TV documentary "Stephen Fry - 50 not out"
Planning to watch the classic "I Was A Male War Bride" shortly.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041498/
this, Father Goose and a few others are among my favorite films. It's the Cary Grant thing, you know...
Robert de Niro in Hide and Seek. So far it's slow and dated. But I can't resist mystery.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch...
The commercials are just on, so I figured I could make a few posts in between...
(great movie btw)
Fahrenheit 9/11
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on September 12, 2007, 11:15:57 PM
Planning to watch the classic "I Was A Male War Bride" shortly.
Although that is in my collection, I have not seen it yet :oops:
The second Hammer Noir Collection Box has arrived today.
Just came form the cinema: Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit (Ways to Strength and Beauty) (1925)
It's
not a Riefenstahl (although many would believe that)
Watching a canine con-man try to convince me that he NEEDS some watermelon.
(He got some.)
Completed watching Fahrenheit 9/11. Had to take breaks. sort of touch base breaks. I delayed watching it til now as I thought that would be how it would be for me, and also I wanted as much perspective as possible, my own, with some distance behind them.
before I say anything else, purely cenematically it deserved the awards IMO. also as documentary. also as political documentary. it was interesting, innovative, and effective on all those fronts.
I found not being a US citizen a handicap. Some things I simply dont have enough background/knowledge on.
As a persuasive polemic it didn't work for me (which is not to say I disagreed). I was too aware of those aspects all the time and floundered around not knowing how to evaluate what felt like propaganda. I found myself watching critically, wondering how was that edited, what if a different cut had been made, why was that particular shot included. As a piece of cinama that forces one to these constant thoughts it was quite brilliant. Another award I would give it.
Now, if that IN ITSELF means that many many others, not just me, will for evermore feel those feelings more than they did before, think those thoughts, question even more than they already questioned, then it deserves another award for --- > ??? improving the mind >>?? seeing anew >> ??? a whole load of categories.
I'm not sure it works as propaganda precisely because it is so clearly propoganda. It can never be just putting the other story; the style and editing puts paid to that. Moore says at one point soemthing about you want to see the data we based this on - I'd go further. I believe a complete record of the verified sources (meetings transcripts etc not the personal voices) would do a lot to establish where accuracy is irrefutable and would be very powerful.
And finally, left with the question do we need war to pay for society......... that's another thread I think.
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Now watching Piers Morgan interview Naomi Capmbell. A leap from the masses to the minute. Great fun.
I'm watching "can man" fish for cans in the trash right out front.
He's really a fairly nice guy- he's been living just off campus for about 4 years now-- of course is being homeless really living? He does have some mental issues- and on occasion his former daughter in law actually appears and puts him in the hospital and gets him on meds- but as soon as he's out he's back off the meds and back on the street. Sometimes I wish people could be legally compelled to take their meds- but then I understand the dangers of a medicated society- it's just sort of sad to see this man(about age 60) like this because he doesn't really need to be institutionalized but he does need his medication.
so there he is- there he goes and life goes on-- I guess that's the best we can do.
When he turns 65 (or 67, depending) they'll slap him into a nursing home, where he'll be medicated regularly.
Because, you KNOW it's more cost effective to let him live on the streets until then, even if he's ill or if he suffers. Hey, maybe he'll die before he starts really costing the government more money!!
Frickin' Ronald Reagan and his 'mainstreaming' the mentally ill and the mentally challenged into society... >:(
Oh I know
it's sort of sad/funny how it is his former DIL that is the one who takes any care of him. she lives up north but comes to LR from time to time- and she finds him and sees about him- but his son who is here doesn't.
Maybe what hurts the most is that I know he's been in the VA(veterans hospital) before--- so he's somehow service connected (maybe not the mental disease) but he is some sort of veteran and why the hell is he on the street. He will land in a VA nursing home soon I think- hope it's a good one. He's got to be getting to that age.
SORRY all and thanks for letting me ramble (I know you could kill me sometimes)
Now I'm watching the cars line up at the bank across the way to get their business done by noon (it's 11:37), quite interesting the jockeying for position. But at this bank they only have about 2 people for 5 lanes so no matter what lane you'll be there for a while :mrgreen:
Just finished watching The Right Tempatation ;)
I have yet to want to kill you, Anthro. I usually find it interesting, actually.
Men in Black, unfortunately.
ABabe, the rambles are neede for our mental stability, so that we don't go off and start randomly shooting at Congress and the Administration for gutting Veteran's programs, benefits, TriCare, all military spending on software (people) in favor of spending huge sums on hardware. (Money from which lines their pockets, and those of their friends.) Then again, it also keeps things mixed up!!
Watching videos on You Tube...
Debate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joOHbq8s92Q
We the People
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc85RLEawqg
Rufus Thomas (and Dave Sanborn) Walkin' the Dog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ljrTtfJ9XY
Rufus' original...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6AZNywvF-s
Lst time I switched on the PC on my desk (the one with the DVD drive) I watched the bonus material to "Arthur and the Minimoys".
How does Mia Farrow manage to look that young?
And Freddy Highmore is sooo cute!
White Oleander
Off to watch some of the "Tales from the green valley" documentary on DVD.
Maybe I should watch more DVDs than I buy. The backlog is growing rapidly
Night of the Demon
EDIT This film ought to be required viewing if not least for the brillant and insane rendering of cherry ripe !!
Currently, Fruit's Basket. An ancient anime my sister is obsessed with.
Dying Young.
Julia Roberts.
I'll watch anything with her in it.
In this case, it is having a bad effect.
I want an utterly beautiful, mature, fit, sexy, kind, intersting, humourous, man with artistic, cullinay, literary, intellgent mind and no life (for some good reason which can be ignore as it is irrelevant) except ME to pretend to be my nurse.
Applicants should have own large manor house with extensive grounds, deluxe interiors, en suite bathrooms for every bed, thermal pools, holistic treatments, and car and carriage service. A home cinema room (converted from the old chapel) would be an added bonus.
Now the hard part.
The applicant must immediately perceive that I am what he has always been looking for and therefore fight his way through the doctors blanket of fog, find the vial of probably celtic well water that will cure me, and offer it to me as we exchange vows of eternal oneness.
Being an equal opportunity employer, girlies may apply, but will have to sign up to stuff they may not want. Knights on white chargers may also apply under equal ops but should expect to be put through some gruesome personality evaluation.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on October 03, 2007, 04:04:37 AM
Knights on white chargers may also apply under equal ops but should expect to be put through some gruesome personality evaluation.
:ROFL:
I'm watching my computer screen...
Hammer's only werewolf movie: Curse of the Werewolf
It's completely different from the traditional Universal take on the theme.
For the last hour or so, I've been watching my computer produce a list of the internal files it's updated:
...file 1
...file 2
...file 3
etc... I'm up to 44 now, and these are big files, hence the thumb-twiddling time involved. It's almost like the space needed to input and manipulate the entire road network of Montreal and surrounding area is large or something... ;D
I'm watching a schnauzer s-l-o-w-l-y ease my top sheet and a pillow off my bed so he can make a little nest (with my shoes in it) to sleep on. He already has a shirt out of his Daddy's laundry basket in the growing 'dog bed area' as well as a pair of my socks, a stuffed animal (sheep, named Crivens) and a hand knit (badly) shawl of mine.
Some furpersons have a LOTTA nerve... ::) :mrgreen:
The great St.Trinian's Train Robbery
4th of the original series and the first in colour
It has its merits but pales compared to its predecessors (I own a box with all four canonical ones)
But the train chase(s) are a true classic.
I'm watching my apple and cinnamon buns rise! :D
Rise, rise, so I can shove you in to the hot oven and then devour you still warm...
Ooops! Was that my outside voice... :nervous:
:mrgreen:
Ren and Stimpy: Ren's Tooth ache
[youtube=425,350]http://youtube.com/watch?v=0UiE761HaTU[/youtube]
I grew up watching this show.
Yesterday evening:
You Nazty Spy!
I'll never Heil again
Women talk about Hitler
(the first two are by the 3 Stooges and may have influenced Chaplin's Great Dictator)
Just finished watching "If..".
Still impressive but nowhere near the impact it had when it first came out. Which is of interest in itself, because it did have a huge impact back then, which sort of tells me a lot about what has changed since then.
Just a regular day at a modern comprehensive or American high school. :(
Run in the corridors!
Who wants to be a millionaire :barf: (Waiting for my car to be ready, please somebody kill me!).
Quote from: Zonoplease somebody kill me!
Would a nice little whipping be enough?
:YaY: :whip:
Shoot 'Em Up(2007)
Brain can be set on autopilot but it is nonetheless highly entertaining
You'll never look at carrots the same way again :mrgreen:
:wwg:
The Price is Right- old reruns on cable- we did look hilarous in our 70's clothing, and the hair- O0 O0 everywhere (white dudes with 'fros- man I miss it)
Nathan der Weise (1922)
(http://bioscopic.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/nathanderweise1.jpg)
http://bioscopic.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/nathanderweise1.jpg
Saladin's troops conquering Jersualem is a sight to behold. Those sets don't have to hide before "Kingdom of Heavens".
I have no idea how they managed that* (and it's definitely not special effects work).
*especially financially
A music videos block on TV...
(and Swato, I loved "Shoot 'Em Up"... Very entertaining...)
Eat more carrots and you can be like Smith :mrgreen:
I hear it was a flop in the US. Probably pissed off too many politically that usually love "good clean violence".
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sukeban deka 1 (part 2 to follow in the afternoon)
Dear Frankie
If you haven't seen this film, do !!
Dr.Who and the Daleks
Now the British will hang me for blasphemy (although the BBC borrowed a number of the movie Daleks for the TV)
Don't take the "surprise route" through the swamp to the dalek city.
irrelevant factoid: My dad got me Roy Castle's autograph when I was a kid.
You could have made much money with collectables. Those can be worth several hundred times their original price by now (the documentary included in the DVD box had a few examples of that).
Hm, did they sell fire extinguishers in Dalek form too?
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Currently the 1975 BBC documetary series The Tribal Eye (with David Attenborough). Just finished the episode where young David is mistaken for royalty (although he does not look exactly like the Duke of Edinborough ;D) and greeted with the national anthem.
:dalek: :dalek: :dalek: :dalek: :dalek: :dalek: :dalek: :dalek: :dalek: :dalek: :dalek: :dalek:
Season two of "Invader Zim."
Best
Show
EVAR
Hellboy Animated - Sword of Storms
Ooooh... I like that one, Swato...
Watching the football match of the Czech league - Ceske Budejovice : Sparta Prague... It's halftime now.
[youtube=425,350]http://youtube.com/watch?v=zXNoJn5RiqU[/youtube]
This is hilarious.
Quote from: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on October 21, 2007, 08:07:05 PM
Ooooh... I like that one, Swato...
It was you that put it in the "guess the movie" or not (too lazy to check)?
Amazon.co.uk slashed the prices recently and I took the opportunity.
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The First Eden (David Attenborough, BBC 1987)
Quote from: SwatoIt was you that put it in the "guess the movie" or not (too lazy to check)?
Yup, it was me... Did you like it?
Watching my fingers write this message...
had to get used to the visual style (a bit erratic in the first one). Blood and Iron is better on that front though I would not necessarily say it is the better movie.
Let's say I do not regret the money spent on the DVDs.
Dirty Dancing
Always thought it was about 3 girls out on a hen night in Glasgow; seems not.
:nono: :nono: shoo*******th******faaaaaaaarTT**shiiiii**3ve****** :nono: :nono:
:smash: :smash: :smash: :smash: :smash: :smash: :smash: :smash: :smash: :smash: :smash:
where's the f**c**ng icon for tearing hair out?
Recording stopped after 55 mins. Just got to the bit where they are in the lake.
Luckily I found the final scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we92oWxmVlA).
:ROFL: Dancing Dirty Doll - where was that thread?
Quite well-done that clip!
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The Restless (Korea 2006)
I watched "Natural City" a Korean Blade Runner style SciFi movie last night.
Much darker than the usual Hollywood production, I liked it.
Last night, I watched two things at the same time: a two-part episode of CSI, and a raccoon with a runny nose on the ledge near my window.
He wandered back and forth for the better part of two hours. I suspect he climbed up there and was unsure how to get down. Not sure why... the gas meter was right there for him to climb down whenever he wanted.
Quote from: Darlica on October 30, 2007, 09:36:14 AM
I watched "Natural City" a Korean Blade Runner style SciFi movie last night.
Much darker than the usual Hollywood production, I liked it.
I shake in horror what Hollywood would have made of the Gynoid suicide at the end.
My stock of Korean movies is growing rapidly. There is a rather new label in Germany that puts out East-Asian movies in good editions and I am a regular customer.
In the UK labels are what we wear on the outside of our clothes.
Just watched Fanny Hill. What a cop out at the end. Thought Cleland was supposed to be a grumpy old sod, not a romantic idiot.
Quote from: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on October 30, 2007, 01:49:31 PM
Last night, I watched two things at the same time: a two-part episode of CSI, and a raccoon with a runny nose on the ledge near my window.
He wandered back and forth for the better part of two hours. I suspect he climbed up there and was unsure how to get down. Not sure why... the gas meter was right there for him to climb down whenever he wanted.
the racoon was waiting for you to open the window and provide treats--- very typical racoon behaviour- especially once they are habituated to the presence of people and trash cans..... warning- don't feed it- they are worse than cats- it will never leave and it does sound like it's a bit 'ill' --- they bite as well.
not watching anything right now.
Watching Spencer as he watches Dan...
Spencer's afraid Daddy will go away for a long time again, and refuses to let Dan out of his sight.
~ Tea with Mussolini ~
One of those films I can't believe I have never seen before.
Feeling very sorry for myself, my head full of sinus, crunching and so on, hardly able to limp to the kitchen, but when I heard Maggie Smith say ""The Germans and the Italians couldn't get rid of us. There is absolutely no reason why we should surrender to the Scots" all became right with my world. That's the spirit. Bugger not being able to function, and feeling like last year's dinner, I can still grin.
Musa (The Warrior)
Seriously some of the coolest booze commercials ever.
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Um. Awesome.
Quote from: Swatopluk on November 06, 2007, 10:32:50 AM
Musa (The Warrior)
Musa?? The Warrior??
Musa, the Banana, maybe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_(Musaceae)
One of my favorite floral products ever, the banana flowers.
I thought more about this
(http://www.cine-east.com/catalog/images/8073.jpg)
http://www.cine-east.com/catalog/images/8073.jpg
I have to check, whether there is an "Attack of the Killer Bananananananas" movie
I definitely prefer bananas to tomatos.
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A collection of pre-1910 films
Bananananas only really get killer in dackerys, you know.
Watching the CD download of Dan's trip. I am in love with Ceske-Budijovice...so beautiful!
Beowolf
:mrgreen:
The old or the new Beowulf?
I read that it looks best in the 3D version.
Yup. The movie isn't perfect but I like the fact that the 3D thing is being used without the cheap tricks. It brings out the detail of the sets (I saw The Nightmare before Christmas with the same technique 2 weeks ago and it was like watching the movie for the first time).
I hope to see it this evening. Unfortunately I have the choice between dubbed in 3D and original in 2D.
It is abridged anyway because the way the director wanted it contained to much bare skin to keep the low age limit the company wanted. Full version probably only on DVD (reminds me of King Arthur where the same happened)
The full effort to cover Beowulf's *manhood* in strategic ways becomes hilarious. I also wonder if Angelina Jolie allowed a full digital scan of her body...
Joe's Palace - Stephen Poliakoff
This director/writer and Adrian Johnston's haunting music have me totally captivated. If I had to spend the rest of my life doing just one thing, it would be watching Poliakoff's films* continually, endlessly, remorselessly. However roundly any of his films end, I am always left with the sense of something just beyond, not quite caught, mesmeric, peaceful, greater.
Further info: Stephen Poliakoff answers questions about his work (http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/poliakoff/interviews/poliakoff_interview.shtml).
* is there a word for films made for TV ? TV drama is definitely not right for his work.
I need access to his work.
<<the people who 'rule' over our lives, (whether it is the governing class, the media or the world of commerce) do have a very simplified view of what the rest of us want. This is partly due to the current obsession with focus groups and partly because the world is moving so fast and people feel they have to buy into one view of things in order to try to keep control of the uncontrollable.>>
Can we get him to slap the current US political scene (both sides) upside the head with a big stick?? And let him 'splain this to them??
Far as I can see his stuff is only avaiable on DVD - (and his one real movie made as a film not for tv at some huge cost like around £160). His stuff is VERY British, English even, so it either won't export at all, or it will export on the quaint old country ticket.
I could throw some stills into the Guess the Movie thread ;) ;)
I have "Lost Gods" , ( Vision TV ) on at the moment ...This episode concerns the Celts .
I saw Beowulf that evening as announced (sick since then, no connection I think).
I chose the dubbed 3D. The dubbing was actually very good. I wonder, whether Angelina did her own dubbing because the voice was extremly similar. What I could not find out was , whether they changed the Old English to Old German when Grendel and his mother talked in the German version.
In general I was quite impressed and had expected much worse. They took a lot of details from the epic that few will actually notice.
Of course they did do changes to the story but it was (in my opinion) not just to please a US audience that wants just to see action (and a few hints of sex). The moral of the epic is more straightforward and would probably be lost to most, e.g. in each fight Beowulf acts with less justification but stronger means from unarmed combat with a disturber of the peace to fighting a dragon defending his rightful possessions with metal shield, sword and companions. The film tells its own psychological backstory and asks the question about true heroism and what is made of it without really abusing the substance of the original. They overdid the action part in the second half a bit too much in my opinion.
Interestingly the men looked far more real than the women (except for Jolie's face which was close to perfection).
Maybe I'll do a review some day.
Wait, I don't get this, are there different versions of that movie showing? Like one with real actors and one all CGI? ???
Me I was watching first 3 episodes of Firefly on DVD and I intend to watch at least 3 more to night.
Great science fiction, and with the only actor/celebrity that makes me swoon like a teenage fan girl (only I never really swooned over cute actors or other celebs in my teenage tears...) Nathan Fillion.
;D
It is all in computer animation, in Swato's case it was the dubbing and the 3D glasses, what changed the versions.
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I'm watching the computer screen... I don't feel like watching a movie now, perhaps sleeping one?
Contemplating watching Evil Roy Slade, quite possibly the funniest "faux Western" ever made. It has John Astin, what more do ya need?
Cranford (Elizabeth Gaskell). BBC extravaganza drama. Had poor ratings but I think it is excellent.
Last night a 5.5 hour performance of Napoleon (1927) by Abel Gance.
Officially it was the 4 hour cut but that would have meant 24 frames per second instead of the 16-18 of the original.
We got to see it at the latter speed (and therefore actually silent but that was no actual problem).
A monster of a film but truly fascinating. It covers only the period from Napoleon's schooldays to the start of his Italian campaign but also a lot of background stuff on the French revolution. A. Dieudonnè is clearly the best movie Napoleon ever.
Some Monty Python episodes on DVD
Quote from: Swatopluk on December 11, 2007, 10:42:48 AM
Last night a 5.5 hour performance of Napoleon (1927) by Abel Gance.
Officially it was the 4 hour cut but that would have meant 24 frames per second instead of the 16-18 of the original.
We got to see it at the latter speed (and therefore actually silent but that was no actual problem).
A monster of a film but truly fascinating. It covers only the period from Napoleon's schooldays to the start of his Italian campaign but also a lot of background stuff on the French revolution. A. Dieudonnè is clearly the best movie Napoleon ever.
The FF Coppola remastered cut?
I saw it in New Orleans when it was on tour with Carmine Coppola directing his score...I even have a signed poster from the tour.
Late husb and I were doing an radio show on the arts--reviews and such--and were at the press conference. When Husband asked a question, Mr. Coppola said "Mama! (speaking to his wife, sitting to the side of the platform) He looks like Francie!! You look like my boy, Francie. Taller, but you look like him!" And he did sorta look like Francis Ford Coppola...
It's a beautifully done film, no matter which cut or re-master.
I've a Colbert Report re-run on the telly at the moment ,this installment has Ed Beagley Jr. ( a great friend of the Earth :thumbsup:) as a guest .
I'd love to see Dr. Colbert run for Prez , what a laugh riot the campaign would be. :D
I think it was the Coppola cut (credit actually goes to Kevin Brownlow). Brownlow is still working on that film and has found another 90 minutes of footage (and higher quality copies of already included scenes). But there is a nasty copyright battles with the Coppolas, so the current best version has been seen only by rather few people in Britain and nowhere else.
What's aso remarkable about this film is that one is permanently guessing what is true history, what legend and what was made up but being unable to come to a conclusion in most cases. Some scenes were clearly topical (like the introduction of the Marseillaise or Napoleons first encounter with Josephine) but for example I simply can't say whether Napoleon really used the Tricolore as a makeshift sail. In most other "history" movies made-up parts stick out far more clearly (often it is the whole thing >:( ).
Documentary about the woman who wrote Girl With A One-Track Mind
Why does every generation think they discovered sex when evidence is to the contrary?
I just finished watching Kitchen Nightmares with Gordon @#$%& Ramsey.
That character just cracks me up .
A documentary on the XIV. Dalai Lama
The Princess Bride is on at the moment...what a laugh! ;D
What actually? I know I watched something but can't remember what at the moment.
A lecture on current missions to the moon yesterday evening (it gets pretty crowded up there with the US, China, Japan, India, Russia and Europe sending probes. There could be a new race to the moon at the end of the next decade between China and the US (the Chinese consider 2018 for their first manned mission, the US consider 2020 for their return there).
I just viewed Stephen Colbert's Roast routine at the '06 White House Correspondents Dinner . I can barely believe he is still on the air .
That made me respect him and I became a loyal fan ever since. It is a sham(e) that the SC Dems refuse him the slot in the primary, he would have swept with the 2nd tier candidates (I guess that scared them).
Getting ready to watch 'Love, Actually" because I am in love with Alan Rickman, as long as he's not in Snape drag. :mrgreen:
My Roman army conquering Australia in Die Siedler II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Settlers_II).
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on December 15, 2007, 01:49:30 AM
Getting ready to watch 'Love, Actually" because I am in love with Alan Rickman, as long as he's not in Snape drag. :mrgreen:
I LIKE him in Snape drag. Or anything else for that matter. That man could be attractive in a chicken suit.
War of the Worlds. :P Not my idea.
Ah, but I fell for him in Truly, Madly, Deeply.
The Snape drag just doesn't show off that really--attractive ass... :o :mrgreen:
True. But neither would a chicken suit.
Pirates Of The Caribbean -the first one, on telly.
Matinée! :D
Dr. Who and the Daleks
Are You Being Served?
I found three second-hand videotapes with 3 episodes each at Half Price Books, for a dollar!
Over 30 years old, and still funny.
Watching (and listening) to this:
[youtube=425,350]kXAUOJ9H0Y4[/youtube]
Are You Being Served is the best!
Tonight I'm watching the original War of the Worlds and possibly the 'new' Tom Cruise one if I don't go to sleep.
Zono,
The 'bass' guitarron the guy was playing--is that a 6 string instrument?
My brother the bass player has been trying to locate a good one (at a reasonable price), what's called in Mexico a 'bajo sixto', and if the guitarron is the same thing, it'll give us a different name to use in the search. Poor baby has 3 'regular' electric basses, 2 6 string electrics, 2 jazz basses, a vintage upright bass in a blonde wood that's phenomenal in looks and sound, and a couple of 5 string basses as well. So, obviously he NEEDS an acoustic bass that's not a big as the full size upright-- Oh, well, it's easy to shop for him. Strings! ;D
Loved the piece, BTW.
In all honesty I don't know. It is a mixture of classical with cowboy music from the plains between Venezuela and Colombia (musica llanera) and usually the bass part is made with a harp, in fact it's the first time I see it on a guitarrón (which is what it resembles, the kind Mexican mariachis use) (or with a violin for what matters). AFAIK the guitarrón has 6 strings but I'm not an authority on the subject.
On a side note the smaller one is a cuatro (4 strings).
The movie about giant seafood winning sports contests.
I LOVE Are You Being Served. Wish it wasn't on so late here though.:(
Being forced to watch "Full Metal Alchemist". :P
If you have no idea what I'm talking about-->http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullmetal_Alchemist
Ugh.
Jack Arnold, Revenge of the Creature
Various repeats of "Midsomer Murders" round my parents. Slaughtering eccentric residents of the Home Counties is one of our relatively few shared interests.
Sweeny Todd about to start. :D
The Scrooge DVD is on my desk. Yesterday evening it was a bit late for I had to get up early this morning for something on the radio.
Just got through watching Secret Window, which I had not seen before. Depp's character is definitely a strange one.
I have got to see Sweeney Todd.
The Great Silence (film made at the Grande Chartreuse monastery). They are a bit stricter there than we are here ;)
Recently finished watching seasons 2 and 3 of Monk. Now watching season 4 of M*A*S*H.
The future with dread. No movie currently (I hope to order new ones soon)
Watching futures might be more profitable ;)
A dire TV docu about two journalists trying to get to size 00 as an experiment.
I was too feeble to use the off switch.
The answer to one of the questions in the movie quiz (the one with the vampire).
I am working on a review and had to clear up some things.
Just finished Casa Blanca. Kinda silly movie.
Swamp Tigers (a documentary, not a B-flick)
Just finished watching Wednesday's TorchWood. Trying to get my Sci-Fi nerd score into higher territory (though don't think it registers UK stuff).
Band of Brothers
Just got through watching the season premier of Torchwood on BBC America.
The TV screen saver.
I suppose that equates to watching global warning.
Guilty as charged ;)
Samurai Resurrection (2003)
David Dimbleby and Question Time with a very boring panel, the most interesting of whom is Kenneth Clarke, currently being boring himself about MPs' expense claims.
Firefly
Arabian Adventure
It had all the potential for a great picture (Lee, Cushing, great sets, pretty princess, cute Indian boy with pet monkey, decent special effects...) but the result is mediocre. Was there no wooden plank available to add some charisma to the nominal princely hero role? Unlike the critics I found the aerial battle between good and bad guys on flying carpets over the city quite an interesting Star Wars rip-off though.
Wednesday's Torchwood. They saved Cardiff from destruction again, but otherwise OK.
The Last Post thread. It's mine, I tell you....
Wanna bet? :mrgreen:
Das Alphorn
The Tick
Band of Brothers
Danger:Diabolik
endlessly ripped-off by later James Bond movies and probably with some influence on Batman
also with a score by Ennio Morricone
The original Pink Panther cartoons boxset
2001
Gorgo (1960). Why should Godzilla&Co just destroy Tokyo. Here London gets it for kidnapping the baby of the mother beast (who could have guessed that the 60 feet specimen was not the adult?). Got an Oscar nomination for special effects then, today they are laughable (except for the demolition of Tower Bridge; that still looks good). But that's part of the appeal of these old movies.
Why didn't they just give Ken back?
Going to watch Stargate Atlantis in a few.
Amadeus. Just magical. The music is sublime, and Salieri is such a shit...
It was a coin toss between the critically acclaimed BBC thriller, Terror of the Zygons and Lathe of Heaven.
Lathe won.
*This* time...
L'Odissea (1969 TV mini series)
I agree with the critics that this is the best adaption of the epic yet and likely to remain
Nightmare Before Christmas is on TCM
When that originally was shown in the cinemas over here I thought it was a horror film (and at that time I was not into that stuff at all). But I think at the time I would not have been able to really appreciate it even without that misconception.
For that matter, as a child I found no appeal in the muppet show. Now I like it but also know why I didn't then
The Day the Earth Stood Still...and oldie, but a goody
The Day the Earth Stood Still. ;D
great siblings minds tuned to the same channel...
Part of my collection but not seen for a while.
Gort Klaatu barada nikto! (spelling? I did not look it up)
Just watched "Control".
Parts of "Whispers of the Heart" (Studio Ghibli)
Quote from: beagle on February 17, 2008, 07:46:56 PM
Just watched "Control".
What did you think about it?
Have you seen it? Actually, (don't tell anyone) I cried. It all happened when I was about 20 and Joy Division (especially "Unknown Pleasures" and "Closer") were huge albums with my set of friends. In fact Unknown Pleasures (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7c821v7jzzca~T1)* is still probably the best album ever made IMHO, (closely followed by Meddle or Dark Side).
It was clear then that Curtis was a true original, like Syd Barrett, Roy Harper or Jim Morrison, and I think Sam Riley really caught his look and manner. Samantha Morton also seemed to totally capture a sweet down to earth northern girl who, try as she might, couldn't save him from his demons.
Not so sure about the implication that it was the success and prospect of a U.S. tour that pushed him over the edge. It was all there in the lyrics of New Dawn Fades, amongst others.
The DVD came with Deborah Curtis's book "Touching from a Distance" so it will be interesting to see how the two compare. My understanding is they tried to keep it realistic (freezing transits with bust heaters rather than the "glamour" of rock and roll).
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* For the uninitiated. Do not play this if you are prone to depression. Seriously.
No, I haven't seen it yet but I'm going to. I guess I'm going to cry too.
I discovered
Joy Division when I was about 18 (in the early 90's). I still listen to them now and then but not 24/7 like when I was younger and when I list my favourite songs there are plenty of J D songs among them.
Quote* For the uninitiated. Do not play this if you are prone to depression. Seriously.
Yes and no. I'm prone to depression and has always been and I was in a even worse state when I was 18 than I'm now, not as stable by far...
Joy Division's music helped me put words on a lot of feelings, sooth a lot of pain, it sort of carried me through my late teens and early twenties.
I'd say
Unknown Pleasures is one of the best album ever made IMHO too and
New Dawn Fades one of the best songs.
I'm not rateing the songs, other favourites are:
Ceremony, Transmission, Glass, Komakino and of cause
Atmosphere.
Since I'm too young to have seen Joy Division live, seeing New Order live on their latest tour playing
Ceremony was huge.
I read
touching from a distance when it came, I found it interesting and sad, I have heard others complaining that this book ruined
Joy Division's music to them but I can't say that it has changed my view of the band, the music or Ian Curtis.
The soundtrack of my youth: ;)
Any mood -Joy Division later also Nick Cave
Angry-Dead Kennedys
In need of therapy- Einsürzende Neubauten ;D
Happy- New Order
Quote from: Darlica on February 18, 2008, 10:33:12 PM
I'm not rateing the songs, other favourites are: Ceremony, Transmission, Glass, Komakino and of cause Atmosphere.
Yep :) , and The Eternal, Colony and Decades
Quote
The soundtrack of my youth: ;)
Any mood -Joy Division later also Nick Cave
Angry-Dead Kennedys
In need of therapy- Einsürzende Neubauten ;D
Happy- New Order
Mine was mainly late psychedelic/progressive stuff.
Pink Floyd
Bowie
Joy Division/New Order
Neil Young and Crazy Horse (After the Goldrush/Harvest/Rust Never Sleeps/Live Rust vintage)
Hawkwind
In the event of a boppy mood breaking out it would probably be something embarassing like The Eagles or Thin Lizzy.
By the way, have you seen despair.com's More (http://www.despair.com/watchmore.html) animation?
The link doesn't always work, but it's worth persisting. Not only is it a great animation, it's got New Order's
Elegia as soundtrack.
A short documentary on Indian/Pakistani action/horror movies (bonus material on a DVD of a quite obscure movie I added to my collection. Since I might (ab)use it for the movie guess/quiz, no title will be given yet).
Don't tell that mad scientist of MST 3000 about Indian horror movies or he will at last triumph. :mrgreen:
More. :D
Going through my internet video links (saved as favorites) and watched Kiwi short film again.
Link here Kiwi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs)
And embedded:
[youtube=425,355]sdUUx5FdySs[/youtube]
Truly a masterpiece of short video. Gets to me each and every time. *sniff*
Okay, for some odd reason the embedded failed to work. The link is good, though.
Kiss of the Vampire (Hammer, 1962)
Interestingly different (btw, unknown to the critics* the lead vampire was gay in real life, as was the one in Brides of Dracula)
*at least one of them lamented on occasion of "Brides": What's next? Gay vampires?
"Being Human" on iPlayer.
Tip for girls. While there is never an ideal time to raise the subject with your boyfriend of where your relationship is heading, when he has tried to lock himself away to turn into a werewolf is one of the worst of all.
Watching "Some Assembly Required" on Discovery Channel.
They are taking us through the start-to-finish of Jack Daniels Whiskey. Begin with how the custom-made barrels are created, scorched and finished. Then on to the ingredients of the Whiskey (starts out with high-calcium spring water from deep underground in Kentucky).
Mmmmm. Almost makes me want to go out and buy a bottle.
Too bad I don't imbibe alcohol anymore...
Interesting show, nonetheless.
That Kiwi one is great.
Quote from: beagle on February 23, 2008, 11:29:58 PM
That Kiwi one is great.
It's one of my favs.
Any idea why the "embed YouTube" icon does not work?
Alas the Six Nations.(rugby for the non-Brits)
Lost again. Food tastes so bitter off the Wooden Spoon...
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on February 24, 2008, 12:02:22 AM
Quote from: beagle on February 23, 2008, 11:29:58 PM
That Kiwi one is great.
It's one of my favs.
Any idea why the "embed YouTube" icon does not work?
Only use the symbols on the end of the url line (behind the "=")
Quote from: Swatopluk on February 24, 2008, 10:43:19 AM
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on February 24, 2008, 12:02:22 AM
Quote from: beagle on February 23, 2008, 11:29:58 PM
That Kiwi one is great.
It's one of my favs.
Any idea why the "embed YouTube" icon does not work?
Only use the symbols on the end of the url line (behind the "=")
Tried that... no joy. Maybe because I'm using "unwrapped"? Or because I'm using Firefox?
>:(
I do firefox too and without the monastery picture on top (I think that is unwrapped), so the problem likely lies elsewhere.
Rome season 1
A youtube video of a song ready for the choral squid treatment (OK, song finished but not yet posted)
The toilet over-flowing.
Prawn, wonderful prawn...
Oh, is this the public section?
Seriously, I wait for that amazon order of Attenborough's Last (or hopefully only latest) Strike and there will be a new Asia movie available on Friday.
The bed heaving around the room. (belated)
- - - I N S O M N I A - - -
Plan 9 from Outer Space is on.
It is even more horrible than I remembered...
Dang insomnia ...i have a busy day... in a few hours...time to try to sleep again * sigh * I'm watching prehistoric park at the moment....oops...check that...it's over .
Tales of Earthsea
I 'm watching the tribute to John Denver , I haven't listened to his work for over twenty years .
Listening closely to his lyrics is making me weep .
Annie's song is bringing up memories :'( .
Nicole Kidman in Birth.
I am becoming concerned about my viewing habits.
DIY stuff on Home and Garden TV.
I'm a DIY/landscaping and decorating/Life Laundry/Cash in the Attic show junkie. Good thing we don't have TV at home.
Logopolis
"goodbye" :'(
Ritter Blaubart (Film version of the legendary* Berlin Comic Opera** production)
*it ran for decades (and toured the world)
**Eastern Berlin
Rome season 1
The Cunning Little Vixen (from the same opera edition mentioned above)
Directors had talent and respect for the composer's intentions then (today they tend to lack both)
Tin Man...
The SciFi retelling of The Wizard of Oz.
Great stuff.
I have to be careful what I watch, though, as my son is only 3.
So no violence or nudity or profanity for me!
If he is anything like my sons were he'll soon be telling you what is not suitable for you to watch ;)
My printer printing out the final copy of my gigantic essay.
Oh, a little something I picked up at the library...
50 FREAKIN' EPISODES OF ANIMANIACS ON DVD!!1!!!!11!!1! :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot:
:yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee::YaY: :YaY: :YaY: :YaY: :YaY: :YaY: :YaY: :YaY: :YaY: :YaY:
A Black and White Night with Roy Orbison and friends . A twenty year old concert that will stand the test of time .
A Marty Robbins retrospective is on in a few minutes , Yes !
Quote from: Agujjim on March 26, 2008, 12:20:49 AM
Oh, a little something I picked up at the library...
50 FREAKIN' EPISODES OF ANIMANIACS ON DVD!!1!!!!11!!1!
:woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot:
:yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :yippee::YaY: :YaY: :YaY: :YaY: :YaY: :YaY: :YaY: :YaY: :YaY: :YaY:
DOOD!!
Want...
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I love that Orbison concert. Had the DVD at one time...but then I had my brothers over. One of them has it.
I lost my original Orbison albums (all autographed, my Roy Orbison and Willie Nelson stuff being accumulated since early childhood because both were friends of my Aunt Jean) in the Big Floods... Damn Houston's below sea level in places, just like New Orleans.
Some documentaries
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on March 26, 2008, 05:03:39 AM
DOOD!!
Want...
If I knew they didn't automatically open everything that looks like discs going across the border (anti-terrorist and anti-piracy), I'd burn you a set. ;)
Right now (well, actually, just before right now), a blurry jumping rainbow, since Darlica's Ratatouille DVD refuses to play in my laptop's DVD player. Grrr!
Instead, I am now watching Darlica try to knit a pair of gloves and check out what I have posted here at the same time.
Quite amusing, since there is now knitting and yarn and sticks and keyboards and teacups and general mayhem everywhere. I think her wacom-board is somewhere in the pile, too. :D
What have I done, inviting you!? :o
:P ;D
Just finished seeing Ghosts of Mississippi (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116410/)
*whew*
Well worth watching, if you get a chance.
It's old enough, that the cables are showing it.... Encore, says April 25ish or so.
Worth your time to see.
But, it's not an easy watch.
Futurama - Bender's Big Score
Quote from: Swatopluk on April 02, 2008, 08:54:47 AM
Futurama - Bender's Big Score
Any good? I've saved it on VDR, but not watched it yet.
Watched it with the audio commentary on. From the visuals I'd say yes, dialogue has to wait for a few hours.
That Mitchell and Webb look...I love the hospital sketch it reminds me of The Salty Tale innuendo:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/thatmitchellandwebbsite/ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/thatmitchellandwebbsite/)
The Office
Dom the Danger Cat.
He's getting his weekly fix of "Ghost Hunters" on the SciFi channel. He starts out on the couch... moves down to the floor, tucks paws under body after the first commercial... flattens body and ears and creeps up on the screen if anything exciting happens... ends up standing in front of tv, paws on screen, closely following if there's a Big Finale.
I am not kidding.
Haven't decided what to think about this, but it is always fun to watch him watch them...
Cat TV! Literal Cat TV! LOL!
My cats favorite "channel" is the back window.
Most days, the show is "birds, flying around the yard"
Some days, there's the exciting, "strange cat wandering across the yard". They've been known to be quite vocal about that particular episode.
As for me, The Mummy is on for background noise.
'sides, I really enjoy Rachel Weisz..... ::)
Just got most of this week's TV watching done in one go.
A BBC4 documentary on the Tudor music of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, followed by some seriously melodramatic over-acting in a Torchwood sibling-rivalry special, topped-off with a recorded Desperate Housewives episode based on a recipe stealing plot which makes me suspect one of the writers is familiar with the "Lobster a la Riseholme" saga from E.F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia novels.
Strange thing about Desperate Housewives, the minor characters only ever seem to be seen when they have lines to deliver that week.
Only Dr Who and maybe a Midsomer Murders DVD left to do and I'll be done till next weekend...
Watching the Drilling Waste department skive off early for drinks. :P
Befuddled by the Beagle viewing choices :mrgreen: Daily Telegraphs readers.... ?
Watching my P's and Q's ;D
What's befuddling about impeccable taste?
(OK aspects of it are a bit peccable, but it's all right to watch trash TV as long as you make it clear you're doing it in a post modern ironic way).
I just don't like Tallis ;) (I'm more of a Dallas girl)
Smart cookie Tallis, according to the prog. Not only could he hold a tune (*40) but also had the ethical flexibility to adjust his religious views as necessary to avoid the common head-losing scenario of those whose interpretation of the Gospels differed from the monarch.
Want to learn the value of PI (the mathametical thingy) out to many digits?
Want to hear it sung in harmony?
What to see a very odd, but factual video?
Watch it at least once.... it's pretty amazing.
PI in harmony, no less.... (warning! occasional "sh**" in the lyrics)
[youtube=425,350]Mfr7xG6smhU[/youtube]
Bob, you find the most unusual things!
The robot harmonic part made me think of Catholic school girls' choir class. Now *that* would have been a fun number to slip into one of the recitals!
:nervous: :nervous: :nervous: :nervous: :nervous: :nervous: :nervous:
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459
2307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844
:nervous: :nervous: :nervous: :nervous: :nervous: :nervous: :nervous:
6095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489
549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091456...
:nervous: :nervous: :nervous: :nervous: :nervous: :nervous: :nervous:
Futurama - Bender's Big Score
If Futurama is to your taste, you should watch it.
But be forewarned: there are nudist aliens in it.
Quote from: Swatopluk on April 06, 2008, 09:51:58 AM
Futurama - Bender's Big Score
If Futurama is to your taste, you should watch it.
But be forewarned: there are nudist aliens in it.
Got around to seeing it.
I agree-- watch it, if you can. Good.
Has time travel in it.
Has obscure references to some of the best-loved episodes all through it. Any number of "inside jokes" to Futurama fans.
A nice dig at Fox Executives, too. Several. In fact, it's a running gag.... :)
And some really nerdy ones. Take the numbers of the taxi cabs for example.
Just waiting for the next installment (announced for June in the UK, no date for Germany* yet).
*I never listen to the German language soundtrack though.
Trying to find time for Atonement.
Not mine; definitely haven't got that much time, but the DVD what I bought. Also wondering why all the films I watch these days have one-word titles. Is it an industry conspiracy or proof my attention span has plummetted?
There is a Jeanne d'Arc retrospective at a museum cinema currently.
I will not watch all of them though.
Already seen:
Joan the Woman (Cecil B DeMille, 1917) (the actress must be the twin sister of Leni Riefenstahl, the likeness is simply stunning)
La (le?) Passion de Jeanne d'arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer 1928) (a masterpiece, nothing less)
One thing all versions I know get wrong is that everyone (military) runs around in (usually full) armor all the time. :mrgreen:
Dexter again, I just can't give him up. I'm going to have withdrawal agony when the series ends. That could prove very nasty........
Galactica
Went to watch a cancer documentary on PBS, but it was pre-empted on the PBS station that the local cable carries for a "Beggin' and Pleadin' Marathon". ::)
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on April 19, 2008, 06:09:12 AM
.... for a "Beggin' and Pleadin' Marathon". ::)
Did it work? <evil grin> (do we have an 'evil grin' icon? )
Not on me...
I don't HAVE TV of any kind, because I can't afford it, so paying for PBS that I'll never see?? Nope.
Back when I had an income, they got my money. So did NPR, and RadioPacifica. No more.
Well, TV brought you Kennedy and kept Nixon away for a little while (the radio listeners thought that Nixon had won that debate because they could not see JFK's hair).
Nonetheless I think that in politics TV turned out to be a curse.
On the other hand: would Monty Python have worked on radio only?
Wasn't JFK's hair.
I watched that debate. It was that Nixon's people didn't bother to find out WHAT the medium did with the 'pictures it took'...even though he was from California.
Nixon was a hairy-jaw guy, with dark jowls (what we call 5 o'clock shadow) by noon. They didn't give him a chance to shave, they didn't use a TV make-up person to help. They didn't work WITH the medium.
Nixon LOOKED like a sweaty, 'swarthy' and slightly--ummm dirty person. The way he looked overshadowed anything he had to say. Then, dragging out his actual history?? THAT hurt. The red-baiting and all--and being an acolyte of Tail-gunner Joe McCarthy? Nope.
Unfortunately, people are stupid. They forget things, or refuse to learn them. Thus Nixon, Watergate and the RepubliCON concept that the constitution is infinitely flexible if you just cry 'victim' early enough and loudly enough, and convince the Great Unwashed that the Eggheads are going to make fun of them. ::)
Well, what if the GOP nominated Reagans's whig (if he wore one)?
But doesn't tradition require the hero to be shaved, bald and hairless ;) (I mean brave, bold, fearless)?
Cap'n Zippy (Reagan) had all his own hair. ALL of it. It was, however, heavily gooped up with this junk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grecian_Formula
Later, when he went from BLACK to sorta red, he'd switched to this one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_for_Men
An' this here's the USofA, where bald guys are always Lex Luthor to the dark haired, but well-shaved Superman.
Former German chancellor Schröder (successfully) sued papers that claimed he dyed his hair.
Current Chancellor(ess) Merkel threatened the same (iirc) when a car rental company did this:
(http://www.merkelwitze.de/ebay/sixt/merkel_t.jpg)
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on April 20, 2008, 05:15:13 AM
Cap'n Zippy (Reagan) had all his own hair. ALL of it. It was, however, heavily gooped up with this junk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grecian_Formula
Later, when he went from BLACK to sorta red, he'd switched to this one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_for_Men
An' this here's the USofA, where bald guys are always Lex Luthor to the dark haired, but well-shaved Superman.
Possible lead poisoning got to his brain?
Explains quite a bit, actually.....
Just back from the cinema and the next Jeanne d'Arc movie: Das Mädchen Johanna (Germany 1935)
Stellar cast but nonetheless an abominable movie, probably the worst on the topic ever made (including US movies).
Jeanne is also more or less relegated to a supporting role*, most characters are drawn almost zero-dimensional. Even amateur actors should have been disgusted to play those roles and I don't know what got people like Gründgens, George etc. to steep that low.
From the introduction given before the film I hear that it was a prestige production but the result is simply crappy. Additionally (despite some impressive sets) it feels stagey with dialogue that sounds like theatre and is pronounced accordingly.
It's not that it is just nazi propaganda (that is fairly limited to beginning and end), it's simply a bad movie**
*and about 90% of her lines contain "his most Christian majesty the king of France" and/or "the dear archangel Michael"
**one positive thing has to be said though: here (unlike in all*** the other J d'A movies) most people only wear armor when there is actual need, some are even seen putting it on or off according to circumstances.
***OK most
It Runs in the Family ~with the two Douglas's ~ I have yet to see why this film was made at all. But I am only half way through so far.
Wrapping up Season One of Torchwood.
Quote from: pieces o nine on April 21, 2008, 02:04:49 AM
Wrapping up Season One of Torchwood.
Torchwood's Da Bomb!
I'm listening to Phantom Menace as I type this.
Anakin is about to race in the Pod Race.
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Edit, to avoid double-posting.
Listenened to this music video (not YouTube): CPBS: Trace Elements, by Hard N Phirm (http://www.superdeluxe.com/sd/contentDetail.do?id=D81F2344BF5AC7BB76B0D53C0EA76EC9C764414400C26014)
Not safe for work! Strong language!
Hilarious, though. Even if it IS country 'music'.
Pay close attention, about mid-way, when the guitar player counts the beat on his fingers.... ;D
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Edit: Now, I'm watching this video from 1956
[youtube=425,350]URiHb7AE8IE[/youtube]
Still can't sleep.
Watched this cool high-speed video of a bursting water balloon.
Cool.
[youtube=425,350]vajL48mwsCA[/youtube]
New day, new post.
Invisible Pink Unicorn vs Flying Spaghetti Monster
[youtube=425,350]7TagemN7kkw[/youtube]
How did they get Led Zeppelin to do the soundtrack?
:ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL:
Many years ago, after the atheists group on line decided that I couldn't do an interview about FSM on radio under their aegis, I predicted this...
"It'll all come down to some FSM versus IPU silliness on the web, and any real point to be made will be lost in the crosstalk." (From an old e-mail.)
Got round to watching Atonement, Midsomer Murders, Desperate Housewives and three online Microsoft webcasts about how to program Windows Presentation Foundation. Another twenty of those and I might be brazen enough to start mentioning it on my CV (WPF, not Desperate Housewives. Unless I change career).
The Black Test Car (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056158/) by Y.Masumura
Two rival car companies compete for the successful launch of the first Japanese sports car. Tactics get dirty quickly.
Masumura returns to the general theme he already worked on in Giants and Toys*. But instead of a satire in bright colors about absurd marketing strategies, this is in stark black and white and has a much darker and pessimist mood.
Both movies also share the lead actor.
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hpZNyG6MTU)
(1916 with Douglas Fairbanks; in 4 YouTube clips.)
Send up of Sherlock Holmes and DF's usual characters.
Kids! Don't try this at home! :)
Likely to see W.R. - Misterije organizma (1971) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067958/) this evening (for the second time)
Hotel Splendide, except I've got bored and logged on here instead.
Quote from: Swatopluk on April 27, 2008, 09:17:00 AM
Likely to see W.R. - Misterije organizma (1971) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067958/) this evening (for the second time)
Seen it. Better copy than last time but I got the impression of something missing (i.e. less footage)
Monster
Wire in the Blood (http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/115/index.jsp)
So many new DVDs*, so difficult to choose form them
*including the 10 DVD Harold Lloyd Collection
10 DVD's of Harold Lloyd?
Jealous. Bitter, twisted and now in search of a similar set....
Thsi would be Region 2
http://www.amazon.de/Harold-Lloyd-Collection-DVDs-OmU/dp/B0013N3XSE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1209402173&sr=1-1
Boy A (2007)
Powerful. Highly recommended. Sadly depressing. Probably not really suitable for me. Probably I needed Adult Guidance.
Arthur C. Clarke's Colours of Infinity
David Starkey's Monarchy, 3rd Series
Which eye are you using for which?
The laptop for the second stands in front and slightly below of the PC (monitor) for the first.
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Hanzo the Razor II - The Snare (guilty pleasure :-[ :devil2:)
Just finished Deja vu with Pretzel Washington. It was OK.
The last update for my powerpoint presentation to-morrow
The most insane waste of taxpayers money; the most utterly mad and bizarrest voting system ever; and arguably one of the daftest rituals still practiced on earth. Yes. It's the British Goverment going through Divisions (BBC Parliament).
Elysium - Korea's attempt to make a CGIU animated movie in the Final Fantasy mold.
Quite entertaining but I have seen better (I still do not regret the 6.99 € I spend on it)
"Surviving Midsomer". How to live in the Midsomer counties without getting poisoned, blown up, drowned, burnt, shot, hanged or summarily dispatched with a pitch-fork. So far I've learnt to avoid the village fetes.
But this week they had run out of villagers so the police turned out to be the baddies. Or was that last week? One week in Midsomer looks much like another.
My *cough*acquired *cough* episode 198 of DW.
Baron Blood directed by Mario Bava
Marlins vs Giants in the stadium under the scorching Florida sun.
Not a particular fan of beisbol but we got the tickets for free.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on May 24, 2008, 11:51:56 PM
But this week they had run out of villagers so the police turned out to be the baddies. Or was that last week? One week in Midsomer looks much like another.
It never occurred to me that Barnaby might have done it...
I thought Barnaby was the Comptroller of the Navy during the ironclad era
This one is the only virtuous detective resident of the incest, vice, blackmail and murder prone (and that's just Sundays) Midsomer County region of southern England. In theory his wife and daughter are depressingly virtuous too, though they do seem to have a suspicious habit of being there when the body is discovered. I've long suspected Cully of being the Moriarty figure pulling the strings behind the whole operation.
Quote from: beagle on May 26, 2008, 03:11:36 PM
I've long suspected Cully of being the Moriarty figure pulling the strings behind the whole operation.
One has to question the new man she has dragged into the proceedingss as her proposed husband. Completely unnecessary and surplus to requirements. It's also never been clear why she has such an odd name.
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Having just enjoyed a fresh hit from Inspector Lynley, I am devestated to learn that next Sunday's episode "'know thine enemy' will be the last of him - or perhaps more to the point the last of Havers (Sharon Small). The BBC have cut the series entirely despite excellent ratings for their own bizarre purposes and the ensuing national outcry seems to have made no difference. R.I.P. Lynley and Havers. Murdered 2008. Perhaps we need Barnaby to investigate.
Parts of the Battlefield Britain series of the BBC (Culloden, Boyne and a week ago The Armada)
Quote from: Griffin NoName on May 26, 2008, 03:17:48 PM
One has to question the new man she has dragged into the proceedingss as her proposed husband. Completely unnecessary and surplus to requirements. It's also never been clear why she has such an odd name.
He does seem a bit gormless, but there's hope he'll turn into a killer yet. Especially if she carries on flirting with every one of Barnaby's assistants and generally being wetter than a haddock's bathing costume.
Quote
Having just enjoyed a fresh hit from Inspector Lynley, I am devestated to learn that next Sunday's episode "'know thine enemy' will be the last of him - or perhaps more to the point the last of Havers (Sharon Small).
Missed that one. I'm running behind on the murder front. I've only just seen the pilot for "Lewis", and was quite chuffed to work out the Polonius clue before he did. That never would have happened with Inspector Morse.
Quote from: beagle on May 27, 2008, 10:34:45 PM
I've only just seen the pilot for "Lewis", and was quite chuffed to work out the Polonius clue before he did. That never would have happened with Inspector Morse.
I think Lewis must have done a partial brain download from Morse's corpse as he suddenly seems to know a lot more than he used to do, though his retrieval from memory system seems a bit slow. The "Lewis" series are excellent IMO; but nothing will ever match Morse.
Mario Bava, The Whip and the Body (with Cristopher Lee and Dahlia Lavi)
The Weather Channel.
*SIGH* After days of seemingly unceasing rain, we had violent thunderstorms, flash-flooding and ... tornados ... all around the area tonight. *SIGH*
:tornado:
Mario Bava, Knifes of the Avenger (do I smell a pattern there? ;) )
The Long Road To Finchley.
BBC4 faction play about the Blessed Margaret's early fight to be selected as a Tory candidate. Surprisingly well balanced. Don't know what's coming over the BBC. Even they were mocking the way the EU is already planning to ignore the Irish referendum tonight.
Just done with the half season finale of Galactica.
Aquatic language (anime short)
Quote from: beagle on June 13, 2008, 10:36:33 PM
Don't know what's coming over the BBC. Even they were mocking the way the EU is already planning to ignore the Irish referendum tonight.
They were probably bribed. There's a lot of it about :mrgreen:
Naughty. GB assures us those Ulster Unionists weren't bribed, and we know he never lies [cough-referendum-cough].
Just watch a documentary on Richard Burton (the explorer/anthropologist not actor). The program was obsessed with sex, but then so was he apparently. I suppose in the Raj the only alternative was cricket and you can't play that at night.
Also famous for that quote on religion, which I'd better not repeat.
A documentary on Art Nouveau jewelry reconstruction (i.e. finding out how they did it without the modern tools).
First episode of House Season 4.
Living with a doctor improves the whole thing immensely.
Sam Fuller - Fixed Bayonets
I just saw And The band Played On last night on Bravo . It was produced in about 15 years ago for television.
I suppose I missed it the first time around because for a period of about 15 years I avoided media of all kinds .
I did so because i felt i was reading the same things over and over , of hatred and intolerance , of pain and suffering , of greed,decadence and frivolity , of wars and rumours of wars . ( opps , drifting , i'll get back to that later )
I thought the film was outstanding , and stripped a great deal of people down to their underpants .
So many points in the film are worthy of threads of their own , I am so glad they named names .
Despite all that Gallo has done , despite his genius , I have only contempt for his ego as portrayed in the film .
Gallo was the perfect asshole for the Reagan Republicans.
I worked in the floral industry. I knew a lot of people, lost a lot of friends...
Some of my letters to even THOSE guys ended up in my FBI file...
the stuff that now is in Guess the Movie
Some notes here and there about the rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and other 14 kidnapped by the FARC (among them 3 American 'contractors').
As much as I don't like Colombia's Uribe I have to grant them their success against the FARC.
The Father, the Son and the Housekeeper
Father Michael Cleary documentary...... may his soul be saved !
Futurama - The Beast with a Billion Backs*
*not Bucks or other money
Wall-e :D
Looking forward to that
Hellboy II
:mrgreen:
Some BBC documentaries (Wild China/The Power of the Planet)
The Government Inspector (2005) Television film, Directed by Peter Kosminsky
NOT Gogol ~ it is quite alarming to find the play ousted by re-use of it's title for a different tale, Kosminsky's TV film heading the google list by far. Isn't there a law against it?
Kosminsky's has made my stomach hurt more than it was already.
I think the title thing is a general problem (for both movies and books, not to talk about paintings).
And then there is the problem of remakes.
Doc Martin season 3
Guardian of the Spirit, episodes 6-10
Shadowlands - Attenborough
A must for all C.S.Lewis fans ! High class weepy. Reminds me of "Love is never having to say you're sorry".
For a moment I thought Sir David had made a new series without me noticing :mrgreen:
Super-charged Korean pop:
WARNING: WILL MAKE YOUR BRAIN HURT - DISTILLED COTTON-CANDY POP
[youtube=425,350]FLG1YLkD0dw[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLG1YLkD0dw
The Jaques Cousteau Odyssey
Quote from: Agujjim on August 02, 2008, 06:17:17 PM
Super-charged Korean pop:
WARNING: WILL MAKE YOUR BRAIN HURT - DISTILLED COTTON-CANDY POP
[youtube=425,350]FLG1YLkD0dw[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLG1YLkD0dw
I thought the slight miss-pronouncing of the English words was amusing.
Alas, I could not stand to listen to the whole song....
Bridget Jones Diary.
Yes, yes, for about the ninth time. Yes, yes, I know it's passé. And I was out of the room for the big knickers <sigh> so I might have to watch it again.
Movie at the actual theator.
the latest Batman flick: The Dark Knight.
Not bad-- very similar to Batman Begins-- same style, feel, etc. Some of the same characters.
Tons of Bernd das Brot clips downloaded from YouTube
The Women's Institute Guide to Brothels - absolutely splendid TV program !
*for the benefit of our non-brits, here is a typical gathering of the ladies who bake (http://wickham.parish.hants.gov.uk/WI%20at%20Victory%20Hall%20-1980.jpg)
http://wickham.parish.hants.gov.uk/WI%20at%20Victory%20Hall%20-1980.jpg
Just watched the Sunday night SciFi movie.
Was from Korea.
Was about dragons-- Korean ones, long snake-like.
Loads of CGI.
Story was weak, and disappointing at the very end--- they had a "K-9" rescue, but no hint that was even possible.
I went to theatre this afternoon, Bernarda based on a play from Federico Garcia Lorca. A small production from a small company in Miami in spanish. All the characters were women played by men (I'm guessing due to the nature of the company) with their faces painted in kabuki style. I was pleasantly surprised by the work and the performance of the actors.
Nothing better than having your expectations surpassed. :)
I thought there was one male character in it, if only shortly (the love interest of all the girls).
Plays about mad Spanish ladies... :unsure:
Yes but although he is in the minds of all the women he never shows up. Actually in this interpretation there was one man but only as a metaphoric reference to one of the ladies desires, and the guy was... well, not exactly 'dressed' like a ram. In fact the play was advertised as adults only because of that scene (which was well done, mind you) :o :o ;)
Quote from: Griffin NoName on August 03, 2008, 10:21:04 PM
The Women's Institute Guide to Brothels - absolutely splendid TV program !
Once again I failed to set the video. Did they judge them according to the lightness of the Victoria sponges and the flower arrangements? Where do they recommend?
About to watch the Dark Knight again in imax. 8)
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on August 16, 2008, 12:30:56 AM
About to watch the Dark Knight again in imax. 8)
:rends 3D glasses in renewed burst of grief at moving so very far from an IMAX: :'(
The Vampire Lovers (another gap in my Hammer collection filled)
Quote from: pieces o nine on August 16, 2008, 03:05:47 AM
:rends 3D glasses in renewed burst of grief at moving so very far from an IMAX: :'(
It wasn't in 3D, but the movie is sooo worth it, the first shot of the city among skyscrapers made me go 'whoa' :)
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)
Quote from: pieces o nine
:rends 3D glasses in renewed burst of grief at moving so very far from an IMAX: :'(
It wasn't in 3D, but the movie is sooo worth it, the first shot of the city among skyscrapers made me go 'whoa' :)
: rends old IMAX theatre tickets in a paroxysm of envy :
Working through the Ultimate Cousteau Collection (21 DVDs)
The story of the first 3-d computer game (http://library.digiguide.com/lib/uk-tv-highlight/Brits+Who+Made+The+Modern+World-4496/Documentary/).
(Using an outrageously exorbitant 22K of memory).
I played a very likely hacked version of Elite on a PC while still at school (not during lessons ;)).
I only met the Thargoids on a special mission and got my Elite status much earlier than stated normal by others.
I loved it!
It was possible to choose between 10 speed stages and one could chose "naked" grid models or "shaded". On my first own PC it was unplayable except at speed 1(slowest) and shaded. Otherwise one more or less crashed into the planet 1-2 seconds after leaving the space station.
After acquiring the stealth shield in a special mission I loved to park outside the station and gunning down police craft (VIPERs) :mrgreen:
A nice touch was that the docking computer played the Blue Danube waltz (although I did not realize at the time that this was likely a Kubrick tribute)
If I remember correctly there was some flaw in the accounting and by buying some particular gun and then trading it back over and over again you could build up colossal credit.
I miss the old BBC B and its block errors loading from cassette tape.
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P.S. Just watched "The Castle of Fu Manchu". A salutary reminder to beware of 7ft tall Chinamen, and that when it comes to the crunch there is no substitute for an Englishman in a pith helmet.
The critically acclaimed Kevin Earp, starring Wyatt Costner, best known for his seminal role in Waltzing with Wolves.
Isn't that the generic looking white guy with the slightly receding hairline that made all those movies that people thought they liked until they really thought about it?
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on August 24, 2008, 03:56:49 AM
Isn't that the generic looking white guy with the slightly receding hairline that made all those movies that people thought they liked until they really thought about it?
I never really liked his style initially.
Now I assiduously avoid "Kosneresque" movies-- for example, his ego totally ruined "The Postman" an excellent David Brin novel.
The Muppet Show (Season 2)
There is a bit of bonus material where Miss Piggy has short(er) hair and a different voice. That way she looks and sounds eerily like German chancellor Angela Merkel.
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith
Quote from: Sibling Chatty
Isn't that the generic looking white guy with the slightly receding hairline that made all those movies that people thought they liked until they really thought about it?
I never really liked his style initially.
Now I assiduously avoid "Kosneresque" movies-- for example, his ego totally ruined "The Postman" an excellent David Brin novel.
I liked him OK until
Waterworld.There was absolutely no excuse for that. The...scales...fell from my eyes.
The horror. The horror.
Is not like his previous success went into his head and he grew convinced that everything that popped into his mind was worth making into a movie... (weren't we talking about M.Night Shyamalan? ;) :mrgreen: :mrgreen:)
This little beauty
[youtube=425,350]nTasT5h0LEg[/youtube]
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=nTasT5h0LEg
Wonder what happened in the next 5 seconds after the cat leapt at the Alsatian..
Meanwhile. I'm watching A Whiter Shade of Pale featuring funky oscilloscope graphics. They'll never catch on.
[youtube=425,350]PbWULu5_nXI[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbWULu5_nXI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbWULu5_nXI)
Tower of London (1939) with Basil Rathbone as Richard III. and Boris Karloff as his henchman Mord (which btw is the German word for murder). Not bad!
Is Mord more Tyrell or Igor?
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The accident-prone vet from the League of Gentlemen...
[youtube=425,350]EYUxxtrWiQk[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYUxxtrWiQk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYUxxtrWiQk)
Loved the Procol Harum, especially the hooded organist and the stylish Mylar on the back of the little (unheard) spinet and the organ.
Love that Hammond B-200 organ sound. Not a DAMN thing like a pipe organ, but very distinctive.
Lucky that clip still existed. The BBC used to record over most stuff in those days as tape was expensive.
Don't know Tyrell (and google yields too many different hits).
A bit too large for Igor
(http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReviews24/a%20boris%20karloff%20collection/a%20boris%20karloff%20collection%20BORIS_KARLOFF-3(1).jpg)
(http://mmgcollectibles.com/images/me/0000002-000-P0000755.JPG)
(http://mmgcollectibles.com/images/me/0000002-000-P0000756.JPG)
Quote from: Swatopluk on August 26, 2008, 08:40:34 AM
Don't know Tyrell (and google yields too many different hits).
If you get a chance have a look at the McKellen "updated" Richard III (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114279/). Tyrell (sometimes Tyrrell) was the conscience-less henchman who organised Clarence's evening drink and the two princes' bed time story, at least according to the version approved by the winners of the Wars of the Roses. ;)
With Boris Karloff in the cast I was really wondering if it was still a historical film or whether it had had a few werewolves and vampires added to liven it up. :mrgreen:
Looks fairly historical, apart from the pre-Raleigh ciggy.
Well, it's not as close to real history as the bard but (on the other hand) nothing supernatural is happening. Rathbone challenges Price to a duel, the latter chooses Malmsey and good ol' Basil swears that the only weapon will be Malmsey (and stays true to his word ;)). Except for that scene it is almost impossible to recognize Price btw.
I read that a lot of the armor and weaponry was made from cardboard which caused a bit of difficulty in the battle scenes (the first in pouring rain, the second in thick mist).
The nominal hero seems to try to imitate Errol Flynn but is only successful in the looks (the supporting cast is at best average).
I found the movie entertaining but it is not a must-see.
The remake with Price as Richard III. is said to be a disaster (cheap even for Corman, who committed the crime).
Just finished a Microsoft WPF training video on dependency properties. With any luck I'll remember it for another half hour.
Dependency on a M$ product? Isn't time to break the chains of addiction? :o ;) :mrgreen:
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Some TED videos
Going to go finish my recording of the Cartoon Network's The Venture Brothers.
First season was a blatant rip-off of the old Johnny Quest series. Now, they blatantly rip-off other comic genera, too. On a scale of 1 to 5, it's 2.5 amusing.
Quote from: Sibling Zono (ano1mat0)
Dependency on a M$ product? Isn't time to break the chains of addiction?
I have a mortgage dependency on my MS dependency. Unless the U.S. government would like to take it over and offer me unlimited liquidity. I'd change my name to something eccentric if it would help...
Who's TED? Not Father TED I assume...
Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Gray (C.Th.Dreyer)
Quote from: beagle on September 08, 2008, 07:36:29 AM
Who's TED? Not Father TED I assume...
This TED. (http://www.ted.com)
The Muppet Show - Third Season
Pamela Anderson being interviewed by Piers Morgan.
NCIS Season 2
Care Bears (recorded) over and over and over again... can you guess there is a 4 yrs old monopolizing the tube???
You are right! :help:
More Muppet Show
I was going to watch Captain wotsits Mandolin.
But the UK is reeling from the outcome of the trial of the drinks bottles airlines "alleged" plot plotters last summer.
So, the BBC in their infinite wisdom replaced it with a Panorama expose of the "alleged" plot and the security services....... followed by Honeymoon in Vegas.......... both of which I watched instead.
How did they ever come up with that combination?
Quote from: Griffin NoName on September 10, 2008, 02:08:42 AM
I was going to watch Captain wotsits Mandolin.
The book's excellent. I never watched the film because I'd heard they'd massacred it.
Some discovery channel documentary about submarines (again telling us how how super duper great the US are)
I saw a U.S. documentary once on the World history of radio. Marconi got less than one minute (Faraday/Hertz/Maxwell etc nothing) and the whole of the rest of the program was about technical battles between RCA and some other corporation whose name I forget. I have a feeling it may have been sponsored :)
That's my impression with most US documentaries. But few are as open about it as Flaherty with his Louisiana Story
I ought to post here, but I'm reading Toadfish stuff, and only listening so, I posted over in "listening to" instead. Besides, I've seen it about a hundred and one point three-five times.
Some original Tex Avery Droopy Dog cartoons
Watched Fringe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_(TV_series)) on Fox network (I know, I know....)
It's so far a complete copy/rip-off of X-files that I'm intrigued. (I liked X-files for the first 3 seasons or so...)
Pilot was only 90 minutes, instead of the overly-full of fluff/filler 2 hours. Fast paced. Not unlike a BBC America drama. (not a criticism)
Will watch the first coupla episodes to see if it can fly.
Or, will I fall deeply in love with the series, and therefore ensure it's complete destruction before the first season's complete?
Time will tell.
Recording a BBC4 program about Humph (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Lyttleton).
Quote from: beagle on September 12, 2008, 09:48:16 PM
Recording a BBC4 program about Humph (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Lyttleton).
ISIHAC is scheduled to restart in the autumn, although that has little to do with music.*
obscure UK cryptic post unless you have followed the linky AND checked tonight's TV listings~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Primal Fear
....again.
Cobra Woman (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036716/)
Aaaaaaargh!
[youtube=425,350]n7zR2pd_L8w[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7zR2pd_L8w
Director's comment: Silly but fun
But the chimp had talent: able to thread a needle(!)* and some basic sewing
*not a trick
Hard to top that one but I'll try:
[youtube=425,350]b3mlsTmoINA[/youtube]
Quote from: Griffin NoName on September 12, 2008, 10:44:53 PM
ISIHAC is scheduled to restart in the autumn, although that has little to do with music.
AHA! On TV (BBC4) @ 22:30 tonight !!!!
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And me now?
Last Night of The Proms
Yet another example of cost-cutting, the BBC recycle this EVERY year..... it only needs slight changes to the voice over ;) Scandalous.
In fact, I am going to take a leaf out of their book and recycle this post. ;D
More of these Americacentric Discovery Channel documentaries (at least not from the Discovery Institute ;)).
But at least they were cheap.
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on September 13, 2008, 02:04:20 AM
Hard to top that one but I'll try:
This is horribly
Plucking Awkward (http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/864758/)
:giggle:
An inconvenient truth
Austin Powers: Goldmember
again
my head is bowed in shame, baby... (http://pixeljoint.com/files/icons/austin_powers.gif)
The Muppet Show, 3rd Season
Quote from: Griffin NoName on September 12, 2008, 10:44:53 PM
Quote from: beagle on September 12, 2008, 09:48:16 PM
Recording a BBC4 program about Humph (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Lyttleton).
ISIHAC is scheduled to restart in the autumn, although that has little to do with music.*
It was a good documentary. They even showed the chair where Samantha would have been sitting had she not been off-stage enjoying an ice cream (or "licking the nuts off a Neapolitan" as they put it).
Harry and the Harisons.. Currently, the daughter is infuriating a Sasquatch. Annnnd now he's ripping up the ceiling. :P
Battlestar Galactica
America's Test Kitchen.
They are working on a recipe to cook chicken breasts using a skillet for browning, a microwave (later) to ensure complete cooking and all in 30 minutes or so (as opposed to 90 minutes for traditional roast chicken)
Looks fabulous.
Quote from: beagle on September 14, 2008, 08:51:53 PM
Quote from: Griffin NoName on September 12, 2008, 10:44:53 PM
Quote from: beagle on September 12, 2008, 09:48:16 PM
Recording a BBC4 program about Humph (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Lyttleton).
ISIHAC is scheduled to restart in the autumn, although that has little to do with music.*
It was a good documentary. They even showed the chair where Samantha would have been sitting had she not been off-stage enjoying an ice cream (or "licking the nuts off a Neapolitan" as they put it).
I saw the very last episode recorded with HL - presumably earlier this summer from the material. It made me feel old. Very old. Where did our youth go? Samantha hadn't aged though.
Currently watching the dog sleep on tile by the door and the cat sleep in a flower pot (my poor plants).
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on September 15, 2008, 12:13:30 AMThey are working on a recipe to cook chicken breasts using a skillet for browning, a microwave (later) to ensure complete cooking and all in 30 minutes or so (as opposed to 90 minutes for traditional roast chicken)
??? It's easy enough to cook chicken breasts in under 30 minutes, so why fuss with a microwave (toughens things up)? IMHO, the best way to go for that roast chicken taste would be to use a cast-iron pan and skin-on boneless chicken breast (even better if the drumettes are still attached). Pre-heat the oven. Bring the cast-iron with a goodly coating of oil up to searing temperature, and pan-sear the breast skin side down until it starts to brown. Flip over and leave on heat for a minute or two to sear the other side, then pop in the oven (one can also finish it on the stove by adding some liquid and covering it with a lid). I like to drizzle this one with a balsamic vinaigre reduction, and pre-marinading with fresh rosemary and garlic certainly doesn't hurt.
Watching the US financial market spiral to its doom... ::)
Some political youtube clips that were collecting dust on my USB stick
The first season of Metalocalypse. :mrgreen:
Just watched "And when did you last see your father". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Did_You_Last_See_Your_Father%3F)
Very good but thoroughly depressing. What's even more depressing is that after buying it I found that Amazon had predicted I'd get it after "Atonement" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atonement_(2007_film)) and "Control". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_(2007_film))
At least I've got away from one word titles. Time for something more optimistic next.
Quote from: beagle on October 03, 2008, 10:08:22 PM
What's even more depressing is that after buying it I found that Amazon had predicted I'd get it after "Atonement" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atonement_(2007_film)) and "Control". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_(2007_film))
Just been watching "Up the Amazon" with Bruce Parry (TV).
You really don't want to know the things Amazon predicts I'll be needing :mrgreen:
A 2.5 hour film on the life and works of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Hitch
~ in my next life I want to be a date doctor
The Colour of Magic (in 20 downloaded parts)
Not as good as Hogfather by far.
Rewatched Last Christmas's Dr Who special (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BUE-QAvk58o)
Bob, don't look.
[youtube=425,350]Cf4OAqS5ycw[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]l46t_nrySg4[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l46t_nrySg4
I condemn the intention but I respect the (artistic) effort (and I like the Soviet/New Russian anthem tune)
Galaxy Quest
:ROFL:
Quote from: Griffin NoName on October 27, 2008, 02:13:36 PM
Galaxy Quest
:ROFL:
It has started again, I repeat the computer!
Red Dwarf.... lots of it.
Expedition ins Ungewisse
a 26 episode 1958/9 documentary by Hans Hass about the second Xarifa diving expedition in the Indian Ocean.
Election coverage
Repeats of repeats of repeats of election coverage...... it was better the first time.
The Battle of the Somme (1916)
Allegedly no movie before Star Wars broke the viewer record in Britain for this one.
Teh puppiezez...
http://cdn1.ustream.tv/swf/4/viewer.45.swf?cid=317016
I lubs teh puppiezez...
The Colbert Report
The Dark Knight
Obama's 2004 Convention speech.
It's remarkable to see both the differences and the similarities to today.
All the important themes are there but he looked and sounded much much younger then (he still looks young today).
He also spoke much faster and with a higher voice.
I also understand why this speech made him famous instantly.
Either Midsomer Murders or Have I got News for you, depending on whether I've seen the first before or not.
Expedition ins Ungewisse
a 26 episode 1958/9 documentary by Hans Hass about the second Xarifa diving expedition in the Indian Ocean.
continued
This:
[youtube=425,350]hZ0GgNwsb1s[/youtube]
That's one piece from my son's concert last night. I can shamelessly plug the rest of it (I'm still uploading it) if you really want to see/hear it.
Despite my obvious bias, I have to say that IMO it wasn't too shabby for a middle school orchestra. ^__^
The Coulor of Magic (now on a regular DVD, not youtube clips)
Idiocracy
Herr Arnes Pengar (1919), an adaption of a story* by Selma Lagerlöf (the author of Nils Holgersson for the ignorants among us ;) )
The film is quoted as being of influence on Sergej Eisenstein (who clearly coped the final scene in the finale of the first part of Zar Ivan Grosny)
*the story title is slighlty different: Herr Arnes penningar
Torchwood Series 1 on DVD. Didn't get into it on the box until series 2 and waited for the price to fall.
Beagle does his best to save Woolworths.....
Having missed the whole sorry saga of Strictly Come Dancing, the announcement of the winning pair. Possibly there is some word or other which describes this kind of activity - a prurient interest in winners with no interest in the "game", but if so, I don't know it, and if not, there should be.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (the most recent anime version of the story. There were several movies, TV series etc. in the past already)
After a mysterious accident Matako gains the ability to jump back in time. At first it is just fun (repeating failed tests, occupying a Karaoke box forever on a single charge, eating the favorite pudding again and again...) but her meddling turns out to have potentially fatal side effects.
Didn't know you were an anime fan, Swato. :D
Currently, watching the the middle sister beat up violent plants on Zelda, Twilight Princess. Ah, now she's feeding them exploding bugs (or something). They make the plants explode, anyway.
A quite selective anime fan. Most are imo cheap crap (and occasionally expensive crap).
Additionally the DVDs are usually extremly expensive, especially the more special ones (that also tend to be short)
I have a few I like. Ever see Akira? Like that one.
Watching The Simpsons while waiting for my rice to cook.
Indeed (btw, are rampaging teddy bears a common feature? There is another in Afro Samurai and I vaguely remember to have seen more of those)
Not in the ones I watch...but I like One Piece, Akira, Spirited Away...etc. But meeybe? I can ask the various anime fans I know.
Afro Samurai? I need to see this. :D anything with Samuel L. Jackson as a voice actor has to be good.
But also extremly bloody (especially, if you get the director's cut)
[youtube=425,350]JxGAZFDMIx4[/youtube]
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=JxGAZFDMIx4
This monitor is weak in red, so I can't say, whether this contains the cinema or the director's level of gore ::)
Florida All State concerts in Tampa since 9:00 AM (my son played in the first concert of the day). The last concert begins at 8:00 PM. I'll upload my son's concert to youtube as soon as I get home tomorrow if someone wants to see/listen.
Ikarie XB 1 - a Czech SF movie loosely based on an early story by Stanislaw Lem
One of the videos I just uploaded. Not the best angle but the stage was higher than the public :-\
[youtube=425,350]98hVPO3BCLs[/youtube]
Very nice.
[youtube=425,350]WOt15JsLloU[/youtube]
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on January 12, 2009, 03:43:19 AM
One of the videos I just uploaded. Not the best angle but the stage was higher than the public :-\
Before long they're going to work out you are the phantom bootlegger.
Oh, I've been naughty, we weren't supposed to 'tape'* the concert, but my son was playing and it's the quickest way to show it to the family back home (besides, I would have to buy a copy of the 'professional video' for each person I want to show it to). In all fairness I'm not sure if there is a valid copyright claim, considering that the performers weren't paid, that -I imagine- the parts were paid to the publisher or are used with permission for the works that aren't in the public domain, and to top it with a relative low quality for the recording. Besides, apart from the parents of the young performers I have my doubts anyone else would pay to listen such versions (not to say they didn't do a great job, which they did).
Meh, copyright doesn't make sense anymore.
*are tapes still used? In some cases to be fair but it's a royal pain to move that to the computer and then edit, etc, etc. The camera I use makes mpgs in a memory card that I can upload with no extra work... :D
This public information video about gay marriage from the 50ies ;) :ROFL:
http://www.236.com/video/2009/a_236_propaganda_production_ga_11005.php
The Lake House
Quote wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lake_House_(film)) - .......this is known as a temporal paradox, and has caused several critics to point out the illogic of the entire premise......
Don't critics know this is fiction? What is wrong with temporal paradox in in fiction ?? Someone remind them about suspension of disbelief !
An Empress and the Warriors
Kirikou et la sorciere
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on January 17, 2009, 11:38:38 PM
Kirikou et la sorciere
I love that one.
But I was not surprised to hear that there were protests against it. There are nudes and hald-nudes in it and that perv of a director insisted on this "realism" without regard for the fragile souls of children :mrgreen:
Mother, give me birth!
A baby that can talk in the womb can give birth to itself
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King Hu* - The Valiant Ones
*
that's the director, not part of the the title
"Another Country". Free with the Torygraph today. Seen it before, but had forgotten what a good film it was. Might not mean much to those who postdate the Cold War or haven't heard of the Cambridge spies though.
Quote from: Swatopluk on January 13, 2009, 09:29:33 AM
This public information video about gay marriage from the 50ies ;) :ROFL:
http://www.236.com/video/2009/a_236_propaganda_production_ga_11005.php
And I'll bet they're all communists. ;)
Just more downloaded clips from teh youtubes ;)
El Rey Scopriona!
The Scorpian King...In Spanish...
'allo Gloria !!
Demons, episodes 1 thru 3.
I suspect the only point of watching it at all has just occured at the end of episode 3, where Mum says to teenage son who she has no inkling is in fact the Last of the Van-Drivers (or some such illustrious and especially-powered family on his long dead father's side) and whose day job is killing inhuman half-lifers etc....... "are you on drugs?".
I think one or two of the actually talented actors must have been on drugs when they said yes to the role - or maybe it is just another sign of the recession.
'Allo Mr. Griffin!
John butler trio concert! Wooohoooo!
Quote from: Griffin NoName on January 19, 2009, 02:28:50 AM
Demons, episodes 1 thru 3.
I watch that too. My rubbish TV substitute for Desperate Housewives when it got boring.
Victor Meldrew as the monk/prophet/weirdo was good value in 2. Didn't quite grasp in 3 why the bomb timer was set to a convenient 45 minutes instead of a more reliable 5; presumably to give wotshername time for the unrequited love mobile phone soliloquy.
Quote
...
where Mum says to teenage son who she has no inkling is in fact the Last of the Van-Drivers (or some such illustrious and especially-powered family on his long dead father's side) and whose day job is killing inhuman half-lifers etc....... "are you on drugs?".
Parents always do that. Bree asked Andrew exactly the same question. It's a tradition...
BBC America has been showing very early Bond movies on Sunday nights. Tonight was Thunderball. Connery is still the best Bond.
Quote from: Gloria The Camel on January 18, 2009, 11:00:27 PM
El Rey Scopriona!
The Scorpian King...In Spanish...
Does that add another level of atrocity? ;)
Futurama
Quote from: Pachyderm on January 19, 2009, 10:09:25 AM
Futurama
I am eagerly awaiting the 4th direct to DVD part (I think it's scheduled for February)
Quote from: beagle on January 19, 2009, 07:29:46 AM
Victor Meldrew as the monk/prophet/weirdo was good value in 2. Didn't quite grasp in 3 why the bomb timer was set to a convenient 45 minutes instead of a more reliable 5; presumably to give wotshername time for the unrequited love mobile phone soliloquy.
Pity Richard Wilson who shall for ever be known as Victor Meldrew ! He may have been manifesting as a monk/prophet/weirdo, but he was actually a
zombie. I'm surprised you got the plot at all without that piece of knowledge (ok, I admit to using google).
Surely the timer was thus to give time to gen up on bomb disarmament via the handy library? (the phone call was made with only 1 minute to go - you need to watch more carefully ;) ;) ;)). I was rather hoping that the library would tie up with Victor Meldrew as monk/prophet/weirdo and we'd find ourselves in some kind of Umberto Eco Name of the Rose zombie adaptation. Perhaps that will follow in some later episode.
Am I really discussing this ? :ROFL:
Quote from: Griffin NoName on January 19, 2009, 01:35:27 PM
Am I really discussing this ? :ROFL:
While it has no intrinsic merit, it achieves an incremental significance, if only as social history. *
And it's, like, yer know, way cool.
* If you ever finally get round to watching "The History Boys", we can discuss that instead. Meanwhile the demons have it.
Just watched Mortimer's Journey Round My Father. Now, that IS social history, especially as his father is played by Olivier ;D
Did you ever watch/read "Paradise Postponed". That was good, as I recall. Sort of like an English Heimat (but over just the post war period).
I think I read the novel. I didn't watch much TV in 1986.
Waiting for the second box of The Future is Wild (the animated series) to be published in Region 2, I downloaded the second batch of episodes from the tubes. I repeat: those squibbons are CUTE.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on January 19, 2009, 09:18:58 PM
I think I read the novel. I didn't watch much TV in 1986.
I must try a TV free year sometime. Have you watched Demons 4 yet? Are you going to watch "Being Human" (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=v_sRd2spBo0) on BBC3 Sunday?
NVA (GDR military) short films (navy branch)
Recording of "Victorian Farm". Instead of running a farm in the manner of the 1600s like they did in "Tales of the Green Valley", they're now in the 1800s.
About to watch Defiance.
Quote from: beagle on January 25, 2009, 07:12:10 PM
Recording of "Victorian Farm". Instead of running a farm in the manner of the 1600s like they did in "Tales of the Green Valley", they're now in the 1800s.
Such "social experiments" seem to be a TV fashion these years (I hear there was Stone Ages, Middle Ages and 19th century rural on German TV + emigration to the US on tallships). At least a wee bit more original than the last* Big Brother reeincarnation/variation (now with even more "eeeek").
*make that 'latest'. it's unlikely to be the last
These two series are about a million miles from "reality" TV. The presenters have more archaeological experience and qualifications than you can shake a stick at, and actually get on with each other (barring the occasional sarcy comment when one falls over in the pigsty or similar).
Each program they show you what tasks would be done on the farm at that time of year, what tools and techniques were used, and what external experts would have to be brought in for the high technology aspects (a blacksmith for gate hinges etc).
After this weeks program I now know exactly how to tell if a Gloucester Old Spot pig sow is pregnant, together with how to deliver well-presented piglets; skills I'm hoping not to have to put into immediate use.
Family Guy
Pig breeding has become so sophisticated that now fluffers are used to increase the probability of conception (in sows orgasms seem to play a role there :ROFL:)
---
The Gorgon (1964) (not the one about the rampant dinosaur in London but the one about the snake hair woman)
Quote from: Swatopluk on January 27, 2009, 09:14:34 AM
Pig breeding has become so sophisticated that now fluffers are used to increase the probability of conception (in sows orgasms seem to play a role there )
I've now developed a strange urge to sneak "Senior Pig Fluffer" somewhere in the employment history on my C.V. and see if anyone mentions it.
Somehow it's nice to think that being my breakfast isn't the high point of a pig's life.
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Rewatching I, Claudius, episode "A God in Colchester". Lost the DVDs for years but they turned up when I moved some furniture for my regular triennial hoovering exercise.
That series was my introduction to a number of fine actors (remarkable how many are still around to please us).
I was quite young when it was first on, but allowed to watch it. Think there were some reservations by the time it got to Caligula and then Messalina's whoring competition.
This.
[youtube=425,350]2_HXUhShhmY[/youtube]
The best thing to happen to me all day was watching that video.
More NVA videos
A George Carlin special is on my local PBS station this very moment .
I miss him .
Podcasts/Youtube clips of
Rachel Maddow (Rachel for President !!!)
Keith Olbermann
The Young Turks
Videos of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
Yay spaniels!!
Genghis Khan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan:_To_the_Ends_of_the_Earth_and_Sea
It's a bit distracting that the main actors are obviously Japanese and that they are also speaking Japanese not Mongolian.
Not that I speak either but I am at least able to recognize the former.
Having had a debilitating case of explosive diahorrea for the last few days, I have watched a lot of Battlestar Galactica.
Cause or effect?
Must admit I watched the original back in 19<blurred>
Bald eagle cam.
Obama's speech on Lincoln/Darwin's 200th birthday again
The Librarian.
A PBS bit on the Clinton presidency
Stepford wives
The remake.
Lark Rise to Candelford. ~ well, the follow up fake to be precise ~
and for light relief, Tom and Ben in the Egg and Spoon race (a little riddle for Beagle).
Podcasts of the Rachel Maddow Show and Countdown with Keith Olbermann
I just viewed the video clip with Christian The Lion at Snopes .com , i thought it was very moving .
While I was there I saw another 3 minute video of a young cat that was fascinated by the water swirling around in the toilet .
It seems the critter was so enthralled that it learned to reached up with both front paws , flush the toilet , reach down to splash about for a bit and do it all over again and again.
Priceless .
Edit : I'm back . I'm watching Doc Zone at the moment on CBC with Ann Marie McDonald ( something about that gal that just ...woof woof woof ... droll) .
This week's episode is entitled , The Great Food Revolution part 1 and 2 , ummm , food and all the behind the scenes action . It's nothing like the pseudo reality Hell's Kitchen Show , although I chuckle at the overwrought dramatics of chef Ramsey .
Podcasts of the Rachel Maddow Show
The return of Sargeant Lewis in bizarre Oxfod Uni plays dungeons and dragons lions witches and wardrobes* murder shock disaster. Ace.
*and not forgetting the (Mad) Hatter and a few folk from Lothwithiel.
Diverse YouTube clips (Obama on Leno, Olbermann on Maher, Maddow on Letterman, The Young Turks)
For those with a perverted mind: 'on' does not imply any sexual content
Youtube, Daniel Hannan's review of the Gordon Brown years (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs). I may wear the monitor out. ...and Brown still manages to look smug.
The new Futurama DVD still needs watching
Some Mythbusters. The netflix account allows streaming and the XBox does the job beautifully.
Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann
Elizabeth R-- the masterpiece theater one from the 1970's and the BBC - wonderful- saw it when I was a kiddo on PBS. Starring Glenda Jackson and many other great actors. Based on plays.
The Wire, Season 1, Episode 4, "Old Cases"
Finally got the time to watch the 4th Futurama movie (Into the Wild Green Yonder)
Just finished House, Series 5, ep 19 "Locked In".
Rachel Maddow & Keith Olbermann
Indian pop videos subtitled into english with what they sound like rather than the actual meaning of the words... Its suprisingly funny.. especially the bit about the Goat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw&feature=channel_page (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw&feature=channel_page)
Quote from: Swatopluk on April 01, 2009, 04:56:17 AM
Rachel Maddow & Keith Olbermann
again (no time in the evening for more)
Beer commercials. This one's worth a look:
[youtube=425,350]Gbh82fgdxAk[/youtube]
Korean B-Boys are amazing. :mrgreen:
Quote from: goat starer on April 03, 2009, 01:09:06 AM
Indian pop videos subtitled into english with what they sound like rather than the actual meaning of the words... Its suprisingly funny.. especially the bit about the Goat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw&feature=channel_page (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw&feature=channel_page)
:ROFL: My seething depression has lifted, if only momentarily.
My weight
This
[youtube=425,350]sJSXbA9j0Js[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJSXbA9j0Js
Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares ,
The episode takes place at the Fiesta Sunrise , the owner , Vic , is unbelievable , what a horrible owner , head must be so far up his buttocks that he must fart and burp at the same time .
Such filth and rotten , moldy , slimey food , kakaroaches everywhere with an Hispanic cooking staff that doesn't know how to cook their own cuisine and doesn't give a pooh etc .
Absolutely vomit inducing to witness .
I would never set foot in such a place knowing how low the standard is/was , even though Ramsey went through it .
Dad spent most of his working life in restaurants , he would be appalled , fascinated and entertained by Ramsey and idiots that need his help .
The Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann podcasts of this week.
I got a whole stack of new DVDs but I don't know when I'll be able to watch them
Quote from: Swatopluk on April 25, 2009, 07:39:14 AM
This
[youtube=425,350]sJSXbA9j0Js[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJSXbA9j0Js
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/5319362/US-government-renews-threat-to-withdraw-intelligence-sharing.html) ;)
100 greatest one hit wonders from the '80s , some of the artists I've never heard of .
It's a trip down memory lane .
About to watch "Water" an Indian movie.
Still one Olbermann to go, a few WhiteHouse clips (.gov not .com) and a lot of YoungTurks
The Incredible Human Journey (TV doc) - (out of Africa ) (well it is one theory)
Postcards from the Edge
Obama's speech at Notre Dame
Shaun Of The Dead , very funny .
Feeling not very well (to put it mildly) I have been only able to make it through part of the Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann podcasts of Thursday and Friday
a scanner darkly
Maybe today I'll get a chance to dig into the mountain of new DVDs.
Last seen was Singijeon - Divine Weapon
Just saw Up and liked very much.
Neues aus der Anstalt* (downloaded from youtube)
*political Kabarett
Tonight I shall be watching Rome. New housemate hasn't seen it yet, hoping for a convert...
Quote from: Pachyderm on June 08, 2009, 05:41:52 PM
Tonight I shall be watching Rome. New housemate hasn't seen it yet, hoping for a convert...
Ahh, Rome political schemes, sex and violence... ;D
I'm watching the band Yvonne http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgl86S8YEL0&feature=PlayList&p=89C31451107D28E5&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgl86S8YEL0&feature=PlayList&p=89C31451107D28E5&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=3) on Youtube. Went to their reunion concert last Friday :).
3rd season of Primeval
AI: Artifical Intelligence
....and weeping; how can this artificial stuff make me weep...... :o
Natures Great Events (BBC)
The latest Harry Potter movie.
Going to watch an old architecture documentary in the evening.
Otherwise mainly Rachel Maddow/Keith Olbermann podcasts and Young Turks youtube clips.
Don't know, when I will find time to watch all the new DVDs I bought.
Tonight, I believe we will be sitting down to watch the first episodes of Ashes to Ashes. Just finished the Life on Mars box sets..)
Have to admit, much as he is a total neanderthal, DCI Gene Hunt cracks me up.
At first I read the 'Life on Mars Box set' as 'Life of Marx Brothers' :giggle:(which would actually interest me)
Ummmmmm
Oil be standing on a korner watchin alla gulls fly by
lalalalalala
Standing on a korner giving alla gulls thee I ......
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Olbermann's and Maddow's tribute to Walter Cronkite
Scrapheap Challenge
Obama's NAACP Centennial speech.
Best MLK/Baptist Preacher imitation since the election ;)
This weekend's viewing lesson was not to start watching 5 part Torchwood specials when it's already after midnight.
Yellowstone (BBC), part 1: Winter
Quote from: beagle on July 19, 2009, 04:36:53 PM
This weekend's viewing lesson was not to start watching 5 part Torchwood specials when it's already after midnight.
Yeh! 'Co it's sooooo scary !! ;D
Kinky Boots (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434124/) - every bit as good as the Full Monty.
Quote from: beagle on July 19, 2009, 04:36:53 PM
This weekend's viewing lesson was not to start watching 5 part Torchwood specials when it's already after midnight.
If it's horror then better keep away from East Asian ones at that time of day (resp. night).
When I watched "Recycle" in the evening, I was on the verge of switching off the PC (DVD drive) in panic. And that without any actual violence shown.
There was a similar effect with the final episode in I TRE VOLTI DELLA PAURA. My rational brain sections told me that what I saw was a simple rubber doll moved on wheels (without any animation), that the trick was as cheap as it could get but the rest of the brain went into pure panic mode.
Torchwood isn't horror. Just crap.
Tonight, I will be re-watching some of the Blue Planet.
Quote from: Pachyderm on July 20, 2009, 03:09:00 PM
Torchwood isn't horror. Just crap.
Is that mutually exclusive? And dont tell that to the coprophobes! ;)
Quote from: Pachyderm on July 20, 2009, 03:09:00 PM
Torchwood isn't horror. Just crap.
Beagle and I have a competition going as to who watches the most crap the most seriously....... ;) ;)
Even without a TV I have the largest trash movie collection here! :mrgreen:
Quote from: Swatopluk on July 20, 2009, 02:36:35 PM
When I watched "Recycle" in the evening, I was on the verge of switching off the PC (DVD drive) in panic.
I was assembling an Ikea cabinet while watching the movie. It has its moments but the whole pro-
guilt, I mean pro-life argument turned me off very much. Also I think the girl was a better actress than the protagonist.
The Skeleton Key - aaaaaaargh! scarie movie!
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on July 20, 2009, 09:45:04 PM
Quote from: Swatopluk on July 20, 2009, 02:36:35 PM
When I watched "Recycle" in the evening, I was on the verge of switching off the PC (DVD drive) in panic.
I was assembling an Ikea cabinet while watching the movie. It has its moments but the whole pro-guilt, I mean pro-life argument turned me off very much. Also I think the girl was a better actress than the protagonist.
Interestingly the makers of the movie deny that they intended to send a 'pro-life' message and considered the abortion angle as a pure plot device. Admittedly it fits perfectly into the context (no matter whether the claim is true or false). I think the merit of the movie lies in its visuals and atmosphere, less in its plot and little in the acting.
I doubt though that (at least US) pro-lifers could make much use of it. There are too many elements that would clash with their (esp. Kristian(TM)) ideology.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on July 20, 2009, 07:18:00 PM
Quote from: Pachyderm on July 20, 2009, 03:09:00 PM
Torchwood isn't horror. Just crap.
Beagle and I have a competition going as to who watches the most crap the most seriously....... ;) ;)
Talking of which, Midsomer Murders is on tonight. More village murder mayhem.
I wasn't scared by Torchwood; I was just looking behind the sofa for some coins I dropped (the last time the daleks were on).
I was watching Walk The Line the other night.
Good movie.
Why does anyone move to Midsomer? Given the average number of fatalities in each episode, all the locals must be dead by now,leaving only the incomers.
Watched some of Ashes to Ashes. Excellent. More tonight.
Quote from: Pachyderm on July 22, 2009, 05:20:10 PM
Why does anyone move to Midsomer? Given the average number of fatalities in each episode, all the locals must be dead by now,leaving only the incomers.
It'd make more sense if it was only ever the incomers wot get dun away with ;)
Ashes is splendid and a very good take on the disgusting goings on in our British past. Just shows how far we have come from the bad old days when there was no equality and violence was tolerated (encouraged)........ :irony:
This
[youtube=425,350]nH3JF_5cCok[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH3JF_5cCok
Quote from: Griffin NoName on July 22, 2009, 05:33:54 PM
Quote from: Pachyderm on July 22, 2009, 05:20:10 PM
Why does anyone move to Midsomer? Given the average number of fatalities in each episode, all the locals must be dead by now,leaving only the incomers.
It'd make more sense if it was only ever the incomers wot get dun away with ;)
Elderly British character actors seem particularly likely to be chosen. (Apart from Orlando Bloom and that pitchfork ).
Thank you Swato!
That little gem has been forwarded to a bunch of my friends now! :D
I knew the Evil Overlord list long ago and just stumbled on the video via a wikipedia link.
One entry is of course missing: If I put an impressive illusion on my throne, I will not install the controls behind a simple curtain in the audience hall right next to the people I want to impress.
I also find no countermeasures to intruders with invisibility cloaks/technology on the list.
Rachel Maddow.
While holding the Capn Benji, the timber-shivverrin' salty sea dogge chihuahua.
Who has awakened from his nap and is bestowing more chihuahua kisses.
NatGeo: documentary on the making, transport, installation, and "ignition" of the CERN magnets.
Gentlemen, start your Large Hadron Colliders... :drive:
Discovery : Hurricanes .
Life.
Yet another load of rubbish on which I am hooked.
Here Damian Lews is the nice smiley guy who likes group hugs, whereas in John Galsworthy's "The Forsyte Saga" which I am aslo watching with great glee he is the dastardly evil and very nasty Soames Forsyte. It's fun flicking between the two.
Rachel Maddow and Countdown (currently without Keith Olbermann)
People with bags all around (I'm at the airport)
Afro Samuari - Resurrection
Just got Ashes to Ashes season 2.
more Gene Genie and Bolly Knickers!
South Pacific (BBC documentary series)
Quote from: Pachyderm on August 03, 2009, 03:04:45 PM
Just got Ashes to Ashes season 2.
more Gene Genie and Bolly Knickers!
They don't make 'em like that anymore........
Roll on season 3.
Moi? I am watching Breaking the Mould - the story of Penicillin. Poor old Florey should never have trusted all them others. Still maybe the Nobel eventually made up for it. Fleming is played by one of the more evil doctors from Casualty several years back :o
The Thing
aaaaargh!
Quote from: Griffin NoName on August 04, 2009, 08:24:42 PM
The Thing
aaaaargh!
The one from 20000 fathoms or the one from the swamp? ;)
The one in the ice...... it seems to be primarily a film aimed at arsonists.
Tin Man , it finally came to Canadian telly , I loved the story and special effects . Although i would have chosen another actress for the part of DG ( named after Dorothy Gale ) . There were some bits in the plot that I thought was weak but I felt it didn't harm the effort .
It was a very good mix of humor and dread which would appeal to a broad audience , a brilliant re-imaging of Baum's classic .
Keith Olbermann / Countdown
Ice Age 3
Not as good as the prior two in my opinion
Rachel Maddow
when, oh when will all those country-****ing mercenaries and neocons be brought to justice?
About to watch past week's Daily Show & Colbert Report (as soon as I finish listening to the full Appelknykarjazz album :D)
This blatant removal of a local landmark :mrgreen:
[youtube=425,350]1_UyIp0nRC4[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_UyIp0nRC4
:ROFL: ;D
I wish I was talented enough to do the same to either Stockholm city hall's tower or Kaknästornet (Stockholm's TV tower)...
Stockholm City hall
(http://www.500utflykter.se/img/bilder/stadshuset1.jpg)
Kaknästornet
(http://www.alltomstockholm.se/multimedia/archive/00001/Image_for_entity__Kak_1333a.jpg)
*So* glad I wasn't at The Rally in Sturgis on Friday! Sturgis is a tiny townlet, drawing up to 400.000 bikers (according to the news) for the annual rally. Two bars and a bowling alley comprise the downtown, so not much in the line of shelter. Those outside the big tents or on the highway to or from were beat pretty hard by hail ranging from golf ball to baseball size.
Friends at a booth there had significant damage (windshields and side windows broken/blown out, "totalled" body damage, etc.
[youtube=425,350]RV9F7eKQrUM[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]xTTG6EVbFr8[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]C5FB99735D32FCF9&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=9[/youtube]
About to watch District 9
The Cut - for the second time.
Maddow, Olbermann, The Young Turks (and likely Billy Moyers later in the day)
500 days of summer
The Parallax View
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on August 16, 2009, 07:51:14 PM
500 days of summer
Oh god, what a painful movie. Don't get me wrong, it works beautifully, it's just a lot of pain peppered with subtle jokes.
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Now I should watch something mindless to take the taste off...
The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller, 1951).
Actually a watchable US war movie (quite a rarity, especially among the old ones) and the first about the Korean war (which was barely 6 month old at the time).
Completely free of hurrah patriotism. Racism is deliberately used but not in the usual way to dehumanize the enemy but as part of the high degree of realism displaying the typical attitudes at the time (i.e. no whitewash of how minorities were treated as common in other movies).
According to the imdb that led to Fuller being investigated by the FBI (it was the McCarthy era)
Paint dry.
Seriously.
This is actually more exciting than it sounds, since it means that I am finally finished with the refrub of our bathroom.
The Life of David Gale
(I hated the parallax view)
Spammers on this forum...
:smite:
Bernd das Brot clips
Shrek on DVD :mrgreen:
Quote from: Swatopluk on August 23, 2009, 06:12:49 PM
Bernd das Brot clips
more of those + Olbermann and Maddow
Today, I have been watching for bats.
Tonight, I will also be watching (and listening) for bats.
This trend is beginning to worry me. I need to get out more...
I have seen something that is likely a bat flying round the house at dusk these year occasionally (that sentence looks awful).
Just use some commas... ;)
Not watching anything in particular, hopefully I'll see sheep as I'll try to sleep.
It should have been 'this' not 'these'.
Time to download the Maddow/Olbermann podcast
Neil Diamond: Hot August Night in Madison Square.
Nothing like it for making one feel young and ancient at the same time.
Just finished the fourth series of Coast(BBC)
L and I have just finished Wallace & Gromit, The Curse Of The Wererabbit on DVD. :D
Hm, should I watch some youtube clips or some documentary on DVD? Not enough time for a full movie.
MirrorMask.
Neil Gaiman shares my birthday.
That is a great movie.
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Some episodes of P&T Bullsh!t on Netflix streaming.
I went for a number of The Young Turks youtube clips
Last Night at the Proms with Daviid Attenborough on Floor Polisher.
Castle the TV series, streamed over internet...
It's entertaining but frankly... ::)
I have a very weak spot for Nathan Fillion but not even that help, it's that bad.
Olbermann
Mythbusters
Reclaiming the Blade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reclaiming_The_Blade
Ghostrider
"All of your souls are belong to me..."
I have to recommend Sita Sings the Blues (http://www.archive.org/details/Sita_Sings_the_Blues) (click for link to the Internet Archive.) Very entertaining!
(http://www.artofthetitle.com/media/film/2008/sita_sings_the_blues_contact.jpg)
If you're experiencing buffering problems, click 'small file'.
The monthly historical film document. This month about the 1928 exhibition Die technische Stadt
I just watched Sita Sings the Blues :)
Very good, I'll spread the word about it.
Thank you pieces o nine!
Pleasantville.
What a pleasant film.
These nice shorts
http://www.goingunderground.de/wettbewerb.html
Guess the movie... ;)
Tell us more about it! ;)
It's from one of my preferred directors...
3 days of Olbermann and Maddow podcasts in a row
Mythbusters.
Pirates/Queens of Langkasuka
The Nazis: A Warning from History
Quote from: Pachyderm on October 01, 2009, 08:23:23 PM
The Nazis: A Warning from History
That sits on my shelf for ages now but I have not yet watched it. Even twice since it is also part of a major DVD box I bought last month.
Desperately Seeking Susan.
The usual evening mix of Olbermann, Maddow and TheYoungTurks
plus a bit Bernd das Brot
The man who sued God.
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Midsomer Murders (again)... Model villages will never seem quite the same to me ever again.
Waiting for Bill Moyer's Journal to download
I am also fascinated by this clip
[youtube=425,350]6p8v82_9Yf0[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p8v82_9Yf0
Are those 10mt waves? :o
Don't know how high but it probably was not a high point for the passengers.
This is also a classic
[youtube=425,350]O6KE0re9vCI[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6KE0re9vCI
The Truman Show
A (nature) documentary on Turkey
The South Park episode "The F Word". :ROFL: - yes I'm sick of loud motorcycles showing off downtown.
This:
[youtube=425,350]1GDrh1pRP7c[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GDrh1pRP7c
You see, cellphones are a accursed!!!
Dr Who - The Invasion of Time
Wildes Russland (nature documentary)
The Blue Planet
Quote from: Swatopluk on November 29, 2009, 09:21:58 AM
Wildes Russland (nature documentary)
Now finished.
They get the BBC optics but still have to learn a bit about coherency/cutting. Otherwise remarkably good.
I have now so many yet unseen DVDs that I probaly could not finish them all even if I watched 24/7 for all of my holidays :(
But given my experience that DVDs have a tendency to become suddenly unavailable (or hyperexpensive for the editions I prefer) I tend to grab what I can. How do you think I got all those obscure movies I use for the
Guess the movie thread?
So what should I watch next? People hitting other people with or without blunt or sharp instruments (subgroups blackhaired Easterlings or blond Norsebeings), obscure longteethers, more BBC documentaries, feed for the inner pre-teen...?
Quote from: Swatopluk on November 30, 2009, 10:27:19 AM
So what should I watch next?
It's time we started you on Dr Who. If you start with the 1963 Hartnell ones now you'll be up to date in no time.
^ what he said. :k9-affirmative:
TardisMedia's (http://www.dailymotion.com/playlists/user/tardismedia/1) Daily Motion site has a comprehensive selection of the classic series in intermittent chronological order (with a smattering of recons of the missing episodes added of late).
Of course, it's always best to support the beeb directly if possible...
Unfortunately the BBC seems to have lost the tapes of their original b/w first series (I prefer to start at the roots).
The Doctor is not an unknown entity to me, although my first encounter was not by TV but by a book (at the end a huge number of dormant Daleks were buried by ice sludge(?) in their subterranean base but the highest-ranking one that got away got the last word, saying that they would dig out their comrades to fight another day since Daleks never give up and cannot be beaten).
Later I tried to get the scripts for the episodes that Douglas Adams wrote. During a school exchange trip to Coventry I got to see an episode on TV but could not understand much (that was before I learned proper English). Since then I only got the two movies made for the big screen (with Peter Cushing as The Doctor) on DVD*. I hear the Dalesk in that were superior to the ones used by the BBC at the time and were then used for later TV episodes.
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Next documentary. This time about the Alps.
Expecting a huge load of new DVDs (mainly documentaries) from England**
*also containing a documentary on the Dalek mania
**although I assume that they come form amazon's central depot in Southern Germany
You could always jump in with Patrick Troughton, or even the modern series. Even I don't remember Hartnell (well I was three).
Ha! I remember the very first..... my little sister hid behind the sofa.
watching..... Andy Marr's History of Modern Britain
Quote from: Swatopluk
Unfortunately the BBC seems to have lost the tapes of their original b/w first series (I prefer to start at the roots).
...
Not all of them. They did neglect to save tapes for some of Hartnell and too many of Troughten. but quite a bit still exists.
I don't remember seeing anything before Pertwee; we watched it on a very snowy PBS(?) transmission.
The Bitter End - Canadian indie web tv - pretty funny.
http://thebitterend.tv/?p=70
During my absence the huge DVD load arrived. But there are also three days worth of Rachel, Keith and The Young Turks.
The Rise and Fall of Gallifrey
Quote from: beagle on December 05, 2009, 09:58:18 PM
The Rise and Fall of Gallifrey
Has it got Reggie Perrin in it?
Just finished the week of Rachel, Keith etc.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on December 06, 2009, 12:09:06 AM
Quote from: beagle on December 05, 2009, 09:58:18 PM
The Rise and Fall of Gallifrey
Has it got Reggie Perrin in it?
I didn't get where I am today by answering facetious questions like that.
It's one of the extras on the Invasion of Time DVD (ten minutes late, Vardan ate transduction barrier near Kasterborous).
Family Guy Season 8
Quote from: Pachyderm on December 06, 2009, 04:34:30 PM
Family Guy Season 8
Waiting for their 2nd Star Wars movie
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The second part of the documentary about the Alpes
Going to see a $5 prawn movie*
*District 9 in the cheap theater ;)
A documentary on Nicola Tesla
Quote from: Agujjim on December 12, 2009, 01:07:14 AM
Going to see a $5 prawn movie*
*District 9 in the cheap theater ;)
The best prawn movie ever made!
Ayuh, I went in with the expectation that it would be good - and it was still really, really good!
Life (the latest BBC documentary series with David Attenborough)
Tonight, I shall be watching The Boat that Rocked.
A documetary on bionics
Victorian Farm Christmas on iPlayer.
Now I want a bowler hat.
Landscape Mysteries (BBC)
The very good "The Story of Math" docuemtary unfortunately liketh not my DVD player, so I have to return it.
The End of Time (Pt 1)
Not watching History Boys ;)
Pirates of the Caribbean pt. 2 on the TV.
Britain from Above (BBC)
and a movie that may be used for a later guessing challenge
Still not watching the History Boys. I have it with me but have been otherwise occupied..
The Victorians (BBC documentary)
Nymphicus, my pet cockatiel, grooming himself on my lap.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on December 28, 2009, 02:51:56 AM
Still not watching the History Boys. I have it with me but have been otherwise occupied..
Only excuses involving twenty year old Moroccan waiters will be accepted.
Sword & Butterfly
Butterfly Sword (no connection)
Die Varus-Schlacht (documentary)
Quote from: beagle on December 29, 2009, 12:39:47 AM
Quote from: Griffin NoName on December 28, 2009, 02:51:56 AM
Still not watching the History Boys. I have it with me but have been otherwise occupied..
Only excuses involving twenty year old Moroccan waiters will be accepted.
Actually the handsome young from-abroad-but-don't-know-where bar man is very attentive. He offered to look after all my xmas presents yesterday.
Watched Avatar yesterday
Episode One of The End of Time....... rather a long winded way of getting to the line the master race
Trying to watch family guy (very loud music playing :\).
The last of Olbermann and Maddow in 2009.
Old b/w Mickey Mouse cartoons
The End of Time (Pt 2).
Vlad the Impaler (1979). Ceaucescu's attempt to do what Stalin did for Ivan IV. Conventional but watchable (vampires not mentioned a single time btw).
Elvis, Elvis, Elvis and more Elvis. Hawaii concert 1973 at present. It's been a whole weekend of Elvis on the TV here.
I did manage to squeeze in The End of Time part 2 and the regeneration. Left me with lots of questions. Like that comment on the hair.......... is regeneration always the same gender? If so, why?
Incidentally Matt Smith was already a big hit as far as I am concerned. Saw him in "Party Animals" and earmarked him for stardom.
Quote from: Griffin NoName
I did manage to squeeze in The End of Time part 2 and the regeneration. Left me with lots of questions. Like that comment on the hair.......... is regeneration always the same gender? If so, why?
1. Yes, so far.
2. That is not really clear.
Some past changes in Doctors spurred a great deal of speculation on whether, this time, he would be a she. (There's been an ongoing "not a Ginger this time, either' joke, too.) Looking at an alleged roster of potentials for this time around, I would really have preferred any of them to what I have called 'the creature' since he was first announced.
Time [sic] will tell if he lives up to the role.
A number of anime shorts including one about a foundling boy brought up by a telephone pole developing motherly instincts :ROFL:
"Andrej Rubljov" -Tarkovskij's breakthrough movie on DVD. A christmas present from my mother, by the way. Lovely film, beautiful photography.
KO: Countdown.
Quote from: Lindorm on January 06, 2010, 12:08:14 AM
"Andrej Rubljov" -Tarkovskij's breakthrough movie on DVD. A christmas present from my mother, by the way. Lovely film, beautiful photography.
Unfortunately only the censored version seems to be easily available (although that too is 3hours long).
David Attenborough - how many people can the world support
Quote from: Swatopluk on January 06, 2010, 08:50:42 AM
Quote from: Lindorm on January 06, 2010, 12:08:14 AM
"Andrej Rubljov" -Tarkovskij's breakthrough movie on DVD. A christmas present from my mother, by the way. Lovely film, beautiful photography.
Unfortunately only the censored version seems to be easily available (although that too is 3hours long).
Yes, the release i have is one of the many cut versions. The one I have is co-released by Swedish indie label Njutafilms and Russian Cinema Council, and seems to be a somewhat restored version of the original Soviet distribution, at about 190 minutes length. Njutafilms have packaged it with a extra disc with lots of bonus materials -documentaries, behind-the-scenes and some cut scenes, too. I haven't watched everything yet, but it seems to be a solid release.
Quote from: pieces o nine on January 04, 2010, 03:41:50 AM
Quote from: Griffin NoName
I did manage to squeeze in The End of Time part 2 and the regeneration. Left me with lots of questions. Like that comment on the hair.......... is regeneration always the same gender? If so, why?
1. Yes, so far.
2. That is not really clear.
I suspect originally because Dr Who was aimed at small boys (who wouldn't accept a female hero, CF J K Rowling and Harriet Potter) and their fathers (who wanted a leggy female assistant in a very short dress). Be interesting to know what the gender/age mix of the audience is these days.
I notice Rassilon has lost weight since The Five Doctors.
Quote from: beagle on January 06, 2010, 10:11:51 PM
I notice Rassilon has lost weight since The Five Doctors.
How careless. I wonder which planet he left it on.
As to viewing population, probably lots of old ladies like me who want to see what Matt Smith gets up to. :'(
Underworld (part III)
Remake of Turn of the Screw.
Was Ronnie Barker in that?
Last Chance to See (with Stephen Fry in the Douglas Adams position).
Green Porno
Quote from: beagle on January 08, 2010, 07:26:26 AM
Was Ronnie Barker in that?
:ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL:
*
for puzzled Toadfish, Ronnie Barker was the star of a comedy prison series and a national treasure
Just done with In Bruges. Loved it.
I got through some Asian movies in the last few days, including the first two parts of King Naresuan (2.5 hours each, the third part is still in the making). The Thai seem to have a hand for great (and long) historic epics. What makes them extra interesting is the presence but not dominance of firearms (emphasis on artillery). And no wire-fu!
The Queen And I Film by the Irani /Swedish film-maker Nahid Persson Sarvestani, that was supposed to become a documentary about the Iranian Exile Queen Fahra Diba but turned out to be as much about the film-maker her self. It's a interesting story about two women in exile that despite coming from as different pasts as they possibly could turn out to have a lot in common.
If you have the chance to see it do so.
Our Winnie ~ Bennett
Just done with Oceans 12 on TV
Came home so late last night (due to train delays) and got up so early today I had no chance to watch anything.
A cooking programme. Food porn!!!
"Monty Python almost The Truth"
;D
Now I want to see all their Flying Circus episodes and movies again.
Yesterday evening just enough time for the podcasts of Olbermann and Maddow
Monday's Colbert & Stewart
Liverpool v Reading in the FA Cup
H and Dom thee Danger Catte are watching Ghost Hunters on my tv.
Olbermann and Maddow (no time for more)
Mythbusters
A few The Young Turks clips on youtube
LA Story
what a load of rubbish but I wish it would happen to me
I fancy talking to motorway signs
Twins Mission
I, Claudius - What shall we do about Claudius?
Posthumous is well on the way to becoming an adjective.
Antiques Roadshow :shock:
A History of Scotland (BBC)
A fine choice. Sir, I congratulate you on your impeccable taste. ;D
Today, I am mostly watching the Winter Olympics...
Das große Eis (a 1936 documentary film on the German 1930/1 Greenland expedition that led to the death of Alfred Wegener. That's the guy who came up with the idea of continental drift)
OOOOO Hockey - Canada vs. Germany, and waiting for Kim Yu-na in the women's short program.
Apart from prawn? ;) Nothing currently. It's too early for the Maddow/Olbermann podcast download
The roof of my mothers house, which at the moment needs to be cleared of snow...
That would take a proffessional however, they are very popular at the moment so finding one might prove difficult and be quite expensive.
:-\
My watch
Canada vs. Russia, who's getting it handed to them worse than the Germans so far.
EDIT: Not as bad as the Germans after all, but that's the first time we've beat the Russians in Olympic hockey in 50 years!
(http://www.canpages.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/canadian-flag-toronto.jpg)
We obviously sent in the wrong team.
To be fair, Germany was not expected to be serious hockey contenders. Canada losing at hockey is like the US losing at war.
happens far too often but nobody will admit it :mrgreen:
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UPDATE: Watching women's gold-medal game (Canada vs. US). This one's closer...
More hockey in a week than I've watched in a year, and likely to watch the remaining men's game(s). Olympic hockey is always good, and usually drags me back into watching the danged NHL. We'll see if Calgary deserve the attention later in the year (I don't have a clue how they're doing, which suggests it's not particularly good - I'm a fair-weather fan. Why bother watching crappy hockey?).
Neues aus der Anstalt (political Kabarett)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neues_aus_der_Anstalt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabarett
Curling
Cats in order renew my memory for the next cthulhufication session
The rugby.
Olbermann, Maddow, Young Turks
Will be watching the Big Game today....
i'm scared to watch! :scared:
A documentary about the red crab migration on Christmas Island
The gay channel, LOGO (cable), has started rerunning Buffy the Vampire Slayer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_episodes).
My favorite all-time episode, Once More, With Feeling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_More,_with_Feeling_%28Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer%29) is on right now. The only one I like better, is the one that is completely silent from start to almost-finish, Hush (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush_%28Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer%29)
Films by Carl Theodor Dreyer (there is a retrospective currently)
Prästänkan (DD would have loved that old lady)
Die Gezeichneten (made in Germany but looking authentically Russian)
and maybe this evening La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc
Going to see the grandson tomorrow, so we'll see In the Night Garden.
If you haven't seen this, the ultimate in weird kiddies' TV, it's worth a look. Your brain will never be the same again and you'll see who my avatar represents!
Just finished Definite Article with H. :D
Countdown, Maddow, Young Turks
House
A documentary about the band Joy Division.
The film was interesting, well some parts of it at least, but the translation for the subtitles sucked "#¤$*% especially when it came to the lyrics.
As Joy Division played a major part in my late teens I still know most of the lyrics by heart, heck they was what sparked my deeper interest to understand and speak proper English, beyond the poor school English I had got by with until then.
Still, with that poor English I had back in 1993 I would have made better translations! >:(
I better get down from my soap box, I ought to be asleep by now...
I think I'm going to take a trip down memory lane with my Mp3 player now, it's likely to pave the way for some interesting dreams. :)
On British TV at the moment there is about 59¾ hours a week* of programs about property; buying houses, fixing houses, rebuilding ghastly old ruins**. Almost as bad as snooker or golf.
Mrs H is watching Relocation. I'm going to break out the rum.
* well, it feels like it to me
**No, not a reference to our dear Queen
Quote from: Darlica on March 10, 2010, 08:11:53 PM
I think I'm going to take a trip down memory lane with my Mp3 player now, it's likely to pave the way for some interesting dreams. :)
Sweet dreams. Here's the radio spectrum from a dying star* to put you in the right JD frame of mind. ;)
(http://microsites.virgin.net/images/joy_division-gal-covers.jpg)
http://microsites.virgin.net/music/pictures/toptens/best-album-covers-ever.php?ssid=15 (http://microsites.virgin.net/music/pictures/toptens/best-album-covers-ever.php?ssid=15)
* CP1919
That looks like Tolkien's map of the Misty Mountains :mrgreen:
I think I can see the gates of Moria towards the bottom left.
PEDO MELLON A MINNO
Beagle, did you know I've coveted a t-shirt with that album cover for years...
They had some for sale when New Order did their Get Ready tour (first time since Ian's death they played Ceremony and Love Will Tear Us Apart on stage) but by the time I reached the merchandise table they where all gone. :-[
It was my PC backdrop for many years (apart from the JD connection I briefly did time on a very minor student project at Lord's Bridge, so it was local history too). I've seen bootleg T-shirts but not good quality ones. It looks far better on the album than in the book :)
Quote from: pieces o nine on January 04, 2010, 03:41:50 AM
Quote from: Griffin NoName
I did manage to squeeze in The End of Time part 2 and the regeneration. Left me with lots of questions. Like that comment on the hair.......... is regeneration always the same gender? If so, why?
1. Yes, so far.
2. That is not really clear.
Some past changes in Doctors spurred a great deal of speculation on whether, this time, he would be a she. (There's been an ongoing "not a Ginger this time, either' joke, too.) Looking at an alleged roster of potentials for this time around, I would really have preferred any of them to what I have called 'the creature' since he was first announced.
Time [sic] will tell if he lives up to the role.
He's got a tweed jacket just like mine.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/7421880/Doctor-Who-star-Matt-Smith-on-sonic-screwdrivers-Steven-Moffat-and-following-David-Tennant.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/7421880/Doctor-Who-star-Matt-Smith-on-sonic-screwdrivers-Steven-Moffat-and-following-David-Tennant.html)
It's going to be weird when 8 year olds start wearing them.
I want one of those new screwdrivers. It's going on my birthday list.
the last two parts of A History of Scotland (BBC)
"Inside John Lewis" on iPlayer
(Not an anatomy program, for the benefit of overseas readers...).
Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something Dark Side
Finally got around to watching the Star Trek Ultimate Prequel movie.
It was pretty good-- and they wrote it in such a way that they have more or less, freedom to write damn-all whatever they please...
:)
Next up: Zombieland.
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on March 27, 2010, 04:58:56 AM
Next up: Zombieland.
Will be another month before that comes out here. Still not sure, whether I should buy it.
When at last will "I walked with a zombie" come out on region 2 DVD (and also the original "The Cat and the Canary")?
Whilst trying and failing to get to sleep in the overnight lodging rooms yesterday, I watched part of a Martin Scorsese movie. It apparently featured a lot of Manly Men being very Manly, with jutting jawlines and all that, one of whom was brroding over his dark past, which led him to start working as a undercover police infiltartor in the gang ran by Mad Mobster Jack Nicholson in order to redeem himself. They then did various manly things, fucked each other's wives and then ended up shooting each other and everyone else, after which everyone died and the film ended.
Can someone explain to me how Martin Scorsese came to be hailed as a genious director?
Probably the same way that John Wayne became a great actor ;)
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Yesterday evening: Medea directed by Lars von Trier using a script by Carl Theodor Dreyer.
Dreyer never got around to direct it himself and he failed to get Maria Callas for the title role (who later did it for Pasolini).
Interesting but clearly not for the mainstream audience (same holds true for the Pasolini film btw)
Quote from: Lindorm on March 27, 2010, 10:52:30 AM
Can someone explain to me how Martin Scorsese came to be hailed as a genious director?
I actually liked The Departed (the movie you reference), somehow I find it fresh in certain approach despite the "manly" stereotype, besides the ending isn't the typical Hollywood fair.
For something more nuanced watch The Age of Innocence (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106226/).
Wizards (Bakshi)
Sita Sings the Blues
(again)
Quote from: pieces o nine on March 29, 2010, 03:36:13 AM
Sita Sings the Blues
(again)
I downloaded it long ago but have not gone beyond the first (or seond?) part yet.
Baron Prásil (Münchhausen) by Karel Zeman
Here two clips to give an impression
[youtube=425,350]ixGd6MUXtfs[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixGd6MUXtfs
[youtube=425,350]kOhoMl0kWfw[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOhoMl0kWfw
An 120 minute PBS Eyes on the Prize:
Awakenings: 1954-1956
and
Fighting Back: 1957-1962
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/ (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/)
If you replaced "black" with "gay" in proclamations of many of it's activists? It'd eerily fit...
I watched Burton's Alice in Wonderland on Tuesday.
It again shows the superiority of Cameron with Avatar.
Not only can Burton not resist the temptation to throw objects into the vierwer's eyes, the whole thing lacks real depths and is only slightly improved over the normal 2D.
I also agree with critics that Burton has sold his soul to Disney with this one. The skill is still there but not the untamed anarchy and darkness. I don't say the movie is bad but there is imo lots of lost potential in order to please the masters. I guess a sequel is already in preparation :-\
Btw, until the credits rolled I thought Depp had taken a double role for the Knave of Hearts looked very similar to him (at least for me). I did not check the cast before (beyond Depp and Bonham-Carter), so it came as a happy surprise when the Jabberwocky spoke with the voice of Christopher Lee. Unfortunately he gets literally cut short when the vorpal blade hacks off the tongue after about two sentences.
In general the cast did its job very well.
The new Dr Who. I'm now awaiting Piece's review ;) .
Behemoth the Sea Monster
Quote from: beagle on April 03, 2010, 10:57:36 PM
The new Dr Who. I'm now awaiting Piece's review ;) .
It's either: (A) wait for the US day-byoo of The Creature; or (B) wait for the right opportunity to *
COUGH* acquire it *
COUGH*
Feel free to review in the meantime... ;)
Chuffington on C-Beebies, with the grandson. Not as good as some kids' shows. Last night it was Wallace and Gromit; now that is good.
So many trash films still to watch in my collection. What should I choose?
Quote from: Swatopluk on March 27, 2010, 09:21:04 AM
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on March 27, 2010, 04:58:56 AM
Next up: Zombieland.
Will be another month before that comes out here. Still not sure, whether I should buy it.
When at last will "I walked with a zombie" come out on region 2 DVD (and also the original "The Cat and the Canary")?
Insert mandatory recommendation for "Fido" as a relatively obscure and very underrated zom-com (and the best/only Canadian take on the genre that I'm aware of, despite the references to 50's Americana). Partially filmed in my hometown, you can see the park where I used to feed the duckies as a lad in several scenes.
Zombie movie aficionados should not miss this one.
The German DVD edition of Fido seems to be faulty, if the negative comments on amazon are a reliable indicator. Additionally it seems to lack the extras of the US edition. Therefore I have abstained.
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Let the right one in/So finster die Nacht.
I hear there are plans for a US remake of this Swedish movie. Sounds like a very bad idea (and therefore a likely one)
Quote from: beagle on April 03, 2010, 10:57:36 PM
The new Dr Who. I'm now awaiting Piece's review ;) .
No spoilers.
I thought the first episode was quite weak. I enjoyed the Dr Who Confidential more........ the small girl gave a really excellent performance.
Apart from that, I spent most of the time trying to work out if Matt Smith's eyes are set too close together which is usually unattractive but if so in his case is not so (at least IMO) and wondering whether prisoner numbers ought to start at one - although that would have spoiled a joke.
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Watching.............. last ever Touch of Frost.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on April 06, 2010, 03:16:33 AM
Quote from: beagle on April 03, 2010, 10:57:36 PM
The new Dr Who. I'm now awaiting Piece's review ;) .
No spoilers.
Well, according to the preview I saw, he was brandishing a --
handgun. (http://railbastard.freeforums.org/images/smilies/dalek.gif)
In a nod to a previous thread, I would say that a sidearm is not appropriate for the Doctor; indeed, it would not be inappropriate for someone to relieve him of it.On a related note, this:
[youtube=425,350]_lhiAY95kLQ[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lhiAY95kLQ
Quote from: pieces o nine on April 06, 2010, 05:26:09 AM
Well, according to the preview I saw, he was brandishing a -- handgun. (http://railbastard.freeforums.org/images/smilies/dalek.gif)
In a nod to a previous thread, I would say that a sidearm is not appropriate for the Doctor; indeed, it would not be inappropriate for someone to relieve him of it.
Does that include or exclude the appropriateness or inappropriateness of his screwdriver?
Love the video.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on April 06, 2010, 05:50:15 AM
Does that include or exclude the appropriateness or inappropriateness of his screwdriver?
That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous Doctors, or to take arms against a sea of aliens, and in opposing, exterminate them.
And we can only hope he makes more videos. :)
Quote from: pieces o nineWell, according to the preview I saw, he was brandishing a --
handgun.
Not in the first of the new; sure that wasn't the last of the old?
Unless it was in the preview bit after the end of the episode (which my freeview recorder cut off prematurely...).
Never ever let your freeview recorder have control of time of programme end :mrgreen:
Too true! And now and again the damn things start late as well (or many minutes early).
Yes, it's odd isn't it. One of mine usually does a little warm up session where it thinks to itself and hums a bit before starting to record. The other can never make up it's mind whether to record the programme title. Goodness knows how unpredictable life will be when we have more home robotics.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on April 06, 2010, 09:33:47 AM
Never ever let your freeview recorder have control of time of programme end :mrgreen:
Arrgh. It did it again. Just as T.D. was taking a phone call from W.S.C. in the preview.
Had to use iPlayer to see it.
I really must read the recorder manual and find how to wrest control of time from it.
diverse Youtube clips
Season 4 of Robot Chicken
Wonders of the Solar System (BBC)
Okay, I freely admit I'm seriously behind the times, but I'm finally catching up to someone called "Lady GaGa" on YouTube.
My one-word reaction? 'Interesting'
At least she can carry an actual tune...
:)
Apparently, she's the hottest thing in 2009.... and I missed the whole shebang.
Sometimes, being an old fart has minor advantages.
Yes, Lady Gaga is already old hat :mrgreen:
But her hats are probably still new
Museum of Life(BBC)
Not at the moment but generally, the Worldcup.
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
TO - A Space Fantasy
Dante's Inferno - An Animated Epic
Museum of Life(BBC)
Youtube clips
The clock.
Damn, it's slow today...
Der goldene Garten (the golden garden)
A 1954 documentary film on California.
A strange experience. The narrator was THE voice of the war newsreels and the style of speech had not yet changed. A lot of things depicted as totally foreign to Europeans at the time (e.g. drive throughs (both food and car wash), supermarkets) are today too normal to be noticed at all. Other things are still as foreign as they were then like moving even large buildings to make room for new parking lots. Interestingly it was noticed even then that infrastructure was not growing fast enough to keep up with traffic and what a problem that would become.
My Dinner with Andre
um, who's seen this?
Maddow and Olbermann
More worldcup
Quilting & woodworking programs on PBS.
I watched England v Algeria yesterday, but I wish I hadn't.
Wizards (Bakshi)
(http://www.dreamagic.com/roger/wizards.gif)
http://www.dreamagic.com/roger/wizards.gif
Toy Story 3
The Genius of Design
How Germany creamed Argentina
Just back from a trip to Hamburg (museum visits).
Will check the photos once I leave this PC and go to my laptop.
Also Keith Olbermann podacst is to be watched (No Maddow today it seems)
It's what I'm not watching - no more Wimbledon till next year! Hooray!!
The Thick Of It
(political comedy, sort of a UK version of the West Wing, but with vastly more swearing....)
First four episodes of Claymore, first episode of Lazytown
Just finished season 1 finale, The Tudors.
Gearing up for season 2.
The second Claymore DVD
Just finish watching Brazil with my son (who saw it for the 1st time).
Olbermann and Maddow podcasts
Just watched The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo.... I've got to give it an an R+ rating for violence and a couple rape scenes, so fair warning. What an incredible movie though! Chock full of surprises and a completely engrossing plot. It's subtitled since it's a Swedish film....
My father liked it too, although he prefers the books (in Swedish)
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Of course Swedish films are impure, so they have to be remade in the US. Let the right one in (Swedish vampire movie) is currently suffering the same fate.
On the other end of the spectrum, despite being US (Disney) financed and in English the Icelandic LazyTown series is not available anymore on DVD in the US and the second series was never broadcast. According to one participant there was even an intervention by the Bush administration to remove a (harmless) Texas (oil) related joke. Well, a series that agitates against the consumption of junk food and too much TV, for unprocessed food and sports (that is not about winning) had it coming obviously.
I have read the Swedish books, and found them so-so -I liked the first one best, of the three books.
What's even more fascinating is the real life and adventures of the author, Stieg Larsson. He was along-time antifascist and antiracist activist, an editor of the Expo magazine, sort of like a Swedish equivalent to Searchlight, doing lots of investigative reporting about neo-nazis, racism and the so-called "New Conservatives" in Sweden and elsewhere.
In his younger days (1977-79), he also was a military advisor to the Eritrean guerilla forces in the war against Ethiopia and the Mengistu regime, training mortar gunners and forward observers. He was also active in the Trotskyite Kommunistiska Arbetareförbundet (Communist Worker's Union) party, and an active supporter of the FNL and North Vietnamese government during the Vietnam war -albeit not as an military advisor at the time. A lot of what he was up to is still rather hush-hush, but he certainly wasn't content with sitting on his butt and moaning about the state of things.
A couple other movies I recently watched that were very good:
The Legend of 1900
The Worlds Fastest Indian
UXB, no not the series but the 1941 training film.
A webstream of the Rally to Restore Sanity in c-span.org. I was at rehearsal when it happened... :-[
The collected YoungTurks youtube clips from last week
:witch: On the last entry in my day-off Hogwarts-a-thon film festival. :wiz:
I'm feeling a bit woozy -- even worse than after the Lord-of-the-Rings-athon a couple years ago. On the upside, I have gotten a fair bit of Christmas knitting done.
Citizen Kane
Tales from the Green Valley
Victorian Farm
A lady doing belly dancing.
Meh.
A documentary on the Egyptian Museum in Berlin
Goddam tennis. Not that I want it on.
Myself in a mirror. Tonight is the last show for Turandot.
Olbermann, Maddow, the last week's batch of YoungTurks clips and LazyTown song videos with the Icelandic dub
The Living Planet.
Decided to have an Attenborough season....
I had a Natural World episode narrated by him just the day before yesterday.
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Timmy Time
Done The Living Planet.
Started on Life on Earth...
Ancient Worlds(BBC)
The Fountain.
Higanjima
Episodes from Star Trek Voyager
Just came back from the Pergamon Museum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_Museum). There is currently a small exhibition of archaeological objects from the Caucasus region.
When I am there I also stroll through the Near East section
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Near_Eastern_antiquities_in_the_Pergamonmuseum
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Maddow and Olbermann podcasts still to watch
I must admit that I love "Here Come the Mummies".
Short but sweet: Carol (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDiXPx2OqPI) (http://i717.photobucket.com/albums/ww173/prestonjjrtr/Christmas/Smileys%20Christmas/bf-santajump0.gif)
Finished Victorian Farm
Some crazy video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op5Trk0gX6g) a friend of mine forwarded to me.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1
I did not watch "Young Fishmonger of the Year" on BBC Ch4 last night.
There may be the 1916 movie adaption of 20000 Leagues Beneath the Sea in the near future (this afternoon perhaps). That was actually done underwater. The camera for that had to be invented first.
A brilliant spoof advertisement (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoIn9hkxbbI). No idea where from originally.
Non-Brits may need to know that the gloopy green stuff is mushy peas.
a BBC Natural History collection (including Tarka, Hornets, Aussie crocodiles, elephants and the river Wye)
Dr Who: Christmas Carol (http://www.drwhofigures.co.uk/forum/images/smilies/mattsmith.jpg)
LazyTown alternating between Icelandic and English
Just wrapped up another screening of The Scarlet Pimpernel
[1934 starring Leslie Howard & Merle Oberon]
Sink me but it's a demmed fine performance every time.
The Beauty and the Beast (the Viking version with no schmaltzy songs and no actual happy ending)
The last episode of Startrek Voyager
A backlog of Olbermann and Maddow
Episodes from Deep Space 9
Several different Genghis Khan movies
Jesus People (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya84HnPAlnY&feature=fvwrel)
6 episodes plus final performance video. :giggle:
[youtube=425,350]Ya84HnPAlnY&feature=fvwrel[/youtube]
Hey! Youtube tags are fixed!
Started with The Victorian Kitchen Garden
I have tickets for this evening for a Japanese No performance.
My old cabbin bouy Errol Flynn, swashing his buckles as Sir Robin of Locksley.
Finished River Monsters (did you know that bull sharks travel far inland using rivers and canals and likely even breed in fresh water in some places?). Now back to the Victorian kitchen garden.
Watched Julia Sweeney's Letting Go of God and rather liked it. I've not yet arrived at her conclusions, but recognized a great deal of her trip. :)
Mythos Wald (a documentary on (German) forests and the wildlife in it)
More DS9 episodes
TRON Legacy on Tuesday.
A new ultimate in cool.
Makes good (and selective) use of 3D. So in this case the big screen plus 3D is really recommended.
The plot is of course open to debate but this is a rare case where the coolness factor alone can make it worthwile to watch
Yesterday's Colbert Report
Air Doll
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Doll
yesterday evening
I think it is a very good movie but I guess less for a mass audience.
It's neither comedy nor exploitation.
Swato, have you seen Lars and the Real Girl? Similar setup, but less fantastical. Also under-appreciated.
Just read about it. Interestingly Rotten Tomatoes gives Lars high notes while Air Doll is at only 43% (according to wikipedia). Viewer comments I have read point in the opposite direction (hating on Lars and pointing out how much better Air Doll is).
What makes me suspicious is that fundamentalists seem to love Lars, seeing it as a 'family values' piece. Air Doll would be far too explicit in certain aspects for that. I'd even say that Air Doll would be a textbook example of how far one can go with nudity etc. without it turning pornographic or exploitative. What clearly helps is the excellent performance by the female lead.
I liked it. There's no need to put similar movies in competition, so which is better is extraneous info IMHO. The similar subject matter did provoke the question, however. The female lead in Lars is not much of an actress. ;)
My favorite zomcom is Fido, and that got panned critically, so there's no accounting for my taste.
I did not buy the DVD for that because I read that many had troubles with it (and my player is not very good in the first place).
Also minimum bonus material while the Region 1 seems to have lots of it.
Still waiting for a Region 2 edition of I Walked With A Zombie (or a showing at a certain cinema in Berlin). It's not in the internet archives afaict.
...I'm as corny as Kansas in August...
That 70s debauchery called Buck Rogers in the 25th century. It's terrible in so many aspects, yet I loved it as a kid and despite the terrible stereotypes, the cheesy costumes and the mixture of disco with the average for-TV-classical music, you have to give them credit for the production (for the time).
I (only) saw the original b/w serials that were at least as ridiculous.
But with those really old ones the trash factor is what makes them watchable in the first place :mrgreen:
Unfortunately they are not avilable over here on DVD.
But have you ever seen the Flesh Gordon (no typo) movies? :o
No but I just added it to my Netflix queue. I suspect it's superior to the actual title (Flash Gordon) from 1980, which is terrible.
Don't tell me you have not been warned!
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Hamlet (1920) with Asta Nielsen in the title roll
Speaking of thrashy last-millenium SF, I am (well, recently finished) watching Cherry 2000, which can only be described as a minor classic in the genre.
Umbracle
Vampire Cuadecuc
(both with Christopher Lee)
Star Trek Tech
Die Pest in Florenz
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010559/combined
Hilariously, one of the protagonists looks and to a degree dresses like a slightly younger Muammar Gaddafi :ROFL:
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh27/pieces_o_nine/CapnDW.jpg)
It wasn't Space Pirates or Pirate Planet, but at least he isn't wearing an eye patch now.
Although eye patches are cool.
Let me just add that it is not easy to get a pirate hat over all that hair.
The Alyona Show
The Rachel Maddow Show
The Last Word
The Ed Show
The Young Turks
(all through Youtube)
For my birthday a few weeks ago, I got the complete seasons 1+2 of Carnivale, which Darlica and I have been watching every now and then. OK, I suppose I am a bit late to the show, but then again, I haven't had a TV since 1994, so I hope I can be excused. I must say that I find Carnivale to be quite good, with some episodes really, really good. I do have a certain fondness for Brother Justin... ;)
Further working on that pile of Youtube clips
Quote from: Lindorm on May 08, 2011, 11:01:39 AM
For my birthday a few weeks ago, I got the complete seasons 1+2 of Carnivale, which Darlica and I have been watching every now and then.
I watched that after the series was over, too. It was ... creepy ... but compelling.
Lotsa folks 'round these hyeah parts like that still.
Storm Warriors (II)
We dumped Satellite late last year because it was $80 a month and mostly trash. After six months of withdrawal symptoms ( I really missed nightly news and Jeopardy) we put up an antenna and got a digital converter box. Now we're getting around 30 channels of broadcast TV. Surprisingly, we now get several weather channels, a couple of retro TV channels, foreign language stations, home-oriented channels, and an all-movie station for free. (Okay, we spent around $200 for the equipment.) The picture quality is surprisingly good.
I especially love the weather channels, as they are totally local. (Gardeners tend to be weather-heads.)
At last (and at cost) I got my BluRay drive to actually work with (newly bough) software to actually display a movie from a BluRay disc.
There is still the problem that the software does not fully supports the use of the mouse and I have not yet managed to change the optical settings by keyboard (contrast could be much better).
ooooooooooooh
I had to log back in to share this brand, spankin' new YouTube channel: OneSpecies (http://www.youtube.com/user/ONESPECIES#p/u/0/jBjR2R9W-1U)
He's off to a great start. I was intrigued by his approach to "design/designer/evolution" in the second video, and I really liked the analysis of the IDiots in the newest one.
What do you think, siblings? :)
[youtube=425,350]jBjR2R9W-1U[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]PhdUp4JOHwg[/youtube]
I have to watch it first (and the IT service has still not reinstalled the flashplayer plugin for firefox)
George Carlin specials in DVD
A huge stack of DVDs has arrived in the last few days and since my holidays start right now I may have a chance to watch at least some of them.
Be sure to spare some time to get out there and find Mrs. Swato. She probably likes DVDs, too.
Yours Truly,
Ms. Nosey
(deceased)
The variety of my collection should almost guarantee an overlap with almost anybody. Unfortunately that would likely include murderous psychopaths. And those that are not would take one look at the collection and take me for a psychopath that is just waiting for an opportunity to get out the axe. :D
Here's a link to a video someone at TOP posted: I think a few Toadfish will enjoy it very much, as well!
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a384/themarbleintheoatmeal/smilies/party0044.gif) VeganBlackMetalChef's Channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/VeganBlackMetalChef) (http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a384/themarbleintheoatmeal/smilies/party0044.gif)
[youtube=425,350]CeZlih4DDNg[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]Jy2my_diH6A[/youtube]
Mmm...
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NBA finals game 5, Dallas vs Miami
:nailbite: :nailbite: :nailbite:
The Last Word/Maddow/Ed/Alyona/TYT
Was watching game 6 and Miami lost...
:weep: :weep: :weep: :weep:
A YouTube replay of Clive Barker's Undying
(http://ii-prod-rw.marketlive.com/DesignToscano/images/products/en_us/mini_thumb/NE22744.jpg) A six-part series: "The Story of India" from PBS.
Wild England with Ray Mears
All the Daily Show and Colbert Report episodes I missed.
Sampling some clips from Countdown, Mark II (http://current.com/shows/countdown/) in its new location.
Would this channel ever be carried by local cable providers? Ha! It is to laugh...
Trailers etc. for The Troll Hunter
The Lovely Bones ~Peter Jackson
Great film, given only ** out of **** by the TV (useless) film guide. Thank goodness I taped it.
A new German documentary series on Scandinavia.
They are beginning to approach BBC standards but are still not fully there
Stargate SG1 episodes
Just now downloading youtube clips (Alyona show, Let's play Morrowind, YoungTurks etc.)
Banned cartoons.
Rivalen(1923)
A German Sensationsfilm = clean action hero against mad scientist (lightning emitting robot; submarine and diving bell (to trap the hero) etc.) lusting for the hero's love interest. Highly entertaining
True Grit, as recorded from one of my movie channels.
Not the one with Duke, but the newest one, released just last year or so.
And I'm learning from this, closer-to-the-book version, that the title has a double-meaning...
:)
It's good so far.
The Warrior and the Wolf
Someone lent us a boxed set of "Doc Martin" episodes (Second season) which we resisted for about a month, but are now watching and enjoying them so much!
I finally had the chance to watch Kurosawa's Kagemusha in the unabridged Japanese version.
One never tires of this hauntingly beautiful holiday classic...
[youtube=425,350]BDiXPx2OqPI[/youtube]
A Japanese silent movie of 1926 about a guy working as a janitor in an insane asylum to be near his wife who has been comitted there.
March of the Penguins, which Morgan Freeman describes as a love story.
Actually nothing. My laptop is on its way to the repair workshop and this PC here is soundless (apart from the ventilation of course). I already feel strong withdrawal symptoms.
Why don't you get a sound card for the old PC? Those aren't that expensive nor that difficult to install, or even easier one of this USB audio thingies:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812186035
Edit: I found one in Amazon.de:
http://www.amazon.de/Soundkarte-Soundstick-Lautsprecher-Mikrofon-Anschlu%C3%9F/dp/B005BYBWLG/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333556967&sr=8-1-fkmr0
It's my father's PC and like me he hates to open it to meddle with the innards. I think he will replace this outdated piece in the not too far future.
But the USB thing is cheap, and easy to use, no opening of anything.
He's thinking about that but since the PC will also likely break down in the near future (the battery is already gone, so I have to reenter date and time each time I start it and there seem to be other cases of electronic Alzheimer too), I guess it will be a new machine before the deliberation is over. He's is also at least as stubborn as me, any nagging will trigger a 'no' reaction.
A Blade-fest. (http://www.pixeljoint.com/files/icons/blade_vest.gif)
(Extended versions, Special Features, the whole she-bang.)
* shivers with glee *
Ooh, so exciting...
In Nacht und Eis (1912), the first German Titanic movie and to a degree the first 'real' one since it did not just use the tragedy as a background (like Saved from the Titanic).
In Like Flint.
A classic
Gone to Earth (a lesser known film by Powell&Pressburger)
The first season of Remington Steele
I now have every boxset of the new incarnation of Doctor Who, and have started to watch them, starting with the Christopher Ecclestone episodes. All the specials are there as well, and I am already on my 7th episode. I didn't watch it when it restarted, even though I adore Doctor Who and watched it avidly as a child (I was so very upset when they stopped making the Sylvester McCoy seasons). I watched a few of the David Tennant episodes from seasons 3 and 4, and fell in love with it again. I am really getting into this re-imagining, which is less re-imagining and more updating, but that's beside the point. It is really good, and I can't wait to watch more.
^ Although I will always be a Tom Baker girl, I liked the 'new' series-es-es once I got over myself enough to watch one, at the very end of 9's year. I was used to seeing Christopher Eccleston in grittier roles, but he did well in rekindling an audience.
10 was, I must admit, excellent. It was a bit different, seeing professional quality alien threats! (http://www.thescifiworld.net/img/smilies/doctorwho/daleks/dalek05.gif)
I referred to 11 as "the creature" for a long time, and just can't warm up to him, even though his comedic timing is good for the part...
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Very cool! :einstein:
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"If you weren't mature enough to carry your candidacy to term, you shouldn't have engaged in the risky behavior that began it." :giggle:
"People might say you were asking for it. I'm not saying it. But people are." :giggle:
"We'll finalize this after the mandatory 72 hour waiting period." :giggle:
:ROFL: :1stprize: :ROFL:
^That! :thumbsup: :mrgreen:
BTW, watching Blackadder
I've had to catch up with my BBC iPlayer favourites list, or risk losing the chance to watch what i've favourited. There have been some really good science and history programmes recently, so this has dominated my "TV" viewing.
^^^ :mrgreen:
The Ed Show
bb, see america is running a Bond, James Bond marathonette* [again].
I've [repeatedly] seen parts of The World is Not Enough and Goldeneye over the last 36" hours, with TWINE on yet again...
(http://freesmileyface.net/smiley/battle/james-bond.gif) (http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs19/f/2007/247/8/2/Smiley_Bond_Martini_by_SteveJN.gif) (http://freesmileyface.net/smiley/battle/james-bond.gif) (http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs19/f/2007/247/8/2/Smiley_Bond_Martini_by_SteveJN.gif) (http://freesmileyface.net/smiley/battle/james-bond.gif) (http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs19/f/2007/247/8/2/Smiley_Bond_Martini_by_SteveJN.gif) (http://freesmileyface.net/smiley/battle/james-bond.gif)
* This used to be the speciality of Spike TV (iirc), and gradually spread to other movie channels. The important point is that all US holidays -- and most US weekends -- are commemorated by at least one Bond, James Bond marathonette, if not several.
That has been the holiday tradition in the UK for many years now, with the films being shown on both BBC 1 and ITV. Christmas is always a Bondfest.
I watched a BBC production from the 80s yesterday, entitled Threads. It's about what would happen in the event of Nucular War, and involved bombs being dropped on the UK. It centred around one pregnant woman in Sheffield, and what life would be like. One of the scientific contributors was Carl Sagan, according to the credits. At just under 2 hours long, it was very good, and although the effects weren't great, it was still quite realistic enough. Scary stuff.
Quote from: Roland Deschain on May 08, 2012, 10:08:34 AM
I watched a BBC production from the 80s yesterday, entitled Threads. It's about what would happen in the event of Nucular War, and involved bombs being dropped on the UK. It centred around one pregnant woman in Sheffield, and what life would be like. One of the scientific contributors was Carl Sagan, according to the credits. At just under 2 hours long, it was very good, and although the effects weren't great, it was still quite realistic enough. Scary stuff.
It was a reaction to "The Day After" and Reagan's talk of "winning a nuclear war".
The official reaction was similar to that to "The War Game" (Peter Watkins): How do these BBC guys dare to undermine the government and scare the public?
There are a few pieces of ultra-black humor in there too. The educational videos are obvious but also look at the scenes where Ruth gives birth. In the US that would have led to blasphemy charges.
Btw, I have read some sarcastic comments from people from Sheffield that say that it would be difficult to see the difference between a pre- and post-nuclear Sheffield and that might have been a reason for the choice of location.
MI-5, a bit stiff if you ask me.
Swato, i'm glad i'm not the only one who's seen it. It was scary, and this is nothing but a good thing, as people need to realise the extent of the damage that a nuclear war could cause. I'm not a big fan of pussy-footing around with this sort of topic, and it told the truth, so good on the BBC! One thing I don't understand, though. Why would Ruth's birth scene be considered blasphemous? Is it because she gives birth in a barn? I must have missed something there.
I've not watched it yet, but I have Pearl Jam Twenty, the documentary directed by Cameron Crowe, bookmarked on the BBC iPlayer. Not sure if it's on the international version or not, but if you're in the UK, or know how to sort out a British IP address on your browser, it's there for watching right now. Don't be too long, though, as it disappears in 2-3 days!
:squid_robed: :squidmusicLT: :squid_musicRT:
The scene right after the birth is clearly based on traditional nativity images*. Iirc there are some other occasions too that allude to classical imagery (with religious connotations). To transplant such items of 'salvation' into a context that makes it absolutely clear that there will be none would be seen as blasphemous mockery by a certain type of Christians (esp. in the US).
Apart from that, no mainstream filmmaker in the US would have gotten away with the final shots.
*edit: and it is supposed to be Christmas day
Just watched a new Old Fart Rants video. He really makes me smile, and has either coined or borrowed my new favorite Right Wing Codeword: OBAMUNISM.
Hmmm - I just checked the Googles and apparently this term has been around for some time now. How did I miss it! Still, I wish I could put an OBAMUNISM 2012 bumper sticker on my car without risking serious vandalism... :)
Quote from: pieces o nine on May 15, 2012, 04:21:25 AM
Hmmm - I just checked the Googles and apparently this term has been around for some time now. How did I miss it! Still, I wish I could put an OBAMUNISM 2012 bumper sticker on my car without risking serious vandalism... :)
You know you want to. I dare you. I double dare you, Ms Nine! ;D The people in the ocean o' sand won't get the irony...unless they see the sticker (think about that one).
EDIT: I was sidetracked and forgot to mention. On the BBC iPlayer at the moment are the first two episodes of
Birdsong, an adaptation of the excellent book by Sebastian Falks. I've seen the first episode, and it was really good, although they seem to be missing the cover story at the moment (those who've read the book will know what that is), but that's neither here nor there. It's still a great adaptation so far, and i'm looking forward to watching part two.
I'm also going through a nostalgia phase, watching several films from the 80s part of my childhood. More on this later, though.
So more iPlayer goodness has followed yet more, with a little bit of poorness, but that's life. Part 2 of Birdsong was great, along with part 1, and did justice to the book by Sebastain Faulks. Episodes episodes 3 and 4 have been good too, continuing a great story arc. I also watched all 3 hours and 20 minutes of The Eurovision Song Contest, with not a single song standing out as being very good. The Russian grannies were funny, although i'm sure they were meant to be serious, but the winning song was really crap. Meh. Bring back Lordi! :devil:
What really caught my attention this week was Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here, an hour long documentary on the making of one of Floyd's best albums, and certainly one of their most melancholic. I sat in rapt attention for the whole thing, my eyes, ears, body, and brain soaking up every little nuance of the music played. It was a truly beautiful thing to hear, which i'm following up with the album itself whilst writing this. Not that I can really concentrate on this, as there's something taking my attention away, wanting me to fall into its sad beauty.
Not wanting to be crass, but if my brain could get an erection, this album, and especially the intro to Shine On You Crazy Diamond, could give me one. So immersed can I get into it when nothing else but me and the music exist. Hmm, this may set me off waxing lyrical about 'Floyd in the music board...
Just back from the cinema where there was a program of old short filsm about the Berlin airports.
Originally today the new one should have opened but a lott seems to have gone wrong and it has been shifted to next year.
Which I appreciate. This way I'll have an airport in walking distance a bit longer. The new one is on the other side of the the city and I'd need, I think, 2 hours to get there, provided public transport does not run into trouble again.
Last night's The Daily Show, next The Colbert Report.
I was watching the Heat game last night... :mrgreen:
Going through leftover downloads from the Alyona Show(RT), The Last Word(MSNBC), The Young Turks, Bill Moyers...
I am now officially addicted to Gardener's World, and am just about to watch this week's episode once I make a few more posts.
I now have season 2 of The Killing, which is the US version, and season 2 of Forbrydelsen, the Danish superior original. That's not to say that the US version is bad, as I enjoyed it thoroughly, and think it was one of the best shows to come out of the US in the past few years, but there's something about the Danish version that just screams class. I not only became addicted to the show, but I also fell in love with the characters, and think the lead actress is lovely, especially in that FSM-awful sweater, lol.
What was weird was seeing a few of the main cast of Forbrydelsen in another Danish show called Edderkoppen, a miniseries set a few years after WWII. That is another show i'd recommend acquiring, as it had very good production values, not to mention a great cast and storyline.
Victoria the Great (UK 1938). Rather pleasant. Even humour in it (actually quite a lot). Remarkable old age make-up for the actress in the final scenes. But I guess it froze her face, so she had problems articulating wearing it. As a result she sounded either senile or sedated there. I actually think they should have dropped those scenes (in technicolor) and ended after her decision to return into public view after the first totally secluded years after Albert's death. They made a sequel anyway. Those final scenes, her acepting the title of empress of India and her diamond jubileee, also lacked the life of the b/w main parts of the film. They look totally staged, stilted and uninspired. The final shot juxtaposing the young and the old Victoria and having them nod to each other on the other hand was quite a neat idea.
Quote from: Roland Deschain on June 22, 2012, 07:59:47 PMWhat was weird was seeing a few of the main cast of Forbrydelsen in another Danish show called Edderkoppen, a miniseries set a few years after WWII.
It's part of the charm of smaller film industries... having seen a fair bit of Korean film, it's always a treat to recognize faces in different roles (Lady Vengeance does this intentionally, especially if you're a
Dae Jang Geum fan).
The Draughtman's Contract
Quote from: Aggie on June 29, 2012, 07:02:31 PM
It's part of the charm of smaller film industries... having seen a fair bit of Korean film, it's always a treat to recognize faces in different roles (Lady Vengeance does this intentionally, especially if you're a Dae Jang Geum fan).
I've seen
Sympathy for Mr Vengeance and
Oldboy, both quite brutal films, but have yet to see the third. I've watched quite a lot of Asian cinema in the past year or so.
I've finished season 2 of
The Killing, and it was superb. The script was well-written, and there was a nice little cameo from a certain young lady named Sophie ( :love: ). I hope the same writers come back for a new story and a new season, as they did well here.
I've also started and finished season 2 of
Forbrydelsen, which was relatively short at only 10 episodes. Sophie excelled again, as did the chief inspector of the police force who came back. This one had quite a dark yet cheery ending, which made it a wonderful rollercoaster ride of emotions. It was also nice to see one of the main actors from
Edderkoppen make an appearance.
I've lined up yet another Danish drama to watch, this one called
Borgen. It's meant to be quite good, and has 2 seasons as far as I know, so as soon as I can get my greedy mitts on it, i'll no doubt be devouring it quite quickly.
If you are into Scandinavian stuff and might want to try something lighthearted, you may give Astrópía (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astr%C3%B3p%C3%ADa) a try.
Just noted someone loaded it up (with English subtitles) to youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j72vf3vK3Zc
The film looks good from that rather brief synopsis. I have another Icelandic film lined up to watch called Jitters (Órói). Looks ok, but just need to fit it into my viewing schedule like many others. I have a long list of European films to watch at the moment.
Slumdog Millionaire, finally.
I somehow get the impression that almost all Icelandic films that get abroad are either mildly depressing or silly (not that sillyness is a vice per se)
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Rukajärven tie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162625/combined)
Zack and Miri make a porno (the last 'classic' Kevin Smith film)
I almost took a look on that one but then set other priorities
Quote from: Swatopluk on November 30, 2012, 09:38:10 AM
I somehow get the impression that almost all Icelandic films that get abroad are either mildly depressing or silly (not that sillyness is a vice per se)
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Rukajärven tie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162625/combined)
This is a very good but very depressing film IMHO.
Ah, some more decent films to watch. I shall add them to the rather long list.
Zack and Miri is definitely a good film, and i'd recommend it to all here who haven't indulged in it yet. Jason Mewes plays his role well, as do all of the cast. Again, highly recommended.
I've begun season 3 of Forbrydelsen, which is to be the last, apparently. :'( Sophie is back with her sweaters, and is a few years older than the last time. The story is a little darker, I think, but it plays on the tried and tested formula so successfully done in the previous two seasons. A must see. Now to wait for episodes 5 and 6 appearing on the iPlayer tonight!
Unfortunately I cannot get my DVD of Talvisota (Winter War) to run. It was difficult enough to get the 3hours+ version (most editions run only 2 hours, which I am not willing to accept). No idea, whether I would have been able to cope with Swedish subtitles.
As far as Finnish movies go, the crown goes to Valkoinen Peura (The White Reindeer)(1952).
Quote from: Swatopluk on December 01, 2012, 02:53:22 PM...It was difficult enough to get the 3hours+ version (most editions run only 2 hours, which I am not willing to accept)...
That's me as well with films. I was going to get the original
Dragon Tattoo trilogy of films until I found out there were much longer versions made for TV, and the films were basically cut versions of them. They'll take some getting through, for sure.
My father faces a dilemma there. The cinematic version is available with the Swedish track, the extended TV version only in the German dub.
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Some old Kulturfilme from the 30ies with the general theme of 'green Berlin on the water'. It's a little known fact that Berlin has the highest number of bridges of any city in Europe.
Quote from: Swatopluk on December 03, 2012, 09:51:58 AM
My father faces a dilemma there. The cinematic version is available with the Swedish track, the extended TV version only in the German dub.
I had no idea. I wonder why, if it's a Swedish production, that the TV version isn't available with the Swedish track. If i'm going to be watching a dubbed version, I may as well find one with an English dub if I can't find a Swedish one. Odd.
I've subscribed to Netflix for their 30-day free trial. This may have been a mistake, as I now have enough films and TV shows to keep me busy for the next several years, and I mean that almost literally. I'm currently working my way through
Andromeda, the excellent science fiction series created by Gene Roddenbury. I'm a third of the way through season 3 at the moment. I never did finish watching it when it was on TV, so this will finally give me closure on how it ends.
It was a Swedish-German co-production
Baltimore Ravens vs Washington Redskins
Time for the Sunday edition of Up! with Chris Hayes
I'm enjoying the http://pope news recap (http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-collections/424317/the-pope/) from Stephen Colbert
[Link is to ColbertNation . com]
Yesterday evening I saw the opening film of a retrospective of old Chinese films (1929-1965, i.e. pre-Cultural Revolution).
It was Song at Midnight (1937).
A rather strange experience. The basic plot is clearly inspired by Phantom of the Opera, although the motives of the characters are quite different. The sets and the acting style reminded me strongly of cloak and dagger movies with a strong Spanish flair (like an early Zorro film). And several times characters suddenly began to sing* the praise of the revolution (not yet the communist one but against the old feudal system and (veiled) the Japanese occupation).
The music was also quite eclectic (in a 'choose 5 records at random'' way). A Chinese song sung in a midnight serenade style (with guitar), Night on the Bare Mountain, a classical string piece (I knew it but could not remember the composer) and Rhapsody in Blue(!!!) for the entry of the big bad near the end.
Strange, interesting and entertaining but (at least today) only digestible for a cinephile audience.
Btw, the Chinese delegation that was present seemed to be a bit puzzled why this film was chosen for the opening (I overheard one of the organizers saying that afterwards).
*in some cases literally
Something new from Bob Smeerfak...
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Pirates: Stagnetti's Revenge :-[
Finally got around to watching The Expendables. :2guns:
I knew the :2guns: cast and general :2guns: premise; :2guns: I'd heard it praised as an :2guns: Action! :2guns: Blockbuster! :2guns: movie with comic dialogue. :2guns: Instead :2guns: I lost interest :2guns: early on... :2guns: it was boring, :2guns: really. :2guns:
Also, what is up with Stallone's lower lip? Did he get hit so many times in all those Rocky films that the attachments to the rest of his face just gave up? Can he not afford a lip lift? These are the sorts of distractions that ruin a [what is the masculine equivalent of "chick flick"?] like this one for me.
In homage to both Sly and the late Roger Ebert I give it one lip down. :yawn:
A Let's Play of the old (1995) game Battle Isle Phase IV - Incubation
All the school, business, and services closings...
SNOW DAY!!!
:woot:
The Rachel Maddow Show
Mythbusters
a "Blast from the Past' special, to be followed by Season 10 premier.
A homage to the Skladanowsky brothers.
They were pioneers of cinema and beat the Lumiere brothers by about 8 weeks with the first commercial big screen show of 'living images'.
But the equipment that they had developed was too complicated and lost to the simpler and more reliable French models.
Interestingly their projector could have become the basis for 3D since it worked with two parallel fim strips that got projected alternately (that way one frame got projected while the other strip got transported behind the blind) and one of the brothers later produced stereo photographies. Serendipity was absent unfortunately. The great irony is that it would have made the work much easier since the brothers had to cut the negative fame by frame to produce the two projection strips. Had they modified their camera to take two strips from the start, all that menial work could have been avoided with a spectacular result. Just imagine that the first public films ever could have been in 3D.
Blazing Saddles, followed by Young Frankenstein.
Two of my all-time favorites in a double feature. :)
Lisztomania
I think that film can be reasonably described as slightly weird
Alles für Geld (Anything/Everything for money)
A German film from the days of hyperinflation depicting a well-known type of the day, the 'Raffke' (money-grubber, reckless profiteer)
PBS , fascinating programs about how homo sapiens and neandrathals may have interbred.
The First Emperor
The Great Wall of China
two documentaries (by Lion Television) from 2006/7
deeply weird live bollywood version of Carmen filmed in Bradford City park
Up with Steve Kornacki (MSNBC)
The Ops family is totally into Svengoolie (http://svengoolie.com/), a program which airs on free broadcast TV every Saturday night. It is in the nearly-dead tradition of the horror-show host (like Elvira, and our local D.C. guy when I was growing up: Count Gore DiVal) who makes a few corny jokes at breaks throughout the show, mixed with fun facts about these seldom seen old horror movies. I am so thrilled to be able to share this experience with th'Opsalette, as it is dear to my heart.
Phase IV - probably the most intelligent humans vs. arthropods movie ever. With actual normal-size ants (neither army nor leaf-cutter species).
Not Them (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047573/)?!?
Ooh, I hope Svengoolie shows "Them".
Them! is a nice movie but clearly not one to trigger philosophical discussions.
That's, I presume, also the reason why it was much more successful. ;)
Sad, isn't it? Still, I suppose it triggered opportunities to hug your honeypie in the theater, and that has it's own value.
Th'OPsalette and I are watching Kid Snippets (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYPHCzthHj0) on YouTube. They let kids improv a scene, and then dub it with adult actors. It's hilarious.
It's time for Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell
Miami Heat vs. San Antonio Spurs. Nail biter.
Currently Rachel Maddow
on DVD: A History of Christianity (BBC)
Caught the first two episodes of "Pie in the Sky (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106102/)" yesterday. Hooked instantly. Richard Griffiths is so likable.
Not watching at the mo, but back from Despicable Me 2.
I enjoyed it. :)
Also, this (http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/222/b/3/Saving_Minion_Ryan_Poster_by_Alecx8.jpg) is totally a movie I would see. Andlso this (http://th08.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2010/222/d/a/Terminion_Apocalypse_Poster_by_Alecx8.jpg) one. This (http://th08.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2010/217/2/7/Minions_in_Black_Poster_by_Alecx8.jpg) one, too.
I planned Monster Academy for to-morrow and Despicable Me 2 for Tuesday next week (cinema cheaper on Tuesdays)
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Verdi: Attila; conducted by Valeri Gergiev in 2010 (new DVD)
It has taken us nine months to gestate what on earth Smart TV does, but suddenly we have figured it out and have watched "Rhinocerous" starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in their entirety for free on YouTube over the past two evenings.
Diverse Let's Play on youtube
Documentary of the rise and destruction of Carthage.
Kautschuk (1938) - an adventure movie loosely based on the true story of how seeds of Hevea Brasiliensis got smuggled out of Brazil to break the rubber monopoly.
Shada :k9-affirmative:
Aya de Yopougon
[youtube=425,350]7ncetcWlwGc[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ncetcWlwGc
Never Let Me Go
Diverse Let's Play on youtube
Quote from: Swatopluk on November 17, 2013, 09:51:53 PM
Aya de Yopougon
[youtube=425,350]7ncetcWlwGc[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ncetcWlwGc
Wow! I hope that plays here. I'd love to see it.
Yesterday evening:
Die andere Seite (1931)
A German WW1 movie based on an English stage play. A dugout, two short stretches of trench and a foxhole/MG post that's all (and most time is spent in the dugout. The lead is played masterfully by Conrad Veidt. This is not about action but the interplay of the characters that await the German 1918 offensive that is just around the corner. Excellent cast, the sets could not be better today and the script is intelligent. Why has that not been available on DVD for years?
OK, the answer to the latter is easy: a German film, emphasis on character not action, no girls and no superobvious villain (apart from the faceless upper command that wants intelligence before dinner and thus orders suicidal daylight raids of the opposite trenches). No real market in that.
At least it has a wiki entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Side_%281931_film%29
A bit of a Red Dwarf marathon, here... not even PBS inflicted. ;) I've a few seasons on DVD.
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Walking dead .
I am going through my new batch of Icelandic DVDs.
Currently films by Hrafn Gunnlaugsson, his Raven Trilogy to be precise
The guy seems to have a wee dislike of organized religion given how the high clerics are portrayed in his Viking films :mrgreen: And the portray of king Olaf Tryggvason in The White Viking is probably a bit too close to the historical character for comfort. The guy was known as an expert torturer.
The 5 o'clock news. Talk about torture!
We watched the new season of House of Cards in Netflix with my son over the weekend. Machiavellian at it's worst.
A re-captioned clip of a movie, comparing my father to Hitler, as done by one of his friends. It's very funny, but NSFTFM. ;)
Schatten(1923), a masterpiece of the German silent film era
I just came back from the cinema where I watched Maleficent.
Unfortunately, the only way to see it in the original language AND unabridged was in the IMAX costing me about twice the standard fee.
All other cinemas around have the FSK6 version and usually in German. Even the cinema I was in put the FSK6 version on all other screens, although in English. FSK12 (equivalent to PG) was obvioulsy seen as bad for business. If it had been up to me 2D would have been sufficient but I am not willing to support this kind of 'market cuts'.
I read the uncut version (even advertised as that) will become available only on Bluray while DVD buyers will have to swallow the cut version. It may be only 40 seconds difference but here I stand on principle.
About the movie: I quite liked it but it is not a must-see. And whatever one thinks about Angelina Jolie as an actress, this role was made for her. I agree though that a few more scenes for her to display wickedness would have been nice.
Maybe not a must see, but I would like to see it. Since I can't go to the cinema I have to wait for new films to come to me. Sometimes I can get them ob my BT Box (see electronics) - sometimes I'll look on BlinkBox etc. Very very occasionally I'll buy a DVD, but it hs to be rock solid excellent film.
I just watched a rerun of a Fawlty Towers episode. It was the one where a psychiatrist was staying in the hotel. I was rolling around creased up with laughter, til it hurt, totally exhausting, I had forgotten just how wonderfully funny they were. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0578593/
Warty Towels, Watery Fowls, Flay Otters, Fatty Owls, Flowery Twats, Farty Towels
And don't mention the war!
I think it was the Watery Fowls episode. :)
The Hunger Games
A kind of Sci-FI versionn of Lord of the Flies.
The first 4 episodes of Samurai 7 (anime adaptation of the Kurosawa classic)
The worldcup. ;) :P
I am a fugitive from a chain gang(1932)
Hard Candy - for the second time - great film - do men like it?
Is that the one where the seemingly innocent girl turns the tables on the presumed pedophile leading to a final drop from a great height?
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Jewel Robbery(1932)
Yes.
Wimbledon: Murray v. Anderson
Don Juan (ballet with music by Ch.W.Gluck)
Last Chance Harvey
I'm no Angel
(Mae West)
Dying Young ................ at least I was until I couldn't see the screen through my tears
I've been watching Tyrant on FX and it have turned out to be quite interesting and mostly accurate picture of the middle east.
Caltiki - Il Mostro Immortale
Grimm season 3.
Mostly because of the entertaining monsters. :)
Genghis - Legend of the Ten
For once a genuine Mongolian production but with a slightly misleading title (for Western audiences I assume). No big battle epic but a story about a single 10 men unit sent out to fetch a renowned healer because the Mongolian army suffers from some epidemic disease. There are some complications before they return diminished in number without the doc but with a baby and a young woman (not the mother) in tow. Rather down to earth and quite viewable but not a must-see.
One Day
for the seccond time............
Quote from: Swatopluk on July 20, 2014, 10:44:43 PM
but with a slightly misleading title (for Western audiences I assume).
Like Орда/"The Horde" which doesn't show battles at all either? That one, while very well done, left a taste of Russian/Orthodox propaganda in my mouth.
The term Horde is iirc derived from the ordered camp and does not originally refer to the people, so the whole connotation of Horde = undisciplined armed native mob is wrong from the start. I even wonder, whether Horde and order are linguistically related or just a coincidence as between sheriff (shire-reeve) and sherif (descendant of Mohammed).
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The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, officially his final film)
As to be expected a visual masterpiece instantly recognizable as Ghibli-made with much heart. Still/(yet?) less satisfactory in total than some other productions from that shop. Imo the different elements do not fully fuse and one gets the impression of two films mixed together incompletely. It also requires a good deal of background knowledge to 'get' many things hinted at obliquely or to see the connections between parts that are not at first sight connected.
To watch it as a German (in the original Japanese with subtitles) has some advantages since there are scenes in Germany and some in Japan where German is spoken on screen (accented but without any grammatical error or unusual twist of phrase). To have been at the Junkers factory (now a museum) in Dessau myself also added some vital info (that most viewers would lack).
One criticism of the film is not without justification: chainsmoking galore there. One would almost suspect that Big Tobacco bribed the makers since it is going really over the top :mrgreen:
Actually, chainsmoking was the norm at the time, and besides the general sidestepping the whole "I'm giving tools to the imperial army to do as they wish" I think the movie is actually quite good and quite adult.
As for any serious Japanese acknowledging the atrocities of the war... I haven't seen nor heard the first. :-\
I know that tobacco use was nothing to be ashamed of once ;) But here it is in essence a running gag :mrgreen:
I hope my post is not mistaken for a 'this movie is crap', far from it, and the anti-war message is clear enough.
But I still think it is not as good as it could have been and that has nothing to do with the policy aspects.
There are some Japanese filmmakers that have dealt with Japanese atrocities quite directly (Seijun Suzuki and most importantly Masaki Kobayashi) but that is not the topic of Miyazaki's film and would be rather out of place. Still there are enough hints that the Japan depicted is quite similar to Nazi Germany and not in a good way.
The way some critics flame it one would almost suspect Miyazaki had produced a hagiography of Ishii Shirō :-\
Just added a couple of movies from those directors to my queue.
This evening: I hatt' einen Kameraden (1926)
Yesterday: The King of Pigs (South Korea, 2011). Let's say, it's not a wholesome family movie and makes traditional English public schools look like paradise in comparision https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRp6NlkiHeE
Mike Leigh's "Nuts in May" - totally brilliant, makes me squirm all the way through - nice daft song too... I just love his films
Song:
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Whole Play
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Star Trek... Geeky ;D
Yesterday: Finding Dory (worth watching but not fully up to the hype)
Today: The Shallows (finally another shark movie worth watching)
Looks like a maritime week ;)
Just back from the cinema after watching 'Loving Vincent'.
It's the world's first full-length film completely oil-painted (65000 oil paintings in total).
Quite impressive and worth watching.
Sounds intriguing... I might have to gogh see it.
I wonder if it will be available via my Supermarket's Film site?
Going through the long backlog/list/??? of my DVDs (i.e. unwatched stuff clooging my shelves).
Alfred the Great (1969)(borrowed) - Not so great
A Man for all Seasons(1966) - film for all seasons too
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent(1957) - title says it all
Monty Python - Almost the Truth (lawyer's edition) - First two episodes last evening; interesting
I've been watching The Punisher on Netflix. Liking it.
I've been trying to free up room on my hard disc recorders as both are full, so I am watching all sorts of stuff I've recorded in last two years. But I record faster than I watch. Last night was Call the Midwife - set in a nunnary.