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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 24, 2016 20:18:48 GMT
It's an awful show.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 24, 2016 20:21:49 GMT
F***ing dredful.
And yet I see an advert that makes out they're proud to have it on.
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Post by legios on Sept 24, 2016 22:00:49 GMT
It is CBS Action - it is probably their most expensive acquisition in ages!
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 25, 2016 11:52:59 GMT
Was that the one with Patrick McNee on the boat?
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 25, 2016 12:00:49 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Sept 25, 2016 12:07:27 GMT
Was that the one with Patrick McNee on the boat? -Ralph Yes, amazing show. Phil doesn't know what he's talking about, it was great!!!! |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 25, 2016 17:26:46 GMT
Then it is the show I remember. Despite having both a boat and Patrick McNee in it, it was pish. He is not always the guarantee of quality. Let us never forget the Automan pilot.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 27, 2016 22:05:44 GMT
We should try and forget that pilot though.
Strive to forget.
Andy
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 30, 2016 10:25:44 GMT
Thanks to it hitting iTunes I am now watching Ash vs Evil Dead Series 1.
Great fun.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 1, 2016 17:03:44 GMT
We should try and forget that pilot though. Strive to forget. Andy We can't until we make the Kaptain watch it. Remember the challenge. -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 1, 2016 21:22:20 GMT
I've just watched Big Trouble in Little China for the first time in my life.
What the hell was that all about?
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 1, 2016 21:33:26 GMT
Terrible film.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 1, 2016 21:56:29 GMT
The 'cult classic' status drew me in. I suppose it scratched my ever burning 80s nostalgia itch, but... what?
Next time it'll be Highlander. I keep trying with that every few years.
I now feel the need to watch MOR-TAAAL! KOM-BAAAT! again.
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Post by blueshift on Oct 2, 2016 6:01:59 GMT
I've just watched Big Trouble in Little China for the first time in my life. What the hell was that all about? It is an amazing film if you are five years old. But yeah it's not great. At the same time though, it is. Sadly, the legend that it was the repurposed script from the Buckaroo Banzai sequel isn't true (That's another film thats not as good as people say, but at the same time is still good) |
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Post by blueshift on Oct 2, 2016 8:02:22 GMT
Next time it'll be Highlander. I keep trying with that every few years. I enjoy Highlander, but again I don't think it's a particularly good film, and its a bit boring in places. I loved it when I was 12 though! |
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Post by Shockprowl on Oct 2, 2016 8:23:26 GMT
Yes I loved Highlander as a young person. Watched it a bit back, and it has not aged well. I remember the TV series being good, but again, haven't seen that for yonks.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 2, 2016 9:11:23 GMT
Buckaroo Banzai is crap.
I wouldn't say Highlander is 'good' but I do enjoy it anyway.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 2, 2016 21:36:29 GMT
Big Trouble is fantastic and it is where I first fell in love with Kim Cattrall.
Highlander is great tosh, a daft film but you would be hard pressed to call it good.
Clancy Brown is tops as the Kurgan.
Andy
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 3, 2016 18:33:52 GMT
New record for me yesterday. You know there are always those things on the recorder box that have been there ages that you never quite get around to watching? I watched HG Wells - War with the World last night off the old freeview recorder we have in the bedroom, a docudrama about the writer. I was thinking today, that's been there a bit, I wonder when it was actually on. Turns out I watched it exactly ten years and two days after it was recorded!
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Post by Benn on Oct 3, 2016 18:50:42 GMT
wow.
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 3, 2016 20:10:33 GMT
Actually that sounds mad even by my standards. I reckon it was a repeat on the same night Mark Gatiss's First Men in the Moon was on. So six years ago, not ten.
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Post by Bogatan on Oct 3, 2016 20:25:30 GMT
It sounds even more mad because all harddrive recorders seem insanely fickle. Sky boxes rarely last more than a few years. and the DVDHDD recorder I have lost all its content at least once, I think twice.
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 3, 2016 20:38:07 GMT
It doesn't get used a lot. In fact I think in the last year the only things it has recorded are Shield for the missus and The Sky At Night. Oh, and Trainspotting Live. Everything else goes on the downstairs recorder. It needs swapping out for a Freeview HD one really. Originally I bought it to transfer VHS tapes to DVD, but there is so little left now I have on VHS that isn't available either on disc or digitally that I can't see me doing that any more.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 5, 2016 21:10:59 GMT
Taskmaster is back for a third series! Hurrah!
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Post by blueshift on Oct 8, 2016 10:05:00 GMT
As it is coming up to Halloween I have been rewatching Over The Garden Wall. Wow, I forgot how amazing that is. A must-watch if you've not already (and the whole thing is only 1 1/2 hours long)
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 8, 2016 21:57:17 GMT
Tonight's film: Allegiant. Does not surprise me in the least that as this series moves closer and closer to proper sci-fi that it began tanking at the cinema. I've really enjoyed these films, much more than the Hunger Games despite the fact the characters are thinner. Shame to see there's a possibility that the fourth will now be a low budget TV movie.
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Post by blueshift on Oct 8, 2016 21:59:52 GMT
Tonight's film: Allegiant. Oh my god Pinwig you poor man  |
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 8, 2016 22:05:18 GMT
I really liked it! and no I don't fancy Shane Woodley or whatever her name is. It was proper sci-fi! Good film!
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Post by legios on Oct 9, 2016 14:07:50 GMT
Eh. I've only seen part of it - rental disc was borked and I didn't have the interest to work around it - it struck me as no worse than "Mockinjay" to be honest, and less weighed down by a desire to stretch material that can't sustain the length to four hours.
That said, I wasn't that keen on "Mockinjay", "Divergent" or what I saw of "Alliegant". They all shared a similar sense of a principle character who mostly has things done _to_ them and is more pulled along by the story than active in it. In "Mockinjay"'s defence this is actually intentional, and the lead characters lack of agency is a story point. Unfortunately I didn't think it worked out very well from a screen point of view. In things like the "Divergent" series and the "Maze Runner" adaptations it felt more like something that was being done just because it was a part of the "vacum-packed stock Young-Adult Genre" pigeonhole.
Mind you, I'd say that the Divergent series is probably less painfully silly than the "Maze Runner" series, even if the first one didn't really have the bite of "The Hunger Games".
This is probably why my favourite "Young Adult" adaptation has been "Nerve" - Vee's own decisions get her into the plot, and carry her through to the end. Some of them are bad decisions, made because of the peer pressure which often causes poor decision-making in teenagers, but they are hers and she owns them.
Karl
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Post by legios on Oct 12, 2016 17:54:30 GMT
Started watching Daredevil now that it is available for rental on shiny disc. First episode does an absolutely cracking job. Shows how you can do just enough of an origin story in a handful of minutes and then keep moving, commits to which tone of Daredevil it wants to do and pushes forward firmly with that. Really good fight staging (I was wincing numerous times during the episodes second proper fight), and some deft character set-up. Really clicked for me right from the start. Charlie Cox is a really good Matt Murdock as well - both haunted and grim but also capable of being funny and showing wit.
I think I'm going to enjoy this - one to savour an episode a night I think.
Karl
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