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Post by baggs on Jan 16, 2022 21:01:28 GMT
Watched TENNISON (Prime Suspect) - is tedious shoite
Watched CRASHING HBO comedy series about decent chap trying to make it in the difficult business of stand-up comedy. - is passable
Now watching BLOOD series (2019) daughter returns home after years absence. Suspects father has murdered her mother but father is well-liked/respected in the town.
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Post by baggs on Jan 23, 2022 14:04:12 GMT
What i truly cannot be doing with is major far fetched modern Sci-Fi Movies. Some of the shit they portray for the future will never happen. ffks we cant even get a reliable wi-fi connection in 2020 never mind any technology derams LOL. More chance of the word ending by some catasrophic Eco disaster before any hi-tech world materialises. I see the future as some bare bones peasants style world but not peasants. Computers stored & underwaps as a thing of the past. We will be forced to live like this, Forget about daily trips to Mars bulshite. Jesus can you imagine the impact on the atmosphere also the carbon emissions creating liquid hydrogen from daily launches. A fair whack of SCIFI is dystopian. Where humanity has regressed. Mad Max, Planet of Apes, loike.
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Post by baggs on Jan 27, 2022 23:01:02 GMT
PENNYWORTH SERIES 1 & 2 period spy thriller
Well, they almost drained the last blood off the Batman extensions - how Penguin and Riddler and Joker got to be what they became.... about the young Bruce Wayne. Not exactly. Now we have some 20 episodes all devoted solely to the young Alfred Pennyworth, to-become butler of Bruce Wayne (Batman). His life from the 20's to the 60's. (But the series concentrates on 60's.)
I must say this was a pure delight to watch. Stunning set pieces. Best of all, unlike the Gotham series, this all takes place in London and all actors are British. Better yet, there is none of that DC Comics/Marvel super-villain rubbish we have all grown tired of - unless, of course you are an audiofool.
Speaking of audio - top brassy intro score by some guy called Russo. Took me a little while to figure out what this music reminded me of (besides James Bond) - its Ennio Morricone's western soundtracks. Im sure this Russo was influenced.
Most episodes are titled by a female 60's Brit singer/actress: Julie Christie,Cilla Black,Shirley Bassey....
Of course there are the usual historical faux pas (which, I suppose, can be fun to spot.) For instance, some episodes are given over to occultist Aleister Crowley ( died 1947) yet there is a "beatnick" orgy/party where the music is "Inna Gadda da Vida"!!
One question: Actor Simon Day (of the big bald head) plays the barman. He starred in the short series "Life of Rock with Brian Pern"
Now this Pennyworth series started in 2019 and hadn't Day passed away by then (in a freak accident where he was riding one of them electric unicycles???)
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Post by baggs on Jan 29, 2022 3:11:25 GMT
LOVECRAFT COUNTRY series
Horror writer Howard Phelps Lovecraft would not be amused.
He was a racist yet all the main characters in this tv series are black. Lovercraft defended lynch mobs and supported Hitler.
The series is set during the Jim Crow America of the 50's when negros were persecuted.
The series is horror,sci-fi and mystery.
New England villages and wondrous mansions - once again, superb sets.
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Post by baggs on Feb 1, 2022 22:18:14 GMT
SNOWPIERCER series
The last of humanity rides on a 1000-car train that never stops. Outside the world is at minus 100 degrees.
Imagine watching hours of this.
You'll go loolally.
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Post by baggs on Feb 4, 2022 23:46:59 GMT
THE TERROR - INFAMY (2020) 2nd season
Prior the attack on Pearl Harbour a Japanese American community on Terminal Island (South Californa) is menaced by a malevolent spirit which has followed the Japanese from the old country.A young man working as translator for the US struggles to understand the spectre/entity (which takes the form of a beautiful geisha in old world komono). Like the Lovecraft Country series this is exploring both supernatural horror and social prejudice.
Pretty good. (I'm watching this for the second time. And I don't often do that.)
Ridley Scott series.
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Post by baggs on Feb 15, 2022 22:22:53 GMT
Deborah Kerr is remarkable in The Innocents. Me fav actress.
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PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY '70 (iTALY,gERMANY,uk CO-PRODUCTION) Christopher Lee, herbert Lom,Richard Todd
wick, groovin' soundtrack played by I Marc 4
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Post by baggs on Feb 21, 2022 15:36:15 GMT
THE DJINN
This is the worse horror film ever made. And it gets even worse since its the latest of a shitload slew of VERY SHIT RECENT "horror" films.
Yeah - the scary APARTMENT.
Wots that? God Almighty! The telly just turned on by itself.
The whole movie is just a mute boy walking terrified/slowly around the apartment. Absolutely no special effects other than a bit with smoke. The djinn isnt summoned by rubbing Aladdin's lamp but by the boys wish to have a voice and an ancient book of magic -that JUST SO FUCKING HAPPENS to be lying about in the clothes cupboard.
The writing is in gothic type and the summoning, goes something like "Hey dude! Make a wish."
I'm thinking this was -whoever is responsible- made like this: they laid newspaper on the floor ,threw a monkey on it with a typewriter and hoped, according to the old "Monkey/typewriter/Eternity" advance, that, provided the typewriter didn't get clogged-up in shit, a workable (on absolute minimum budget) script would result.
Absolutely pernicious "film".
They are all coing out like this of late. A deluge of lame "horror".
The only good thing you can say about The Djinn is that there is no gore. That would have cost money.
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Post by baggs on Feb 24, 2022 22:45:50 GMT
HIDDEN aeries 1 & 2
Welsh female detective guff.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2022 23:54:55 GMT
1:15 THE DUNWICH HORROR Not staying up for that got work silly kunt hours. Never seen this movie thats based on the H.P Lovecraft novel..
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Post by baggs on Mar 6, 2022 23:41:12 GMT
MOON A SOLITARY MAN THE BUSINESS OF STRANGERS BLINDNESS
These 4 movies can FUCK THEMSELVES IN THE ASS.
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Post by stevielad on Mar 7, 2022 15:59:41 GMT
'Threads', T.V. movie from 1984. Depicts an all out nuclear exchange between Russia and NATO, and the devastating effect of a strike on Sheffield. Judging by my very few trips to South Yorkshire I'd say this actually happened. With all this sabre-rattling from that cunt Putin I thought I'd start mentally preparing for oblivion. It's the only sure-fire way that the Naim-haters will get the products off the market.
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Post by baggs on Mar 8, 2022 23:42:59 GMT
RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY SERIES 3,4,5 31 EPISODES
Haven't watched this in two decades. Forgot how fucking brilliant the writing is and the excellent casting.
UK seems to be putting out detective mysteries one after the other. Im sick of it. I look for non-mysteries and there is plenty none to find. However Rumpole is NOT a fucking mystery series.
There is no deadpan humour here. Jokes fired on jokes, all Americunt way. Still its funny. Id call it a sly humour. Just facial expression alone sometimes, if caught at the right moment can yield surprizing results.
Of course you have to have a malleable face to do expression proper and whom better than Leo McKern.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2022 23:20:05 GMT
meant to say TREAD SOFTLY STRANGER [1958] was on the other night. That was filmed where i was brought up as a kid. The Railway station that GEORGE BAKER gets off at the start of the film is no longer there it was demolished in the late 60's. we used to sit on the remaining platforms when i were a kid trainspotting. In the film it has an imaginary name 'RAWBOROUGH'. The proper name was 'RAWMARSH & PARKGATE' Station. Rotherham originally had dozens of district Railway station once upon a time, Rotherham town centre itself had three stations for such a small shithole of a town, i have never ever seen any photographs of that station with its original name, i do have a picture of 'ROTHERHAM ROAD' station that was on the other line about a mile down from there. That actually had a Royal waiting room in it. but was demolised in the late 50'. only thing that still exists is the old stepping bridge, Just used now to cross the canal.
ROTHERHAM MASBROUGH STATION [Originally called 'MASBROUGH' then 'MASBROUGH & ROTHERHAM' then 'ROTHERHAM MASBROUGH' then 'ROTHERHAM' Then FINALLY BACK TO 'ROTHERHAM MASBROUGH' before closing 1988] The problem with this station was it was quite a way out of town, too far..
ROTHERHAM CENTRAL [Originally called 'ROTHERHAM' then became 'ROTHERHAM & MASBROUGH' then 'ROTHERHAM CENTRAL' Closed 1966]
ROTHERHAM WESTGATE[Closed 1952]
The station we have now is the old 'ROTHERAHM CENTRAL' that was re-opened in 1987, later totally rebuilt.
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Post by baggs on Mar 15, 2022 22:37:44 GMT
THE SALISBURY POISONING in 2018 a Russian double agent and his daughter were poisoned by terribly deadly nerve agent. The contagion - first placed on the front doorknob of their house - spread and traces fanned out from the park all over Salisbury (famous cathedral city) and then to Amesbury, some 40 miles away. Britishers seem to have forgotten this. The chemical attack HAD to have been traced back to Putin.
THIS was when UK politics should have started shutdown on dependance on the devil-Russia's hydrocarbons.
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