What are you watching tonight?

CAPSLOCK · Post by **CAPSLOCK** » Sun Apr 04, 2010 11:44 pm

Watched Frost earlier and now Th'Italian Job

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 12:43 am

I watched Nicky Campbell on 'Are Christians Becoming Persecuted?'...

Astonishingly this was not a reference to those places in the world where Christians are indisputably and appallingly being persecuted - for instance, Pakistan, Sudan and China... but to Britain... What??? The country with huge residual state support for the propagation of Christianity, embedded constitutional rights extended to no other faith and a million unmolested believers going in public to worship their God every sunday... Some persecution...

That said, this was interesting and engaging, despite Campbell's over-polemical tone and the tabloid title.

It's clear that Christians are not being persecuted within any rational sense of the term, but many are certainly feeling defensive, and cramped, and worried as they are inevitably required to move from a single faith society (more or less) to a multi-faith, multi-ethnic one, where the adherents of these other faiths are not prepared to accept subservient status.

Obviously this is not universal and many Christians are working to build a harmonious multi-faith UK.

I'm not - tho I'd accept it reluctantly as second best. I'd like a secular society with faith as part of the private sphere.

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 8:01 am

Pans Labyrinth is an all time great, absolute genius film. saw it again recently on Blu-ray and its also one of the best looking films ever!

Also impresses me how much the film makes you hate the bad guy so much, nasty piece of work that Captain Vidal!

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 8:09 am

KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab wrote:
thebish wrote:
KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab wrote:I fell asleep for the middle third, and was completely lost. Quite enjoyed what I watched, but found it pretty difficult to follow. Suppose I should use my brain a bit more.
ahh - you'll have missed the long and detailed lesbian sex scene then......
Bish! The main character is, like, eight years old. What are you, a Roman Catholic priest?

ha, was about to make the same point!

but then point out that Maribel Verdu, the Spanish girl who plays the nanny is alreet, her who was also in 'Y Tu Mama Tambien'. foxy.

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 11:20 pm

well i just logged on as soon as it finished expecting a whole discussion on the subject, but looks like im the first...

hell fire, just watched the first two episodes of The Pacific tonight.

utterly staggeringly fecking brilliant - definitely 2 of the finest hours of tele ever blasted into my living room anyway!

does BoB proud.

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 11:51 pm

watched the programme on the jewish orphan children, survivors of auschwitz, who came to england after the war, to find their first home in windermere...

i nearly didn't watch it, feeling there wasn't anything to say about the holocaust that i didn't know, but my wife called me through five minutes in, and i watched. It was intensely moving, inevitably, giving the lie once more to the holocaust deniers... this story needs telling to every generation - this is what racism means when carried to its logical conclusion...

hisroyalgingerness · Post by **hisroyalgingerness** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 12:19 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:well i just logged on as soon as it finished expecting a whole discussion on the subject, but looks like im the first...

hell fire, just watched the first two episodes of The Pacific tonight.

utterly staggeringly fecking brilliant - definitely 2 of the finest hours of tele ever blasted into my living room anyway!

does BoB proud.

Well if they put it on Sky Movies fookin Premier then nobody's gonna get to pissin see it are they?

I weighed up paying for it for 3 months but for what I'd pay, I may as well wait for the box set

glad it's good

BWFC_Insane · Post by **BWFC_Insane** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 12:24 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:well i just logged on as soon as it finished expecting a whole discussion on the subject, but looks like im the first...

hell fire, just watched the first two episodes of The Pacific tonight.

utterly staggeringly fecking brilliant - definitely 2 of the finest hours of tele ever blasted into my living room anyway!

does BoB proud.

See I was pretty dissapointed with it if I'm honest.

Not as good as BoB, which was brilliant.

Seems far more reliant on "action" than story. Hopefully it will develop better over the coming episodes. But half the first episode seemed to be indistinguishable people running around in the dark shooting at things.

boltonboris · Post by **boltonboris** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 12:48 pm

I thought the Pacific was absolutely excellent! I was glued to the screen.

HRG, we upgraded on Friday morning.. Cost us an extra £8 per month and we get every movie channel, plus the HD ones

CAPSLOCK · Post by **CAPSLOCK** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 12:51 pm

boltonboris wrote:I thought the Pacific was absolutely excellent! I was glued to the screen.

HRG, we upgraded on Friday morning.. Cost us an extra £8 per month and we get every movie channel, plus the HD ones

See, its true

HRG is a peasant

Even the mancs have got it

hisroyalgingerness · Post by **hisroyalgingerness** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 1:26 pm

I don't even have Sky, so to get it through the Xbox at average quality I'm paying £25 a month. So yes, that probably does make me a peasant

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 1:28 pm

hisroyalgingerness wrote:I don't even have Sky, so to get it through the Xbox at average quality I'm paying £25 a month. So yes, that probably does make me a peasant

you may be a peasant (as am I - I am content with freeview) - but at least we're not chavs!

superjohnmcginlay · Post by **superjohnmcginlay** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 1:29 pm

I haven't got sky or freeview (cos it doesn't fooking work) do I win the peasant competition?

hisroyalgingerness · Post by **hisroyalgingerness** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 1:32 pm

superjohnmcginlay wrote:I haven't got sky or freeview (cos it doesn't fooking work) do I win the peasant competition?

Depends, are you a chav-peasant?

boltonboris · Post by **boltonboris** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 1:47 pm

hisroyalgingerness wrote:
superjohnmcginlay wrote:I haven't got sky or freeview (cos it doesn't fooking work) do I win the peasant competition?
Depends, are you a chav-peasant?

A Cheasant?

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 7:21 pm

have always had sky movies package - its the main reason we have sky! hardly watch owt else!

boltonboris · Post by **boltonboris** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 8:01 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:have always had sky movies package - its the main reason we have sky! hardly watch owt else!

This weekend made me wonder why I went without for the previous 12 months....

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 8:47 pm

Doing a re-watch of Lord of The Rings, starting tonight.

P.O.S. · Post by **P.O.S.** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 11:29 am

Saw the first episode of The Pacific last night, I enjoyed it - but it's got to pull something special out of the bag to beat the episode in Bastogne from Band of Brothers, the one in the frozen woodland.

I also couldn't help noticing, the Commander near the start of the first Pacific epiosde... is that the bloke who played the main bad guy in Die Hard?!

hisroyalgingerness · Post by **hisroyalgingerness** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 1:02 pm

I watched Bastogne and Breaking Point last night. Still on the 6th watch I find Breaking Point really hard when they all start losing legs and shooting themselves. What an ordeal for ordinary men to have to go through.

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