Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

[MingtheMerciless]

Don't bother with the Flash, much as I tried to like it, it was rubbish.

Just finished "the Last of Us" which was very good.

We've just started Good Omens 2 on Amazon which is enjoyable.

[Count Steer]

Bit behind the curve here. Just got round to watching Wolf Hall.

(Thought it was quite good but not sure about how it dealt with Thomas More. Always thought he was hard done by but hey ho, whaddya know if you weren't there?).

[Taipan]

I've put Barbie on for the wife. Dear God its all i can do to stop myself throwing a SW Motech mounting plate through the telly!

[Taipan]

I've put Barbie on for the wife. Dear God its all i can do to stop myself throwing a SW Motech mounting plate through the telly!

Had to pull the plug on it. The wife can watch it tomorrow!

[ChrisW]

I've put Barbie on for the wife. Dear God its all i can do to stop myself throwing a SW Motech mounting plate through the telly!

Had to pull the plug on it. The wife can watch it tomorrow!

That must have been a tense 24 minutes!

[demographic]

I'm watching Cherry Flavour on Netflix... i'm 5 episodes in and have absolutely no idea what's going on.

Brand New Cherry Flavour?
Yeah, it does get a bit David Cronenberg doesn't it.
The entire hand in the side vagina bit was bloody odd

[Taipan]

The Terminal. Ridiculous and cheesy. Perfect for a rainy Sunday afternoon...

[MrLongbeard]

2 things this evening;

Our Guy in Columbia, he's an excitable little fella, but it's good telly

The 100, I don't know why I always watch this, even as someone who held a season ticket for Grace Road a time or 2 cricket is dog slow and boring, but this format is new, fresh, down with the kids and done in a day with clear winners and losers it might help the sponsors are all crips brands

[MingtheMerciless]

Dune

Bloody brilliant, hopefully part 2 is just as good.

[KungFooBob]

Dune

Bloody brilliant, hopefully part 2 is just as good.

I've got it on Blu-ray. It starts well, but the last third is just very very boring. I actually prefer the Lynch Dune, so far. Waiting for Part 2 to change my mind.

[KungFooBob]

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 has hit Disney+

It's on par with Vol2, Knowhere near as good as the first one.

[Count Steer]

Dune

Bloody brilliant, hopefully part 2 is just as good.

Bought it on BluRay a while ago. Just watched it on Prime.

Rather good I thought but needz moah wormz

Definitely had a Villeneuve look and feel to it.

Preferred it to the Lynch version (couldn't get past them casting String in that one tbh).

[Mr. Dazzle]

And Captain Picard!

[MrLongbeard]

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 has hit Disney+

It's on par with Vol2, Knowhere near as good as the first one.

What he said. Shame it has the feel that half it's purpose is to launch 101 spin off character films, but that's the way Hollywood is now, nothing orginal for a long time.

[Count Steer]

Re Dune, I find I get a bit more critical of some aspects of sci fi as I get older. For example in a world with stuff like ftl ships with spicy navigators, shield walls, minute remote flying killer bugs etc

- it takes 21 people to operate a spice harvester that could be operated remotely
- they fight with blades and spears
- they have balloons to aid lift on a scorchio planet

Still, it all looked marv.

[Mr. Dazzle]

The fighting with knives thing is a key plot point innit? I've not seen the 2021 movie so I dunno if it's covered in that but I assume it is?

Everyone has personal shields which can stop bullets and laserz, only the slow blade penetrates the shield.

They're also not allowed any kind of thinking machine following a devastating war with computers (the Butlerian Jihad!) hence everything being labour intensive. I always wondered now the ornithopers fly in that case, they look like they need a bit of computer assistance

Honestly man, where you even watching?

[Count Steer]

The fighting with knives thing is a key plot point innit? I've not seen the 2021 movie so I dunno if it's covered in that but I assume it is?

Everyone has personal shields which can stop bullets and laserz, only the slow blade penetrates the shield.

They're also not allowed any kind of thinking machine following a devastating war with computers (the Butlerian Jihad!) hence everything being labour intensive. I always wondered now the ornithopers fly in that case, they look like they need a bit of computer assistance

Honestly man, where you even watching?

Fairy nuff. I did read the book...in the 70s! OK how about - they successfully used 'bullets' against the Harkonnen ships, they can put a shield wall around a city...but not around a ship? The bugs that got Leto and nearly Paul were remote control - not from far away but still remote. You don't need thinking machines to operate an RC device.

(21 people on a harvester still seems a lot, are they using picks and shovels?!).

PS I watched the 'Children of Dune' series on C4? some time ago. It was OK.

[MingtheMerciless]

Guardians 3 was a bit “meh”. Worst of the trilogy.

[Count Steer]

Having watched Dune I decide to rewatch the Children of Dune miniseries*. Quite a good cast- in parts (Alice Kreig is good as Jessica but Steven Berkoff doesn't look like a Fremen/Stilgar to me and Baron Harkonnen shouldn't be just a chubby English character actor). It looks pretty dated already, both in terms of the technology and the lack of diversity in the casting.

They should hand Villeneuve the whole franchise and let him redo it.

* 3 parter based on Dune Messiah and Children of Dune

[MrLongbeard]

Justified: City Primeval https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14263564/

This landed on Disney today, been looking forward to it so hope it lives up to the old Justified, yeah I know it won't, that they have to give a tobacco use warning at the start kind of indicates it's going to struggle.