Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

handmaids tale is a tough watch. i'm still not fully recovered from reading the book in college tbh, but i'll give this a whirl and see how long I can hang

I'd never read it and started last fall. I was about 2/3 of the way through before the election and I just stopped after that, as there was nothing good coming from reading it at that time. Still want to see the series though, but maybe not until 2020.

Re OJ I just read or watched something on Caitlyn Jenner where she was all 'we knew he did it but Robert (Kardashian) was so loyal he just couldn't grasp it and was having the worst time' (that not an actual quote by the way). Also, something about if he had defended him in the first trial it would have been okay but the fact that he defended him in the second trial people just destroyed him. Jenner had some very sweet thing to say about Rob though.

That's interesting. I have to say watching the drama made me feel more sympathetic to the Kardashians in general, a very weird world they live in.

Baskets on loop

watched Handsome. Jeff Garlin comedy mystery netflix movie that was entertaining. would watch if that became a series. especially for amy sedaris and natasha lyonne lunacy.

finally watched burn after reading. i don't know why avoided it for so long. that was also entertaining. i think i avoided it because the idea of pitt/clooney mugging doesn't thrill me but they were fine.

watched sing street with the kids. we liked it. kinda like a new wave version of The Commitments.

also, do i need to watch The Prestige? i kinda hate magic. and magicians. but i guess its supposed to be good.

i tried to be an adult and watch clouds of sils maria but i got bored. binoche is actually french for boredom.

i also watched half of Nightcrawler which was fine but i stopped watching when Jake was making Rene Russo go out with him because for some reason i didn't want to watch that part. made me sad to see Bill Paxton too.

i still haven't watched magic mike, but might watch it. i still haven't watched boyhood either. or upstream color. or tangerine. or it follows. or the big short. or beasts of no nation. or jiro dreams of sushi. or the overnight. or white god. but i'll get around to them.

Watch the sushi one. Skip the prestige.

I think if you ever want to watch any Nolan movie then The Prestige is probably as good as it gets? imo it does the plot twist thing better than their other stuff because it's not really convoluted, and the performances are pretty good. still, all the women are props in the story :/

definitely watch Jiro, glad you enjoyed Burn After Reading because JK Simmons is +++

there was definitely some old coen magic in burn.

Interstellar is the only Nolan movie i've ever seen. love that movie. never felt like watching Memento.

you did watch it. ten minutes ago.

I liked the Prestige, I think it's worthwhile. As is Memento! Those two are prolly the only Nolan you really need. Plus Dark Knight, I guess. Sushi doc is a beaut.

the prestige is a better movie than dark knight but more shit blows up in dark knight

You can download a fan-cut of the movie that replaces all the explosions with David Bowie.

the prestige is fuckin great!

Not Netflix, but sat down to watch American Gods last night and there were only two eps. I'd thought it was a season release. Grr.

I love the Prestige. Magic Mike is GREAT. Boyhood is pretty good. Upstream Color is good though I had to look up what happened after it was over.

what do people think of american gods? i saw a few mentions upthread. it doesn't have its own thread, right?

i'm two eps in and enjoying it. parts of it feel a bit comic book for my tastes or a bit silly, but it looks incredible and i enjoy how freely surreal it is for a show that's attempting to be a hit.

American Gods is basically Bryan Fuller doing all the stuff NBC didn't let him get away with on Hannibal.

Also, I think that was the first time I've seen an erect penis (twice in one episode!) on TV.

At least one of the erect penis scenes was quite amusing. The frozen in time erection guy floating around some universe with idiotic ecstasy face, after getting subsumed into the goddess! The other one was a bit cruel. I didn't like that stupid and pointless fight scene in the bar either, but McShane is pretty good in this - so I will keep watching for now.

If anyone is wondering, Bill Nye Saves the World is terrible.

American Gods (TV series)

did you guys see WHITE GOD? sheesh, that was something. not for the faint of heart if you are a big dog lover. but very memorable. and shot beautifully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIGz2kyo26U

yeah I loved that, but I'm always a sucker for dog films.

oh and i watched Magic Mike this morning. pretty good but maybe a little long. i checked and i couldn't understand how there was gonna be 50 more minutes of Mike. but there were a lot of dance scenes. so, Channing fans were probably really happy. don't think i need to see the sequel. or the vegas stage show.

sequel is much more enjoyable & stupid
i didnt like the first movie v much at all

It's a shame white dog isn't also on NF for a double feature

I don't think I could make it through the first part of White God about abandoning the dog and his panic at being left alone.

it's pretty rough. great dog acting though.

2 episodes of 13 Reasons Why to go. It's been tough going. The end of Clay's tape made me cry.

apparently Hannah is subjected to a fair amount of banter at school because of that show

Forgive my ignorance but who is Hannah?

I imagine I, as a 37-year-old man with a small daughter, am seeing it through a very different lens to kids in schools.

i still haven't watched magic mike, but might watch it

magic mike is fun but the real heads know the sequel is miles better

it's almost avant-garde in its plotlessness, and it's just fun to hang out with some familiar characters, get to know them better, and watch them oil up and writhe for your pleasure

joe mangianello's ectascy-fuelled dance in a petrol station might be my favourite scene in film of the last five years tbh

after his appearance in Detroiters I've become a big fan of Kevin Nash.

i would pay good money to see kevin nash's character from magic mike team up for a road movie with dave bautista as drax the destroyer, ideally with a cameo from the rock

I wan to watch 13 reasons - it's the sort of show folks chat about to me. But I'm thinking I'll find it too triggering? Maybe when I'm more stable.

2 episodes of 13 Reasons Why to go. It's been tough going. The end of Clay's tape made me cry.

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, May 12, 2017 4:28 AM

last two tapes get pretty heavy tbh. overall a well done show and quite affecting

Ridiculously it has spawned some kind of self-harm meme propagated on Instagram that schools are frantically trying to deal with. Caused us several days of crisis although no students were harmed in the making of this totally overblown panic.

The tone of it started a bit oddly - like the first two episodes were such minor slights and her voiceover was so measured and almost cheery that you kind of wondered what the deal was, it almost seemed flippant - but it's got steadily more and more affecting.

I'm flabbergasted that the furore around it is about how it might encourage suicidal ideation in teens and not about the casualisation of sexual assault / misogyny.

haven't seen it, don't plan to see it

however, iirc there is a pretty well-established link between vulnerable people seeing representations of suicide in the media and deciding to take their own lives, so a series based around (as i understand it) suicide as revenge on those who wronged you seems potentially... problematic

There are a lot of rules and laws about what responsible adults have to do if a student threatens to harm themselves. As far as I can remember from my own school experience, there are fewer/no set rules about what to do when girls are harassed/threatened/sexually assaulted.

not to be overlooked are some pretty great performances by the kids in this

i have no desire to see 13 reasons why, i spend enough time with actual suicidal teenagers as it is

it's coming back for season 2? ugh should have left it at that

Forgive my ignorance but who is Hannah?

my daughter, who is now apparently known as Hannah Baker to half her friends

there's a lot of things wrong w the bbc but if they commissioned this it would come with a special newsnight devoted to teen suicide, a documentary about rape, a radio 1 surgery about the show where kids call in with questions, etc

Oh god those last two episodes. I've not slept well.

Watched first ep of Anne With An E & i'm on board

bit darker than the original but still has the same tone, if that makes sense

gonna watch that. and season two of master of none.

is it a kindred spirit of the original? Or more of a bosom friend?