Hidden Gems of Netflix's Watch Instantly

Glass Onion was f*cking fantastic. Finally had a free night with the wife for a 2:20 movie and glad we got it all in one sitting.

Stele wrote:

Glass Onion was f*cking fantastic. Finally had a free night with the wife for a 2:20 movie and glad we got it all in one sitting.

I think the single best line in the whole movie was "It is a terrible thing to mistake speaking without thought with speaking the truth". I am going to have to use that from now on.

I thought so, too. I really enjoyed the movie.

The Pale Blue Eye was very slow burn, but AMAAAAAZING. Bale is always great, but Harry Melling as EAP really steals it.

In, "wait, I get what with my Netflix subscription?" news, apparently TMNT: Shredder's Revenge, the recent beat-em-up game, is available on Android and iOS now... but only for Netflix subscribers.

Paleocon wrote:
Stele wrote:

Glass Onion was f*cking fantastic. Finally had a free night with the wife for a 2:20 movie and glad we got it all in one sitting.

I think the single best line in the whole movie was "It is a terrible thing to mistake speaking without thought with speaking the truth". I am going to have to use that from now on.

Its a DANGEROUS thing not terrible.

Kaleidoscope

Not the best thing Netflix has put out and certainly not the worst thing, but the hook of the randomized episode order held my interest long enough to give the whole series a shot. Here's the order Netflix gave it to me in:

Spoiler:

Green - Seven Years Before The Heist

Yellow - Six Weeks Before The Heist

Blue - Five Days Before The Heist

Violet - Twenty-Four Years Before The Heist

Orange - Three Weeks Before The Heist

Red - Morning After The Heist

Pink - Six Months After The Heist

The finale episode, aka "The White Episode," is always at the end.

kborom wrote:

Enjoyed Bullet Train.

Didn't enjoy S2 of Alice in Borderlands though, especially the excruciating last episode. They really ran out of steam and should have wrapped it up in 1 series.

With you on Bullet Train, not entirely with you on Alice in Borderland. There were an awful lot of things that characters shouldn't have survived. I think it spent too much time with a somewhat flatly portrayed character and their battles of wits, and there's another character who seemingly spent the entire season dying. The rest of it gave us games on a larger scale, and pushed forward/concluded some character arcs in meaningful ways. Plus I kind of liked that the finale went a little meta and poked fun at the various theories about the nature of the Borderland. If this was the series finale, it could have gone a lot worse. The last shot, though, potentially leaves room for another season.

Rat Boy wrote:

Kaleidoscope

Not the best thing Netflix has put out and certainly not the worst thing, but the hook of the randomized episode order held my interest long enough to give the whole series a shot. Here's the order Netflix gave it to me in:

Spoiler:

Green - Seven Years Before The Heist

Yellow - Six Weeks Before The Heist

Blue - Five Days Before The Heist

Violet - Twenty-Four Years Before The Heist

Orange - Three Weeks Before The Heist

Red - Morning After The Heist

Pink - Six Months After The Heist

The finale episode, aka "The White Episode," is always at the end.

Same for me. I liked it, since it showed different slices of the story and not repeat a lot of the same stuff like other shows have done.

Alice in Borderland S01E02 Horse Mask

I'm liking the show so far but have a question about the horse mask people.

Spoiler:

So when the game was over the horse mask people collars exploded taking off their heads. If they had stopped everyone from getting to the room the entire building would have blown up with them in it. So how were they suppose to win? Either way they die. Are some people put in a no win situation? If they had no way to win why kill anybody?

Its a death game show. People are taken and force to play a death game by some mysterious group, alien, government, god creature, or bob dole. I think it is Mojo trying to get those ratings up.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Alice in Borderland S01E02 Horse Mask

I'm liking the show so far but have a question about the horse mask people.

Spoiler:

So when the game was over the horse mask people collars exploded taking off their heads. If they had stopped everyone from getting to the room the entire building would have blown up with them in it. So how were they suppose to win? Either way they die. Are some people put in a no win situation? If they had no way to win why kill anybody?

Spoiler:

You can assume the building only blows up if none of the Players has managed to find and touch the symbol and are still alive at the end. If the Taggers kill them all before the time runs out, the building wouldn't explode, otherwise what's their motive to stop the Players, or do anything other than help? We only see the perspective of the Players, and there's no reason for the announcer to explain the Taggers' rules to the Players.

Junji Ito's horror series was just released on netflix. His manga is one of the few things I read (the enigma of Amitara fault) that absolutely terrified me.

Fredrik_S wrote:

Junji Ito's horror series was just released on netflix. His manga is one of the few things I read (the enigma of Amitara fault) that absolutely terrified me.

Ah, I see it is basically a sequel (same studio making it) to Itou Junji: Collection on Crunchyroll, which was alright. I'll still check it out.

Mantid wrote:
Fredrik_S wrote:

Junji Ito's horror series was just released on netflix. His manga is one of the few things I read (the enigma of Amitara fault) that absolutely terrified me.

Ah, I see it is basically a sequel (same studio making it) to Itou Junji: Collection on Crunchyroll, which was alright. I'll still check it out.

Watched a couple of episodes during lunch break today and it's... allright. I think his horror loses something in the translation to moving animations.

Fredrik_S wrote:
Mantid wrote:
Fredrik_S wrote:

Junji Ito's horror series was just released on netflix. His manga is one of the few things I read (the enigma of Amitara fault) that absolutely terrified me.

Ah, I see it is basically a sequel (same studio making it) to Itou Junji: Collection on Crunchyroll, which was alright. I'll still check it out.

Watched a couple of episodes during lunch break today and it's... allright. I think his horror loses something in the translation to moving animations.

I thought we all agreed collectively to stop talking about Enigma of Amitara Fault so that we can forget about it and finally sleep again.

DRR DRR DRR

ope, Quintin found his hole.

Finished season 1 of Alice in Borderland and liked it. I guessed the solution to the last game off the bat, I bet most people did. There were some story choices that didn't really make sense to me. We have a lot of people willing to kill a lot of people that are then presented with a target that played them and nobody wants to kill them. I get that some of them were just killing because they didn't want to die but many were just sick on power.

The Pez Outlaw was more entertaining than I thought it had a right to. I enjoyed it.

Alice in Borderland S02E01 King of Spades

Interesting start. I liked the episode but thought they went overboard for the king.

Spoiler:

So it looks like season 2 is all about boss fights with our guys going against the face cards.
The start is rather silly. The king of spade comes out killing a lot of people with gun fire. The silly thing is the direction of the fire is from everywhere but he is only one dude. Also he lets out some serious anti tank level shots. Then he seems to have infinite ammo. And to top it all off he has superhuman powers where he can jump onto moving cars, kill everyone in the car from the roof without falling off, and then jump into the car to take control of it. The entire thing was really dumb.

I liked that they decided that the boss was to difficult and left to fight a different one.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Alice in Borderland S02E01 King of Spades

Spoiler:

Some of that gets explained, at least the seemingly infinite ammo, later on. And let's be honest, the bit where he silently rises up from the trunk while the people in the car have no idea he's there just looks cool.

Alice in Borderland S02E02 King of Clubs

I liked the episode. I think I could have won this game or maybe gotten both sides killed.

Spoiler:

So in season one there was always a way for everyone to live through the games. That might not be true for season 2 or maybe it is.

My first thought was loser dies but not winning isn't the same a losing. So might thing would be to force a tie but it would depend on how the rules were worded. I would have just asked if the only way to is to have lets points than the other team.

If a tie results in both team being lasered to death then my second idea would to give four people 1 point and the last person the rest of the points. The one pointers stay and guard the base. They would be safe with infinite points. The last person would goat the other team into attacking him. There is a near zero chance the other team would have done same so even if they combined their points they would lose to our one guy. I think we could take out their entire team before they figured out what we were doing.

If they do guess our plan earlier we just then they would know the only other way to win would be to gather items. In that case we leave two on base and have everyone else also hunt for items. If the club team does the same thing they did this episode two of their members would be dead. The kicker is our one big guy would still have a bigger number than any one of them. They would have to team up to beat him. They would have to leave one person on base leaving only two to do battle or collect items. We would leave two on base and have 3 collecting items or doing battles.

We could still lose because the items are random factor but the odds would be in our favor. If we were willing to sacrifice someone by attacking their base it would be a sure win. We would have to do it early though, wait to long and the other team might decide to defend the base with all three of their players in the last few minutes of the game assuming they are up in points.

The heart games in Alice in Borderlands season 1 are definitely not "nobody has to die" games.

fangblackbone wrote:

The heart games in Alice in Borderlands season 1 are definitely not "nobody has to die" games.

Nope, they 100% could have been won without anyone dying. They actually made a point of directly stating that in the last episode. However, the solution was only clear in the 10 of hearts game.

Baron Of Hell wrote:
fangblackbone wrote:

The heart games in Alice in Borderlands season 1 are definitely not "nobody has to die" games.

Nope, they 100% could have been won without anyone dying. They actually made a point of directly stating that in the last episode. However, the solution was only clear in the 10 of hearts game.

Just thought about this more, the character that said could be wrong but he is so far the smartest player in the game.

Baron Of Hell wrote:
Baron Of Hell wrote:
fangblackbone wrote:

The heart games in Alice in Borderlands season 1 are definitely not "nobody has to die" games.

Nope, they 100% could have been won without anyone dying. They actually made a point of directly stating that in the last episode. However, the solution was only clear in the 10 of hearts game.

Just thought about this more, the character that said could be wrong but he is so far the smartest player in the game.

I haven't seen season 2 yet, but I'm unable to think of a solution where nobody dies in one of the season 1 episodes - the one where

Spoiler:

they're playing Tag in the botanical garden, and the necklace detonates?

merphle wrote:
Baron Of Hell wrote:
Baron Of Hell wrote:
fangblackbone wrote:

The heart games in Alice in Borderlands season 1 are definitely not "nobody has to die" games.

Nope, they 100% could have been won without anyone dying. They actually made a point of directly stating that in the last episode. However, the solution was only clear in the 10 of hearts game.

Just thought about this more, the character that said could be wrong but he is so far the smartest player in the game.

I haven't seen season 2 yet, but I'm unable to think of a solution where nobody dies in one of the season 1 episodes - the one where

Spoiler:

they're playing Tag in the botanical garden, and the necklace detonates?

Possibly they could have disarmed or removed each other's collars. Arisu was unable to get his off by himself when he tried, but it's possible they could have succeeded had they worked together. The magna had a rule that attempting to remove the collar would cause it to explode, but I don't think the show had that.

Stengah wrote:
merphle wrote:
Baron Of Hell wrote:
Baron Of Hell wrote:
fangblackbone wrote:

The heart games in Alice in Borderlands season 1 are definitely not "nobody has to die" games.

Nope, they 100% could have been won without anyone dying. They actually made a point of directly stating that in the last episode. However, the solution was only clear in the 10 of hearts game.

Just thought about this more, the character that said could be wrong but he is so far the smartest player in the game.

I haven't seen season 2 yet, but I'm unable to think of a solution where nobody dies in one of the season 1 episodes - the one where

Spoiler:

they're playing Tag in the botanical garden, and the necklace detonates?

Possibly they could have disarmed or removed each other's collars. Arisu was unable to get his off by himself when he tried, but it's possible they could have succeeded had they worked together. The magna had a rule that attempting to remove the collar would cause it to explode, but I don't think the show had that.

With that game I don't see a obvious working solution but I can think of some stuff to try. I think one of the points of the game that made it so painful was knowing if they all could work together a solution could be worked out. They could have tried using reflective surfaces to pass the wolf on. They could have tried using their cellphones by taking a picture of the wolf's eyes and seeing if that could pass it on. They could tried to see if more than one person could look into the wolf's eyes to pass it on. They just gave up. I just think the nature of the game demands that there be a way for everyone to win. That is just part of pain of it.

Kaleidoscope was good, perhaps "functional" is a better word, promised a bit more than it delivered though. Finally finished The Cabinet of Curiosities which was similar. Too many slow stories that had a rushed ending but all very well produced.

Wife and I finally started Wednesday over the weekend. It's been fantastic. We got through 6 of the 8 which is impressive for us these days with 2 kids. Hopefully can get the last 2 tonight or tomorrow. Nice to finally see the dance that I've seen spoofed on TV so much already

Man we used to binge all 13 episodes of brand new shows from Fri-Sun. Kids change everything heh.