This evening I watched 'Being The Ricardos'. It's the story of I Love Lucy, much of which I was unaware of and it was a good story. I'm not a fan of Nicole Kidman by any stretch but I have to give her enormous credit for her portrayal of Lucille Ball. I'm fairly sure the film will be on the Academy Awards short-list, despite there being no black people in it or physically challenged kids etc etc. I'll eat my hat if she's not on the Best Actress list. A brilliant film. imho of course.
Trailer looks good Zoon. :upvote:
Thanks Alex.. If only for answering. Films don't seem to be of much interest here unless they're in black and white! :grin: I hadn't seen a trailer, I don't read the backs of books , usually, either. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
Must admit that I don't watch many films, despite having Netflix and Prime. Trying to remember if I have used either this month - I think one, can't remember which, once
Mike
Watched a cracker last evening.. I'm spoiling nothing by saying that it concerns Herman Melville and the 'truth' behind the legend of Moby Dick. Real Boys Own Adventure stuff. 'In The Heart Of The Sea'. It is not a short film. :smiley:
I'm going to watch the latest Downton Abbey film later.. I haven't watched any as yet but am told that is good.
I should hurry up.. The sequel to it comes out this year.. :wink:
I did watch it but long enough ago that I remember nothing about it at all.
Went to see the Downton Abbey film in a little vintage Cinema in Suffolk the summer before Covid, how my life has changed since bloody Covid. Have recorded it will watch this evening.
Watched a film on Friday, Time of their Lives with Joan Collins and Pauline Collins, a couple of old women trying to get to a funeral in France, really enjoyed it, not many films with two old ladies as the leads.
Didn't go a bundle on Downtown Abbey.. It rather reminds me of stage acting..
To be fair, it always did a bit but the 'movie' was rather thrown together to ride the initial wave of success..
Just watched a most peculiar film..'Riders Of Justice'. Estonian, which is a first for me, and it seemed to be a comedy.. for a while that is, until the train got blown to pieces..Almost didn't see the naked and bound, teen male au-pere kneeling with a tray of drinks on his back.. No sex mind..tut..Not a whiff of it.. As I said, a most peculiar film and many people died violently..
Heading off to bed now, getting a headache, it's been hovering most of the day. Hoping sleep will chase it.
Night. :zzz:
Night Raven. I'm off to in a mo'.
Somebody started a g'night thread the other day....
G'night Raven.
The Downton Abbey film is a bit light on story line but still compulsive viewing if you are into historical dramas.
I love Downton for the clothes., Went to an exhibition of some of the costumes at Llanelly House a few years ago, those girls are sooo thin, tiny waists. One dress was for Lady Rose, a pink beaded flapper dress that had been found in a Paris flea market, the costume department had to repair thousands of beads apparently. The attention to detail is amazing.
I agree that the fashion of the day in Downton Abbey is done beautifully.. However the acting seemed wooden.. Lady Mary is so snooty it spoils the character for me..
Watched Downton Abbey again the other night. Michele Dockery came onto the screen and my wife and I burst into laughter. If you have seen a film called the Gentlemen, you will see her in a different light. We both said 'There is ******** afoot'.
When Lady Rose was presented at court, there was a letter in the Telegraph from a titled Lady whose father (grandfather?)had been one of the senior officials at presentations back in the day. No way, we were assured, would Lady Rose have been allowed to have dressed so flamboyantly at the time. Debs had to dress demurely, not arrive as though they had raided an ostrich farm!
Mike (hope I've got the right Lady - pretty sure it was Rose)
It seemed that all the cast from Downton were standing around waiting for their one line to be spoken.. Far too many people hanging about waiting...
Couldn't recall who Lady Rose was. The other one is doing adverts for Sky now and I'd have thought she was more the feathers type.
she was the mildly rebellious girl who came to live at DA for reasons I remember not. Played by Lily James, Rose was the daughter (from looking it up, not from memory) of the MacClares - Lord and Lady Flintshire
Mike
Yes I sort of remember the tale. One was the fairly plain prim and proper one who got up the duff courtesy of the Irish Republican chauffeur iirc. Downton A tale of everyday gentlefolk :grin: The other one was probably a bit of eye candy brought in to boost sagging viewing figure as it ran into the 23rd season. I did watch them all and the film and found them to be gentle entertainment.
Quote from: 1955vintage on January 05, 2022, 08:14:31 AM
Watched Downton Abbey again the other night. Michele Dockery came onto the screen and my wife and I burst into laughter. If you have seen a film called the Gentlemen, you will see her in a different light. We both said 'There is ******** afoot'.
Enjoyed The Gentlemen very much Vintage.. Top Brit film..
Hats off to Hugh Grant for a very different role.
I'm sure he enjoyed the change.. Must get very bored playing variations of himself all the time..
well John Wayne never did.... :nooo:
The hell he did :grin: :grin:
Quote from: zoony on January 05, 2022, 04:10:32 PM
I'm sure he enjoyed the change.. Must get very bored playing variations of himself all the time..
I'm guessing there is one variation that is unlikelty to hit the silver screen :wink:
Ah.. The unsinkable Mz Brown perhaps..Ooh, you ickle tinker! :grin:
BBC1 tonight @ 10.35 is a film called In The Heart Of The Sea. I mentioned it last week as an alternate history of Moby Dick? I will say that it's quite a long film but there is rather a lot of story to tell and I enjoyed it tremendously..
Quote from: zoony on January 06, 2022, 03:46:41 PM
BBC1 tonight @ 10.35 is a film called In The Heart Of The Sea. I mentioned it last week as an alternate history of Moby Dick? I will say that it's quite a long film but there is rather a lot of story to tell and I enjoyed it tremendously..
Might record that if it's on up here. Will have to check, as sometimes BBC Scotland has different things on.....Blooming pest. :rolleyes:
That's the beauty of Sky, all BBC regions are available, and we often watch programmes on BBC Scotland here in the south of England.
Quote from: Countryman on January 07, 2022, 09:12:57 AM
That's the beauty of Sky, all BBC regions are available, and we often watch programmes on BBC Scotland here in the south of England.
hope you wave your passport at the screen!
Mike 😁😁
Well Zoony I set the box to record the film you were talking about. Will let you know what we think once we get around to seeing it. :grin:
Quote from: Michael Rolls on January 07, 2022, 09:20:44 AM
hope you wave your passport at the screen!
Mike 😁😁
Have to soon, maybe! Reminds me of the time I used to watch
High Road off the STV player. I had to put in a Scottish postcode to be able to access it.
[2090]
Quote from: Raven on January 07, 2022, 01:40:50 PM
Well Zoony I set the box to record the film you were talking about. Will let you know what we think once we get around to seeing it. :grin:
I hope you, or one of you at least :grin:, enjoy it..
I watched 'Ray Donovan: The Movie' earlier. As is fashionable these days, it was a prequel going back to the family's early years in Boston. No spoilers of course but I'd've liked a bit less about Ray and Mick, the father, and rather more about the other brothers and sister..Hey ho, it was well made.
We've never watched The Bourne films, so as they are now being shown as a series on television, started with The Bourne Identity, last night. I must say, we enjoyed it far more (ridiculous as it was) than the latest Bond film.
I enjoyed them all. Must get around to watching them again some time.
Veronica and I watched and enjoyed them
Mike
I think it was the first where at the end his evil boss got shot down. It was the silencer that got me - just the mechanical noise of the automatic (unlikely in truth) and a life just gone.
yes as Mike will tell you they are missnamed, they are sound supressors... and dont use then near any heiffers... but thats another story....
Yes, they reduce the noise but the thought of the round just sounding like 'pfft' is ridiculous - and despite Hollywood, with one exception - the Russian Nagant of about 1890 or thereabouts, - you CANNOT effectively suppress a revolver.
Mike
People wot can't suspend their disbelief should watch documentaries.. :wink:
Just watched Bourne Identity again. I'd pretty much forgotten all of it which was great as I could enjoy it all over again. The correct name for what get called silencers is a moderator as that's what they do. The noise from the moderated pistol at the end was more than I remembered it as but still not all that realistic - as quiet or possiblt quieter than a moderated air rifle in fact.
I thought Matt Damon really played the role well but there was one mismatch, was it Jeremy Renner(?) took the lead role in one of 'em.. Not the best..
He ended limping in that first one (should have been the morgue in reality after the fall) but from memory again which isn't so hot that was an ever present theme and he had to limp his way through a lot of them. I've redownloaded them as the ones I have are old and may not be all that good.
At least they wouldn't have been taken at an angle with crisp and popcorn sound effects, a washed out picture and some bloke getting up part way through to go for a Jimmy Riddle as I mostly avoided CAMs after the one example with all those qualities. Zoony will know what I mean. The rest of you can put the comment down to the ramblings of a senile old goat and ignore them.
Quote from: zoony on January 17, 2022, 12:40:17 AM
I thought Matt Damon really played the role well but there was one mismatch, was it Jeremy Renner(?) took the lead role in one of 'em.. Not the best..
IMDB says he played a character in The Bourne Legacy
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0719637/
Aaron Cross apparently. My memory is way way to poor to remember such things. I just watch a film and remember Loved it, Loathed it or Meh and that's about that. I don't analyse them.
Quote from: klondike on January 17, 2022, 10:12:13 AM
He ended limping in that first one (should have been the morgue in reality after the fall) but from memory again which isn't so hot that was an ever present theme and he had to limp his way through a lot of them. I've redownloaded them as the ones I have are old and may not be all that good.
At least they wouldn't have been taken at an angle with crisp and popcorn sound effects, a washed out picture and some bloke getting up part way through to go for a Jimmy Riddle as I mostly avoided CAMs after the one example with all those qualities. Zoony will know what I mean. The rest of you can put the comment down to the ramblings of a senile old goat and ignore them.
Absolutely no CAMS or downloads with CH in the title.. It took me a while to understand the system but experience costs nothing to gain..
I wasn't over enamoured of the 2012 Bourne with no Bourne (Matt Damon) in it. Started to get a bit too SciFi for the genre imo.
I've just been going through my to download list and find that the next 2 of Vera Season 11 have arrived. A couple more still to come. Still no sign of the next season of Last Kingdom.
I've more to check so will be adding to this with any luck. Probably
Seasons 1 - 4 of Sleepy Hollow as recommended by Raven iirc on their way down.
I've been re-watching 'Vikings' and the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok which I enjoyed so much the first time round.. Also the early 'Vera' series' which I missed as I wasn't living here. Just finished Series 4. So much prefer our home-growns to most of the imports.. They're so noisy! :grin:
I enjoyed the early Vikings but I think it either lost the plot or I lost the patience to follow the plot shortly after Ragnar was killed.
Did you ever watch Silent Witness? I liked them and have umpteen seasons waiting for a second viewing.
I've started watching a series on Netflix called Undercover, anyone watched it ? good so far, undercover cops and drug dealers.
Belgian/Dutch is unusual.. I'll add it to my list for checking out. :upvote:
More of a Fantasy Fiction fan meself.
The Witcher season 2 was good (even after reading all the books)
The book of Boba Fett every Wednesday on Netflix is fantabadoozy at the moment.
Looking forward to Stranger Things Season 4 soon too.
Quote from: -Oy- on January 24, 2022, 09:59:15 PM
More of a Fantasy Fiction fan meself.
The Witcher season 2 was good (even after reading all the books)
The book of Boba Fett every Wednesday on Netflix is fantabadoozy at the moment.
Looking forward to Stranger Things Season 4 soon too.
Hm.. I've just begun Witcher 2 and the same with Boba Fett..Never got into Stranger Things somehow.
Boba is a slow burner - lots of back story - but it's scene setting for future seasons and is awesome!
I'm not the Biggest Star Wars fan but the franchise and George Lucas spin-offs go from strength to strength.
Quote from: zoony on January 24, 2022, 10:48:08 PM
I'm not the Biggest Star Wars fan but the franchise and George Lucas spin-offs go from strength to strength.
Indeed they do. The Mandalorian was excellent!
This Is the Way :yahoo:
Just watched Ad Asta on Prime. 6.5 on IMDB but I have no idea how. I don't expect huge realism in Sci Fi but this set new bounds in unbelievability throughout. IMO complete tosh. How they got quite big name actors to sign up I don't know.
I remember Ad astra as rather long which tells me it bored me. I look forward to Tommy Lee in anything but he was totally wasted in that.
I'm watching The Sinner, series 4 has just come on Netflix.
Watched Munich: Edge of War on Netflix. Story revolves around two young civil servants, one German, one British, who had been at Oxford together, trying to prevent the signing of the Munich agreement to force Hitler to mobilise over the Sudetenland and reveal his true plans for Europe by means of some top secret German papers. It's a good film, but suffers from the handicap that we know they will fail because the agreement was signed - just was we know in the Day of the Jackal that de Gaulle never was assassinated.
Mike
Thanks for the huge spoiler Mike. It's a NEW film ffs.. FYI, not many are history buffs and perhaps might've enjoyed it! :lipsrsealed:
If you want something lightweight and watchable, Enola Holmes (Sherlocks little sister) on Netflix.
The Last Czars, a drama/documentary was interesting and we enjoyed The Dig about the Sutton Hoo discovery.
I like the look at The Last Czars.. Might search that out..
I enjoyed The Dig very much, Enola Holmes not so much (bandwagon jumping imo..)
Quote from: zoony on January 31, 2022, 12:21:38 PM
Thanks for the huge spoiler Mike. It's a NEW film ffs.. FYI, not many are history buffs and perhaps might've enjoyed it! :lipsrsealed:
does anyone of our age group nit realise the truth of the 1938 Munich agreement - c'mon. It might be news to the woke generation - but to us?
Mike
oh - and it is still worth watching, even like myself and surely just about everyone on here I know they couldn't succeed?
Mike
I mean - did you really think any outcome would happen>?
Mike
I only ask that, before posting on a new film we guard against plot spoilers.. whether we think they are or not? :shh:
Thanks folks that's two to watch out for, Munich Edge of War and The Last Czars both sound worth a watch. I think the Czars is a series, but the trailer looks good. :upvote:
Quote from: Alex on January 31, 2022, 04:03:28 PM
Thanks folks that's two to watch out for, Munich Edge of War and The Last Czars both sound worth a watch. I think the Czars is a series, but the trailer looks good. :upvote:
The Last Czars is 6 parts.
Quote from: zoony on January 31, 2022, 02:43:47 PM
I only ask that, before posting on a new film we guard against plot spoilers.. whether we think they are or not? :shh:
Fair enough - mea culpa
Mike
Thank you Mike for a civil response. :grin:
I just binged the last 3 episodes of The Responder.. What a brilliant actor Martin Freeman has become..The series overall I'd call a cut above.
gave up on it after about 20 minutes. I could cope with Freeman's accent - but the others were gobbledegook to my ears
Mike
Watched a real swashbuckler of a film 'Outcast'. Set in the 12th century, first in the Middle East, then in China, straightforward action. Made in 2014, with Nicolas Cage - one of my favourite actors - and Hayden Christensen, of whom I had not previously heard. Don't expect anything subtle - 70 years ago it would have been the sort of film to feature Errol Flynn!
Mike
so was there sex in it???? :duel:
Quote from: crabbyob on February 01, 2022, 09:04:36 AM
so was there sex in it???? :duel:
No - pleasant change from some of late.
Mike
Flynn hated the English it seems, yet David Niven was his best pal, or was Niven a Jock, i'm not sure.
both of their life stories are well worth reading...
I remember reading one on David Niven's book (The Moon's a Balloon?) in which he recounted making the mistake of going skiing in inadequate clothing, especially regarding his trousers, culminating in a frantic dash to somewhere warm ushering folk out of his way by yelling 'pallas congalato'. I leave the translation to the imagination
Mike
I just read that David was born in London, then after graduating from Sandhurst he joined the HLI.
he really was quite a guy in real life...
Quote from: zoony on February 01, 2022, 01:25:55 AM
I just binged the last 3 episodes of The Responder.. What a brilliant actor Martin Freeman has become..The series overall I'd call a cut above.
Maybe I should give the rest a try then after all. No issues with accents - maybe because I've heard so many but I had trouble believing the plot.
Quote from: Michael Rolls on February 01, 2022, 09:34:44 AM
'pallas congalato'. I leave the translation to the imagination
Having little imagination I tried google. I suspect you have it wrong. Palline congalato seems nearer. Unless the translator is family friendly of course as I think they figure on some menus. :smiley:
wouldn't surprised - read it a long time ago did check for 'frozen' as memory claimed 'galato' - but isn't that icecream?
Mike
That's gelato which is a sort-of ice cream to the point most would probably just call it ice cream.
It was the balls bit that had me wondering - dual usage in English but possibly not in Italian. I don't know. I just used google translate to confirm it meant what I assumed and it didn't translate pallus.
Quote from: klondike on February 01, 2022, 10:28:29 AM
Maybe I should give the rest a try then after all. No issues with accents - maybe because I've heard so many but I had trouble believing the plot.
Perhaps the beauty off the story is how much crap he's trying to juggle without letting somebody down.. and then there's his own personal crap.. Brilliant..
I remember reading The Moons a Balloon way back..
Well written .. tongue in cheek.. great humour..
Agreed, a lovely and gently amusing book. Followed (?) by 'Bring On The Empty Horses' (I think) also choc-full of anecdotes and memories. A sight better than Geoff Archer's efforts.. Read them a long time ago now..
I started to watch the new series of 'The Bay' last night, a series I've been enjoying. Anybody else? I lasted just a few minutes. All the main white characters have been replaced by non-white actors. I really enjoyed the lead detective (female, white) but she's disappeared without warning or explanation and the whole cast, or so it seemed, had just been exchanged. I was furious. It's the feckin' LANCASHIRE SEA-SIDE in WINTER in ENGLAND ffs.. It made no sense.. As I said, I could only stand to watch it for a few minutes and turned it off in favour of a Vera.
I watched the first 2 seasons of The Bay. Didn't know there was a third. I think I'm in season 8 of my Vera rewatch and have got all of season 11 that was around at the time. Grabbed one or two recently but not sure if there are more to come. Still waiting on another season of last Kingdom. Have listened to all the audiobooks of it more than once. I may have to get a video recorder to watch all this stuff for me as I'm struggling to keep up.
Quote from: zoony on February 01, 2022, 05:54:14 PM
I started to watch the new series of 'The Bay' last night, a series I've been enjoying. Anybody else? I lasted just a few minutes. All the main white characters have been replaced by non-white actors. I really enjoyed the lead detective (female, white) but she's disappeared without warning or explanation and the whole cast, or so it seemed, had just been exchanged. I was furious. It's the feckin' YORKSHIRE SEA-SIDE in WINTER in ENGLAND ffs.. It made no sense.. As I said, I could only stand to watch it for a few minutes and turned it off in favour of a Vera.
Zoony, these things are sent to drive us mad.
You need a recorder to watch 'em for you too then :grin:
Quote from: zoony on February 01, 2022, 05:54:14 PM
I started to watch the new series of 'The Bay' last night, a series I've been enjoying. Anybody else? I lasted just a few minutes. All the main white characters have been replaced by non-white actors. I really enjoyed the lead detective (female, white) but she's disappeared without warning or explanation and the whole cast, or so it seemed, had just been exchanged. I was furious. It's the feckin' YORKSHIRE SEA-SIDE in WINTER in ENGLAND ffs.. It made no sense.. As I said, I could only stand to watch it for a few minutes and turned it off in favour of a Vera.
A friend said Trigger Point on ITV was ok, so I watched the first episode. In the first few scenes three out of 4 actors were black or Asian, but it was based in London so that's perhaps how it is down there ? ( Where's Walter when you need him ? :grin:) A few years ago when black actors were on screen I didn't really notice, tbh I thought Luther was a hunk. But because this 'take over' has occured, I find myself noticing, counting even, the amount of non-white actors in a programme.
Plus far too many adverts in Trigger point, maybe that's my imagination but they used to be fewer.
I enjoyed the first two series of 'the bay', we're recording the third to binge watch later. My parents used to take us to Morecambe and Blackpool alternate years for our holidays, and we used to take our own children there for a while too, I've some great memories of Morecambe but i'm not sure I'd ever go and stay over again.
Quote from: klondike on February 01, 2022, 06:02:47 PM
I may have to get a video recorder to watch all this stuff for me as I'm struggling to keep up.
Get one of those new fangled betamax one's mate.... :embarrassed:
Can't get the tapes. Not even at car boots. I'd need a lot of them the watch all the stuff I have in the layby.
3rd season of Snowpiercer has started which is just as well as I'd forgotten season 2's ending!..
just watched on Netflix 'The War Below' gripping tale of miners who, in WW1, tunneled beneath German lines to set off mines to destabilise the defences before the infantry attack went in. Has a pretty good attempt at depicting just how awful the trenches were.
Mike
Yes I watched that too. Basic story is true but I doubt any of the details in the film were. Just as well probably they are entertainments not documentaries after all and from memory I enjoyed it.
yes - I very much doubt the detail, but as you say - entertainment, not documentary
Mike