Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

have you seen the film?

(i tried a few months ago when it was on, didn't get on with it. need to have another go...)

No, not yet.

I loved the film as well but think it's better suited to tv format

I enjoyed the Lucifer show when it was being broadcast but the liberation it seems to have felt with the Netflix transfer was tremendous.

Saw both Always Be My Maybe and When They See Us this weekend. WTSU was harrowing as expected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyl56lNF2pk

Always Be My Maybe total standard romcom didn't go in expecting much but it went well with margaritas and blunts saturday evening . like everyone said keanu scenes were pretty funny

My spouse got weep at the end of ABMM and for the life of me I can't remember what was sad about it.

Nothing!

It's a perfectly enjoyable movie. Really good to see Randall Park again and I really liked the dynamic he had with his dad. Of course the band shit didn't make sense, movies like this never get those things right. But I found the music (which I think was all by Dan the Automator....who is having a weekend, having also done Booksmart which just came out [and is a better movie]) fun. The most annoying thing was that the whole thing wasn't filmed in SF so a few things were totally incongruous and made no sense; that house is not in SF, no way. And there was one street scene where the buses in the back were absolutely not MUNI.

Also I assume that Uber and Google/Nest put some money into this.

Ali Wong's spectacle and metallic dress game was on point.

xpost Weird, perusing the web I literally just saw an article about the movie being a love letter to SF that gets everything right.

Didn't read this, just saw the headline:

https://themuse.jezebel.com/always-be-my-maybe-is-a-flawlessly-executed-love-letter-1835184309

"Always Be My Maybe Is a Flawlessly Executed Love Letter to the Bay Area"

watched it last night. Thought it was cute enough and enjoyed watching it but didn't find it very funny, like lol jokes funny outside of a few here and there. I did comment to wife that it almost made San Francisco look like a city I'd like to spend more time in, which isn't easy to do.

I wanted to like it given that I like (p much) everybody in it, but it was just terrible, DJI otm.

also lol akm I too spotted those buses and was like "well, wherever they are, they are not in SF"

Zero bags of popcorn.

I believe I have seen every netflix romcom. I put it firmly in the top 3.

was partly filmed in vancouver.

most publicity I've seen for a movie in a while. as in instagram ads, bus stop ads, tv ads. always worrying when the jokes in the trailer aren't funny.

what is your top 3 Yerac

I go by rewatchability and the charisma of actors so it would currently be To All the Boys, Someone Great and the above. I was not a huge fan of the Xmas Prince movies everyone rewatched into oblivion or Set It Up. I thought that Rebel Wilson movie was a netflix thing but it's not. That was pretty disappointing. Kissing Booth was saved by one super hot actor.

Oh, I guess there were a bunch of other teen romcom things that were ok but forgettable.

Set It Up and The Incredible Jessica James are the only ones that have stood out to me

Tramps, also, if that counts

Set It Up was a letdown because the two leads were so boring to me.

I almost skipped Someone Great because I thought I didn't like Gina Rodriguez but a good RS article on it made me watch it.

lol i loved set it up, not sure i could tell you why. i was v cool on always be my maybe mainly bc i think it has a problem with tonal imbalance, but the keanu scenes were transcendent

I can't stand the modern romcom vogue for having celebrities play exaggerated comedy versions of themselves. It's so lazy and self-congratulatory

I blame Gervais and Apatow

definitely something i feel a little bit ambivalent about, enjoy the daft cameo superficially then in hindsight feel morbsiaously that the trend is a sign of the decay of civilization

ohhhh what movies do Gervais and Apatow do that in? I only thought of Bill Murray in zombieland and I guess Billy Zane in Zoolander.

does anyone else think it's interesting that the shift from broadcast tv to streaming was supposed to be the end of the big tv show that everyone talked about at the water cooler the next day, but now it seems like everyone watches the same netflix movies/shows right when they come out and talk about them on the internet the next day? anyways ABMM was average and his band's music was very corny

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/6/3/18649763/actors-playing-themselves-cameos-keanu-reeves-always-be-my-maybe

I thought the meta-romcom with Rebel Wilson, 'It's so Romantic', was great in working as a fairly straight sitcom but played nicely with the beats and structure of them. Even managed to pull off the mass flash-dance at the end.

Gervais did it all over Extras, if not movies. Was wondering if that's where it started but then I remembered Curb did it all the time, right? And Larry Sanders before that. Certainly a thread there.

oh it's ok when shows I like do it haha

I realize i saw This is the End but have no recollection of Michael Cera in it.

Keanu seems to play a version of himself a lot and I am all for that.

ohhhh what movies do Gervais and Apatow do that in? I only thought of Bill Murray in zombieland and I guess Billy Zane in Zoolander.

― Yerac, Monday, June 3, 2019 1:17 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark

eminem is in funny people (there are other cameos but they're mainly LA comedians who are more congruent with the milieu)

I had to look up that movie. All Adam Sandler movies into one movie of sameness to me unless Drew Barrymore was in it or he is depressed.

insert <blur> above

"This is the End" is a masterpiece unlike any other comedy

as discussed here: The Evan Goldberg & Seth Rogen directed End of the World stars a bunch of famous people as themselves. I will anticipate it with morbid curiousity, join me.

also Apatow was not involved with that film, and that film does something very different that can't really be construed as "exaggerated celebrity cameo", because you would have to apply that criterion to literally the entire cast.

yeah, This is the End is different (even if I don't hold in quite as high esteem) because the characters playing themselves is the whole point

rather than just LeBron or whoever turning up and acting incongruously

Neil Patrick Harris in the Harold & Kumar may have started this. Apatow's convention is more Retro Band Appearing at an Intimate Venue: Rush, Snoop, Ryan Adams, etc.

wow i had forgotten that ryan adams is a major plot point of this is 40

and Graham Parker lol

I should rewatch This is the End. I have a feeling I fell asleep in the middle because it got loud and movies that have sustained loudness or fight scenes make me sleepy.

Neil Patrick Harris in the Harold & Kumar may have started this

nah, it was Being John Malkovich

Or like... the simpsons

Which is what gervais was shittily ripping off as much as curb imo

Gervais was definitely ripping off Sanders too

which Apatow was obviously a big part of

TV shows are different. If you go down that road you might as well go all the way back to I Love Lucy and before

Seinfeld did this a lot

“I’m Keith Hernandez.”

Well this conversation started with “I blame gervais” so it was already going down that road