What are you watching tonight?

jmjhb · Post by **jmjhb** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:30 pm

Persepolis was excellent, I recommend it to everyone.

Then I watched Heroes, it was quite possibly the worst episode of TV I have ever seen, please kill it now

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:24 pm

Fans of The Wire might like these footballing lookeylikeys

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:39 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Fans of The Wire might like these footballing lookeylikeys

Programme ive always wanted to get into. must have completely missed it since it started. Charlie Brooker raves about it, so cant be bad?

jmjhb · Post by **jmjhb** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:01 pm

Prufrock wrote:
Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Fans of The Wire might like these footballing lookeylikeys
Programme ive always wanted to get into. must have completely missed it since it started. Charlie Brooker raves about it, so cant be bad?

It's absolutely brilliant. One of, if not, the best TV programmes ever made. The first few episodes of Series 1 are a bit slow-burning to begin with, introducing the characters, plot and city, but once it gets going it's sensational - if you've got the time and patience to stick with it, you will be rewarded.

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:12 pm

jmjhb wrote:
Prufrock wrote:
Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Fans of The Wire might like these footballing lookeylikeys
Programme ive always wanted to get into. must have completely missed it since it started. Charlie Brooker raves about it, so cant be bad?
It's absolutely brilliant. One of, if not, the best TV programmes ever made. The first few episodes of Series 1 are a bit slow-burning to begin with, introducing the characters, plot and city, but once it gets going it's sensational - if you've got the time and patience to stick with it, you will be rewarded.

Cheers. Any ideas where to find it without having to shell out on DVD's? If not think will ask the rents for it at Christmas. Play the sad student abroad with nothing to do card m'thinks.

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:28 pm

Prufrock wrote:
jmjhb wrote:
Prufrock wrote:
Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Fans of The Wire might like these footballing lookeylikeys
Programme ive always wanted to get into. must have completely missed it since it started. Charlie Brooker raves about it, so cant be bad?
It's absolutely brilliant. One of, if not, the best TV programmes ever made. The first few episodes of Series 1 are a bit slow-burning to begin with, introducing the characters, plot and city, but once it gets going it's sensational - if you've got the time and patience to stick with it, you will be rewarded.
Cheers. Any ideas where to find it without having to shell out on DVD's? If not think will ask the rents for it at Christmas. Play the sad student abroad with nothing to do card m'thinks.

It's brilliant - though not quite as good as The Sopranos.

i got first 3 series from amazon at reasonable xmas present prices.

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:32 pm

William the White wrote:
Prufrock wrote:
jmjhb wrote:
Prufrock wrote:
Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Fans of The Wire might like these footballing lookeylikeys
Programme ive always wanted to get into. must have completely missed it since it started. Charlie Brooker raves about it, so cant be bad?
It's absolutely brilliant. One of, if not, the best TV programmes ever made. The first few episodes of Series 1 are a bit slow-burning to begin with, introducing the characters, plot and city, but once it gets going it's sensational - if you've got the time and patience to stick with it, you will be rewarded.
Cheers. Any ideas where to find it without having to shell out on DVD's? If not think will ask the rents for it at Christmas. Play the sad student abroad with nothing to do card m'thinks.
It's brilliant - though not quite as good as The Sopranos.

i got first 3 series from amazon at reasonable xmas present prices.

Cheers Mr Marlowe.....oops.

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:37 pm

we watched La Dolce vita in our house, cos we're doing a roman weekend in a few weeks time...

DVD froze at 1 hour 40, still an hour left...

We were very grateful.

God, what a verbose meander through some ungripping dilemmas that is...

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:42 pm

William the White wrote:we watched La Dolce vita in our house, cos we're doing a roman weekend in a few weeks time...

DVD froze at 1 hour 40, still an hour left...

We were very grateful.

God, what a verbose meander through some ungripping dilemmas that is...

Thank god you said that, I thought I was a heathen

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General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:10 am

6th episode of Band of Brothers last night - Bastogne.

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:15 am

General Mannerheim wrote:6th episode of Band of Brothers last night - Bastogne.

Good man.

The series really comes into its own in the final 3 episodes in my view.

hisroyalgingerness · Post by **hisroyalgingerness** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:11 pm

Verbal wrote:
General Mannerheim wrote:6th episode of Band of Brothers last night - Bastogne.
Good man.

The series really comes into its own in the final 3 episodes in my view.

Still need to re-watch the last episode.

What I love about that episode is how it's focused on the medic. Arguably the interest is in the Battle of the Bulge yet we follow the medic. Superb. Next episode's a tough un an all

BWFC_Wyles · Post by **BWFC_Wyles** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:34 pm

This Is Spinal Tap.....having found the DVD in my spare room, I will be tucking into it later on! And I'm excited!

*WARMS UP VOCAL CHORDS*

"WORKIN ON A SEX FARM....."

Puskas · Post by **Puskas** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:57 pm

Tonight, I shall be mostly watching beer.

And people drinking beer.

In a pub.

It seems only right.

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:18 pm

MichaelJohn12 wrote:This Is Spinal Tap.....having found the DVD in my spare room, I will be tucking into it later on! And I'm excited!

*WARMS UP VOCAL CHORDS*

"WORKIN ON A SEX FARM....."

Watch the commentary, if you haven't before.

(Can you watch a commentary?)

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:58 pm

really cant decide, dvd's Fargo and La Haine are tempting me, as is Band of brothers episode 9, but i also fancy that stephen fry thing???

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 1:44 pm

well i watched La Haine, then the last two episodes of B.O.B - crikey, the penultimate episode where they find the concentration camps is some serious powerful shit!!! how the hell did they film that???

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 1:56 pm

Went with the Stephen Fry thing again, it's quite good, if a little hurried (but that's covering 50 states in six programmes for ya).

American Night also included the second episode of the Simon Schama historical documentary, which was very illuminating (if, slightly irksomely, covering some of the same ground - when the footage rolled of the Veterans' Day parade at Arlington, I expected Fry's camera to pan round and capture Schama's crew). I apologise to him for calling him punchable - I'd mixed up Schama with Starkey. He's not punchable, although he tends to get a little overly involved emotionally; I thought he was going to explode at Gettysburg, where the brilliantly slick editing did a better job by transposing between scenes of carnage and identically-framed modern images of the same field, drenched as it was in the sort of rain usually employed in the climatic scene of shonky movies.

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 2:05 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:well i watched La Haine, then the last two episodes of B.O.B - crikey, the penultimate episode where they find the concentration camps is some serious powerful shit!!! how the hell did they film that???

To be honest mate after watching La Haine and B.O.B I'm amazed you got up this morning.

No idea how they filmed it. The bodies. The frailty. Still got the vision of the old man in his son's(?) arms.

KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab · Post by **KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 2:16 pm

I found that the BBC have put both series of the magnificent Nighty Night on my TV On Demand. All quiet moments over the next few days will now be filled with the sight of the thrillingly filthy-looking Julia Davies being semi offensive at every opportunity.

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