Netflix tips

[ozias_leduc]

Holy shit, just watched Aronofsky's 'Mother', what an absolutely bonkers fucking nuts fantastic film it is.

i love this movie! saw it at the cinema. so fucking intense.

aronofsky has earnt my forgiveness for noah

Haha, I haven't seen that one, and have been told I'm not missing anything.

I loved Pi, but was disappointed with Requiem For A Dream, so didn't pay much attention to him after that. The only other one I've seen of his was Black Swan, which I found uninteresting.

Oh I *LOVE* Requiem.

The Fountain is also a beautiful film. The Wrestler is brilliant too. Black Swan was a bit meh, forgot about that.

Pi is my favourite though.

[[wesellboxes]]

I'd been all clubbing all weekend. It was a decent sesh and I'd had some interim sleep but was feeling fairly fragile needed to chill with an easy film, smoke few more spliffs before getting my head down properly before work on Monday morning.

I chose Requiem For A Dream.

[Ben Kohonays]

^^ ^^

[ozias_leduc]

I think that's how EVERYONE i know first watched Requiem For A Dream (myself included) haha

I mean yeah. It's traumatising but you just gotta watch it a few more times with a clearer head to work through it

[Monreal]

I've rewatched the IT Crowd, and it's still managed to make me laugh out loud at least once in every episode.

Brooklyn 9-9 first seasons are good but after 3 or 4th season it gets really repetitive. I've dropped the show

Huge fan on fold school Dave Chapelle stand ups but hated all the Netflix specials, maybe I'm not American and didn't get most of the refereances but the old ones were so good. These new ones, meeeeh.

[Balog]

Check out HAGAZUSSA! This is a Movie not for everyone.

Slow, intense, mindfucking, stunning. With a superb score by MMMD.

youtu.be/T1-gcr_RTqY

[Críoch]

I've rewatched the IT Crowd, and it's still managed to make me laugh out loud at least once in every episode.

Yes.. feel the same way about the IT Crowd. Seen it on NF & keep meaning to rewatch. Chris O'Dowd is from just up the road from me. He seems like a good guy in real life.

Used to work with G Linehans sister years ago. She was really cool & didn't look anything like G Linehan

[Meatwad]

Blade Runner 2049 is on Netflix (in the UK). Watched it for the first time on Saturday and really enjoyed it. Definite homage to the original and didn't just piggyback off of the success (well it did inevitably but it didn't feel like the movie was solely relying on originals merit).

[Lost to the Void]

Finished watching the last series of orange is the new black.

Going to miss those girls. such a great show, interesting characters, superb actors and brilliant writers. It was nearly always light hearted, but communicated on a deeper level, whether it was flashing back to how the women ended up in prison, the deterioration of mental health, & in this series, the reality of ICE courts & deportation on kids & parents. It used despair & vulnerability as it's darkness.

I thought the writing was immense as it continually held a mirror up to the people running the prison. Decent staff could flip positions, lose humanity, make mistakes and redeem themselves. Some got punished with unemployment, or lost their lives. The good people were often inside the prison. The system was unfair. Everyone was selfish & fighting for survival, including the staff. Everybody was utterly trapped in their own way. Burn out was universal.

I hope I make time to rewatch it again one day. It was definitely the golden period for the majority of people who were involved with it.

Me and the missus just finally finished the last series.
Been following it year by year since it started.
What a bleak final season. Really great though.
Ended bitter sweet, we sobbed our way through the season. That was tough viewing.
Overall it was a great show, got a little loose in the middle seasons in places, but loved it. It really did a lot of tv firsts too in terms of handing bisexual and lesbian relationships and a bunch of feminist issues without being snowflaky or preachy about it all. Super strong cast.
It also proved that entertainment can be driven by original female characters without the need for stupid role switching or pandering that Hollywood is currently going through.

[Monreal]

Anybody here watched Top Boy? It's been on my list and now I see it's on the main page of the Netflix.

I mean the 2011 one ofc

[Ben Kohonays]

I'm about to start it, but the only one I see says its 2019.

[[wesellboxes]]

I think that's how EVERYONE i know first watched Requiem For A Dream (myself included) haha

It could have been worse, I know someone who'd been partying all weekend and then decided to watch Irreversible

[Monreal]

I'm about to start it, but the only one I see says its 2019.

Top Boy Summerhouse is the first seasons

[Ben Kohonays]

Cheers, I'll have a look for that.

[caton]

Stranger things is great.

The Expanse is really really good. Probably the best Sci Fi for a long time, it`s serious in the way that BattleStar Galactica (the reboot) was, but just generally better.

The Bridge is a really good Nordic Noir about the pairing between a Danish cop with a troubled past and a Swedish detective with high functioning autism/aspergers, in a cross border case. Very well written and acted.

Lilyhammer - Silvio from The Sopranos does a sort of witness protection move to Lillehammer in Norway. It`s just hilarious.

Archer - Utter greatness, worlds best/worst secret agent and alcoholic.

I don`t feel at home in this world any more: Film. Dark dark dark humour.

Sharkwater - Amazing documentary about the shark apocalypse we are causing. The environment is fucked, say by e bye to your childrens future.

Suburra: Film. Really stunningly shot film about corruption in Rome. It presents Rome in a way, visually, never before shown. Deep plot, great acting, amazing soundtrack and just wonderful cinematography.

Bone Tomahawk: Film. Darkest most fucked up western ever made. Kurt Russel is in it.

Deep: Film. Beautiful film about a cop trying to solve a case before a deadly disease kills him.

The Deep: Film. True story about a guy who survived for a crazy amount of time in icelandic waters after his fishing boat sank.

What we do in the shadows: Best film about vampires (and werewolves) ever. "What are we? We`re Werewolves, not Swearwolves, now come on".

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood: Epic Anime series, surprisingly dark.

Calvary: Film. Brendan Gleeson is amazing as a priest who is told he will be killed for being a good man... It`s so good.

The eternal zero: A brother and sister investigate their grandfathers death as a ww2 kamikaze pilot

Kill La Kill: Insanely insane Anime series that bends the typical schoolkid trope.

Green Room: Unexpected gritty horror about skinhead nazi punks.

Entertainment: Directed by the same guy who made the utter genius dark dark comedy "The Comedy", this time starring Gregg Turkington (Neil Hamburger), another pitch black film about life on the road for a comedian. But it`s about so much more. The utter despair and numbness of being when you lose taste for life. Really good.

The Young Offenders: Irish teen reprobates go on a funny adventure. A really great twist on a road comedy.

Victoria: A film about one chance meeting in Berlin that turns into a nightmare evening. Famed for being shot in 1 take, in real time. Quite amazing.

Narcos: Series about the bringing down of 2 of the most famed Cartels in south america. Really really good.

That`s some of my 5 star list.

Do you think Netflix is less commercial than Boiler Room ?

[Críoch]

Narcos is so good. One of those shows that I wish I never saw so I could enjoy it again for the first time.

Just finished mindhunter. Took a while to get going.. but really enjoyed it. Looking forward to a series 3, hopefully.

[Lost to the Void]

Do you think Netflix is less commercial than Boiler Room ?

I think netflix casts a very wide net.
They finance and support some real amazing niche art, programming and journalism that just wouldn't get done otherwise.
And they also have a ton of mindless shit.

Has it taken a form of art and changed it for the worse by turning it into a spectacle detracting from the spirit of the art?
Now there are arguments about that. It definitely has fucked with the hollywood studio format, which I think has been a long time coming.
It has destroyed the episode by episode ratings system, so in that way, much like the BBC... series are given the chance to play a long game and plan a story arc. Rather than the bullshit that happened previously with programs like Lost, where there was no plan, just constant mystery boxes designed to keep you watching, but that ultimately had no planning and ended with no satisfying resolution... even worse the success of Lost made JJ Abrahams some kind of hollywood superhero and allowed him to make movies that also do the exact same shit.
Netflix and binge watching has categorically damaged cinema in terms of people going to the Cinema, but the business model of cinema multiplexes has been uttershite for years anyway, so again, I`m not sure this is a bad thing.

I can`t say it has changed things for the worse, if anything it supports independent creators and most importantly singular visions/auteurs, which have basically demolished the creativity in hollywood as films are made by committee and now everything is a fucking superhero movie...

Monetarily it is definitely more commercial than Boileroom.

Overall I would rather watch something on netflix than watch some DJ turn a turntable platter and move some faders up and down, which is the most fucking boring shit in the world about dance music and just reinforces the unjustified egotism of the whole thing, surrounded by a bunch of desperate hipster fashion parade goons looking for content for their instagram photos.
Without stuff like boileroom would we have twats like SNTS? Wearing a full fucking pantomime costume with contact lenses. Basically techno`s Deadmaus.
Though occasionally I might listen to something on Boileroom in the background, it`s because I like the artist and not because I like boileroom.

[jordanneke]

Anybody here watched Top Boy? It's been on my list and now I see it's on the main page of the Netflix.

I mean the 2011 one ofc

Yeah, I really liked both of the series. And they are only 4 episodes, so it's not like it's a massive investment in time

[jordanneke]

Do you think Netflix is less commercial than Boiler Room ?

I think netflix casts a very wide net.
They finance and support some real amazing niche art, programming and journalism that just wouldn't get done otherwise.
And they also have a ton of mindless shit.

Has it taken a form of art and changed it for the worse by turning it into a spectacle detracting from the spirit of the art?
Now there are arguments about that. It definitely has fucked with the hollywood studio format, which I think has been a long time coming.
It has destroyed the episode by episode ratings system, so in that way, much like the BBC... series are given the chance to play a long game and plan a story arc. Rather than the bullshit that happened previously with programs like Lost, where there was no plan, just constant mystery boxes designed to keep you watching, but that ultimately had no planning and ended with no satisfying resolution... even worse the success of Lost made JJ Abrahams some kind of hollywood superhero and allowed him to make movies that also do the exact same shit.
Netflix and binge watching has categorically damaged cinema in terms of people going to the Cinema, but the business model of cinema multiplexes has been uttershite for years anyway, so again, I`m not sure this is a bad thing.

I can`t say it has changed things for the worse, if anything it supports independent creators and most importantly singular visions/auteurs, which have basically demolished the creativity in hollywood as films are made by committee and now everything is a fucking superhero movie...

Monetarily it is definitely more commercial than Boileroom.

Overall I would rather watch something on netflix than watch some DJ turn a turntable platter and move some faders up and down, which is the most fucking boring shit in the world about dance music and just reinforces the unjustified egotism of the whole thing, surrounded by a bunch of desperate hipster fashion parade goons looking for content for their instagram photos.
Without stuff like boileroom would we have twats like SNTS? Wearing a full fucking pantomime costume with contact lenses. Basically techno`s Deadmaus.
Though occasionally I might listen to something on Boileroom in the background, it`s because I like the artist and not because I like boileroom.

Is boiler room still a thing?

[Monreal]

Anybody here watched Top Boy? It's been on my list and now I see it's on the main page of the Netflix.

I mean the 2011 one ofc

Yeah, I really liked both of the series. And they are only 4 episodes, so it's not like it's a massive investment in time

Yeah that's why I prefer British series, quick and always on point.