What Movies or TV shows are you watching (2024)

[Jingthing]

3 hours ago, xylophone said:

Imo a very good movie that focused more on Brian Epstein than the Beatles, although they (the actors) made the movie as well.

It was my era (born in 1947) and the songs in it really did bring back memories although at the time I/we had no idea of Brian Epstein's darker side....a sad ending for a talented and driven man.

Yeah it was excellent.

Coincidentally I watched Backbeat just before that.

Backbeat was about Hamburg before Eppy.

[oxo1947]

On 11/2/2024 at 1:07 PM, oxo1947 said:

Go Ahead Brother...  Polish /English Crime--- 6 episodes  all out

 That is on TG the whole season (dubbed) at 10.5 GB..... so if you have problems with files that big just take first episode (or 2 ) see if you like then 2 at a time....

[faraday]

Goliath s02 

 

Can't locate a 1080p torrent that's less than 5Gb.

Anyone have link, please?

😶‍🌫️🙂

[gargamon]

12 hours ago, faraday said:

Goliath s02 

 

Can't locate a 1080p torrent that's less than 5Gb.

Anyone have link, please?

😶‍🌫️🙂

Lots of 720p's around. Frankly I don't see much if any difference between 480p, 720p and 1080p. I generally watch 480p(dvd quality) video. 

 

The big jump in video quality was from CRT to flat screen. Anything since has been of little consequence, IMO.

 

I'll take quality content on CRT or 480p over most of today's junk on the latest hardware. Just because you can see every strand of each actor's nose or pubic hair doesn't improve the enjoyability of what you're watching.

[Rimmer]

2 hours ago, gargamon said:

Lots of 720p's around. Frankly I don't see much if any difference between 480p, 720p and 1080p. I generally watch 480p(dvd quality) video. 

 

The big jump in video quality was from CRT to flat screen. Anything since has been of little consequence, IMO.

 

I'll take quality content on CRT or 480p over most of today's junk on the latest hardware. Just because you can see every strand of each actor's nose or pubic hair doesn't improve the enjoyability of what you're watching.

 

1080 usually carries sub titles and is good for folks that are hearing impaired 🙂

[gargamon]

12 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

 

1080 usually carries sub titles and is good for folks that are hearing impaired 🙂

I delete any subtitles embedded/accompanying videos I download. I then get the one I like (no SDH) with a4ksubtitles, addic7ed, or opensubtitles addons in kodi. But then, I'm not hearing impaired (yet) and only need the subtitles for words I miss or accents that are unfamiliar to me.

[xylophone]

2 hours ago, Rimmer said:

 

1080 usually carries sub titles and is good for folks that are hearing impaired 🙂

I often open the downloads using VLC and that way I can add/delete sub-titles etc (usually!).

[oxo1947]

Until I Kill You.... ITV --4 parts crime thriller based on true Dutch story--remade for UK  IMD 7.3

Delia Balmer, an agency nurse, met Sweeney, who confessed to killing his ex-girlfriend. He attacked her before evading capture. Balmer rebuilt her life to confront Sweeney seven years later after he was arrested for another murder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[earlinclaifornia]

7 minutes ago, oxo1947 said:

Until I Kill You.... ITV --4 parts crime thriller based on true Dutch story--remade for UK  IMD 7.3

Delia Balmer, an agency nurse, met Sweeney, who confessed to killing his ex-girlfriend. He attacked her before evading capture. Balmer rebuilt her life to confront Sweeney seven years later after he was arrested for another murder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s good

[oxo1947]

A Remarkable Place to Die--- Detective-Crime---- Kiwi TV  IMDB 7.9 

Detective Anais Mallory returns to hometown Queenstown, New Zealand and faces startling homicides. She cracks cases while confronting personal ghosts from her past.

 

 

[Henk Langeweg]

24 minutes ago, oxo1947 said:

A Remarkable Place to Die--- Detective-Crime---- Kiwi TV  IMDB 7.9 

Detective Anais Mallory returns to hometown Queenstown, New Zealand and faces startling homicides. She cracks cases while confronting personal ghosts from her past.

 

 

thx. Where?

 

[oxo1947]

1 hour ago, Henk Langeweg said:

thx. Where?

 

 

TVChaosUK  Put it out yesterday---- Usually it takes a day or 2 to get picked up by other sites...........

[mstevens]

8 hours ago, oxo1947 said:

A Remarkable Place to Die--- Detective-Crime---- Kiwi TV  IMDB 7.9 

Detective Anais Mallory returns to hometown Queenstown, New Zealand and faces startling homicides. She cracks cases while confronting personal ghosts from her past.

 

 

 

FWIW, I thought this was slow, boring and the actors wooden. YMMV.

[Will27]

This one has really good reviews.

Out later this week.

 

 

[gargamon]

17 minutes ago, Will27 said:

This one has really good reviews.

Out later this week.

 

 

How can it have reviews if it's not out yet? From the trailer?

 

That said, I saw the trailer a while back and added it on my download list.

 

The movie it's based on with the same name is also good if you haven't seen it.

[oxo1947]

8 minutes ago, gargamon said:

The movie it's based on with the same name is also good if you haven't seen it.

 

 Its not a Movie though gargamon  is it----I think this is for TV.......

[oxo1947]

5 hours ago, mstevens said:

FWIW, I thought this was slow, boring and the actors wooden. YMMV.

 

I haven't watched --& probably wont, I was criticized on here a while back when I said that I think the  Kiwi's IMO produce very little quality TV programs--while similar (population) countries like Ireland--Norway etc turn out really good stuff  .

[Will27]

37 minutes ago, gargamon said:

How can it have reviews if it's not out yet? From the trailer?

 

That said, I saw the trailer a while back and added it on my download list.

 

The movie it's based on with the same name is also good if you haven't seen it.

You obviously don't realise that TV and movie critics get sent episodes before their release date.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/nov/02/day-of-the-jackal-eddie-redmayne-review-lashana-lynch

 

https://www.rogerebert.com/streaming/day-of-the-jackal-tv-review

 

https://collider.com/day-of-the-jackal-2024-review/

[gargamon]

33 minutes ago, oxo1947 said:

 

 Its not a Movie though gargamon  is it----I think this is for TV.......

As I said, based on a movie:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069947/

[jaywalker2]

As part of the continuing series of old ladies doing action movies, we now have Kate Beckinsale, 52, playing a covert CIA agent in Canary Black.  Beckinsale starred in the Underground series of movies a couple of decades ago, where she played a vampire hunter. Decked on in spandex, she was a feast for the eyes at that time.

 

She still looks good and I have to commend her plastic surgeon but the movie is ridiculous. She goes around wearing platform shoes with 5 inch heels, which doesn't impede her at all (or her stunt double anyway) from engaging in martial arts mayhem, including defeating trained agents twice her size and somehow striking them with a closed fist in the face without breaking her hand.

 

The plot, such as it is, sees her husband kidnapped so she can blackmailed to turn over a file that contains blackmail material on all the agents in the CIA.

 

Ladies, please, it's time to put these movies to rest.

[blazes]

 

3 hours ago, oxo1947 said:

I was criticized on here a while back when I said that I think the  Kiwi's IMO produce very little quality TV programs

 

It's useful to have a source like this.  No body here should be afraid of being "criticised" for parading an opinion.  (I'd have to agree with OXo's view of Kiwi stuff (though the Aussies manage  to pull off quite  a few winners.)

 

One way to figure out what's available is to search for (say) Best Movies of 2022 and then reject (in my case) all suggested movies that are accompanied by a picture of ....teenagers, Dracula figures, Sci-fi ballocks, menopausal women, racial messaging (the  list could go on).....which then leaves one with a small modicum of half-decent movies that might be worth viewing.

Opinions expressed here are useful, since one can easily believe (or not)  the opinion expressed by its enthusiasm (or not) for subjects that interest you (or not).

Thanks to all who in their various ways contribute to this forum.

[bubblegum]

3 hours ago, gargamon said:

As I said, based on a movie:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069947/

Ahum, based on a novel.

[LosLobo]

Endurance (2024)
 

is a remarkably well-produced documentary that most, especially seafarers and history buffs should enjoy.
 

It's the story of Ernest Shackleton’s doomed 1914 expedition to cross Antarctica.

The original 1919 silent footage has been remastered, with voices brought to life by AI.

The documentary also covers the 2022 quest to locate Shackleton's lost ship, the Endurance.

 

An interesting detail: the expedition first reached South Georgia Island, the gateway to Antarctica, exactly 110 years ago today.

 

[faraday]

Has this been mentioned? 

 

The Tattooist Of Auschwitz

 

Very good cast & music's by Hans Zimmer.

 

https://youtu.be/ZMWPujF8G3Q?si=qAvtFQWwZ1yUTbyj

[blazes]

2 minutes ago, faraday said:

Has this been mentioned? 

 

The Tattooist Of Auschwitz

 

Very good cast & music's by Hans Zimmer.

 

https://youtu.be/ZMWPujF8G3Q?si=qAvtFQWwZ1yUTbyj

 

Very well constructed series with a very delicate moral problem at its heart.    Is co-operation with  your oppressor in exchange for certain  privileges not available to others ever justified.

 

My (Thai) wife, who watches everything with me always from beginning to end, did not want to proceed to the later episodes after watching episode 1.  She found it too unbearably sad....

[BigStar]

On 11/4/2024 at 9:26 AM, gargamon said:

I delete any subtitles embedded/accompanying videos I download. I then get the one I like (no SDH) with a4ksubtitles, addic7ed, or opensubtitles addons in kodi. But then, I'm not hearing impaired (yet) and only need the subtitles for words I miss or accents that are unfamiliar to me.

 

I doubt you "delete' embedded hardcoded subs, but you can remove them via cropping. In Kodi you can simply deselect a soft subtitle track for another, and select English as default in the player's subtitle options. Deleting the other files makes more sense when you have an entire series to deal with. However, if they're in mkv format, then you'll have to go thru each file w/ an MKV tool or convert them w/o the subtitles.

 

A small issue is that downloaded subtitle files may contain some lines of advertising that get old every time you watch a new episode in a series. I use TextCrawler to remove all those in batch.  

 

Occasionally, the downloaded subtitles are out of sync or missing. Sync can often be dealt with easily enough in Kodi but in the worst cases will require getting out a subtitle editor. If missing, then you're back to the embedded subtitles. These can be extracted so that Kodi can apply your preferred formatting, but that's probably too much work when it comes to a series, if you're as lazy as I am. Ran across the issue in a 3-season series recently. 

 

[BigStar]

On 10/30/2024 at 1:44 PM, Seppius said:

Look out for this one tomorrow, kind of looking forward to it

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12627606/

 

No Beatles music other than covers they did, it's not endorsed by the surviving Beatles

 

Not very good, unfortunately. Too low budget. Good settings at the beginning that recall the era. No copyrighted Beatles music. Too much compression. Notably deviates from history, really a work of fiction. Poor casting, though the lead did as well as he could w/ the material. Jay Leno as Ed Sullivan was the worst. Actress playing Cilla Black did so very convincingly and gave the movie one of its best little moments. Liked the recognition given her from the beginning as the coat check girl at the Cavern, though it was unhistorical to have the Beatles call attention to her at their first meeting w/ Brian in their "dressing room."

 

Great to have Brian and his contribution remembered, and hardcore Beatles fans should watch it, perhaps with remote in hand to skip over less savory parts. I suspect interest in him will never support a large budget movie. As a star, Cilla Black got this 3-part series, so much better:

 

Cilla

 

We do have this documentary:

 

The Brian Epstein Story

 

which looks pretty good and is available. I think I'll download and watch it.

 

The Beatles are in for some quality treatment:

 

Sam Mendes to Direct Four Separate Beatles Movies on Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr

[KhunLA]

36 minutes ago, BigStar said:

I doubt you "delete' embedded hardcoded subs, but you can remove them via cropping. In Kodi you can simply deselect a soft subtitle track for another, and select English as default in the player's subtitle options. Deleting the other files makes more sense when you have an entire series to deal with. However, if they're in mkv format, then you'll have to go thru each file w/ an MKV tool or convert them w/o the subtitles.

 

A small issue is that downloaded subtitle files may contain some lines of advertising that get old every time you watch a new episode in a series. I use TextCrawler to remove all those in batch.  

 

Occasionally, the downloaded subtitles are out of sync or missing. Sync can often be dealt with easily enough in Kodi but in the worst cases will require getting out a subtitle editor. If missing, then you're back to the embedded subtitles. These can be extracted so that Kodi can apply your preferred formatting, but that's probably too much work when it comes to a series, if you're as lazy as I am. Ran across the issue in a 3-season series recently. 

There's a few apps that will accomplish that, though never used.  I've seen text removed/pixelated out with background colors.  Better but sill annoying.  Not sure how good any of the apps work.

 

List of them on Google if search for.  

[BritManToo]

4 hours ago, jaywalker2 said:

part of the continuing series of old ladies doing action movies, we now have Kate Beckinsale, 52, playing a covert CIA agent in Canary Black.  Beckinsale starred in the Underground series of movies a couple of decades ago, where she played a vampire hunter. Decked on in spandex, she was a feast for the eyes at that time.

Haunted was best with her totally naked in her early 20s. Movie was good as well.

[mstevens]

6 hours ago, oxo1947 said:

 

I haven't watched --& probably wont, I was criticized on here a while back when I said that I think the  Kiwi's IMO produce very little quality TV programs--while similar (population) countries like Ireland--Norway etc turn out really good stuff  .

 

You're absolutely right - NZ TV is crap. And I can honestly say that as I am a Kiwi!