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Gregor wrote: Thu May 23, 2024 1:58 pm Zen motoring on iplayer was a quite amusing. :thumbup:
Ogmios?

Original YouTube stuff is better. Just the rambling while driving, no 'story'.

Even bland can be a type of character :wave:
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Finally gave in and watched The Covenant. Not the biggest fan of Guy Ritchies style, so the thought of him being involved in a war type film didn't really appeal. I was wrong. He made a good job of it and I felt really tense at points. :thumbup:

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Killers.

Well know cast and a Lionsgate production. I stuck with it for some time, thinking it'll start making sense soon, but no, its dire and i eventually bailed on it.
1/10 and that's only cos I saw Katherine Heigl in her bra! :roll: :D

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As SWMBO has never seen it, stay on the roood, stay off the mooowahs
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Potter wrote: Thu May 23, 2024 1:20 pm Unforgotten.
A police thing about solving aged murders, we watched all five seasons and there wasn't a bad one in them.
Not usually my thing but it was good.

They were on TV and not new, but we don't watch much TV so we only discovered them a few weeks ago and we watched one every evening in bed until we'd seen them all.
We watched that on fletnix...as you said...very good.
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The Bikeriders.

Jodie Comer can do no wrong (I will fight you if you disagree), and Austin Butler ain't bad either. Tom Hardy being his usual excellent self.

The film as a whole is interesting enough, and the characters and development of the biker gang is definitely absorbing - worth a watch I reckon. 👍😎
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https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/ ... hort-films

A bit whimsical and light-hearted, but I liked it.
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Stupid, but mildy amusing, easy to watch offering...

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I saw Star Trek: Strange New Worlds series 1 and 2 were both on Amazon for £6.99, so I bought 'em both.

It's Star Trek like Star Trek used to be! Stories are wrapped up in one episode (pretty much), it's not dark and gritty and depressing, people solve problems by thinking them through, the Captain is an optimist! Plus it's got the best quiff on modern TV.
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House of the Dragon. The first season was very good, but the second has felt increasingly with each episode that it was going the same way as Game of Thrones…

The last episode aired a couple of days ago, still not brought myself to watch it..
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Taipan wrote: Wed Jul 24, 2024 6:24 pm Stupid, but mildy amusing, easy to watch offering...

I nearly gave up very soon. But coz you'd recommended it, I carried on

Brilliant film :obscene-birdiedoublered:
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Aug 06, 2024 6:00 pm I saw Star Trek: Strange New Worlds series 1 and 2 were both on Amazon for £6.99, so I bought 'em both.

It's Star Trek like Star Trek used to be! Stories are wrapped up in one episode (pretty much), it's not dark and gritty and depressing, people solve problems by thinking them through, the Captain is an optimist! Plus it's got the best quiff on modern TV.
Just got to the musical episode. Star Trek's first ever one in the nearly 60 years it's been going.

Surprisingly OK actually :obscene-birdiedoublered:

Thought it'd be stupid...but if they have can western planet episodes, Nazi planet episodes, Robin Hood episodes etc etc they can do a musical. :lol:
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Aug 13, 2024 10:19 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Aug 06, 2024 6:00 pm I saw Star Trek: Strange New Worlds series 1 and 2 were both on Amazon for £6.99, so I bought 'em both.

It's Star Trek like Star Trek used to be! Stories are wrapped up in one episode (pretty much), it's not dark and gritty and depressing, people solve problems by thinking them through, the Captain is an optimist! Plus it's got the best quiff on modern TV.
Just got to the musical episode. Star Trek's first ever one in the nearly 60 years it's been going.

Surprisingly OK actually :obscene-birdiedoublered:

Thought it'd be stupid...but if they have can western planet episodes, Nazi planet episodes, Robin Hood episodes etc etc they can do a musical. :lol:
Bit of a change for Anson Mount from 'Hell on Wheels*' to 'Larking about in Space'. :D

* Which coincidentally had Colm Meaney from TNG and DS9 in. Space cowboys?
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Speaking of cast cross overs....there's an episode in series two where two animated characters from Lower Decks appear in the live action Strange New Worlds. The voice actors from the former play the same characters in real life.

I never clocked that the guy who voices the lead in LD (purple haired Boimler) is Hughie from The Boys.

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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Aug 14, 2024 8:39 am Speaking of cast cross overs....there's an episode in series two where two animated characters from Lower Decks appear in the live action Strange New Worlds. The voice actors from the former play the same characters in real life.

I never clocked that the guy who voices the lead in LD (purple haired Boimler) is Hughie from The Boys.

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Where are the bogs on Federation ships/why does no-one ever use them? :D

(Don't think they had any on DS9 either).
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A question asked many times :D

They're behind those doors on set you never see open. Picard's ready room for example, to the left of his desk.
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Count Steer wrote: Wed Aug 14, 2024 9:17 am As you're a Trek fan you can answer the most puzzling question.

Where are the bogs on Federation ships/why does no-one ever use them?

(Don't think they had any on DS9 either).
With the personal transporters in Discovery you just poop where and when you want and it's instantly transported outside of the ship

Edit, also, https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Toilet
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I watch them so you don't have to! :thumbdown:


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Doing my civic duty, i watched FALLOUT, just so you don't have to.

I don't know if it makes more sense if you've played the video game, but as a prog, it's awful !
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weeksy wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 7:57 am Doing my civic duty, i watched FALLOUT, just so you don't have to.

I don't know if it makes more sense if you've played the video game, but as a prog, it's awful !
I started it, as I'd read a gushing review somewhere. After about three episodes I realised it wasn't going to get any better.


I've just finished Bodies on Netflix. It's worth a watch, if a little far-fetched and slightly incoherent at the end.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18347622/
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