Hidden Gems of Netflix's Watch Instantly

Saw an article that it was new last week for everybody

ranalin wrote:

OMGOMGOMG

I had heard good things about Ravenous but was never able to find it. Imagine my surprise and delight when it popped up on netflix the other day. It's every bit as good as I've heard. Yes, zombies, but well made and thoroughly tense. Good stuff.

Paleocon wrote:
ranalin wrote:

OMGOMGOMG

I definitely did not like Season 2 as much as Season 1 so I'm really hoping that they return to their original form.

Interesting teaser as it is hard to really determine what is new and what is old.

Fredrik_S wrote:

I had heard good things about Ravenous but was never able to find it. Imagine my surprise and delight when it popped up on netflix the other day. It's every bit as good as I've heard. Yes, zombies, but well made and thoroughly tense. Good stuff.

After The Full Monty seeing Robert Carlyle deliciously evil was a blast...

Binged S2 of Russian Doll today, was a bit underwhelmed. The first series was a bit of a fave of mine, great writing/humour and it didn't get in the way of the OTT New York accent/way of talking. It was a death loop series and was very good.

S2 is only the time travel element and is far too big in scope, dealing with nazi gold, and doesn't pull it off. The last episode especially was too all over the place.
Admire the effort though.

Grenn wrote:
karmajay wrote:

Enjoyed the 1st season of Altered Carbon

The aesthetic was spot on and the actors were fantastic. Unfortunately, I felt they deviated too much from the book for me to truly enjoy it.

I was bummed out by the deviations but ultimately enjoyed S1 a lot. S2, on the other hand - I can barely even remember watching it.

Podunk wrote:
Grenn wrote:
karmajay wrote:

Enjoyed the 1st season of Altered Carbon

The aesthetic was spot on and the actors were fantastic. Unfortunately, I felt they deviated too much from the book for me to truly enjoy it.

I was bummed out by the deviations but ultimately enjoyed S1 a lot. S2, on the other hand - I can barely even remember watching it.

Because it wasn't as good and wildly deviated from the books.

Umm, anybody been watching Hard Cell?

It's quite a thing.

Didn't know dragon ball was on netflix. He is a hard villain but there have been harder ones.

Finished my start to finish watch of The Last Kingdom. Don't see what all the complaints about season 5 were centered around; worked just fine for me, but on the other hand, I'm not Scottish.

Definitely a hidden gem, Midnight Diner is proving to by me fave of the year so far. Just finished s2, it’s a series of lovely short stories set around a Tokyo diner. Love the recipe tips at the end of each show, some of the stories are lovely and the whole thing is just so relaxing.
If you like a bit of Japan, cooking, neat little stories and people watching then get it watched.

kborom wrote:

Definitely a hidden gem, Midnight Diner is proving to by me fave of the year so far. Just finished s2, it’s a series of lovely short stories set around a Tokyo diner. Love the recipe tips at the end of each show, some of the stories are lovely and the whole thing is just so relaxing.
If you like a bit of Japan, cooking, neat little stories and people watching then get it watched.

Adored Midnight Diner. Great stuff and you come to care so much for all the regulars.

ranalin wrote:
Fredrik_S wrote:

I had heard good things about Ravenous but was never able to find it. Imagine my surprise and delight when it popped up on netflix the other day. It's every bit as good as I've heard. Yes, zombies, but well made and thoroughly tense. Good stuff.

After The Full Monty seeing Robert Carlyle deliciously evil was a blast...

That was my first thought on reading this, but I think Fredrik must mean the 2017 Ravenous about zombies, not "He was liccccckkkkinnnnngggg meeeeeeeeeeeee!" Ravenous about wendigos/cannibalism.

ccoates wrote:
ranalin wrote:
Fredrik_S wrote:

I had heard good things about Ravenous but was never able to find it. Imagine my surprise and delight when it popped up on netflix the other day. It's every bit as good as I've heard. Yes, zombies, but well made and thoroughly tense. Good stuff.

After The Full Monty seeing Robert Carlyle deliciously evil was a blast...

That was my first thought on reading this, but I think Fredrik must mean the 2017 Ravenous about zombies, not "He was liccccckkkkinnnnngggg meeeeeeeeeeeee!" Ravenous about wendigos/cannibalism.

Haha.. yes. The newer french canadian movie.

Coming to Netflix June 15th.

Without the current Iron Chefs involved will be interesting to see how this pans out.

The only Iron Chefs I recognize are Rokusaboro Michiba, Koumei Nakamura, Masaharu Morimoto (who defeated the dreaded Otah Faction), Chen Kenichi, Yutaka Ishinabe, Hiroyuki Sakai (The Delacroix of French Cuisine), and Masahiko Kobe. All others are pretenders, plumes of dust in the shadows of giants, especially that honorless dog Bobby Flay.

SpacePProtean wrote:

The only Iron Chefs I recognize are Rokusaboro Michiba, Koumei Nakamura, Masaharu Morimoto (who defeated the dreaded Otah Faction), Chen Kenichi, Yutaka Ishinabe, Hiroyuki Sakai (The Delacroix of French Cuisine), and Masahiko Kobe. All others are pretenders, plumes of dust in the shadows of giants, especially that honorless dog Bobby Flay.

Don't forget Soma Yukihira!

The Pentaverate is worth a watch, especially if you're a Mike Myers fan. It's definitely Myers-brand comedy, so if you like that you'll love The Pentaverate and, if not, you'll probably hate it.

The like eight or nine roles Myers plays are wonderfully supported by the likes of Keegan-Michael Keys, Ken Jeong, Jennifer Saunders, Rob Lowe, Debi Mazar, and Michael Ironsides.

OG_slinger wrote:

The Pentaverate is worth a watch, especially if you're a Mike Myers fan. It's definitely Myers-brand comedy, so if you like that you'll love The Pentaverate and, if not, you'll probably hate it.

The like eight or nine roles Myers plays are wonderfully supported by the likes of Keegan-Michael Keys, Ken Jeong, Jennifer Saunders, Rob Lowe, Debi Mazar, and Michael Ironsides.

I saw the name of the show and thought, without knowing who was in it, "did somebody really make a show based on a joke from So, I Married an Axe Murderer?" Then, I saw the splash screen with, like, nine Mike Myers' and thought "well, that makes sense."

The Gentlemen is hugely entertaining, easily Guy Ritchie's best, I'd advise watch it while drinking, but don't start early, it's a movie that exists in that best space where you can still pay attention but allow your buzz to grow over the two hour runtime.

Looks great

Forced myself to finish The Hunt, thinking it would get a little better. Nah.

It's not a Netflix Original but it kind of feels like one. The movie has this weird freshness seal on it, like it needs to be viewed in the year 2019 or else none of the jokes work. There are no jokes, really, although the script thinks itself very biting and satirical. The entire movie is pretty witless actually.

Kind of a shame. I remember the trailer caught my eye when I saw it on another streaming platform. The premise is pure B-movie schlock and they could have made it so much more fun. Instead we get this...not really a dark comedy, not really an action movie or thriller yet you can still see it trying to go through the motions of these genres.

Hillary Swank is in it and you can sort of see how angry she is at how far she's fallen.

Man, it's really bad. I wish I could take my view back on this!

Maclintok wrote:

Hillary Swank is in it and you can sort of see how angry she is at how far she's fallen.

Totally can't disagree with this assessment enough. While the satire falls flat at times, it's still a fun action movie and Swank is an absolute brilliant villain.

I thought The Hunt was great, Hillary Swank included.

It also stars the blonde lead from Glow

Operation Mincemeat was a pretty decent movie about the same-named secret misinformation operation during the invasion of Sicily during WWII. It's packed with plenty of British spy stuff, stiff upper lipisms, and a secondary love story that is ridiculously chaste. It's worth a watch if you're into WWII stuff.

I also checked out The Bombardment, which Netflix is also marketing as a WWII secret mission type movie. It's about Operation Carthage, the British low-level bombing of the Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Netflix's auto-play trailer misses the mark for what the movie is actually about by a pretty wide margin (ironic, considering the operation), but it is still very much worth a watch. Just don't go into expecting a WWII action flick.

You have until May 31st to watch the ridiculous original TMNT and its even more ridiculous sequels.

Cowabunga, dudes.