Hidden Gems of Netflix's Watch Instantly

I am Mother - while having been done a thousand times before - was surprisingly effective, well acted and well made. It was really quite good.

The Raid is one of the most pulsating and violent action movies I've seen in years. Thoroughly recommended if brutal action / Martial arts is your thing.

doubtingthomas396 wrote:

Anyone recommend a good anime for a couple who just finished Black Clover and wishes there was more of it? The relentless positivity of that show is addictive.

Dubbed is preferred, because we don’t speak Japanese and don’t want to have to dedicate our full attention to it.

I’m thinking One Piece, as it’s got over 9000 episodes so if it’s good we’ll be able to watch it for a long time.

A lot of people bounced of another Life, so you'll probably love it. Katee Sackoff back in space is a good thing. My wife and I have been enjoying it, but we haven't finished it, and it's been a few weeks. So, I'd give it a B-.

Sydhart wrote:

Need a new syfy/fantasy series to fill some time. WU Assassins or Knightfall seems to be my most suggested right now. Any opinions?

I'm about half way through Wu Assassins and enjoying it a lot. It is great dumb fun in the vein of Big Trouble in Little China if you like that kind of thing.

I started watching Better Than Us a few days ago, and suddenly I'm 7 episodes deep (out of a whopping 16 episodes in season 1!). The show is set in Russia, in the not-too-distant future. Fair warning: by default, the audio language is Russian, with English subtitles (but, I just noticed, there is an English audio option; I don't know how good the dub quality is, but it's there for you heathens who can't be bothered to read subtitles).

Humanoid robots are a thing in this world. They are all programmed to obey Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics (tl;dr: don't harm humans), but don't seem to have any form of artificial intelligence; they just do what they're told to do. Except one new super-robot. The story revolves around George, his ex-wife, their two children... and Erisa, the super-bot, who has basically adopted these humans as her family.

The production values are quite good -- definitely fits the near-future setting quite well. This is definitely a drama/sci-fi show, with a fair number of mature topics brought up. Blade Runner seems like a significant inspiration for the show (hell, there's even a scene where a character is shown reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep).

I obviously don't know how well the rest of the season is going to go, but I like what I've seen so far, and there have been a number of good surprises to keep me on my toes. If nothing else, I feel like I'm learning how to say some common Russian phrases.

Jayhawker wrote:
doubtingthomas396 wrote:

Anyone recommend a good anime for a couple who just finished Black Clover and wishes there was more of it? The relentless positivity of that show is addictive.

Dubbed is preferred, because we don’t speak Japanese and don’t want to have to dedicate our full attention to it.

I’m thinking One Piece, as it’s got over 9000 episodes so if it’s good we’ll be able to watch it for a long time.

A lot of people bounced of another Life, so you'll probably love it. Katee Sackoff back in space is a good thing. My wife and I have been enjoying it, but we haven't finished it, and it's been a few weeks. So, I'd give it a B-.

It's so bad that i've seen gamer youtubers doing videos warning people about it

ranalin wrote:
Jayhawker wrote:
doubtingthomas396 wrote:

Anyone recommend a good anime for a couple who just finished Black Clover and wishes there was more of it? The relentless positivity of that show is addictive.

Dubbed is preferred, because we don’t speak Japanese and don’t want to have to dedicate our full attention to it.

I’m thinking One Piece, as it’s got over 9000 episodes so if it’s good we’ll be able to watch it for a long time.

A lot of people bounced of another Life, so you'll probably love it. Katee Sackoff back in space is a good thing. My wife and I have been enjoying it, but we haven't finished it, and it's been a few weeks. So, I'd give it a B-.

It's so bad that i've seen gamer youtubers doing videos warning people about it :D

Another Life was terrible. I highly recommend it for sheer comedic value. For a bunch of highly-educated, well-trained specialists, they're all incredibly dumb.

Edit: And I won’t even get into how implausible all of the science is.

merphle wrote:

Another Life was terrible. I highly recommend it for sheer comedic value. For a bunch of highly-educated, well-trained specialists, they're all incredibly dumb.

Edit: And I won’t even get into how implausible all of the science is.

Not one of the people on that ship is either highly educated or well trained. To be honest it makes it more entertaining though.

Sorbicol wrote:
merphle wrote:

Another Life was terrible. I highly recommend it for sheer comedic value. For a bunch of highly-educated, well-trained specialists, they're all incredibly dumb.

Edit: And I won’t even get into how implausible all of the science is.

Not one of the people on that ship is either highly educated or well trained. To be honest it makes it more entertaining though.

There's no doubt it's more entertaining as a result, hence my endorsement. Just don't think too hard about, well, basically anything.

Watched the “White Christmas” episode of Black Mirror.

Doing the math, he’s in for roughly two and a half MILLION years of complete solitary confinement.

The United Nations banned the use of solitary confinement for longer than 15 days.

Brrr....

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Is the Groundbreaking Fantasy Epic We've Been Waiting For

I did not think I would fall in love with The Dark Crystal. It wasn’t something I grew up with. I only saw it for the first time this year, and I never expected the world of The Dark Crystal to become part of my own world. But it has, and so has this show.

Age of Resistance is a treasure, one that starts strong and grows even stronger. The season has what feels like an end, so if Netflix and the Jim Henson Company don’t produce another series, it doesn’t feel incomplete. But I do hope it continues. This is a story unfolding like a book, each episode bringing me further into a beautiful and thoughtful place where talent can be seen, stories can be appreciated, and legends are born.

Watched Point Blank with Falcon. Kind of forgettable. Bad cops trying to get the drive that will point out all the bad cops. Falcon gets drag into the conflict for a stupid reason. I'm not sure if any of the actors cared about the movie,. Could have been bad directing. I liked the trailer, just watch that and move on.

OG_slinger wrote:
MannishBoy wrote:

Amazon owns IMDB, so not sure why they're building another service.

IMDB TV runs commercials while Prime doesn't.

I watched the last season of Playing House on it. There weren't too many commercials and they weren't repetitive af like on Hulu.

Just to inform non-US people that this is US-only.

merphle wrote:

... Better Than Us ...

I watched the trailer and it just seemed a poor rip-off of Humans. Am I wrong?

slazev wrote:
merphle wrote:

... Better Than Us ...

I watched the trailer and it just seemed a poor rip-off of Humans. Am I wrong?

I haven’t seen Humans, so I can neither confirm nor deny.

If you think Another Life is about the science, then you're completely missing out on what it's truly about. I'm three episodes in (that I binged in one afternoon), and I can't wait to watch the rest. It also gets a whole bunch of extra points for a truly diverse cast, both in gender and ethnicity. I highly recommend it.

I binged Mindhunter over the weekend. They better not wait another two years give me season 3.

I re-watched the original Dark Crystal last night for the first time since probably the 80s and I wonder why that movie didn't give me crippling nightmares for the rest of my childhood.

Rat Boy wrote:

I re-watched the original Dark Crystal last night for the first time since probably the 80s and I wonder why that movie didn't give me crippling nightmares for the rest of my childhood.

I'd love to watch it and The Secret of NIMH, Little Monsters, Willow, Legend, Labyrinth, and the Neverending Story with my two oldest kids but they are only 10 and 8.

So I finished up Wu Assassins, and enjoyed it, although I think the lighter tone of the first half of the season worked better than the rest. It definitely suffers from that Uncharted/Tomb Raider lurch from nice guy to mass murderer in the blink of an eye.

Also, about that ending:

Spoiler:

Was there actually any reason to kill McScottishMan, except for revenge? He didn't seem to be a threat any more.

Rat Boy wrote:

I re-watched the original Dark Crystal last night for the first time since probably the 80s and I wonder why that movie didn't give me crippling nightmares for the rest of my childhood.

Tried it with my 7 year old the other weekend. She lasted about 20 minutes before we had to watch something else.

Sorbicol wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:

I re-watched the original Dark Crystal last night for the first time since probably the 80s and I wonder why that movie didn't give me crippling nightmares for the rest of my childhood.

Tried it with my 7 year old the other weekend. She lasted about 20 minutes before we had to watch something else.

Let me guess: the scene where the Skexis exile that one dude was the final straw?

I still have nightmares about that scene.

I watched it with my kids the other day, almost 8 and almost 10, and they both enjoyed it but it was definitely pushing the limit on what they could handle(scary wise). I am super excited for the netflix series.

I don't think I ever finished The Dark Crystal. Mom rented it for me as a kid and thought it was too dark for me so she stopped it and took it back and came back with Star Wars.

And before you judge her too harshly, she thought Ghostbusters was too occultish to watch as well, only to sit down and watch with me a decade later and laugh her ass off, literally asking me why she thought it was bad all these years.

Now Ghostbusters we have watched!

It's true. This man has no dick.

Grenn wrote:

I don't think I ever finished The Dark Crystal. Mom rented it for me as a kid and thought it was too dark for me so she stopped it and took it back and came back with Star Wars.

And before you judge her too harshly, she thought Ghostbusters was too occultish to watch as well, only to sit down and watch with me a decade later and laugh her ass off, literally asking me why she thought it was bad all these years.

I had to leave the theater with my mom when we went to see Ghostbusters... the librarian scene was too much for me at the time.

BadKen wrote:

It's true. This man has no dick.

Hah, I was ready for that one. I was also ready and did a pause potty break (stealth fast forward) through the possession scene where Sigourney Weaver is rolling around in bed and seducing Bill Murray and says "I want you inside me". I did however forget the scene where Dan Aykroyd is lying in his bunk and a ghost appears above him and moves down his body then disappears but his pants then get unzipped and well...luckily it went over my kids heads. I don't remember that scene from my childhood.

Might be edited for TV and you just forgot.

Stele wrote:

Might be edited for TV and you just forgot.

The edited for TV version of Chiat haters had some good substitutions.

Like the scene after they catch slimer, Bill Murray shouts “We Came, We Saw, We kicked it’s ass!” In the theatrical version, but in the TV version he says “what a knockabout of pure fun that was” in his inimitable sardonic style.

I rather prefer the tv version.

EDIT;

Autocorrect substituted Chiat Haters for Ghostbusters, and I liked it so much I decided to leave it with only this note of explanation.

Ghostbusters was rated PG, along with Poltergeist, Indian Jones, Gremlins, Bad News Bears, Jaws, etc.

I'd bet they would all get Rs now. Granted, they were all before PG-13 existed, but if left the way they are I think they would still get Rs.