Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

[BartonBKing]

Columbo
The six Million Dollar Man
The original Captain Scarlet
Knight Rider
Original Frasier

Forgot how cheesy Knight Rider was but it’s still amusing.

[McNab]

Masters of the Air just started on Apple TV.

It's the spiritual successor to Band of Brothers/Pacific but set around the US B-17 bomber division in based in the UK.

Seems quite good so far but still can't resist that Spielberg/Hanks quirk of having the English be twats.

[Taipan]

This scared my wife, dunno why though...



I enjoyed this, even if i'm not sure why?

[MingtheMerciless]

"My God, they've got a Hellstreak on the ridge!"

https://variety.com/2024/film/global/an ... 7/#respond

[gremlin]

What Did Jack Do? on Netflix.

17 minutes (I managed four minutes before turning off) of David Lynch being self-indulgent in black and white with an amateurish special effect monkey.

Does there cone a point when you are considered famous and quirky enough to be given carte blanche to produce nonsense?

[gremlin]

The Tourist, currently on BBC iPlayer.

Let us never talk of this abomination again.

[Count Steer]

The Tourist, currently on BBC iPlayer.

Let us never talk of this abomination again.

What? The latest one, set in Oirland? I enjoyed it (and the first one).

(You'll be delighted to know there'll be a 3rd, set in Amsterdam ).

[Taipan]

My wife's mates said this was really good, so we stuck with it. I made a half hour in and then bailed. My wife's mates say we should have stuck with it. Anyone else seen this? I found it really hard work. Should i have stuck with it?

[gremlin]

Watched the first part of Dune on Netflix.

S'alright, but God it's a bit pretentious and has delusions of being a great and seminal event, rather than just a sci-fi yarn.

Plus, given the volume of background noise, the central characters kept talking in inaudible whispers. I think I missed most of Rebecca Ferguson's lines.

[KungFooBob]

Watched the first part of Dune on Netflix.

S'alright, but God it's a bit pretentious and has delusions of being a great and seminal event, rather than just a sci-fi yarn.

Plus, given the volume of background noise, the central characters kept talking in inaudible whispers. I think I missed most of Rebecca Ferguson's lines.

It's alright, but the last quarter feels like it lasts for three hours.

[cheb]

Has John Byrne's Tutti Frutti been mentioned? A search didn't find it.

[Yorick]

Last night we watched first episode of Sneaky Pete. Quite good first impression, but wonder if 4 series might be too much.
Seems ideal for just a 4 parter.

We'll see.

[MingtheMerciless]

Challenger: Final Flight, on Netflix. A pretty good introduction to Engineers v Politics.

[Tricky]

The Bob Marley story- One Love



As a big Bob fan, and knowing a bit about his life, I was looking forward to this, but it was a disappointment- I didn't find the way Bob's character was portrayed convincing or engaging, and overall it was a bit of a B or C movie and a lot duller than it could/should have been, sort of like it had been severely sanitised/dumbed down- the saving grace was the tunes, but TBH there wasn't as much of that in it as I would have expected either....
We saw it in the local (ish) Everyman so there are a lot worse ways to spend an evening, but the film itself gets a maximum 5/10 from me

[Taipan]

Classic, lol!

[MingtheMerciless]

Also in a Space Shuttle theme, on BBC IPlayer, Columbia, the shuttle that fell to Earth. Very good but I did get a bit angry in places at the arrogance and complacency of NASA management , like the lessons of Challenger had been forgotten (depressingly it reminds me of where I work).

[Nordboy]

Also in a Space Shuttle theme, on BBC IPlayer, Columbia, the shuttle that fell to Earth. Very good but I did get a bit angry in places at the arrogance and complacency of NASA management , like the lessons of Challenger had been forgotten (depressingly it reminds me of where I work).

I'll have to watch that. I watched the Netflix Challenger doc this week. Amazing that they made the decision to fly knowing what they did!! Sad that the mistakes repeated themselves with Columbia.

[Taipan]

The Man who knew too much. Classic Hitchcock!

[Taipan]

Jut finished Season 1 of The Handmaids Tale.

[Count Steer]

Just watched The Commitments. Can't quite believe it's taken this long to get round to watching it!