Stuff you've found on TV worth watching

[DLax69]

Read the book many, many years ago and thought it a little clever. Re-read it during the lockdown and wondered why I ever thought it was clever...

Motivated by the train derailment and subsequent, chemical spill, explosions and fire, near a small town in Ohio earlier this week.
I watched the movie White Noise. Released in December 2022. It depicted the above.
When I say that I watched the movie. That's not quite true. I fell asleep. About a third in.
Depicting the main character as a revered Hitler Studies Professor lacked any credibility and the movie
seemed to tumble downhill from there. This is one of the few occasions when memory loss is a blessing.

 

[Andyk]

Watched the film Bullet Train last night and really enjoyed it. Rather violent but was funny and had a Pulp Fiction sort of vibe to it.

 

[MarkMas]

Read the book many, many years ago and thought it a little clever. Re-read it during the lockdown and wondered why I ever thought it was clever...

Years ago, when I thought I should read more literary fiction, I read White Noise, Libra and Underworld (and listened to Laurie Anderson reading The Body Artist, in 10-minute snippets as I kept falling into a coma). Don DeLillo is undoubtedly a literary genius, and I never want to read one of his books ever again as they are so very tedious.

 

[Wack61]

Watched the film Bullet Train last night and really enjoyed it. Rather violent but was funny and had a Pulp Fiction sort of vibe to it.

I've started buying 4k blurays from Cex then selling them on, it's like hifi, once you've seen one you notice how streamed 4k looks nothing like as good, this week it's bullet train and maverick

 

[CatmanV2]

I've started buying 4k blurays from Cex then selling them on, it's like hifi, once you've seen one you notice how streamed 4k looks nothing like as good, this week it's bullet train and maverick

Been saying this for ever. We use Cinema Paradiso

C

 

[Wack61]

Been saying this for ever. We use Cinema Paradiso

C

Thanks, just signed up, I rejoined netflix for the Crown but I spend longer flicking through things than I do watching them

This looks like a much better way of spending £11 a month

 

[CatmanV2]

Thanks, just signed up

Make sure there's plenty of stuff on your list. Obviously the new / popular stuff might take a while to get to you, as it were, but you can move stuff to the top of the list. Won't ensure you get it next, but helps.

We've always found their service good and the deal well if / when stuff goes missing, or is damaged

C

 

[Wack61]

I bought the top gun / maverick dual disc boxset so I thought I'd watch top gun first as I haven't watched it since 1986 at The Empire Leicester Square

It is so cheesy, certainly of its time

 

[CatmanV2]

I bought the top gun / maverick dual disc boxset so I thought I'd watch top gun first as I haven't watched it since 1986 at The Empire Leicester Square

It is so cheesy, certainly of its time

Isn't it just? I don't think I've made it all the way through, ever.
Have resisted Maverick (as long with several other block busters) as I want to see them upstairs. But bloody ****, some of them are so long!

C

 

[DLax69]

Years ago, when I thought I should read more literary fiction, I read White Noise, Libra and Underworld (and listened to Laurie Anderson reading The Body Artist, in 10-minute snippets as I kept falling into a coma). Don DeLillo is undoubtedly a literary genius, and I never want to read one of his books ever again as they are so very tedious.

Filed under "Trying too hard"

 

[Wack61]

Isn't it just? I don't think I've made it all the way through, ever.
Have resisted Maverick (as long with several other block busters) as I want to see them upstairs. But bloody ****, some of them are so long!

C

The funny thing is in 1986 I loved it, though I think the cinema played a big part in it, massive screen and sound, the cinema in kettering really was a flea pit, when it closed down a guy I knew was involved in clearing it out

There was a reason they never raised the lights much when the films finished, he said it was mingling

 

[CatmanV2]

The funny thing is in 1986 I loved it, though I think the cinema played a big part in it, massive screen and sound, the cinema in kettering really was a flea pit, when it closed down a guy I knew was involved in clearing it out

There was a reason they never raised the lights much when the films finished, he said it was mingling

Or even minging
Some films date worse than others. Top Gun was very much of its time. Others not so much. <picks at random> Groundhog Day. Personally still love it as much. YMMV

C

 

[Wack61]

Spell correct didn't like mingling, still doesn't mingling, no, it's not having it, minging

 

[Andyk]

I am also enjoying the second series of Your Honour on Paramount.

 

[Wack61]

Or even minging
Some films date worse than others. Top Gun was very much of its time. Others not so much. <picks at random> Groundhog Day. Personally still love it as much. YMMV

C

We did have a bigger cinema which is still there right in the centre of town


by the 80s it was a bingo hall then when that closed down some ballsy entrepreneurs took it on

 

[CatmanV2]

We did have a bigger cinema which is still there right in the centre of town
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by the 80s it was a bingo hall then when that closed down some ballsy entrepreneurs took it on

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They put a parking lot on a piece of land
When the supermarket used to stand
Before that they put up a bowling alley
On the site that used to be the local pally
That's where the big bands used to come and play
My sister went there on a Saturday

C

 

[Wack61]

They had 2000 plants in there,

They put a parking lot on a piece of land
When the supermarket used to stand
Before that they put up a bowling alley
On the site that used to be the local pally
That's where the big bands used to come and play
My sister went there on a Saturday
Got high

 

[Wack61]

Or even minging
Some films date worse than others. Top Gun was very much of its time. Others not so much. <picks at random> Groundhog Day. Personally still love it as much. YMMV

C

I'd never seen the 1980s The Thing at the cinema but a few months back it was on at the odeon luxe so I went, really enjoyed it

I'd like to see quatermass and the pit, an American werewolf in London, Forbidden Planet and The Day The Earth Stood Still (1956) on the big screen

 

[zagatoes30]

Just watching Clarkson's Farm, as with all his stuff lots of opinions flowing around but some decisions do seem bizarre.

Finally got round to watching Bladerunner 2049 which obviously forced me to watch the original again and also watched The Banshees of Inisherin and I can see some of those characters here in Co. Wexford today

 

[Wack61]

Just watching Clarkson's Farm, as with all his stuff lots of opinions flowing around but some decisions do seem bizarre.

I think the overwhelming traffic is what's done him in, it's not a farm shop, it's an opportunity to get your face on TV and possibly meet JC

I wonder how many buy nothing or coffee, they're not your usual farm shop regulars

The locals and planners just hate him now, I'd think if it gets dropped by amazon at the end of next summer the shop will close or JC will hand it over to a farm manager and go back to full time TV.

I can't imagine a farm that size is run just by JC and Kaleb