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16 hours ago, Mr.Crowley said:

Watched the first episode of"The Haunting of Hill House". More scares and dread than all of the horror movies I've seen this year combined. Great cast too.

 

I was interested but then the trailer seemed a bif goofy, typical terrible child actors etc. Was it just a bad trailer?

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15 minutes ago, Chadruharazzeb said:

I too shall watch Apostle. So the consensus is that it's good, just don't expect anything like The Raid or that bit from VHS2? 

I thought it was very good, but not quite up there with the Raid films 

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Watched an hour of July 22 last night after hearing Mark Kermode praise it but I think I have to agree with the critics, it's a bit shallow and by the numbers. Bit of a cliche too, almost plays out like an episode of Corrie where everyone is having fun and having a sing song in the Rovers as impending doom approaches.

 

Talking of Netflix I watched the first 30mins of HoldTheDark the other night which is essentially about a missing/kidnapped child, now whenever you get these films you get openings of the parents playing with the child and having fun/smiling/bonding etc. In Hold the Dark there is no interaction at all, just distant brief cold eye contact between child and mother. Child just vanishes within 3 minutes of opening. So incredibly refreshing.

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1 hour ago, Chadruharazzeb said:

 

I mean if Gareth Evans can't save Netflix films from mediocrity there's no hope. 

 

There are loads of excellent Netflix films - why would they need saving from mediocrity?

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Are they all the films Netflix has funded from script to screen, or is that a mix of those and other stuff that they’ve simply snapped up the distribution rights to?

 

i actually think it’s a pretty decent, diverse list both in terms of quality and genre.subject matter. It’s as if Netflix are the new Blockbuster. 

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31 minutes ago, kerraig UK said:

Not sure how comprehensive this list is, but fuck me. Okja, Beasts of no Nation and Siege at Jagotville are essentially the only good Netflix movies:

 

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls066235615/

 

Yes, those three are excellent. Off the top of my head I can also think of What Happened, Miss Simone?, Team Foxcatcher, The Short Game - and that’s without even mentioning Herzog’s superlative Into The Inferno. 

 

So that’s seven excellent films off the top of my head. I’ve seen almost nothing off the list of Netflix Originals, so I’m quite confident there are more excellent films than the seven I’ve coincidentally seen.

 

What the ratio of excellent to shit is doesn’t really concern me, though. I’m just bemused that anyone could describe the above seven films as ‘mediocre’ - unless they hadn’t seen them and consequently didn’t know what they were talking about, of course.

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12 minutes ago, ZOK said:

 

Yes, those three are excellent. Off the top of my head I can also think of What Happened, Miss Simone?, Team Foxcatcher, The Short Game - and that’s without even mentioning Herzog’s superlative Into The Inferno. 

 

So that’s seven excellent films off the top of my head. I’ve seen almost nothing off the list of Netflix Originals, so I’m quite confident there are more excellent films than the seven I’ve coincidentally seen.

 

What the ratio of excellent to shit is doesn’t really concern me, though. I’m just bemused that anyone could describe the above seven films as ‘mediocre’ - unless they hadn’t seen them and consequently didn’t know what they were talking about, of course.

 

When I say 'Movies' i'm not counting feature length documentaries. Netflix has loads of great documentary. In fact I'd argue that's their biggest strength. 

But fuck me are they terrible at movies. The three I mentioned are their best three. And I'd say each of them are 7/10 at best. Okja is flabby and messy (although at times genius), Siege at Jagotville is perfectly serviceable and Beasts of no Nation is strong. Maybe that one is an 8/10.


I've seen many of the others, including recommended stuff like I Don't belong in the World Anymore and Into the Dark. They're not good.

Netflix is a horrible platform for movies.

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1 minute ago, kerraig UK said:

 

When I say 'Movies' i'm not counting feature length documentaries. Netflix has loads of great documentary. In fact I'd argue that's their biggest strength. 

But fuck me are they terrible at movies. 

 

Well, @Chadruharazzeb said ‘films’, and they are unarguably all films.

 

But even if one pretended they’re not, the three ‘films’ you mentioned are clearly not mediocre by any measure, so I don’t know what his point is. 

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55 minutes ago, kerraig UK said:

Not sure how comprehensive this list is, but fuck me. Okja, Beasts of no Nation and Siege at Jagotville are essentially the only good Netflix movies:

 

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls066235615/

 

I'd probably count Annihilation as a Netflix film, and I haven't seen Apostle or Hold The Dark, but fucking hell, that is a sorry-looking lineup.

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9 minutes ago, kerraig UK said:

 

They're not mediocre. They're also not great.

 

I refuse to believe I just happened to have seen the only Netflix films worth watching, though. I know I’m amazing, but I’m still just a man, subject to fair fortune, as are all men. 

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8 minutes ago, K said:

 

I'd probably count Annihilation as a Netflix film, and I haven't seen Apostle or Hold The Dark, but fucking hell, that is a sorry-looking lineup.

 

Is Annihalation a Netflix film too? I’ve seen that, and it’s decent. Not excellent, but you’d have to be a moron to suggest it’s mediocre.

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Just now, ZOK said:

 

Is Annihalation a Netflix film too? I’ve seen that, and it’s decent. Not excellent, but you’d have to be a moron to suggest it’s mediocre.

 

It wasn't produced by Netflix, it was just distributed by them in the UK. So it's borderline, but it appeared on Netflix rather than in the cinema, so I'd say it counted. And yeah, it's pretty good.

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