Done most of recommended TV series. Too much choice means I spend hours aimlessly browsing. I need some help. Last 5 films watched on Netflix please (US too - naughty) - with some indication of goodness.
Draft Day - vaguely entertaining day in the life of Kevin Costner as a head coach type bloke - only watch if you have any interest in American sports - draft day would be pretty sweet here though.
Boys N The Hood - nuff said
Super 8 - basically watched this as I’ve just bought a new TV and wanted some action on it - Spielberg-lite
Lantana - superior Australian thriller - seen this a couple of times - good.
I’ve been there bro, I prob spend more time trying to find something to watch on Netflix, than watching things on Netflix.
i don’t find it v.good for movies tho generally, you kind of have a smattering of Famous movies that prob everyone already saw, and then 10’000 straight to video efforts that no-one ever wanted to see, and not much in between. That Headhunters was good tho, i saw that. I never heard of Lantana so i will prob take ur recommendation on that + check it out!
Get stuck into US Netflix, Bearsy. Loads of ‘better’ stuff.
Loads of Werner Herzog for a start. Watched ‘Into the Abyss’ last night - documentary about the death penalty. As an opportunity to revel in the dumbness of hicks there is no equal.
I can’t read the name Werner Herzog without hearing Mark Kermode’s impression in my ear.
Just me?
Probably.
Have you seen The Elephant in the Room?
Yeah, well this particular elephant is the fact that you and Bear are claiming that there’s nothing to watch on Netflix, but you haven’t mentioned the porn.
Iron Sky is a good laugh if you have not seen it already.
Secret Nazi base on the moon, etc. Lovely stuff. It’s subtitled tho’.
One thing that has really been holding my interest on Netflix, again subtitled and not actually a film, is called Braquo. The easiest way of describing it is as a French “The Shield”, certainly in that it focuses on a bunch of cops who are under investigation by internal affairs. Now everyone knows that French stuff is almost automatically classier than the US alternative, so I’m wary of thinking it is perhaps better than it is. From what I’ve seen so far though, the characters seem to be more purely motivated than the self-interested bastards in Vic Mackey’s squad - and just end up in a lot of situations where rules are either bent or smashed to pieces.
Started Blue is the Warmest Colour but waiting to be tackled by missus/kids on the ’ last watched’as wont understand that I genuinely watch French art flick.
I saw the first series of Braquo on Sky. I’ve been trying to find a second series, but haven’t seen it announced on Sky and Netflix only seems to have series 1.
Saw In Order of Disappearance last night. It’s a Norwegian film with an international cast (Stellan Skarsgård, Bruno Ganz, etc), and a much more interesting original name, Kraftidioten , which as far as I can make out, literally means “bunch of morons”.
It’s about a father who goes after a criminal enterprise when his son is killed on their orders. Lovely to look at, with some interesting villains too. The main antagonist is beautifully loopy.
Don’t seem to have watched many films on Netflix, according to my viewing history. However I remember thoroughly enjoying a film called What Maisie Knew. Cleverly, thoughtfully put together and, for me, the moment that Steve Coogan finally stepped out of Alan Partridge’s shadow.
Best Worst Movie is a fantastic documentary if you’ve ever watched the horror show that is Troll 2 (the most accidentally hilarious film I’ve ever been subjected to).
**Locke ** is an interesting curio, if you feel you can subject yourself to an hour and a half of Tom Hardy putting on a horrendous ‘Welsh’ accent and far too many flashes of the BMW logo.
**The Hunt ** is right up there with my very favourite foreign language films. A chilling and enlightening examination of the effects of an uninformed mob-mentality.
In terms of TV series, I’d class **Brooklyn Nine Nine ** and **Californication ** (only on US Netflix at present) as near-essential to try, if not devour whole.
I saw the first series of Braquo on Sky. I’ve been trying to find a second series, but haven’t seen it announced on Sky and Netflix only seems to have series 1.
I think so too, and I have become inured to so many dramatic tropes that I quickly identify them and see them. I’m not going to pretend that Braquo avoids them altogether. You’ve got the junkie cop, the dude that’s in hock to loan sharks by way of a gambling problem and the high-scoring aspirant graduate that really shouldn’t be mixed up with these people.
And yet, there is an inherent sense of honour present in all of the “wrong 'uns” that you just can’t help rooting for the bastards, whereas I could never really root for this bloke in the Shield.
Leaving aside the fact he looks like Steven Tyler’s unregarded slaphead lovechild, he was a tit that I always wanted to see go down.
In fact, the only people I liked in the Shield were these guys.
Even though this post has been really Shield-y, it’s only to illustrate how skilful Branquo is at making you care about these dirty cops, to the extent where you wonder if they’re even dirty at all, as Kenobi might say, from a certain point of view.
