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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jul 25, 2020 0:19:04 GMT
Finished season zwei of Dark. Bring on season drei! I just might binge-watch it over the weekend.
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Post by Aj_June on Jul 25, 2020 11:29:25 GMT
Currently watching Gentlemen Of Fortune (1971. Has started well. The Russians know how to make comedy movies of high class. Rated 8.5 on IMDB. |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jul 25, 2020 13:25:49 GMT
I’m watching Champion (1949) on Talking Movies TV just now (Freeview Channel number 81).
This is the movie they’re talking about when they say “They don’t make ‘em like that any more”.
Simply the best sports movie ever made. Raging Bull can get tae fuck!
Kirk Douglas is an absolute force of nature, Incredible performance!
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jul 25, 2020 14:13:27 GMT
I’m watching Champion (1949) on Talking Movies TV just now (Freeview Channel number 81). This is the movie they’re talking about when they say “They don’t make ‘em like that any more”. Simply the best sports movie ever made. Raging Bull can get tae fuck! Kirk Douglas is an absolute force of nature, Incredible performance!
Sounds like something I would enjoy. The local library has it on Blu-Ray, so I will make a point of watching it some time in the not too distant future.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jul 25, 2020 14:22:03 GMT
I’m watching Champion (1949) on Talking Movies TV just now (Freeview Channel number 81). This is the movie they’re talking about when they say “They don’t make ‘em like that any more”. Simply the best sports movie ever made. Raging Bull can get tae fuck! Kirk Douglas is an absolute force of nature, Incredible performance! Sounds like something I would enjoy. The local library has it on Blu-Ray, so I will make a point of watching it some time in the not too distant future.
I’ll be amazed if you don’t love it! |
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jul 25, 2020 17:41:50 GMT
I watched "Black Sea" (2014), with Jude Law. He plays a submariner who's hired for a secretive salvage job - retrieve Nazi gold from a sunken WWII-era U-Boat in the Black Sea. To that goal, a Soviet-era practically derelict submarine is acquired and a half-British half-Russian crew is put together. Obviously not everything goes according to plan, otherwise it would have been a pretty boring movie.
I like a good submarine movie, so when I saw it on Netflix I immediately put it on my list. I can recommend it for fans of this particular sub-genre. If that's not you, my thumbs are firmly in a horizontal position.
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Post by bluerisk on Jul 25, 2020 21:11:00 GMT
Currently watching Gentlemen Of Fortune (1971. Has started well. The Russians know how to make comedy movies of high class. Rated 8.5 on IMDB. I'm more the Sci-Fi typo: 59:54 Totally weird, but I like 8:15 I got this movie even as DVD copy (with a German voice track). |
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Post by bluerisk on Jul 26, 2020 0:13:16 GMT
"Clarkson was gonna join but the producers didn’t want to have to use Duplo"
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Post by Aj_June on Jul 26, 2020 3:01:41 GMT
Currently watching Gentlemen Of Fortune (1971. Has started well. The Russians know how to make comedy movies of high class. Rated 8.5 on IMDB. I'm more the Sci-Fi typo: Totally weird, but I like 8:15 I got this movie even as DVD copy (with a German voice track). Cool. I will try some of the Soviet sci-fi stuff. So far I have seen their comedies and war movies and I have not been disappointment. There's so much to explore in world cinema. |
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Jul 26, 2020 11:10:58 GMT
Revisiting one of the funniest comedies of All-Time
Strangers With Candy
46 year old self proclaimed boozer and former loser Jerri Blank gets out of the joint and goes back to high school where she tries to fit in and craves being popular - experiencing all the horrors a typical teenage kid goes through in high school - only she's 30 years older than everybody else.
Stephen Colbert is absolutely hysterical.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Jul 26, 2020 13:20:35 GMT
I watched "Black Sea" (2014), with Jude Law. He plays a submariner who's hired for a secretive salvage job - retrieve Nazi gold from a sunken WWII-era U-Boat in the Black Sea. To that goal, a Soviet-era practically derelict submarine is acquired and a half-British half-Russian crew is put together. Obviously not everything goes according to plan, otherwise it would have been a pretty boring movie. I like a good submarine movie, so when I saw it on Netflix I immediately put it on my list. I can recommend it for fans of this particular sub-genre. If that's not you, my thumbs are firmly in a horizontal position. Haven’t seen that one, but presumably it has the cliched scene where the sub is in free fall and they approach hull-crush depth before miraculously restoring propulsion? |
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jul 26, 2020 14:13:57 GMT
I watched "Black Sea" (2014), with Jude Law. He plays a submariner who's hired for a secretive salvage job - retrieve Nazi gold from a sunken WWII-era U-Boat in the Black Sea. To that goal, a Soviet-era practically derelict submarine is acquired and a half-British half-Russian crew is put together. Obviously not everything goes according to plan, otherwise it would have been a pretty boring movie. I like a good submarine movie, so when I saw it on Netflix I immediately put it on my list. I can recommend it for fans of this particular sub-genre. If that's not you, my thumbs are firmly in a horizontal position. Haven’t seen that one, but presumably it has the cliched scene where the sub is in free fall and they approach hull-crush depth before miraculously restoring propulsion? Not exactly but close enough! There is also the scene where a compartment is flooding and one guy manages to escape and lock the door behind him. After I watched the movie I checked comments and discussions and it turns out that one of the major plot points is so preposterous that it ruined the movie for a lot of people. I had thought it a bit far-fetched as I was watching it, but I was able to suspend disbelief and keep enjoying it. |
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Post by tristramshandy on Jul 26, 2020 14:46:30 GMT
I've been on a string of stinkers recently. Watched the Penelope Spheeris (not Eric Bogosian) Suburbia (1983). I wasn't expecting high art, but I was expecting better. Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers is the best actor in the movie, which tells you all you need to know. The movie is sexist, racist, and homophobic within the first ten minutes of the movie - - and that's from the "good guys". Awful performances and a plot where you can see everything happen three minutes before it does. She should have stuck to doing documentaries about punk rock rather than fiction about it.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Jul 27, 2020 15:59:00 GMT
2nd Week of Natgeo's SharkFest has started
'Forecast: Shark Attack'
'Marine biologist Greg Skomal and meteorologist Joe Merchant test the theory that shark attacks can be as predictable as the weather.'
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Post by nogbad on Jul 27, 2020 16:22:13 GMT
I've been on a string of stinkers recently. Watched the Penelope Spheeris (not Eric Bogosian) Suburbia (1983). I wasn't expecting high art, but I was expecting better. Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers is the best actor in the movie, which tells you all you need to know. The movie is sexist, racist, and homophobic within the first ten minutes of the movie - - and that's from the "good guys". Awful performances and a plot where you can see everything happen three minutes before it does. She should have stuck to doing documentaries about punk rock rather than fiction about it. I bought that on dvd last year, admittedly for something in the region of 20 or 25p, but had already come to the conclusion that I'm unlikely to watch it as it looks as though it's going to be utter garbage. [edited to add] It's going for a minimum of £6 on EBay, which is precisely why I sometimes take a punt on films I'm not very likely to get around to. Perhaps Susannah Of The Mounties (bought around the same time) will turn out to be a treasure trove too! Though I doubt it. |
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Post by nogbad on Jul 27, 2020 16:23:47 GMT
I finished S4 of The Last Kingdom a few nights ago, and as I suspected would be the case, enjoyed it more second time around.
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Post by Rufus-T on Jul 27, 2020 16:25:11 GMT
The riot videos on Twitter.
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Post by tristramshandy on Jul 27, 2020 16:30:33 GMT
The riot videos on Twitter. What are you rating them on IMDb? |
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Post by Rufus-T on Jul 27, 2020 16:53:20 GMT
The riot videos on Twitter. What are you rating them on IMDb? I am sure eventually someone will pull these videos together and make a documentary about the riot. Maybe already one, but not listed in IMDb. |
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Jul 27, 2020 17:05:39 GMT
The riot videos on Twitter. This one is tremendous.
I always love a good clip of a bully picking on somebody else. Then he gets knocked the f*ck out! 
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