Davkaus Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 I'm a little behind the times, but I just watched episode one of Band of Brothers. Not a bad start! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 5 minutes ago, Davkaus said: I'm a little behind the times, but I just watched episode one of Band of Brothers. Not a bad start! Great show bit of a slow burner but i loved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 43 minutes ago, Davkaus said: I'm a little behind the times, but I just watched episode one of Band of Brothers. Not a bad start! coming to it late means you get to play "bloody hell i know him" there are some proper people in the cast! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 (edited) 21 minutes ago, villa4europe said: coming to it late means you get to play "bloody hell i know him" there are some proper people in the cast! Ha, definitely. Quite a few well knowns in it, but the only one I find incredibly jarring is Ross from Friends pretending to be in the army. Edited February 1, 2019 by Davkaus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 Second series of Tin Star is entertaining,if a little more off the wall than the first season. Just 4 episodes to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 Just finished Vikings, damn someone got away who shoulda been decapitated! Switched to a new un...Russian Doll. Love it! Very amusing first 4 episodes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiOgiwara Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 14 hours ago, Davkaus said: I'm a little behind the times, but I just watched episode one of Band of Brothers. Not a bad start! If I were to pick a favourite between BoB, The Wire and Sopranos I really would have to flip a coin. Must have watched them all about 15 times. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiOgiwara Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 (edited) 13 hours ago, Davkaus said: Ha, definitely. Quite a few well knowns in it, but the only one I find incredibly jarring is Ross from Friends pretending to be in the army. Sobel! I thought he played that rather well. If anything I thought they rather pushed the limits at times in regards to people's legacys. Especially Sobel, Cobb and Norman Dike didn't come across well. And that kinda bothers me considering what these guys went through and they can't speak for themselves any more. Like Sobel for instance, everyone that has been in the military knows the talk amongst the men towards spesific officers. Sobel is portrayed as an inept and petty coward, yet to a large degree stuff like this are made up among people going from basic training. It just doesn't sit right with me. Fortunately Richard Winters was alive for the making of the show, and hopefully he had the integrity to see that the truth was told. Edited February 2, 2019 by KenjiOgiwara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazzap24 Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 'The Orville' continues to surprise me with the subjects it tackles. It sits in it's own little genre. It's not an out and out comedy and it isn't a proper drama. It's essentially a homage to the original Star Trek series, but they tackle some interesting subjects and do it really well. Well worth a watch imo. Just finished the latest series of The Good Place too and that is now hands down my favourite current comedy. Absolute genius. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted February 3, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted February 3, 2019 Blimey, DC Titans is much better (and much, much more dark and violent) than expected. Very enjoyable so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykeyb Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 On 28/01/2019 at 11:41, sne said: True Detective S3 so far is excellent! Not quite as good as S1 but really really good. It's at the level where you get a bit frustrated that you are not allowed to binge it and that's always a sign of quality. I am finding really hard to catch some of the dialogue if I am honest and it's little slow paced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 On 01/02/2019 at 21:02, Davkaus said: I'm a little behind the times, but I just watched episode one of Band of Brothers. Not a bad start! You jammy, jammy bastard. To watch that fresh. Such a good mini-series. The Pacific that was their next effort isn't as good ( but still worthwhile I think ) as it didn't have the same level of ensemble focus that you get with Band of Brothers. Started Sex Education tonight - first two episodes in and it's hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiOgiwara Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 11 minutes ago, Rodders said: You jammy, jammy bastard. To watch that fresh. Such a good mini-series. The Pacific that was their next effort isn't as good ( but still worthwhile I think ) as it didn't have the same level of ensemble focus that you get with Band of Brothers. Started Sex Education tonight - first two episodes in and it's hilarious. The Pasific is rather good I reckon. But not comperable to BoB, but still good. They had too much focus on Eugene Sledge in that one though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 Has anyone watched the Sons of Anarchy spin-off Mayans MC? Started on bbc2 last night and recorded the first two episodes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuart_75 Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 2 hours ago, theboyangel said: Has anyone watched the Sons of Anarchy spin-off Mayans MC? Started on bbc2 last night and recorded the first two episodes. I've seen the whole season. If you liked SOA, then you'll like this, its basically a Mexican version. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted February 4, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted February 4, 2019 On 27/01/2019 at 13:05, Stevo985 said: Sex Education is superb I couldn't quite put my finger on what felt so familiar about it until yesterday when I realised it was filmed in my old college in Caerleon. 25+ years since I was last there so lots has changed but it forced me to go on a bit of a nostalgia trip, which was nice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiOgiwara Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 16 hours ago, Designer1 said: Blimey, DC Titans is much better (and much, much more dark and violent) than expected. Very enjoyable so far. Good shout. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 (edited) 18 hours ago, mykeyb said: I am finding really hard to catch some of the dialogue if I am honest and it's little slow paced. Seen others say this about the dialogue as well, personally not having that problem. A friend of mine pointed out that the story has similarities to the Sean Penn directed movie The Pledge with Jack Nicholson. Hadn't thought about it before but there are some clear similarities. Still really enjoying it and Ali is excellent. Edited February 4, 2019 by sne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BOF Posted February 5, 2019 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted February 5, 2019 Too old to die young Quote Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Too Old to Die Young’ Features 10 90-Minute Episodes Too Old to Die Young, the upcoming Amazon series from neon fetishist Nicolas Winding Refn, is not going to be something you can blow through in one weekend. According to Refn’s longtime collaborator, composer Cliff Martinez, all 10 episodes of the series are about 90-minutes each, which would clock the entire series in about 16 hours. Nicolas Winding Refn’s Too Old to Die Young is debuting on Amazon at some point this year (there’s no date set yet), and when it arrives, you better clear out a huge chunk of time. Speaking with ScreenDaily, composer Cliff Martinez dropped this eyebrow raising tidbit: “For me the biggest change is just the endurance to do what I think of as a ten-hour movie – or a 16-hour movie in the case of To Old To Die Young. It’s ten episodes that are around 90 minutes a piece.” In other words, Refn hasn’t made a series of TV episodes – he’s made essentially 10 feature films. This could be either very impressive, or very frustrating, depending on how the material turns out. Either way, I’m intrigued. I’m a big Refn fan, and if he’s managed to somehow make 10 90-minute episodes that hold my interest, I’ll be thrilled. The Drive and Neon Demon filmmaker has assembled a cast that includes Miles Teller, Billy Baldwin, Jena Malone, John Hawkes, Cristina Rodlo, Augusto Aguilera, Nell Tiger Free, Babs Olusanmokun, Callie Hernandez, to tell a story about “a grieving police officer who, along with the man who shot his partner, finds himself in an underworld filled with working-class hit men, Yakuza soldiers, cartel assassins sent from Mexico, Russian mafia captains and gangs of teen killers.” Refn co-wrote the series with Ed Brubaker. When interviewed about the show in October 2018, Brubaker said: “The show will launch in the spring, I believe, on Amazon. Nic and Matt [Newman, editor] are still cutting the second half of the season, but what I’ve seen is amazing. It’s the most Nicolas Winding Refn thing that ever existed, honestly. It’s stylish and shocking, it has some of the best cinematography ever for television (our lead DP was the great Darius Khondji, so of course it does), and at the same time it is a meditation on these characters trapped in this world that’s not too unlike the world all around us, that feels like it’s about to fall apart, or maybe be torn apart…It’s also the most exhausting thing I’ve ever done, writing that show with Nic. We had a 10-month shoot, which I think might be a record, with one director shooting it all.” 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 5, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted February 5, 2019 (edited) On 03/02/2019 at 19:57, KenjiOgiwara said: The Pasific is rather good I reckon. But not comperable to BoB, but still good. They had too much focus on Eugene Sledge in that one though. BoB worked better because all the guys were in the same unit, unlike The Pacific which kept hopping between characters who had no connection with each other. And in the book, arguably the best part was about an aviator, who was totally left out of the TV series, presumably for budgetary reasons. Edited February 5, 2019 by mjmooney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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