Netflix Recommendations Thread • Page 309
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MrFlay 4,670 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI can’t find Post deleted on Netflix, which category is it in? -
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simpleexplodingmaybe 19,992 posts
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Registered 6 years agoAfter a long trip to A&E with Baby Maybe today Sweet Tooth is doing things to me -
simpleexplodingmaybe 19,992 posts
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Registered 6 years agoI also really want to listen to Decemberists and Bright Eyes and Neutral Milk Hotel and the first Arcade Fire album now -
Daz190uk 463 posts
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Registered 10 years agoJoeBlade wrote:
I really liked it, I an a bit of a suckered for an old guard making way of the new type story though. Must be getting old myself.
nickthegun wrote:
I'm watching this at the moment and boy does it lose momentum. The fight with Blackstar (not a spoiler, it literally happens within the first 5 minutes) was amazing but then it's all a sleep-inducing origin story.
Jupiter’s Legacy has been canned, apparently. They really are going to have to pull their fingers out of their arses if they want to hang with Marvel TV.
In a superhero series I want to see superheroes kick some arse, damned.
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nickthegun 87,711 posts
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Registered 16 years agoLike a lot of their stuff, they dragged a movies worth of story out over an entire series. I still don’t know how anyone at Netflix watched all the depression era stuff and didn’t stay ‘wait, no, stop. This is unbearably boring’. -
Darth_Flibble 5,592 posts
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Registered 17 years agoNetflix does not have any quality control, they rush to greenlit stuff for content but a lot of the time its not great.
(At least Army of the dead didn't have the 2011 script idea of zombies that rape women) I think Zach is bit "damaged" -
TechnoHippy 19,245 posts
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Registered 18 years agoYou could flip that idea and have a unit of necrophiliacs hunting zombies .gif)
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simpleexplodingmaybe 19,992 posts
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Registered 6 years agoNetflix Original is basically a warning these days -
Netflix did give us stuff like Stranger Things, Love + Death + Robots, The Witcher and The Punisher, to name but a few.
Whether they tickle your fancy is personal obviously but if you deny those are proper series you're just being a twat.
Admittedly, it's a numbers game. 80% of their output is shite but I think that's the whole idea (make lots and hope for lightning to strike)
Edit: got the order wrong on LDR.
Edited by JoeBlade at 11:15:19 05-06-2021 -
simpleexplodingmaybe 19,992 posts
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Registered 6 years agoI think its your last point thats the issue. They have had some excellent series and still knock it out of the park occasionally but it does feel like their policy of commission literally anything is starting to have the shit outweigh the good.
Mostly though the issue is that they need more editorial oversight. There are so many films that could lose half an hour or series that could drop 2-4 episodes and be great instead of splurges of filler. -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoYeah, they have done some quality stuff. House of Cards, Titans, Ozarks, Umbrella Academy, Sex Education, Russian Doll, Unbelievable, Unorthodox. How many of those are proper Netflix series, or just ones they've picked up, I know not. -
simpleexplodingmaybe 19,992 posts
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Registered 6 years agoEven among the stuff marketed as Original some of the best has been made by someone else (Feel Good and End of the Fucking World were Channel 4 for example) or series they picked up or revived after they began elsewhere -
simpleexplodingmaybe wrote:
Now this I very much agree with. Quite a few of the series they have produced - or at least financed - could have been excellent films but were not suited to span multiple hours.
Mostly though the issue is that they need more editorial oversight. There are so many films that could lose half an hour or series that could drop 2-4 episodes and be great instead of splurges of filler.
If they are taking themselves seriously I believe hiring someone to do some serious reviewing or editing is in order. -
Zerobob 3,017 posts
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Registered 12 years agoI think the Netflix Original stuff is very hit or miss, but some is pretty good, such as Dolomite Is my Name and The Haunting of Hill House / Bly Manor series.
I just wish more of it was displayed in Dolby Vision and in 16:9, given a TV is the target device.
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ChiefGB 13,815 posts
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Registered 10 years agonickthegun wrote:
Is that their marvel shows 🤣
I still don’t know how anyone at Netflix watched all the depression era stuff and didn’t stay ‘wait, no, stop. This is unbearably boring’. -
ChiefGB 13,815 posts
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Registered 10 years agoTechnoHippy wrote:
🤫 that’s the prequels storyline.
You could flip that idea and have a unit of necrophiliacs hunting zombies -
I quite enjoyed love and monsters. -
TheSaint 20,950 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI don’t think their hit and miss rate is much different to the major tv channels. It’s just more in your face. -
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Registered 7 years agoJoeBlade wrote:
They'll catch up to the BBC soon enough, I'm sure. These shows are all perfectly watchable, but they are no The Masked Dancer or Monkey Tennis. The license fee really does pay off when you're getting that kind of quality output
Netflix did give us stuff like Stranger Things, Love + Death + Robots, The Witcher and The Punisher, to name but a few.
Whether they tickle your fancy is personal obviously but if you deny those are proper series you're just being a twat.
Admittedly, it's a numbers game. 80% of their output is shite but I think that's the whole idea (make lots and hope for lightning to strike)
Edit: got the order wrong on LDR. -
Load_2.0 33,582 posts
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Registered 18 years agoDaz190uk wrote:
There were bits that were intriguing, the whole 1920's setting and the strange visions with subsequent quest was a bit different from standard superhero fare. As Nick mentioned parts were exceedingly boring but it could have been fun to explore supes in that period.
JoeBlade wrote:
I really liked it, I an a bit of a suckered for an old guard making way of the new type story though. Must be getting old myself.
nickthegun wrote:
I'm watching this at the moment and boy does it lose momentum. The fight with Blackstar (not a spoiler, it literally happens within the first 5 minutes) was amazing but then it's all a sleep-inducing origin story.
Jupiter’s Legacy has been canned, apparently. They really are going to have to pull their fingers out of their arses if they want to hang with Marvel TV.
In a superhero series I want to see superheroes kick some arse, damned.
A shame if it is canned.
But the things they got wrong were just so glaringly awful. I'm amazed it made it to screen at all. The wigs, beards and aging makeup, truly, truly bad. Combine that with the cheap looking hero costumes and it was an immediate barrier to enjoyment.
The shitty dialogue, I could literally guess the next line on several occasions it was so cliched. The characters interaction, chemistry and family dynamic was dire, that daughter was badly cast and her entire story arc just sucked.
I would have liked it to work but it felt like a 80's or 90's kids cartoon with a sprinkling of salty language at times.
A real wasted opportunity.
Anyway apparently they are producing a Villains version so not all is lost for fans.
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Technoishmatt 5,365 posts
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Registered 7 years agoI think i disagree wihmth almost every single point there! -
nickthegun 87,711 posts
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Registered 16 years agoEvery bad thing in the show stems from the ludicrous decision to spend over half the running time in the past.
It forced them to use terrible aging makeup as the alternative was use a different cast or digitally de-age middle aged actors.
The actually quite lush period recreation also seemed to suck budget from the modern stuff meaning most of the special effects sucked ass.
It also meant a full half of the show was just ridiculously boring.
Edited by nickthegun at 11:52:20 06-06-2021 -
chopsen 21,958 posts
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Registered 16 years agoEpisode n: We need a boat!
Episode n+1: we found a boat!
Episode n+2: we're getting on a boat!
Episode n+3: look at us, we're on a boat, we need to get it moving!
Episode n+4: we're on a boat and it's moving.
Episode n+5: we're going quite far, so we're spending this episode still on a boat, but it's moving.
Episode n+6: We've arrived!
Episode n+7: we got off the boat
Episode n+8: we're on an island
Episode n+9: pretty lights, that means nothing, back on to the boat we go
.......aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand season! -
simpleexplodingmaybe 19,992 posts
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Registered 6 years agoA few episodes into Sweet Tooth and I’m thinking “this would make a great video game” but then I realised that that is almost what Last of Us and TellTale’s Walking Dead are sad versions of already.
I think I need to give this series a read once I’ve finished watching the ahow. -
PazJohnMitch 17,276 posts
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Registered 14 years agoYeah Sweet Tooth is essentially the Last of Us: PG edition.
Over half way through and it was been perfectly watchable so far. I am failing as to see how it will have a satisfactory ending though.
Edit: Turns out my fears were more than justified.
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Flying_Pig 16,956 posts
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Registered 17 years agoGraxlar_v3 wrote:
Yeah, me too. Certainly better than the Zombie thing.
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Quite enjoyed The Dragon Prince, animated fantasy. Kinda similar in tone to Avatar: The Last Airbender (unsurprising as it shares some writers and creators and cast), but it's s bit more of a traditional fantasy setting with elves and mages and dragons. It does sound interesting things with that, and has a few anachronisms.
It does have some very interesting characters too, and has a lot of heart and empathy. The story also goes off in directions I didn't really expect.
The story hasn't finished yet - the three short seasons (9 half hourish episodes) are basically the first act, but I'm very intrigued to see where it goes. -
alt-cmd-esc wrote:
No idea what monkey tennis is but masked dancer is on ITV.
JoeBlade wrote:
They'll catch up to the BBC soon enough, I'm sure. These shows are all perfectly
Netflix did give us stuff like Stranger Things, Love + Death + Robots, The Witcher and The Punisher, to name but a few.
Whether they tickle your fancy is personal obviously but if you deny those are proper series you're just being a twat.
Admittedly, it's a numbers game. 80% of their output is shite but I think that's the whole idea (make lots and hope for lightning to strike)
Edit: got the order wrong on LDR.
watchable, but they are no The Masked Dancer or Monkey Tennis. The license fee really does pay off when you're getting that kind of quality output
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