Netflix recommendations
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I've seen this in the cinema! I thought it was terrible but went entertaining. I wished I'd been stoned.Colossal is now on netflix
Great little (Canadian?) film about Anne Hathaway, bit of an alky, who somehow develops a relationship with a kaiju. Funny, dark and original. Dan Stevens from Legion as well.
Might give this a go.
Boudicca
Seaside Queen
Definitely. I watched every episode on Netflix, so hopefully they are still there.
The Figurine. Nigerian supernatural thriller about friends who find a figurine that gives good luck for 7 years and then bad luck. I actually really enjoyed it. I didn't follow all the twists and it's no arthouse gem but it's pretty good.
Dallas Buyer Club is fantastic.
Dallas Buyer Club is fantastic.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Is Derry Girls any good? they keep suggesting it to me
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Maybe 'BRILLIANT!' sums it up?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
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Watched it last night. I really can’t get the massively negative reviews. It’s not great and there are plot holes but I would describe it as watchable at the least and about 6/10.
The 20% approval rating in Rotten Tomatoes seems inexplicable tbh. Perhaps the critics took issue with the film’s visuals being at times a shameless lift from Blade Runner. But if I was asked whether this film is worth watching if there is nothing that appeals of an evening, I’d say yes. I quite liked it in fact.
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HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
I don’t want to start up an STV recommendations thread (unless anyone is really up for it? 
) but I’ve been rewatching Hamish MacBeth and didn’t expect it to be as good as it is, fucking hilarious. Big Jeordie eaten by lobsters and then redistributed to the locals, murderer foiled by Jeordie’s naff golfing jumper.
“We found bits of grey and lemon wool”
“So they’ve been eating big Jeordie?”
“Seems like it”
“It’s a wonder they didnae choke!”
The accents are cringeworthy at times, I’m sure they mostly sound more Inverness than Skye on the west coast now, from what I could hear last time I was there. But the tension between Hamish and those twats from Inverness is great, where else are you going to see Inverness being portrayed as a force that’s crushing the wee man eh, the London of the Highlands.
And stuff like everyone getting their car taxed when the unmarked polis turned up just so true! on the outer isles of Orkney, everyone drives untaxed uninsured unroadworthy so same deal out there I bet. The eccentric nature of the characters- brilliantly portrayed, as we say in Orkney you could write a book and no one would believe it.
The theme tune which i’d forgotten but soon remembered is great too, I don’t often like a bagpipe but they are very rousing in it, on a par with King Creosotes “Melin Wynt” or Belle and Sebastian’s “Sleep the Clock Around”
And TV John MacIver, hero!
All in all best decision I’ve made all weekend to resurrect it. I’ve not laughed this much in weeks. I might do Take The High Road next!
Yep.... don’t worry, I’ll clear off now.
) but I’ve been rewatching Hamish MacBeth and didn’t expect it to be as good as it is, fucking hilarious. Big Jeordie eaten by lobsters and then redistributed to the locals, murderer foiled by Jeordie’s naff golfing jumper.“We found bits of grey and lemon wool”
“So they’ve been eating big Jeordie?”
“Seems like it”
“It’s a wonder they didnae choke!”
The accents are cringeworthy at times, I’m sure they mostly sound more Inverness than Skye on the west coast now, from what I could hear last time I was there. But the tension between Hamish and those twats from Inverness is great, where else are you going to see Inverness being portrayed as a force that’s crushing the wee man eh, the London of the Highlands.
And stuff like everyone getting their car taxed when the unmarked polis turned up just so true! on the outer isles of Orkney, everyone drives untaxed uninsured unroadworthy so same deal out there I bet. The eccentric nature of the characters- brilliantly portrayed, as we say in Orkney you could write a book and no one would believe it.
The theme tune which i’d forgotten but soon remembered is great too, I don’t often like a bagpipe but they are very rousing in it, on a par with King Creosotes “Melin Wynt” or Belle and Sebastian’s “Sleep the Clock Around”
And TV John MacIver, hero!
All in all best decision I’ve made all weekend to resurrect it. I’ve not laughed this much in weeks. I might do Take The High Road next!
Yep.... don’t worry, I’ll clear off now.
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
I’m sorry but I’m away again
“He could have told the parents where the boy wis”
“Nah, he couldn’t. He left something in his jaekit. Something that could have identified him. A bloody laminated bingo card!”
LOLOLOLOL
“He could have told the parents where the boy wis”
“Nah, he couldn’t. He left something in his jaekit. Something that could have identified him. A bloody laminated bingo card!”
LOLOLOLOL
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I’m half way through Raising Dion, a sci-fi series.
It’s decent enough. It feels weird sometimes as the show doesn’t seem to work out whether it wants to be a light sci-fi thriller entertainment or a drama about loss and family relationships. It is certainly not a children’s show despite the first episode feeling like one.
It’s decent enough. It feels weird sometimes as the show doesn’t seem to work out whether it wants to be a light sci-fi thriller entertainment or a drama about loss and family relationships. It is certainly not a children’s show despite the first episode feeling like one.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Here is another netflix film I recommend . . . You don't watch.
Fractured. Apparently number 2 in the UK today!
More homemade netflix 'ooh, what's really happening' bollocks. With a shite vehicle that either decides all you see is true, or just whatever bullshit they show at the end that is the 'real' film, but you never saw at all (not even in a clever way, it simply happened completely differently).
Could see they were going to pull that crap a mile off, so looked for some 'missing' records on the shelf and cleared up the front room while watching it shoot out it's boring by the numbers netflix turd cannon.
Fractured. Apparently number 2 in the UK today!
More homemade netflix 'ooh, what's really happening' bollocks. With a shite vehicle that either decides all you see is true, or just whatever bullshit they show at the end that is the 'real' film, but you never saw at all (not even in a clever way, it simply happened completely differently).
Could see they were going to pull that crap a mile off, so looked for some 'missing' records on the shelf and cleared up the front room while watching it shoot out it's boring by the numbers netflix turd cannon.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
The grand Budapest hotel, yes excellent. Also on netflix.
Am I the only person who didn't like in Bruges? I saw it when it came out and don't remember much beyond the conclusion and the memory of being bored by it. Maybe it's worth another shot, I was probably heavily into the drink at the time and maybe in the wrong mindset.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I didn't think much of it either. Lads film.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Oh then maybe not. I kind of thought that. Bit gangster / hitman too, and I don't really enjoy gangster films.
MrCurry
right after this urgent rest
Loved this. It challenged my pre-conceptions of who Bill Gates is. I came away from it pretty impressed by him, which is probably the aim!
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I quite enjoyed the fyre festival documentary film. I mean it just went on and on with more of the same, but somehow sustained.
I think it did try to paint the people who bought tickets as victims, which they should have been, (despite all the ones I saw being stuck up, egotistical, rich self centered twats), but as soon as they got to the shitty camp they admitted to destroying other tents around each others tents just so they wouldn't have neighbors!!! There were not enough tents in the first place, and they knew this, but still fucked it up for other people. They even admitted it on camera like it was the right thing to do because the accommodation wasn't as private as they had been led to believe. No empathy with their fellow stuck up rich bellend peers.
I think it did try to paint the people who bought tickets as victims, which they should have been, (despite all the ones I saw being stuck up, egotistical, rich self centered twats), but as soon as they got to the shitty camp they admitted to destroying other tents around each others tents just so they wouldn't have neighbors!!! There were not enough tents in the first place, and they knew this, but still fucked it up for other people. They even admitted it on camera like it was the right thing to do because the accommodation wasn't as private as they had been led to believe. No empathy with their fellow stuck up rich bellend peers.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Totally worth a revisit.
Rosemary Jest
Wrong and Unstable
The Spy is pretty decent, with Sacha Baron Cohen playing the lead, a true story too, by all accounts.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Seven psychopaths was good and not quite what I expected. Would have like it to have been even less of what I expected though.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Colossal is now on netflix
Great little (Canadian?) film about Anne Hathaway, bit of an alky, who somehow develops a relationship with a kaiju. Funny, dark and original. Dan Stevens from Legion as well.
I liked this mostly for its portrayal of the 'entitled nice guy' archetype.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
The best Christopher Walken performance in a long while there. Tom Waits good value as always.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
It is him is it? I keep seeing the trailer and thinking it looks like him.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
He does pretty well, tbf. I avoided the show for quite a while because he was in it. It’s definitely worth a view although anyone with even a passing interest in spies and espionage will know about Eli Cohen and how it ends.
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For anyone looking for light yet good quality entertainment I thoroughly recommend Living with Yourself. It’s a dystopian offbeat comedy mini series starring Paul Rudd.
Short and sweet and an Interesting premise. Well received by both critics and public as well...
Living With Yourself
ETA: Half way in and it’s actually a dark comedy-drama rather a comedy- for those who’ve read the synopsis and thought it was
Short and sweet and an Interesting premise. Well received by both critics and public as well...
Living With Yourself
ETA: Half way in and it’s actually a dark comedy-drama rather a comedy- for those who’ve read the synopsis and thought it was
a goofy sit-com remake of Freaky Friday
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