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Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2023 1:26 pm
by Count Steer
MrLongbeard wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 1:00 pm 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.
To be fair, a couple of seasons of Justified didn't really live up to the old Justified. :D

Edit: The Guardian are quite positive on the new one. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... dApp_Other

I'm hoping City Primeval makes its way onto a format/platform I can access (ditto Slow Horses).

I bought Babylon 5: The Road Home a few weeks ago but still haven't got round to watching it. Maybe this weekend.

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2023 1:32 pm
by Taipan
Very strange and Corden seems to mimic Gervais in After Life, or at least took some acting cues from him. Not sorry I watched it but not quite sure why I did either?! :D


Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 9:18 am
by Mussels
Count Steer wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 1:26 pm
MrLongbeard wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 1:00 pm 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.
To be fair, a couple of seasons of Justified didn't really live up to the old Justified. :D

Edit: The Guardian are quite positive on the new one. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... dApp_Other

I'm hoping City Primeval makes its way onto a format/platform I can access (ditto Slow Horses).

I bought Babylon 5: The Road Home a few weeks ago but still haven't got round to watching it. Maybe this weekend.
The guardian slated the new Top Gun film because it wasn't gay enough and didn't have a woman in charge, I don't rate their reviews much.

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2023 5:03 pm
by weeksy
I'm doing a few of the Korean series at the moment... Having really enjoyed things like Squid Game for example, i'm currently mid-into 'Sweet Home' and it's like all the Korean series pretty gory and brutal :)

It's weird as i can't watch Euro dubbed series as the mouth movements look like they should be English but are obviously not, to the Scandi, German etc stuff i just can't watch. The Korean/Japanese stuff is so far removed though that it doesn't matter.

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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2023 5:13 pm
by gremlin
Liebes Kind (Dear Child) on Netflix is pretty good. Woman and child escape from captivity, but all is not what it initially appears. Good plot and plenty of twists.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20863760/

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2023 5:45 pm
by Taipan
The Killing Kind. I'd have bailed on it earlier on, but my wife and Sister wanted to see it out. None of liked it in the end.

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2023 6:03 pm
by Yorick
gremlin wrote: Tue Sep 19, 2023 5:13 pm Liebes Kind (Dear Child) on Netflix is pretty good. Woman and child escape from captivity, but all is not what it initially appears. Good plot and plenty of twists.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20863760/
Is it dubbed?

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2023 6:52 pm
by gremlin
Yorick wrote: Tue Sep 19, 2023 6:03 pm
gremlin wrote: Tue Sep 19, 2023 5:13 pm Liebes Kind (Dear Child) on Netflix is pretty good. Woman and child escape from captivity, but all is not what it initially appears. Good plot and plenty of twists.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20863760/
Is it dubbed?
Nein. Mit subtitles, lieblich.

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2023 7:00 pm
by Yorick
gremlin wrote: Tue Sep 19, 2023 6:52 pm
Yorick wrote: Tue Sep 19, 2023 6:03 pm
gremlin wrote: Tue Sep 19, 2023 5:13 pm Liebes Kind (Dear Child) on Netflix is pretty good. Woman and child escape from captivity, but all is not what it initially appears. Good plot and plenty of twists.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20863760/
Is it dubbed?
Nein. Mit subtitles, lieblich.
That's as bad.

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2023 9:39 am
by Taipan
Jean de Florette and Manon Des Source. Un film bien!

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Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2023 11:18 am
by gremlin
Taipan wrote: Wed Sep 20, 2023 9:39 am Manon Des Source.
Can one serve it with lamb?

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 10:43 am
by Taipan
Apres Vous. Subtitled French Film with Daniel Autiel at his finest. Very funny.


Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2023 4:01 pm
by Taipan
Watched 2 films this week and really don't know why I bother with Hollywood anymore. I could have bailed on either at any point and wish I had in some ways as Emmerdale was probably more plotworthy!




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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2023 4:55 pm
by Count Steer
Wife (honestly! :D ) has been watching the 'Yes We Can-Can' thing about the Moulin Rouge and it's all a bit :shock: The woman that runs the shows and all the girls seem to be English from Oop North in Englandshire. It all looks pretty brutal and anacronistic tourist fodder TBH but they talk about it like it's the pinnacle of a dancing career. :hmmm:

I know that being a hoofer in the chorus line isn't really very glamorous (not from personal experience obvs!) but they do spin it up rather. I keep asking how much they get paid - but answer came there none. So much for 'in depth' reportage. All the blokes appear to be gay and interested in the costumes, which is fine, but it does explain why some of the girls quit to come home looking for lurv.

Up there they're all goddesses. Take the feathers and the make-up off and they're Karen from Preston. (Or Steven from Kalgoorlie).

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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2023 5:27 pm
by MingtheMerciless
Just finished Ahsoka, a bit meh to start with and a slow but Grand Admiral Thrawn is back. If the Empire had more men like him those religious zealots would never have triumphed.

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2023 5:51 pm
by Nordboy
https://www.unilad.com/film-and-tv/news ... 5-20231006

Really looking forward to the air version of the Band of Brothers, Spielberg and Hanks again. B of B is one of, if not my favourite mini series, Pacific not so much but still very good.

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2023 6:44 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
MingtheMerciless wrote: Fri Oct 06, 2023 5:27 pm Just finished Ahsoka, a bit meh to start with and a slow but Grand Admiral Thrawn is back. If the Empire had more men like him those religious zealots would never have triumphed.
I have never watched any of the animated stuff. I did read the Heir to the Empire stuff when it came out in the 90s (the first and last Star Wars books I've read). It's all a bit confusing, AFAIK Thrawn et al are non cannon? I don't fucking know, I probably shouldn't have watched Ahsoka :lol:

Anyway, I was generally distracted trying to figure out where i knew Thrawn from. Blue skin made it difficult but I got it in the end!

He's the politician guy (Troels Hartman?) in series two of The Killing.

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2023 7:24 pm
by demographic
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Fri Oct 06, 2023 6:44 pm
MingtheMerciless wrote: Fri Oct 06, 2023 5:27 pm Just finished Ahsoka, a bit meh to start with and a slow but Grand Admiral Thrawn is back. If the Empire had more men like him those religious zealots would never have triumphed.
I have never watched any of the animated stuff. I did read the Heir to the Empire stuff when it came out in the 90s (the first and last Star Wars books I've read). It's all a bit confusing, AFAIK Thrawn et al are non cannon? I don't fucking know, I probably shouldn't have watched Ahsoka :lol:

Anyway, I was generally distracted trying to figure out where i knew Thrawn from. Blue skin made it difficult but I got it in the end!

He's the politician guy (Troels Hartman?) in series two of The Killing.
Did you spot Wes Chatham from The Expanse? Played Amos Burton in The Expanse but the gold faced stormtrooper in this.

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2023 7:34 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
Kinda hard to spot that one :lol:

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2023 7:40 pm
by KungFooBob
I watched the whole of the Clone Wars cartoon series during the first lock down.

A lot of it was for kids (most people would say all of it), but Ashoka's character arc, especially in the later final series is brilliant. Based on that alone she's the best character in the whole franchise.

I've not watched Rebels, so don't know the full back story to the Asoka series, but I thought it was a bit 'meh'.