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[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

These hidden Netflix codes unlock secret movies

There are thousands of Netflix titles tucked away in secret

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This is not 'unlocking' anything that I have not already been through and searched for myself. Nothing secret here.

 

[Orang Utan]

Absolutely agree and I’ve written to both of them complaining about it. Both ignored by the looks of it. There’s little more infuriating than having to flick through fucking hundreds of poorly organised pictures to find something you want to watch.

I’ve taken to searching 3rd parties instead (e.g. googling “best period dramas on Netflix/Amazon UK”) and checking out other lists like imdb but it only half works because they’re often out of date.

For two of the biggest streaming services in the world to have such shit UIs is bizarre and irritating in the extreme.

I don’t get what the problem is. Just type in what you want to see and if it’s there it will show up

 

[wiskey]

You aren't missing much.

As I suspected.

I've been bingeing Borgen over the last week, Netflix have dubbed the first two series into English (but not the 3rd yet). I'm not sure if when I watched it first time round on BBC the subtitles were better or if I just missed half the plot but I had them on with the English sound on Netflix and the subtitles were appalling, they didn't match the dubbed dialogue at all and missed out huge sections of what was going on as well as many of the nuances.

S3 is still not as good as S1 & 2.

 

[Reno]

As I suspected.

I've been bingeing Borgen over the last week, Netflix have dubbed the first two series into English (but not the 3rd yet). I'm not sure if when I watched it first time round on BBC the subtitles were better or if I just missed half the plot but I had them on with the English sound on Netflix and the subtitles were appalling, they didn't match the dubbed dialogue at all and missed out huge sections of what was going on as well as many of the nuances.

S3 is still not as good as S1 & 2.

If you can bear to watch Borgen dubbed, maybe American Horror Story is for you after all.

I watch a lot of English language content with a German subtitles with German friends who don't speak English well and I think it's fine. Subtitles have to be a pared down version of the spoken dialogue, because reading takes longer than hearing. I still rather take that over the disconnect I experience between the image and sound when I watch a dubbed film or series. Performances are almost always vastly inferior, the sound of the dialogue is flat because it's recorded in a studio rather than on location and lip movements never quite match. The dialogue for the dub has to adjust to the lip movements, so that too may not be an accurate translation of the original

 

[Part 2]

I watched all of series 2 of 60 Days In over the last few days. It's nonsense viewing but that's about all I seem to be able to manage at the moment aside from Youtube.

Interested to know if anyone else has watched it though because...

Spoiler

The wife of Zac from the first series goes in and he treats her like shit everytime she rings. He comes across as really abusive. She's an ex addict while he's an ex marine. I was hoping in the aftermath episode that she would've left him but he's made out to be great while she's over over emotional. The presenter is clearly on his side. They talk about how their marriage isn't great then she discloses she's pregnant. It's really horrible to watch.

 

[Orang Utan]

As I suspected.

I've been bingeing Borgen over the last week, Netflix have dubbed the first two series into English (but not the 3rd yet). I'm not sure if when I watched it first time round on BBC the subtitles were better or if I just missed half the plot but I had them on with the English sound on Netflix and the subtitles were appalling, they didn't match the dubbed dialogue at all and missed out huge sections of what was going on as well as many of the nuances.

S3 is still not as good as S1 & 2.

Watch in Danish instead!

 

[krtek a houby]

On ep. 2 they suddenly start playing the main theme tune to Cape Fear. That's when I realised there weren't just playing soundtrack 'inspired' by others but the actual music from some films. A tad bizarre...

It's either season 1 or 2 of American Horror Story, and the creepy music in some of the scenes was so familiar. Turns out it was from Coppola's Dracula film.

AHS is joyous and trashy. Can't wait to get into season 6. Might leave Ratchet until later.

 

[spanglechick]

I like AHS a lot - some seasons more than others. It’s a very particular style and taste, though. Ftr, my favourite is S3 (Coven).

 

[Duncan2]

Quite agree.I settled down to watch or rather rewatch Borgen and was rather taken aback with the dialogue dubbed into Cockney/Yorkshire and what have you.A large part of the attraction for me had been listening to the original Danish whilst relying on the English subs which were at least adequate.Indeed I watched so many episodes I started to imagine that I had learnt the language which I very much had not.Still good though.
( replying to OU )

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I don’t get what the problem is. Just type in what you want to see and if it’s there it will show up

What if you don't know what you want to see until it's suggested to you? I didn't know about that zombie film Reno mentioned until it was suggested to me by Netflix.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I don’t get what the problem is. Just type in what you want to see and if it’s there it will show up

Even if it's not there, it shows you similar films/TV to what you were looking for. You can also just type in a genre. . . not like Prime which is an utter mess, but you can at least search for the exact film you are looking for.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

What if you don't know what you want to see until it's suggested to you? I didn't know about that zombie film Reno mentioned until it was suggested to me by Netflix.

Well like in real life you have to wait for a suggestion. If you have not told netflix what you like, or watched other films of that type, how is the algorithm supposed to know? However if you do scroll down it does give a wide range of popular suggestions in broad lists of genres.

 

[platinumsage]

Absolutely agree and I’ve written to both of them complaining about it. Both ignored by the looks of it. There’s little more infuriating than having to flick through fucking hundreds of poorly organised pictures to find something you want to watch.

I’ve taken to searching 3rd parties instead (e.g. googling “best period dramas on Netflix/Amazon UK”) and checking out other lists like imdb but it only half works because they’re often out of date.

For two of the biggest streaming services in the world to have such shit UIs is bizarre and irritating in the extreme.

If it was easy you'd quickly realise what it did and didn’t have, would probably be disappointed, and may consider cancelling your subscription. However if you’re never quite sure you’ve seen all there is to see of interest, you are likely to keep your subscription going in the hope of randomly discovering good stuff, perhaps via their suggestion algorithms.

 

[Orang Utan]

What if you don't know what you want to see until it's suggested to you? I didn't know about that zombie film Reno mentioned until it was suggested to me by Netflix.

Reading about it elsewhere and personal recommendations

 

[wiskey]

If you can bear to watch Borgen dubbed, maybe American Horror Story is for you after all.

I didn't know it was dubbed! Which is why I ended up having the subtitles on as well, and then it became interesting comparing them.

The subtitles for E3 are of substantially better quality so I suspect Netflix has dumbed theirs down.

I quite liked Bent being a Geordie though

 

[spanglechick]

I’m 5 episodes deep in Ratched as we speak.

Stylistically it’s very deliberately paying homage / directly imitating Hitchcock’s technicolour melodramas. The near constant orchestra accompaniment, coloured lighting, raw Northern California coastline... somebody’s been overdosing on Vertigo.

And as well as looking fab, I kind of admire the stylistic conceit. In the novel, Ratchet represents the square past, contrasting with MacMurphy - a beatnik antihero... just as Milos Foreman’s film and it’s unadorned naturalism is stylistically so at odds with Hitchcock’s deliberate theatricality.

My main issue is with Ratched herself. While I love Sarah Paulson, and this has been lovingly created for her, she’s too old for the timeline. This series is set in 1947, and though the age of book-Ratched and the setting of the novel are both somewhat open to interpretation, for her to be 45 in the tv show, she’d be 61 in the year the novel is released. At any rate Sarah Paulson is already a couple of years older than Louise Fletcher was in the film, and film-Ratched is, I’d argue, canonical.

The tv show Ratched does come across as a younger woman. Uncertain of herself. Not yet any explanation of her unmarried/spinster life before she went to war as a nurse. If she had been in her late thirties or older it would surely be a big part of her backstory.

And it’s the backstory that I think is the mistake. This Ratched is traumatised from childhood, and has a casual relationship with covering up / facilitating murder. She’s a cold and scary woman, and so is the Ratched of cuckoos nest... but in a different way. That Ratched is terrifying precisely because she isn’t psychotic or unhinged. Her awfulness is in the mundane, officious, petty exertion of power that exists in middle managers everywhere. Ratched in Cuckoo’s Nest isn’t a psychopath or a criminal mastermind: she’s just a bully given unlimited rein to ruin people’s lives by the state. That’s the point. And this show misses that point by a mile.

 

[wiskey]

Ratched in Cuckoo’s Nest isn’t a psychopath or a criminal mastermind: she’s just a bully given unlimited rein to ruin people’s lives by the state. That’s the point. And this show misses that point by a mile.

This is the important bit I think, I liked that Ratched was a product of a system as much as anyone else at the hospital was, you sort of see flashes of her learning to be cruel (when Bucket puts the lesbian in the hot bath) and the animosity between her and Bucket has the potential to help drive her megalomaniac tendencies .... But the whole freak in the cellar seemed unnecessary.

 

[spanglechick]

I’ve finished it now. The timeline thing is cleared up a bit, in that the character is supposed to be mid thirties - making the whole thing more plausible.

On the whole it’s gorgeous nonsense with some excellent roles for middle-aged women. Ryan Murphy - like him or not - has made some of the best telly for post menopausal actors over the last decade or so.

 

[Reno]

I’ve finished it now. The timeline thing is cleared up a bit, in that the character is supposed to be mid thirties - making the whole thing more plausible.

On the whole it’s gorgeous nonsense with some excellent roles for middle-aged women. Ryan Murphy - like him or not - has made some of the best telly for post menopausal actors over the last decade or so.

The cast is what has me tempted, apart from Paulson especially Judy Davis and Amanda Plummer.

 

[spanglechick]

The cast is what has me tempted, apart from Paulson especially Judy Davis and Amanda Plummer.

Yup. Plummer is an absolute joy, and Davis is as brilliant as always. Cynthia Nixon is a highlight of nuanced characterisation - by far the best thing I’ve seen her do. I read a review that says her performance belongs in a better production and it’s not wrong - and Sharon Stone has a fabulous supporting role that is just drowning in exquisite work from the art department.

 

[spanglechick]

It might be my age, but I’ve added my personal extra rule to the Bechdel test: at least two women over 40 in main or significant supporting roles, who aren’t defined by grandmotherhood or old maid status.

 

[Aladdin]

It might be my age, but I’ve added my personal extra rule to the Bechdel test: at least two women over 40 in main or significant supporting roles, who aren’t defined by grandmotherhood or old maid status.

I'd suggest Rita to you if you've not seen it already.
Danish series. I just finished all 5 series and highly recommend it.

 

[Shellee]

A warning not a recommendation ......Penny Dreadful..City of Angels. I slogged through the whole season , and now it's been cancelled. Not a great loss, it would have been better as a gritty drama without the rather silly occult element, but still, no resolution to the cliff hanger series finale.

 

[rubbershoes]

#Alive, South Korean zombie film. Not as good as Train to Busan (not much is !), but a lot better than its recently released sequel, Peninsula and entertaining enough. Part of a group of zombie films about men trying to survive being stuck in an apartment block due to the outbreak of the zombie apocalypse. Like the German Rammbock and the French The Night Eats the World, these become urban Robinson Crusoe stories. Also works as a "it could always be worse" infection/lockdown movie.

Watched that last night. I was worried to begin with that the central charcater being such an idiot was going to ruin the film. But he, and it, grew on me.
As you say, it's no Train to Busan. Not even a rickety bicycle to Busan. And some scenes ( stairwell) seem straight out of World War Z.

But overall I enjoyed it

 

[Clair De Lune]

It was bloody amazing imo. Fantastic acting from the children up and so enthralling.

Absolutely..only finished it last night and appreciated the realness of the ending lots. Powerful.

 

[T & P]

Episode 2 of Ratched had left me a bit underwhelmed, but episode 3 is great. And the ambience music appeared to have been dialled down quite a bit, and it didn’t get in the way at all, for me at least.

 

[Artaxerxes]

These hidden Netflix codes unlock secret movies

There are thousands of Netflix titles tucked away in secret

www.independent.co.uk

This is repeat posted more often than Dads Army at Christmas.

 

[DaveCinzano]

This is repeat posted more often than Dads Army at Christmas.

I respectfully remind m'lud of my earlier submission on this

Netflix recommendations

Danger Close. Hardcore Australian Vietnam flick about the battle of Long Tan. Superbly shot, great battle scenes and effects. Excellent if you like this sort of thing.

www.urban75.net

 

[Aladdin]

I'm really really enjoying Cobra Kai. Some of it is hilarious, it's great nostalgia, has a brilliant 80s metal soundtrack and it's got a superb pace to it that means I've zipped through both series happily letting Netflix chuck episodes at me. Great stuff. Bring on series 3.

Just finished seasom 1 of Cobra Kai.
Loved it

 

[quimcunx]

As I suspected.

I've been bingeing Borgen over the last week, Netflix have dubbed the first two series into English (but not the 3rd yet). I'm not sure if when I watched it first time round on BBC the subtitles were better or if I just missed half the plot but I had them on with the English sound on Netflix and the subtitles were appalling, they didn't match the dubbed dialogue at all and missed out huge sections of what was going on as well as many of the nuances.

S3 is still not as good as S1 & 2.

I watch all tv with subtitles these days and tried to watch a dubbed version of that French series people were raving about with subtitles. It was too infuriating so I switched to French with english subtitles.