What are you watching tonight?

BWFC_Insane · Post by **BWFC_Insane** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 11:34 pm

hisroyalgingerness wrote:Hurt Locker. Was good

Good film is that!

farnworth scum · Post by **farnworth scum** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 11:35 pm

I'm watching motd and its shit.

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 4:50 pm

found Invictus pretty dull, but then i know nowt about that gay game with the funny shaped ball - i thought it would be more about the Mandela story, apartheid etc - but was mainly about SA trying to win the world cup (not the real world cup, apparently rugby has one too)

superjohnmcginlay · Post by **superjohnmcginlay** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 4:55 pm

superjohnmcginlay wrote:
KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab wrote:
superjohnmcginlay wrote:Just got Police Squad! on DVD for £4. Quality. Criminal (pun intended) that it only got 6 episodes.
Had three episodes (the one with the boxer, theone with the woman in wigs, and the one where they're locksmiths to crack a protection ring) on VHS and played the sod to death.

Where did you get it from?
Play.com. But it looks like the cheeky feck have put it up to £9 now, probably 'cos I bought it.

Ayup Kebab. It's back up for 4 quid.

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/1120385/ ... oduct.html

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 4:56 pm

Anyone seen any of that Archer? Mate raved about it, watched a couple of episodes last night, it's pretty good!

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 7:11 pm

not me - but a heads-up for Tango...

The Genius of Omar Khayyam
Highlight

Tuesday 30 March
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC4

Sadeq Saba, who presented BBC4's A Taste of Iran last year, offers another rich slice of his homeland's heritage with a profile of medieval Persian poet, astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam. This film touches on his contribution to algebra and geometry, but concentrates on the lasting influence of his Rubaiyat and its life-affirming quatrains, elegantly translated into English in the 19th century. This may be a dry, scholarly piece, but it's refreshing to watch a film about Iran that isn't scaremongering and has no political agenda.

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 7:53 pm

thebish wrote:not me - but a heads-up for Tango...

The Genius of Omar Khayyam
Highlight

Tuesday 30 March
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC4

Sadeq Saba, who presented BBC4's A Taste of Iran last year, offers another rich slice of his homeland's heritage with a profile of medieval Persian poet, astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam. This film touches on his contribution to algebra and geometry, but concentrates on the lasting influence of his Rubaiyat and its life-affirming quatrains, elegantly translated into English in the 19th century. This may be a dry, scholarly piece, but it's refreshing to watch a film about Iran that isn't scaremongering and has no political agenda.

I'll give that a go, thanks, the bish, Khayyam was a great intellectual, mathematician, poet and sceptic...

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:17 pm

I'll be there on the front row with my popcorn. Cheers Bish.

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:19 pm

William the White wrote:
I'll give that a go, thanks, the bish, Khayyam was a great intellectual, mathematician, poet and sceptic...

indeed he was a great intellectual, mathematician and sceptic!

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:28 pm

thebish wrote:
William the White wrote:
I'll give that a go, thanks, the bish, Khayyam was a great intellectual, mathematician, poet and sceptic...
indeed he was a great intellectual, mathematician and sceptic!

Don't judge him as a poet by Fitzgerald's clumpy 'translation'...

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:37 pm

William the White wrote:
thebish wrote:
William the White wrote:
I'll give that a go, thanks, the bish, Khayyam was a great intellectual, mathematician, poet and sceptic...
indeed he was a great intellectual, mathematician and sceptic!
Don't judge him as a poet by Fitzgerald's clumpy 'translation'...

ahh - my bad - I'll go and read the original!

(actually - as I think I have said before) I have unfairly dismissed him because of the number of vapid and mawkish readings about love that I have had to sit through whilst conducting weddings...

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:51 pm

Awake, for morning in the bowl of night,
Has cast the stone that puts the stars to flight
And lo, the hunter of the east has caught
The Sultan's turret in a noose of light. Khayyam describing the dawn.

Aas, alas, repentance of before,
I swore, but was I sober when I swore?
And then, and then came Spring
And rose in hand my threadbare penitence a-tore. Khayyam on good intentions.

Up from Earth's centre, throught the Seventh Gate
I rose, and on the throne of Saturn sate,
And many knots unravelled by the road
But not the knot of human death and fate Khayyam on the mystery of life.

Khayyam is much more than a loaf of bread, a book of verse and thous beside me singing in the wilderness.

Good watching chaps.

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:32 pm

Excellent watching - and some way towards rehabilitating Fitzgerald also...

mummywhycantieatcrayons · Post by **mummywhycantieatcrayons** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:52 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:found Invictus pretty dull, but then i know nowt about that gay game with the funny shaped ball - i thought it would be more about the Mandela story, apartheid etc - but was mainly about SA trying to win the world cup (not the real world cup, apparently rugby has one too)

I'm a big rugby fan and I thought it was a horrible cheesy film. No good at all.

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 1:06 am

If all goes to plan, 'and did those feet' tomorrow, excited...

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:35 am

mummywhycantieatcrayons wrote:
General Mannerheim wrote:found Invictus pretty dull, but then i know nowt about that gay game with the funny shaped ball - i thought it would be more about the Mandela story, apartheid etc - but was mainly about SA trying to win the world cup (not the real world cup, apparently rugby has one too)
I'm a big rugby fan and I thought it was a horrible cheesy film. No good at all.

i know, think i should have switched off at the moment Damon delivered the line "i think he wants us to win the world cup" after the cringe worthy dramatic pause and pan zoom into his face! cheesey, yeah good description!

ratbert · Post by **ratbert** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 9:58 am

Never let Americans make films about sports they don't know. Even if it is Clint Eastwood.

mummywhycantieatcrayons · Post by **mummywhycantieatcrayons** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 2:28 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:
mummywhycantieatcrayons wrote:
General Mannerheim wrote:found Invictus pretty dull, but then i know nowt about that gay game with the funny shaped ball - i thought it would be more about the Mandela story, apartheid etc - but was mainly about SA trying to win the world cup (not the real world cup, apparently rugby has one too)
I'm a big rugby fan and I thought it was a horrible cheesy film. No good at all.
i know, think i should have switched off at the moment Damon delivered the line "i think he wants us to win the world cup" after the cringe worthy dramatic pause and pan zoom into his face! cheesey, yeah good description!

This is a trivial complaint in the wider context of how poor the film is, but could you work out why the SA v France game appeared to take place in complete darkness?!

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 9:43 am

bit of a guilty pleasure this morning as I had a lie in and watched Coach Trip whilst eating breakfast!

the tour leader is the spitting imagie of the campest Funeral Director I ever worked with up in Hartlepool..

last night - ploughing very slowly through first series of Dexter - disturbing, funny, well acted - great Telly!

BWFC_Insane · Post by **BWFC_Insane** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 10:05 am

thebish wrote:bit of a guilty pleasure this morning as I had a lie in and watched Coach Trip whilst eating breakfast!

the tour leader is the spitting imagie of the campest Funeral Director I ever worked with up in Hartlepool..

last night - ploughing very slowly through first series of Dexter - disturbing, funny, well acted - great Telly!

Coach trip is superb! The only decent "reality TV" show thats ever been produced!

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