Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

No one hates Christopher Guest. Everyone seems to hate this new thing. And his last thing, For Your Consideration, I barely remember that one. What was Family Tree?

parker made me sad because it just looked like a shadow of a ghost of a parody of her past parody work. and i don't want to feel that way about parker. she's a national treasure.

I don't hate Christopher Guest but at best his movies are the kind of inoffensive thing you put on TV Thanksgiving Day after the dog show if no one's watching football.

THE ONE WITH THE DOGS WAS GREAT, BECAUSE FRED WILLARD. THE ONE WITH CORKY WAS GREAT. THE ONE WITH THE FOLK SINGERS WAS SOPPY, EXCEPT FOR FRED WILLARD. THE REST HAVE SUCKED.

Best part of "Mascots" was Susan Yeagley's Laurie Anderson referencing dance routine.

watched the herzog volcano doc. it was okay. it was about volcanoes. no big deal.

started watching monkey king movie and i felt like my head was gonna explode. i'm gonna try and watch the whole thing someday though. i thought cyrus would watch it with me and he lasted about 10 minutes.

i looked at what they put up for november 1st and i don't really want to watch any of it.

re: the Herzog volcano doc -- aside from digging up the old bones is there anything else about people dying? Trying to decide if I should watch it with my 6yo; he loves natural disaster stuff but is sensitive to the human suffering aspect.

Yes, there's mention of a volcano-chasing French couple who got frazzled along with dozens of others when one erupted.

Natural disasters without death is a niche interest!

there is news footage of people in Indonesia after an eruption that is not graphic but kinda sad and might be frightening. i dunno.

french volcano couple footage is great though. it's kinda like werner's grizzly dude, it's not that astonishing that they died when you see the footage.

also felt like the african stuff was distracting. i mean it was cool and it connected to volcanoes but it was kinda long and somehow took away from the cool story about a volcano almost destroying mankind 70,000 years ago. plus, i just wanted to see more volcanoes. it was kind of a distracted doc. did like werner pointing out how he liked volcanoes before they were cool and showing all the old footage he shot from decades back.

the scenes with the volcanologist couple more or less made this for me. just astonishing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YKm37iGYcg

well if i spoke french i would recommend watching that instead!

there is a pbs and a national geo doc on youtube about them/volanoes/etc. with all the same footage.

okay, sold. title?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1xuTgcieGE

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

"the cool story about a volcano almost destroying mankind 70,000 years ago."

that Toba super-eruption was badass, allegedly the world population was reduced to thousands and there followed a thousand years of extreme winters.

I can't find this doc on the torrent sitez yet.

thx scott!

Mascots was pretty rough :\

Have been enjoying the newest season of the Fall, even tho it's half turned into a medical drama.

Trying to decide if I should watch it with my 6yo; he loves natural disaster stuff but is sensitive to the human suffering aspect.

We watched the first half of it with my 4yo (who is a volcano fanatic), and there was nothing very scary or disturbing to him. We're planning to watch the second half of it at some point. He got a bit restless during the extended bone-digging interlude and said something like "Where are the volcanoes?"

Too right.

The Expanse now available outside US on Netflix

^^ Yay!

now the rest of the world can enjoy x-pants too :D

i don't know if i need to see The Crown. i'm not much of a royal watcher. plus, i know how it ends.

the trailer looked pretty good

i hate the royals as a phenomenon but anachronistically I find the history interesting somehow idk i can't explain it

i liked the Queen movie w helen mirren so will watch this

the trailer was very long. i don't doubt that its good. or at least entertaining. i might try it. i mean i read lots of fiction about snooty rich people. same kinda deal just with fancier capes. QEII always seemed a little boring to me though.

On the outside seemingly, but queening through wartime always interested me. Plus the transition from Lizzy to Queen Lizzy is a pretty big leap i would imagine

Plus being married to a man whose mum literally thought she had fucked jesus

i don't know if i need to see The Crown. i'm not much of a royal watcher. plus, i know how it ends.

― scott seward, Saturday, 5 November 2016 05:03 (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

neither am i, but the story of this particular person being told as a biography of an incredibly powerful and driven woman (i.e. not told by creepy "royal watchers" with 600 union flags and floppy hair) could be thoroughly fascinating, and the planned 60-hour running time might make a lot of sense given her activities and influence over the best part of a century

btw i hope they eventually cover prince phillip being named Sir Prince Phillip of Australia

i started watching this. the nyt review that mentioned the DEADLY FOG OF LONDON was the clincher. i'm a sucker for mostly forgotten historical DEADLY FOGS.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160611125604-queen-in-green-super-169.jpg

Not getting lost in a deadly fog in that get up

plus i quite like the casting of matt smith as phillip, seems a good call

also AA otm: that's what i think i was trying and failing to articulate. the story of queen lizzy the woman is a historical/dramatic sense is way more interesting to me than fawning bullshitty Queen Elizabeth In a Silk Twinset & Fabulous Hat With Nine Corgis In Tow Oh So Fascinating blehhhhhh

otm, also afaict they'll replace claire foy with someone older as they get to her later years, indicating just how enormous an undertaking this is. (nb: i know bugger-all else about the modern monarchy apart from one of them apparently having a popular arse)

i actually wiki-ed the whole family while i was watching this. i want the epic movie about phil's mom who james mentioned above!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alice_of_Battenberg

Both he and Simmel consulted Sigmund Freud who believed that the princess's delusions were the result of sexual frustration. He recommended "X-raying her ovaries in order to kill off her libido." Princess Andrew protested her sanity and repeatedly tried to leave the asylum.

Alice was born in the Tapestry Room at Windsor Castle in Berkshire in the presence of her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria.

just read the world war II part of her wiki thing. wooo! now there's a movie. your four daughters marry nazi royalty and your son marries the queen of england.

also, she was deaf. she was pretty amazing.

also: king george's brother Edward WAS king but stepped down bc he was more into hooking up with married wallis wotsername

it's all peyton place x 100

In the royal archives at Windsor castle there is no access to any political material post 1918, great bunch of people these nazi loving Saxe Coburgs.

Only watching The Crown if it ends with an extraordinarily graphic guillotining of all the royals.

Having watched the first two episodes, I think it's really good (and god knows I hate the concept of royal families as much as anyone). Well written, well acted, and a good deal more sumptuous than the usual Netflix two-people-talking-in-a-dark-room setup. I like the use of smoking and cancer, not just as a foreshadowing device, but as a mark of character: Elizabeth doesn't smoke, and the first thing Phillip does when they get married is to give it up. It's a nice bit of shorthand for their relationship. I also liked the fact that when they were on their way back from Kenya, nobody said, "while we're in the air, everything is still the way it was," even though that's obviously what they're thinking. It makes a nice change from the heavy handed DO YOU SEE writing on things like Downton Abbey and Poldark, where no scene ever carries on longer than is necessary to convey a key plot point, and nothing goes unspoken.

Also John Lithgow is an amazing Winston Churchill.

I'm not sure republicanism/pro-monarchy matters much here. I've read biographies of every monarch over the past few centuries - multiple of some - and I'm nostalgic for guillotines. They're useful for understanding history. Plus, most lives are interesting.

might wanna start a Crown thread? i dunno, it's no luke cage i guess.

liked the part with phillip being a dick in africa. it's a crown, asshole. but then he faced down a wild elephant so he's a dick and kinda foolhardy. two sides to every person.

Philip is the royals equivalent of children swearing - for some reason everyone goes 'aw, bless'.

Crown thread here:
But Will There Be Corgis? Thread Where We Discuss Netflix's THE CROWN

Trepalium is *great* SF - it's French though - probably only available in France. Find it if you can.

Premise: In the future there is only enough work for 20% of the population. A massive wall is built separating them from the other 80%. The latter live in rags and misery. The former live in sleek apartments and wear ridiculous outfits. A reforming politician strikes a deal with terrorists from the 80% who have been holding a government minister hostage for the last 10 years. They release the minister, and in exchange the elites agree to take 60,000 "non-workers" to live on the other side of the wall (doing what is not quite yet clear).

It's basically Hunger Games meets Donald Trump and I love it