 (nine years ago) link
Netflix doesn't have enough Vines.
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Friday, 6 February 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link
endless TV, just what the hell
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 February 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link
i think the problem is more that netflix conditions most ppl to casual lazy comfort-viewing, like aw man look they have 5 haneke films ive been meaning to screen, maybe some day **checks hulu for new parks & rec episode**
― gr8080, Friday, 6 February 2015 15:39 (nine years ago) link
Really the other problem is that I don't have a DVD player or drive, so I only get the instant options. Which is especially disappointing after checking for a bunch of stuff I did want to see, and them not having it on Instant.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 6 February 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
some recommendations:Child's Pose: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70270821Manakamana: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/80010744Like Father Like Son: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70275749The One I Love: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70299863Watermark: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293817Stranger by the Lake: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70285670Blue Ruin: http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/70278931Bird People - http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Bird_People/80008461Gideon's Army: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70267832Finding Fela: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70299905Particle Fever: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70296323We are the Best! : http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293818The Unknown Known: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70292939Exhibition: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70296526Gloria: http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Gloria/70270790Stop at Nothing: Lance ArmstrongIda: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293721Memphis: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70301276Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70274594Frank: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70299856
Queue:The Missing Picture: http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/70285668?Miele: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70285698Venus in Fur: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70275370Violette: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293814The Last of the Unjust: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70285696The Double: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293645Virunga: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/80009431Test: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70288488The Immigrant: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70275521The Retrieval: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70272892Oculus: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/7029331613 Sins : http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70291114Big Bad Wolves: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70274589The Taking of Deborah Logan: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70301341Stray Dogs - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293821Joe - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293723Last Hijack - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/80014767Fifi Howls from Happiness - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/80011705Abuse of Weakness - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70292975Dormant Beauty - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70257739Norte End of History - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70285700
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, but what else do you have to recommend.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 February 2015 15:59 (nine years ago) link
I'm looking for a home film festival, not a date night.
― Eric H., Friday, 6 February 2015 16:03 (nine years ago) link
1 channel and nothing on
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Friday, 6 February 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
started watching death comes to pemberley -- pd james' jane austen fanfic starring the dude from the americans! looks nice, will probably be sorta silly.
― tylerw, Friday, 6 February 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, but what else do you have to recommend.― Josh in Chicago, Friday, February 6, 2015
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
can't bring myself to watch nic cage dirty fingernails joe movie. i see ulee's gold is up and i'd much rather watch that for the 5th time. i am sad comfort netflix too...
― scott seward, Friday, 6 February 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
i REALLY don't want to watch that big head frank movie after seeing the trailer. you guys really liked that movie? the trailer looks like everything i would ever run from.
― scott seward, Friday, 6 February 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
I have problems committing to the time a movie takes tbh. Maybe if I could smoke indoors and had someone to trade comments with during it? And if it's a "slow" movie, you can absolutely forget it.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 6 February 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
i'm on the nicotine gum. and pot brownies. so, i'm good. if maria hasn't seen ulee's gold and next stop wonderland i kinda want to watch them with her. and she should see stray dogs. but then there is that whole season of parenthood we haven't watched yet on hulu....
― scott seward, Friday, 6 February 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
Frank is a little precious but there's some good acting (Gyllenhall aside) and it's very much of the current moment. Not a bad watch.
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 17:25 (nine years ago) link
Blue Ruin is a great, Coen Brothers influenced flickGloria is a 60something gets her groove backParticle Fever will teach you things you never knew about CERNWatermark is good eye candyGideon's Army is a moving look at the public defender system
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
not to mention nashville...
― scott seward, Friday, 6 February 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
Oh I love Next Stop Wonderland!!
I'm thinking of watching Kids for Cash but I can only handle so much heartbreak at once.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 6 February 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
had someone to trade comments with during it?
yep, stick to TV.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 February 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
i finished watching The Fall with scully as the ice queen with a heart of mulder. kinda getting sick of the netflixoriginal tone. i liked the first season of the killing a lot but all these shows require SOOOOOOO much suspension of disbelief that it gets a little hard to keep watching sometimes.
― scott seward, Friday, 6 February 2015 17:30 (nine years ago) link
rufus and maria and i did watch we are the best cuzza you guys and we liked that.
― scott seward, Friday, 6 February 2015 17:32 (nine years ago) link
donald sutherland eurocrime netflix show is really really bad. even for me! just all kinds of terrible and also nevergonnahappen moments every five minutes.
― scott seward, Friday, 6 February 2015 17:33 (nine years ago) link
Haha I love it though. Yeah it's that bad.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 6 February 2015 17:34 (nine years ago) link
the hologram "tech genius". hoo boy...
― scott seward, Friday, 6 February 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
i always kinda liked that hound dog-faced american actor though...
no way in hell i'm watching that bird people movie. that thing reeks of sundance. plus, got so sick of looking at that dude's face on the good wife.
― scott seward, Friday, 6 February 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
bird people is worth watching for the second half sequence and the very interesting filmwork of bird perspectives
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 18:24 (nine years ago) link
that guy's face though...
― scott seward, Friday, 6 February 2015 18:26 (nine years ago) link
eh, he reads as sports night to me so um yeah okay i get your point
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2015 18:27 (nine years ago) link
sorry. we just watched a lot of good wife. that face wears on you. don't really know why they didn't cast someone cool and handsome. love is apparently blind though. and yeah he reads as sorkin to me too which is another negative.
― scott seward, Friday, 6 February 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link
i mean i guess it was GOOD casting as far as what a lot of smug rich lawyers are like. i liked everything about the good wife except for him.
― scott seward, Friday, 6 February 2015 18:34 (nine years ago) link
don't really know why they didn't cast someone cool and handsome.
https://ethicsalarms.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/arnie-becker.jpg
a real lawyer
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Friday, 6 February 2015 18:47 (nine years ago) link
― gr8080, Friday, February 6, 2015 9:39 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^^this
when i first got it i cued up (and still have cued) loads of interesting films i've been wanting to see for ages and now i'm just the laziest junk watcher
― gbx, Friday, 6 February 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link
We Are The Best! was good stuff, thanks for the recommendations. I think since I generally hate children in movies and TV, when they can actually act realistically I tend to love it. Also HATA SPORT!
― Nhex, Saturday, 14 February 2015 08:22 (nine years ago) link
It's Such a Beautiful Day was goodhttp://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70259089?trkid=13462100
― a girl with colitis (Je55e), Saturday, 14 February 2015 18:44 (nine years ago) link
I thought it was WAY precious, and was honestly surprised that so many people on this tread liked it.
― Darin, Saturday, 14 February 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
Just watched Frank on netflix...I thought it was mostly wonderful: a quirky and touching film about making music. Didn't think it was 'precious' at all - if by that you mean self-indulgent and over-sure of its own worth.
I'm curious what scott would make of it.
― the gabhal cabal (Bob Six), Monday, 16 February 2015 23:37 (nine years ago) link
I was pretty disappointed that Frank had nothing to do with Frank Sidebottom besides the head.
― DonkeyTeeth, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 01:38 (nine years ago) link
It's Such a Beautiful Day was good
It was. Did a lot of things I didn't expect it to. It actually reminded me in some ways of Tree of Life, except I liked Beautiful Day a lot more.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 02:25 (nine years ago) link
i was really looking forward to the overnighters, but it was not what i expected and it was super fuckin depressing (and i watch a lot of really depressing stuff).
it also seemed rather empty except for the two very specific 'dramatic' plot points (if neither of those things had happened, would it have been a better or worse documentary?).
― just1n3, Saturday, 28 February 2015 01:42 (nine years ago) link
man, I thought it was spectacular! lots of really really real moments and meaningful questions.That sequence with the guy tweaking for two minutes and he hits a climax of "my mom was raped, my father was the rapist" and the pastor just holds him utterly floored memind you when i write that it looks a lot more depressing than i guess it felt at the time.
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 February 2015 02:35 (nine years ago) link
hmm
― Nhex, Saturday, 28 February 2015 04:38 (nine years ago) link
xp there was just no levity to balance all the grimness. and i wanted to hear more about the lives of the ACTUAL overnighters, rather than about the pastor's personal life.
― just1n3, Saturday, 28 February 2015 05:12 (nine years ago) link
well they had numerous sequences with the guys striving to make it work and i felt like their stories were, sadly, kind of one-dimensional and very very depressingand it's not levity exactly but the tortured humanity of the pastor, his deep desire to be real and make a difference and the gentle nagging that creeps out that he is not quite being honest to himself as to his motives... i found that all terribly moving and painfully real.for me it's a film about how far charity goes, what real giving is about, how faith can either move us to great things or moments of great painwhen he stops the car to wave at a train because he remembered how good it felt as a child! When his right hand man half-murderously lectures him from the car before peeling off! the pastor running from the reporter down the sidewalk! the woman with the shotgun outside the RV! There were just so many impossibly honest and surreally real scenes. I dunno. It never made me feel sad. Everyone seemed to be TRYING in the face of sure failure and that felt so noble.
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 February 2015 07:07 (nine years ago) link
those guys appeared one-dimensional bc they got so little screen time! we didn't really get to know any of them. and even tho i'm terribly voyeuristic, i thought it was really... exploitative or something, when he confessed to his wife ON CAMERA and ALSO in a public place. i'm sure she signed away her rights when they started filming the doc, not contemplating for a second that this moment would take place. and now it's permanently and publicly documented for her and the kids.
― just1n3, Saturday, 28 February 2015 07:12 (nine years ago) link
I gotta say it never felt exploitative when dealing with the overnighters. Less complex, yes; but the filmmakers came expressly for the story of the pastor in the first place. Apparently they slept in the church.
And the story on the confession with the wife is as unlikely as they come but maybe less so if you have a guy with a camera following you around for several months:http://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/10-things-to-know-about-the-overnighters
“It was very surprising to me,” Moss said. “My understanding was he was going to tell her in a private place without me present. Which I thought to be entirely appropriate... I think it got away from Jay in a way he didn’t plan for it to happen,” Moss said. “I don’t think either of them thought about the fact that I was there, and then suddenly, they were having part of this conversation in this grocery store with me there. It was actually a very short conversation, in which he told her what he tells her. Never once did they look at me and ask me to turn the camera off. I would have done that.”
also fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck this follow up story with graves is so bizarre and weird; he's either being railroaded by the very same paper that broke the story in the first place or he's a genuine monster and, after seeing the film, i don't knowhttp://www.willistonherald.com/news/in-the-shadow-of-a-monster/article_542d953e-2590-11e4-a4bd-001a4bcf887a.htmlhttp://www.willistonherald.com/search/?t=article&d1=1+year+ago&q=keith+graves
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 February 2015 07:17 (nine years ago) link