@Rampant Rabbit Are you using your TV or laptop speakers? This is always mentioned in different forums. I never feel that the music is overpowering (sometimes annoying like Law and Order S01) or that actors mumble. I have a beefy 5.1 system with a Yamaha receiver, I think that a soundbar is the least you can get away with, or a pair of bluetooth earphones.

 

Just now, recom273 said:

@Rampant Rabbit Are you using your TV or laptop speakers? This is always mentioned in different forums. I never feel that the music is overpowering (sometimes annoying like Law and Order S01) or that actors mumble. I have a beefy 5.1 system with a Yamaha receiver, I think that a soundbar is the least you can get away with, or a pair of bluetooth earphones.

 

Im using a LG 55" nano tv wall  mounted

3 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

Im using a LG 55" nano tv wall  mounted

Yeah, as TV's have got thinner, speakers performance has got worse - Sound engineers mix with the vocals from the center channel and the music and surround comes from the R/L channels. Try a soundbar. 

Just now, recom273 said:

Yeah, as TV's have got thinner, speakers performance has got worse - Sound engineers mix with the vocals from the center channel and the music and surround comes from the R/L channels. Try a soundbar. 

I also  have a samsung system its equally if  not  more  bad witha  seperate subwoofer..turned right down

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@Will27 I’m not a fan of binge watching, unless it’s an. amazing series - but I have been enjoying your suggestion, a nightly episode of Roba it’s interesting - More of a soap opera, i guess, like a finish z-cars.

On 10/1/2021 at 10:50 AM, sanuk711 said:

Brutally violent.

Made in South Korea. And set to be Netflix's biggest global hit ever 

 

 

My Wife watch this last week......absolutely transfixed to the TV.......

Head of the streaming giant Netflix, has confirmed that Squid Game  is expected to become the biggest programme the network has ever shown. It is Netflix's top-rated show in 90 countries, including the UK and U.S., despite being in Korean and appearing with almost no fanfare. Some 95 per cent of its viewers are reportedly outside Korea. But the survival drama thriller offers more than gore: it is a sharp social satire about rich and poor, some say, but also a relentlessly tense mystery.

I just watched this and loved it !!

Kinda like a Korean version of Hunger Games but with some interesting and different characters ( not all young and good looking). The games are simple yet clever ………… and deadly !!, some good special effects too .

 

Recommend !

On 10/1/2021 at 7:34 PM, sanuk711 said:

24 Hours in Police Custody---- Started today  Season 12.

Just watched the first part---it was disturbingly Violent.....

 

There is something very different to seeing real violence then watching a scripted show.

6 hours ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

I see the madness of the  N word is even removed here. Your view is American, coloured was fine in the 70's uk and even the 80's and as  far as Im concerned still  is.

Only when I went to see the movie  "12 Years a Slave" did I understand what exploiting another human being can be at it's very worst.

 

........I paid £5.65 for large popcorn............

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The Thin Blue Line AKA Tunna blå linjen

 

Watching this one on SBS On Demand.

It's really good.

Not sure if it's available for download anywhere.

 

Summary: An intimate portrayal of the daily life of four police officers, where the line between private and professional life blurs out as tensions heighten in the animated and crime-ridden city of Malmö, Sweden.

 

Couldn't find a clip with subs, sorry.

 

 

Just checked out Free Guy staring Ryan Reynolds. All I can say is I can't wait for the day to wake up and just do what I love each day. You can tell he is just living his best life. Free Guy YouTube Trailer

15 hours ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

I just watched this and loved it !!

Kinda like a Korean version of Hunger Games but with some interesting and different characters ( not all young and good looking). The games are simple yet clever ………… and deadly !!, some good special effects too .

 

Recommend !

I'm watching it, but I am finding it a bit silly and corny.

22 hours ago, Will27 said:

The Thin Blue Line AKA Tunna blå linjen

 

Watching this one on SBS On Demand.

It's really good.

Not sure if it's available for download anywhere.

 

Summary: An intimate portrayal of the daily life of four police officers, where the line between private and professional life blurs out as tensions heighten in the animated and crime-ridden city of Malmö, Sweden.

 

Couldn't find a clip with subs, sorry.

 

 

I can't find it on the usual suspects. Anyone?

Ridley Road-----BBC 4 part thriller

 

Ridley Road is a thriller set against the backdrop of a swinging sixties London: an East End world where far right fascism is on the rise.

 

 

 

On 10/2/2021 at 9:50 PM, Andrew Dwyer said:

I just watched this and loved it !!

Kinda like a Korean version of Hunger Games but with some interesting and different characters ( not all young and good looking). The games are simple yet clever ………… and deadly !!, some good special effects too .

I found it to be ok. Too much hype probably spoiled it for me. 

It did make me want to take out Playstation console though. There must've been some subliminal imaging in some of the scenes. ????  

Absolute classic. Available on Torrent Galaxy.

 

6 minutes ago, bobandyson said:

I found it to be ok. Too much hype probably spoiled it for me. 

It did make me want to take out Playstation console though. There must've been some subliminal imaging in some of the scenes. ????  

After 3 episodes had enough. Couldn't see what the fuss was about. Apparently if you managed to get as far as episode 8 then the acting really got bad (worse?).

On 10/1/2021 at 4:50 PM, sanuk711 said:

Brutally violent.

Made in South Korea. And set to be Netflix's biggest global hit ever 

 

 

My Wife watch this last week......absolutely transfixed to the TV.......

Head of the streaming giant Netflix, has confirmed that Squid Game  is expected to become the biggest programme the network has ever shown. It is Netflix's top-rated show in 90 countries, including the UK and U.S., despite being in Korean and appearing with almost no fanfare. Some 95 per cent of its viewers are reportedly outside Korea. But the survival drama thriller offers more than gore: it is a sharp social satire about rich and poor, some say, but also a relentlessly tense mystery.

The Romans had the real thing, but we have almost the real thing. Some of that violence is very realistic. We no longer see someone shot and fall down dead without any blood- now it is horribly graphic.

Remember when Annie Hall was a huge hit?

I just watched it on DVD and can't understand why it was so big. Nothing special about it whatsoever, IMO.

59 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Remember when Annie Hall was a huge hit?

I just watched it on DVD and can't understand why it was so big. Nothing special about it whatsoever, IMO.

It's fashionable to trash Woody Allen these days because of his various scandals but he has made many great films including Annie Hall. Not to everyone's taste of course. 

 

 

3 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

It's fashionable to trash Woody Allen these days because of his various scandals but he has made many great films including Annie Hall. Not to everyone's taste of course. 

 

 

Couldn't care less about his private life. I take movies on their own merit, not because some particular person made it.

Not a great movie at all IMO. Very average.

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Remember when Annie Hall was a huge hit?

I just watched it on DVD and can't understand why it was so big. Nothing special about it whatsoever, IMO.

It's in my Top 10 movies of all time (along with Manhattan).

1 minute ago, brewsterbudgen said:

It's in my Top 10 movies of all time (along with Manhattan).

How long since you watched it? I thought it was great first time, but very dated humour.

6 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

How long since you watched it? I thought it was great first time, but very dated humour.

Whatever.

 

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-annie-hall-1977

18 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Couldn't care less about his private life. I take movies on their own merit, not because some particular person made it.

Not a great movie at all IMO. Very average.

I thought his movies were all rubbish.

Can't see anything wrong with his private life, no evidence he ever did anything even slightly naughty.

All false accusations made by a mad-woman ....... most of us have been there.

 

Watching 'American Rust' tv series and enjoying it.

Woody Allen movies in general are quite polarizing. Like most people either love them or hate them. Of course he's made so many of them that some of them are objectively total duds.

 

My favorite is probably Zelig.

 

 

14 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Woody Allen movies in general are quite polarizing. Like most people either love them or hate them. Of course he's made so many of them that some of them are objectively total duds.

 

My favorite is probably Zelig.

 

 

Zelig is brilliantly made, but doesn't quite make my top 10 of his.

 

For me, it's:  1. Annie Hall  2. Manhattan  3. Hannah and Her Sisters  4. Crimes & Misdemeanors  5. Midnight in Paris  6. The Purple Rose of Cairo  7. Love and Death  8. Broadway Danny Rose                 9. Husbands and Wives  10.  Blue Jasmine /  Match Point

7 hours ago, sanuk711 said:

Ridley Road-----BBC 4 part thriller

 

Ridley Road is a thriller set against the backdrop of a swinging sixties London: an East End world where far right fascism is on the rise.

 

 

 

Just watched this first episode,not bad,i went to live in London in the swinging 60s( thats another story) but never ever ever saw anything like this ,my dad was Jewish,came over in the war to fight,we were brought up Christian ,but honestly never ever seen any anti sematism in my life ,certainly never in the swinging 60s.

Still the series is not to bad.