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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 2, 2021 10:58:52 GMT
Guys, if you get chance, watch 'The Night Manager' on iPlayer. Gripping mini-series starring the brilliant Hugh Laurie AND the compelling Tom Hiddleson.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 2, 2021 11:07:06 GMT
Too busy watching House of Cards (original), Blake's 7, olde Doctor Who, Rentaghost, Catweazle, The Adventure Game, 70's The Tomorrow People, (Jeremy Brett) Sherlock Holmes, The Secret Service and The Avengers on Britbox.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 2, 2021 11:31:29 GMT
We've been watching the Beiderbecke Trilogy (Affair, Tapes & Connection)
AGES since I last watched it, had forgotten how good it was.
Incredibly Liz had never seen it!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 2, 2021 11:33:53 GMT
Guys, if you get chance, watch 'The Night Manager' on iPlayer. Gripping mini-series starring the brilliant Hugh Laurie AND the compelling Tom Hiddleson. LeCarre. If you can Shockprowl, try and find Tinker, Tailore, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People. Andy & Martin will back me up, ignore Ralph on this matter
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 2, 2021 12:15:12 GMT
TTSS is awful in both film and TV versions! Lots of pish about moles in circuses that moves at a glacial pace.
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 2, 2021 12:22:18 GMT
Guys, if you get chance, watch 'The Night Manager' on iPlayer. Gripping mini-series starring the brilliant Hugh Laurie AND the compelling Tom Hiddleson. LeCarre. If you can Shockprowl, try and find Tinker, Tailore, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People. Andy & Martin will back me up, ignore Ralph on this matter I'm a big fan of TTSS already. The Doctor is clearly in error.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 2, 2021 13:09:06 GMT
Moles! In circuses!
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 2, 2021 15:35:01 GMT
Wait a minute...
Doc', you often boast how you can speak Russian...
You're often saying things like "down with Trump" and completely unreasonable 'anti-west' things like that...
You're often saying how The Hub is like a circus...
Oh my god...
DOC'! YOU'RE A MOLE!!!
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 2, 2021 16:28:19 GMT
I am not Monty Mole.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 2, 2021 17:36:36 GMT
Meanwhile, I've been watching the Hero Healthbars channel on YouTube. Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 3, 2021 19:54:12 GMT
I hope to watch New Mutants next week when I have more free time. -Ralph Zzzzzzzz. Flat sound design, flat dialogue, flat plot. Flat flat flat. Some pish about bears. Maisie Williams impersonating Wee Jimmy Krankie. Shite. Could have been a great mutant remix of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with interesting use of teenage metaphors. But it was shite. -Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 3, 2021 21:49:56 GMT
Mmmoooooooooole
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 4, 2021 17:31:22 GMT
Alternative 3 - a docudrama from the 70's about the scientific brain drain in the UK...
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 4, 2021 17:36:29 GMT
Oh yes that is proper mad stuff.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 4, 2021 19:23:41 GMT
Can't believe I was unaware of this!
Turns out there's a good print on Amazon prime.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 4, 2021 20:43:30 GMT
I amazed you did not know of it! Shane Rimmer pops up in it.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 4, 2021 21:18:08 GMT
Yes, I was looking away from the screen and heard his voice and instantly knew it was him.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 9, 2021 14:00:34 GMT
I am using up some excess leave this week. Today I am watching all three Bill & Ted movies on Blu-ray.
How is it that Bogus Journey has had a Region B release in Germany but not in the UK? It always boggles my mind when I have to buy a product released in a non-English-speaking country to get a film made in the US or UK on Blu-ray.
Anyway, it has been acquired.
Edit: I mean, Bill & Ted 1 and 3 have both had 4K releases in the UK, but 2 hasn't even had a Blu-ray. I could understand them ignoring it on disc if Bill & Ted 3 had ignored 2, but it didn't, it treated Death as a returning highlight. So why no disc release of the film that introduced him?
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 9, 2021 17:37:02 GMT
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (original working title: 'Bill & Ted Go to Hell') is called 'Bill & Ted's verrückte Reise in die Zukunft' in German, which apparently means 'Bill & Ted's Crazy Trip to the Future'. I thought this was the one film of the three not to show them visiting the future...
Anyway, the Blu-ray was worth tracking down if only for the audio commentary by the two writers (who wrote all three films), because they really don't like this film. They start the commentary watching the film for the first time in many years, but with memories of it being awful, but then they're pleasantly surprised by the first hour being better than they remembered, but then the final half hour contains all the stuff they hated, and wished they'd done differently, ending with the Kiss song over the end credits which is the only thing in the third act that they think really worked. Though at the time of doing the recording, they're already working on 'Face the Music', and they point out they're going to have to ignore a lot of the events suggested by the newspaper front pages in the end credit sequence (Bill & Ted bringing peace to the Middle East, solving global warming, etc.). It's an interesting/amusing listen.
Martin
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 9, 2021 19:54:53 GMT
Does seem a bit weird that. You could have put money on there being a triple pack of all three films alongside a single disc release for the third. Odd.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 11, 2021 20:50:08 GMT
And having resorted to a German-released Blu-ray of 'Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey', I am now binge-watching German-released DVDs of the live-action X-Men spin-off series, 'The Gifted' (featuring characters like Thunderbird, Polaris, Blink and the Stepford Cuckoos). It's all right! And there was me thinking I'd seen my last Stan Lee cameo, but no, there he is again in the pilot!
As far as I can make out, season 1 (2017) has had a Region 2 DVD release in Germany but no disc release in the UK. Annoyingly, season 2 (2018) only appears to have had a US (Region 1) disc release, which I may have to resort to if I want to see the rest of the story.
Martin
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 11, 2021 21:00:45 GMT
That did turn up on telly because I remember thinking I ought to watch it, but I can't remember now where it was.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 11, 2021 21:40:01 GMT
I had no idea this existed.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 11, 2021 22:03:10 GMT
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 12, 2021 19:13:19 GMT
Woo, for the first nine episodes it was one thing, mutants on the run from nasty humans, then suddenly pow! Frost sisters and Hellfire Club. New rules.
I've ordered season 2 on Region 1 DVD.
Weird watching a Marvel TV series that isn't written the MCU way. Straight rather than wise-cracking. But good.
Martin
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 12, 2021 21:48:55 GMT
You might want to look out for Legion afterwards, it's got David Haller, Charles Xavier's son from the comics.
Andrew
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 12, 2021 23:33:24 GMT
That was nuts.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 13, 2021 13:39:24 GMT
Today, having finished 'The Gifted' season 1, I have been mostly watching 'A Shot in the Dark' on Film4, the only film consistently in my Top Ten of All Time which has yet to be released on Blu-ray.
I keep forgetting it's not just Peter Sellers who drives these films, but also the genius performances by Herbert Lom as his long-suffering boss.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 14, 2021 11:34:30 GMT
Watching...THE BOX OF DELIGHTS.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 14, 2021 11:36:27 GMT
That title sequence...nightmare fuel!
-Ralph
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