It's not clear whether this thread is for movies or just original series/TV. There really needs to be a place to share movie discoveries, because Prime has so damn many (something like 5x Netflix), with so much variety, yet the browsing interface is terrible. If Amazon had applied the same techniques to enabling people to find products they could order online, Bezos would still be aspiring to put boutique bookstores out of business.
Anyhow, thanks for 'Let The Corpses Tan'. A little gorier than I usually like, but all the more riveting for it. Startled to recognize a no longer alabaster Elina Lowensohn, 25 years after 'Amateur'.
Some 2018 movies I've recently come across. Haven't watched them all yet:
Ghostbox CowboyWobble PalaceMilford Graves Full MantisNever Goin' BackGuys Reading Poems
― punning display, Monday, 27 May 2019 22:25 (four years ago) link
Films of note from 18/19 on US Prime; sorry if some of these are repeats:
Hereditary Zama The Road MovieEighth Grade Leave No Trace The Death of Stalin BorderA Quiet Place First Reformed You Were Never Really Here Generation Wealth UnsaneThe Great Buddha+ A Prayer Before Dawn Lots of Kids, A Monkey and A CastleWesternJohn McEnroe: In the Realm of PerfectionLet the Corpses Tan Madeline’s Madeline Cold War Loveless A Fantastic WomanSuspiria
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 27 May 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
^Good list. Also of note, Lean on Pete. However, it looks like Border, Death of Stalin and Loveless are only viewable on Prime for an extra charge.
― punning display, Monday, 27 May 2019 23:10 (four years ago) link
"Ghostbox Cowboy"
this was made by friends of mine! well written and directed by my friend's husband who I don't know as well as her (she is a producer on it). .... still haven't watched it shamefully
― akm, Monday, 27 May 2019 23:29 (four years ago) link
Anyone seen 'Leave No Trace'? As someone who lived off the grid for a while and found it immensely satisfying if terrifyingly difficult, I'm wondering whether I'll like it or want to kill it.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Monday, 27 May 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
it’s really really good. *highly* recommend.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 00:39 (four years ago) link
it is very judgement-free imo.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 00:40 (four years ago) link
yes agree
― Dan S, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
For a PG movie it's beautiful and very very subtle and sophisticated for a film you can watch with your (slightly older) kid.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 01:18 (four years ago) link
Border, Death of Stalin and Loveless WERE on there! Go figure.
Leave No Trace is excellent; one of the best films of last year imo.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 01:26 (four years ago) link
I really loved the way Madeline’s Madeline was filmed, with all of the subjective points of view and blurred displaced images, and the ending was so unexpectedly strange and euphoric
― Dan S, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 01:28 (four years ago) link
it looks like Loveless is also available on Hulu. It is a great film
― Dan S, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 01:32 (four years ago) link
Am I actually the only person that watched the Terror cuz if so waht
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 01:54 (four years ago) link
"I really loved the way Madeline’s Madeline was filmed"
I couldn't make it more than 10 minutes into this movie; one of the rare things I absolutely had to turn off.
― akm, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 02:02 (four years ago) link
xpost I am in the process of watching it, only a couple of eps to go. I love everything about it.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 02:52 (four years ago) link
Leave No Trace is in my top handful of 2018.
― tfw you are not easily whelmed (sic), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 03:00 (four years ago) link
Leave No Trace is a good recent example (along with The Rider) of a satisfying film that could have easily become an award season sensation with the right push and no one would have batted an eye.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 04:09 (four years ago) link
God I wish The Rider were available anywhere except on the Starz streaming network; that film was a stunner.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 04:13 (four years ago) link
xpost It's kind of amazing that it didn't, given it was the director's first fiction film since Winter's Bone, which got nominations for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor, and that Leave No Trace was (like Paddington 2?) one of the few films to have 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, fwiw. It's really perplexing, honestly, that Leave No Trace got literally no nominations (esp. considering what was nominated, let alone won best picture), or even much traction in small awards circles.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 12:27 (four years ago) link
Having no box office, a smaller distributor, and I assume little or no industry campaigning behind it was the more important factor.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 13:23 (four years ago) link
Glad to see all the love for Leave No Trace. Also one of my favorites from last year. I'm with Josh; shockingly overlooked considering it was the same team that did Winter's Bone and having a similar feel and level of filmmaking. Again, the young actress is a real discovery and standout!
― Nhex, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
All of Dark Shadows is on Prime! I'm about 450 eps in.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
Have you got to the Meghan Draper eps yet?
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
Did you start at the beginning or with Barnabas?
― Brad C., Tuesday, 28 May 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
I started at the beginning, so 120 or so before barnabus.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
I watched episodes 210 to 370 and need to get back to it
― Brad C., Tuesday, 28 May 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
watched a few episodes of baywatch and i've gotta be honest the remaster is great - the show looks exceptionally crisp
it's otherwise terrible obv
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 15:37 (four years ago) link
Am I actually the only person that watched the Terror cuz if so waht― Οὖτις, Monday, May 27, 2019 6:54 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Οὖτις, Monday, May 27, 2019 6:54 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
its not on amazon prime nor was it created by amazon. but i am currently watching it by other means and it's great.
My initial idea for this thread was mostly for recommendations of content created by Amazon (Amazon Originals) but it's fine to recommend other movies/shows available within the platform.
― easy ball shooter (Spottie), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
an older show, but my wife and i kind of love scott & bailey — manchester murder investigation stuff, but really well acted / written (it's a sally wainwright show).
― tylerw, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
I did a deep dive down the "viewers who liked x may like y" hole and discovered Amazon has a zillion B-westerns, I assume in public domain and usually in terrible condition -- Roy Rogers, Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson, Ken Maynard, Tex Ritter, that crowd. I watched a couple and they're in the "so bad they're kind of entertaining" category.
― WmC, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
huh weird right I guess it was AMC? For some reason Amazon was where I got it. my bad.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
In regards to this and the Netflix thread, I would absolutely like to know about good films or TV shows that are on the platform regardless of whether they are original content or not. There are lots of great movies on both that you'll only ever find if you do a lot of digging.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
If you put any stock in IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes ratings, one of the tools at justwatch.com lets you only show films with at least ___ IMDB score or ___% on RT. It's a starting point anyway.
― WmC, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
xp it's compounded by the fact we're an international community, or at least continually remind each other of that fact, and the licensing across services means it's total guesswork as to what is available on each service unless it's content that service originated
I'd be good with a general purpose "now streaming" movies thread with the caveat that streaming might just mean "available for home release"
― mh, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
Has this been posted yet? It allows you to search Prime Movies & TV by new or popular or random etc.
https://instantwatcher.com/a
― brownie, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, May 28, 2019 10:24 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
no prob. it may have been available at some point on there. which is kinda the problem with talking itt about content merely hosted by amazon, it may come and go.
― easy ball shooter (Spottie), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
I love the idea of a general 'movies/tv now streaming on...' recommendations thread.
Terror is on Hulu i believe.
I do this for my "now available" hunting; allows you to sort by service which is a great help:https://www.justwatch.com/us/new
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
Brownie, I first learned about instantwatcher several years ago somewhere on ilx. I use both it and justwatch, which covers virtually all streaming services. IW to keep up with newly added titles and JW to find out what service, if any, carries a particular movie. They're both great for filtered searches.
It really is a problem keeping track of what comes and goes from Prime and Netflix. Especially on Prime, movies can disappear for a few weeks then come back again. And often a bunch of movies will leave one service and immediately show up on the other, or on Hulu, Starz, etc. Apparently, due to licensing deals changing hands.
― punning display, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
I will now be watching The Terror, having learned Jared Harris is in it. Still one of the 4 shows available on Amazon Prime in Australia.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 03:29 (four years ago) link
Four more 2018 films of note on Prime not mentioned above:
Thunder RoadColette Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on FootBeautiful Boy
I watched the first two last night. Thunder Road is not to be missed. Feels at times like humiliating comedy monologues stitched onto a melodrama, but there's more to it. Colette was a lot better than I expected. Keira Knightley is fantastic, and the story never hardly lapses into self-congratulatory plays for relevance. It probably helps that I didn't know anything about Colette's early life.
I'm hesitant to get to the other two yet.
― punning display, Friday, 31 May 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot isn't spectacular, but it's a nice story and jonah hill is excellent, like truly really great.
― Jeff the grown man (voodoo chili), Friday, 31 May 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
yea i really enjoyed that 1 also, to my surprise
― johnny crunch, Friday, 31 May 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
beautiful boy is watchable but not v good imo
― johnny crunch, Friday, 31 May 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
I made it about 5 minutes into Historical Roasts or whatever before I cringed out.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 31 May 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
Agree that Colette was pretty good. None of the others really interest me.
Terror has indeed just shown up on US Hulu. I watched the first episode last night but may wait a couple of weeks to resume - I can only take about one hour a week of Jared Harris, and Chernobyl's still going.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 31 May 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, May 31, 2019 12:00 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
for the netflix thread?
― easy ball shooter (Spottie), Friday, 31 May 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
Oh, sorry! Got mixed up.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 31 May 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
Yes, I already own the DVD, but I'm still excited to see Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise on here.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 2 June 2019 02:48 (four years ago) link
Just added: Connie Plank – The Potential of Noise. Documentary about the krautrock producer made by his son. It's good, for the most part.
― punning display, Sunday, 2 June 2019 12:36 (four years ago) link
Final season of Bosch has dropped today
― groovypanda, Friday, 25 June 2021 18:43 (two years ago) link
watched 3 eps last night
― pure rim rest (Spottie), Friday, 25 June 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link