Netflix recommendations

[Reno]

Okay, so it sounds as if I missed or didn’t register some stuff (a common enough occurrence for me). For instance, was it explained or suggested why some people

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were not driven to suicide when looking at the ‘things’?

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People who had some sort of pre-existing mental illness weren’t driven to suicide. We find out because the first people they encounter who are like that, all had been institutionalised. They already were insane and had a coping mechanism which prevented them from topping themselves. Instead it turned them into deciples or servants of the creatures.

 

[DexterTCN]

It also

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didn't show the baddy

which is a nice touch

 

[miss direct]

I don't watch Black Mirror so this has passed me by, but is this a show where you make choices that change the story??

Yes, that's exactly the premise of the new episode.

 

[Orang Utan]

Don't bother with Bandersnatch. It's rubbish.

 

[dervish]

I quite enjoyed Bandersnatch, at the start I was definitely underwhelmed but it did get better and I think I probably chose most of the paths as I seemed to get stuck in a loop for a while, found two endings, maybe three, but it's not really clear when it jumps back into the story when you die. Will probably have another go.

 

[Orang Utan]

Yeah, i failed to follow the plot to be honest.
It's no Warlock Of Firetop Mountain

 

[Reno]

Yeah, i failed to follow the plot to be honest.
It's Warlock Of Firetop Mountain

Me neither. I was wondering whether it was my fault for choosing the least entertaining path or whether the episode was just rubbish.

 

[Orang Utan]

it didn't finish properly, or rather it kept going back to other paths, which i wasn't interested in. it's all very well holding fingers in different pages of a book to follow different paths, but it's too tedious to do so for something that should only last an hour. there seemed to be five hours worth of stuff to get through if you watched it all - fuck that

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Well cos it was first up on the new releases and..it's Xmas, so lots of people sat about with time to watch something, sorta thing!

I also watched the whole series of Murder Mountain (which WAS interesting - I was entirely unaware of the 'Emerald Triangle' but I Google earthed the fuck out of the place after and...yep, still going strong! ) and have just started on series 3 of Wanted.

Very glad to hear there's more Ozark coming.

I've just started Murder Mountain. Absolutely fascinating stuff!! I had no idea about this area either.

ETA: the irony does seem to be lost on some of the original growers that they say they went to live there to get away from the terrible commercial world but then embraced exactly that with both hands when the opportunity to sell weed presented itself.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I just watched Ghost Stories and thought it was genuinely brilliant - cannot recommend highly enough.

Properly creepy and scary - I gasped out loud at least twice - and superb performances from Paul Whitehouse, Martin Freemen and Alex Lawther (who I remember from the Shut Up and Dance episode of Black Mirror - he's one to watch I feel).

 

[T & P]

Brand new series of A Series of Unfortunate Events is available now

 

[Mab]

Actually....that might be one of the things that annoyed me from the start.

"I wonder why it's called Birdbox?"

Oh look....she's putting some birds in a box...I wonder if that will have some sort of mahoosive significance later on? Bah.

Usually stay away from American films but it was canary in a coal mine kinda lame. Would rather see is it The Quit? Though may be too scary for me

 

[Mab]

I just watched Ghost Stories and thought it was genuinely brilliant - cannot recommend highly enough.

Properly creepy and scary - I gasped out loud at least twice - and superb performances from Paul Whitehouse, Martin Freemen and Alex Lawther (who I remember from the Shut Up and Dance episode of Black Mirror - he's one to watch I feel).

I want to watch it too, but is it really really scary. I’m serial I don’t do well with too scary. There’s no knives going into bodies and stuff? I appreciate good an spookie like The Green Man and The Others but can’t take guts and gratuitous inerads ya know what I mean. Thanks

 

[miss direct]

Watched Birdbox last night. A few comments:

Why do films and series show violence so graphically these days? I'm sure it never used to be like this. I'm not a wimp but don't really need to see people dying or being killed in HD.

I wanted to know more about the blind people.

 

[krtek a houby]

Watched Birdbox last night. A few comments:

Why do films and series show violence so graphically these days? I'm sure it never used to be like this. I'm not a wimp but don't really need to see people dying or being killed in HD.

I wanted to know more about the blind people.

Not sure about the film in question but violence has been graphic for years, iirc. Plenty of films in the late 60s - 70s were quite visceral. And later, when Goodfellas came out, I remember several people walking out due to the violence. I'm not a wimp either but there were scenes in Scorsese's follow up Casino that were really unpleasant.

I reckon pre-Hayes Code, there were probably scenes of graphic violence that caused a stir back in the day. Reno would know better than I on this...

 

[Reno]

Watched Birdbox last night. A few comments:

Why do films and series show violence so graphically these days? I'm sure it never used to be like this. I'm not a wimp but don't really need to see people dying or being killed in HD.

I wanted to know more about the blind people.

If anything, most horror films are less violent now than they were in the 70s and 80s, because many of them try to get a PG-13 rating to reach a wider audience. I didn’t find Bird Box excessively violent, but then I do watch a lot of horror.

There is a common misperception about HD showing you more than you’ve ever seen before. Conventional 35mm film, which is what almost every film since the 1910s got shot on, has higher definition than the HD you get on Netflix. The only thing HD does is to give you an image which is truer to what you’d see at the cinema. As our TV sets are getting larger, Standard Definition (non-HD TV, DVDs) has started to look ropey.

Did we really need to know more about the blind people ?

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Considering the premise it’s obvious why in this new world where being able to see will kill you, they’d be at an advantage. All we need to know is that Sandy and kids will be safer with them.

 

[miss direct]

If anything, most horror films are less violent now than they were in the 70s and 80s, because many of them try to get a PG-13 rating to reach a wider audience. I didn’t find Bird Box excessively violent, but then I do watch a lot of horror.

There is a common misperception about HD showing you more than you’ve ever seen before. Conventional 35mm film, which is what almost every film since the 1910s got shot on, has higher definition than the HD you get on Netflix. The only thing HD does is to give you an image which is truer to what you’d see at the cinema. As our TV sets are getting larger, Standard Definition (non-HD TV, DVDs) has started to look ropey.

Did we really need to know more about the blind people ?

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Considering the premise it’s obvious why in this new world where being able to see will kill you, they’d be at an advantage. All we need to know is that Sandy and kids will be safer with them.

I suppose I used to watch a lot of horror films, which for the most part didn't show everything, just tried to be spooky with music and tension.

Was only half serious about the HD. I do have a much larger TV than I ever did growing up though.

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I thought the idea of a world inhabited by blind people was more interesting than a monster killing people who sees it.

 

[Reno]

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I thought the idea of a world inhabited by blind people was more interesting than a monster killing people who sees it.

That's already been done and proved to be rather dull:

Blindness (2008 film) - Wikipedia

Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham (adapted three times, one film, two TV series) also deals with a post apocalyptic world where most people are blind, but that has the reverse premise of Bird Box. The blind people are in danger from monsters because they can't see.

 

[marshall]

Another vote for Murder Mountain. I was already aware of Humboldt County, but didn't realise just how remote, lawless and, at one point, idyllic it was, fascinating, terrifying too, but love the fact that there are still communities out there who try and go their own way.

Liked the use of the word 'trimmigants' too. Although you'd have to be a little nuts to go up there looking for a job at harvest time.

 

[Chilli.s]

I did enjoy The Ballad of Buster Scruggs although, and as a bonus, a second viewing will be required.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I want to watch it too, but is it really really scary. I’m serial I don’t do well with too scary. There’s no knives going into bodies and stuff? I appreciate good an spookie like The Green Man and The Others but can’t take guts and gratuitous inerads ya know what I mean. Thanks

No guts or gratuitous innards. No knives, axes or chainsaws. It's not scary like that. It's old fashioned ghost story spooky. But like REALLY spooky! It's very creative with music and the way it's shot and edited and the really great performances create the scariness rather than lots of blood.

I haven't been so unsettled by a bit of movement under a sheet for a very long time

 

[chandlerp]

I saw it when it was a play. Wasn't impressed but thought at the time it would have been better as a film. I'll give it a look

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I saw it when it was a play. Wasn't impressed but thought at the time it would have been better as a film. I'll give it a look

I didn't know it was a play until Reno mentioned it. I imagine the film will be a little bit spoilt for you as you will know how it ends.

 

[Reno]

I didn't know it was a play until Reno mentioned it. I imagine the film will be a little bit spoilt for you as you will know how it ends.

I didn’t remember much of the play. I stupidly had three pints before the theatre. As soon as the play started I urgently had to go for a piss but the rows were so narrow, I couldn’t get out. So I mostly sat there trying not to wee myself.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I didn’t remember much of the play. I stupidly had three pints before the theatre. As soon as the play started I urgently had to go for a piss but the rows were so narrow, I couldn’t get out. So I mostly sat there trying not to wee myself.

We've all been there

Worst one for me is after I'd queued for hours to get a ticket to see one of my idols, John Waters, being interviewed at the South Bank and then drank 3 pints before the show. I was so dying for a pee all the way through that I couldn't concentrate at all and couldn't remember a thing about it afterwards.

 

[Orang Utan]

I remember having five pints of Guinness on a sixth form field trip to the theatre to watch Hamlet in Newcastle. Teachers made the mistake of letting us roam free for a couple of hours beforehand. Cue a dozen or so very uncomfortable teenagers squirming in their seats, though that would probably have happened anyway cos Shakespeare

 

[DaveCinzano]

I remember having five pints of Guinness on a sixth form field trip to the theatre to watch Hamlet in Newcastle.

 

[Orang Utan]

how dare you! I was telling the truth - I doubt he was!

 

[xsunnysuex]

Wanted to watch A Quiet Place. It showed up in the search. But it wasn't there. So, watch Hush instead. Really enjoyed it.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Having read the Grappler Baki manga I decided to check out the anime (just called Baki) which is on Netflix at the moment. Don't bother, it's terrible. The manga is massively OTT and simultaneously hugely geeky with its obsession with martial arts styles, but the anime just tries to replicate the OTT nature and ends up boring you (I literally fell asleep during one episode). Also the art is awful.