What program/film/documentary are you watching now?

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

This is a good time to watch the 1953 movie, The War of the Worlds.

warspite1

Call me old fashioned Zorchster, but would it be fair to say you have a bit of a War of The Worlds vibe going on at the moment?

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Zorch

This is a good time to watch the 1953 movie, The War of the Worlds.

warspite1

Call me old fashioned Zorchster, but would it be fair to say you have a bit of a War of The Worlds vibe going on at the moment?

How could you tell?
The microbes usually win out. Usually, not always.

[Orm]

Re-watched The Killing Fields.

Brilliant movie. Although sad. And scary.

What a performance by Dr Haing S. Ngor. Stunning. And a well deserved Oscar. What eludes me though, is why he got the Oscar for "supporting actor"? He clearly had one of the two lead roles.

Feels like something like this has a hard time getting made today.

[Orm]

For some reason I feel like watching both Ran, and 7 Samurai. [&:]

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: Orm

For some reason I feel like watching both Ran, and 7 Samurai. [&:]

[nicwb]

For some reason I feel like watching both Ran, and 7 Samurai.

Why not? - both are excellent movies. The first is a Japanese version of King Lear, the second the inspiration for The Magnificent 7.

You could also try Yojimbo and Sanjuro -same director -Akira Kurosawa. The two movies were the inspiration for A Fist Full of Dollars and For a few Dollars more. The final showdown, I think it's in Sanjuro, is excellent.

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: nicwb

For some reason I feel like watching both Ran, and 7 Samurai.

Why not? - both are excellent movies. The first is a Japanese version of King Lear, the second the inspiration for The Magnificent 7.

You could also try Yojimbo and Sanjuro -same director -Akira Kurosawa. The two movies were the inspiration for A Fist Full of Dollars and For a few Dollars more. The final showdown, I think it's in Sanjuro, is excellent.

And Hidden Fortress - which inspired George Lucas.

[nicwb]

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ORIGINAL: nicwb

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For some reason I feel like watching both Ran, and 7 Samurai.


Why not? - both are excellent movies. The first is a Japanese version of King Lear, the second the inspiration for The Magnificent 7.

You could also try Yojimbo and Sanjuro -same director -Akira Kurosawa. The two movies were the inspiration for A Fist Full of Dollars and For a few Dollars more. The final showdown, I think it's in Sanjuro, is excellent.

And Hidden Fortress - which inspired George Lucas.


Yes - only saw it once - but it doesn' t take much to see the relationship between . I also liked Rashomon - not in the same vein as the others but a very thoughtful film.

[warspite1]

Seven Worlds, One Planet.

Another David Attenborough masterpiece. One episode still to go (Africa) but the series has been brilliant - if brutal.

Just seen North America and the sight of polar bears trekking around grassland with not a piece of ice in sight (and the beach is just mud and rocks....

A group of bears has devised a way of trying to stay alive in this new environment. They set themselves up on a suitable rock at sea, wait for Beluga whales to swim past and then.....

Horrible to watch but mighty impressive at the same time. I had no idea polar bears are such excellent swimmers.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Been watching a program on National Geographic about the Cold War. Only 4 episodes I think and not incredibly detailed, however as an overview for someone like me (for whom warfare post-Hiroshima has never been of much interest) I've found it highly interesting, informative and watchable.

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Well it turned out to be 6 parts, not 4. It was a decent series except they could have done with some better spacing. Having taken 5 episodes to go from 1945 to 1962, they then went from 1963 to 1991 in 1! As can be imagined, after dealing with Vietnam, that left about 10 minutes of the program to whistle-stop through 1975-1991.

But for an overview of some of the key events of the cold war it was worth watching.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: nicwb

For some reason I feel like watching both Ran, and 7 Samurai.

Why not? - both are excellent movies. The first is a Japanese version of King Lear, the second the inspiration for The Magnificent 7.

You could also try Yojimbo and Sanjuro -same director -Akira Kurosawa. The two movies were the inspiration for A Fist Full of Dollars and For a few Dollars more. The final showdown, I think it's in Sanjuro, is excellent.

Yojimbo is next on my list of DVDs to watch.

[Chickenboy]

Warspite1 TRIGGER ALERT!

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OK! YOU WERE WARNED!

After Yojimbo, is A Night to Remember-the original Titanic movie.

[ncc1701e]

I am six episodes from the end of Battlestar Galactica (season 4). I had never seen it. Good show.

[warspite1]

I watched a film about Diego Maradona. Two hours long and well worth a watch. Didn't go into huge amounts of detail (I suspect there is an awful lot more to the story than can be told) but gives a great overview of one of the greatest players to have played the game.

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

I watched a film about Diego Maradona. Two hours long and well worth a watch. Didn't go into huge amounts of detail (I suspect there is an awful lot more to the story than can be told) but gives a great overview of one of the greatest players to have played the game.

Indeed. And yet I mostly remember the bad. [:(]

[loki100]

ok, not exactly watching at the moment, but am rather looking forward to series 3 of Killing Eve

Also slowly wandering our way through Outlander, its not exactly demanding but mostly enjoyable - apart from pushing the fantasy that the 1745-6 rebellion was some sort of early form of Scottish nationalism (when the great majority of Scots readily stayed neutral or backed the Hannoverian side).

[nicwb]

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ORIGINAL: nicwb

quote:

For some reason I feel like watching both Ran, and 7 Samurai.


Why not? - both are excellent movies. The first is a Japanese version of King Lear, the second the inspiration for The Magnificent 7.

You could also try Yojimbo and Sanjuro -same director -Akira Kurosawa. The two movies were the inspiration for A Fist Full of Dollars and For a few Dollars more. The final showdown, I think it's in Sanjuro, is excellent.


Yojimbo is next on my list of DVDs to watch.

Enjoy !

I decided I needed a laugh so today was Mel Brook's "Young Frankenstein"

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: nicwb

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ORIGINAL: nicwb

quote:

For some reason I feel like watching both Ran, and 7 Samurai.


Why not? - both are excellent movies. The first is a Japanese version of King Lear, the second the inspiration for The Magnificent 7.

You could also try Yojimbo and Sanjuro -same director -Akira Kurosawa. The two movies were the inspiration for A Fist Full of Dollars and For a few Dollars more. The final showdown, I think it's in Sanjuro, is excellent.


Yojimbo is next on my list of DVDs to watch.

Enjoy !

I decided I needed a laugh so today was Mel Brook's "Young Frankenstein"

Imagine Toshiro Mifune in a Mel Brooks film.

[warspite1]

Tim Brooke-Taylor RIP [:(]

The Goodies was essential TV for a 10-year old back in the mid-70's.

[loki100]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Tim Brooke-Taylor RIP [:(]

The Goodies was essential TV for a 10-year old back in the mid-70's.

I know, a real loss. Some one who was invariably nice in his use of humour