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Re: What are you Watching Today Part 2
Finished Succession over the weekend. Excellent ending, some real turns which never actually felt overly ludicrous (possibly because all the characters are all kind of ludicrous already, but still).
Top Boy next. I'm a series ahead so will have to see if I'm made to watch that again first before I dive in.
Also watched the first ep of No Activity on iPlayer, an earlier comedy from the couple behind the excellent Colin from Accounts. 7/10, will watch the rest.
Top Boy next. I'm a series ahead so will have to see if I'm made to watch that again first before I dive in.
Also watched the first ep of No Activity on iPlayer, an earlier comedy from the couple behind the excellent Colin from Accounts. 7/10, will watch the rest.
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Just finished watching the WW2 film Narvik.
Tough people those Norwegians.
Tough people those Norwegians.
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Don't know much about the Norwegian campaign other than from The Heroes of Telemark, remember watching it during the school holidays way back when, then also doing so again at Uni. Good yarn.Chicken Dhansak wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 1:14 pm Just finished watching the WW2 film Narvik.
Tough people those Norwegians.
Slight tangent but pretty sure my Granddad got the Arctic Star from when he was on the merchant navy convoys. There was a documentary by Jeremy Clarkson about them, PQ17, which was really good (he's still a pr!ck, but he presented this really well) and the general conditions, even apart from this particular disaster, sounded absolutely hellish. Was repeated on BBC4 recently so probably knocking about on iPlayer.
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Indeed they are. I've been binging on Vikings Valhalla over the weekend. Plenty of choppin, stabin and pumping. Great stuff.Chicken Dhansak wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 1:14 pm Just finished watching the WW2 film Narvik.
Tough people those Norwegians.
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Watched the 2 part "Crime of the Century" the other night. It's a doc about the opiate crisis in the States and how, essentially it was created through greed, fraud and corruption (with a healthy slice of laziness/stupidity thrown in - but mainly corruption).
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Did you have an enormous horn Maxie or just a plain flaccid helmet?Max B Gold wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 2:05 pmIndeed they are. I've been binging on Vikings Valhalla over the weekend. Plenty of choppin, stabin and pumping. Great stuff.Chicken Dhansak wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 1:14 pm Just finished watching the WW2 film Narvik.
Tough people those Norwegians.
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Yes but I was being sarcastic. Its actually pish.Chicken Dhansak wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 7:01 pmDid you have an enormous horn Maxie or just a plain flaccid helmet?Max B Gold wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 2:05 pmIndeed they are. I've been binging on Vikings Valhalla over the weekend. Plenty of choppin, stabin and pumping. Great stuff.Chicken Dhansak wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 1:14 pm Just finished watching the WW2 film Narvik.
Tough people those Norwegians.
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Guy Ritchie's Covenent- afghan war thriller that lacks in thrills and just a bit too dumb. 6
Worth- a lawyer has to work out the monetary value of lives lost in 9/11. Just not dramatic or interesting enough sadly. 6
Worth- a lawyer has to work out the monetary value of lives lost in 9/11. Just not dramatic or interesting enough sadly. 6
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Finished Top Boy, satisfactory ending.
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Last night I watched Alone in Berlin, with Brendan Gleeson and a surprisingly good Emma Thomson
I thought it was brilliant - the sense of terror in wartime Berlin was very well done, I thought.
I thought it was brilliant - the sense of terror in wartime Berlin was very well done, I thought.
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Just watched a short documentary‘Hawaiian Hammers’ on West Ham, Chan London Live, was interesting enough.
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How To Blow Up A Pipeline- lacking the instructions promised in the title and much thrills. Also, i couldn't help but think they'd probably just rebuild it in a few weeks.
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Alan Arkin is one of my favourite actors and I thought the film was good but having not read the book can understand why you found it a disappointment. Then again I find that most films from books are often so. I must get round ti reading Catch 22.Max B Gold wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2019 12:29 pm I have recorded Catch 22 and will watch it tonight. I'd be insane not to.
This is one of my favourite books of all time which I read when I was 17. The Mike Nichols film of the 70s was such a disappointment. Alan Arkin wasn't a very good Yossarian and was no match for the character I had built up in my head.
I can still remember the night it was on the telly and leaving my girlfriend 's to go home early to watch it with my old man.
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Apparently Christopher Nolan is in discussions to write and direct two period-piece Bond films. I'm up for that.
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That's my favourite kind of farrago.
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Really? I thought it was imbecility you liked best.Dunners wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:28 amThat's my favourite kind of farrago.
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Who Killed Jan Dildo? 3 part Netflix documentary. Nothing new here, just a brief summary of the case. Spoiler: they dont know who killed TVs Princess Diana.
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Just finished watching the 1992 film "The Lawnmower Man", it's about what happens to a man with a chiids mind, subjected to virtual reality,. For a thirty one year old film the special effects are fantastic.