Films and TV

Hamstew

I highly recommend Top Gun - Maverick.
Oh my days.

alderz

Do you need to know Top Gun to see it?

PrestonHammer

Basically it's dudes in uniforms flying planes. They also play topless beach volleyball. Tom Cruises character has a crisis of confidence after losing someone but comes through it to save the day and becomes the hero. It is a good film though, the first one I'm talking about.

Pearces_Left_Foot

alderz said:

I heartily recommend Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. It’s really good

Watched it last night agree its a good film a bit different

Hamstew

alderz said:

Do you need to know Top Gun to see it?

I'd say it helps as they do a good job of making hints to scenes from the old film. If you're into classic cheesy Tom cruise action stuff then you'll enjoy it imo.
If you like the first one you'll definitely enjoy it.
It definitely hit my nostalgic spot with regards to the music etc. But my 14 year who has only seen bits of the first one also enjoyed it.

alderz

I've seen the first one, my girlfriend has not, and we were debating seeing it. I personally was a bit young for Top Gun to be nostalgic to me, but I reckon it would be good to see in a cinema

alderz

Pearces_Left_Foot said:

alderz said:

I heartily recommend Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. It’s really good

Watched it last night agree its a good film a bit different

Yeah, it's completely mad. I loved it so much we've seen it twice

IronHerb

Watched Hidden Figures again at the weekend. Really good film.

Lukerz

Prehistoric Planet, Ted Lasso & Ozark the three I am watching currently.

alderz

Ozark was good.

We’re on Stranger Things at the minute. I’m toying with starting Arrested Development again

chicagohammer

I just watched Dune, not a bad film, visually stunning but I am not convinced that you will really know what is going on if you have not read the book

Slacker

alderz said:

I heartily recommend Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. It’s really good

It definitely took me back to some,ahem, experiences.
Very impressive piece of film making.

Slacker

I’m probably a bit late to the party but I’ve really got into “This is Us” lately.Top top writing, it drew me right in after about halfway through episode one.
If you haven’t watched it yet I’d say give it a go, but be warned there are six series with seventeen or eighteen episodes per series, so it’s a real marathon.

ASLEFshrugged

I wouldn't have watched any of the Platinum Jubilee stuff but the future Mrs shrugged came over from the USA specially for it (she's a bit of a royal fan, thinks 1776 was a big mistake). We did try to get to Trooping of the Colour but the crowds were insane so we watched a lot of TV

The BBC made a good job of Trooping of the Colour but the Platinum Party on Saturday and Pageant on Sunday were amateurishly embarrassing.

Worst was at the Party: Mica Paris, Ruby Turner and Nicola Roberts sang "Climb Every Mountain" but there was no mention of who was singing and we didn't get a close up of the singers until the last 30 seconds. Maybe the director had nodded off in the control room

On the Pageant Clare Balding and her guest speakers seemed more interested in talking about themselves than what was going along the Mall. They seemed to have only a vague notion of what was what and you'd have thought someone would have given them some notes to work from although Balding got very excited when a load of Land Rovers rolled into view with a detailed description of each one (could be her specialist subject for Mastermind).

I suppose with budget cuts at the BBC this was the best they could do

PrestonHammer

I like the Queen but I didn't watch any of it. If it had been Dimbleby commentating on it, I might have watched.

Slacker

Managed to avoid every single minute of it.✊🎉

MrsGrey

Me too :-)

ASLEFshrugged

I was amazed at how bad some of it was, they should have used the crew that do Glasto as they do excellent coverage

Yeoldhammer

Stranger Things Season 4 was good so far, strong end to the Series. Weird they released 7 out of 9 episodes and saving 2 episodes to release in July.

Yeoldhammer

The Boys Season 3 still amazing as ever.

IronHerb

I'm watching Generation Kill at the moment. An HBO down and dirty with a group of US Marines in the first 40 days of the Iraqi war. Quite interesting.

yoyo

I've seen the first few episodes of "The time travellers wife" weird yet compelling

alderz

The book was pretty good, the film was rubbish. I didn’t know they were doing a tv show

ASLEFshrugged

IronHerb said:

I'm watching Generation Kill at the moment. An HBO down and dirty with a group of US Marines in the first 40 days of the Iraqi war. Quite interesting.

Saw it a few years ago, very good

Pearces_Left_Foot

Just got to mid season break on better call Saul and a great episode left me counting days to 2nd half of the final season

Slacker

Watch “Borgen “, you can thank me later.

BubblesNeverDies

alderz said:

I heartily recommend Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. It’s really good

Tried watching it last night but the audio quality was so poor that I couldn't follow half of what was said and eventually gave up on it.

Pearces_Left_Foot

Just seen next season of Ted lasso is going to be the last :-(

alderz

BubblesNeverDies said:

alderz said:

I heartily recommend Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. It’s really good

Tried watching it last night but the audio quality was so poor that I couldn't follow half of what was said and eventually gave up on it.

That’s a real shame. If you can get hold of a better version then you should give it another go

BubblesNeverDies

Just watched "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent" with Nicolas Cage, very funny and well worth seeing.