Netflix/Amazon Recommendations

bunnellsc · Postby **bunnellsc** » Thu Oct 01, 2015

Engineer wrote:I'm looking for movies to add to the wife's playlist. Can anyone recommend good "empowered wife leaves her husband" shows?

TV series with badass female leads...
Revenge
The Good Wife
Scandal
Weeds

NorthernStacker · Postby **NorthernStacker** » Sat Oct 17, 2015

"Interstellar "wow it was a lot better then I thought it was going to be, plus it has 5 star rating on netflix.

XFactor · Postby **XFactor** » Fri Oct 23, 2015

Even if you don't like si-fi... Watch Battlestar Gallactica. One of my favs.

Postby **MaxGravy** » Wed Dec 09, 2015

The Wrecking Crew

"A celebration of the musical work of a group of session musicians known as "The Wrecking Crew", a band that provided back-up instrumentals to such legendary recording artists as Frank Sinatra, The Beach Boys and Bing Crosby."

The Bullionaire · Postby **The Bullionaire** » Wed Dec 09, 2015

I liked the show Lilyhammer, and I'm just starting to get into the series Hell on Wheels

Postby **PeacePeople** » Wed Dec 09, 2015

The Bullionaire wrote:I liked the show Lilyhammer

Too bad it's gone. Netflix won't carry it any longer and I'm not sure they've made any more episodes.

scott · Postby **scott** » Sat Dec 26, 2015

The Rocky movies are up on netflix, well worth watching if it's been a while. My 11 yr old daughter and I are enjoying watching them together as we've wanted to do since seeing Creed. It pleases me that she's loving them as much as I do.

silverhoarder3 · Postby **silverhoarder3** » Sat Dec 26, 2015

For those who watched and enjoyed Marco Polo, the new short:
Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes
The backstory on the blind monk was very good :thumbup:

dae2dae · Postby **dae2dae** » Sat Dec 26, 2015

silverhoarder3 wrote:For those who watched and enjoyed Marco Polo, the new short:
Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes
The backstory on the blind monk was very good

Sweet!

Postby **PeacePeople** » Mon Dec 28, 2015

Netflix hasn't been all that good lately, so I got Hulu. Watching season one of SNL...yes, 1975...

Brucifer · Postby **Brucifer** » Mon Dec 28, 2015

Ditto about declining quality of Netflix offerings. Lots of Brit TV series shows, but the movie offerings are getting overpopulated with one-star and two-star dogs.

Postby **MaxGravy** » Mon Dec 28, 2015

PeacePeople wrote:Netflix hasn't been all that good lately, so I got Hulu. Watching season one of SNL...yes, 1975...

You don't like Andy Griffith?

Zugzwang · Postby **Zugzwang** » Wed Dec 30, 2015

Hiya All,
Could someone with Netflix tell me if they show old/classic cartoons? Thinking about Bugs Bunny, Heckle and Jeckle etc...
Cheers,
L.

brian0918 · Postby **brian0918** » Wed Dec 30, 2015

Zugzwang wrote:Hiya All,
Could someone with Netflix tell me if they show old/classic cartoons? Thinking about Bugs Bunny, Heckle and Jeckle etc...
Cheers,
L.

No, I don't see anything like that in their collection. From my experience Looney Tunes and other classic cartoons don't really have any complete collections available.

And a lot of the ones you see on TV today have been butchered for time length and to be more politically correct.

brian0918 · Postby **brian0918** » Wed Dec 30, 2015

For comic book shows, I really liked Daredevil, as well as Jessica Jones (though not as much).

Peaky Blinders was pretty good if you like historical crime dramas.

Currently working through Breaking Bad, and X-Files, which was my childhood.

And of course check out Sherlock.

brian0918 · Postby **brian0918** » Wed Dec 30, 2015

AndeanCat wrote:Orange is the New Black. A friend gave me the first series on DVD. Was funny.

I want to watch the second season.

We tried watching that, but their unique idea of showing the backstories of the female inmates, in order to give the characters more depth, is kind of ruined by the fact that the male guards are completely one dimensional.

brian0918 · Postby **brian0918** » Wed Dec 30, 2015

If you're a fan of Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits, you might like Black Mirror as well.

Fusion · Postby **Fusion** » Thu Dec 31, 2015

I would recommend '71 as a good film to watch. It's about a British soldier stuck behind enemy lines in Northern Ireland. Very good script, plot and cinematography.

I also re-watched "The Jackal" with Richard Gere, Sidney Pointie and Bruce Willis. What a good movie I had completely forgotten about.

Zugzwang · Postby **Zugzwang** » Thu Dec 31, 2015

brian0918 wrote:No, I don't see anything like that in their collection. From my experience Looney Tunes and other classic cartoons don't really have any complete collections available.

And a lot of the ones you see on TV today have been butchered for time length and to be more politically correct.

Bummer, will probably get Netflix anyways... Thanks

Cheers,
Z.

Postby **MaxGravy** » Thu Jul 14, 2016

Fastball

We watched this excellent documentary on Netflix last night. :thumbup:

Scientists and baseball greats analyze what a batter faces when a pitcher hurls a fastball, which takes less than half a second to reach home plate. Narrated by Kevin Costner.