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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 2, 2023 21:37:23 GMT
Come downstairs and caught Liz watching The Meg again. This is not the first time she's watched it on TV on a Saturday night
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Post by Benn on Sept 2, 2023 22:19:22 GMT
I've discovered a load of anime on ITVX. This has kept me occupied for a few nights now.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 3, 2023 6:52:52 GMT
Come downstairs and caught Liz watching The Meg again. This is not the first time she's watched it on TV on a Saturday night I have noticed there are novels of both Meg films. If Liz is a fan, perhaps she'd enjoy them... Martin |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 3, 2023 7:46:38 GMT
Are we allowed to True Friend wives and partners?
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 3, 2023 8:46:39 GMT
Hahaha! Good lord.
This cold war just got hot!
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 3, 2023 9:59:22 GMT
Come downstairs and caught Liz watching The Meg again. This is not the first time she's watched it on TV on a Saturday night It's a classic! -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 3, 2023 10:00:18 GMT
Come downstairs and caught Liz watching The Meg again. This is not the first time she's watched it on TV on a Saturday night I have noticed there are novels of both Meg films. If Liz is a fan, perhaps she'd enjoy them... Martin The films are based on the novels! There is a whole series of them. -Ralph |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 3, 2023 11:51:51 GMT
Then they are more likely to be good than if they were just novelisations of films...
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 3, 2023 14:36:45 GMT
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 3, 2023 14:43:59 GMT
Well I never.
Martin
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 3, 2023 16:07:36 GMT
Six more films for Martin!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 3, 2023 16:25:33 GMT
Six more films for Martin! Seven more. I still haven't seen the first one. Martin |
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 3, 2023 16:48:29 GMT
I havent read them but I think I remember reading that Meg 2 either strays quite far from the second novel or they largely skipped it for a later one.
Id love it if the audio books were read by Statham.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 5, 2023 18:21:10 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 5, 2023 20:25:24 GMT
Fantastic!
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 9, 2023 7:58:43 GMT
*watches episodes 2-3 of IT'S A SIN* Bloody hell. Two left to go. -Ralph I couldn't watch any more. Brilliant show, impeccable writing and acting, but just too upsetting to watch. Episode 3 really got to me and I had nightmares after!!! -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 9, 2023 7:59:40 GMT
Hadn't seen THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN before outside of clips. It is on Council TV. Missed the start so watching S2. Maybe S1 was amazing and then it went downhill but this is mostly terrible. The episode where a mad astronaut (William Shatner) gained mind power (lots of crash-zooms) and wanted to take dolphins into space was very entertaining though. -Ralph I am hooked on it now though. Last night the Six Million Dollar Man had to battle...the Seven Million Dollar Man!!! -Ralph |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 9, 2023 8:13:08 GMT
The Plan is working. #Inflation
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 9, 2023 8:26:00 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 9, 2023 11:26:28 GMT
With one episode of Bergerac season one to go I have been forced to expend £2.49 on a second hand copy of season two. I think it was Maureen O'Brien popping up out of nowhere in episode nine that did it.
This weekend I must watch the last episode of season one, knowing fully and with great distress that it aired originally a scant 23 hours before the fateful final episode of Blake's 7.
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Post by primenova on Sept 9, 2023 16:56:10 GMT
Finished watching all that Quantum leap series 1 reboot one. Was good & TF Prime voice actors turn up. I did have a look for a thread just on this show.
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Post by Cullen on Sept 19, 2023 16:14:32 GMT
What did you watch it on? It wasn't on any streaming service in the UK when it launched in the US last year so I decided to wait until something picked it up, rather than resort to the high seas.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 19, 2023 21:50:22 GMT
It's on Paramount+ now.
Watched the first episode but haven't felt like going back to it since. Suspect I will at some point, just too much other new stuff to watch at the moment. Plus we are almost into season 7 of our West Wing watch.
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Post by legios on Sept 20, 2023 17:57:44 GMT
Gamera: Rebirth
I'm a Kaiju movie person, so I was always going to give this a go. But actually I was pleasantly surprised by this 6 episode animated show. I thought the core characters were quite well written, and wonder of wonders - most of it took place in daylight! Given the tendency of netflix-funded animated shows to mistake "everything is dark or poorly lit" for "serious and mature" it was a pleasant relief. The animation is...variable...there are times when it isn't so great on the human characters, but when it comes to the Kaiju battles they really cut loose. There is some choreagraphy and scene design that would be straight up impossible in normal suitmation, and it really sells the intensity, size and terrible fluidity of the kaiju in motion.
I also love the design of this Gamera - recogniseably the same goofy giant turtle at heart, but also feels like some sort of granite elemental creature. Right up there with some of the best modern Kaiju design.
The story is pretty solid as well - taking Gamera staples like Gamera as a protector of children, and mixing in a generous pinch of the "legacy of a lost civilisation" element from the Heishi-era trilogy shaking it all up and going off in its own direction. I think it is probably less ambitious than Godzilla: Singular Point, but also significantly more coherent and comprehensible in how it tells its story.
Genuinely very entertaining stuff, and a notch above a lot of the Netflix-funded animated adaptations.
And at six episodes it is only the length of an average movie, so it has the virtue of being too-the-point. Well worth giving it a go if you haven't.
Karl
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Post by Benn on Sept 25, 2023 11:20:55 GMT
Fallen down a bit of a Kenneth More hole. Watched A Night To Remember yesterday and Sink The Bismarck today. Good stuff.
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Post by Cullen on Sept 29, 2023 14:53:50 GMT
It's on Paramount+ now. Watched the first episode but haven't felt like going back to it since. Suspect I will at some point, just too much other new stuff to watch at the moment. Plus we are almost into season 7 of our West Wing watch. Excellent. Was just about to restart my sub so I could watch Strange New Worlds. |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 8, 2023 17:27:50 GMT
Yesterday I enjoyed watching Part 3 of 3 of 'The Continental', the John Wick spin-off.
Today I continued making the most of my free month of Prime by watching the 'Atom Eve' special which I thought was better than the 'Invincible' series it's a spin-off from.
Now I'm on Amazon Prime spin-off number three of the week, with 'Gen V', the spin-off of 'The Boys'. Jury's still out.
Taking a break from Prime at 8pm to watch 'Antiques Roadshow' on BBC1, as it's from the park outside my office. Then 'Gone Fishing' on BBC2 at 9.
Martin
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Post by legios on Oct 8, 2023 21:13:50 GMT
'The Continental' - Pretty good I thought. Very much in the same vein as its parent film, but elements of an ensemble crime thriller to it. Setting it in a pulp-noir rendition of 1980's New York definitely worked in its favor I felt. The action - as one would expect given its parentage - was really good. I could have done with anyone other than Mel Gibson being the villain, and it isn't entirely comfortable watching him on screen, but fortunately the rest of the cast was darned good which made up for it a bit. Very stylish too, even more stylised and unnaturalistic as the John Wick films 'The Continental' has excelled at delivering a strong visual style.
SpyxFamily - Ah, my favourite ridiculous family-of-convenience comedy returns. The joy of this show isn't in the nominal arc plot (Westanian Master-Spy Twilight must pretend to be a family man with a wife and daughter to get close to an Ostanian government official and avert a war, whilst his pretend wife is hiding from her husband that she is really a legendary assassin and not a civil service clerk, and the adopted "daughter" is hiding from both of them that she is an eight year old telepath. No, really...) - the plot is more of an excuse to bring these characters together and extract humor from the absurd situation. And on that front Season 2 is off to a great start with 30minutes of misconceptions, misunderstandings and daffy humor. SpyxFamily is alternately sweet, silly and knowingly ridiculous. Exactly the sort of thing I am looking for over Sunday lunchtime.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 17, 2023 9:48:05 GMT
Ongoing analysis of THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN has revealed that it is in fact a secret Doctor Who spin-off set during the Time War.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Oct 17, 2023 18:53:39 GMT
So - which side is Austin's doctor on? Is she trying to create augmented House Soldiery, or is she working for the Homeworld's Enemy and looking to make improved Robomen..?
Karl
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