Give me something to watch on Netflix

smorgdonkey said:
If it hasn't been mentioned...

Ancient Apocalypse is great. Visits to amazing sites which fuel historic theories of anthropology with evidence which has been ignored by the establishment for a long time. I have watched it multiple times. If you know Graham Hancock, he is the presenter. I love that kind of thing.
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i hated it. It’s hokum and pretty obvious. His whole spiel is:

- has a far-out hypothesis about something > builds bigger case by now presenting the previous far-out hypothesis as fact > builds bigger case by presenting the previous idea as fact > continue ad infinitum.

He is a clever salesman and knows his case is fanciful nonsense. That’s why he tries to discredit scientists by claiming he is censored and ignored by close-minded scientists. People tend to favour an ignored ridiculed underdog, so that is his approach.

I find it insidious that in order to sell his books and ‘documentaries’ he trues to discredit credible scientists. He selectively quotes, leaves out relevant details that doesn’t match his hokum.

here’s a pretty in-depth rebuttal to all his claims:

https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/defant-analysis-of-hancock-claims-in-magicians-of-the-gods/
 
wok said:
I have high expectations of 1899. It’s by the makers of Dark
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I watched the first episode on Friday while Mrs JBJ was out with her friends. I was wrecked so I'll need to go and rewatch with her but I thought it was promising.
 
Further to the Ancient Apocalypse nonsense:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...calypse-is-the-most-dangerous-show-on-netflix

That’s the danger of a show like this. It whispers to the conspiracy theorist in all of us. And Hancock is such a compelling host that he’s bound to create a few more in his wake. Believing that ultra-intelligent creatures helped to build the pyramids is one thing, but where does it end? Believing that election fraud is real? Believing 9/11 was an inside job? Worse? If you were feeling particularly mean-spirited, you could suggest that Netflix knows this, and has gone out of its way to court the conspiracy theorists.

But, hey, not all conspiracy theories are bad. If you don’t like Hancock’s story about the super-intelligent advanced civilisation being wiped off the face of the planet, here’s another that might explain how Netflix gave the greenlight to Ancient Apocalypse: the platform’s senior manager of unscripted originals happens to be Hancock’s son. Honestly, what are the chances?
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I'm watching Stay Close right now.
It is decent so far.
I tried The Watcher but bailed when they mixed the John List murders into the story.
 
wok said:
i hated it. It’s hokum and pretty obvious. His whole spiel is:

- has a far-out hypothesis about something > builds bigger case by now presenting the previous far-out hypothesis as fact > builds bigger case by presenting the previous idea as fact > continue ad infinitum.

He is a clever salesman and knows his case is fanciful nonsense. That’s why he tries to discredit scientists by claiming he is censored and ignored by close-minded scientists. People tend to favour an ignored ridiculed underdog, so that is his approach.

I find it insidious that in order to sell his books and ‘documentaries’ he trues to discredit credible scientists. He selectively quotes, leaves out relevant details that doesn’t match his hokum.

here’s a pretty in-depth rebuttal to all his claims:

https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/defant-analysis-of-hancock-claims-in-magicians-of-the-gods/
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It is the site visits that interest me most and the things of note in dating the sites also interest me. I don't know nearly enough about archeology and anthropology to stand up and say "Graham is right about all of this!" but I love the exploration and the theories.

The figures which supposedly match with stars/constellations seem laughable by the overlay in the rebuttal and no doubt that the way that they are presented in the series is misleading.

Randall Carlson is the guy whose theories I find most interesting and in the series preamble, he was shown which made me think that he was going to be featured. In the series content, however, he appeared for less than 3 minutes.

pmc100 said:
Further to the Ancient Apocalypse nonsense:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...calypse-is-the-most-dangerous-show-on-netflix
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That is very revealing!
 
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Knox in Box said:
Not saying that Wednesday is fantastic, epic, world changing television. I am saying that I enjoy it so far and have gotten some good chuckles. And her cynicism defuses the annoying Teenage thing by design which helps.

They did do the ghost of Raul Julia dirty with that casting, but he's hardly in the show.
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We watched the first episode earlier and I enjoyed it. no idea who the Gomez actor is but he's pretty bad, same with Catherine Zeta Jones tbh.
 
jbj said:
We watched the first episode earlier and I enjoyed it. no idea who the Gomez actor is but he's pretty bad, same with Catherine Zeta Jones tbh.
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That's Luis Guzman who is a great character actor and has been in bunch of movies you've seen. But I agree - as Gomez, he's lacking. I don't know if it is bad directing, or if he just doesn't have what it takes to play a lead character.
Jones was never any sort of an actor. She's mostly famous for being pretty and for being Michael Douglas' wife.
 
GomezAddams said:
That's Luis Guzman who is a great character actor and has been in bunch of movies you've seen. But I agree - as Gomez, he's lacking. I don't know if it is bad directing, or if he just doesn't have what it takes to play a lead character.
Jones was never any sort of an actor. She's mostly famous for being pretty and for being Michael Douglas' wife.
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I knew him (not by name), but he lacks the charisma as does CZJ and Raul was far more handsome. They decided to make them just dark and lustful here. I don't know if I can blame the actors themselves though.

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They're only in two episodes for any real screen time. Uncle Fester's casting is far better.
 
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Knox in Box said:
I knew him (not by name), but he lacks the charisma as does CZJ and Raul was far more handsome. They decided to make them just dark and lustful here. I don't know if I can blame the actors themselves though.

Spoiler alert:












They're only in two episodes for any real screen time. Uncle Fester's casting is far better.
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Christopher Lloyd???

They were showing the 90s movies on TV here a few weeks back around Halloween and they still hold up pretty well
 
jbj said:
Christopher Lloyd???

They were showing the 90s movies on TV here a few weeks back around Halloween and they still hold up pretty well
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No, Fred Armisen. I think his current older look, with the shaved head and his humor fit pretty well.

The show will never replace any of the other adaptations, but as far as modern adaptations go these days, it's pretty good.
 
did any of you guys watch the nature documentary "An Elephant's Big Ol' Bald Nasty Pisstube"? It's a three part study of an elephant's big ol' bald nasty pisstube.
 
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RRR is a lot of fun and hell of a ride. Big budget Bollywood historical action movie. Stupidly over the top action with some fun dance moves thrown in. Be warned, it's 3 hours long (though it flies past).

One thing I will say, it's _incredibly_ racist towards the English. Really, if it was black or brown people being portrayed like that there would be justifiable uproar. I guess that's the payback for 300 years of colonial oppression :shrug:
 
No matter what people say, I rather enjoyed The Witcher Blood Origins. It was fluff but sometimes we just want something silly that doesn’t require an emotional investment
 
wok said:
No matter what people say, I rather enjoyed The Witcher Blood Origins. It was fluff but sometimes we just want something silly that doesn’t require an emotional investment
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There was some interesting background about the conjunction of the spheres and how the different creatures and species all came to live on The Continent. And I guess there could be some future fun with the other worlds. But why where the Elves just arsehole humans? There was nothing 'elvish' about them at all except pointy ears. Then when the humans turn up they're all like 'WTF even are you' at these weirdoes with, get this, round ears. Is this part of The Witcher mythos? Elves are just arseholes with pointy ears. Seems a bit of a waste.
 
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