Netflix - What gems have you found? (NO SPOILERS) (Vol. 2)

Netflix - What gems have you found? (NO SPOILERS) (Vol. 2)

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The Rotrex Kid

30,733 posts

163 months

Tuesday 4th June
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Smollet said:
The Rotrex Kid said:
Watched Godzilla this morning, really enjoyed it.

Watched all of Eric this week and enjoyed that too.
Weirdo. wink
I know, right?

I might even give Season 3 of Bridgerton a whirl silly

JoshSm

296 posts

40 months

Tuesday 4th June
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Scavengers Reign

Animated sci-fi thing, lots of weirdness. Did well with critics, very strong style to it, apparently similar to Moebius' work but also reminded me of some Japanese stuff.

BryanC

1,110 posts

241 months

Tuesday 4th June
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The Gray Man

Ryan Gosling has to kill another agent.
After the body count hit approximately 10,000 I gave up. Absolutely bonkers !
4 / 10

Smollet

10,920 posts

193 months

Tuesday 4th June
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BryanC said:
The Gray Man

Ryan Gosling has to kill another agent.
After the body count hit approximately 10,000 I gave up. Absolutely bonkers !
4 / 10
Brain out viewing. Enjoyable nonsense. 6/10

Skodapondy

318 posts

51 months

Tuesday 4th June
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The Gray Man, is a good old fashioned cheese fest. Have we forgotten John Wick, Olympus Has Fallem etc.

Clockwork Cupcake

75,256 posts

275 months

Tuesday 4th June
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JoshSm said:
Scavengers Reign

Animated sci-fi thing, lots of weirdness. Did well with critics, very strong style to it, apparently similar to Moebius' work but also reminded me of some Japanese stuff.
You had me at Moebius. I will have to watch this

skilly1

2,711 posts

198 months

Tuesday 4th June
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Tyres is worth a watch. Brain out comedy series with excellent inappropriate adult language!

andyjo1982

4,969 posts

213 months

Wednesday 5th June
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Acorn1 said:
Skeptisk said:
Steamer said:
warp9 said:
C5_Steve said:
ajprice said:
Heads up for Godzilla Minus One https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81767635?s=a&...
Can't believe they dropped this with no fanfare or anything, didn't even show in the new section for me I had to search for it!

Glad it's on there though, amazing film.
+1 it's a really great film, well worth a watch.

I fell asleep for 30 minutes in the middle of Atlas, which was definitely a better use of my time.
Perfect Sunday Afternoon Film.

Really enjoyed that - had no idea what to expect. Certainly didn't disappoint.
I am a sucker for Japanese films. Didn’t disappoint.
I enjoyed it, beacame hilarious the more you watched it, gotta love Japanese over acting
We watched G-1 on Saturday night. Didn't do much for me, though it was better than the Hollywood films of late.

Felt annoyed I didn't watch the original version with subtitles, felt the dubbing was pretty dreadful, and really took something away from the film for me.

Smollet

10,920 posts

193 months

Wednesday 5th June
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andyjo1982 said:
Felt annoyed I didn't watch the original version with subtitles, felt the dubbing was pretty dreadful, and really took something away from the film for me.
I loathe voice dubbing with a vengeance but didn’t find it too intrusive on this occasion and watched the whole film with not much of an issue.

Skeptisk

7,785 posts

112 months

Wednesday 5th June
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andyjo1982 said:
Acorn1 said:
Skeptisk said:
Steamer said:
warp9 said:
C5_Steve said:
ajprice said:
Heads up for Godzilla Minus One https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81767635?s=a&...
Can't believe they dropped this with no fanfare or anything, didn't even show in the new section for me I had to search for it!

Glad it's on there though, amazing film.
+1 it's a really great film, well worth a watch.

I fell asleep for 30 minutes in the middle of Atlas, which was definitely a better use of my time.
Perfect Sunday Afternoon Film.

Really enjoyed that - had no idea what to expect. Certainly didn't disappoint.
I am a sucker for Japanese films. Didn’t disappoint.
I enjoyed it, beacame hilarious the more you watched it, gotta love Japanese over acting
We watched G-1 on Saturday night. Didn't do much for me, though it was better than the Hollywood films of late.

Felt annoyed I didn't watch the original version with subtitles, felt the dubbing was pretty dreadful, and really took something away from the film for me.
I really don’t like watching dubbed films. I am very used to reading subtitles. Often we have them on during English language programmes and films too.

For me it changes the feeling completely, particularly Japanese. It just sounds wrong.

C5_Steve

3,686 posts

106 months

Wednesday 5th June
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Skeptisk said:
I really don’t like watching dubbed films. I am very used to reading subtitles. Often we have them on during English language programmes and films too.

For me it changes the feeling completely, particularly Japanese. It just sounds wrong.
Yeah I'm very much the same, if I can't watch something in the original language I'll avoid it all together. It's never the same.

Clockwork Cupcake

75,256 posts

275 months

Wednesday 5th June
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C5_Steve said:
Skeptisk said:
I really don’t like watching dubbed films. I am very used to reading subtitles. Often we have them on during English language programmes and films too.

For me it changes the feeling completely, particularly Japanese. It just sounds wrong.
Yeah I'm very much the same, if I can't watch something in the original language I'll avoid it all together. It's never the same.
And that's fine, so long as it's kept as a personal preference.

What I hate in the whole 'dub vs sub' "debate" [sic] is when people try to impose their preference on others, to the extent of saying that watching a dubbed version is wrong / shouldn't be allowed / shouldn't be provided / whatever. I'm very much in favour of choice and allowing people to make that choice.

Note: Not saying either of you are doing this, but I'm fed up to my back teeth with people who do.

My personal choice is whatever I feel like at the time. Sometimes I might want to get into a film by watching the dubbed version and then later on watch it again with the subbed version. Or maybe the other way round. Depends on what I feel like. smile


some bloke

1,081 posts

70 months

Wednesday 5th June
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I like subtitles occasionally - I have watched programmes on x2 speed and read the subs if I'm in a hurry. I also used to put them on and play music instead of listing to the show.

Clockwork Cupcake

75,256 posts

275 months

Wednesday 5th June
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What can sometimes be amusing to do is to watch a dubbed version with the English subtitles turned on, as very often two completely different people / teams did the translations for each, and sometimes they can differ quite substantially. biggrin

C5_Steve

3,686 posts

106 months

Wednesday 5th June
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Clockwork Cupcake said:
And that's fine, so long as it's kept as a personal preference.

What I hate in the whole 'dub vs sub' "debate" [sic] is when people try to impose their preference on others, to the extent of saying that watching a dubbed version is wrong / shouldn't be allowed / shouldn't be provided / whatever. I'm very much in favour of choice and allowing people to make that choice.

Note: Not saying either of you are doing this, but I'm fed up to my back teeth with people who do.

My personal choice is whatever I feel like at the time. Sometimes I might want to get into a film by watching the dubbed version and then later on watch it again with the subbed version. Or maybe the other way round. Depends on what I feel like. smile
Yep, like people who watch something in English with the subtitles on when English is their first language. Seems to be something more common with a younger generation and it would annoy the hell out of me but you do you, doesn't effect my viewing pleasure smile

I find it an odd thing to get annoyed about considering outside of the English-speaking world I think most films in English are dubbed rather than subbed for big cinema releases and a lot of effort goes into the casting of the voice actors.

toasty

7,554 posts

223 months

Wednesday 5th June
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Couldn’t be bothered to finish Godzilla. It just didn’t grab my attention.


moanthebairns

18,025 posts

201 months

Wednesday 5th June
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Smollet said:
illmonkey said:
Watched ep1 of Eric and won’t be continuing
Likewise. Extremely turgid
The first few episodes I never knew what to make of it. Seemed all over the place, but I felt it came together in the last two. I Really enjoyed it in the end it gets rather dark, I can see why people might have switched off though.

wombleh

1,830 posts

125 months

Wednesday 5th June
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Aquarius - fox mulder vs charlie manson. Old series so not sure if added recently or just happened to pop up in my list.

Its pretty naff, but entertaining at the same time and I’m still watching it. Maybe in hope that Gillian Anderson will appear.

DodgyGeezer

41,090 posts

193 months

Wednesday 5th June
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Under Paris (aka Jaws in Paris hehe ) first things first.... yes it is st. It doesn't have the same budget or production values as 'The Meg', but it is fun in a televisual wallpaper kinda way with (to me) quite a surprise ending.

EmilA

1,549 posts

160 months

Thursday 6th June
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Sweet Tooth season 3 is now on Netflix. Really enjoyed the first two seasons, this I believe is the last season.