Hidden Gems of Netflix's Watch Instantly

Finally starting to watch "The Toys that Made Us" and wow is that both entertaining and insightful. I had no idea so much of He-Man was by the seat of their pants, essentially.

Fredrik_S wrote:

I binge watched the entire 4th season of Flash this weekend and although they make the same silly things over and over again, I enjoy that show so much. It has heart and emotion and humor. Good stuff.

We stalled out once we got to the crossover because it starts on Supergirl, and someone decided that season 3 of that won't be on Netflix until the end of the month.

Crossovers on TV shows are the worst. And of course, the CW DC shows really like doing them. I think I can trace my loss of interest in Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow back to a crossover where we were confused what was going on because half the plot happened in shows we weren't watching.

Then there was that time I had to pirate Winter Soldier because we missed it in the theater, it wasn't out on home video, and the mid-season plot of Agents of Shield hinged on the events of that movie. It was either pirate the movie, wait months to keep watching the show, or have the movie spoiled and kind of be lost in the show.

Stealthpizza wrote:
muraii wrote:

I watched the whole thing out of a sense of solidarity.

Then you too have found truth and meaning through the adventure of string lady, a sense of motherly love through ice lady, a sense of humanity through captain wig, and a sense of self discovery through redacted?

#TeamStringLady

Yanked at my heart strings she did. Like a pack of dogs—I mean wolves—we are...

#TeamStringLady

Stengah wrote:
Fredrik_S wrote:

I binge watched the entire 4th season of Flash this weekend and although they make the same silly things over and over again, I enjoy that show so much. It has heart and emotion and humor. Good stuff.

We stalled out once we got to the crossover because it starts on Supergirl, and someone decided that season 3 of that won't be on Netflix until the end of the month.

Yeah, I can see that. I just skip those episodes.

My netflix viewings the last couple of days have basically been the all female Ghostbusters reboot, which wasn't really all that funny and generally felt unneccessary, and Warcraft. You do sort of wonder what on earth Duncan Jones was thinking really.

I watched three movies the last three days:

Guardians of the Galaxy 2 - ok I guess, not as good as the first one, too many cheap jokes just to try to be funny along with huge implausible plot holes.

Singularity - terrible movie about machines taking over the earth and then the last few surviving humans 100 years later, huge plot holes, basic things that didn't make sense, just skip.

The Titan - average movie about earth going to crap because of pollution so NATO tries to force evolution to adapt people to go live on Saturn's moon, Titan. It basically followed one of the soldiers in the group chosen and how it affects his family and such, with a backdrop of typical big brother government program. It was ok if you are looking for a time filler.

Oh also there is a new season of Grand Designs up. If you haven't seen it, it is a nice low key british show where the host follows one house building project per episode from planning to move in. All of the houses have some hook that make them unique and it is interesting to see how they are built and the pitfalls and troubles people have and then how the houses come out in the end.

Yeah I like GotG 2 because I love the characters. And I appreciate the Rocket-Yondu story. But the first is better overall

Sorbicol wrote:

My netflix viewings the last couple of days have basically been the all female Ghostbusters reboot, which wasn't really all that funny and generally felt unneccessary, and Warcraft. You do sort of wonder what on earth Duncan Jones was thinking really.

I liked Ghostbusters well enough when it wasn't trying too hard, but sometimes it was. I had fun though.

Warcraft, man, that movie sucks. There's the bones of a good movie buried in there, but they're hidden behind bored performances by basically everyone that's actually physically on screen. The only compelling character in the whole thing is Durotan. Once his story, uh, stops being important I was extra checked out.

Also all the human armor looks like someone made it at home on short notice. There are cosplayers at Blizzcon that put together better looking costumes every year. No excuse for that in a production that size.

As far as I can tell, Warcraft is not available to stream anywhere in the U.S..

Y'all are crazy. Warcraft was fun.

Grenn wrote:

Y'all are crazy. Warcraft was fun.

For fan's of Warcraft As a movie it did suck...

My problem with GotG2 was that it jumped ahead too far. What I'd have preferred was a movie that had them doing a bunch of smaller galaxy guarding jobs and really bonding as a team during the downtime, to show us that they really do consider themselves a family. That feeling didn't feel earned in the movie we got.

So the new Ghostbusters. Love the cast and characters. Somehow the story didn't come together into something satisfying, and the different scenes didn't always feel like they fit together. I can't quite explain it, but I have this gut feeling that the editor on this film either ruined it through incompetence, or pulled off a minor miracle to make an utter garbage fire into something halfway decent. And I can't tell which.

Stengah wrote:

My problem with GotG2 was that it jumped ahead too far. What I'd have preferred was a movie that had them doing a bunch of smaller galaxy guarding jobs and really bonding as a team during the downtime, to show us that they really do consider themselves a family. That feeling didn't feel earned in the movie we got.

Dammit. Now I want this movie.

Also they dot he big movie issue I seem to find everywhere now. They run a one off villain. His Dad could have been a 2 or 3 movie arc if made interesting enough. My opinion it wasn't. I still enjoyed the movie as others above. Fun characters and a few good silly moments made it for me. Still enjoy the first way more.

Hobear wrote:
Stengah wrote:

My problem with GotG2 was that it jumped ahead too far. What I'd have preferred was a movie that had them doing a bunch of smaller galaxy guarding jobs and really bonding as a team during the downtime, to show us that they really do consider themselves a family. That feeling didn't feel earned in the movie we got.

Dammit. Now I want this movie.

Also they dot he big movie issue I seem to find everywhere now. They run a one off villain. His Dad could have been a 2 or 3 movie arc if made interesting enough. My opinion it wasn't. I still enjoyed the movie as others above. Fun characters and a few good silly moments made it for me. Still enjoy the first way more.

Yeah, I had read a whole bunch of GotG comics and some of the events that led to their formation prior to watching GotG2. That's how things tended to go in the comics so it was pretty easy to pinpoint that as what I felt was missing from the movie. The bonding happened, and we get a glimpse of it in the opening sequence, but I think it would have been much better had we seen more of it.

Have we talked about the Danish show "Rain" yet? I feel like we should talk about "Rain" because it's very, very, good. Almost Dark level good. It gets pretty dang crazy pretty fast and yet keeps a slow pace that fits with the story really well. I am only 2 episodes in and I am hooked.

Fredrik_S wrote:

Have we talked about the Danish show "Rain" yet? I feel like we should talk about "Rain" because it's very, very, good. Almost Dark level good. It gets pretty dang crazy pretty fast and yet keeps a slow pace that fits with the story really well. I am only 2 episodes in and I am hooked.

I made it that far and decided i probably don't care about the rest. The young kid actor is just bad and interaction between the main actor and the suit and guy on the radio was way too obvious and boring.

First episode of The Hollow was pretty fun!

LeapingGnome wrote:

As far as I can tell, Warcraft is not available to stream anywhere in the U.S..

It's on HBO Now. I watched I think....10 minutes before it completely sapped my will to live.

Fredrik_S wrote:

Have we talked about the Danish show "Rain" yet? I feel like we should talk about "Rain" because it's very, very, good. Almost Dark level good. It gets pretty dang crazy pretty fast and yet keeps a slow pace that fits with the story really well. I am only 2 episodes in and I am hooked.

Glad you liked it. I couldn't get through the 1st episode.

Felt like this show is a victim of Lost's "we won't really tell you what's going on" school of writing.
I didn't like it for the Mist, Revolution was a complete waste of time, Helix got super convoluted in the first 3 episodes, etc.

If it gets one or two more seasons, I'll take a second look.

Hobbes2099 wrote:

Glad you liked it. I couldn't get through the 1st episode.

Felt like this show is a victim of Lost's "we won't really tell you what's going on" school of writing.
I didn't like it for the Mist, Revolution was a complete waste of time, Helix got super convoluted in the first 3 episodes, etc.

If it gets one or two more seasons, I'll take a second look.

This seems to be the consensus and I can understand why as the first episode moves very slowly. The main boy character grows up in the second ep. and is replaced by an older actor. They then venture outside of the bunker and things start to pick up in speed. I am 5 ep's in now and they haven't explained what exactly they did to cause the rain to be deadly, but they have revealed who did it and have shown inklings on why they did it.

I really enjoyed Rain. The story unfolded fully over the season and it is one of those series where you got some closure from the series ending yet it was open enough to take into another season.

Most main characters were good and bad so they seemed more rounded than many series where the characters are one but not the other.

Well the wife and I started season 4 of Kimmy Schmidt. Figured that would take us through the weekend. Then it was over in 6 episodes. WTF?

Stele wrote:

Well the wife and I started season 4 of Kimmy Schmidt. Figured that would take us through the weekend. Then it was over in 6 episodes. WTF?

Yeah, we just hit the same thing last night. Apparently they're publishing the second have of season 4 next January. Boo!

zeroKFE wrote:
Stele wrote:

Well the wife and I started season 4 of Kimmy Schmidt. Figured that would take us through the weekend. Then it was over in 6 episodes. WTF?

Yeah, we just hit the same thing last night. Apparently they're publishing the second have of season 4 next January. Boo!

Well that sucks.

It's also weird that this is the last actual season, apparently they wanna wrap it up with a film.

RnRClown wrote:
slazev wrote:
RnRClown wrote:

Kick-Ass and Kick-Ass 2 made up our viewing for yesterday and today. I enjoyed the second one the most. Both were cool, though.

And Hit Girl is awesome! I need more Hit Girl!

Not something I thought I'd hear.

Yeah. Everyone mentioned how they thought the sequel was either a dud or simply just okay. I thought it was great. Jim Carrey was awesome. Justice Forever! Hit Girl came into her own. Mother Russia was hilarious. And the absence of Nic Cage didn't hurt either.

Perhaps lowered expectations helped?

Could be, but I thought Nic Cage was great in the first one. Maybe it's this.

I just found out the they have made China Mieville's Cty and The City into a 4 part miniseries.
Quite nervous to start watching it as i have been burnt before on great bools becoming mediocre tv series....but its great.

Brownypoints wrote:

I just found out the they have made China Mieville's Cty and The City into a 4 part miniseries.
Quite nervous to start watching it as i have been burnt before on great bools becoming mediocre tv series....but its great.

We watched that when it was on BBC2, got so hooked by the end of the first episode we essentially binge watched the rest of it on iPlayer immediately afterwards. It was rather good.