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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 7/18/2017 5:49:01 PM   
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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 7/18/2017 9:36:48 PM   
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I have a great idea for the Dr. Who Christmas special. He tries to stop a war between a race of misunderstood cold loving skeletal creatures and some bloodthirsty hot blooded nobles with swords and dragons. To assist the Dr's regeneration, there is a young woman with unique identity shifting skills...oh wait, she's already been on Dr. Who.
Well, there is this other young woman named Clara...

One person he might want to avoid...don't these 2 have a lot in common?







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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 7/19/2017 6:42:52 PM   
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Started watching Shogun from 1980 with the kids. Really enjoying it. Top notch mini-series from back in the day.

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 7/21/2017 9:38:56 PM   
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Dunkirk – Spoiler Alert

I have just got back from seeing the film. What can I say? It was intense and lived up to the hype.

The film has no frills, no character development, no backstory, there is no love interest and indeed there is very little dialogue. It’s simply a story of essentially four small groups of people – one from the Army, RN/Army officers on the Dunkirk mole, a Royal Air Force fighter patrol and men aboard one of the little ships. I guess the Royal Navy is a fifth group as they are naturally pretty much ever present, invariably adding something to each of the stories – largely as a result of their ships getting sunk having repeatedly put themselves in harm’s way to try and get the Army home.

One immediate thing I noticed was at the very start when a few lines were used to explain what was happening; it was not the Germans attacking and surrounding the French and British – it was ‘the enemy’. Okay…. that seems a little silly but I guess we are all friends now so….

I was a little confused near the start as one minute it was daytime and the next it was dark or heading that way. However, it quickly became apparent that the action is not strictly chronological. By the way this way of telling the story makes it look like the RAF patrol shoots down half the Luftwaffe, but one sees some of the scenes more than once from different viewpoints. This jumbled timeline idea actually works well.

The film doesn’t seek to tell the story of Dunkirk. The French are acknowledged - holding the perimeter along with a British rear-guard. Amongst the limited dialogue, there is reference to the German tanks being halted, the Luftwaffe being given the job of destroying the BEF and their French Allies, expectation that 30-45,000 British troops only are expected to be rescued, and that the RAF are trying to conserve aircraft and pilots for the battle still to come. But enough of the story is told through the trials and tribulations of the individual groups and the brief dialogue to make clear what is going on even if one knows nothing about this episode in history.

I was expecting some sort of soundtrack what with Hans Zimmer being involved but instead, during the action, there was a sort of noise as opposed to a dramatic music score. This worked really well too and added to the intensity.

How did the film fare on the trembling bottom lip front? Well there were a couple of occasions on which it was a good job I had the Kleenex on hand – I wasn’t emotional you understand, I just had something in my eye….

In summary – a great job Mr Nolan!











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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 7/22/2017 12:25:52 PM   
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Recent discussion about the English civil war called The Anarchy made me think it was time to re-watch The Pillars of the Earth that has The Anarchy as a backdrop. Maybe even re-reading the book. Although the book I already re-read several times.

And I need to figure out how to watch the follow up series World Without End.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pillars_of_the_Earth_(miniseries)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Without_End_(miniseries)

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 7/22/2017 12:59:17 PM   
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My browser if Firefox and I download documentaries from youtube..Very many.
I also use a file sharing app called winmx which allows trading of files from all around the world.
It gives me access to historical movies and documentaries from all over and the community has many folk who interpret those files when other languages are needed.

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 7/23/2017 8:48:17 AM   
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Watched a documentary Dunkirk: The New Evidence which was quite interesting and makes the case that the RAF role in the Dunkirk evacuation has been entirely misunderstood and wrongly downplayed.

It argues that the reason the troops would have seen little of the RAF from the beaches was that many of the air battles were either taking place out to sea or further inland. The documentary suggests that the RAF (with some French air force support and AA fire from land and the ships) caused more losses to the Luftwaffe than was meted out. Adolf Galland and Albert Kesselring make similar comments (the former not in this documentary).

Interesting stuff.

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 7/23/2017 8:59:55 AM   
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The Imitation Game, watched it for the first time over the weekend, and tbh i was impressed and also surprised by how backwards we were back then and to a point how we still are today in many points in life, while i normally go for more action or pure war, this for me was very well done and reminded me somewhat of the other good film, The Man Who Knew Infinity again which tells a true story and again what tells us how backwards we used to be as a nation and again up to a point how some of us still are today in the UK

would recommend both films to anyone who goes for truth and story over either fun or action

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 7/24/2017 4:27:09 AM   
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Poldark Series 3 is hotting up nicely. Poor Morwenna has finally married the hideous Reverend Whitworth who is about to show his true colours.... lumme!


I remember watching Poldark in the 70's and was one of my favourite series at the time. Usually the remakes are worse than the originals. How is this versus the original one?

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I watched the original too, although given the length of time, I cannot remember too much about it. I remember enjoying it at the time though. I would say that if the original was better than this production then it would have been extremely good because this new version is excellent .

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Another cracking episode last night (although sadly we lost a key character) - and I see they've announced a 4th Series has been commissioned. Excellent news!


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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 7/25/2017 8:33:26 PM   
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And of course, soon to come its the biggie - Game of Thrones Series 7


What episode (or portion of an episode) is the over / under (fnar fnar) for a seriously wanton display of naughty bits?

I'll say it's in the first 1/3 of episode 1. Any takers? And at what odds?
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Episode 2

As a wise man once said: The answer is always Beeewwwwbs

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 7/25/2017 9:13:10 PM   
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Just finished all 5 seasons of boardwalk empire. I liked it. , it wasl like the sopranos int the 1920's

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 7/26/2017 3:12:48 PM   
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Over the last couple months, I've been working on "Narcos". A very good couple of seasons. Well done.

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 7/26/2017 6:56:08 PM   
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Over the last couple months, I've been working on "Narcos". A very good couple of seasons. Well done.

You said it.

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 7/26/2017 9:58:30 PM   
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Okay, so having seen Dunkirk twice, where does this fit in my all time top 12?

1. Schindler's List
2. Battle of Britain
3. Conspiracy
4. Dunkirk
5. Waterloo
6. Operation Daybreak
7. Downfall
8. Das Boot
9. Tora, Tora, Tora
10. The Great Escape
11. Saving Private Ryan
12. Dam Busters

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 7/27/2017 1:35:22 AM   
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Not a bad list. I'd quibble with some of the ordinal rankings, perhaps replace one or two with some others, but certainly a nice start.

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 7/30/2017 2:54:37 PM   
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Next up this evening its Disney's Moana Looking forward to this - although it doesn't seem to have got the type of fanfare Frozen did. Oh well, here's hoping.

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 7/30/2017 8:28:31 PM   
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Our family enjoyed it very much. Good Disney fare.

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 7/31/2017 5:11:11 PM   
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"Le Chagrin et la Pitié" ("The Sorrow and the Pity") by Marcel Ophüls.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_review/0,,1221059,00.html

One of the best documentaries I've ever watched.
The new Bluray transfer is superb and noticed a lot of improvements when comparing with the old DVD version.




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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 7/31/2017 9:39:25 PM   
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Next up this evening its Disney's Moana


And...?

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 8/1/2017 12:17:53 PM   
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Next up this evening its Disney's Moana


And...?
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...and, I think it was an enjoyable way to spend an hour and a half. Not Disney's best, largely because the music (with one exception) had all the feeling of a 'II Movie'. But the characters were engaging - and there was some humour too which helps - and the story was interesting enough (but see below).

But the two biggest 'problems' (not ones that ultimately spoiled the film fortunately) I had with the film is that I could not tell the difference between Moana and Rapunzel. They sounded similar (I actually had to check they were different actresses), their mannerisms were even similar on occasion too. That was a little off putting, as was the initial part of the film which was like watching Finding Nemo on land - just substitute the Reef for the drop off.

But another plus, How Far I'll go was downloaded straight to ipod after the film. My Disney playlist is now up to 38 toons


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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 8/1/2017 12:46:06 PM   
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Next up this evening its Disney's Moana


And...?
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...and, I think it was an enjoyable way to spend an hour and a half. Not Disney's best, largely because the music (with one exception) had all the feeling of a 'II Movie'. But the characters were engaging - and there was some humour too which helps - and the story was interesting enough (but see below).

But the two biggest 'problems' (not ones that ultimately spoiled the film fortunately) I had with the film is that I could not tell the difference between Moana and Rapunzel. They sounded similar (I actually had to check they were different actresses), their mannerisms were even similar on occasion too. That was a little off putting, as was the initial part of the film which was like watching Finding Nemo on land - just substitute the Reef for the drop off.

But another plus, How Far I'll go was downloaded straight to ipod after the film. My Disney playlist is now up to 38 toons



My kids and wife were singing 'Shiny' throughout the house for a week after we saw it.

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 8/4/2017 5:55:40 PM   
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Riviera got off to a slow start but is coming nicely to life now

The Americans series 5 and there is just no let up in quality

and of course, and speaking of quality

Game of Thrones is just the dogs dangly bits - even without Shhoooorrrnnn Beeeaaannnn

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 8/4/2017 8:13:22 PM   
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Riviera got off to a slow start but is coming nicely to life now

The Americans series 5 and there is just no let up in quality

and of course, and speaking of quality

Game of Thrones is just the dogs dangly bits - even without Shhoooorrrnnn Beeeaaannnn

??? Sean is definitely not shorn - in fact he could really use a trim.

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 8/6/2017 4:20:26 AM   
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Riviera got off to a slow start but is coming nicely to life now

The Americans series 5 and there is just no let up in quality

and of course, and speaking of quality

Game of Thrones is just the dogs dangly bits - even without Shhoooorrrnnn Beeeaaannnn

??? Sean is definitely not shorn - in fact he could really use a trim.
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We run a three strikes and out policy here. Its not Sean its Shhoooorrrrnnnn Beeeaannnnn. Now don't let me have to tell you again


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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 8/6/2017 4:24:12 AM   
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Pete's Dragon Spoiler Alert

I watched Pete's Dragon yesterday with the little warspites. What a sweet little film that was, although that must have set a new record for Disney in terms of time taken once a film has started to pull at the old heartstrings.... Surprised by its low rating on IMDB, it was a hit chez warspite anyway.

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 8/6/2017 8:48:55 AM   
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Riviera got off to a slow start but is coming nicely to life now

The Americans series 5 and there is just no let up in quality

and of course, and speaking of quality

Game of Thrones is just the dogs dangly bits - even without Shhoooorrrnnn Beeeaaannnn

??? Sean is definitely not shorn - in fact he could really use a trim.
warspite1

We run a three strikes and out policy here. Its not Sean its Shhoooorrrrnnnn Beeeaannnnn. Now don't let me have to tell you again


Oh, you're no fun anymore!

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 8/6/2017 10:46:03 PM   
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Actually, Shhoooorrrnnn Beeeaaannnn and Melisandre havr crossed paths before - in Black Death.





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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 8/6/2017 11:09:20 PM   
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Actually, Shhoooorrrnnn Beeeaaannnn and Melisandre have crossed paths before - in Black Death.





In which, Shhoooorrrnnn Beeeaaannnn unsurprisingly dies.




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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 8/7/2017 5:31:40 AM   
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In which, Shhoooorrrnnn Beeeaaannnn unsurprisingly dies.



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Natch. But what about anyone, in anyway connected to Shhoooorrrnnn Beeeaaannnn?

And more importantly, did the film grab your attention by any beeewwwbbbs necessary?


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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 8/14/2017 5:17:23 PM   
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Game of Thrones tonight - I can't believe we are over halfway already. Can this episode possibly top last week?

And followed by The Americans.

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