The Netflix/Hulu/Prime Thread

[behndy]

huh. cool. Ritual looked super generic, so had little to no interest. but i'll check it out.

Blackcoat's Daughter was like that. i knew NOTHING about it. on purpose. except that a friend recommended it. and i looooooveeeeed it.

same with It Comes At Night. that is such a smart, interesting take on horror drama movies.

Daybreakers is on Hulu. it's not AMAZING, but they have a lot of really cool background world building stuff. so. fun.

[neonblack]

I liked daybreakers! Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill in the same cool vampire movie. Good stuff.

I've been meaning to see the blackcoats daughter. I might see if I can find it tonight online somewhere.

I heard mixed things about It Comes at Night but the trailer was spooky as hell

[behndy]

Blackcoat's Daughter Lady is on Prime i think?

[neonblack]

Sweet!

[BetterOffShred]

I liked daybreakers! Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill in the same cool vampire movie. Good stuff.

I've been meaning to see the blackcoats daughter. I might see if I can find it tonight online somewhere.

I heard mixed things about It Comes at Night but the trailer was spooky as hell

Daybreakers was sweet. I love Sam Neill's character .. he was so gloriously evil.. always loved a good vampire movie.

[behndy]

right? think it helps a LOT that it was before Everything Vampire Forever Sparkle SPARKLW Motherfucker times?

...... why don't we have Sparkly Zombies yet? was Warm Bodies the closest we'll get? which. i actually liked. even read the book.

[calfzilla]

GUYS.

The Ritual was pretty great. Seriously spooky and great atmosphere. Lots of tension. Very effective scares and I can't remember a single cheesy jump scare.

Apparently it's very different than the book it was based on but I never read it.

I don't want to spoil anything about it because I knew nothing going in and it was much better that way.

After the stinky shit nugget that was Cloverfield Paradox, Netflix did good with this one.

Ritual definitely went off in a random direction from what I thought... Kinda sorta hated the last bit. Nothing is worse than the ending of The Witch though, so, points to Ritualdor.

I thought paradox was pretty cool. Except I don't remember the dad from Grounded for Life actually explaining what the damn paradox is or why it involves... "things"... Some of the Mystique felt a little artificial.

I've tried watching the first episode of Altered Carbon about 5 times now and I just can't stay interested enough to pay attention.

[Never]

Speaking of anime, did anyone watch Devilman Crybaby? I mean, holy shit

[adamajah]

Watched ep1 of Altered Carbon last night. I hope it gets better cuz I like sci fi stuffs.

The massive amounts of money they must have spent to support such terrible art direction is really cringey.

[BitchPudding]

The Crown is the shit. Starting season 2 tonight.

[The Eristic]

Anybody watched Babylon Berlin yet? It's a historical-fiction/fantasy/political-crime-mystery/neo-noir done by the guy who made Run Lola Run. Took a couple eps to grab me, but I'm *really* digging it.

[Animal Rescue]

Anybody watched Babylon Berlin yet? It's a historical-fiction/fantasy/political-crime-mystery/neo-noir done by the guy who made Run Lola Run. Took a couple eps to grab me, but I'm *really* digging it.

About halfway through and it's an awesome show. Very complex story with great production values. Same as you, took a couple episodes but hooked now. Berlin in '29 was definitely a partying town.
Finished River on Netflix. British miniseries about a detective who sees and talks to "ghosts". Way better than it sounds. Freaking hilarious when he's speaking to ghosts in public and you see it from the public's eyes ... this detective freaking out screaming at a wall. Needless to say he ends up at a shrink.
Have to recommend Gomorrah on Netflix. Hands down the best mob show ever. Top rate. Season 3 should be hitting the US soon.

[calfzilla]

I've tried to watch the first episode of Altered Carbon about 5 times now and I just can't stay focused on it. I keep expecting Holden to say something creepily pedophilic.

Have we talked about the ritual? I'm starting to hate the trend of having a "story" with no context.

I hope they do another season of Slasher. I thought that was a fun series if you like slasher films.

[Kacey Y]

I watched the first episode of Altered Carbon with my wife. I had already added it to my queue and then she heard something about it and wanted to watch it. I dunno if it was just because it was late and we were both tired, but our impression of it was both sort of "Eh...ok". It's a sci-fi thing of a particular style. I kind of felt like I was ahead of the story while watching it. Not ahead of the characters, ahead of the show. Which I don't particularly like, because it makes me feel like the people making it were really impressed with what they did, then never thought about it after that. A lot of the plot felt like it happened because it needed to happen for the story and not because it made sense for anyone to be doing what they were. I will probably get around to watching more of it sometime soon, I'm open to having my mind changed about it.

[behndy]

it's not the BEST, and i do feel they let the source down as butts, but yeah. it gets better. i liked some of the characters as it progressed.