Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

this is over on amazon prime, but my wife and i have been enjoying the Kettering Incident, some good x-files in tasmania vibes...

My 6 month free netflix deal is just about to end. So i need to work out if I can keep it or give it up.
Just getting so used to having it around.

Suburra looks excellent, also I'm buzzing for S3 of Gomorrah that is coming soon.

I think I liked the Kettering Incident but got kind of irritated by a relatively slow pace followed by "whoops here's the exposition" in the last couple episodes

ketting incident is good!! final ep is odd but i loved all of it

that actress is so tall!

Confession Tapes is good

Elizabeth Debicki, definitely tall for sure

Cube, Cube 2, and Cube Zero! My prayers have been answered. I was just thinking a WEEK ago how i wished they were on Netflix. I never tire of them. Wish there was a Cube t.v. show. That was on every day. Forever.

Mindhunter is A+ in case anyonecis wondering

really enjoyed the first two eps.

Cube, Cube 2, and Cube Zero! My prayers have been answered.

― scott seward, Friday, October 13, 2017 12:11 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh, awesome! also, there is a cube-y kinda thing on netflix called "Circle" that was similarly horrible/enjoyable imo

there’s a movie called pyramid too idk if that helps

how many eps is mindhunter?

10 eps

jeez on EP 3 I just had a realization about who that ADT tech is, amazing.

yipes i’m such a nerd i knew from the city/state title card

i can't believe i missed guessing it from the title card and when his co-worker called him by his first name in EP 2 : [

Cube, Cube 2, and Cube Zero! My prayers have been answered. I was just thinking a WEEK ago how i wished they were on Netflix. I never tire of them. Wish there was a Cube t.v. show. That was on every day. Forever.

― scott seward, Friday, October 13, 2017 6:11 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
aaaaaholy shit!!!!!!!!

I just had a birthday, and I was gonna ask my parents to get me a Filmstruck+Criterion subscription, but honestly now there's no point

“Big mouth” is way funnier than I expected

I just started mind hunter and I'm pissed off at the non-70s haircuts

Watched a Big Mouth trailer on YouTube and made the mistake of looking at the comments. Guess the populace is more prudish than I expected.

Mindhunter mindhunter mindhunter

Is there a thread?

David Fincher's serial killer chat 'em up MINDHUNTER

I've been watching and enjoying Big Mouth. It's a weird combination of wholesome and extremely graphic. Maya Rudolph as the female hormone monster cracks my shit up.

Jason Manzoukas is the best.

it's really good

SUBURRA: BLOOD OF ROME aka sex, drugs, violence and ZONING (and the wickedest of these is zoning, my son)

(mild spoilers in thread, mostly by me)

I tried to watch the "It Was Fifty Years Ago Today!" documentary, hoping it was an updated version of the wonderful and similarly titled Sgt Pepper doc that came out in the 80s. Unfortunately, this new one is terrible. Two hours of 70 year old music critics saying nothing new or interesting, and somehow they didnt have budget or permissions to include any actual music of the time.

i haven't watched Suburra yet, since I'm doing book --> movie ---> show, and i just started the book. but i started watching GOMORRA and holy shit is that a good show. Loving the characters and setting thus far. my favorite aspect is just how hellish Naples looks, everywhere it's so blocky and industrial. even the camorra don lives in a depressing-looking blasted out area, hermetically sealed off inside with his terrible son and the worst furniture in the world.

How OTT is the violence on Suburra? Been debating whether to watch it with my rather squeamish wife

Please let's talk about the furniture and the giant gold frames around every wall-mounted tv.

thanks to netflix i got to witness the globe-spanning golden age of 21st century international cinema. holy smokes, so many great movies from so many places. they make mincemeat out of most u.s. movies that i see these days. could an american making movies now ever make a movie like stray dogs? i doubt it. started watching The Ornithologist last night. have to go back to it tonight. have about an hour left. so very cool. and if it were made here it would be, like, ryan gosling in the ozarks and be completely lame.

Please let's talk about the furniture and the giant gold frames around every wall-mounted tv.

― Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit), Thursday, October 26, 2017 2:15 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's amazing

https://img-www.tf-cdn.com/show/2/gomorrah.jpeg?_v=20160614074424&fit=crop&crop=faces%20top&w=1200&h=630

only in america

http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/Gomorrah.jpg

there is so much rich imagery in Gomorrah.

oh, also, i did enjoy The Babysitter. it's fun for the holiday season.

How OTT is the violence on Suburra? Been debating whether to watch it with my rather squeamish wife

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, October 26, 2017 5:43 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's infrequent but not very restrained

S3 of Gomorra finally starts next month

yesssss

seriously, if you are nostalgic for the euro-weirdness of yesteryear, you have to see The Ornithologist. top notch WTF! so pretty to watch too.

i missed it in the theaters, kinda looking forward to seeing it on tape.
scott, you're aware that it's a reworking of the St Anthony myth?
http://www.epgn.com/arts-and-culture/arts/12253-reimagining-portuguese-culture-mythology-in-the-ornithologist

it's clear pretty early on that there is a biblical thing going on. and even jesus resurrected! but i just liked it for the journey and the visuals. and i liked not knowing where it was going to go. there are so many 70's euro films i love - bunuel, etc - that are fulla Xian myths/symbols and not growing up Xian it's a little lost on me but my lack of knowledge never really hindered my enjoyment.

suburra the series >>> suburra the film imo

omg, that movie by the district 9 guy...i felt so dumb watching it. short circuit + robocop in the corniest way possible. felt so bad for sigourney weaver. she deserves a place on mount rushmore not a role in this movie! and i really only watched it for die antwoord. THEY deserve to be the stars of the greatest and most violent action movies of all time. so sad.

i only made it about 20 minutes in though....

Chappie? Yeah..i can’t bring myself to watch it

I've watched it! All of it! It's terrible. It's maybe not quite as mawkish as you fear it's going to be, but that doesn't make it any better.

robot looks too much like Johnny 5

Has anyone watched Tig Notaro's One Mississippi on Amazon? I heard her talking about it on the radio a few days so I decided to have a watch (I know of her, but I don't really watch standup so I haven't seen her) and wow it is an amazing show.

All of the short films he (the district 9 guy) have done recently are also rubbish; some nice effects, but awful scripts, and a real relish taken in human degradation

Any recommendations for good stuff on Amazon Prime? I just watched Fleabag, which was excellent, but there's pretty much nothing else I can see worth watching, just an endless sea of Tom Cruise movies.