Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

I watched The Dirt (the Mötley Crüe movie).

...the verdict?

I hated Another Earth so much that I will never engage with another Brit Marling Joint.

I haven't seen that one! Different director collaborator on that one, although he's also done cult-type things (producer on The Path, that Hulu series)

Feelin' kinda punk rock rn for being into a show so many people apparently virulently despise.

The person I watched it with loved it. But he also usually just watches sealife attacks and korean plastic surgery videos.

More than once, Mars glares at us and tells us that the events being depicted didn’t actually happen that way, which when combined with the people and events that have been cut out, makes the viewer wonder if any of it’s true,

This should have been Howard Devoto in a Mick Mars wig

Not Netflix, but Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski) hit Bezos-Prime today.

Here's one to recommend to your mother:
https://www.hulu.com/movie/tea-with-the-dames-9cb07ffd-77d0-405c-9367-1aa118dd0e7a

Cold War is lovely.

God, The OA. What a trash fire.

I started Turn Up Charlie. I like it except the kid in it is terrible. She's like petite Lena Dunham.

OA is OAmazing

OATMFM

The Dirt was about as good as those VH1 biopics so not very.

Aside from everything, everyone looked so showered & healthy! And everyone’s hair was TOO FLAT

my favorite thing was the DLR scene where they said THATS DAVID LEE ROTH like 9 times to make sure you got it because dude looked ~nothing~ like DLR

Yeah The Dirt is somehow even dumber than I expected. Quality about equivalent to the band though.

The Dirt was okay for the first half, shitty production values fit the material. When they started the everybody gets sober plot point it went off the rails.

so to speak...

you can hear her croaking here:
📹

I wish the fact that I have no doubts that The Dirt is as shitty as unperson says would prevent me from watching it but I'm helpless

^ oh for sure better shitty than mediocre

Netflix original programming in general "barely not shitty"

I can't get through a single episode of almost anything discussed itt. Psyched for the Dylan Rolling Thunder doc though!

The Dirt is not shitty in an entertaining way. It's just tedious and unpleasant

something is def wrong w me because you just pushed it to the top of my list

I mean I watched it, so who am I to judge?

Netflix original programming in general "barely not shitty"

one of the promises of prestige television was serial fiction that might have a story of the week format but have a greater focus on season or series-long plots

that’s one of the things that has both enabled and wrecked most netflix shows. the pacing is completely blown in an attempt to cater to binging

I'm about 15 minutes into the Dirt. It's pretty corny for sure but I'm enjoying Ramsey Bolton as Mick Mars exactly as much as I thought I would.

Just wanna say that The Order is totally hitting that slightly-low-rent-but-surprisingly-good-zings "first-season-Buffy-like" spot I didn't know I need scratched

ha, i saw that on the interface and had no idea what the heck kinda show it was. Buffy you say? but the first season wasn't that strong...

after Ozzy snorts those ants and licks up his pee and the other guy's pee, you might as well turn off The Dirt.

However, I'm really enjoying "Kantaro: The Sweet Tooth Salaryman"

and The OA is back!

on second thought... the second you see Ozzy, just stop

they gilded the lily on a lot of heinous shit from the book and/or left out tons of other heinous shit. so it’s become “a light romp with lots of tits & a facepunching lets be cool”. which is really the worst thing about it

but the first season wasn't that strong...

That's what I mean, the Order isn't exactly good the way Buffy got, but it has personality and zing, the way Buffy did from the start.

gotcha eephus

Turn Up Charlie ended really abruptly.

I remember someone else was posting how much they liked Kantaro. I watched two-three episodes but it didn't hold me.

What makes the book good is Strauss finding a way to write each member’s voice in a very distinct and personable way. Nearly everything they do is heinous, and we all know the music is 97% worthless, so it’s him writing their charisma or self-belief onto the page that makes it fun. That’s not going to exist in any live-action adaptation, especially a DTV quickie made by nobodies.

i just remembered that i read the book right before 9/11

sic otm

also the band being involved in the production of the movie guarantees eliding the heinous stuffin the book

I’ve never read the book but it’s notable that the anecdotes shared in reviews closer to the time it came out were gross but in a funny way, but the reviews of the movie mention the omission of the nastier things.. that weren’t mentioned in the book reviews!

I think it’s a fairer lens overall

it was definitely the way Strauss captured their insane self-delusion in the book that made it readable

the delusion in the movie is a whole other level

anecdotes shared in reviews closer to the time it came out were gross but in a funny way

I gotta give this to Strauss as well: he gets you onside and laughing with the band early on when they're buying takeaway burritos on the way home and fucking them in the back of the van so their girfriends don't smell the unprotected sex with groupies that they've previously had in the van on their dicks, or snorting live ants with Ozzy. By the time they're raping unconscious women, manslaughtering their friends, and working out by lifting garbage bags full of water while in prison for beating their wives, you've bought in to the characters. These depradations thus seem like a dark dip in their funtime fortunes, rather than the obvious next step in a straight line for these three idiot monsters (while Mick Mars is off having painful surgery and practicing guitar).

According to his wiki page, Vince Neil has had 2 DUI's since the crash which killed his friend. How the fuck has he evaded jail?

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S07E15/409842.jpg?b64lines=S3J1c3R5LCB0aGlzIGlzIEFtZXJpY2EuCldlIGRvbid0IHNlbmQgb3VyCmNlbGVicml0aWVzIHRvIGphaWwu

This book has always sounded like someone I would rather die than read and Strauss should be metoo’d by the neck until dead, can’t even imagine giving time to a Netflix version

*someTHING

first two crüe records are awesome btw. after that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

first 2 albums rule
(i have unsupportable enjoyment of Dr Feelgood that we won’t get into)

I'm enjoying The Sinner, a clever and atmospheric crime drama. Like a less pretentious True Detective.

(apologies if mentioned before, thread will crash my browser if I show all)

I think it has been. I didn’t have high expectations but season 1 of the sinner might be my favorite crime type show of the last few years.