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Post by Count Überquart on Jun 11, 2014 21:51:31 GMT
I watched a bit of BB-shall-not-be-named last night.
I shouted at the telly a lot.
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Post by Goblin King on Jun 15, 2014 13:16:20 GMT
It's okay Uber, the contestants can hear you, they are just too stupid to do the right thing.
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Post by Goblin King on Jun 21, 2014 22:32:45 GMT
Alphaville - silly yet compelling Currently watching Zardoz. - really can't commit to comment yet. Decided that I couldn't watch the Hunger Games - too many well known actors in distracting cameos. also I'm dystopianed out for now.  |
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Post by DAT500 on Jun 22, 2014 14:55:03 GMT
^ You chose wisely, as The Hunger Games has to be one of the worst films of all time.
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Post by Darkness on Sept 1, 2014 1:07:10 GMT
Watched a programme on the rites and rituals of ancient Egypt burials, earlier. Really interesting, if a bit weird.
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Post by Darkness on Sept 14, 2014 17:57:51 GMT
Black Books.
Altogether now - YAY!!!
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Post by Darkness on Sept 18, 2014 20:08:43 GMT
Blackadder Goes Forth.  |
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Post by Goblin King on Sept 21, 2014 22:12:00 GMT
I've just watched a whole movie staring Justin Timberlake.
God, I could write these dystopia films backwards with my eyes closed whilst reading 1984.
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Post by Goblin King on Sept 28, 2014 12:57:22 GMT
Cbeebies. Furchester Hotel is AMAZING.
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Post by Goblin King on Oct 14, 2014 23:46:21 GMT
STAR WARS On laptop with headphones. It's great with headphones! |
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Post by Count Überquart on Oct 20, 2014 20:04:13 GMT
Our Girl.
A lot happens in five episodes.
Ben Aldridge is fricking yummy.
Worth watching... if war dramas are your bag.
It's slightly more interesting because it's from a woman's point of view.
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Post by Darkness on Oct 21, 2014 0:39:32 GMT
Our Girl was brilliant. Not usually my sort of thing, but I watched cos I think Lacey Turner is good.
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Post by DAT500 on Oct 21, 2014 20:10:18 GMT
Cbeebies. Furchester Hotel is AMAZING. It loses its appeal after you've played the Cbeebies App for the 100th time. Although I was humming the incidental music for about a week afterwards. |
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Post by Count Überquart on Oct 23, 2014 21:10:16 GMT
I feel it's worth noting, if you have seen last week's HIGNFY, hosted by Frank Skinner, that the chap mentioned who keeps a blog record of all his sneezes is in fact on the same course as my mate Alison at the University of Leicester. She told me about him just the week before his national television fame.
So if you happen to be around the University buildings on New Walk and see a chap sneeze and then reach for his notebook, you'll know who it is.
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Post by Darkness on Oct 24, 2014 23:22:35 GMT
Eastenders, Would I Lie To You, Have I Got News For You, QI.
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Post by Darkness on Oct 26, 2014 22:17:48 GMT
Just watched possibly most patronising and dumbed down documentary ever - it was about Tutankhamen and what might have caused his death. Frankly I learned more in primary school.
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Post by Darkness on Nov 6, 2014 23:26:29 GMT
Russell Howard's Good News.
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Post by Goblin King on Nov 9, 2014 20:33:58 GMT
Darkness is treating me to a repeat of Andy Parson's Slacktivist Live.  |
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Post by Count Überquart on Dec 8, 2014 15:43:05 GMT
Carrie. The 1976 one. I don't get it. It's basically just your bog-standard "terrible things perpetuated by blonde girls in high school" film until the last ten minutes when the shit really hits the fan. And your half-melted red wax candle wanders around blowing stuff up. Then has a bath.
I'll watch the 2013 version soon. I suspect it'll be worse, since it won't have any redeeming features of wonderful middle-class mid-America accents or grainy haircuts. Unless they decided to update it by including a plot.
I'm going through my to-watch list on netflix. Yesterday I watched The Craft. I LOVED that. Very Charmed. Very me-when-I-was-thirteen. Very far too much black hair dye/eyeliner/lipstick. Very making bystanders uncomfortable because it's fun. Very.
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Post by Goblin King on Dec 9, 2014 21:26:30 GMT
Hmm, yes, Carrie. I can't remember if I've seen it from start to finish. I think it always depends upon who recommended it and why. Also I think the book was big before the movie. Not sure. Try to imagine a world /before/ shock endings. I think DAT500 saw the musical. |
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Post by Darkness on Dec 27, 2014 21:08:48 GMT
Just watched Sarah Millican DVD, "Homebird". Very rude. Very funny.
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Post by DAT500 on Dec 28, 2014 19:42:12 GMT
Hmm, yes, Carrie. I can't remember if I've seen it from start to finish. I think it always depends upon who recommended it and why. Also I think the book was big before the movie. Not sure. Try to imagine a world /before/ shock endings. I think DAT500 saw the musical. The original Carrie is great, it's Brian De Palma and the score, particularly at the end, is wonderful. Carrie the musical is... not so. |
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Post by DAT500 on Dec 28, 2014 19:45:15 GMT
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Post by Goblin King on Dec 31, 2014 0:54:54 GMT
Can't
bring self
to
watch
clips
photos are scary enough!
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Post by DAT500 on Dec 31, 2014 11:13:43 GMT
It's not even a clip, it's the whole frickin thing.
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Post by Count Überquart on Jan 15, 2015 21:53:23 GMT
I just started watching Survivors.
There's this epic flu pandemic that decimates (by which, bizarrely, they mean kills 90%) the population of Great Britain. Then there's this rag-tag group of people trying to survive in this post-apocalyptic wasteland blah blah blah.
I was a little wary about watching it, since it's pandemic flu and I'm a bit eeeeh about illness and stuff, but it was genuinely so not-scary I can't even tell you. It's meant to be so terrifying, like suddenly everyone's dead and this woman wakes up to find her husband dead and her neighbours dead and her street deserted etc., but it's just so not how it would happen. On the news they're saying "biggest outbreak since 1918". The 1918 flu wiped out 3-5% of the population, not NINETY. Also, oddly, the remaining 10% of the population of London seems to consist of about twelve people.
You could make this SO scary. You could have life carrying on normally for weeks whilst things gradually go wrong, gradually realising more of your colleagues are unwell, finding out the first one is dead, then another, you could have funeral directors turning people away, medical centres and pharmacies shutting their doors, the first people who survive the illness coming back to work, people developing post-viral fatigue, reactive arthritis, transverse myelitis... Until all you have is this crew of people who survived, some of them disabled, trying to figure shit out. You could have the ridiculously high death rate explained by medical incompetence, the government rushing out drugs to attempt to control the epidemic that weren't ready for market...
It's like someone came up with an idea and then just went straight to filming, rather than y'know, thinking about it for five minutes.
I mean you could skim the cliffnotes version of epidemiology for dummies and do a much better job, is all I'm saying.
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Post by Goblin King on Jan 20, 2015 14:57:20 GMT
C. you are so hired if I need a consultant for a TV serial. I reckon these writers think that they are being sophisticated because their epidemic doesn't result in zombies . It's all Day of the Triffids on repeat. Ah, the urban middle classes in crisis. "The post didn't arrive today and the neighbours haven't mowed their lawn and the plumbing is being strange. I'll check the fuses..." Of course, I'm saying all this without having watched it. I think Lost broke me, when I realised that great backstory is sometimes just a device for contentless experiments with ongoing narrative - i.e. the dynamics between five characters thrown together by chance, never answering questions raised by the plot hook. --- Watching Al Murray on YouTube at the moment. Short clips like coffee pick-me-ups. |
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Post by Goblin King on Jan 20, 2015 15:05:53 GMT
It's not even a clip, it's the whole frickin thing. And we're worried about Islamic Extremism?! God there's some evil on the internet. Sorry, Dark Net. |
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Post by Darkness on Jan 21, 2015 0:40:03 GMT
University Challenge from last night. Good old iPlayer. |
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Post by Goblin King on Feb 5, 2015 2:21:11 GMT
This horror film is rubbish. I was promised nudity!
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