What program/film/documentary are you watching now?

ElvisJJonesRambo · Post by **ElvisJJonesRambo** » Thu Sep 09, 2021 12:36 am

Watching US Open Men's Tennis in New York.
This guy Novak Djokovic is pretty good, wins every night.

RFalvo69 · Post by **RFalvo69** » Thu Sep 09, 2021 4:19 pm

I'm binge watching Rick and Morty. What a mindf**k [X(]

gamer78 · Post by **gamer78** » Thu Sep 09, 2021 5:36 pm

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: gamer78

"In Kyrgyzstan, players throw themselves into the national sport of kok boru, a rough polo-like game played on horses - with a dead goat as the ball."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12595580/
https://www.netflix.com/tr-en/title/80227160

I guess that the game would tenderize the meat . . .

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-p ... -18386029/

This one much better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TDLJ7YJOnA about meat and pilav (rice) I think thats the best food in the world. [:)]

My brother was in Khazakistan during brawl between Kazak and Turkish workers he was an engineer in 2006 has no harm but he said they have no mercy in fighting.
https://www.rferl.org/a/1072169.html

Buckrock · Post by **Buckrock** » Fri Sep 10, 2021 1:52 pm

ORIGINAL: RFalvo69

I'm binge watching Rick and Morty. What a mindf**k [X(]

A very wild ride. They can pack a lot of insanity into their stories. Sometimes I've had to watch an episode twice, once for the rapid-fire jokes and then a second time to keep track all the syfy concepts they're sending up.

ElvisJJonesRambo · Post by **ElvisJJonesRambo** » Fri Sep 10, 2021 10:46 pm

In Rambo III, John J. played some Goat ball.

ElvisJJonesRambo · Post by **ElvisJJonesRambo** » Fri Sep 10, 2021 11:59 pm

Currently watching, "Impeachment" on FX. https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/american-crime-story

It's about this American President who drops something on a young intern's dress. Not really sure what genre to call this, Oral History?

jhyden · Post by **jhyden** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 7:02 am

RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now?

Title: Remembering Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - ABC News Nightline - May 19, 1994

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iKbEKSuJZM

🌍 best wishes all ~

RFalvo69 · Post by **RFalvo69** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 6:27 pm

ORIGINAL: Buckrock

ORIGINAL: RFalvo69

I'm binge watching Rick and Morty. What a mindf**k [X(]
A very wild ride. They can pack a lot of insanity into their stories. Sometimes I've had to watch an episode twice, once for the rapid-fire jokes and then a second time to keep track all the syfy concepts they're sending up.

My youngest daughter suggested this show to me. She said that it was "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" but on bad acid - something that I dug immediately. What I didn't expect was the level of nihilism and violence, both physical and psychological. The end of episode six (the one with the "cronenbergs") is one of the darkest things I ever watched. For sure it is full of genius but not something I would show to children.

Buckrock · Post by **Buckrock** » Wed Sep 15, 2021 6:31 am

The show veers from painfully dark to hilariously light and all places in-between but I can assure you the Cronenbergs episode is definitely not the darkest one out there. The episodes that focus on progressing the show's story arc forward tend to be the darkest and least humorous of the lot. A necessary evil I suppose. Definitely not a show I'd recommend for the kiddies either.

And remember to watch the post-credit bonus segments. Some of them are brilliant twists on the episode just gone.

Zorch · Post by **Zorch** » Wed Sep 15, 2021 11:13 am

'The Regia Marina in WW2 - The Under-appreciated Navy (w. Vincent O'Hara)' by Drachinifel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np73fWCDnfg
An 85 minute talk with author Vincent O'Hara about the Italian Navy.

warspite1 · Post by **warspite1** » Sat Sep 18, 2021 9:15 am

Vigil - BBC1

I love detective dramas - and this one is a detective drama on HMS Vigil a fictional Trident nuclear submarine - fantastic. Line of Duty under the sea [:)]

warspite1 · Post by **warspite1** » Sat Sep 18, 2021 9:48 am

ORIGINAL: Zorch

'The Regia Marina in WW2 - The Under-appreciated Navy (w. Vincent O'Hara)' by Drachinifel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np73fWCDnfg
An 85 minute talk with author Vincent O'Hara about the Italian Navy.

warspite1

An interesting discussion. O'Hara comes across very well - just as he does in his books, which I think are largely well written.

He makes some valid points, although I still disagree with his overall view of the Regia Marina in WWII. But at least in presenting his view, he provides further reading on a topic that deserves to be read.

RangerJoe · Post by **RangerJoe** » Thu Sep 23, 2021 8:43 pm

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Zorch

'The Regia Marina in WW2 - The Under-appreciated Navy (w. Vincent O'Hara)' by Drachinifel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np73fWCDnfg
An 85 minute talk with author Vincent O'Hara about the Italian Navy.
warspite1

An interesting discussion. O'Hara comes across very well - just as he does in his books, which I think are largely well written.

He makes some valid points, although I still disagree with his overall view of the Regia Marina in WWII. But at least in presenting his view, he provides further reading on a topic that deserves to be read.

From its use, I don't think that Little Bennie nor the "Paper hanging son of a (insert word for a female canine)" in Berlin appreciated it nor what it could do.

RangerJoe · Post by **RangerJoe** » Thu Sep 23, 2021 8:44 pm

Hacksaw ridge on DVD but I just picked up Dunkirk on DVD - it was on sale. The Dunkirk DVD was cheaper than the price of a movie ticket . . .

Orm · Post by **Orm** » Fri Sep 24, 2021 3:51 am

In my quest for re-watching old films I watched Resident Evil again. Really like it. [:)]

warspite1 · Post by **warspite1** » Sun Oct 03, 2021 7:12 am

The Murder of Lord Mountbatten: 3 Days that Shook Britain (Channel 5)

A very well done documentary on the murder of Mountbatten. Although I remember the time it happened very vividly, I've never read about what actually happened. This was a very well put together documentary that dealt with the events in chronological order and didn't try and be too clever for its own good. Recommended.

warspite1 · Post by **warspite1** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 12:12 am

Hot on the heels of Vigil the latest BBC offering on a Sunday night is Ridley Road. First episode started well. The story is based on true events and the rise of anti-semitism in the UK in the early 60’s (although I don't think this was in any way shape or form ever widespread outside a few neanderthals). So far so okay, with an excellent cast including the always watchable Greg Kinnear. I am looking forward to seeing how this plays out.

BBfanboy · Post by **BBfanboy** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 12:33 am

Haven't watched it in a while, but I really loved the performances and scope of the two mini-series: The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance, based on Herman Wouk's excellent books. Robert Mitchum plays the main character - 'Pug' Henry - a USN Captain. It follows his story as he is posted to diplomatic and intelligence posts in Germany before the US entered WWII. It then follows him into the Guadalcanal campaign where he loses his CA at Tassafaronga. And then he goes on to work on increasing production of amphib ships (where he bumps into competition from the Manhattan Project).

Meanwhile, his sons are involved by marriage with a Jewish family, and one of them serves as an SBD pilot at Midway. The Jewish family is caught up with trying to escape Germany during chaotic 1940. Some do, some don't. Some go to the camps. And Pug encounters a fine Australian lady named Pamela, played by a young Victoria Tennant. She alone is enough reason to watch ...

RFalvo69 · Post by **RFalvo69** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 8:40 am

I watched the first three episodes of "Foundation" and I think I'll stop. The adaptation is just dire. The first episode was actually interesting, and Jared Harris was exactly how I imagined Hari Seldon when I read the books. Then things went very south with the second episode and never recovered.

Gratuitous gender/race swapping abounds (*) - including a gender swapping that breaks an important plot point. But, no, wait: the plot has nothing to do with the books and a big reveal far down the story is wasted ten minutes in, so I guess nothing was broken.

If you are looking for an adaptation of Asimov's books don't bother: only the first episode touches the original story, the rest throws in some names and that's it. If you forget the books, then you get a very boring sci-fi show, so full of plot holes that by the third illogical event you simply stop bothering.

Pity, because the production values are stunning. Asimov almost never gave a visual description of places and landscapes, so the work that they did to portray Trantor and the Foundation universe is breathtaking. The actors do what they can with the characters they are given and I can commend Lee Pace for doing his best with a very stupidly written Emperor. Still, this remains a wasted opportunity.

(*) Edit: I have nothing against gender/race swapping by itself, if done for a reason. In the new "Battlestar Galactica" turning Scorpion into a woman greatly enriched the story. Here it seems that Gaal Dornick was turned into a young black woman only due to the need of "reaching a quota" or such - a genuine plague of our times.

lenna0428 · Post by **lenna0428** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 5:00 am

Squid game!