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Post by Elie De Beaufour on Jul 2, 2020 20:00:40 GMT -5
We're voting tomorrow, one of the candidates has the last name McBain so naturally:
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Post by matt on Jul 5, 2020 14:26:31 GMT -5
The Truman Show is such a great great film.
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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on Jul 9, 2020 13:31:44 GMT -5
I'm watching the final episode of Dark season 2. I was very enthusiastic about the first season, but now it's a bit like...everyone is everyone's father and it's a bit confusing. I wanted to finish this season as I'm just like that, but I'm not sure whether I'll watch the new season.
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Post by eva on Jul 11, 2020 18:19:24 GMT -5
I started s1 this weekend. I don't know why I haven't watched this one before, it's right up my alley To say it is a mind fuck is a serious understatement. just finished the series. what a mind fuck indeed all the connections and details between the characters, it's what attracted me to Lost back when it first started now I'm watching all the youtube videos about easter eggs I might have missed
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Post by Elie De Beaufour on Jul 11, 2020 19:52:40 GMT -5
Snowpiercer s1
Is Mr 'I hate speeches' Wilford in the movie? Or is Sean Bean the first to play him?
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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on Jul 12, 2020 3:42:51 GMT -5
I'm trying to watch Dark, but it's hard to get through series one. I mean, boring. All the characters are so drab, it's like being stuck in an accountant's idea of drama. I feel this way about loads of "great" telly. Watched the first few seasons of Game of Thrones, thought it was dull. Watched the first series of The Sopranos, yawning the whole time. Better Call Saul, bored out of my fucking nut. I was thinking about it during the week - I think I either tend to like things which are completely fucking mad and funny and fast and massive (like S5 of Doctor Who, where the universe is rebooted by a man flying a fairytale prison created from the childhood beliefs of his best friend into a time machine which is exploding across all of reality at once) or something which is just utterly working-class and rough and clear. Like The Royle Family. Or stuff like Limmy's Show or Trigger Happy TV which is just daft and brilliant. I like a laugh, I think. I like things that know not to take themselves seriously. Anyway - tell you what I have been watching, and it's brilliant. Queer as Folk. British comedy-drama about the gay scene in Manchester in the late 90's. Full of bright, vivid, dynamic characters. It's funny, it's real, it's class. Check out the scene about two minutes into this, where a young lad who's just been fucked by the sexiest guy he's ever met is told to go get some flowers in a hospital. He doesn't even think about it, it's the best night of his life, so he goes into a dying old man's room while he's awake, steals his one vase of flowers from right by his bed, and SPRINTS back to the sexy guy. Fucking brilliant. That's telly. I thought the first season was more interesting than the second actually. I kinda struggled (with boredom, although it got better in the last couple of episodes). I'm doubting whether to watch the last season or not. I kind of want to know how it ends, but I'm not sure if I want to spend another 8 hours watching it. I've also seen it being compared to Stranger Things a lot and I don't see that myself, other than that both series have kids playing a big role.
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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on Jul 12, 2020 3:43:33 GMT -5
Snowpiercer s1 Is Mr 'I hate speeches' Wilford in the movie? Or is Sean Bean the first to play him? Is it any good? Some of my friends are very enthusiastic about it, but it doesn't really attract me.
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Post by The Escapist on Jul 12, 2020 4:53:50 GMT -5
I'm trying to watch Dark, but it's hard to get through series one. I thought the first season was more interesting than the second actually. I kinda struggled (with boredom, although it got better in the last couple of episodes). I'm doubting whether to watch the last season or not. I kind of want to know how it ends, but I'm not sure if I want to spend another 8 hours watching it. I've also seen it being compared to Stranger Things a lot and I don't see that myself, other than that both series have kids playing a big role. I think this is my problem with what I've seen of Dark: the characters are only interesting because the plot forces them to be. It's not that they had a story in them that demanded to be told, it's that the story demanded some people in it to make itself work. Which is dull to watch, because you know that if you could re-jig the plot connections, you could change the soul of the characters with no real effect on the soul of the show. It's the same with stuff like Inception or The Matrix, in my opinion. Big sexy plots that are boring to watch because they get storytelling the wrong way round: plot should exist to get us inside people, not the other way around. A good example of that is Breaking Bad. Everything in that show happens because of who Walter White is - his own unique flaws and strengths and insecurities. It all comes from a man who's frustrated by his comfortable life, who feels impotent, who's angry to the point of psychopathy that he hasn't achieved more. Because a man like that forces a certain story to be told - he has to be given the chance to taste power and achievement, so we can see how far he'd go for more. You couldn't tell any other story with him, and you couldn't tell that story with anybody else. Whereas in Dark, it's like the writers design their characters to be who they are to make the plot more interesting. The story creates them, and not vice versa.
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Post by Elie De Beaufour on Jul 12, 2020 5:14:19 GMT -5
Snowpiercer s1 Is Mr 'I hate speeches' Wilford in the movie? Or is Sean Bean the first to play him? Is it any good? Some of my friends are very enthusiastic about it, but it doesn't really attract me. Bit meh to be honest, then again I haven't seen the film.
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Post by oasisserbia on Jul 15, 2020 21:03:24 GMT -5
Killing Eve.
Fleabag, Crashing, Killing Eve - Phoebe Waller-Bridge - 3/3 so far.
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Post by Elie De Beaufour on Jul 15, 2020 22:19:11 GMT -5
Get Krackin
There's bad comedy then there's this terrible show. McLellan's voice doesn't work here.
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Post by eva on Jul 16, 2020 7:17:02 GMT -5
Killing Eve. Fleabag, Crashing, Killing Eve - Phoebe Waller-Bridge - 3/3 so far. one of the reasons I watched Run was because PWB created it but I didn't like it. it had promise but halfway through I lost interest. those other 3 are great though
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Post by Elie De Beaufour on Jul 23, 2020 10:19:13 GMT -5
Hope lost
Boring, but I think I know where the chip on Samurai's shoulder in Suburra: Blood on Rome comes from. Aquaroli was the only good thing, everyone including Trejo looked dial it in.
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Post by The Escapist on Jul 23, 2020 10:52:38 GMT -5
The more time I have after watching Killing Eve S1, the more I think it was shite. Did the whole brilliant-to-mediocre-to-rubbish evolution that took Sherlock four seasons in about three episodes. Like Sherlock, it's the sort of thing I can imagine people getting obsessed with for a while and then being a bit embarrassed about loving later on.
I've been watching Spaced this week. It's the comedy directed by Edgar Wright before Shaun of the Dead. It's a kind of demo tape for those movies, with the stylized dialogue and fast-pans and stuff. It's good, some really funny moments. And Simon Pegg has to be one of best comedic actors of all time, for me. This bit nearly made me piss myself, had to rewatch it about five times:
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Post by matt on Jul 23, 2020 13:24:17 GMT -5
The more time I have after watching Killing Eve S1, the more I think it was shite. Did the whole brilliant-to-mediocre-to-rubbish evolution that took Sherlock four seasons in about three episodes. Like Sherlock, it's the sort of thing I can imagine people getting obsessed with for a while and then being a bit embarrassed about loving later on. I've been watching Spaced this week. It's the comedy directed by Edgar Wright before Shaun of the Dead. It's a kind of demo tape for those movies, with the stylized dialogue and fast-pans and stuff. It's good, some really funny moments. And Simon Pegg has to be one of best comedic actors of all time, for me. This bit nearly made me piss myself, had to rewatch it about five times: Yep, I agree - watched the first half of the first series of Killing Eve, thought it was good and then it started dragging. I didn’t have any motivation to watch the remaining episodes.
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Jul 29, 2020 20:02:54 GMT -5
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Director's Cut)
Watched the film for the first time a month ago--the theatrical cut. Found it quite hard work until Richard Dreyfuss drove to Wyoming for the third act. Then it seemed to click into gear, and the last half hour was just as memorable as everyone says it is. Ultimately, I ended up thinking Spielberg's a great director but he's not a writer.
Curiosity led me to put his director's cut from 1998 on tonight, and I was delighted at how much better the film was for losing some scenes which had made the first half feel baggy before, and adding back in scenes which made the characters more believable now, their behaviours more justified, their rage and their joy feel more earned. And, obviously, the jarring edits that even I'd noticed when watching the theatrical cut were smoothed out, now that Spielberg had had the time that was denied to him in 1977 to cut the film together properly. John Williams's score seemed to tally with this version better too, and the film was funnier, more exciting, and more profound than I remember it being a month ago. Atta boy, Steven!
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Post by oasisserbia on Aug 1, 2020 7:51:53 GMT -5
The more time I have after watching Killing Eve S1, the more I think it was shite. Did the whole brilliant-to-mediocre-to-rubbish evolution that took Sherlock four seasons in about three episodes. Like Sherlock, it's the sort of thing I can imagine people getting obsessed with for a while and then being a bit embarrassed about loving later on. I've been watching Spaced this week. It's the comedy directed by Edgar Wright before Shaun of the Dead. It's a kind of demo tape for those movies, with the stylized dialogue and fast-pans and stuff. It's good, some really funny moments. And Simon Pegg has to be one of best comedic actors of all time, for me. This bit nearly made me piss myself, had to rewatch it about five times: Hahaa yes, I loved first season while I was watching it, started second season and got bored very quick and now I completely forgot about the show and don't think that is anything special and have no plans to watch it ever again. I love acting I must say but that's about it. And Spaced is fucking brilliant. Maybe it's not fault of Killing Eve, maybe that show it's just not what we need now with everything that is happening. It's much better to watch something like Spaced and just laugh and forget about world around you than to watch show about assassin.
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Post by oasisserbia on Aug 1, 2020 7:56:57 GMT -5
Can someome recommend something just relaxing and funny, even if it's a bit stupid like Spaced, Wilfred, Entourage...
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Post by The Escapist on Aug 1, 2020 8:02:14 GMT -5
Can someome recommend something just relaxing and funny, even if it's a bit stupid like Spaced, Wilfred, Entourage...
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Post by tiger40 on Aug 4, 2020 16:24:36 GMT -5
Line Of Duty the second episode of series one (as BBC1 are repeating the whole five series every Monday & Tuesday night at 2100) even though I've seen them all & got them all on DVD. I can't help myself as I'm hooked on it & I love it. I'm looking forward to series six when ever we get it now. I know that they managed to film about three weeks of it but then of course they had to stop like everything else because of the Covid 19 out break.
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Post by NYR on Aug 5, 2020 10:00:28 GMT -5
I binge watched Letterkenny, and it’s one of the funniest shows I’ve seen in years. Highly recommend it.
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Aug 19, 2020 8:05:43 GMT -5
Hot Fuzz, having watched Shaun of the Dead the night before. Gonna watch The World's End tonight.
You wanna be a big cop in a small town? Fuck off up the model village!
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Post by tiger40 on Aug 19, 2020 13:54:29 GMT -5
I love Hot Fuzz it always makes me laugh. I'm not so keen on Shaun Of The Dead though. Another film I like with Simon Pegg is Paul now that is funny.
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Post by matt on Aug 23, 2020 18:19:32 GMT -5
Anyone watch Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing? I've been watching it all fully on iPlayer for the first time proper and I think it is one of my favourite TV shows of the last few years.
Thought the premise wasn't particularly exciting as I thought it would actually be about fishing but it's nothing of the sort. Really heartwarming and very funny, its one of the most relaxing TV shows ever. Both Paul and Bob are naturally two of the funniest people ever and come off as really nice guys too. Great TV show.
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Post by tiger40 on Aug 24, 2020 13:10:05 GMT -5
Harry Hill's The World Of TV on BBC 2 last night. I like him and loved TV Burp. This new series probably isn't quite as good but I really enjoyed last night's episode where he was going through all the British soaps (which I never watch) past and present. I'm looking forward to next Sunday's already.
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