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Re: What are you watching tonight?

Post by Bruce Rioja » Mon Feb 24, 2014 3:22 pm

LF are sending me Alpha Papa. I loved classic Partridge but all the much later stuff, especially his guide to Norwich, was absolute shite.

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Re: What are you watching tonight?

Post by clapton is god » Mon Feb 24, 2014 3:50 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:LF are sending me Alpha Papa. I loved classic Partridge but all the much later stuff, especially his guide to Norwich, was absolute shite.

I'm keeping an open mind.
I'd be surprised if you don't love it. Oh, and the very last scene there's a man pushing a broom in the background. That's a very good friend of mine who acted as technical firearms expert in the film and was persuaded to do a cameo.

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Re: What are you watching tonight?

Post by LeverEnd » Mon Feb 24, 2014 4:36 pm

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Bruce Rioja wrote:LF are sending me Alpha Papa. I loved classic Partridge but all the much later stuff, especially his guide to Norwich, was absolute shite.

I'm keeping an open mind.
I'd be surprised if you don't love it. Oh, and the very last scene there's a man pushing a broom in the background. That's a very good friend of mine who acted as technical firearms expert in the film and was persuaded to do a cameo.
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Re: What are you watching tonight?

Post by Harry Genshaw » Mon Feb 24, 2014 6:50 pm

Enjoyed the 1st episode of True Detective last night. Think I'll be sticking with that for a while.

Just catching up with Paxman's 'Britains Great War'. Tragic & fascinating. Great telly
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Re: What are you watching tonight?

Post by Worthy4England » Mon Feb 24, 2014 6:53 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
Prufrock wrote:3rd Inside No. 9.

Top again. Best thing ont he box.
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Watched one to three now, so I've got bugger all left to watch. I thought they were very good. EP2 had me laugh out louding (just put this phrase in to cheer LLS up), EP1 had some wicked one-liners, EP3 I thought was the weakest of the three, but humour aside, still had a decent-ish twist.

Can't get EP4 yet on Player, but will certainly look in when it's available.

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Post by Worthy4England » Mon Feb 24, 2014 6:56 pm

Harry Genshaw wrote:Enjoyed the 1st episode of True Detective last night. Think I'll be sticking with that for a while.

Just catching up with Paxman's 'Britains Great War'. Tragic & fascinating. Great telly
Watched EP1 of True Detective last week. Thought it was a bit labored, but will try EP2. :-)

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Re: What are you watching tonight?

Post by Beefheart » Mon Feb 24, 2014 9:44 pm

Just watched Boogie Nights. Ace soundtrack, made me feel shit about Philip Seymour Hoffman's death again though :(

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Re: What are you watching tonight?

Post by Bruce Rioja » Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:16 pm

Caught the tail end of 'Silk'. Maxine Peake seems to outshine the rest of the cast by an absolute mile. She really is brilliant.
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Re: What are you watching tonight?

Post by LeverEnd » Mon Feb 24, 2014 11:51 pm

Worthy4England wrote:
Harry Genshaw wrote:Enjoyed the 1st episode of True Detective last night. Think I'll be sticking with that for a while.

Just catching up with Paxman's 'Britains Great War'. Tragic & fascinating. Great telly
Watched EP1 of True Detective last week. Thought it was a bit labored, but will try EP2. :-)
It's worth it, slow burner, get to know the characters a bit, the actual crime is more background. By the end of ep 4 you'll be hooked. Probably.
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Re: What are you watching tonight?

Post by William the White » Tue Feb 25, 2014 12:13 am

Bruce Rioja wrote:Caught the tail end of 'Silk'. Maxine Peake seems to outshine the rest of the cast by an absolute mile. She really is brilliant.
Script too crowded, no time to work it through - though it has excellent ideas within it. The 'moral dilemma' of telling lies, that you know to be lies, in a court of law, knowing the damage it will cause to a bereaved family, basically dismissed in a single line... Very, very poor work - not, I suspect, by the writer, who clearly has a handle on the dilemmas and no space within the series format to make them work... This is an excellent movie idea made into mediocre TV...

Maxine Peake is brilliant, of course... she must be longing to return to theatre where the drama has to have real integrity...

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Re: What are you watching tonight?

Post by General Mannerheim » Tue Feb 25, 2014 12:26 am

The fabulous 'Only Lovers Left Alive'

A little bit for the more discerning, some of the literary references went over my head but still a very dark, slick and classy film.

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Post by Beefheart » Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:34 am

General Mannerheim wrote:The fabulous 'Only Lovers Left Alive'

A little bit for the more discerning, some of the literary references went over my head but still a very dark, slick and classy film.
I'm a fan of Jim Jarmusch but didn't really fancy a vampire flick, have heard good things about this though so might give it a watch.

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Re: What are you watching tonight?

Post by KeyserSoze » Tue Feb 25, 2014 11:26 am

True detective floundered a bit in episode six for me, which is a shame considering what's come before it. Still great though.

They appear to have ripped off a lot of stuff from the Red Riding Trilogy however :/
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Re: What are you watching tonight?

Post by General Mannerheim » Tue Feb 25, 2014 2:09 pm

Alpha Papa is utterly brilliant. watched it again over the weekend.

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Post by danhorwich » Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:17 pm

Just watched a few programmes where Owen Jones ripped into some posh upper class t**ts. Brings a smile to know that someone in the media is actually on the side of the working class.
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Re: What are you watching tonight?

Post by Bruce Rioja » Tue Feb 25, 2014 10:06 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:Alpha Papa is utterly brilliant. watched it again over the weekend.
It was fairly good.
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Re: What are you watching tonight?

Post by William the White » Tue Feb 25, 2014 11:35 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
General Mannerheim wrote:Alpha Papa is utterly brilliant. watched it again over the weekend.
It was fairly good.
Verging on OK...

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Re: What are you watching tonight?

Post by clapton is god » Wed Feb 26, 2014 8:36 am

Bruce Rioja wrote:
General Mannerheim wrote:Alpha Papa is utterly brilliant. watched it again over the weekend.
It was fairly good.
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Re: What are you watching tonight?

Post by Beefheart » Wed Feb 26, 2014 8:55 pm

Watching 'The Weather Man', I still can't work out whether Nicolas Cage is some sort of genius or the worst actor ever. It's worth watching for Michael Caine's awful American accent.

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Re: What are you watching tonight?

Post by bobo the clown » Wed Feb 26, 2014 9:00 pm

Beefheart wrote:Watching 'The Weather Man', I still can't work out whether Nicolas Cage is some sort of genius or the worst actor ever. It's worth watching for Michael Caine's awful American accent.
Well, my bote goes cloer to the latter option. Never taken to him.
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