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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 8, 2012 13:21:03 GMT
One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing just been on BBC2, now on iPlayer, available for a week. Gloriously politically incorrect. "Mastahhh! Nannies stearing long dinasawww!" Martin
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Post by Benn on Jan 8, 2012 13:45:22 GMT
Man, I loved that film.
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Post by legios on Jan 8, 2012 20:11:11 GMT
One of those films I adored as a kid, not sure that it holds up for me in the same way now I fear...
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 8, 2012 20:22:04 GMT
Dreadful film!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 8, 2012 20:24:13 GMT
One of those films I watched and didn't enjoy in the slightest in my youth.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 8, 2012 20:25:48 GMT
Turn and Burn united as one!
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 9, 2012 7:00:02 GMT
Turn and Burn united as one! United as one in their error!  Edit: I admit I can see how one _might_ fail to find it entertaining... Martin |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 9, 2012 7:41:21 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Jan 9, 2012 10:19:39 GMT
One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing just been on BBC2, now on iPlayer, available for a week. Gloriously politically incorrect. "Mastahhh! Nannies stearing long dinasawww!" Martin I have never seen this film! |
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 9, 2012 11:06:27 GMT
No guarantee of quality. Remember Virtual Murder... -Ralph |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 15, 2012 15:47:07 GMT
The Horror Channel is showing both Hammer House of Horror as well as selected Hammer Films. countess Dracula last week, Twins of Evil last night and The Beast Must Die is next week.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 15, 2012 17:00:38 GMT
As some of you will know, I make a point of sitting down to watch TV about once a month (if at all). I found an app for Channel 4 and thought I'll have a look. Tried to watch a Bill Bailey thing and gave up after 20 mins of excruciating lack of laughs.
Next month: gardening programmes.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Jan 25, 2012 21:17:03 GMT
I have just finished watching the final season of Angel. I missed it when it was on televison due to a terminal of ability to actually get broadcast television and have only just gotten around to renting it. I can't say that the season as a whole was entirely worth the wait. The budget cut visibly hurts it - the main Wolfram and Hart set is beautifully designed, a really good TV set, but having to confine so much of the season to it and to people talking in rooms really does make the lack of money show by the end.
The season arc-story is also simply far too long - there is the seed of a decent idea "our heroes try to reform evil from within but come to realise that this is hopeless and that they are being swallowed whole by it". Not a bad story idea, but by about ten episodes in the fact that the protagonists haven't "got it" makes them start to look very slow on the uptake. Especially when you have guest cast making the point to them directly, repeatedly. Ideally this is a story you do for your opening episodes and then go do something else..... except that they couldn't have afforded to anyway. End result a very loggy series.
There are some standout individual episodes though - Angel turned into a puppet is absolutely hilarious, as is Angel and Spike chasing around in stereotypical-Rome in an increasingly absurd face. The series does have an absolutely barnstorming ending, one that feels like it pays off the premise of the series in a fitting, satisfying and very final way. As "Bolivian Army Endings" go it is quite unique in feeling both futile, hopeless and incredibly heroic at the same time. The journey to it was patchy, and unsatisying in places but the ending itself was well worthwhile.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 28, 2012 19:12:30 GMT
I see Bettany Hughes has an Atlantis Documentary on BBC4 tonight.
Pure filth that woman
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 29, 2012 7:23:14 GMT
I see Bettany Hughes has an Atlantis Documentary on BBC4 tonight. Pure filth that woman Fair play, but on the rating scale of documentary presenters I favour Dr Janina Ramirez. Martin |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 29, 2012 7:46:31 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 29, 2012 8:44:20 GMT
I feel us moving towards a TMUK Forum "favourite TV history girl" poll. Can we also have Dr Alice Roberts and Lucy Worsley taken into account?
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 29, 2012 11:08:01 GMT
I'm with Martin on this one!
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 29, 2012 14:24:47 GMT
I feel us moving towards a TMUK Forum "favourite TV history girl" poll. Can we also have Dr Alice Roberts and Lucy Worsley taken into account? Any other nominations? |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 29, 2012 14:34:26 GMT
I feel us moving towards a TMUK Forum "favourite TV history girl" poll. Can we also have Dr Alice Roberts and Lucy Worsley taken into account? Any other nominations? No, but since we're talking along these lines, I would say move over, Nigella. Martin |
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Post by blueshift on Jan 29, 2012 16:24:26 GMT
Ugh no Sophie Dahl, ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh Ugh ugh Ugh |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 29, 2012 16:27:47 GMT
Ugh no Sophie Dahl, ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh Ugh ugh Ugh  Martin |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 29, 2012 16:50:06 GMT
Nigella still wins with me, although Sophie Dahl is lovely.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 29, 2012 17:17:12 GMT
I have no idea who any of these people are.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 5, 2012 3:56:31 GMT
Ralph & I wached The House of Long Shadows. A 1983 film which had Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price all in the same film. It wastes them, they put in good peformances but it is so bad. It takes 30 odd minutes for the first of them to show up.
Disappointing.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 5, 2012 10:36:49 GMT
Youtube roulette does not always bring joy. At least Price had one good line though.
-Ralph
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Post by Hero on Feb 11, 2012 23:09:31 GMT
Been watching Regular Show. Utterly hilarious!
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Post by legios on Feb 15, 2012 20:29:37 GMT
Only four episodes of Star Trek: The Animated Series to go, and then I will have seen all of original Star Trek. (It is proper Star Trek you know, it says Star Trek right there on the box).
Karl
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 18, 2012 13:04:44 GMT
They couldn't resist a Magnificent Seven reference at the end of the last ever episode of Hustle.
Martin
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Post by legios on Feb 19, 2012 21:53:33 GMT
Spent this afternoon watching "Stray Dog" one of Akira Kurosawa's modern dress films which teams Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura as police detectives trying to track down Mifune's characters stolen gun, and the trail of crime that results from its loss. Much less epic in scope than Kurosawa's period dramas, the result is an often deliberately claustrophobic, noirish piece. Mifune and Shimura, as they ever did, play of each other so very well - the tight focus of the film helps this as well with Mifune's energy as he worries about his feelings of responsibility for what his gun has done, and his sense of identification with a criminal who has suffered much the same privations on returning from war as he has beats up against Shimura's glacial moral certainty that circumstances do not make people criminals but rather that they chose to do wrong. Their interplay gives the film a strong forward drive which pulled me firmly along with it.
Combined with the fact that it demonstrated as much as his Samurai films do Kurosawa's eye for composition the end result is a thoroughly absorbing piece of cinema which is an absolute joy to watch. It makes me feel that I haven't seen enough of Kurosawa's modern dress work. To the rental service forthwith to see what I can do about rectifying this methinks.
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Science Officers Log: Stardate 201202.19
Analysis indicates that Star Trek: The Animated Series contains stories of a remarkably similar tone to that of Star Trek, sharing a large number of creative staff and an identical cast, and being informed by a writers guide which is the identical document which informed its predecessor. The logical conclusion would therefore appear inescapable, their are not - in point of fact - seventy-nine episodes of Star Trek but rather one hundred and one. *quirks eyebrow*
I have now completed watching all the episodes of Star Trek: The Animated Series. I maintain my viewpoint that is has been unfairly overlooked. For a US Saturday morning cartoon of its era it is a genuinely wonderful show on a visual level, and there is no real sense of it talking down to a child audience either - most of the episodes would have passed muster in live-action (except for being quite unaffordable), with the only real difference being a different pacing due to it being a shorter show. It also almost invents the idea of a Star Trek continuity, with a certain dedication to actually get references to previous episodes correct - compared to the live-action shows early cavalier attitude to whom Kirk actually worked for...
Karl
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