Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

anything with bass and clarity, not too loud, some popcorn, and i'm gucci

My in-laws LOVE that motion smoothing thing and it makes watching movies with them v v painful

I moved the couch a foot closer to the TV, now I am living the dream

i want a setup like soarin at disneyland where u can smell whats on tv

or the one where there were screens all around you and you sat down and things were coming from all angles, i dont think they have that anymore

It's completely reasonable to hate motion smoothing, and completely baffling that most new TVs come with it turned on. I nearly had a heart attack when I bought my TV, put on a favorite movie,cand it looked like utter shit. Then I turned off motion smoothing, and everything looked amazing.

The moral of the story is, a new, large screen TV is absolutely wonderful to watch movies,TV shows. YouTube videos, live streams, etc. Just remember to turn off the motion smoothing when you are first setting up your TV.

I have to resist adjusting other peoples' TVs to kill the motion smoothing.

don't resist

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/09/christopher-nolan-paul-thomas-anderson-motion-smoothing-tv

Action is being taken apparently

norm macdonald

hitlers dog

gossip

and trickery

Although technically, it's nice to have the opposite of air-brushing happen to aesthetically charismatic people.

I don't follow

It makes pretty people unattractive.

They all look like they're under the lights of a set of an '80s courtroom show.

You can see a lot of pores and bad skin.

But why not just turn it off?

It comes as the default on new tvs. A lot of people don't even know you can turn it off.

Uh

I know, and that sucks. As I said above, I had the same experience, and it was very frustrating, but once I figured out what was going on, it was all good. If you know ahead of time that motion smoothing is a thing you'll have to turn off when you set up a new TV, is that really a reason to avoid TVs?

Maybe I'm just confusing myself for no reason, feel free to ignore.

So, new Chef's Table! (I didn't mean to make not having a huge tv a thing, because I have a huge tv right now that is on at night to watch netflix or while rowing. But it's just me where I don't like tvs being the focal point of a room or being on all the time. This probably comes from growing up around family who were hard of hearing or socially stupid and they can't be around people without having the tv on at full blast all day long.)

Makes sense, I'm pretty much planted in front of the TV all day, but we have it set up in a side room so that it isn't in the middle of the main living room, and guests don't have to deal with obnoxious TV.

Started watching Hilda, it is very much my shit. I love her chill world. Almost seems inspired by platform games, at times.

I remember when growing up the stats showed that the typical american watched something like 6 hours of tv a day or something?

Almost seems inspired by platform games, at times.

I haven’t seen the series, but the albums* are lovely

*big thin children’s hardcover comics

Ahh, I didn't realize that. I took a look at some samples of the comics, and can say the series is very, very similar. Same plots, even same color palettes.

When I finally buy a house I’m going to put the tv in a cabinet behind doors like my grandparents used to have. It looks like the 2001 monolith when it is not on.

what a waste of cabinet space though

agree

i get it if you dont watch much tv but i feel like it’s for ppl who entertain & want to pretend to ppl that they dont watch tv (oh that old thing, no we play board games & do sudoku) when they do

new jeremy saulnier is barely comprehensible

netflix marque is a kiss of death

I guess we should poll this, but if we have company I’d rather have the AppleTV screensavers on than the blank screen and it seems no drama to put a door in front of it.

Also it won’t be quite like my grandparents Tv as it won’t have a very old jar of sugared almonds on top.

Ed yr talkin nonsense dawg

I like the cabinets where the TV raises up on a rail of the hidden solutions.

"new jeremy saulnier is barely comprehensible"

That too bad the book is pretty good.

new jeremy saulnier is barely comprehensible

sad but true

It doesn’t really attempt to be much more than brutal and atmospheric and succeeds in both. There is no real attempt made at explaining why anyone is doing anything.

take it to mubi, saulnier

the Cristina Martinez episode of Chef's table was sweet af! or bittersweet af! (if something can be that)

wow, i've just started watching the Turkish one and it is even better. really deep. i love middle eastern food so much.

flatbread with labneh, tomatoes. fried egg, sprinkled with harissa. for breakfast!

and Za'atar!

with regard to the Thai episode i'm not sure how these people aren't constantly existing in a painful red-hot fire over a toilet bowl.

Was getting into Maniac but then episode 4 was one entire dream sequence, it looks like the rest of the series is going the same way and apparently I care about the real lives of fictional characters but not the fictional lives of fictional characters.

Yeah, we just finished episode 4 and I was a bit disappointed to discover the same. Can anyone who's finished the series tell how long the fantasy bits will continue? I didn't find anything wrong with the 80s fantasy stuff per se, but I just found the actual setting and characters of the series more interesting than this "overcoming your issues through VR roleplay" type of story-within-a-story, which has been way overdone in speculative fiction.

Did u guys just shit out a massive spoiler for maniac

Cuz i think u did i mean i can smell it and i just washed my face and showered so it’s not my upper lip

U guys didnt even wipe

no they didn't

also, ewww

I've been watching 'The Haunting of Hill House', and it's pretty good! By coincidence I rewatched the 1963 film yesterday, which I love. This is different, but the acting is good - and Russ Tamblyn has a cameo in this (though not the same part as in 1963).