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Amazon Prime streaming video recommendations thread

Spymaster said:
Yes, Amazon has far more content than Netflix, although you do have to pay extra for a lot of it.
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People get confused between Amazon Prime Video and Amazon.

They are still at heart an online shop, they sell digital content. Prime Video is their equivalent of Netflix, anything else is just digital shopping.
 
Amazon Prime, which is the equivalent of Netflix, has far less content than Netflix and they produce less original programming.
 
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Just watching Honey Boy while doing a bit of guitar fixing' upin'.

It perhaps should be called "This is my excuse" by Shia LaBeouf.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Just watching Honey Boy while doing a bit of guitar fixing' upin'.

It perhaps should be called "This is my excuse" by Shia LaBeouf.
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Finished. It's 'ok' for an afternoons film, but without the fact that it was based on LaBeouf it would be a lot less interesting. . . well not interesting at all. Actually I probably didn't really like it.


Just seen that the girl was FKA Twiggs or whatever she is called.
 
I use Justwatch to search the prime catalogue. It's much easier. Or go to the website to search and add shit to my list from there as the search is a bit better (but a huge drag)
 
Reno said:
Amazon Prime, which is the equivalent of Netflix, has far less content than Netflix and they produce less original programming.
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Have to say I find a lot of what Netflix produce is utter cack. I've lost count of the amount of series I've had to abandon half way though because they're so shit. The BBC iPlayer has a vastly better 'keeper' rate and I find Prime somewhere between the two
 
editor said:
Have to say I find a lot of what Netflix produce is utter cack. I've lost count of the amount of series I've had to abandon half way though because they're so shit. The BBC iPlayer has a vastly better 'keeper' rate and I find Prime somewhere between the two
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Yeah, most of the Netflix originals are terrible, unless they are adapted from something else (Like Hilda, which is great).
I quite like the Boys on prime and Undone, which were prime originals, but I can't remember any others . . .
 
editor said:
Have to say I find a lot of what Netflix produce is utter cack. I've lost count of the amount of series I've had to abandon half way though because they're so shit. The BBC iPlayer has a vastly better 'keeper' rate and I find Prime somewhere between the two
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90% of anything is cack but I find a lot more on Netflix than on Amazon I like. BBC iPlayer is out as I don't live in the UK anymore and I don't enjoy watching stuff on my PC. I'm probably more inclined to go for programmes which are well regarded than for subject matter. I love series about space travel but as soon as it dropped, reactions to Away indicated that it wasn't very good. I read all the complaints you had about Away in reviews and thought I probably bother. And another serial killer show may not sound that original but the well regarded Manhunter turned out to be a lot more than that. Dark alone made Netflix worth it for me, up there in my top ten best shows ever made.
 
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ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
I've added it to the watch list but the write up blurb makes it sound super dull.
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No, it's brilliant, very dark in tone - one of the best shows of the past few years IMO. The episodes are short too, so you shouldn't get bored. The final episode contains one of the most astonishing scenes I've ever seen in a TV show.

Also, it's a standalone series. Not watched the others. (Should I?)
 
Johnny Vodka said:
No, it's brilliant, very dark in tone - one of the best shows of the past few years IMO. The episodes are short too, so you shouldn't get bored. The final episode contains one of the most astonishing scenes I've ever seen in a TV show.

Also, it's a standalone series. Not watched the others. (Should I?)
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Ok I guess I'll have to have a go then. . . .and I do like short episodes. Even something that is 25 minutes seems short these days. The family had been watching 'crashlanding on you' on Netflix and we only just noticed some episodes are over an hour and a half long!!!
 
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Reno said:
90% of anything is cack but I find a lot more on Netflix than on Amazon I like. BBC iPlayer is out as I don't live in the UK anymore and I don't enjoy watching stuff on my PC. I'm probably more inclined to go for programmes which are well regarded than for subject matter. I love series about space travel but as soon as it dropped, reactions to Away indicated that it wasn't very good. I read all the complaints you had about Away in reviews and thought I probably bother. And another serial killer show may not sound that original but the well regarded Manhunter turned out to be a lot more than that. Dark alone made Netflix worth it for me, up there in my top ten best shows ever made.
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Did you get round to watching Godless (think that was Netflix)? Well worth seeing.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Oh, I didn't get past episode one. Was that Netflix or Prime? I think I watched it on channel 4 or something.
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Neither, if we're talking about original productions. Prime had the UK market for airing it, but it was a USA Network production.

I'm always astonished at how no-one complains that "Netflix Original" gets stamped on anything and everything, whether they had anything to do with the production or not. At least there's a distinction between "Amazon Exclusive" and "Amazon Original", whereas Netflix just stamps Original on both.
 
Chz said:
Neither, if we're talking about original productions. Prime had the UK market for airing it, but it was a USA Network production.

I'm always astonished at how no-one complains that "Netflix Original" gets stamped on anything and everything, whether they had anything to do with the production or not. At least there's a distinction between "Amazon Exclusive" and "Amazon Original", whereas Netflix just stamps Original on both.
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Maybe people have more serious things to worry about. :p
 
Absolutely! If I don't get apoplectic about stuff like this, I may have to start worrying about serious things. What's the fun in that?
 
Already commented on the dedicated thread, but today’s episode of The Boys should restore your faith in the series if you were feeling S2 wasn’t up to scratch. Bloody fantastic and back to its best :)
 
T & P said:
Already commented on the dedicated thread, but today’s episode of The Boys should restore your faith in the series if you were feeling S2 wasn’t up to scratch. Bloody fantastic and back to its best :)
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It was good. As usual lots of downtime when you can do the dishes or in my case sewing my daughter uniform, but plenty of 'only watching the screen' moments. I assume Back Noir is not the same Black Noir as in the comic books. . . . it's deviated enough for that to almost certainly not be the case.
 
Star Crash!
Possibly the greatest science fiction film ever made, and . . . . . Hasslehoff!

Watching now. I don't think I have ever had so much fun. So utterly insane, it's like a parody of itself.
I did watch it about twenty years ago and just dismissed it, but, maybe its the drink talking, but it's so magnificent. Watch with friends and shots.
 
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