Streaming The Netflix Thread

[Gasometer]

The Sun in Yarraville is my favourite cinema. The art-deco design and the history of the place makes it feel special when you go there.

I could have watched more on the subject - maybe it could have been a four part series. For example, they didn't mention any pubs. The Celtic Club was a Melbourne institution. The facade is still there but it's not a pub any more and there's a tower block on top of it. Or train stations. Flinders Street kept its historic charm while modernising. Spencer Street deserved to be demolished. What was Docklands like before redevelopment?

Docklands was the pits

 

[Gasometer]

The Athenaeum and the Regent in Collins Street were opposite each other.

Saw The Empire Strikes Back at the Australia.

The Metro in Bourke Street.

Saw ET at the Forum in Flinders Street.

Saw Godspell at the Playbox.

I reckon I saw ET at the Forum!

 

[dumb]

i haven't paid total attention as my wife started watching it without me, but the last half of the ed gein monster series is pretty dire. not as in the ghastly subject matter, but poor watching. dahmer monster series was more effective in laying out some reasoning for his actions - didn't try to humanise him too much. this has way too many tangents, veers too far off the track, too much screen time spent on people other than gein. throw in some jarring pop culture references.

 

[crafty_bernardo]

Looks like an all in type performance from Farrell.

 

[Beerfish]

i haven't paid total attention as my wife started watching it without me, but the last half of the ed gein monster series is pretty dire. not as in the ghastly subject matter, but poor watching. dahmer monster series was more effective in laying out some reasoning for his actions - didn't try to humanise him too much. this has way too many tangents, veers too far off the track, too much screen time spent on people other than gein. throw in some jarring pop culture references.

Yeah finished it tonight. Didn't like it. Think I'll stick to documentaries in future rather than dramatisations. That last episode was just dumb.

 

[Jatz]

All these negative reviews have me wanting to finish it even more...just to see how bad it actually is haha.

 

[PhatBoy]

Yeah finished it tonight. Didn't like it. Think I'll stick to documentaries in future rather than dramatisations. That last episode was just dumb.

Yeah I thought they ran out of ideas to flesh it out, as it were

 

[The Dice Man]

i haven't paid total attention as my wife started watching it without me, but the last half of the ed gein monster series is pretty dire. not as in the ghastly subject matter, but poor watching. dahmer monster series was more effective in laying out some reasoning for his actions - didn't try to humanise him too much. this has way too many tangents, veers too far off the track, too much screen time spent on people other than gein. throw in some jarring pop culture references.

I gave up after ep two.. wasn’t getting any better I felt and it seems it was the right call.

I moved on to Task and that is excellent, but not on Netflix

 

[BlakeyNoFlakey]

Speaking of serial killers (I think Netflix is SK central atm), we watched this interesting documentary on the daughter of BTK. Goes into the case and offers a very interesting perspective on how finding out her dad was BTK affected her and what that did to her life and how it destroyed her family.

 

[BillyElliott]

Speaking of serial killers (I think Netflix is SK central atm), we watched this interesting documentary on the daughter of BTK. Goes into the case and offers a very interesting perspective on how finding out her dad was BTK affected her and what that did to her life and how it destroyed her family.

That's next on my list. So worth a watch?

 

[BlakeyNoFlakey]

That's next on my list. So worth a watch?

Yeah. It was quite interesting.

 

[Richard Pryor]

i haven't paid total attention as my wife started watching it without me, but the last half of the ed gein monster series is pretty dire. not as in the ghastly subject matter, but poor watching. dahmer monster series was more effective in laying out some reasoning for his actions - didn't try to humanise him too much. this has way too many tangents, veers too far off the track, too much screen time spent on people other than gein. throw in some jarring pop culture references.

Haven't finished yet, but find the Hitchcock parallel narrative very odd so far. Feels like it's trying to critique using real life grisly crimes for entertainment, but the show is a far more gratuitous, shlocky, less nuanced version of that than Psycho.

 

[crafty_bernardo]

Splinter Cell Deathwatch on Netflix is very slick. From the writer of all the John Wick films.

 

[DaveyBoy123]

Homeland meets The Americans! Not quite, but...

 

[Saints4ever]

The Perfect Neighbor

Oh my god devastating.

Movie, documentary using police body cam.

Do urself a favour and watch it.

 

[BillyElliott]

The Perfect Neighbor

Oh my god devastating.

Movie, documentary using police body cam.

Do urself a favour and watch it.

I also recommend it. Was so sad in so many ways.

 

[Beerfish]

America

 

[Gasometer]

The Perfect Neighbor

Oh my god devastating.

Movie, documentary using police body cam.

Do urself a favour and watch it.

I was a bit yeh nar I will give it a miss 5 minutes into it but gawd stayed to the end. This is true crime in all it’s devastation; those poor kids

 

[BlakeyNoFlakey]

The Perfect Neighbor was a sad tale, for sure.

Spoiler

I'm sure those kids and their parents were provoking Susan a bit out of hatred for her because of her actions. So, I didn't really believe the "We did nothing wrong" crap in the bodycam footage. Or "They're just kids playing" stuff. Yeah, I bet the kids were playing, but also trying to provoke crazy old Susan, too, at times. But what Susan did was despicable, and she got her just rewards for that. Although I thought a 25-year sentence was harsh for a manslaughter charge, unless they had changed the charge to second-degree murder. Susan will probably die in prison.

 

[BillyElliott]

Anyone started watching Boots?

The Trump admin have slammed it, so I'm thinking it must be good.

 

[Gasometer]

Anyone started watching Boots?

The Trump admin have slammed it, so I'm thinking it must be good.

Yes I’ve got 5 episodes in and it’s Full Metal Jacket Lite

Does not fit the GI Joe mentality of this regime one bit

 

[Gasometer]

The Perfect Neighbor was a sad tale, for sure.

Spoiler

I'm sure those kids and their parents were provoking Susan a bit out of hatred for her because of her actions. So, I didn't really believe the "We did nothing wrong" crap in the bodycam footage. Or "They're just kids playing" stuff. Yeah, I bet the kids were playing, but also trying to provoke crazy old Susan, too, at times. But what Susan did was despicable, and she got her just rewards for that. Although I thought a 25-year sentence was harsh for a manslaughter charge, unless they had changed the charge to second-degree murder. Susan will probably die in prison.

Cops didn’t help repeatedly turning up playing the “poor me I’m just the umpire” visit after visit; that’s your job and give the kids the stern warning they needed

 

[GhostofJimJess]

Anyone started watching Boots?

The Trump admin have slammed it, so I'm thinking it must be good.

Yeah, in the show they must've let someone into the Marines with bone spurs.

 

[Gough]

The Marines seem like some weird psycho cult, I'd cross the road to avoid one walking towards me. F*** knows what sort of low rent, right wing, MAGA loving knuckle draggers, they've got festering in their ranks.

 

[Gasometer]

The Marines seem like some weird psycho cult, I'd cross the road to avoid one walking towards me. F*** knows what sort of low rent, right wing, MAGA loving knuckle draggers, they've got festering in their ranks.

But wat do you really think?