Now have NETFLIX access--recommendations of TV SERIES and FILMS?

Now that you mention it, I see that 'The Taking of Pelham 123' is on Prime, so I'm gonna go with that. I actually saw 'Condor' pretty recently.

I can't think of any other titles to add to the list of movies that are better than their books, though.

kibitzer wrote:

Now that you mention it, I see that 'The Taking of Pelham 123' is on Prime, so I'm gonna go with that. I actually saw 'Condor' pretty recently.

I can't think of any other titles to add to the list of movies that are better than their books, though.

Marathon Man

Jaws

Das Boot

All movies that were better than the book

Yes wrote:

kibitzer wrote:

Now that you mention it, I see that 'The Taking of Pelham 123' is on Prime, so I'm gonna go with that. I actually saw 'Condor' pretty recently.

I can't think of any other titles to add to the list of movies that are better than their books, though.

Marathon Man

Jaws

Das Boot

All movies that were better than the book

Das Boot? OMG, you are so wrong about the book. Try it again in 10 years or so.

Yes wrote:

kibitzer wrote:

Now that you mention it, I see that 'The Taking of Pelham 123' is on Prime, so I'm gonna go with that. I actually saw 'Condor' pretty recently.

I can't think of any other titles to add to the list of movies that are better than their books, though.

Marathon Man

We'll have to agree to disagree. I thought the movie was great but enjoyed the book tremendously and thought it was at least as good. (Same with "Silence of the Lambs," now that I think about it.)

I may revisit both--it's been decades since I consumed them.

Oh, and the original "Taking of Pelham" movie was great to re-see.

Very much of its time, and some of the racial stuff clanks today, but really entertaining.

Being so much more familiar with NYC now, compared to when I first saw "Pelham" and "Condor," helped me enjoy them more.

I might add that a ton of *great* movies are on Netflix and Prime these days. Wow.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/05/the-50-best-movies-on-amazon-prime.html?p=2

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/05/the-100-best-movies-on-netflix.html

Final note, and I've probably mentioned this already, but "The Handmaiden" (Korean film) is extraordinary.

p.n. wrote:

What about this series Goliath with Billy Bob Thornton? I think it's on Amazon Prime.

Any feedback?

It's very good. Billy Bob Thornton is excellent and the rest of the cast are very well chosen. Entertaining watch.

A word of warning though. Watch it as a stand-alone season. The following one/s are just terrible. Complete non-sensical tripe. Don't know what exactly happened but it's like the writers had a collective stroke.

As I said though. Watch the first season as a single series and you're good.

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Good movies I've seen on Netflix recently

Frances Ha

While We're Young

Wine Country

Nothing to Hide

The Ritual

Black Panther

Death Note

Thanks for input!

Shut up, democrat.

I recently re-binged "Breaking Bad" (using the term "binged" loosely--it took me some weeks) and I really do think it's one of the truly great series. I realized this time that a major part of that assessment was that its final season was very "satisfying." There were one or two loose ends or implausibilities, but overall the last episodes wrapped up the whole series beautifully--compared to, say, "The Sopranos" or "GOT."

I'm not surprised that Paste ranks it #1.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/08/best-tv-on-netflix.html

"You"

Dexter

You

Lost

Breaking Bad

Heroes(idk if thats on there anymore)

The flash and the whole cw network of shows haha

Good suggestions! Anybody else? (And how 'bout individual movies that are now available on TV?)

Ozark

Season 3 is coming on march 27!

Recently re-watched the whole of "House of Cards"--took some weeks--and it was interestingly different from my memory of it.

The Spacey-less last season, though it included some very unlikely premises, was still successful IMO--much better as a stand-alone than I had remembered it. And I had to give Robin Wright more credit (throughout the series) than I previously had...she "sold" her character well.

I have Amazon Prime, HBO Go, and Netflix--any further recommendations? NYC may be moving to a Phase Two opening on Monday but I'm likely to be mostly indoors for quite a while yet.

If you have Amazon Prime there are *tons* of good movies (and a bunch of meh ones) there. They're killin' it this month.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/best-movies-amazon-prime/

And the same on Netflix. I guess if you put enough movies on, there are bound to be some good ones.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/best-movies-on-netflix/

I think theaters are open now in a lot of places (not my town, though), but I wonder whether the lockdowns will put some of them out of business for good. There's just a lot of good stuff you don't have to leave home to see.