Netflix recommendations

[danny la rouge]

I find these helpful. If you agree with the reviews of the ones you have watched already. Its worth sticking with.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Jammer's Reviews

[DS9] Jammer's Review: "Move Along Home" Move Along Home is the board game one I referred to. I think this review is too generous.

(I'm going to stick with DS9, though. I intend to watch all available Star Trek. Until last year I only allowed TOS as real Star Trek. When TNG came out I refused to watch it. And I stuck to that until last year. Now I need to watch them all in order before I start on Discovery).


*ETA. I don't necessarily think of "dated" as a negative.

 

[B.I.G]

[DS9] Jammer's Review: "Move Along Home" Move Along Home is the board game one I referred to. I think this review is too generous.

(I'm going to stick with DS9, though. I intend to watch all available Star Trek. Until last year I only allowed TOS as real Star Trek. When TNG came out I refused to watch it. And I stuck to that until last year. Now I need to watch them all in order before I start on Discovery).


*ETA. I don't necessarily think of "dated" as a negative.

Please spare yourself Voyager. Enterprise grew on me in the end.

 

[Corax]

Please spare yourself Voyager. Enterprise grew on me in the end.

I know it's reviled, but I didn't mind Voyager. The concept alone was very appealing IMO. It's naff, yeah, but the episodes featuring Paris especially were quite enjoyable I thought.

Discovery just spanks everything that came before it out of the park though IMO.

 

[B.I.G]

I know it's reviled, but I didn't mind Voyager. The concept alone was very appealing IMO. It's naff, yeah, but the episodes featuring Paris especially were quite enjoyable I thought.

Discovery just spanks everything that came before it out of the park though IMO.

Voyager should have never toned down its original concept.

Also seven of nine was rubbish.

 

[strung out]

Discovery just spanks everything that came before it out of the park though IMO.

Discovery is fine, it's just not Star Trek (and also nowhere near as good as DS9)

 

[Corax]

Also seven of nine was rubbish.

Depends.

As a character generated from a focus group question:

"What is the ideal wank fantasy of a socially awkward 14 year old trekkie?"

I'd say she pretty much nailed it.

 

[DotCommunist]

neelix and the holodeck can fuck off.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Continuing my Flemish binge...Hotel Beau Sejour is pretty good. Bit of a daft, nonsensical and unexplained premise but a good watch, if a little drawn out. I did not see the solution coming at all.

 

[DotCommunist]

[DS9] Jammer's Review: "Move Along Home" Move Along Home is the board game one I referred to. I think this review is too generous.

(I'm going to stick with DS9, though. I intend to watch all available Star Trek. Until last year I only allowed TOS as real Star Trek. When TNG came out I refused to watch it. And I stuck to that until last year. Now I need to watch them all in order before I start on Discovery).


*ETA. I don't necessarily think of "dated" as a negative.

you'll notew that TNG and DS9 have weak first seasons. ITs generally acknowledged that DS9 hits its stride when sisko goes bald

 

[danny la rouge]

you'll notew that TNG and DS9 have weak first seasons. ITs generally acknowledged that DS9 hits its stride when sisko goes bald

OK, beard for Riker. No hair for Sisko. Got it. (Also, see new thread).

 

[Badgers]

Put the Wild Wild Country on earlier. Looks great but have parked it for future watching as want something light hearted for a Sunday.

 

[campanula]

That is strong stuff campanula. I still know a little bunch of ex/ recovering sanyasins too and feel a bit scared to watch this in case I get angry like you. I was really young when I met them, and my first ‘proper’ boyfriend (still friends now) had been brought up in the cult, thanks to his mum.

Yep, I also still know many of them and I guess that I found so much of it to be despicable at the time that this faintly whitewashed doc has just made me enraged all over. I could ramble on at tedious length but yep, I cannot bring myself to hate the deluded (much) but the fucking hierarchy of greed and contempt -- Bagwhan was a filthy fucking charlatan and his bunch of advisors were criminal. Not watching any more.

 

[trabuquera]

Yep, I also still know many of them and I guess that I found so much of it to be despicable at the time that this faintly whitewashed doc has just made me enraged all over. I could ramble on at tedious length but yep, I cannot bring myself to hate the deluded (much) but the fucking hierarchy of greed and contempt -- Bagwhan was a filthy fucking charlatan and his bunch of advisors were criminal. Not watching any more.

I can understand not wanting to be enraged by it so not watching, and I did think the doc makers were way too soft in many ways, but it's also a classic example of the "give them enough rope and they'll hang themselves" technique of filmmaking. The disgraceful use and abuse of the homeless to bolster rajneeshpuram voter rolls and the blithe refusal of some of the bigwigs to take any responsibility at all for their loopy murder plans does come through very very strongly. As for Sheela now working with "elderly dements" (her words not mine) - makes the blood run cold.

 

[Jon-of-arc]

Just got round to the first episode of Glow. Best pilot I've seen in a while.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Watching the first episode of The Toys That Made Us - about the original Kenner Star Wars toys. Awesome

 

[Corax]

Mindhunter. I genuinely thought that Manhunt: Unabomber was a spinoff for most of the time I was watching it.

Yeah that.

Just finished Mindhunter.

Quality Fincher. My youngest daughter (22) is a bit obsessed with serial killers, starting to see the fascination myself now. That was pretty compelling. I was a bit meh about the protagonist's social lives but it expanded well and kept within the dialogue.

Apparently it was filmed with a specific camera to give it its look.

Just started Mindhunter and I'm also dead impressed with it so far.



Segues quite nicely from just having finished The Alienist

 

[Threshers_Flail]

I watched I Called Him Morgan last night, a doc about the life and murder of Jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan, was very good.

I take it you've seen it danny la rouge ?

 

[sojourner]

DS9 is utter fucking WANK, danny la rouge . I struggled on for ages but had to give it up in the end. Psyching yourself up to watch something is not what I call good tv!

 

[danny la rouge]

I watched I Called Him Morgan last night, a doc about the life and murder of Jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan, was very good.

I take it you've seen it danny la rouge ?

Yes. It's very moving. Highly recommend.

 

[sojourner]

Finished 'Top of the Lake' - binged it. It's really not a comfortable watch.

Fucking harrowing is how I'd describe it. We finished the last four episodes last night.

If you're gonna watch it, make sure you're with someone nice, and you're emotionally balanced.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Netflix have added the 1965 film The Collector in which a creepy Terence Stamp kidnaps Samantha Eggar and keeps her captive in his house in the hope he can 'make her' fall in love with him....

It's a tense and weird watch....

 

[1927]

Has anyone else watched Operation Odessa a true crime documentary about a group of 'businessmen" who try to buy a submarine for the Cali drug cartel!

 

[Spymaster]

Has anyone else watched Operation Odessa a true crime documentary about a group of 'businessmen" who try to buy a submarine for the Cali drug cartel!

That looks good. Cheers.

 

[1927]

That looks good. Cheers.

Its excellent, very light, almost humourous documentary, you cant help but love these guys!

 

[Kaka Tim]

Just got round to the first episode of Glow. Best pilot I've seen in a while.

Glow is a lot of fun. Excellent characters, great writing and lots of energy.

 

[Jon-of-arc]

Glow is a lot of fun. Excellent characters, great writing and lots of energy.

Yeah, I'm just at the bit where they're starting to develop the b-movie style wrestling plots. Very funny. The director guy's rationale/justification for "welfare queen" was

I also started On My Block the other day. A kind of coming of age tale set amongst working class black and latino teens. 2 episodes in, and definitely a cut above the average teen drama. Sweet and funny enough to entertain, but also gritty and real enough to provoke thought. Got some excellent reviews, but I never noticed any fanfare when it dropped last month.

 

[DexterTCN]

The Villainess is there now.

A South Korean action film in split timelines that's twisty-turny and a bit confusing overall.

But it has some the highest quality, cutting edge action sequences I've ever seen...the intro and the last 17 or so minutes are a joy.

4 minutes standing ovation at Cannes.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Just watched 3 episodes of Finnish detective series Bordertown. It's not the greatest thing I've ever seen but it's different and it's fascinating listening to Finnish. A very odd language. Fans of Scandi-noir will like it for it's washed out colours and sparseness.

 

[Vintage Paw]

I seem to have binged the entirety of Nailed It last night. It's terrible and compelling. Totally low budget baking show, where 3 contestants are shown some professional cakes and have to recreate them, but they are all shit bakers. In feel it's like Can't Cook Won't Cook but without an audience and less slick if that's even possible. All the budget went on the 10k prize the winner gets at the end of each episode.

I used to be confused by people who say they pop something on the telly in the background while they get on with other stuff but Nailed It nailed it.

 

[Rosemary Jest]

Anvil: The Story of Anvil is on Netflix. It's a great documentary, 'rockumentary' if you will, about the Canadian heavy metal band. I'd never heard of them before seeing it and you don't need to like heavy metal to enjoy the film.

It's like a real life Spinal Tap and is heartwarming and funny at the same time.

Saw it at the Cornerhouse in Manchester around 10 years ago and the band were there to play a few songs, seemed like really nice people.

Worth a watch, think it's got 98% on rotten tomatoes as well.