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Post by tiger40 on Aug 27, 2020 13:34:52 GMT -5
Now I never click on to the Mail online but I've just seen a headline from them on the news pages on my laptop that Line Of Duty is to resume filming. So if that's true then it's great news. Obviously I don't expect us to get series 6 until next year.
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Post by The-Ghost-Dancer on Aug 28, 2020 13:32:34 GMT -5
Tenet
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Post by tiger40 on Aug 28, 2020 13:43:00 GMT -5
I checked on Twitter about Line Of Duty resuming film and it's true. However I expect filming will take them up until christmas now as it usually does when they start filming around this time of the year.
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Post by morning_rain on Sept 1, 2020 4:04:45 GMT -5
High Score, a Netflix documentary about the origins of videogames.
I enjoyed it but I'd wish some episodes were longer because some of them really need it, you can't tell the story of Nintendo in 40 minutes. But overall it was very good, I loved seeing the sketches for some iconic characters, and the animated segments were great. I also loved the idea of interviewing both the creator of the game and the people who won competitions of the same game.
I hope there's a second season so they can cover other iconic games such as Tetris, The Sims or Half Life.
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Post by Elie De Beaufour on Sept 4, 2020 9:17:57 GMT -5
Sean Micallef's Mad As Hell
That Bunnings ad, ROFLMAO!
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Post by The Escapist on Sept 4, 2020 12:31:06 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! One of my top five films of all time. Just perfect comedy, even if the fight scenes at the end are a bit indulgent.
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Post by tiger40 on Sept 4, 2020 13:50:25 GMT -5
Elephant Hospital on Channel 5 last night. Awww, I love elephants and the vets at the hospital are absolutely brilliant with them. If I did that though I would get too attached to them all and wouldn't want to let them go when it's time to release them. I like people who help animals.
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Post by The-Ghost-Dancer on Sept 4, 2020 15:32:41 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! One of my top five films of all time. Just perfect comedy, even if the fight scenes at the end are a bit indulgent. its alright Andy its only bolognese
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Post by daviesh on Sept 4, 2020 16:52:08 GMT -5
The Fall on Netflix, wow! I was quite blow away by the story and production.
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Post by The Escapist on Sept 4, 2020 18:54:41 GMT -5
One of my top five films of all time. Just perfect comedy, even if the fight scenes at the end are a bit indulgent. its alright Andy its only bolognese I don't mean it's too violent, I mean it goes on far too fucking long.
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Post by Elie De Beaufour on Sept 5, 2020 1:23:52 GMT -5
Edge of Fear, blown away by Robert Patrick's Jack Pryor role. The rest though make him look like that whole scream like a pig thing.
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Post by tiger40 on Sept 5, 2020 14:01:20 GMT -5
its alright Andy its only bolognese I don't mean it's too violent, I mean it goes on far too fucking long.
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Post by tiger40 on Sept 5, 2020 14:03:55 GMT -5
The Fall on Netflix, wow! I was quite blow away by the story and production. The Fall is great but sadly they only made 3 series of it which is a shame.
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Post by tiger40 on Sept 5, 2020 14:09:19 GMT -5
Code 37 Sex Crimes on More4 last night. Another great crime thriller which they only made 3 series of. Sometimes foreign ones are better than ours. I like a lot of those Walter Presents ones on More4 and also BBC 4 show a lot of good foreign crime thrillers on a Saturday night.
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Post by welshylad on Sept 5, 2020 14:15:35 GMT -5
Just finished The Sinner on Netflix, Bill Pullman was great as Harry Ambrose.
Just started Queen Of The South, 4 episodes in, not impressed so far
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Post by robg1979 on Sept 5, 2020 15:47:07 GMT -5
The Fall on Netflix, wow! I was quite blow away by the story and production. The Fall is great but sadly they only made 3 series of it which is a shame. Totally agree. One (and a half series) too many, the worst last series of any thing I've ever watched. First series was class though.
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Sept 6, 2020 5:28:27 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! One of my top five films of all time. Just perfect comedy, even if the fight scenes at the end are a bit indulgent. Agreed. I can feel the Tarantino influence at the end, with the gratuitous violence just for the sake of it, and the endless references to the clichés of the genre. Past a certain point you end up thinking "Okay. I get what you're doing here; I'm aware of some of the things you're referencing. But what are you actually saying with all this? What's the point?"
Shaun of the Dead is the best of the three for me, because it knows exactly what it is and how far to take it. Hot Fuzz and The World's End both suffer from becoming too big in their last acts, in my opinion.
I actually think The World's End's fight scenes are justified, and they work because they're underpinned by real emotion. The scene in The World's End pub at the end, where Simon Pegg says "This is all I've got!" and Nick Frost says something like "What happened to you? You were Gary King! I would've died for you," is genuinely moving. But they raise the stakes too high by having it be not just Newton Haven that is at the mercy of this malignant alien race but the entire world. Fine for an episode of Doctor Who, but a bit much for these films which are essentially about male friendships and the quirks of English life.
On a more positive note, I agree Re Hot Fuzz (and the other two) being sublime comedy. The last fifteen minutes aside, Hot Fuzz is ridiculously quotable, and its visual comedy spot on. I must have seen it ten times, but when I watched it again on the 19th I saw things I'd never seen before. You have to admire the effort that's obviously gone into it.
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Sept 6, 2020 5:56:45 GMT -5
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition)
I'd heard that many people prefer the extended cuts of Lord of the Rings to the theatrical ones, and now I can see why. Wow. A complete masterpiece. This has sent Fellowship flying into my top 10 favourite films list, overtaking the theatrical cut of Two Towers. Somehow the film feels better paced for having half an hour of extra footage: I think because it's richer tonally and narratively now. The action feels more earned after we've put the time in with the characters, and there is now some (much-needed) comic relief to offset the earnestness of the material.
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Post by welshylad on Sept 6, 2020 13:08:00 GMT -5
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition) I'd heard that many people prefer the extended cuts of Lord of the Rings to the theatrical ones, and now I can see why. Wow. A complete masterpiece. This has sent Fellowship flying into my top 10 favourite films list, overtaking the theatrical cut of Two Towers. Somehow the film feels better paced for having half an hour of extra footage: I think because it's richer tonally and narratively now. The action feels more earned after we've put the time in with the characters, and there is now some (much-needed) comic relief to offset the earnestness of the material.
Love the extended editions. I'm a LOTR fanatic, I've read the books at least once a year for the past 20 odd years. The theatrical versions almost dont make sense once you've seen the extended ones
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Sept 6, 2020 18:13:01 GMT -5
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition) I'd heard that many people prefer the extended cuts of Lord of the Rings to the theatrical ones, and now I can see why. Wow. A complete masterpiece. This has sent Fellowship flying into my top 10 favourite films list, overtaking the theatrical cut of Two Towers. Somehow the film feels better paced for having half an hour of extra footage: I think because it's richer tonally and narratively now. The action feels more earned after we've put the time in with the characters, and there is now some (much-needed) comic relief to offset the earnestness of the material.
Love the extended editions. I'm a LOTR fanatic, I've read the books at least once a year for the past 20 odd years. The theatrical versions almost dont make sense once you've seen the extended ones Just watched the extended edition of Two Towers tonight. Think I prefer the theatrical cut, to be honest.
The third act works better extended. The cutting between the battle at Helm's Deep and Merry and Pippin in Fangorn forest feels smoother now: in the theatrical cut the Ents just walk over to Isengard and trash the place, without having deliberated on it first, and it all feels too easy and not worth leaving Helm's Deep for. And there's some nice stuff elsewhere, like the reveal of Aragorn's age and Eowyn's terrible broth, which is laugh out funny--and beautifully played by Viggo Mortensen. But the beginning and middle of the film feels way too draggy for me. Why did we need to see the funeral procession for Theoden's son? We don't even know him. That scene has much more power in its original form, with the newly renewed Theoden asking "Where is my son?" and it cutting to him by his son's grave. But I can see why book fans might prefer the extended cut: most of the additional material is taken straight from the book, after all.
Still I look forward to watching the extended Return of the King possibly tomorrow. I'm not mad keen on the theatrical version, so I hope the nearly hour of extra footage improves it for me somehow. I was really taken aback by Fellowship last night. I've always loved the first two hours of the theatrical version, and found it hard work after that; but with the extended cut I was completely with it every step of the way, totally in love with it.
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Post by tiger40 on Sept 11, 2020 13:35:20 GMT -5
Elephant Hospital again on C5 last night. Sadly it's finished now. But never mind as there's a new wildlife series which starts on C5 tonight at 9pm Atlantic A Year In The Wild which I'm looking forward to. I always enjoy those A Year In The Wild series but sadly they're not on too often.
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Post by Elie De Beaufour on Sept 12, 2020 7:17:51 GMT -5
The Poison Rose, which was John Travolta whining for 90 minutes. Freeman and the cameo by Robert Patrick are the only performances worth watching
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Post by tiger40 on Sept 12, 2020 13:13:36 GMT -5
Well, I really enjoyed the first part of Atlantic A Year In The Wild last night. Animals never have it easy especially in the winter months. And, I never knew that the arctic fox in Iceland were actually black. I always thought they were all white in the winter months and changed colour in the spring/summer months. There's always something new to learn.
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Post by themanwholivesinhell on Sept 12, 2020 17:16:36 GMT -5
Last night I watched School Of Rock for the first time in about 5 years. Man that brings back memories, at 7 it introduced me to many rock giants like Led Zep, AC/DC, Sex Pistols and The Ramones.
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Post by Rain on Sept 12, 2020 21:04:40 GMT -5
Watching Liam's concert at Isle of Wight Festival 2018 in 4k via plex
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