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Recommend good stuff you've seen on Netflix streaming

DeacHead said:
After finishing Stranger Things, I'm happy to say they stuck the landing. Even without the nostalgia, the series still stood on its own for characters you connected to along with exciting action sequences. But man, the nostalgia... in addition to big names like Alien and others previously listed, it brought back memories of movies I haven't even thought about in 3 decades, like Scanners, Altered States and From Beyond. I'm looking forward to reading a thorough breakdown of all the homages.

Trivia - the creators, the Duffer bros, are from Durham.
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buckets said:
It's more of an homage than a rip off imo
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I haven't watched it yet, but my friends seem really into it. Is it pastiche?
 
I'd say it's definitely pastiche.
 
ImTheCaptain said:
i think that gives the pretentious guy a pass. Using homage is a specific artistic choice. Reducing it to 'derivative' means you think the artist was lazy and used framing devices simply because they couldn't come up with their own.

If you want to argue that's kind of a cheap nostalgia-grab, that's defensible. But no one dismisses Raiders of the Lost Ark or Star Wars as "derivative".
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I agree, and probably was not clear enough in my first post. I'm guessing the friend is a contrarian hipster douche who refuses to see intentionality of the similarities. Your comparison to Star Wars and Raiders is spot on. I would bet the guy dings cover songs with the same "derivative" argument.
 
The Dr. Strange director lifting effects from Inception, a film that was made like 6 years ago, could be considered a 'ripoff' or 'derivative'.

Carefully curating a very specific vibe and aesthetic reminiscent of movies that largely came out 35 years ago, while weaving in a great original story, is not the same.
 
TheTwinAndreBen said:
The Dr. Strange director lifting effects from Inception, a film that was made like 6 years ago, could be considered a 'ripoff' or 'derivative'.

Carefully curating a very specific vibe and aesthetic reminiscent of movies that largely came out 35 years ago, while weaving in a great original story, is not the same.
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Our cultural attache has spoken.
 
Last Chance U is pretty good so far...documentary on Junior college football in Mississippi. Even my wife likes it and she is not really into football.
 
May have already been mentioned in the 60+ pages here, but Valley Uprising is solid. It's a 2014 documentary about the history of rock climbing in Yosemite. Some very interesting characters...
 
Watched Stranger Things over the weekend. Thought it was great.
 
Caught "Hot Girls Wanted" over the weekend - doc about pro-am porn stars, how they get into the business (*cough* Craigslist) and how they navigate it. Relatively compelling, but pretty predictable in terms what you're supposed to think/feel while watching (sadness, disgust, etc).

Next on the documentary list are Cartel Land, Weiner, and Best of Enemies.
 
I have a friend that worked on the get down, haven't see it yet though
 
wfudkn said:
Watched Stranger Things over the weekend. Thought it was great.
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I'm curious to see how/when they pick up the story for season two.

Usually anything with this many kids as main characters gets cloying and obnoxious pretty quickly, but with an exception here or there, the kids they cast (and the characters that were written for them) were solid.
 
Don't want to get spoiled on the thread, but is Night Of that good? 171 posts suggests it is amazeballs.
 
Just started watching Mozart in the jungle, it's pretty funny
 
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