What Movies or TV shows are you watching (2021)

[sanuk711]

42 minutes ago, giddyup said:

Feel like I've seen it all before, about as formulaic as it gets, and instantly forgettable.

Yer watched it last night.....was a bit disappointing......

[sanuk711]

In the footsteps of Killers-----  Doco (sort of)   Ch 4.... 3 separate stories -2 out now.

 

Watched the first episode --not so good.

They brought in "Emilia Fox"   (Dr. Nikki Alexander--Silent witness) To act around this forensic scientist, its a UK production--but done in an American type format.  With her so surprised every time he tells her something thats glaringly obvious.

(Him-I think the 11 year old boy is dead---Her oh why is that? ---him-well he disappeared 24 years ago & hasn't been seen since.)

 

Anyway only IMO---- make your own minds up.

[Will27]

47 minutes ago, sanuk711 said:

In the footsteps of Killers-----  Doco (sort of)   Ch 4.... 3 separate stories -2 out now.

 

Watched the first episode --not so good.

They brought in "Emilia Fox"   (Dr. Nikki Alexander--Silent witness) To act around this forensic scientist, its a UK production--but done in an American type format.  With her so surprised every time he tells her something thats glaringly obvious.

(Him-I think the 11 year old boy is dead---Her oh why is that? ---him-well he disappeared 24 years ago & hasn't been seen since.)

 

Anyway only IMO---- make your own minds up.

I saw this one on Lime but the reviews are absolutely dreadful so I gave it a pass.

[chalawaan]

For thcse with a VPN capable of it, and not all are. SBS on demand (Australia) has some really good stuff, mostly from overseas, with english subs.

 

The first season of Creamerie (NZ) was really enjoyable, it's a horror/comedy whereby all the men in the world died from a virus, and 8 years on,  three Chinese NZ chicks discover a surviving male, lots of hip jokes about sexual politics, and authoritarianism. 

 

Curmudgeons need not bother.

 

https://youtu.be/5U1Yn4TnyL

 

 

Edited June 11, 2021 by chalawaan

[Will27]

I'm enjoying this one.

RARBG

 

Court Cam Presents Under Oath

 

Court Cam Presents Under Oath tells the story of a crime from the unique lens of the accused as they take the witness stand. Hosted by Dan Abrams, each episode will cover everything from first-hand defendant testimony, juxtaposed with the contentious cross-examination to the final verdict.

 

 

[faraday]

Holler. 

 

This looks ok:

 

 

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/holler-movie-review-2021

 

Ebert gives it 4 ⭐, so it should be worth a gander.

 

On Rar & Le Pirat...☠️

 

[JackSinclair]

On 6/3/2021 at 1:44 PM, clivebaxter said:

 

Some of the worst acting I have ever seen, especially the receptionist at the hotel. The whole thing is like a 2nd rate porn film. Why are half the cast British when it appears to be in some eastern European country, well done if you get to the end of this rubbish.

I only post a review to leave a monthly marker in this thread.

I don't give a thrupenny bit for your negativity. 

 

 

https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/channel_4_30_greatest_comedies/

 

 

 

 

 

[clivebaxter]

But that film was not a comedy, come to think of it probably is. Worst download this year.

[canthai55]

Infinite Potential

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12577912/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

 

[canthai55]

Bilderberg: The Movie

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7918338/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

[xylophone]

Watched "Goodfellas" again a couple of nights ago and it was right at the end, when the "members" were being rounded up that I suddenly got a cold sweat, and although I had seen this movie before, it had never affected me like this and the reason is......... 

 

A lady friend of mine in the UK in the mid-70s met and married a nice American guy who said he was in construction, and he stayed around for a while and they actually stayed at my house a few times, and he counted me as a good friend, as I did him, so when they left to go and settle in the USA he left an open invitation for me to visit.

 

Fast forward to the early 80s when I did visit and I was shocked to the core when I learned that he was part of a drug running/smuggling group, using fishing boats to go out to sea and be loaded with the drugs before heading back into a port in Florida, and he explained it all to me and took me to the "safe house" where one of the rooms was stacked from floor-to-ceiling with mini bales of marijuana, probably about 2 feet long and a foot wide (or thereabouts), and the plastic sheeting on the floor collected all of the bits and pieces which fell off.

 

At the end of the room was a bar fixture, upon which were several glass bowls, one of which had some very high-grade cocaine in it (I know because I tried some and thought it was great) as well as cannabis oil, which I never knew existed, and a couple of other packets of pills. The cocaine was for their own personal use, whereas the bales of marijuana were distributed amongst those who would sell it out on the streets or at clubs and so on.

 

Just like in the movies, a large black car drove up and backed into the garage, but not before giving flashing light signals, and the guy got out and pointed a shotgun at me, this because he had never seen me before and was extremely nervous about a new guy on the scene. However when my friend explained to him that I was the best man at his wedding and that he had spoken about me before, he calmed down and we loaded up the back of this very large car (possibly a Cadillac) with the bales, and just before he went he turned and invited me up to his "ranch" in a few days, to do some fishing off his launch.

 

Well I went to his "ranch" with my friend and his launch turned out to be a huge motor launch probably about 20-25 m or thereabouts, and in it, apart from a state bedroom which was enormous, was a bar area and behind the bar area was a false backdrop, which when opened up had all sorts of guns attached to the back wall.

 

I was absolutely amazed at this, and actually saw a Uzi which I thought was a made up gun for movies, but it was real enough. I also got to fire a 45 Magnum which damn near blew my eardrums out and I got nowhere near the target I was aiming at, and when I spoke to 1 of the guys on the boat that how come Clint Eastwood manages to shoot very accurately with it, he simply replied, "but that's the movies and if you really wanted to hit a barn door with it, then you would aim at the very bottom and hope that you hit the top somewhere".

 

I could go on a lot more, but seeing all this and the guys getting arrested in the movie, I suddenly realised that I could have well been arrested as well, as I had become part of that group for the three weeks that I was there, and I realised how very lucky I had been.

[giddyup]

2 hours ago, clivebaxter said:

But that film was not a comedy, come to think of it probably is. Worst download this year.

You obviously haven't seen Rogue Hostage with John Malkovitch, an absolute stinker.

[Jingthing]

2 hours ago, giddyup said:

You obviously haven't seen Rogue Hostage with John Malkovitch, an absolute stinker.

Wow. I consider Malkovitch to be one of the greatest actors of his generation. I'm biased though because I got to see him live many times before he was famous and met him personally. What happened?

[faraday]

33 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Wow. I consider Malkovitch to be one of the greatest actors of his generation. I'm biased though because I got to see him live many times before he was famous and met him personally. What happened?

 Yes JT, I agree.

 

He was superb in 'Portrait Of A Lady'.

[Will27]

3 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Wow. I consider Malkovitch to be one of the greatest actors of his generation. I'm biased though because I got to see him live many times before he was famous and met him personally. What happened?

I like Malkovitch as well.

 

The movie must be a real stinker though.

Got a 3.4 rating on IMDB.

[TooBigToFit]

Awake on Netflix kept my attention but it's just an average film.  It's also on the torrents.

 

 

 

 

Tidy Tim's as silly as it was gave me some laughs and kept my attention. Just an average plot but the silliness will get you giggling. It probably appeals to older North Americans.

 

 

Sorry, it won't let me post a youtube pic so you can see it at the link...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVxafHJ3t8Y

 

Edited June 12, 2021 by TooBigToFit

[mtls2005]

On 6/10/2021 at 6:16 PM, sanuk711 said:

Mark Wahlberg's "Infinite"  just drop out on 1337X (& probably others. ) It only came out for release to-day.

 

Given the director and cast this one should have been better.

 

Plot broke down, dialog cringe-worthy.

 

4/10

 

 

[steve187]

15 hours ago, xylophone said:

Watched "Goodfellas" again a couple of nights ago and it was right at the end, when the "members" were being rounded up that I suddenly got a cold sweat, and although I had seen this movie before, it had never affected me like this and the reason is......... 

 

A lady friend of mine in the UK in the mid-70s met and married a nice American guy who said he was in construction, and he stayed around for a while and they actually stayed at my house a few times, and he counted me as a good friend, as I did him, so when they left to go and settle in the USA he left an open invitation for me to visit.

 

Fast forward to the early 80s when I did visit and I was shocked to the core when I learned that he was part of a drug running/smuggling group, using fishing boats to go out to sea and be loaded with the drugs before heading back into a port in Florida, and he explained it all to me and took me to the "safe house" where one of the rooms was stacked from floor-to-ceiling with mini bales of marijuana, probably about 2 feet long and a foot wide (or thereabouts), and the plastic sheeting on the floor collected all of the bits and pieces which fell off.

 

At the end of the room was a bar fixture, upon which were several glass bowls, one of which had some very high-grade cocaine in it (I know because I tried some and thought it was great) as well as cannabis oil, which I never knew existed, and a couple of other packets of pills. The cocaine was for their own personal use, whereas the bales of marijuana were distributed amongst those who would sell it out on the streets or at clubs and so on.

 

Just like in the movies, a large black car drove up and backed into the garage, but not before giving flashing light signals, and the guy got out and pointed a shotgun at me, this because he had never seen me before and was extremely nervous about a new guy on the scene. However when my friend explained to him that I was the best man at his wedding and that he had spoken about me before, he calmed down and we loaded up the back of this very large car (possibly a Cadillac) with the bales, and just before he went he turned and invited me up to his "ranch" in a few days, to do some fishing off his launch.

 

Well I went to his "ranch" with my friend and his launch turned out to be a huge motor launch probably about 20-25 m or thereabouts, and in it, apart from a state bedroom which was enormous, was a bar area and behind the bar area was a false backdrop, which when opened up had all sorts of guns attached to the back wall.

 

I was absolutely amazed at this, and actually saw a Uzi which I thought was a made up gun for movies, but it was real enough. I also got to fire a 45 Magnum which damn near blew my eardrums out and I got nowhere near the target I was aiming at, and when I spoke to 1 of the guys on the boat that how come Clint Eastwood manages to shoot very accurately with it, he simply replied, "but that's the movies and if you really wanted to hit a barn door with it, then you would aim at the very bottom and hope that you hit the top somewhere".

 

I could go on a lot more, but seeing all this and the guys getting arrested in the movie, I suddenly realised that I could have well been arrested as well, as I had become part of that group for the three weeks that I was there, and I realised how very lucky I had been.

script for a movie

 

[faraday]

[giddyup]

13 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Wow. I consider Malkovitch to be one of the greatest actors of his generation. I'm biased though because I got to see him live many times before he was famous and met him personally. What happened?

I suppose like many others, he take what he can get, but he sleep walks through this turd.

[giddyup]

10 hours ago, Will27 said:

I like Malkovitch as well.

 

The movie must be a real stinker though.

Got a 3.4 rating on IMDB.

Someone was extremely generous with that score.

[xylophone]

3 hours ago, steve187 said:

script for a movie

 

It could well be the case Steve, especially as the ending had a few twists and turns, what with my friends brother, a headcase after a spell in Vietnam, being sent off to Arizona on a patch of land which they had bought him, because he had a bad habit of pulling out a gun just about anywhere he went, and he did this in a McDonald's type restaurant and the gun went off, so the police were called, which didn't please my friend and his cohorts very much indeed, hence the reason he was shipped off along with a couple of his buddies so they could fire away at will out in the back of beyond.

And me being the "adventurer/risk taker" that I had always been decided to smuggle some of the marijuana back in my suitcase to the UK, but that's another story, especially as the suitcase burst open on the carousel and I thought I may have been tumbled............... 

 

My friend eventually got out of the business, especially as the man with the launch and some of his team, were caught and jailed, so my friend wanted nothing more to do with the business and hasn't had to this day, becoming a respectable businessman in a Florida town!

[xylophone]

3 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

 

Given the director and cast this one should have been better.

 

Plot broke down, dialog cringe-worthy.

 

4/10

 

 

I am a great fan of Mark Wahlberg and have liked just about everything he's done so far, but this turkey, "Infinite", is an absolute load of cobblers along with its poor dialogue and CGI and I could probably give it a 2/10 for effort on IMDb.

[giddyup]

15 hours ago, faraday said:

 Yes JT, I agree.

 

He was superb in 'Portrait Of A Lady'.

Also Dangerous Liaisons. They don't make movies like that anymore unfortunately.

Edited June 13, 2021 by giddyup

[canthai55]

Want a laugh -

We Believe in Dinosaurs

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6316506/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

 

[thaibeachlovers]

On 6/11/2021 at 2:06 PM, giddyup said:

Feel like I've seen it all before, about as formulaic as it gets, and instantly forgettable.

To be fair every possible subject has probably been made into a movie already, so probably every movie from now on ( except those based on actual events ) will include some elements from previous movies.

Formula movies are cheap to make and sometimes profitable in an industry battling internet theft and falling numbers of paying customers. Remember that next time one complains about the poor quality of the movie one downloaded illegally.

[thaibeachlovers]

On 6/13/2021 at 12:44 AM, Jingthing said:

Wow. I consider Malkovitch to be one of the greatest actors of his generation. I'm biased though because I got to see him live many times before he was famous and met him personally. What happened?

Obviously biased then. I've seen a few of his movies and though he was certainly competent, hardly one of the greatest actors of his generation.

Actually, I have a hard time thinking of any of my generation that were "great" as opposed to good or competent. IMO the really "great" actors were from previous generations.

[clivebaxter]

On 6/10/2021 at 9:28 AM, sanuk711 said:

Watched the first one of Professor T last night (all 6 episodes out --Pirates and the usual places) It ran in Belgium for 4 years--this is the English version--Ben Miller plays the lead.

 

Its a slow burner-- but seems well acted, he is a genius Cambridge University criminologist who cant stand the students because they are all thick--has OCD (got to wash his hands and clean everything 5 times) ,also an overbearing mother, He advises the police, and Of course spots all the things that the police miss.......Its a bit "Monkish" type thing..

 

 

Thanks for mentioning this really enjoyed it, as usual Cambridge plays a great supporting role as location

[Jingthing]

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Obviously biased then. I've seen a few of his movies and though he was certainly competent, hardly one of the greatest actors of his generation.

Actually, I have a hard time thinking of any of my generation that were "great" as opposed to good or competent. IMO the really "great" actors were from previous generations.

Thanks for sharing. 

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/john-malkovich-profile-interview-796315/

[mtls2005]

On 4/19/2021 at 9:03 AM, Will27 said:

Riders of Justice

 

 

Watched this yesterday.

 

Heard the buzz, definitely worthy. Much more than a revenge movie. 9/10.