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The Trial of the Chicago 7.

Sasha Baron Cohen was outstanding save for an occasional accent slip. In fact pretty much everybody in it acted their tits of, especially Frank Langella who was not as dead as I thought he was.

Good to see Michael Keaton back in fine form too.

Brilliant and very much a Raich Carter our of 10 and deserves it's Oscar nominations.

20 hours ago, BaaLocks said:

I think LoD is the most ridiculous barrel of arsegravy on the box. From series 2 the plots have been paper thin, verging ridiculous, and by whatever series we are on now the search for the mythical H has become the biggest shaggy dog story since we signed Ian Storey Moore. I could write pages on the plot with holes bigger than the size you get in your skirting board if you cross an elephant with a mouse but let's just say it remains utterly beyond me how anyone could be on the edge of their seat on this one, other than to grab the remote to change channel.

Why did you carry on watching after series 2 when you started to notice such aircraft carrier-sized plot flaws?

With Your Honor I just couldn't take any more by the 5th episode so I didn't torture myself by plodding on.

I pretty much stop watching any series or film I hate (and it happens fairly often) and stop reading any book that isn't sucking me in or educating me.

18 minutes ago, Wolfie said:

I've never watched it but the cuurent hype around it suggests we should probably start from the beginning on iPlayer.

We binged the first 5 seasons (this is the 6th, right?) just before we moved back when they dropped onto Netflix in the US and yeh you should.

Excellent series with a lot of twists that even when you suspect they are coming you don't see them coming.

I'm sure at the time it must have had plenty of talk on here at some stage, but it was never (to my knowledge) shown in the States, so we're just just catching up with Gomorrah.

When I saw the IMDb reviews I was a bit skeptical with so many 10/10's, but I was wrong to be.

Dark, violent, shocking and absolutely outstanding. 

Brilliant acting, tight (if occasionally confusing) script that has you wondering which ducker is going to die next and utterly believable. 

Still not quite to the end of season one so no spoilers please!

21 hours ago, Hathersage Ram said:

It's bloody awful ...................... in my humble opinion 

Agreed.

It started off ok, then went to bad, then to awful, then to utterly comical.

I'm pretty sure the director just said to Brian Cranston before evry take 'give me your best Walter White, but make him have a stroke'

I got to the beginning of the 5th episode and just couldn't take any more.

Deshaun Watson won't be playing for Houston next year.

Well, he wanted away I guess.

On 19/03/2021 at 20:48, Boycie said:

Anyway, what do you guys and gals think?

(No Jimmy Saville reference intended.)

Long bonde hair and athletic body.

Jimmy Saville for me.

If not, the Bionic Woman.

1 hour ago, BaaLocks said:

RIP Marvelous Marvin Hagler, one of the true (and I mean true) greats of the sport, participant in what could rightly be considered the greatest fight of all time and as much of a gentleman outside the ring as he was a teak tough warrior inside it. We all have to go sometime but 66 is just too young for someone who had brought so much joy to so many.

That era was stacked with greatness from lightweight through to light-heavy) with the likes of Hearns, Leonard, Arguello, Pryor and Duran. But Hagler was as good as any at his weight.

3 hours ago, Wolfie said:

Derbyshire Dales has had a big spike in cases. The rate was around 50 per 100,000 a couple of days ago - now up to 160 (England Average is 50).

Has there been a big outbreak or something?.

As I'm from the DD myself I feared a human/ovine jump of the virus.

Phew.

On 05/03/2021 at 08:18, Sith Happens said:

I have heard the second can cause more of a reaction, because you already have anti bodies from the first, a bit like if someone who has had covid receives the vaccine, its been reported more side effects in those people i believe.

 

Yeh, my missus says that and I have a friend back in the US who is really poorly and off work after having his 2nd jab.

Left Bryan Cranston having a nervous breakdown in Your Honor 4 episodes in and started The Terror.

2 episodes in and a far better show with some great acting.

1 hour ago, Anag Ram said:

Funnily enough we have found it a struggle to watch Your Honor. 

Bryan Cranston is still playing Walter White and Michael Stuhlbarg is still playing Rothstein from Boardwalk Empire. 

I have stopped believing in it and you're right, the son deserves jail! 

I actually said that to the missus last night, that BC needs to stop playing Walter.

When he was just the Judge he was excellent, then it's almost like somebody made him do a load of amphetamine and sent him back on set wired senseless and told him to act normal.

On 04/03/2021 at 08:28, Anag Ram said:

Yeah, first episode pretty good. 

Your Honor has been good so far on Sky Atlantic.

I may have to shift from Your Honor to The Terror because it has gone downhill staggeringly quickly.

Loved the start and the premise of Your Honor, but the acting is horrible (even Bryan Cranston now he's gone into crazy mode), the script preposterous and I actually want the kid to get caught he's such an utter moron.

I'm 4 episodes in but not sure I can stomach much more.

KLF - Last Train to Trancentral

1 hour ago, ketteringram said:

We're at the end of 3rd season. I agree about Rob Lowe, but for me anyway, that doesn't knock it down much. The rest of the cast are so good. Agree about the definition too. Are you watching it on All4? I should probably have bought it on disc, and a device that would play the discs! Last couple of episodes in series two, are perfect.

The one thing I thought would bother me is how dated it would be. But other than the phones and TVs, it's not at all dated, almost every plot seems like it could have happened under the Trump regime - and some did.

And yes watching on ALL4. TBH, still getting my head around UK tv and it's vagaries. For the life of us we cannot get it to remember which episode we last watched and we have to go hunting for it as there are random episodes from days or weeks ago sat there.

And last time I had Sky over here you could fast forward and see where you were at the same time. Now if I fast forward it just freezes the image of where I was so I can't see the place I want to advance to and shows me a bunch of adverts in the inset box.

Then again there was no on demand back then so I'd always be using the record feature and maybe that still works like that.

I'm most of the way through the 2nd season of The West Wing and here are my observations that nobody is bothered about:

1. The scriptwriting is super tight apart from point #5

2. The choreography (for want of a better word) and the use of steady cams is incredible. I bet at least 9 members of the crew broke legs and another 2 or 3 shattered a pelvis trying to film it.

3. The acting (other than point #5) is outstanding, especially John Spencer who played Leo (I couldn't believe he was only 52 when it started, he looked more like 65 - very sad to see he's since shuffled off this mortal coil) and the dude whose name I'm too lazy to look up and too old to remember, who played Toby and of course, Martin Sheen.

4. It really sucks watching something so good on a OLED 4k tv in  low-def other than point #5 who I wish had been in no-def.

5. Rob Lowe is the worst actor in it by some margin (he's utterly horrible and in it on name recognition alone). His lines often seem glb and his timing even glibber.

In short, a Craig Short out of ten when Craigy was firing on all cylinders just before we sold him. 

Maybe even better tbh.

On 25/02/2021 at 09:28, Stive Pesley said:

Has anyone watched Inhuman Resources on Netflix?

It still blows my mind that Eric Cantona is a surprisingly good actor. There can't be too many people who have had 2 such diverse careers in life. Or maybe he's just the French Vinnie Jones ?

Anyway - it's a good watch, the story seems a bit far-fetched but apparently the central premise is based on a true story. There is a decent twist in the middle, and a satisfying ending. Only 6 episodes and you need to be OK with subtitles, but otherwise definitely interested to hear others thoughts on it

 

OJ Simpson was a great American footballer, actor and murderer, so he had 3 very diverse careers. 

We have one episode of ZeroZeroZero to watch after seeing it recommending here.

Meh to ok.

It's not even close to Narcos (which I'd give a 9.5 out of 10n and a poster compared it to) and there are insane plot flaws, although it is very well produced and filmed.

I certainly don't regret watching it, but I regret having such high expectations.

Worth checking out.

Quick spoiler, so go no further if you haven't watched it.

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The ISIS/Jihadist scene was utterly ludicrous.

'Oh! You have $30m worth of coke?'

'Ok, well give us a tiny fraction and we'll let you go'.

Hm, wouldn't they have wanted it all or  then let the beheadings begin'?

That same scenario was played out in Somalia.

'You have coke?'

'Give us a tiny bit and we'll help you'

Rather than killing them and taking it all.

A bit silly really.

38 minutes ago, 86 Hair Islands said:

Dark is great. No spoilers from me though!

Will check out It's A Sin - reviews are excellent, so odd I'd not even heard of it. Will definitely give it a whirl.

Just watched McMafia. Awful (and completely inappropriate) name, but a seriously polished show that won the International Emmy Award for Best Drama Series. Highly recommended. 

I *think* I may have nicked this from the joke thread.

The Pembrokeshire Murders.

I'll give it a hefty 7 out of 10. And it would have nudged 8 if not for the casting of the son of the cop leading the investigation.

If you're going to cast somebody who is trialing for the county football team, at least ask them if they've ever kicked a ball before rather than 'can you prance around like John Inman on acid?'

More of your cerebral detective series with no car chase or shoot out in sight.

Keith Allen was incredible as the guy they suspect of the murders, apart from one tiny detail.

Somebody forget to tell him he was from Wales.

Seriously though, he was BAFTA good other than not being arsed to sound like a local.

And on the back of you guys in here we're now 7 episodes into The West Wing.

Liking it, if watching in standard def is somewhat irritating. 

Gangs of London never made it to the US, to the best of my knowledge, but finally finished it last night.

Probably the most violent TV series I have ever watched.

I'm not sold on Joe Cole as an actor and there was an insane amount of plot flaws and unbelievable scenes like Joe Cole punching the crap out of a wall for 30 seconds and barely a scratch on his hand and the leader of the Irish gang taking about 621 bullets in his back and not quite being dead, but yeh, loved it.

4 hours ago, Tyler Durden said:

Didn't realise they were still going - still remember watching them on an episode of The Young Ones with Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible, Rat Scabies et al.

They've never stopped touring, just with different line ups. The Captain and Dave Vanian have been in most of the time (well Vanian all of the time) but Brian Jones left after the second album and then Captain and Rat fell out over money.

But a lucrative reunion beckoned so differences were put to one side.

Quite remarkably, Vanian's voice is as good as ever.

A few days in London in July meeting up with our best friends from the US.

My mate is an insane fan of The Damned, his band even supported them in Orlando on their last tour. 

I love The Damned too so we have tickets for the Hammersmith gig on the 10th July with the original line up playing for the first time in 40 years. 

I doubt it'll happen but hoping it will. 
 

On 11/01/2021 at 11:21, Anag Ram said:

How long do you think he would survive in a dual occupancy prison cell? 

That was funnier than his 50 year old joke.

On 24/01/2021 at 07:18, Anag Ram said:

Corporal punishment is banned now so whilst you can still jump a shark, you can no longer spank a monkey, no matter how naughty he’s been.

Can you bash a Bishop?

Dagnabbit @Pearl Ram beat me at bashing the bishop.

Then again I was thinking of Mary Whitehouse.