What Movies or TV shows are you watching (2020)

[faraday]

1 minute ago, Will27 said:

I haven't seen Spooks so thought I'd give it a crack.

 

First series in 2002 and was was just too old to capture my interest.

It has got great reviews though.

Blooming heck, 18 years ago!

 

Might be worth a punt....

[recom273]

42 minutes ago, BigStar said:

Opening a subtitle file with a text editor ain't gon' get you far.

 

There are times when you've got no choice but to bring out the heavy artillery:

 

https://www.nikse.dk/SubtitleEdit/

 

Shows the video and the audio waveform. Offers various ways to sync. If you ever want to create a subtitle file from scratch, it's the go-to. Bit of a learning curve but tutorials are around.

Just saying - a srt file is just a text file, with the text and the times that the subs appear.

 

Of course you can use your choice, or http://subworkshop.sourceforge.net and resync the subs.

 

Neither of which will do the poster any good, because he’s playing video from a remote server and overlaying text from his computer at the same time.

 

[giddyup]

36 minutes ago, Will27 said:

You should try some of the European shows out there.

 

There is some quality like Gomorrah, 4 Blocks, Spiral, The Bureau and heaps of others.

Tried many, not in the same league.

[ExpatOilWorker]

49 minutes ago, giddyup said:

Watched all the seasons of Breaking Bad again, followed by El Camino, a Breaking Bad movie, now I find I just can't get into any new series because nothing else compares. Looked for high rating series on IMDB and downloaded things like Sons of Anarchy, Weeds, GOT and Homicide-Life on the Streets, tried them all, but not a patch on BB. The series that I enjoy like Ray Donovan, Billions, Get Shorty, Dexter etc aren't producing any new episodes, which makes it a wasteland for me now. 

Try "The Looming Tower".

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6474236

 

I assume you have already seen Chernobyl?

[BritManToo]

Truth Seekers ....... entire 8 episode season just dropped.

Simon Pegg and Nick are internet installers, and paranormal investigators on the side ...... solving hauntings.

1st two episodes were good enough.

[NumbNut]

Just watched the Soul of America, doco based on the book by Jon Meacham, Pulitzer prize winning author.

 

I know a lot of folks have probably had their fill of politics just now but I think folks from all politic persuasions would benefit from viewing this.

[BigStar]

33 minutes ago, giddyup said:

Watched all the seasons of Breaking Bad again, followed by El Camino, a Breaking Bad movie, now I find I just can't get into any new series because nothing else compares. Looked for high rating series on IMDB and downloaded things like Sons of Anarchy, Weeds, GOT and Homicide-Life on the Streets, tried them all, but not a patch on BB. The series that I enjoy like Ray Donovan, Billions, Get Shorty, Dexter etc aren't producing any new episodes, which makes it a wasteland for me now. 

Agreed. GOT was pretty good and I liked Westworld. 1st couple seasons of Better Call Saul were tolerable, then it went downhill (like so many series past the 2nd or 3rd season).

 

I'll try The Queen's Gambit soon, looks promising.

 

In the past few years since BrBa I've tolerated watching or re-watching the following series:

 

Twin Peaks Season 3

The Killing

The Event

Bloodline

Brideshead Revisited

Great Expectations (2011)

Bleak House (2005)

Our Mutual Friend (1998)

Lonesome Dove

Travelers

The Frankenstein Chronicles

Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles

The Man In The High Castle

Brave New World

Laurel Canyon

Broken Trail

Poldark (the Thai gf likes this a lot), last season unwatchable

 

Some these require an addiction to SciFi. It's led me, a sufferer, to some worse guilty pleasures I daren't mention here.

[giddyup]

10 minutes ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

Try "The Looming Tower".

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6474236

 

I assume you have already seen Chernobyl?

Yes, seen Chernobyl, will give The Looming Tower a try. Thanks

[giddyup]

7 minutes ago, BigStar said:

Agreed. GOT was pretty good and I liked Westworld. 1st couple seasons of Better Call Saul were tolerable, then it went downhill (like so many series past the 2nd or 3rd season).

 

 

Nope, couldn't get into GOP,  or better Call Saul, Westworld first season was OK, gave it a miss after that.

[Peter Denis]

11 minutes ago, BigStar said:

Agreed. GOT was pretty good and I liked Westworld. 1st couple seasons of Better Call Saul were tolerable, then it went downhill (like so many series past the 2nd or 3rd season).

 

I'll try The Queen's Gambit soon, looks promising.

 

In the past few years since BrBa I've tolerated watching or re-watching the following series:

 

Twin Peaks Season 3

The Killing

The Event

Bloodline

Brideshead Revisited

Great Expectations (2011)

Bleak House (2005)

Our Mutual Friend (1998)

Lonesome Dove

Travelers

The Frankenstein Chronicles

Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles

The Man In The High Castle

Brave New World

Laurel Canyon

Broken Trail

Poldark (the Thai gf likes this a lot), last season unwatchable

 

Some these require an addiction to SciFi. It's led me, a sufferer, to some worse guilty pleasures I daren't mention here.

If you liked Twin Peaks, you should give the danish 1994 mini-TV series The Kingdom a try.

It was directed by Lars von Trier (already a 5-star reference), and it has a similar twisted horror and humor angle.

Maybe more accurate to describe it as a kind of a mix between Twin Peaks and the Office (the UK Ricky Gervais mockumentary).

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[BigStar]

1 hour ago, BigStar said:

Poldark (the Thai gf likes this a lot), last season unwatchable

Poldark's basically a soap opera w/ the usual tropes and comic book villains. It finally degenerated into pandering to PC. It has its moments, however; nor can one be too unhappy w/ some of the visuals. Amusing exchange in the 1st episode: Ross Poldark, British Army Officer, returns to Cornwall from the American War of Independence unannounced and very much battered, having been presumed dead:

 

Mrs Chynoweth: Do tell us, Ross, how we managed to lose the war!

Ross: By choosing the wrong side, ma'am.

 

[Rimmer]

3 hours ago, Will27 said:

I haven't seen Spooks so thought I'd give it a crack.

 

First series in 2002 and was was just too old to capture my interest.

It has got great reviews though.

 

Edit* Thanks faraday, nice to get back to some recommendations.

 

I also drug it up from the depths, the early ones are very mediocre the writing is poor and plots are hardly believable.

They improve immensely as you get more up to date and are then quite OK

[BigStar]

2 hours ago, recom273 said:

Just saying - a srt file is just a text file, with the text and the times that the subs appear.

 

Of course you can use your choice, or http://subworkshop.sourceforge.net and resync the subs.

 

Neither of which will do the poster any good, because he’s playing video from a remote server and overlaying text from his computer at the same time.

 

I know. Subtitle Workshop, however, doesn't show the waveform along with video, a critical disadvantage when compared with Subtitle Edit. It can be used in a number of ways and in general gives much finer control.

 

And it can indeed do the poster good if he pauses the video from the remote server, notes the times of the dialogue, and syncs his subtitle file accordingly. If he's lucky he can just set the start time and adjust all those following automatically. Trivial. Otherwise, he can, for example, enter several times and do a "point sync" that will adjust all the gaps dependent on the frame rate.

 

Then he saves the re-synced subtitle file and does his overlay thing. If he decides to download the video rather than streaming it, so much the better.

[Will27]

3 hours ago, giddyup said:

Tried many, not in the same league.

But they don't have to be in the same league, they're quality shows.

 

BB is your favourite, I get it, it's excellent.

But that doesn't mean there's nothing else out there that's really good.

[giddyup]

1 minute ago, Will27 said:

But they don't have to be in the same league, they're quality shows.

 

BB is your favourite, I get it, it's excellent.

But that doesn't mean there's nothing else out there that's really good.

I've just finished watching BB again, and the problem is it sets the bar so high than everything else just seems ho hum. Give me enough time and I'll be able to tolerate the mediocre again.

[Will27]

52 minutes ago, giddyup said:

I've just finished watching BB again, and the problem is it sets the bar so high than everything else just seems ho hum. Give me enough time and I'll be able to tolerate the mediocre again.

Up to you I guess, but I'd hardly call shows like Better Call Saul, The Bureau and Gomorrah mediocre.

 

Justified was really good.

Give that a crack if you haven't seen it.

[Will27]

Season 3 of Suburra is available with subs on RARBG.

 

 

[Daffy D]

Ozark  

Series 1-3 available with subs from RARBG

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5071412/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

 

The Byrdes and their teenage kids, Charlotte and Jonah, are, for all intents and purposes, an ordinary family with ordinary lives. Except for the job of Marty, a Chicago financial advisor who also serves as the top money launderer for the second largest drug cartel in Mexico. When things go awry, Marty must uproot his family from the skyscrapers of Chicago and relocate to the lazy lake region of the Missouri Ozarks.

Nine Stars *******    It wasn't promoted well. I LOVED IT! Great script, tons of action and characters that you love to hate and hate to love.

 

[faraday]

3 hours ago, Will27 said:

Justified was really good.

 

The first few episodes were excellent, especially when Daniels cell neighbour was led away.

 

I think I'll watch it again in the coming months.

 

6 Feet Under was superb, with some fantastic dark humour

[philthebook]

Truth Seekers is a supernatural comedy drama series featuring Nick Frost, Samson Kayo, Simon Pegg, and Emma D'Arcy. A group of part-time paranormal investigators team up to uncover a deadly conspiracy.

 

 

[philthebook]

New series of Hells Kitchen

 

[worgeordie]

 The Mandalorian season 2 episode 1 out now, and it was good

regards worgeordie

[Jack Hna]

Purchased all 7 police academy for the Mrs. It's a laugh a minute I hear. 

 

Purchased all national lampoon's too.

 

America used to make a lot of great funny family films and loved a laugh. Times change

[Jack Hna]

6 hours ago, Will27 said:

Season 3 of Suburra is available with subs on RARBG.

 

 

S4 on netflix now

[Will27]

5 minutes ago, Jack Hna said:

S4 on netflix now

You might want to check that.

 

I'm pretty sure season 3 has only just been released.

[Jack Hna]

7 hours ago, Will27 said:

Up to you I guess, but I'd hardly call shows like Better Call Saul, The Bureau and Gomorrah mediocre.

 

Justified was really good.

Give that a crack if you haven't seen it.

In the grand scheme all those shows are bottom of the quality pile IMO. Gomorrah was good but went wayward and used too much of the same music.

 

BCS - way too slow.

 

Ozark was better but that even went a bit wayward.

 

True detective S1 was up there next to wire and sopranos but they could not get close with the last 2.

 

Mind hunter could have been good but way too much time in between and S2 was rushed and did not have enough going on IMO.

 

Lot of mediocre content around.

[Will27]

13 hours ago, faraday said:

The first few episodes were excellent, especially when Daniels cell neighbour was led away.

 

I think I'll watch it again in the coming months.

 

6 Feet Under was superb, with some fantastic dark humour

You've lost me mate.

 

Can you remind me?

Edited October 31, 2020 by Will27

[farmerjo]

17 hours ago, Will27 said:

Justified was really good.

Just got through the 1st season on Deadwood and loving it.

The word ___sucker does get mentioned a lot????

[KannikaP]

10 hours ago, Jack Hna said:

Purchased all 7 police academy for the Mrs. It's a laugh a minute I hear. 

 

Purchased all national lampoon's too.

 

America used to make a lot of great funny family films and loved a laugh. Times change

What's this word PURCHASED mean please?   LOL