• REGISTER NOW!! Why? Because you can't do much without having been registered!

    At the moment you have limited access to view all discussions - and most importantly, you haven't joined our community. What are you waiting for? Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join Join Talking Horses here!

What are you watching

an capall said:
Started to watch American Primeval on Netflix. A bit like The Revenant, but without the joy and happiness.
Click to expand...
Checked out the trailer for it and it looks good. I loved The Revenant and am glad I saw it at the cinema. Although I have the dvd I’ve never rewatched it; for some reason it’s the films I like the most that I tend not to rewatch. Unfortunately I don’t have Netflix and have to wait till things are released on dvd. I’m still ploughing my way through the last two series of Vikings although they don’t really grip me. I’ve then got 1883 to watch. On Amazon there’s a Chinese film called Black Dog which stars a whippet that looks just like my Winnie. It’s won several awards and I’m looking forward to watching it when I dog sit for my daughter. I thought it was going to be released on DVD today but it hasn’t happened unfortunately.
 
Started to watch the first episode of The Following last night.

I gave up within about half a hour. Too disturbing for me at my age. I want to be entertained, not harrowed.

Back in the day I could just about cope with Prime Suspect when some of the cases were of sadistic and brutal murders but I know I couldn't watch them now.
 
Finally finished watching Vikings. I only started watching it years ago between series of Game of Thrones, which was far more fun. Always found Vikings took itself too seriously and was a bit up itself. And as the series went on, with more and more funding, was more style over substance. And I never really cared about any of the characters, many of which I just got mixed up because they all looked the same.But it was unfinished business not seeing it out to the end and I must say it was a much better ending than GOT’s and remained true to itself. Just going to watch the last episode again with the commentary; I always like watching things with the commentary. Being a glutton for punishment I might buy the dvd of Vikings Valhalla, which could be a bit more lively. Given that I divide my time between Bamburgh and live near to Repton I’m rather surrounded by Viking stuff: there are Viking graves in the dunes which makes walking there a bit spooky. I often look out to sea and imagine Viking ships on the horizon. Also a bit annoyed that I didn’t back Lagertha who won at 6/1 the other day; a topical bet if ever there was one.
 
Just binge watched Industry on BBC catchup. Not my sort of programme at all. All about young people in banking who do nothing but snort coke, have lots of sex ( it isn’t something you’d watch with your mum or your kids.more bonking than banking…)and double cross each other. None of them are remotely nice, apart from one young lad who’s very sweet. But the acting, locations, soundtrack etc are superb. I haven’t got the faintest idea what they’re talking about most of the time or why I’ve been so gripped by it. Hayley Campbell on Must Watch said that the ending to series three was one of the best endings to a tv series that she’d ever seen and she was right. I think it must be similar to Succession, which I’ve never seen. It was a bit of a culture shock after binge watching Middlemarch and I think I need to find another historical costume drama to watch now.
 
Wyatt Earp (Kevin Costner). I saw it a few years ago and it's on this evening. It's an OK film, not unlike the Corral, but it doesn't half go on for a long time. There's no chance I'll see it through to the end this evening.
 
I do actually own an old TV, but I hardly ever watch it (ITV Racing on mute, election night for literally a minute for the Exit poll result, that sort of thing) and I don't even know how to tune into anything beyond the main channels and don't much care.

But I DO watch YouTube clips on my phone and this week I've mostly been watching Lewis Goodall on LBC, Andrew Marr on LBC and the New Statesman and some original Star Trek clips plus the Tomorrow People theme tune, a nice blend of current affairs and nostalgic retro, I feel.
 
moehat said:
Got a good write up on Must Watch. Says it doesn’t turn out to be what you think it’s going to be. I don’t have Disney, though.
Click to expand...
I’m very confused 😆😆 I’m using the theory of I really like James Marsden though, so I’m keeping going while assuming he’s not going to do anything rubbish.
 
Watched Truth Falls last night a synopsis of Julian Assange's revelation of the dirty tricks played around the world to discredit,the reams of evidence he published on Wikileaks.
Highly recommended.
 
Watched Father Stu the other night not realising beforehand that it is based on a true story.

The first wee while strikes me as 'adapted for cinema' writing and playing but from the time of his conversion (technically not true since he was brought up Catholic) it becomes quite powerful stuff.

It made me want to read up on Stuart Long himself. Maybe one day he'll be Saint Stu.
 
Robicheaux said:
For the 3rd time, I tried watching Spielbergs film Lincoln. Yet again, I barely made it to the hour mark, before I nodded off. Time to admit, it's not one of his better efforts.
Click to expand...
I think I saw it at the cinema but have never had any desire to watch it again. Apart from The Last of the Mohicans, which I can watch over and over again, I don’t really like Daniel Day Lewis films. On the subject of films that need to be finished I must attempt to watch Peterloo again. There’s a Chinese film on Amazon that I’m hoping to watch at my daughters next week. I’ve been waiting for the dvd to come out but they keep delaying its release. It’s called Black Dog and was critically acclaimed last year. It stars a black whippet that looks just like my Winnie. I’m hoping it doesn’t have a sad ending.
 
Ian_Davies said:
I do actually own an old TV, but I hardly ever watch it (ITV Racing on mute, election night for literally a minute for the Exit poll result, that sort of thing) and I don't even know how to tune into anything beyond the main channels and don't much care.

But I DO watch YouTube clips on my phone and this week I've mostly been watching Lewis Goodall on LBC, Andrew Marr on LBC and the New Statesman and some original Star Trek clips plus the Tomorrow People theme tune, a nice blend of current affairs and nostalgic retro, I feel.
Click to expand...
I love Radio and spend most weekdays reading news stories for a local radio station in the Northeast.

I've spoken and opined on LBC a few times, you've probably heard me, you just don't know It.😁

Forumite EC1 follows LBC aswell.
 
I don't actually listen to LBC - I just listen to clips on YouTube which aren't part of call ins.

As a fellow centre-lefty, I guess I ought to like James O'Brien, but I find him a bit childish tbh and Marr and Goodall are more to my taste.
 
Rare I watch anything these days odd box set binge but I did manage to watch and stay awake through an entire film last night. Watched Hugh grants new film Heretic brilliantly creepy, kept me on the edge of my seat all the way through. I thought there was going to be a very clever sort of ending. Unfortunately there wasn't but still worth a watch if you want a decent dose of the heebie jeebies.
 
moehat said:
I think I saw it at the cinema but have never had any desire to watch it again. Apart from The Last of the Mohicans, which I can watch over and over again, I don’t really like Daniel Day Lewis films. On the subject of films that need to be finished I must attempt to watch Peterloo again. There’s a Chinese film on Amazon that I’m hoping to watch at my daughters next week. I’ve been waiting for the dvd to come out but they keep delaying its release. It’s called Black Dog and was critically acclaimed last year. It stars a black whippet that looks just like my Winnie. I’m hoping it doesn’t have a sad ending.
Click to expand...
Each to their own, but I think Day Lewis is one of the finest actors of his generation. Get what you're saying about his films. Apart from My left foot + Last of the Mochicans, he has played some very unsavoury characters.
 
Ian_Davies said:
I don't actually listen to LBC - I just listen to clips on YouTube which aren't part of call ins.

As a fellow centre-lefty, I guess I ought to like James O'Brien, but I find him a bit childish tbh and Marr and Goodall are more to my taste.
Click to expand...
Yes, I liked a couple presenters from several years ago who were good to chat to, Darren Adam and Maajid Nawaz.

Nick Abbot had a coughing fit a couple of nights ago. By coughing fit, I mean coughing fit. The poor bloke couldn't speak for an hour. I've never heard anything like it.

I think James goes more hard left the more hard right the caller, and there's a lot of hard right callers out there. I can understand why this happens.
 
Last edited:
Robicheaux said:
Each to their own, but I think Day Lewis is one of the finest actors of his generation. Get what you're saying about his films. Apart from My left foot + Last of the Mochicans, he has played some very unsavoury characters.
Click to expand...
You can be a great actor and also appear in films that are very hard to watch. I'm with moehat on DDL films - they leave me cold.

And as an aside - when he was in last of the Mohicans, I frequently got him mixed up with Lou diamond Philips. 😄
 
I don’t mind films that are hard to watch ( although I did give up on The Deer Hunter the other night; I felt that, as I’d never seen it I needed to watch it as part of my cinematic education, but I gave up and watched Amandaland instead) but some hard to watch films are boring. I didn’t like There Will be Blood. In my youth I remember being transfixed at the cinema watching Ken Russell films. I’m trying to think of the one that made me feel numb right from the very beginning. The witches or something? Of course, it was The Devils….
 
I remember seeing The Lair Of The White Worm at a cinema near Leicester Square one evening after work at the Racing Post - that was pretty surreal.
 
Back
Top