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

Different versions wrote:

That's because the actor who played him (Joel Kinnaman) is Swedish and not Danish! ;-)

Kinnaman appeared in the American version of The Killing Series. The Danish version is all Danish actors.[/quote]

Um, yeah, Kinnaman (a Swedish actor) was in the American version--that's why I made my (attempted) "funny" about his being better because he's a Swede and not a Dane...

Anyway, thanks to all for more suggestions!

kibitzer wrote:

Different versions wrote:

That's because the actor who played him (Joel Kinnaman) is Swedish and not Danish! ;-)

Kinnaman appeared in the American version of The Killing Series. The Danish version is all Danish actors.

Um, yeah, Kinnaman (a Swedish actor) was in the American version--that's why I made my (attempted) "funny" about his being better because he's a Swede and not a Dane...

Anyway, thanks to all for more suggestions![/quote]

Americans are famous for casting out of place actors. Charles Bronson played Mexicans a lot. Swedish actors can be Danish, Finish, etc. Americans might find them convincing, but people who are actually from those countries find them appalling.

Okay, I'm gonna take a look at "Dangal." Don't think I've heard anything at all about it, beyond the recommendation here, so I'll be going in without preconceptions.

And I did get started on "Dark." I had just watched a couple minutes of it before, so had thought it was in German--didn't realize that it would be dubbed into English, though I guess I could/should have anticipated that. That was really disappointing, because I was looking forward using it to strengthen my German. I'm still going to give it a shot, though: One of the viewing options is German subtitles, so I've been going with that--interesting to me that the English dubbed dialogue is *really* not a translation of the original German.

Yeah, and I got started on the LOTR trilogy--watched the first movie, which I'd seen years ago in a large-screen movie theater. Didn't enjoy it quite as much as I had then--maybe the smaller screen diminished the "spectacle" aspect and focused me more on the story and acting and editing, which had noticeable seams--but I'll certainly finish it. Still very, very entertaining.

And forget my previous noise about the dubbed version of "Dark"--I see that Netflix gives me the option of changing the language to the original German!--or at least it does in "Babylon Berlin" so I'm going to assume that "Dark" is the same.

As always, thanks for the input!

You can watch it in German with English subtitles.

Stopped watching House if Cards due to too much gay/tranny garbage.

The Killing

J Martin wrote:

The Killing

Both versions.

Danish series, 2007-2012, 40 episodes

America series takeoff, 2011-2014, 44 episodes

Then is the excellent Kubrick film The Killing from 1956.

All of the above a excellent and highly recommended.

StoppedWatching wrote:

Stopped watching House [of] Cards due to too much gay/tranny garbage.

Hmm. Well, being personally secure in my own sexuality, I didn't feel threatened by that stuff...but the last season or two did feel a little lame, maybe because it's tough to keep plot-twisting?

Only eight episodes in the coming (final) season. I'm pretty likely to watch.

There is nothing more important in life than to avoid harmful addictions. Addiction to pornography is the most harmful one to men! If you have it, get help.

Fannns wrote:

There is nothing more important in life than to avoid harmful addictions. Addiction to pornography is the most harmful one to men! If you have it, get help.

Well, that's a weird little note. But I just finished this article, and it seems relevant to your post.

Fannns wrote:

There is nothing more important in life than to avoid harmful addictions. Addiction to pornography is the most harmful one to men! If you have it, get help.

Well, I can think of a couple things that I might rate as more important than avoiding harmful addictions. You know: feeding children, ending war, that kind of stuff.

And I can honestly think of some addictions that would be more harmful to a man than an addiction to porn. An addiction to pounding tenpenny nails into random spots on my head would probably be worse, I'm thinking. And even something as everyday as heroin addiction would be worse, seems to me. Certainly an addiction to tobacco is no picnic.

I *could* see potential harm in an addiction to porn, but very early on I switched from my dominant hand to my "off" hand, thus avoiding the danger of growing up lopsided.

Thanks for posting!

Dangal wrote:

Watch Dangal. One of the greatest sports movies and girl power movies ever

Wow, thanks so much for your recommendation--otherwise I don't think I'd ever have seen this!

A great fun movie--and a real wake-up call for me, because it was described as a Hindi-language movie and I was hardly understanding any of what they were saying except for the numbers! (Hindi was my one A-plus course in twelve years of university education...) Thank goodness for the subtitles. I looked it up later and found that they were speaking the Haryanvi dialect, which is pretty distinct from the "standard" Hindi that I'd learned.

Anyway, thanks again for this. I've gotten some great tips from this thread!

Father Brown

Okay, now bingeing through "Kill Bill" vols. 1 and 2. I am not an unalloyed fan of Tarentino (as may be obvious from previous posts) but I think these two are brilliant--I'd actually forgotten how much I admired the second movie.

[By the way I lived in El Paso for years and can tell you that the alleged "El Paso" locations are from somewhere else.]

Any other movies or TV shows to recommend?

I'm an American, but I've been discovering fantastic shows from over the pond.

Check out White Gold, Toast of London, and Still Game if you like comedies.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Altered Carbon

Mind Hunter

So I re-watched "Goodfellas" and "Spotlight"--really enjoy the ensemble acting work in both movies, especially the latter. I really thought "Spotlight" was excellent, but it seems like a lot of people have it in the good-but-not-great category.

Also caught Sarah Silverman's and Chris Rock's latest sets. His was kinda different from previous, maybe in part because of a different setting (smaller, somewhat more "intimate" audience) but also because he's well in his 50s now. How did that happen? And Silverman is no spring chicken either. Enjoyed both shows, though.

Got started on "Dark." Maybe my language skills are *all* diminishing, because I was missing some of the German they were saying--glad, again, for the subtitles.

Any other recommendations of movies or TV, whether on Netflix or not? And thanks again for all the previous suggestions!