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Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2025 8:54 pm
by Dodgy69
Taipan wrote: Tue Jul 01, 2025 6:45 pm Found myself watching and enjoying Noel Edmond's Kiwi Adventure! I know he has a lot of haters, but for me he was part of my childhood, xmas days and saturday nights and I dont dislike him. TBH I never knew what even happened to him but the program told us how he was bankrupted by corrupt HBOS bankers but eventually got all his money back! :crazy: Anyway, the show is definitely rooted in the Clarksons Farm style and is one of those business struggles that aren't really astruggle as the main protagonist is loaded, ala Clarkson, but I'm enjoying it nethertheless.

Just watched last week's. It's OK but I prefer Clarksons farm. He's into some funny stuff, playin music to his vines and big rocks. πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2025 9:02 pm
by Taipan
Dodgy69 wrote: Tue Jul 01, 2025 8:54 pm
Taipan wrote: Tue Jul 01, 2025 6:45 pm Found myself watching and enjoying Noel Edmond's Kiwi Adventure! I know he has a lot of haters, but for me he was part of my childhood, xmas days and saturday nights and I dont dislike him. TBH I never knew what even happened to him but the program told us how he was bankrupted by corrupt HBOS bankers but eventually got all his money back! :crazy: Anyway, the show is definitely rooted in the Clarksons Farm style and is one of those business struggles that aren't really astruggle as the main protagonist is loaded, ala Clarkson, but I'm enjoying it nethertheless.

Just watched last week's. It's OK but I prefer Clarksons farm. He's into some funny stuff, playin music to his vines and big rocks. πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ
Yeah, he's into the cosmos and all that stuff, but he's smart too and I admire that. Mind you for all his crytals and vortex water stuff i hasve to say he looks effin good for 75, even with his 1980s perpetual hair do! :D

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2025 9:08 pm
by Dodgy69
80 yo is the new 'getting on'.

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2025 5:15 pm
by MingtheMerciless

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2025 8:51 pm
by ChrisW
We've just seen 28 Years Later.

Would not have guessed the final scene in a trillion years of guessing...

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2025 10:03 pm
by MrLongbeard
The Old Man. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5645432/
Ponderous, the series not the old man, can't tell if Bridges is playing a part or just really really past it and should hang up his hat, but it's good enough to keep me watching it.

Mr Inbetween. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7472896/?r ... mr%2520inb
Down to earth bloke making his way in the world as a hitman, it's just funny.

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 2:22 pm
by gremlin
The Year of the Rabbit is available to watch on Netflix if you missed it on C4. :thumbup:


Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2025 7:42 am
by KungFooBob
Alien: Earth

On Disney Plus.

If you like the Alien movie franchise then you'll flippin' love this. There's not quite the same amount of existential dread as the movies, but I think that makes it a bit more watchable as a series.

Children in adult android bodies, space ship crashes, new types of Aliens, Timothy Olyphant, what more do you want?

I did wonder why an urban search and rescue team go equipped with Pulse Rifles, come in hand tho'

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2025 8:24 am
by Count Steer
KungFooBob wrote: Fri Aug 15, 2025 7:42 am Alien: Earth

On Disney Plus.

If you like the Alien movie franchise then you'll flippin' love this. There's not quite the same amount of existential dread as the movies, but I think that makes it a bit more watchable as a series.

Children in adult android bodies, space ship crashes, new types of Aliens, Timothy Olyphant, what more do you want?

I did wonder why an urban search and rescue team go equipped with Pulse Rifles, come in hand tho'
There aren't many things that could tempt me to sign up for subscription TV but Aliens + Olyphant is a very tempting combination. :D

He knocked it out of the park in Deadwood and Justified and I even enjoyed Hitman. :D (Not in the Alan Rickman/Gruber, scenery-chewing class but his Die Hard baddy was pretty fair too).

He acts with his eyes, as spotted in Deadwood...stationary, standing Olyphant - πŸ‘€ look right - Olyphant swivels, exits stage right. :D

(Maybe he's a biker - look where you want to go. :thumbup: ).

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2025 8:30 am
by MrLongbeard
Added to watchlist, I can't be doing with the second series of The Old Man right now so this'll do

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2025 8:43 am
by KungFooBob
It's no been revealed yet, but I reckon he's a synthetic, his hair is on point!

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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2025 8:49 am
by Count Steer
KungFooBob wrote: Fri Aug 15, 2025 8:43 am It's no been revealed yet, but I reckon he's a synthetic, his hair is on point!
There's something of a spolier on that in the 'cast and characters' in the Wiki info.

Got Ade Edmonson in too!

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2025 8:57 am
by KungFooBob
Count Steer wrote: Fri Aug 15, 2025 8:49 am
KungFooBob wrote: Fri Aug 15, 2025 8:43 am It's no been revealed yet, but I reckon he's a synthetic, his hair is on point!
There's something of a spolier on that in the 'cast and characters' in the Wiki info.

Got Ade Edmonson in too!
Yeah, doesn't look or sound like him, I saw his name in the end credits and couldn't remember seeing him, he's the Boy Geniuses left hand man.

I'm convinced one of the rescue guys who gets his face punched off by an aliens maw was Ralf Little, but Google says no.

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2025 9:15 am
by Sunny
KungFooBob wrote: Fri Aug 15, 2025 7:42 am Alien: Earth

On Disney Plus.

If you like the Alien movie franchise then you'll flippin' love this. There's not quite the same amount of existential dread as the movies, but I think that makes it a bit more watchable as a series.

Children in adult android bodies, space ship crashes, new types of Aliens, Timothy Olyphant, what more do you want?

I did wonder why an urban search and rescue team go equipped with Pulse Rifles, come in hand tho'
I'm waiting for it to finish so we can binge it 😎

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 10:17 am
by MrLongbeard
Alone, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4803766/ , love it.
The Rookie, top TV cop drama with a little humour thrown in
Alien: Earth, only just started, might have legs if you ignore the timeline, having avoided all of the prequal films I may be missing out on some plot lines / characters but we'll see
KungFooBob wrote: Fri Aug 15, 2025 8:43 am It's no been revealed yet, but I reckon he's a synthetic, his hair is on point!
His speech on the drop ship in episode one does not lend towards him being human.

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 1:49 pm
by Nordboy
Are you all saying that with Alien: Earth, Disney have managed to make a series that hasn't totally f***ed up the franchise, as per Marvel and Star Wars (Mandalorian excepted)??

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 2:01 pm
by MrLongbeard
Yeah but nah, but not sure yet, it's supposed to be set after the prequals but before Alien, which kind of makes a mockery of the original films if they already new about the aliens before they encounter them in space

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 2:08 pm
by KungFooBob
MrLongbeard wrote: Wed Aug 20, 2025 2:01 pm Yeah but nah, but not sure yet, it's supposed to be set after the prequals but before Alien, which kind of makes a mockery of the original films if they already new about the aliens before they encounter them in space
I think it's gonna be more about the other aliens and the xenomorph is just going to be a background character.

Octo-eyeball is going to be the star of the show, mark my words.

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 3:30 pm
by Silly Car
Currently working my way through Bosch, for years I thought the titular character was played by James Nesbitt, but clearly it isn’t!

Currently on Season 5.

I only started it as it is set prior to Ballard which I’ve watched a couple of episodes, and to allow more episodes to drop so that I can binge that in time.

Overall, Bosch is ok, heavy going at times but it all links together nicely.

Re: Box Sets, Mini series, films, etc.

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 3:54 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
MrLongbeard wrote: Wed Aug 20, 2025 2:01 pm Yeah but nah, but not sure yet, it's supposed to be set after the prequals but before Alien, which kind of makes a mockery of the original films if they already new about the aliens before they encounter them in space
My memory is rusty, but didn't "they" sort of know about Aliens before the first film, hence why the ship and Bilbo Baggins had secret orders?