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Post by Kimby on Dec 9, 2017 16:26:32 GMT
It's called "What TV Series have you watched?" On this sub-board. It would be great if series watchers would go there and list favorite series. Thanks! Just a gentle reminder. :-)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2017 18:53:37 GMT
It's called "What TV Series have you watched?" On this sub-board. It would be great if series watchers would go there and list favorite series. Thanks! Just a gentle reminder. :-) Kimby, the series I posted about are not TV series at least not being watched on our TV but are on my laptop. Both on Netflix, and one of them (The Crown) is an exclusive Netflix series production (which I suppose if one is tech savvy can finagle having it streamed onto one's TV). And so, just as there is confusion (for me at least) between The Current Cinema and What is the Last Movie You Saw threads in this section here lies a similar conundrum. I don't relish having to comb through umpteen different threads to find something someone posted about in all these different threads.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 9, 2017 22:21:22 GMT
Sorry, Kimby ~ I'm a laptop watcher, too. For years I have combed through the Small Screen Viewing thread for recommendations and I suspect both the Series thread and the Small Screen threads will continue to be used equally by everyone as time goes on.
There is a great deal of value to keep up with on this forum, and I scramble to try to make sure I see and respond to new threads. I don't use Bookmarks, which means I get to look all around the forum to find gems I might otherwise miss.
Just a gentle reminder. :-)
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Post by Kimby on Dec 9, 2017 23:42:38 GMT
By TV series I meant not MOVIES. Any type of monitor will do, just not the silver screen.
I meant any series you could acquire to watch at home, via disk, live-streaming, or broadcast, but especially older series that had previous seasons that could be watched after the fact. I apologize if my meaning was not clear.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2017 13:31:27 GMT
Plodding Moving along with my impressions of The Crown, I watched a few( likely 3) more episodes. Still a tad on the slow side but I'm sticking with it. So far, Princess Margaret seems to be the one with the most personality.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 14, 2017 22:13:38 GMT
I had never heard of Close My Eyes, which it turned out was released in very few countries. It is a British movie from 1991 with Clive Owen, Alan Rickman and Saskia Reeves. Anyway, I watched it today and was quite impressed. It is about an incestuous relationship between brother and sister Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves. She's the one who jumps him the first time, but he is the one who becomes obsessed by her, even after she has married Alan Rickman. Being British, the events are all quite civilised although there is quite a bit of full frontal exposure. Frankly, I never knew that Clive Owen had ever been so young, whereas Alan Rickman has not changed much over the years. Nothing bad happens during the movie (unless you think that incest is bad), and even though Alan Rickman seems to have understood what is going on, he keeps his stiff upper lip and goes with the flow. Really, I thought it was a lovely movie.
Horribly stupid trailer:
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 15, 2017 17:28:13 GMT
It does look worth seeing. What struck me most in the trailer, though, is what a consummate actor Alan Rickman was. Well, I am throwing this out here for what it might be worth. I am hoping it is not an offer that only applies to me -- I think it might apply to anyone who signs up with Microsoft. The problem is that the offers are only good for one day, so maybe only until midnight tonight ~ www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/movies-and-tv/collection/wintersale/fs_wintersale2017
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 15, 2017 21:45:53 GMT
Watched a disturbing film on Netflix The Pledge with Jack Nichlson as a retired policeman who makes a promise to the parents of a murdered little girl that he will find her murderer. Beautiful cinematography and superb cast.
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Post by Kimby on Dec 16, 2017 3:01:30 GMT
We watched Personal Shopper last night, a suspenseful drama that feels French, and has varied European actors, but was shot in English with Kristen Stewart as the lead. She portrays a girl who is in Paris to try to make contact with her twin brother who died at age 27 6 months earlier of a congenital heart defect which she shares. He was a “medium”, she might be also, and they had pledged that whichever died first would try to make contact with the other from the other side. So far so good. The job she uses to pay rent so she can stay in Paris is as a personal shopper for a famous and temperamental model/actress. The lead actress moves into the house her brother had lived in and things get kinda spooky. You’re never really sure what is happening, it’s dark and sparsely furnished, things go bump in the night and a few times I jumped in my seat. I also found myself talking back to the TV - “Don’t DO it!”, etc.
It was worth the watch, and won a few awards, but won’t make my top 10 list for the year.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 16, 2017 6:00:34 GMT
I know it got excellent reviews, but that movie bored me for some reason.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 24, 2017 17:47:35 GMT
Just watched Guys and Dolls. What a great film.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 29, 2017 16:21:02 GMT
You know, I've never seen that movie. It's a musical, right? Hm. That's probably the reason I've never watched it. Has anyone else watched The Miniaturist? I didn't find it entirely satisfying, but enjoyed watching it nonetheless, especially the first part. The first part is so gorgeously mounted that I didn't care that much about the slow build, content just to gaze at the way the light and feel of the Golden Age of Dutch painting were perfectly conveyed. The second part turns the hints we've been given into a plot. It's less beautiful, but has more suspense, albeit rather stately suspense. Naturally I was drawn to this show because of its name and it did deliver on that level. I was childishly thrilled to see the doll house, as I felt I had inside knowledge after viewing the ones in the V&A Museum of Childhood. I don't care for any of the available trailers, but this at least shows the look of the show a little bit ~
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Post by patricklondon on Dec 29, 2017 18:05:47 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 29, 2017 19:14:04 GMT
I did not know that the Petronella character in the show was based on a real person!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 2, 2018 5:36:08 GMT
Just discovered this show yesterday and I'm completely hooked ~
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 4, 2018 22:26:35 GMT
Tonight once again I watched the story of Samwise Gangee, the bravest of them all. That is such a magnificent movie.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 7, 2018 21:28:28 GMT
Back when About a Boy was first released (2002), I had enjoyed the movie, but that was about it. I had read Nick Hornby's novel, and had liked it too, but hey, it was all just pop culture and modern life. Nothing special about that.
But tonight it was playing on one of my 130 channels and I watched it again, mostly because I had learned some time ago that the boy was played by Nicholas Hoult, of whom I was unaware at the time. Since then I have seen all seven seasons of Skins and also I really liked him in Warm Bodies and Kill Your Friends. Hated him in Mad Max: Fury Road and find his presence in the X Men movies totally disposable. An excellent actor being sometimes wasted but definitely earning a respectable salary.
Also, it was nice to see Hugh Grant at a time when he still looked respectable.
Anyway, I found the movie absolutely brilliant this time for some reason.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 9, 2018 4:05:32 GMT
Has anyone else watched the new incarnation of Howard's End? It's on BBC One in the UK & on Starz in the US. I've watched three of the four parts and can't wait to see the rest. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05mq0t0
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 9, 2018 6:01:36 GMT
Well, there's an interesting twist on worrying about leaving the party early!
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Post by patricklondon on Jan 9, 2018 11:20:09 GMT
Has anyone else watched the new incarnation of Howard's End? It's on BBC One in the UK & on Starz in the US. I've watched three of the four parts and can't wait to see the rest. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05mq0t0Yes, very sumptuous, lyrically filmed and some pretty top-notch acting. If you liked that you might like the BBC's new version of Little Women, the style of which was very similar (apart from the snow scenes being fairly obviously filmed in the summer!) My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 10, 2018 17:33:42 GMT
Thanks, Patrick. Despite having been deeply immersed in Little Women & its sequels when I was a girl, I couldn't get into this latest tv version, which I found too saccharine. Admittedly, I gave up on it after only a few minutes, so maybe didn't give it enough of a chance.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 10, 2018 22:58:04 GMT
Did anybody here ever see the German cult classic Bagdad Café? Or course it may have only been a cult classic in France, but more than 30 years later, everybody here still knows the movie and loves the title song.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 14, 2018 20:42:04 GMT
I thought there must be something wrong with me because the first time I saw Mad Max: Fury Road at the cinema, I thought it was atrocious, ridiculous and a complete waste of time. The critics and many people that I knew seemed to think otherwise. However, it was on television tonight so I put it on to give it a second chance. It is just as bad as ever -- the plot, the dialogue, the crowd scenes, even the goddamned makeup on the extras. Are we really supposed to believe that in this dystopia everybody thinks it is totally fine to walk around caked with mud or powdered with desert dust at all times? It always seemed to me in the real world that when people got dirty, they would try to clean themselves off, even if there was no water. No problem with these people -- they have all the time in the world to shave their heads, get tattoos, grease their torsos and put on weird jewelry but cleanliness is completely out of the window. Naturally, I understand it if anybody who is a parent of teenage boys disagrees with me.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2018 15:31:22 GMT
For some odd reason I had never seen the movie Revolutionary Road when it was out. Anyway, I viewed it last night and can see why it was widely acclaimed. But, what an incredibly depressing movie...
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 20, 2018 20:31:21 GMT
Channel 4 Derry Girls Irish teenage girls at a convent school in the eighties. The actresses seem a little old for their roles...offensive language but amusing.
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Post by patricklondon on Jan 21, 2018 5:33:56 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 21, 2018 6:22:01 GMT
The family has a picture of Jack & Jackie Kennedy in the living room! Sister Michael looks like Van Morrison! It is funny as hell & would probably be even funnier if I could understand more of it. So far, the only one who completely comes through for me is the wee English lad.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 21, 2018 15:11:41 GMT
How many of you get Aussie TV programmes?
Neighbours and Home and Away are staples if a bit naff but Dr Blake Mysteries and Miss Fisher are good and set in eras I like. Maybe The Sullivans will come back..
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Post by Kimby on Jan 21, 2018 15:20:57 GMT
How many of you get Aussie TV programmes? Neighbours and Home and Away are staples if a bit naff but Dr Blake Mysteries and Miss Fisher are good and set in eras I like. Maybe The Sullivans will come back.. Copying this to the TV Series thread, mick. Thanks for the suggestions.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 21, 2018 16:53:59 GMT
Oops. Sorry.
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