Need a quick netflix movie recommendation

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If you don't mind reading sub titles, I watched one over the past week that as a pretty decent Noregian movie. Entertaining story. It's done on that "Documentary" style. Kind of like Cloverfield was. Reminded me of a Norwegian District 9.

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It was a fun movie, obviously a little far fetched, but I thought it was done pretty well with a lot of action.
 

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I'm throwing in Airborne. Now, it's been a while, and it's kind of cheesy, but damn if the scene involving Devil's Backbone isn't legit, I don't know what is.
 

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If you don't mind reading sub titles, I watched one over the past week that as a pretty decent Noregian movie. Entertaining story. It's done on that "Documentary" style. Kind of like Cloverfield was. Reminded me of a Norwegian District 9.

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It was a fun movie, obviously a little far fetched, but I thought it was done pretty well with a lot of action.

If you mean entertaining for hilarity factors, yes.
 

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Snowpiercer is cool...

Maybe give Marco Polo a shot...

Just binge-watched Marco Polo and was very impressed! Looking forward to the next season which was apparently just announced they're continuing. Thanks for the recommendation on here. I wasn't aware of it until seeing it here!
 

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If you mean entertaining for hilarity factors, yes.

Well, maybe I just don't get Noregian inflection, but it didn't seem like it was all that serious of a movie, so yeah, there were a lot of aspects that I found hilarious. If nothing else, the whole "Rabies" part of it. It's no Citizen Kane, but I was thoroughly entertained. It was just wacky enough to not do to me what Snowpiercer did as I explain below.

I watched snow piercer. Thought it was terrible at the start, got better, then got terrible again at the end

I couldn't get past how dumb of a concept this was, while attempting to be a serious movie. A train? WTF. Would have been much better if it took place in a cave, imo, with the elite class towards the mouth, sealed off from the cold, but still able to see sunlight, have gardens, etc. With all the lower class toiling away further down, to keep the operation running.

The train thing just made no sense to me at all. I couldn't get over the maintenance required to keep the machinery going, let alone the tracks. That took me completely out of the movie and it took effort for me to finish watching it.
 
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I heard that Black Mirror was just released on Netflix. It's a British show, kind of a Twilight Zone/alternate reality show based around near-future uses of current technology. I haven't seen it, but everything I've read says it's very good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)

finished the first episode... and started the second. I walked away.... people having sex with Pigs ..... nah. I was hoping for a good show on the 'like the Twilight Zone' I heard from some.
 

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I've been watching the series "Arrow". It's kind of like what you would expect if Mysterion had a spin-off show with live action instead of animation and his super power was shooting arrows instead of not being able to die. Or it's kind of like if the Michael Keaton Batman movie was a show instead? It's entertaining either way if you can get past the obvious network tv action cliche.
 

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finished the first episode... and started the second. I walked away.... people having sex with Pigs ..... nah. I was hoping for a good show on the 'like the Twilight Zone' I heard from some.
Get passed the first one, it's a bit off putting to say the least. The other 2 episodes in the first season are really good IMO, much better than the first episode. And I think the first two from the second season are also very good, the third episode I didn't like as much.