Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

[JamJar]

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.

I'm really disappointed with this and not a patch on Band of Brothers which I am now rewatching for the 4th or 5th time. The CGI is so bad it distracts from the story and they ripped off some scenes from Memphis Belle almost shot for shot.

[v8-powered]

Love/Hate on ITVX - bit like Top Boy but years earlier in Dublin

[Dodgy69]

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).

Just watched the 3rd part last night, very good watch. The big dilemma they had i suppose was, do you tell the crew they could possibly all burn up on re entry due to possibly wing damage caused be foam.

[gremlin]

Watched a couple of films at the weekend....

Saltburn - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17351924/?ref_=ttqu_ov_i

Gets a thumbs up from me. Richard E Grant and Rosamund Pike are outstanding in it. Not the most original of stories, but a great film. Amazon Prime

The Favourite - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5083738/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Regency drama with Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone. Surprisingly good. Netflix.

[KungFooBob]

Watched a couple of films at the weekend....

Saltburn - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17351924/?ref_=ttqu_ov_i

Gets a thumbs up from me. Richard E Grant and Rosamund Pike are outstanding in it. Not the most original of stories, but a great film. Amazon Prime

The Favourite - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5083738/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Regency drama with Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone. Surprisingly good. Netflix.

I watched The Favourite a week or two back, it was ok.

I started watching Poor Things (same director innit), it's ok, but I turned if off after an hour, I'd got bored and wasn't expecting to see much more of Emma Stones tits

[Taipan]

Jut finished Season 1 of The Handmaids Tale.

Approaching the end of series 3 now. TBH Id have bailed on it, as its so slow at times, but the wife is into it. Anyone else stuck with it?

[Buckaroo]

Jut finished Season 1 of The Handmaids Tale.

Approaching the end of series 3 now. TBH Id have bailed on it, as its so slow at times, but the wife is into it. Anyone else stuck with it?

Yep, watched the entire set of series and episodes.

Considering some of it wasn't by the original author, Margaret Attwood, it was very well done and worth watching

[Taipan]

Jut finished Season 1 of The Handmaids Tale.

Approaching the end of series 3 now. TBH Id have bailed on it, as its so slow at times, but the wife is into it. Anyone else stuck with it?

Yep, watched the entire set of series and episodes.

Considering some of it wasn't by the original author, Margaret Attwood, it was very well done and worth watching

Its very dark in its filming and set where its cold and snowy and that probably kicks my SADS in! I am enjoying it in the main, but I start to lose interest at times. I feel it could have been edited down to keep a better momentum, but thats just from my POV as my wife is pretty enthralled with it as it is.

[gremlin]

The original book is, in essence, season 1.

After that it went a bit downhill as they milked the udder for television 'til it was very sore indeed.

[Buckaroo]

Approaching the end of series 3 now. TBH Id have bailed on it, as its so slow at times, but the wife is into it. Anyone else stuck with it?

Yep, watched the entire set of series and episodes.

Considering some of it wasn't by the original author, Margaret Attwood, it was very well done and worth watching

Its very dark in its filming and set where its cold and snowy and that probably kicks my SADS in! I am enjoying it in the main, but I start to lose interest at times. I feel it could have been edited down to keep a better momentum, but thats just from my POV as my wife is pretty enthralled with it as it is.

I know. I too reached moments of ' that's enough ' but my wife stuck with it, as did I. All in all, a good watch

[Taipan]

Yep, watched the entire set of series and episodes.

Considering some of it wasn't by the original author, Margaret Attwood, it was very well done and worth watching

Its very dark in its filming and set where its cold and snowy and that probably kicks my SADS in! I am enjoying it in the main, but I start to lose interest at times. I feel it could have been edited down to keep a better momentum, but thats just from my POV as my wife is pretty enthralled with it as it is.

I know. I too reached moments of ' that's enough ' but my wife stuck with it, as did I. All in all, a good watch

We bailed on it. I suspect we’ll return but even the wife got bogged down by it. We watched The Gentlemen tv series, very good in a distinctly Guy Ritchie way!

[Slenver]

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.

I'm really disappointed with this and not a patch on Band of Brothers which I am now rewatching for the 4th or 5th time. The CGI is so bad it distracts from the story and they ripped off some scenes from Memphis Belle almost shot for shot.

Just finished the last episode this weekend.

TBH, I wanted to like it so much... I've got a minor obsession about WW2, and the flying part particularly, and Band of Brothers was so excellent.

I did enjoy Masters, but it wasn't anywhere near the standard of BoB. A lot of cheesy script, and a lot of cheesy characters... one of the two main characters (they had both the same name FFS) was like a masterclass in how to be a clichéd, yet thoroughly unconvincing brooding movie star, and yes, the CGI was just awful a lot of the time.

Plus, it sadly fell foul of that usual WW2 Hollywood trait of portraying the entire war as being goddamned American heroes vs all the baddies, and saving humanity from oppression. Despite the series being based in the UK during the war, literally the only 2 scenes in the full 9-odd hours that featured British servicemen were both of the 'What ho, chaps! There's some bally Yanks in the room. Golly, we're so superior to them!' followed by them being smacked down by the Americans, literally in one case during a one-punch fight that sees the Brits getting a goddamned can 'o whoopass opened on them. I appreciate the primary audience is presumably American and they probably love all that stuff, but it's childish nonsense that devalues it as a decent drama in my (admittedly biased) eyes. And that's before we get into all the usual sentimental stirring violins and clenched jaws every time a goddamned American hero returned from a mission.

There's an irony too, in the fact that as is standard these days, half the cast were British.

But anyway, I digress a bit. It was enjoyable enough and had a nicely epic feel, but if BoB was a 10/10, then Masters was, I guess a 6.

[Taipan]

Gotta love a classic!

[gremlin]

I keep coming across old episodes of 'Allo, 'Allo and, despite feeling I shouldn't be laughing at the old, corny gags, I do find myself watching for longer than I'd ever confess.

[KungFooBob]

I keep coming across old episodes of 'Allo, 'Allo and, despite feeling I shouldn't be laughing at the old, corny gags, I do find myself watching for longer than I'd ever confess.

I watched last night on Yesterday iirc.

First time I took the motorhome over to France I spent the night in a village carpark, it wasn't until leaving (obviously the French have leaving town/village signs to remind you where you've just been) that I spotted I'd spent the night in Nouvion!

[Yorick]

I keep coming across old episodes of 'Allo, 'Allo and, despite feeling I shouldn't be laughing at the old, corny gags, I do find myself watching for longer than I'd ever confess.

How come I'm not even a tiny bit surprised ?

[McNab]

But anyway, I digress a bit. It was enjoyable enough and had a nicely epic feel, but if BoB was a 10/10, then Masters was, I guess a 6.

Yeah, I pretty much agree with all you say (although I am more tolerant of dodgy CGI). For a show called "Masters of the Air" I felt there was a distinct lack of the "Air" in the second half of the series, and I was completely pissed off that we didn't get to see D-Day apart from the one shot that was clearly built for the trailer/titles.

[Horse]

I keep coming across old episodes of 'Allo, 'Allo and, despite feeling I shouldn't be laughing at the old, corny gags, I do find myself watching for longer than I'd ever confess.

Now watch an episode of Secret Army to see how near Allo Allo was (or how bad SA was!).

[Slenver]

But anyway, I digress a bit. It was enjoyable enough and had a nicely epic feel, but if BoB was a 10/10, then Masters was, I guess a 6.

Yeah, I pretty much agree with all you say (although I am more tolerant of dodgy CGI). For a show called "Masters of the Air" I felt there was a distinct lack of the "Air" in the second half of the series, and I was completely pissed off that we didn't get to see D-Day apart from the one shot that was clearly built for the trailer/titles.

I'd like to think I was fairly tolerant of the CGI, but it did seem a bit oddly poor in places for one of the most expensive pieces of TV ever. I'd have thought by now it'd be almost imperceptible, but there was a sort of cartoonish quality to a lot of the plane stuff.

[Taipan]

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