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Re: Last film or tv series you watched was... ?

Postby John » Sat May 19, 2018 11:45 pm

Colin B wrote:
Colin B wrote:Actually, I got that wrong - they aren't on Netflix, I'm recording them from some other channel !
Most enjoyable.
John wrote:Gold, maybe? I don't know, I don't watch the re-runs.


In the end, I had to look them up.

I'm recording New Tricks from the Drama channel.

Jonathan Creek is on Netflix.


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You've got too many channels, and then you end up watching stuff from way back.


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Re: Last film or tv series you watched was... ?

Postby Colin B » Sat May 19, 2018 11:59 pm

John wrote:You've got too many channels, and then you end up watching stuff from way back.



It's true !

I keep busy all day & only settle down to watch television in the evening.

Having watched the new stuff I've recorded, I then have a look at the many channels available, usually ending up with Netflix !

Normal broadcast TV doesn't get a look in...
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Re: Last film or tv series you watched was... ?

Postby John » Sun May 20, 2018 12:11 am

Colin B wrote:
John wrote:You've got too many channels, and then you end up watching stuff from way back.



It's true !

I keep busy all day & only settle down to watch television in the evening.

Having watched the new stuff I've recorded, I then have a look at the many channels available, usually ending up with Netflix !

Normal broadcast TV doesn't get a look in...

I rarely stray from the BBC. If there is anything on the commercial channels, I tend to record it and watch it so that I can skip through the ads. I don't watch that much, but there is plenty of good quality stuff there, certainly enough to keep me happy.


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Postby WalterHaleJnr » Sun May 20, 2018 3:21 am

am doing RIO GRANDE. This to be combined with FORT APACHE and SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL4hwbzboj8


now the colorised version :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP3M-u75zFo


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Postby WalterHaleJnr » Sun May 20, 2018 3:40 am

song deleted. wrong topic :oops:
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Postby elvislady » Sun May 20, 2018 8:30 am

The Royal Wedding. :D :D Just thought I would share that.
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Re: Last film or tv series you watched was... ?

Postby John » Sun May 20, 2018 8:54 am

elvislady wrote:The Royal Wedding. :D :D Just thought I would share that.

I haven't seen any of it.


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Postby elvislady » Sun May 20, 2018 9:12 am

John wrote:
elvislady wrote:The Royal Wedding. :D :D Just thought I would share that.

I haven't seen any of it.

I like harry, He is one of the royals who comes across cery down to earth a lot like his mother.
I was curious to see what Meghan dress was like and I did get drawn in to it I must admit. It was a beautiful day too. :D
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Re: Last film or tv series you watched was... ?

Postby Colin B » Sun May 20, 2018 9:22 am

elvislady wrote:The Royal Wedding. :D :D Just thought I would share that.
John wrote:I haven't seen any of it.



Me neither.
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Postby WalterHaleJnr » Sun May 20, 2018 12:13 pm

tv series wise am as of now watching part two of Olivia Newton John mini series. Great start with Delta (Olivia) singing the Xanadu hit.



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Re: Last film or tv series you watched was... ?

Postby Mountain Mist » Sun May 20, 2018 10:59 pm

I enjoyed the series at the end.

Thank you, Walter.

I like that Livvie's Wellness Centre was mentioned, too, and was given a lot of screen time.

What do you think?


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Re: Last film or tv series you watched was... ?

Postby WalterHaleJnr » Thu May 24, 2018 1:43 pm

does anyone know the film where this tune comes from? that's the movie am watching as of this moment -

Long gone
Ain't he lucky
Long gone
To Kentucky
Long gone
What I mean
Long gone Sam on a bowlin' green
Bowlin' green
Sewin' machine
Sewin' machine
Sew so fast
Sew eleven stitches
In a little cat's tail
I left my home in Nashville

A-look a-here what I got, Jack
A-twenty long years on a chain gang
A-sweatin' and bustin' rock
A judge, he come from Memphis
A-put me in the pen

If I ever see his face once more
He never get home again
That judge be long gone
To Kentucky
Long gone
Don't mean maybe
A long gone
What I mean
A long gone judge on a bowlin' green
Bowlin' green
A sewin' machine
A sewin' machine

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Re: Last film or tv series you watched was... ?

Postby WalterHaleJnr » Thu May 24, 2018 1:48 pm

Mountain Mist wrote:I enjoyed the series at the end.

Thank you, Walter.

I like that Livvie's Wellness Centre was mentioned, too, and was given a lot of screen time.

What do you think?


it was overall very nicely done and scripted. But just as with past mini series on famous singers or actors , they seem rushed or omitted details here and there.


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Re: Last film or tv series you watched was... ?

Postby Colin B » Thu May 24, 2018 2:14 pm

WalterHaleJnr wrote:does anyone know the film where this tune comes from? that's the movie am watching as of this moment -

:lol:


It's Long Gone (From Bowling Green).

It was used in the film The Defiant Ones.
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Re: Last film or tv series you watched was... ?

Postby shanebrown » Thu May 31, 2018 2:26 am

I've seen two horror films over the last two nights - both very different in style.

The first was Winchester, starring Helen Mirren as Sarah Winchester, owner of the infamous Winchester house. Despite a cast that is unlikely to appeal a great deal to a younger audience, it still seems to rely on the jump scares that litter teen horror films these days. The story revolves around the Winchester gun company employing a doctor to example Sarah Winchester in the hope he will declare her insane. When he gets to the house, one that she is always adding rooms to, he finds thing are not what they seem. The story of the Winchester house would be an interesting one, but this is relatively predictable horror movie, that is rarely creepy or even horrifying. If feels like a straight to DVD effort, which it probably would have been without Mirren's presence. It holds the attention but is very mundane.

Conversely, Marrowbone (aka: The Secret of Marrowbone) is a film that doesn't rely on jump scares at all. The first half hour or so is rather similar to the Dirk Bogarde film Our Mother's House, about a group of children who pretend their mother is still alive so that they are not split up. After that, it takes a series of bizarre and unexpected turns, which may or may not involve hauntings. It is a film that is too long and which has pacing issues, and yet the attention is held because the audience are literally kept worrying until close to the end as to what is going on. The explanation at the end isn't all that surprising, but as it is one of many possible ones that the viewer could have thought of through the film, it still works well as a mystery. Rising star George MacKay seems to get better with each film, and Charlie Heaton from Stranger Things also does well here. In fact they are both better than Mirren in Winchester, although they have a much more interesting tale to tell here.

Oddly, most people aren't likely to be chilled a great deal by either horror film, if, indeed, Marrowbone is a horror film at all. But there's little doubt that it's that film out of the two which is likely to live on in the mind of the viewer after the closing credits.

As a side note, it's quite interesting that a scene that we see in the trailer and in press photos does not appear in the finished film. This used to be a common practice (and is the case with an Elvis film or two), but it's quite unusual these days for a scene that looks like it's going to be a key part of the film not to appear!


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