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BearinOz wrote:I vaguely recall it. I wish they'd gone through with it. Queensland IS our Florida afterall :D
Do you remember the Ozzie attempt at something similar - "Sharks Paradise", with David Reyne ? - a movie-length pilot, that never got off the blocks as a series. Quite amusing
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark%27s_Paradise ]
I can't understand how Crocket wears white all the time and doesn't look like a house painter or dairy worker. He always looks good.
BearinOz wrote:True! With my white stuff the fabric around the pockets always gets dirty pretty quickly, especially when I wear it in hot, humid countries.
I thought you were going to mention 'pristine'- no finger marks, smudges or gunshot residue . That was more my problem (well not the residue) B-)
Literally rugby…
but a little while earlier I watched "Three Billboards Outside…." which I really enjoyed. There was no problem relating to a character…sometimes I cannot relate to either a protagonist, nor their nemeses, nor any of the 'offsiders' or 'sidekicks' and the movie often ends up dumped before getting too far in.
This was the opposite, I could relate to the mum, the son, the terminally ill cop, and even to the semi-repentant cop who chucked a guy from an upper window.
Trying to fast-track your daughter's rape and murder case to a conclusion by renting consecutive billboards to "criticise your local sheriff" is a novel idea, and being willing to piss everyone off around you is very relatable, at my age B-)
3 Goldilocks
moizmad wrote:
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FALLOUT - Tom Cruise and a cast of thousands. 2 1/2 hrs of my time wasted, strictly what I call a "Saturday Afternoon Matinee Cont'd Next Week Kids" fare and there wasn't even a cartoon later. A goose-egg on the Moizmeter.
moizmad wrote:Yep. Still wondering why it's gotten so much praise.
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FALLOUT - Tom Cruise and a cast of thousands. 2 1/2 hrs of my time wasted, strictly what I call a "Saturday Afternoon Matinee Cont'd Next Week Kids" fare and there wasn't even a cartoon later. A goose-egg on the Moizmeter.
After having them recorded since February ! (I was amazed it was that long) I finally got around to watching "all 2" of Series 4 of "Sherlock" .
The guy 'responsible' for this BBC version we've had spread over recent years is Mark Gattis, who is a bloody genius, in my opinion. He plays Mycroft, but he is responsible for production and writing bits of these and has had his fingers in more 'pies' than a T.V. chef, from Doctor Who, League of Gentleman, and loads more. He makes a great 'baddy' or dubious character. He's done so much, he's worth a look on Wiki… he wrote the first of these 2 episodes.
For me the casting of Cumberbatch and Freeman as Holmes and Watson is perfect, and the rest of the cast is fine too.
These series are thinning out and getting fewer between, as both their acting careers blossom further, but I'm sure many of us hope for more…
Three Goldilocks
RELLIK - So confusing with all those "days, hours, minutes, years earlier" things, why did they even bother? Otherwise only thing made worthwhile was seeing actress Laerke Winther, wow, I'm in love again. She's Danish and reminded me of Charlize Theron at times. I give the series a 2 1/2 on the Moizmeter.
Not watching but listening, to "Dot"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08qlrk5
This is THE heir to Blackadder, but with women and set in the war office in London in WW2.
It's great, very funny and highly recommended… by me XD
Dot and her 2 chums are busy being office girls… Myrtle is their version of Baldric and the Scottish one is George, Dot is Blackadder. Her arch enemy is Millicent, who's basically captain Percy, and the air Marshal is field marshal Melchard. The dynamic is great. It's WAY better than that sad attempt at a Blackadder thing about Shakespere with David Mitchell.
Not watching but listening, to "Dot"Thanx for the reco' - I'll check it out ! …never watched the Mitchell thing. I like him in quiz stuff, not sit-coms his missus too ! B-)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08qlrk5
This is THE heir to Blackadder, but with women and set in the war office in London in WW2.
It's great, very funny and highly recommended… by me ….better than that sad attempt at a Blackadder thing about Shakespere with David Mitchell.
DARKEST HOUR - Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Ben Mendelsohn, Stephen Dillane. Gary got the Oscar for his portrayal of Churchill during the 1940 Nazi invasion of Europe. Winnie goes against the flow and resists talking peace with Hitler and helps organize a battle plan which eventually turns the tide. Well deserved award for Gary and a 3 1/2 on the Moizmeter.
I honestly only really religiously watch Supernatural and I got into Castlevania but only one season has come out so far. Also You is actually good too, which I was incredibly surprised about.
But I listen/watch Critical Role which is basically a Dungeons and Dragons podcast with a bunch of nerdy voice actors.
So if you guys wanna watch Illidan and Jaina Proudmoore play D&D together, then Critical Role is for you! ^^
MURDER MYSTERY - Jennifer Aniston, Adam Sandler, Luke Evans, Terence Stamp. Beat cop Adam and wife Jen get invited aboard luxury yacht by Luke. Other weird guests and guess what, murder most foul. Then more murders and the game's afoot. Others liked this more than me but I guess it was amusing. A 2 on the Moizmeter.
So have to track down the series that ozoneocean has been mentioning.
Space Battleship Yamato: 2202, Warriors of Love
That subtitle should have been a warning. Remember the great anime emotionless battlerace, set on destroying humanity because of weakness of emotion who discover it and conflict and lots of tears and heart felt angst follows storyline?
That is what SBY:2202 degenerates into. I saw the first half of the series in Japanese so it's tolerable. It's not to schmaltzy. But the Funimation dubbing with all those emoting voice actors, no two of whom pronounced "Yamato " the same, just drove me up the wall.
The main characters are married now and the woman gets kidnapped once and wounded threetimes in the series! She leaves the ship, guaranteed shell get wounded and Kodai will be angsty at her bedside.
And they introduce another angsty character who saves his dying kid by betrayal and there's the cloned wife of the Gatlantean leader whose original death spiraled him off into this whole "humanity must perish " thing and activate the stupor destructo device and…
Cliche after cliche just gets piled up and they actually come up with a plot device so there are endless fleets to get blown up again and again.
The ship designs are great, the characters are actually pretty good once you get past the speeches about humanity and love they all spout so model builders and cosplay fans will have lots to do – but – at 26 episodes you feel they should have dropped few of the supporting storylines because it gets confusing.
And like "stop making speeches about love and just end it already!"
I'm a huge fan but the updated character motivations didn't work with the second series.
bravo1102 wrote:Yup
So have to track down the series that ozoneocean has been mentioning.
Space Battleship Yamato: 2202, Warriors of Love
That subtitle should have been a warning. Remember the great anime emotionless battlerace, set on destroying humanity because of weakness of emotion who discover it and conflict and lots of tears and heart felt angst follows storyline?
That is what SBY:2202 degenerates into. I saw the first half of the series in Japanese so it's tolerable. It's not to schmaltzy. But the Funimation dubbing with all those emoting voice actors, no two of whom pronounced "Yamato " the same, just drove me up the wall.
The main characters are married now and the woman gets kidnapped once and wounded threetimes in the series! She leaves the ship, guaranteed shell get wounded and Kodai will be angsty at her bedside.
And they introduce another angsty character who saves his dying kid by betrayal and there's the cloned wife of the Gatlantean leader whose original death spiraled him off into this whole "humanity must perish " thing and activate the stupor destructo device and…
Cliche after cliche just gets piled up and they actually come up with a plot device so there are endless fleets to get blown up again and again.
The ship designs are great, the characters are actually pretty good once you get past the speeches about humanity and love they all spout so model builders and cosplay fans will have lots to do – but – at 26 episodes you feel they should have dropped few of the supporting storylines because it gets confusing.
And like "stop making speeches about love and just end it already!"
I'm a huge fan but the updated character motivations didn't work with the second series.
They were stuck. They didn't want to, but it was expected that they do the second series. Hopefully they'll do a retcon "in between" movie like they did with the first series. Like to see more about Yamato's sister ship. Maybe a spin off eechi series with its nearly all girl crew.
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After that I heeded something to ground me to get past all the speeches. So I saw the US edit of Revenge of the Cybermen classic Tom Baker Dr. Who.
I was struck by how the prosthetic make up was better than those annoying nose ridges of Star Trek. And there were no beams and explosions all over in the fights.
And good old "all hair and teeth" Tom Baker.
And that's an awfully sheer top Sarah Jane is wearing and no bra straps … couldn't be… bras just weren't that seamless in the 1970s. Liz Sladden, you daring young thing. 🤣🤣
Watchmen again. 10 years on - Jeeeez where did all that time go.
Originally, my son took me to see it for my birthday, to one of those 'up-market' gold star places, with bigger comfortable seats and waiter service for a few beers and a feed.
It's still the best of its genre for us, with wonderfully faulty characters. The fact that it has a proper plot and kept to the original graphic novel are pluses.
It gets the same 4 Goldilocks I'd given it in 2009, coming out into the sunlight….
Edit 06/07 : I forgot to mention how good the soundtrack music (chosen by Darrell Hall) is too on this !
MARY SHELLEY - Elle Fanning, Douglas Booth, Bel Powley, Stephen Dillane, Tom Sturridge. The woman (Elle) who wrote Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus after a challenge by Lord Byron (Sturridge) to write a ghost story in 1816, she was only 19 yrs old but wasn't published until 1818, with the help of her goofy husband Poet Percy Shelley. Movie has little to do with her famous book (the Boris Karloff movie version had even less) instead the complicated life of Mary, Percy, sister-in-law Bel and her father Dillane. A good watch getting a 3 1/2 on the Moizmeter.
The Philadelphia Story(1940) Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Ruth Hussey. They really don't make them like this anymore. A delightfully witty script, great characterization by talented cast and George Cukor directing? For me it was laugh out loud funny with the sharp repartee of the dialogue. You have to realize this is what everyone else has been imitating all these years. See the original.
The Tick Season 2
I'd found the first season surprisingly good, but somewhat uneven and occasionally tedious. But the second season is really great. Hilarious and engaging all the way through. The perfect superhero spoof! Compared to many other high-profile shows nowadays it looks a bit cheap, but there's plenty reason to look beyond that.
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