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Post by blueshift on Jan 22, 2014 19:10:43 GMT
Breaking Bad is amazing. Like Ralph I resisted DUE to all the hype, but then I caved and watched the whole thin in 3 weeks
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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 23, 2014 0:48:34 GMT
Watched 'Let The Right One In' tonight.
Why haven't I seen this BEFORE??!!!
Wonderful film and cast. Wonderful. They don't make 'em like this very often.
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 23, 2014 20:34:40 GMT
Finally got around to watching Mad Men and am now blasting through it at an unhealthy rate.
Never heard of that film Shockprowl so had a look on IMDB and still don't recognise it, but I don't really watch a lot of horror so maybe thats why.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 31, 2014 23:19:52 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 1, 2014 9:23:51 GMT
I saw. I shall avoid!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 2, 2014 10:18:25 GMT
Pleased. Okay, so the Christmas episode felt like a greatest hits, but there was potential there I thought. I love BBC sitcoms, so I'm not at all worried about them trying to mine the archives for remakes. I think it's terribly sad that the traditional sitcom doesn't really exist these days. More 80s TV revivals please! Of other series I've watched and liked recently - did anyone catch Yonderland on Sky? I recorded it on the off chance it would be passable but ended up really enjoying the comedy. |
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 8, 2014 19:25:23 GMT
Caught one episode of Yonderland and found it quite good. Eventually I'll get around to watching more. Breaking Bad is amazing. Like Ralph I resisted DUE to all the hype, but then I caved and watched the whole thin in 3 weeks Just finished it. Wow. Really about the perfect ending. I can't think of a series that had a more complete ending than that. Also been working through Mad Men in the last few weeks. Very different show, but equally addictive. |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 9, 2014 18:26:19 GMT
I enjoyed Mad Men but lost track of it when the BBC lost the rights after they showed the fourth series.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Feb 17, 2014 20:09:25 GMT
I enjoyed Mad Men but lost track of it when the BBC lost the rights after they showed the fourth series. -Ralph I actually managed to lose so much track I forgot I had seen the fourth season, stuck it in my rental queue and then found myself going "hang on, I'm sure I've seen this". It has been deleted, and the opening disk to the fifth season is on its way to me for viewing in due course. The other series that my rental queue has anted up recently is the third season of the CW's "Nikita" series. It is... not of so far of the quality it was in its second year. I think some of this is that it feels the lack of Xander Berkeley's Percy - he was such a strong central villian that the show doesn't really feel it has the same oomph without him. It is still competent stuff, with a decent central tension to the first half of a season - can you run an "off the books" special ops agency with the intention of running to ground its ex-members and then winding it down without you, or the people in the government who know about you being tempted to use those assets in the same bad old ways. It is kind of the way they had to go with a third season because of how they left the board at the end of the second. It isn't that it is bad, it is more that it is "what you would expect" and it doesn't feel - from the first third of the season, that they have very many tricks left in their bag. But on an episode-by-episode basis it delivers the appropriate levels of soapy relationship drama (although sadly without the level of damaged and psychologically wounded relationships of the previous Nikita series - Section One wins on their cover discipline and general gunplay but loses on the level of psychological trauma their operatives accumulated, so it is a bit of a wash :-) ), and spy-fi action adventure that I don't mind sparing it forty-five minutes an evening. Seeing it has helped me put my finger on one of the things that was bugging me about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D though - I had forgotten how lacklustre S.H.I.E.L.D.S action sequences were in terms of choreagraphy. Take any fight sequence from the first few episodes of S.H.I.E.L.D and any from the first few episodes of "Nikita" and the latter looks like it comes from a decade later than the former. And it isn't even that "Nikita" is doing that much over and above the odds. But it still manages to make S.H.I.E.L.D's sequences look very flatly staged and shot. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 23, 2014 20:28:46 GMT
I got Iron Man 3 for my other half as she had not seen it. Really doesn't hold up on second viewing but then strangely none of the Marvel Studios films do for me other than the first Thor film. For some reason most of their output is enjoyable enough for me on cinema viewing but don't hold up to repeated viewing. Except for Thor. Hmmmm.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Feb 23, 2014 22:07:23 GMT
My second (cinema) viewing of Iron Man 3 was much better. I shall see how it fares on TV soon.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 24, 2014 7:01:22 GMT
The Thor films almost seem to me a different franchise to the others in the series, and I can see how fans of them might not be fans of the others or vice versa. I'm the vice versa! Until recently, based on my cinema viewing I had ranked Captain America: The First Avenger as the weakest of the series, but now I've re-watched it a couple of times on Blu-ray, and re-watched Thor on TV (Thor 2 is the only film I haven't seen more than once), and Cap has now lesp-frogged both Thor films and The Incredible Hulk in my estimation. I didn't get it before, but now it's clicked and I get it, and am really looking forward to the sequel!
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 24, 2014 8:44:25 GMT
I liked Cap at the cinema but when I tried to rewatch it I got bored and switched it off!
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 24, 2014 20:58:23 GMT
Rewatching Veronica Mars before the movie comes out next month. Been a couple of years and had forgotten just how amazing it is.
Also need to sit done and rewatch Game of Thrones before season 4. Went in to season 3 last year without having rewatched Season 2 and got all confused.
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Post by blueshift on Feb 28, 2014 23:30:42 GMT
So uh, new Jonathan Creek.
That was a thing.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 18, 2014 15:25:50 GMT
Massed BSG & Game of Thrones chat moved to their own threads. BSG already had one, GoT had passed the critical mass here to have one created
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 29, 2014 22:52:31 GMT
I have enjoyed Turks & Caicos and Salting The Battlefield on the Iplayer. Two intelligent spy thrillers that follow on from a drama called Page 8 from a few years ago. Worth a look.
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 30, 2014 19:45:00 GMT
Last in current (& first) series of BBC's 'The Musketeers' tonight. It's cheesier than a cheese factory covered in cheese, but good fun. The cast are very watchable.
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Post by blueshift on Mar 30, 2014 20:04:51 GMT
Last in current (& first) series of BBC's 'The Musketeers' tonight. It's cheesier than a cheese factory covered in cheese, but good fun. The cast are very watchable. I have really enjoyed what I have seen of it, but not really inspired to specially sit down and watch it, if that makes sense. |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 30, 2014 20:09:00 GMT
It does. I watched the first episode. It was ok. Passed an hour just fine, yet I never felt the urge to watch any more episodes.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 30, 2014 20:22:47 GMT
Endeavour on ITV. Cracking stuff
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 1, 2014 17:37:46 GMT
I shall catch up with The Musketeers on the iPlayer.
Caught up on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on 4oD last night. Latest episode has Stan Lee's most substantial acting role in Marvel on screen to date, with several lines of dialogue.
Also saw a ropey copy of Marvel's All Hail the King on YouTube which saves me buying Thor 2 just for that.
Martin
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 1, 2014 18:04:46 GMT
Did you enjoy more Trevor then?
Andy
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 1, 2014 18:14:03 GMT
Did you enjoy more Trevor then? I did! Although his best bits are still the ones in the film. I.e. when he had the "lovely drugs". Martin |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 1, 2014 19:04:39 GMT
I saw that short. I thought it took a funny joke from Iron Man 3 and beat it into the ground while appearing to exist only to appease a few hundred fanboys shouting on internet forums. Utterly tiresome.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on May 6, 2014 5:37:33 GMT
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Post by blueshift on May 12, 2014 18:06:59 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on May 12, 2014 19:36:08 GMT
FANTASTIC!
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Post by Shockprowl on May 12, 2014 19:43:38 GMT
I did think Canoe was pretty good in the Constantine film.
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Post by legios on May 12, 2014 20:17:40 GMT
From the write-ups I've read of it the major problem with it appeared to be that it didn't really have a lot to do with the actual character. It sounded like it was one of those things that would have been better off dropping the name and making its own way.
Karl
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