Movies and TV shows (general recommendation thread)

[dwy000]

On 5/26/2025 at 1:27 AM, Parsad said:

Mobland on Paramount has been amazing!  Some of Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren and Paddy Considine's best work.  Cheers!

 

 

Have been loving this. Wait for each new episode with baited breath.  Just hoping the wrap up for episode 10 lives up to the series so far.  Helen Miren plays the matriarch bitch just so well

[Spekulatius]

The Netflix series - Turning point Vietnam war is excellent:

https://www.netflix.com/title/81756795
 

Vietnam war documentaries are a dime in dozen but this one is better than others to explain the political background than others I have seen.

Edited May 31, 2025 by Spekulatius

[boilermaker75]

If you like British detective TV, we enjoy "The Chelsea Detective."

[LC]

2 hours ago, boilermaker75 said:

If you like British detective TV, we enjoy "The Chelsea Detective."

Thank you! Have you seen Ludwig? Another good one in the genre.

[dwy000]

3 minutes ago, LC said:

Thank you! Have you seen Ludwig? Another good one in the genre.

British shows are the be best.  Great writing and a cast that looks like real people not Instagram models. 

[DooDiligence]

Inter got absolutely spanked. Henri is almost as fun to watch as a commentator as he was as a player. He wore a jacket with a Fendi graphic on the back at one point in the pre-match show. Can't find any licensing deals.

Edited May 31, 2025 by DooDiligence

[boilermaker75]

2 hours ago, dwy000 said:

British shows are the be best.  Great writing and a cast that looks like real people not Instagram models. 

 

I agree plus they tend to be much better actors.

[boilermaker75]

2 hours ago, LC said:

Thank you! Have you seen Ludwig? Another good one in the genre.

 

I have seen Ludwig. We love that show also.

[Xerxes]

On 5/26/2025 at 4:27 AM, Parsad said:

Mobland on Paramount has been amazing!  Some of Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren and Paddy Considine's best work.  Cheers!

 

 

I finished it. I would classify it as an ok fun show to watch. 
 

did you ever watch Paatal Lok on prime. 
I believe it is thriller police show based in Mumbai or Delhi. 

[Parsad]

5 hours ago, Xerxes said:

I finished it. I would classify it as an ok fun show to watch. 
 

did you ever watch Paatal Lok on prime. 
I believe it is thriller police show based in Mumbai or Delhi. 

 

Whhhaaaatttt?  Ok fun!  

 

I thought just the speech in the season finale between Paddy Considine and Pierce Brosnan was one of the best things I've seen all year.

 

No.  Have not seen Paatal Lok...will watch it.  Cheers!

[LC]

5 hours ago, Parsad said:

I thought just the speech in the season finale between Paddy Considine and Pierce Brosnan was one of the best things I've seen all year.

 

I really enjoyed that scene. I also thought Brosnan's enjoyment of his prison welcome was the cherry on the cake of his psychopathy. Lunatics all around, but fun to watch.

[Parsad]

8 hours ago, LC said:

 

I really enjoyed that scene. I also thought Brosnan's enjoyment of his prison welcome was the cherry on the cake of his psychopathy. Lunatics all around, but fun to watch.

 

Yeah...remember when this guy was skinny Remington Steele and most people thought he would make a terrible Bond.  He pretty much nails the aging head of a brutal mob family in Mobland and was amazing fun to watch!  Cheers!

[Xerxes]

17 hours ago, Parsad said:

 

Whhhaaaatttt?  Ok fun!  

 

I thought just the speech in the season finale between Paddy Considine and Pierce Brosnan was one of the best things I've seen all year.

 

No.  Have not seen Paatal Lok...will watch it.  Cheers!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paatal_Lok

 

[Parsad]

On 6/2/2025 at 7:06 PM, Xerxes said:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paatal_Lok

 

 

Watched the first season...was excellent!  Not sure if it was better or any worse than Mobland.  Totally enjoyed both of them!  The actors on both shows were superb!  Cheers!

[Hektor]

Has anyone watched ‘Families Like Ours“ on Netflix? What are your thoughts.

https://www.netflix.com/title/82011624?source=35&fromWatch=true

 

I saw a review on NYT. Sounds interesting. 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/arts/television/families-like-ours-review-netflix.html

 

Families Like Ours’ Review: Emptying Denmark

In Thomas Vinterberg’s series on Netflix, climate change forces a country to close, and everyone has to leave.

[Parsad]

On 6/4/2025 at 1:45 AM, Parsad said:

 

Watched the first season...was excellent!  Not sure if it was better or any worse than Mobland.  Totally enjoyed both of them!  The actors on both shows were superb!  Cheers!

 

Second season was also terrific!  Cheers!

[DooDiligence]

 

[DooDiligence]

Also, RIP Bill Moyers.

 

 

 

 

Edited June 27, 2025 by DooDiligence

[Xerxes]

On 6/14/2025 at 3:26 PM, Parsad said:

 

Second season was also terrific!  Cheers!

I am going through second season now. 
 

Learning about Nagaland and the North East. Asiatic looking folks, Christian at that are living in the mountains. Highly intriguing … 
 

The plot is a bit hard to follow as I have to read subtitle. 

[Xerxes]

I tried watching Fargo. What a disaster.
 

Started well but got bogged down in cheesy exchanges and dialogues between characters.  
 

It almost felt like True Detective before failing miserably. 
 

 

 

Edited June 27, 2025 by Xerxes

[Longnose]

Wife and I finished Alone Australia Season 3 Last night. Epic season hard core people with some serious grit.

 

First 2 seasons sucked but 3 was solid. 

 

 

[Rainier]

Recently watched (last few months): 

 

Gladiator II - Far inferior to the first movie.  I was highly disappointed. Middle school level writing.

Mission Impossible Final Reckoning: Not quite as good as the last few movies, but that’s a high bar for me as I like them quite a bit. But it is still a pretty good movie and worth seeing, but I think the writing kind of took a backseat a little. Definitely the least complicated plot in the series. As usual, it has a couple of stunning action/stunt sequences. Sort of like a love letter to the prior films. 

 

The Accountant 2: I liked the first one and this was about as good. Maybe slightly better.

 

Mickey 17: I didn’t care for this at all. Maybe I’m getting old, but I thought the villain(s) was atrocious. I wish I’d turned it off halfway through like my intuition told me and saved myself an hour I’ll never get back. I feel like Bong Joon Ho is one of those directors that really needs to avoid anything with a political message to it. He is so hamfisted. Great visual director who needs a better writing partner.
 

Cleaner: Dumb action movie reminiscent of Die Hard. It was fine for what it is.

 

The Order (Jude Law): This was pretty good. It’s one of those things that probably would have been better as a mini series. That area of the country at that time is a very interesting slice of America. The movie doesn’t spend much time on the background of the area and just focuses on the crime spree.  Mini series would have been more impactful IMO.

 

Edited July 25, 2025 by Rainier

[Parsad]

2 hours ago, Rainier said:

 

The Order (Jude Law): This was pretty good. It’s one of those things that probably would have been better as a mini series. That area of the country at that time is a very interesting slice of America. The movie doesn’t spend much time on the background of the area and just focuses on the crime spree.  Mini series would have been more impactful IMO.

 

 

Agree!  I just saw it this weekend.  Would have been better as a mini-series, but was still one of the better movies this year.  Jude Law was always a pretty good actor, but I have to say, as he's aged, he's become one of the finer actors of his generation.

 

I also recommend "The Return" with Ralph Fiennes as Odysseus.  A slow build to a dramatic, brutal finish!  He's exceptional...one of the few actors who I would rank up there with Daniel Day Lewis, but never got his due or some of those juicier roles that he deserved.  He's even better than he was in Conclave.  I'm sure Christopher Nolan's movie on Odysseus will be terrific, but doubt very much that Matt Damon's version of the King will stand up anywhere near Ralph Fiennes version.  Like Day-Lewis, this guy can say so much just with his look and voice...something only the great actors really have such control of.  Do not watch the trailer...it literally lays out the entire movie in order...fortunately, I didn't see the trailer till after I had seen the movie!  Cheers!

[coc]

20 hours ago, Rainier said:

Recently watched (last few months): 

 

Paatal Lok: Had never considered watching this prior to the comments in this thread. I’m three episodes in and it is really good so far.
 

Gladiator II - Far inferior to the first movie.  I was highly disappointed. Middle school level writing.

Mission Impossible Final Reckoning: Not quite as good as the last few movies, but that’s a high bar for me as I like them quite a bit. But it is still a pretty good movie and worth seeing, but I think the writing kind of took a backseat a little. Definitely the least complicated plot in the series. As usual, it has a couple of stunning action/stunt sequences. Sort of like a love letter to the prior films. 

 

The Accountant 2: I liked the first one and this was about as good. Maybe slightly better.

 

Mickey 17: I didn’t care for this at all. Maybe I’m getting old, but I thought the villain(s) was atrocious. I wish I’d turned it off halfway through like my intuition told me and saved myself an hour I’ll never get back. I feel like Bong Joon Ho is one of those directors that really needs to avoid anything with a political message to it. He is so hamfisted. Great visual director who needs a better writing partner.
 

Cleaner: Dumb action movie reminiscent of Die Hard. It was fine for what it is.

 

The Order (Jude Law): This was pretty good. It’s one of those things that probably would have been better as a mini series. That area of the country at that time is a very interesting slice of America. The movie doesn’t spend much time on the background of the area and just focuses on the crime spree.  Mini series would have been more impactful IMO.

 

 

Agreed on Mickey 17. Thought it was honestly terrible. Pattison is always good and entertaining but like you I was thinking "who wrote this crap?"

[Saluki]

After visiting Riga, I saw this movie, that all the locals were talking about, on the airplane:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(2024_film)

 

Very well done animation and story telling, especially since there are no words in the movie.