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LogisticEarth posted:Same long-standing ratings history here. It's about 50/50 with me. But they must have some kind of promotional bump where they cram a few in there regardless of past ratings. Case in point, that Ralphie May special they've been pushing hard. Netflix anticipates I'd rate it as 1 out of 5 stars. Yet it's in my "top picks". At the same time other stuff has been fairly accurate and enjoyable. I thought it was some weird glitch that the loving Ralphie May special was always recommended with the one star rating. I even tried watching it, hated it, rated it one star, and Netflix is still telling me to watch it.
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I'm looking for an Irish crime or action film. Dark and violent is preferable. I'm hoping for something in the vein of The Wind That Shakes the Barley or The Departed. American Irish, anything Boston, is acceptable as well.
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It's not a drama, but if you've seen The Boondock Saints or know anything about it, Overnight (it's on YouTube) is a good documentary that gets recommended here every once in a while, about the making of the movie. You get to see a Boston rear end in a top hat making a movie about Irish gangster-busters, so it's tangentially related and it's pretty compelling, if low fidelity. Duffy is sort of a tragic, almost Lowmanesque anti-hero who is still ultimately an rear end in a top hat before all else. I found it really easy to see people I know really well when seeing him talk about how great he is, you might find the same.
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Cognac McCarthy posted:It's not a drama, but if you've seen The Boondock Saints or know anything about it, Overnight (it's on YouTube) is a good documentary that gets recommended here every once in a while, about the making of the movie. You get to see a Boston rear end in a top hat making a movie about Irish gangster-busters, so it's tangentially related and it's pretty compelling, if low fidelity. Duffy is sort of a tragic, almost Lowmanesque anti-hero who is still ultimately an rear end in a top hat before all else. I found it really easy to see people I know really well when seeing him talk about how great he is, you might find the same. I'm not interested in a documentary for tonight, but this sounds good and I will check it out in the future. Thanks. I should add: if no one can think of a good Irish film, I will also happily watch anything that involves Brits in horrible suffering. Please nothing WW2 related because I don't feel like suffering horribly through Brittany.
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Chichevache posted:I'm looking for an Irish crime or action film. Dark and violent is preferable. I'm hoping for something in the vein of The Wind That Shakes the Barley or The Departed. American Irish, anything Boston, is acceptable as well. In Bruges would fit this pretty well.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I thought it was some weird glitch that the loving Ralphie May special was always recommended with the one star rating. I even tried watching it, hated it, rated it one star, and Netflix is still telling me to watch it. Yeah it's funny that they are pretty good at predicting star ratings and don't use it in any useful way. My top picks are pretty much nothing but Family guy related stuff, really bad Spike TV reality shows, bad standup comedians, and Law and order type stuff. 90% of what I watch on Netflix is Drama and Indie Horror. Two genres it has never recommended to me once. It's kind of just a silly thing, but I would honestly love a good top picks section. I can find 5 or 6 things on my own that I wan't to watch every time I'm browsing. It would be kind of nice if Netflix started using the information I've been giving them for probably 9 years to find some of them for me.
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Chichevache posted:I'm not interested in a documentary for tonight, but this sounds good and I will check it out in the future. Thanks. If you've got a VPN, Netflix UK has The Wee Man, about a Glasgow crime syndicate. It's not the greatest thing you'll ever see but it fulfills some of your criteria, at least.
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Dr. Platypus posted:In Bruges would fit this pretty well. Seen it. One of my all time favorite films, but it is a bit more of a meditation than what I am looking for right now
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Chichevache posted:I'm looking for an Irish crime or action film. Dark and violent is preferable. I'm hoping for something in the vein of The Wind That Shakes the Barley or The Departed. American Irish, anything Boston, is acceptable as well. Read the book while you're at it.
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HP Hovercraft posted:The Friends of Eddie Coyle is the correct answer here. I don't know if it's streaming anywhere but just find it and watch it any way possible. God what a good and bleak movie. Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle at their absolute best. Peter Yates directed this five years after Bullitt and ten years before he directed Krull. Humbug Scoolbus fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Mar 18, 2015 |
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Chichevache posted:I'm looking for an Irish crime or action film. Dark and violent is preferable. I'm hoping for something in the vein of The Wind That Shakes the Barley or The Departed. American Irish, anything Boston, is acceptable as well.
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Bored As gently caress posted:Is Bad Milo so bad and so self aware that it's good, like Poultrygeist (which is hilarious and amazing), or is it just Bad? Ken Marino is a charisma machine, but he somehow just makes it boring. If anyone has PS4, they have Powers as an exclusive, starring Sharlto Copely 
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Weirdly enough, I have one or two stand ups in my queue and have yet to be recommended the Ralphie May special. 
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Aziz ansari's Netflix branded MSG show was fun. One of the funniest bits is actually a brief bit of crowd work. Comedy is of course in the eye of the beholder but I think he's fine.
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Kimmy Schmidt should get a second and third season with a higher budget. I was really disappointed with the second half of the season and how small the show's world felt, but there were such reality-shakingly funny lines in the first half that I want to see more.
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Cocoa Ninja posted:Aziz ansari's Netflix branded MSG show was fun. One of the funniest bits is actually a brief bit of crowd work. Comedy is of course in the eye of the beholder but I think he's fine. Yeah I thought it was pretty hit or miss. That bit was great though. Some of the stuff about cell phones was pretty good even if it was really safe. Some of his stories were really rambley and lead up to the lamest punchlines though. The poo poo about Ja Rule was pure 
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Chaotic Flame posted:Weirdly enough, I have one or two stand ups in my queue and have yet to be recommended the Ralphie May special. I've watched a lot of Patton Oswalt, Louis CK, Carlin, Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Chelsea Peretti, and Netflix hasn't tried to push Ralphie May on me yet. I actually remember him getting his start on Last Comic Standing so I've hated him for a very long time. :\
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NESguerilla posted:Yeah I thought it was pretty hit or miss. That bit was great though. Some of the stuff about cell phones was pretty good even if it was really safe. Some of his stories were really rambley and lead up to the lamest punchlines though. The poo poo about Ja Rule was pure I feel like I've heard his cell phone bit about "just missed you!" before in another special on Netflix.
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Mar 18, 2015 15:50
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Aziz Ansari is good at telling funny stories about people more famous than him. His Kanye stories are the best.
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Coming to Netflix in April. Solid stuff like Hot Fuzz, Bound, The Babadook, National Treasure and They Came Together, plus stuff I've been meaning to see like Noah, Goodbye to Language and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. Also Daredevil. April 1 And Now ... Ladies and Gentlemen... (2002) Bandolero (2000) Barnyard (2006) The Beautician and the Beast (1997) Bound (1996) Buffalo Soldiers (2001) The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002) Down to Earth (2001) Leprechaun 3 (1995) Leprechaun 4: In Space (1997) Leprechaun 6: Back 2 tha Hood (2003) Suicide Kings (1997) Sunset Strip (2000) Underworld (2003) Whiteboyz (1999) Wrong Turn at Tahoe (2009) April 2 Life Partners (2014) Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage (2014) April 3 Starry Eyes (2014) The Quiet Ones (2014) April 7 Preservation (2014) April 9 Pioneer (2013) April 10 The Awakening (2013) Broken (2013) Burning Bridges (2014) Confusion Na Wa (2013) Finding Mercy (2012) Finding Mercy 2 (2014) Flower Girl (2013) Forgetting June (2013) Knocking on Heaven's Door (2014) Lagos Cougars (2013) Lies Men Tell (2013) Mad Couple (2014) Mad Couple 2 (2014) Matters Arising (2014) October 1* (2014) Onye Ozi (2013) Ties That Bind (2011) April 12 The Identical (2014) April 14 The Babadook (2014) Goodbye to Language (2014) Kink (2013) April 16 Hot Fuzz (2007) April 17 Chris D'Elia: Incorrigible (2015) They Came Together (2014) April 18 Noah (2014) April 21 A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) April 26 The Nutty Professor 2: Facing the Fear (2008) April 27 National Treasure (2004) TELEVISION All Hail King Julien (season 1, April 3) Derek (special, April 3) Halt and Catch Fire (season 1, April 8) Marvel's Daredevil (season 1, April 10) Video Game High School (season 3, April 13) Baby Daddy (season 4, April 17) Being removed: April 1 28 Hotel Rooms Annie (1982) Astonishing X-Men: Dangerous Astonishing X-Men: Torn Astonishing X-Men: Unstoppable Baby Geniuses: A Trip to the San Diego Zoo Baby Geniuses: Animal Adventures Chalet Girl Clue Color Splash Collection: Collection 1 Coneheads Friday the 13th Friday the 13th: Part 2 Friday the 13th: Part 3 Friday the 13th: Part 4: The Final Chapter Friday the 13th: Part 6: Jason Lives Friday the 13th: Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Get Shorty Good Morning, Vietnam Guess Who Income Property Collection: Collection 1 Inventing the Abbotts Jane Eyre (1944) Jeepers Creepers Jeepers Creepers 2 Les Misérables (1935) Madeline (1989) Miral Murder by Numbers Mystic Pizza Mystic River Pee-wee's Big Adventure Philadelphia Rachael Ray's Week in a Day Collection: Collection 1 Reindeer Games Selling New York Collection: Collection 1 Sense and Sensibility Shadow of the Vampire Taking Lives The Amityville Horror (1979) The Cable Guy The Karate Kid (1984) The Karate Kid Part II The Karate Kid Part III The Quick and the Dead The Whole Nine Yards April 10 Sleeping Beauty (2011) April 12 Paranormal Activity 4: Unrated Edition April 16 The Woman Who Wasn't There morestuff fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Mar 18, 2015 |
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Noah is a pretty good get for anyone who hasn't seen it yet. Why are they removing Clue though? 
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morestuff posted:Coming to Netflix in April. The Babadook might be my favorite movie of 2014, and I was just prowling video on demand services for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night earlier this week. April looks like a real good month for horror. morestuff posted:Being removed: April looks like a great month for horror.
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K. Waste posted:Even the finale, the re-marrying between Inez and Carl, while a cop-out, I don't think of as being entirely literal. The point is that even here, at this fanciful point at which Carl is 'a made man,' his restaurant is closed. Carl is an unpleasant philanderer and a lovely dad. It's never clear why everyone is so enamored with him. His character shows basically zero humility but ends up with everything he wanted. Even the mean critic really loves him!
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Sarchasm posted:The Babadook might be my favorite movie of 2014, and I was just prowling video on demand services for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night earlier this week. April looks like a real good month for horror. Not to mention Leprechaun 6: Back 2 tha Hood is coming. Quite possibly the best movie about a rapping leprechaun ever made.
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Leper Residue posted:Not to mention Leprechaun 6: Back 2 tha Hood is coming. Quite possibly the best movie about a rapping leprechaun ever made. I think Lil' Bow Wow was in All About the Benjamins, but yeah L6:B2TH was a better film.
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Bound and Buffalo Soldiers I really liked both of those.
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Noah is a really cool, atmospheric fantasy film. I just finished watching From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series and it's far, far better than it has any business being. It's the story from the first Dusk Till Dawn movie exploded into a ten episode series. This should be a loving terrible idea but somehow it's awesome and has Jake Busey so just watch it ok. Cool Dad fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Mar 18, 2015 |
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Bound and Buffalo Soldiers I really liked both of those. between Bound and Blue is the Warmest Color, my lesbian porn needs are set!
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Bound is a worth a watch just so you can see what kind of films the Wachowskis would've made in a world without wire-fu and CG.
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Another recommendation for Noah. Movie is seriously good.
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Noah is balls to the wall crazy, eerily beautiful, and I hope there exists a director's cut that shows the ending I really wanted. Watch it
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I only watched Noah because they filmed some of it in Iceland, and I love Iceland. The film is quite bad, the scenery is great.
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I just watched The Fountain for the first time since its release and it was way way better than I remembered. It made me want to see Noah, so I'm pretty hyped that its popping up on Netflix so soon.
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Last I heard about Noah Arononofsky and the studio were fighting over how much insane crazy poo poo to include in the film. Who won?
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Arononofsky won after the studio tried multiple awful cuts that audiences hated even more. I haven't seen the movie but I also heard that the movie also isn't as crazy as some of the rumors indicated it might end up being.
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marktheando posted:Last I heard about Noah Arononofsky and the studio were fighting over how much insane crazy poo poo to include in the film. Who won? Whoever wanted the most crazy poo poo must have won, because nobody could have wanted more than there already is
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Sounds good. I have zero interest in a straight adaptation of the bible story so some crazy poo poo is cool.
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axleblaze posted:Arononofsky won after the studio tried multiple awful cuts that audiences hated even more. I haven't seen the movie but I also heard that the movie also isn't as crazy as some of the rumors indicated it might end up being. Yeah a lot of the stuff that someone here on SA who saw an early cut said was in it was cut, but there is enough bits and pieces of what he said still left in the movie that it's very very clear Aronofsky won.
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