Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Guys, "Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films" is a blast.

― circa1916, Friday, December 18, 2015

Finally watched and totally agree. Immediately went to the Wikipedia list of films and started clicking through all the ones I'd love to see, at least once. Will probably never have a taste for some of the more pure vigilante type stuff. But yeah, loads of wild shit to watch otherwise. They definitely drove home the point about their love of packing movies with T&A. The doc itself at point feels like a supercut of Cannon T&A. A few great anecdotes aside, those interviewed didn't have a lot of insight, I thought. Lots of repetition, lots of saying the same things but in slightly different ways. You can almost just tune them out after a while and let the footage just wash over you.

So embarrassing that I've owned a copy of that thing since pretty much when it came out and haven't seen it yet. And I've probably watched the masterpiece that is Cobra twice since then.

I enjoyed Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! as a kind of lazy-Sunday-evening alternative to Sherlock. It is very silly but evokes 40s Kolkata nicely.

Xpost Crime's the disease, and I'm the cure.

I used that line last as a joke for some reason, and was mystified about why I remembered the tag line from a 31 year old Stallone movie that I've never seen and haven't heard mentioned in forever.

the thing I remember about that movie is that is was based on a book and Stallone wanted to be credited as the book's co-author when it was reissued.

Everything about it is batshit and beautiful (but not on Netflix, sorry folks).

Halfway thru season 2 of Love and it's pretty dece (if you like gentle lols and not much happening).

if it seemed funnier i'd want to watch it more but it seems like kinda serious + maybe a bummer?

Episode with mickeys dad was incredibly well written and depressing.

see that's what i'm trying to avoid when i watch sitcoms

Season 1 of "Into the Badlands" was ~280 minutes well spent. As skot noted on the Iron Fist thread, this series has plenty of film-quality martial arts fights, plus 12 or 14 recurrent characters sufficiently attractive and developed to be kept straight throughout their constant plotting and back-stabbing. The Louisiana interiors and exteriors are also easy on the eyes.

dave chapelle, the 60 million dollar netflix man is up today.

I tried Into the Badlands, and I'd be more into it if the 2nd ep hadn't opened with "sexxxy steam-cyber-punk" for the Widow and her club or wahtever. I didn't stick around for the rest of that scene.

Finally started Jessica Jones last night. It's all right. Why don't I read more?

I'm not sure I made it all the way through any of the Marvel Netflix shows.

I get about halfway, if I start, and then lose interest. That's true of a lot of Netflix series, though - they look fantastic but the rest of it's pretty meh.

xp re Into the Badlands: yes, that scene gets off to a queasy start; it ends with the Widow killing all the men in the room (it's not her club, btw, though I thought so too at the beginning of the scene)

one major plotline is the feminist Widow vs. Quinn the patriarch, though any political content is strictly in the service of ultra-broad comic-book conflict ... there's plenty of dystopian sexism on display, also several different female characters kicking ass in colorful ways

the patriarchal themes are nasty, but I was even more creeped out by the new-look Louisiana plantation slavery

the bad guys are unambiguously eeeeeeevil in this show; in that respect it's like the kung fu movies it imitates

i want to see more of the magic monks which is why i'll be watching season 2.

watched the first chapelle special. some funny stuff. lots of rape material and not all of it cosby-related. liked the 4 O.J. stories.

I made it as far as the camp gay superhero followed by the rapey superhero and then turned it off.

as someone who loves rape jokes let me say you guys are really selling this comedy special

i really liked Hap & Leonard. Grifters/odd-job-doers in south texas, late eighties, lots of people get their heads blown off. Stars Omar from the Wire and Christina Hendricks (and her butt) and some other guy... i liked it!

i talked about hap & leonard on here. or i just told people they should watch it. one or the other.

really really enjoyed hap & leonard. also just finished season 4 of rectify which i liked a bunch. it's a slow burn but the whole show reminds me of my hometown. i can't believe what a sympathetic character teddy jr became.

i should finish rectify one of these days. i did really like the first couple of seasons. daniel really is one of the weirdest characters to be the center of a t.v. show. there is something literary about him. or maybe that's just the sundance-y thing. but the whole thing reminds me of a short story writer's idea for a show.

it's a beautiful series, def worth finishing

clayne crawford is so good

Just noticed Season 2 of Hap & Leonard has started this week

sad to say, but even if you like chappelle, you could miss both those specials and be fine. i had to watch them but there is some weak material that just gets by on his personality. a great comic certainly knows how to sell weak stuff. definitely don't think there was 40 million dollars worth of comedy in them.

Samurai Gournet is an adorable addition to the Japanese food related comedy-drama, not a patch on Midnight Diner so far but good nonetheless.

grace & frankie is bloody fantastic

maybe i'll watch the life aquatic? never seen it. maybe i'll see if cyrus wants to see it. it's weird because all his movies seem like kids movies that kids wouldn't really enjoy. they always feel a little too long or something as well. i thought my kids would like moonrise kingdom but they just got antsy. they can watch buster keaton or the marx brothers all day.

who recommended 'fortitude'? it rules, and is so extremely and exactly my shit that it's kinda freaking me out

Scott, I reckon your lads would love "Hunt For The Wilderpeople" (its on UK/Ireland Netflix not sure if its on US versh). If I was 10, it would have probably be my favourite movie

maria and cyrus went to see kong island last night at the movies. they didn't really rave about it. cyrus - surprisingly to me - really loved the movie Interstellar. it's on Hulu. i liked it and put it on for him and he flipped out. the space/time/continuum stuff blew his mind. i thought it would be too long or too slow for him. you never know with kids.

kids -- they're just like us!

Interstellar is awesome - cyrus otm

i really liked s1 of fortitude in the end but can't really get into s2.

shhh it's not available here yet

i just want to know is fortitude series 2 in the same secret genre as series 1, or is it just a crime series this time round?

Hunt for the Wilderpeople so good, Top 5 last year for me

Marvelous Mrs Maisel on Amazon Prime is SO GOOD.

It's basically a fictional Joan Rivers & it's excellent. Takes a little bit of setup, but once it hits the top of the rollercoaster it's A+

Amy Sherman Palladino's dad was a standup, she grew up in this world...it *feels* like her wheelhouse

WATCH IT!!!

i mentioned this on the gilmore girls thread but it didn't seem as if anyone....uh, you...had seen it yet.

it's just the pilot though, right?

also, i don't have amazon.

Yep it's just the pilot

Hunt for the Wilderpeople so good, Top 5 last year for me

i couldn't stand this, it was so insufferably twee and indie i had to turn it off after about 10 minutes.

I have no idea if it is a good show or not, but Ingobernable is horrific name.

wait why?