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[Basel]

Hi All,
It's a new threat about what are you watching.
You can also post your last watched movie and
The movie you watched most. Don't forget to mention the no of times you watched movie.
SO from my side
I watched AVATAR movie recently and I like it.
Count down begins...

Vishal Bhatia

Edited by Basel, 12 February 2011 - 06:40 PM.

[el toro]

Um.... a new 'threat' about what I'm watching?

As in, if you don't like it you'll come round my house and give me a severe talking to!!!

Just kidding.... just finished Generation Kill - from the Wire guys.... I think it's playing over here on ABC 2 at the moment too. But I gorged all 7 eps over 2 days on DVD. It's amazing - gritty, raw and does that thing that all great TV or film does, takes you into a world you don't know. And that's no mean feat considering how many war films we've all seen.
Same witty, dense, nuanced dialogue as you got in the Wire and the same attention to detail. The world created (a vision of hell in some parts...) feels utterly real.

The authenticity these guys (David Simon et al) achieve seems to come from a journo's commitment to research - and in this case, apparently the whole story was based on the articles of a guy embedded with the 1st recon marines. However, and I'm gunna tread warily here because I don't want to spoil anyone's enjoyment.... it felt to me that it was a little too faithful to the source material. Either that or it was trying to make a particular statement about that conflict in it's dramatic approach. Anyone who's seen it may be able to identify with what I'm saying (or disagree completely!).

But that said, it's still a cracking watch. Some of the best moments are the pop culture references that come thick and fast among the dialogue of the young marines. And the spectacle of four blokes rolling across the Iraqi desert in an armour plated humvee singing 'Loving you' in harmonised (badly) falsetto is pure GOLD!

Four stars from me. Margret?

Edited by el toro, 04 February 2011 - 06:40 PM.
typos

[el toro]

'Kay, just realised this is a 'Movies' thread - mods feel free to move/scratch it. But hey, if you watch all the eps in say... two sittings, it's like watching two long movies.... kinda....

[Jake]

Ive been watching Star Trek Enterprise, from the beginning. Almost finished the 2nd season, watching 1 episode a night. I'm not sure why but I am drawn to it.

[soundfan]

I watched Blood Simple (the Coen Brothers first film ) this afternoon. An excellent neo-noir crime flick.
M.Emmet Walsh is a hoot as the private investigator.

Edited by soundfan, 04 February 2011 - 08:11 PM.

[Peter the Greek]

Perahps I should start watching Startrek....
....Hopefully see The Fighter and Black Swan and one other this weekend.....2 birthdays to go to....see how we go

[nickonsound]

I'm not sure why but I am drawn to it.

After looking at the pictures, i see the reason why you are crazy about it.

[danter]

GOing TV Series mad of late - The Wire, Dexter, Shameless, Oz - must track down Generation Kill. Caught 5 mins of it the other day on ABC and it did look very good (didn't realise it was from 'The Wire' guy - he is doing another series 'Treme' about the aftermath of Katrina in New Orleans which is apparently up there with the best too - one to look out for).

[soundfan]

I watched The Fighter the night before last and thought it was very good. It's a character driven film which I found engrossing and unpretentious and Christian Bale is a knockout (pardon the pun) in his role.

[sligoriverblues]

I watched Blood Simple (the Coen Brothers first film ) this afternoon. An excellent neo-noir crime flick.
M.Emmet Walsh is a hoot as the private investigator.

Excellent movie!

[sligoriverblues]

I've got Bergman's The Faith Trilogy DVD Box Set (Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light and The Silence) as a gift and have watched The Silence last night... Mesmerizing! Through a Glass Darkly has one of the best usages of Bach's music in cinema as far as I'm concerned...

[vmhf]

Ive been watching Star Trek Enterprise, from the beginning. Almost finished the 2nd season, watching 1 episode a night. I'm not sure why but I am drawn to it.

Jolene Blalock with pointy ears does it for me Jake!

[Janjuc]

Ive been watching Star Trek Enterprise, from the beginning. Almost finished the 2nd season, watching 1 episode a night. I'm not sure why but I am drawn to it.

Is a bit like the old joke:

Q: What's the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek?

A: The hot chicks in Star Trek

[Tweaky]

I've been watching Being Human series 3.

It's brilliant.

The last series of QI [Series 8/H] was OK, I wouldn't put it at one of the funnier series as a whole though.

Edited by Tweaky, 12 February 2011 - 12:10 AM.

[Pasgod]

Charles Chaplin : City Lights, The Circus and Modern Times. This guy was a genious.

[peterpan]

i have been watching battlestar gallactica the new series. i dont think it has anything to do with the girl in the red dress? mmmmmm.
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[S2 13BT]

I thought I might chuck in a movie if that's cool...

Last night I watched 'Antichrist'.

Very strange "horror" movie, although there wasn't a great deal of horror, just weird sh!t. Was alright I guess.

[Grumpy]

TV -
Dexter
Party Down - ABC2 Thurs 8.30 ( About party caterers - a little bit naughty sometimes especially the Porn Adwards night episode)
Graham Norton Show - ABC2 Thurs 9.30 (the funniest chat show ever)

[handysteel]

Watching House, seasons 1-6.

[mondie]

Coast on SBS
Oz and James Drink to Britain (brilliant!)
Top Gear
Men behaving badly (seems to have been pulled sadly)
Grand Designs
Cycling Central
A move to the country

On DVD we have been working through a great British medical drama made 2004/05 called Bodies. So realistic l have to look away at times. Occasionally we watch an episode of the Prisoner on Blu-ray, the picture on this set is exceptional even if some of the lots are no easier to decipher

Cheers,
mondie

[turntable]

the best show on TV at the moment IMO is " the Inbetweeners " Thursdays 9pm on GO. It's the 2nd series I have watched, but I think it is the 3rd and last series showing?.

" The Inbetweeners is about four teenagers growing up in middle-class British suburbia. It’s a world of futile crushes, getting drunk, fancying the girl next door, casting aspersions on your friend’s sexuality, and perving at your mate’s mum. "

Bloody hilarious - but it has lots of swearing, wanking, porn and all other such things 17-19 year old males try to get up to - so definately not for the children. US tv could never do this, bravo UK.

[xtrachewy]

Shameless (UK): tasteless, crass, you wouldn't like it....

[rab]

GOing TV Series mad of late - The Wire, Dexter, Shameless, Oz - must track down Generation Kill. Caught 5 mins of it the other day on ABC and it did look very good (didn't realise it was from 'The Wire' guy - he is doing another series 'Treme' about the aftermath of Katrina in New Orleans which is apparently up there with the best too - one to look out for).

I'm with you, Danter. I haven;t yet caught up with Dexter, but the others are mostly great. As for the Wire guys, IMO The Wire itself is way better than Generation Kill, although I also liked that very much, and I have only watched the first episode of Treme... it didn't do it for me, but I should probably watch another episode or two before coming to a conclusion...

Our most recent addiction is In Treatment... we did a serial rental of Series 1 and 2 from our local video library.... can't wait for series 3! Highly recommended... but nothing can touch The Wire, IMO.

[Vladimir Freddie]

Graham Norton Show, Good News Week, & been watching a lot of Drop the Dead Donkey on DVD. As well as going through our Xmas present - the Xfiles box set

[Grumpy]

2 for Graham Norton, Cool!

[valvelover]

Watched the remake of the Wolfman again last night. Have it on blu-ray in homage to the Lon Chaney jr version (I have that too on DVD). I saw this at the movies and didn't really like it, not sure why. I've watched it twice on blu-ray now over the past 3 months have really enjoyed it. Benicio Del Toro nailed his performance as Lawrence Tablot imho. Emily Blunt was satisfactory in her role. For some reason, Sir Anthony Hopkin's performance didn't really grab me. And of course, Rick Baker worked on this film. I only hope the re-make of An American werewolf in London lives up to the original *sigh*.

[mondie]

Shameless (UK): tasteless, crass, you wouldn't like it....

It is crass, my wife is from Manchester so l can relate to it but much prefer The Royale Family, that was brilliant.

Graham Norton is good but the quality of his show varies widely depending on his quests, l much prefer it when he sticks to Brits than boring Hollywood types.

[Grumpy]

It is crass, my wife is from Manchester so l can relate to it but much prefer The Royale Family, that was brilliant.

Graham Norton is good but the quality of his show varies widely depending on his quests, l much prefer it when he sticks to Brits than boring Hollywood types.

Careful mondie or you might find yourself in the 'Red Chair'

[Vladimir Freddie]

2 for Graham Norton, Cool!

Been a fan of his since Father Ted (occasionally as the very annoying priest)

[vmhf]

I also got this as a complete series on Blu Ray for Christmas. Been watching an episode whenever I can. One of the best, hardest hitting dramas, space or otherwise. Really gets to to core of so called human emotions.
Seriously good entertainment that really makes Star Trek and Star Wars a joke. ( I am a fan of Star Trek and Star Wars BTW)

i have been watching battlestar gallactica the new series. i dont think it has anything to do with the girl in the red dress? mmmmmm.
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[Kavin]

I have to watch this movie. It should be so difficult to say anything without watching it. This weekend we are going to watch Iron Man2.

[Mr_Gimlet]

Been a fan of his since Father Ted (occasionally as the very annoying priest)

Father Noel Furlong! It was on this week, he was singing Bohemian Rhapsody when they were all trapped in the caves.

I watched Scott Pilgrim vs the World - this must have gone under the radar last year, it was a great film and pretty funny

[likwidsh0k]

I watched Scott Pilgrim vs the World - this must have gone under the radar last year, it was a great film and pretty funny

A luv or hate it that one and I luvd it, check out Kung Fu Hustle.

Just finished watching Serenity again after watching Firefly for the first time... bloody brilliant sci-fi series!

[biologist]

Have a bunch of movies to watch piled on top of the player, but one series that I must get started on is 1996s "Dark Skies"....

[Pasgod]

Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor this evening on french TV : Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, 2 great actors for a very good dramatic movie based upon Tennessee Williams.

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[dack]

Currently watching the second season of V. It's a bit tedious at times, especially when religion starts to come into the story line, but for a tv show it's quite good and looks fairly nice, SFX wise. Scott Wolf is the best thing about the series in terms of performance, the rest are just daytime soap type performances. The show does perplex and amaze me though, for example, the son of the FBI agent, who is the main character in the show, has half of his DNA missing. WTF??? Is that possible? I know, it probably means that the aliens have plans to impregnate humans using this guy as the king alien because, wouldn't you know it, the Vs are society with a queen as their leader, and they will fill his half filled DNA with alien DNA sometime in the future when they figure out how. But seriously. Another example is the invention of the soul eradicating machine that the chief V medical officer invents in the last episode. I was actually laughing at this guy as, with a straight face, he was telling the queen about this new machine he's invented that sucks the soul out of humans. So they can colonise and impregnate us, get it? Then he actually shows the queen how it works and, from my point of view, it just kills the dude. I suppose this represents the fact that the aliens do not understand human nature? That aliens that base their knowledge on pure science are devoid of feeling, and so, we should rejoice at the pain of being humans ourselves? It's this craziness that keeps me watching and, at the same time, makes me cringe a bit.

[valvelover]

Currently watching Season 4 of Buffy the Vampire slayer. Up to the episode "Goodbye Iowa". And no, this is not the first time I've watched the show, love it to bits. I even have 2 copies of the entire seasons lol (original that I bought years ago when they came out, and the boxed set that I bought 2 and a bit years ago).

dack, had a good chuckle @ your post. I haven't watched the new V, but have fond memories of the first 2 seasons of the original series. That and Battlestar Galactica (original). I don't think either new series has improved on the old ones.

[Janjuc]

Currently halfway through Firefly, by Josh Weadon and as usual very quirky, a mix of space travel and the ol' west ....

JJ

[valvelover]

Currently halfway through Firefly, by Josh Weadon and as usual very quirky, a mix of space travel and the ol' west ....

JJ

Awesome series (which reminds me I need to get my boss to return the box set that I lent him like 2 and a half damn years ago lol). nathan is awesome in his role imho, very underated actor. Pity it only went 2 seasons, it was worthy of far more. I like all of Joss's stuff.

[likwidsh0k]

Awesome series (which reminds me I need to get my boss to return the box set that I lent him like 2 and a half damn years ago lol). nathan is awesome in his role imho, very underated actor. Pity it only went 2 seasons, it was worthy of far more. I like all of Joss's stuff.

Pity it only went 1 season Check out Serenity afterwards ties it up nicely.

Great vid of the female cast on a panel, the phone pranks at the start are good value..

http://www.tfaw.com/...0905_DC_Firefly

Another cool sci-fi series is Eureka, first 2 season are great last 2 do suffer a change in direction to more romantic sap but still great series

[unclemack]

We've been watching Durham County. Excellent Canadian Cop series. Dark, menacing, a bit nasty with some terrific performances. very much recommended.

cheers

M

[Redone]

Over the past 3 nights we have been watching the Bourne trilogy............come on MD do the next one......pronto!

Other than that I've just finished watching more of the Jessie Stone movies that star Tom Selleck. Great stories and well worth the viewing.

[likwidsh0k]

the best show on TV at the moment IMO is " the Inbetweeners " Thursdays 9pm on GO. It's the 2nd series I have watched, but I think it is the 3rd and last series showing?.

" The Inbetweeners is about four teenagers growing up in middle-class British suburbia. It’s a world of futile crushes, getting drunk, fancying the girl next door, casting aspersions on your friend’s sexuality, and perving at your mate’s mum. "

Bloody hilarious - but it has lots of swearing, wanking, porn and all other such things 17-19 year old males try to get up to - so definately not for the children. US tv could never do this, bravo UK.

+1 after catching a couple of episodes, reminds me of a modern day ruder and cruder Young Ones. Like asking the grandma if she wanted to lick his Cornetto

Edited by likwidsh0k, 13 April 2011 - 09:38 PM.

[likwidsh0k]

I watched Blood Simple (the Coen Brothers first film ) this afternoon. An excellent neo-noir crime flick.
M.Emmet Walsh is a hoot as the private investigator.

Watched this recently too, an excellent movie. Another great one is Brick.


Swingers - Once you get past the clunky start with them saying money every sentence it gets really good. Written by and starring Jon Favreau long before Iron Man fame.


Let the Right One In - Beautifully shot and great performances by the 2 young leads

Edited by likwidsh0k, 13 April 2011 - 09:44 PM.

[ayou2]

Sons Of Anarchy - show about the antics of a small town California motorcycle gang.

Boardwalk Empire - show about 1920's prohibition era

True Blood - vampire stuff