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I tend to think 'looks' are pretty much 'created' by the parts the actors play with orchestration scored to enhance the appeal. (Especially where Craig is concerned in the Bond films.)

A lot of so-called good-looking actors wouldn't attract a second glance if you passed them in the street.

I'd struggle to name one female actor in films or on TV these days that I reckon would have me distracted if I passed them in town. I'd imagine maybe Lily James because she plays the girl next door so well but that would maybe be it.

Mrs O seldom mentions actors she finds attractive. Gabriel Byrne about 30 years ago was probably the last one. She struggles with Bond films because Craig's ugliness puts her right off.
 
Oh Gabriel Byrne. I first saw him in a film called Reflections. I must have had it on video because I watched it over and over. I’d love to see it again. One of those films in which not a lot happens but captivate me. It was the first time I remember seeing the excellent Harriet Walter in a film. Then there was the magical Into the West. Didn’t he start off in some Irish soap that was shown on tv in the afternoons? I don’t understand plots which is one reason why I don’t watch James Bond or spy films. Maybe that’s why I like films in which nothing much happens. I wonder if I might find Reflections on utube?
 
I struggle with Bond films - not for the same reason as Mrs O, though I agree with her thinking (!) they’ve just never really floated my boat. I’ve seen a few, with different Bonds and of them while I prefer the older ones - not my cup of tea. Think I’m with you Moehat, it’s far too much thinking needed !!!
 
Just found Reflections on utube. Someone had found a copy that someone had recorded on VHS and put it on the internet!
 
Meant to say back along - I tried to watch Box of Delights again, was so excited to see it back on but I HATED it as an adult! There’s a bit of my childhood ruined 🤣🤣
Hoping if I ever find the swish of the curtain ( at least I think it was called that!) it won’t be bad as an adult as well…
 
I’m still watching it. I don’t remember actually watching it when my kids were young although I do remember watching and loving The Children of Green Knowe ( that dvd is still magical).I think I’m only enjoying it because of being on a Facebook page devoted to it and listening to the Hypnogoria commentary podcast. It’s the back story to it that I like, and little things eg when my house is in a mess ( which it usually is) I say ‘ but where are the servants’. And the fact that the snow was real snow and when they filmed on the train they were on a real train and the scenery was real countryside that they were travelling through. It’s part of my new found attempt to ignore politics and world affairs and immerse myself in children’s fantasy literature. I’m just about to start reading The Dark is Rising.
 
By the way, Mrs O says she'd go and a watch a Bond film if Hugh Jackman was Bond.

Eye of the beholder, as I was saying...

(She's obviously working on the assumption that I'm not going to be offered the role.)
 
trudij said:
I just watched Red One - Christmas movie with Chris Evans ( the Captain America one, not the DJ) J K Simmons and The Rock - it’s surprisingly fun and not my usual Christmas film 😁 def recommend for if you don’t want to think very hard !!!
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Yeah, this would usually be a barge pole job for me, watched it with my daughter yesterday and enjoyed it.
 
trudij said:
Meant to say back along - I tried to watch Box of Delights again, was so excited to see it back on but I HATED it as an adult! There’s a bit of my childhood ruined 🤣🤣
Hoping if I ever find the swish of the curtain ( at least I think it was called that!) it won’t be bad as an adult as well…
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why, what's wrong with it as an adult?
that has me worried cos I bought the dvd....
 
moehat said:
Oh Gabriel Byrne. Didn’t he start off in some Irish soap that was shown on tv in the afternoons?
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He made his debut in the last season of an Irish Sunday night institution about farm life in rural Ireland called 'The Riordans' and continued for a few years in a spin off called 'Bracken.' Bracken eventually morphed into the greatest telly series ever, Glenroe thereby defining Sunday nights in Ireland for a decade. Where in the World: Glenroe: News: The Sunday Game.

What a time to be alive it was.
 
pawras said:
why, what's wrong with it as an adult?
that has me worried cos I bought the dvd....
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Have you got the new dvd with the added interviews etc? I’ve just finished watching all the bonus stuff which I find fascinating. For some reason, watching ‘making of’ things don’t take away the magic of films or series to me but add to them and make me see them in a different way. Yes, the special effects are dated by today’s standards but when you hear about what they had to work with they were amazing. And, the bits at the end were filmed in a real canal and in tunnels under Dudley. Everyone was freezing cold and health and safety would not allow most of it now. The people involved in the series all still hold it in great affection, and rightly so. As a series I still prefer The Children of Green Knowe but it’s probably because it’s a theme that I love, one of my favourite books being Tom’s Midnight Garden. What saddens me is that my grandchildren would probably find it boring compared to what they now watch in the same way that the sparkly adventure calendars with the little pictures are of no interest to them because they want a gift or a piece of chocolate each day.
 
an capall said:
He made his debut in the last season of an Irish Sunday night institution about farm life in rural Ireland called 'The Riordans' and continued for a few years in a spin off called 'Bracken.' Bracken eventually morphed into the greatest telly series ever, Glenroe thereby defining Sunday nights in Ireland for a decade. Where in the World: Glenroe: News: The Sunday Game.

What a time to be alive it was.
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There’s an episode of The Riordans on utube that I’m going to watch.
 
moehat said:
Have you got the new dvd with the added interviews etc? I’ve just finished watching all the bonus stuff which I find fascinating. For some reason, watching ‘making of’ things don’t take away the magic of films or series to me but add to them and make me see them in a different way. Yes, the special effects are dated by today’s standards but when you hear about what they had to work with they were amazing. And, the bits at the end were filmed in a real canal and in tunnels under Dudley. Everyone was freezing cold and health and safety would not allow most of it now. The people involved in the series all still hold it in great affection, and rightly so. As a series I still prefer The Children of Green Knowe but it’s probably because it’s a theme that I love, one of my favourite books being Tom’s Midnight Garden. What saddens me is that my grandchildren would probably find it boring compared to what they now watch in the same way that the sparkly adventure calendars with the little pictures are of no interest to them because they want a gift or a piece of chocolate each day.
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I'd have to check cos I bought the dvd at the end of last year.
I think most kids progs now are just crap in comparison to such as this.
 
It won’t be the new one, then. Just remember then that the train is really moving, the scenery from the train is real scenery, the snow in the scrobbling scene is real snow and the canal is a real canal with freezing cold water. But only two of the wolves are real ones, because there were only two acting wolves in the country at the time.
 
Just watched on BBC4 the story of the Uruguayan student rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes many years ago. I imagine ot will be on iPlayer.

I read the book when it came out - it might have been in French - and felt obliged to watch the film when it came out and it didn't disappoint.

The programme features interviews with the survivors (filmed in 2007) and their families.

I found watching the programme a very emotional and spiritual experience which asks many questions about the human condition.
 
I came upon it whilst channel hopping and, as with most Storyville documentaries I couldn’t stop watching it. It reminded me of the Ric Burns documentary about the Donner Party whose wagon train got stuck in the Sierra Nevada in winter and had to resort to cannibalism. It worried me how mesmerising I found that documentary until a review in The Observer said the same ( it was the first Burns documentary I’d ever seen). Life if Pi touches on the same subject, too. ( Peter Parker etc)
 
Well with no terrestrial racing on the telly box, I decided to try Rivals as sooooo many people said I must. That’s always a bad sign.
And so I sat down in front of the fire and watched the first episode. It’s utter sh*te in my opinion. Badly cast, Rupert Campbell-Black who is supposed to be drop dead gorgeous is pug-ugly! Episode starts with a shagathon and ends with one. It’s a poor as Bridgeton in my view. I can’t remember reading Rivals but I must have done although I do remember reading Riders. Jilly Cooper I think is/was very sexually frustrated and a pretty silly woman. I was given Jump 8 years ago...never bothered to read it. About eleventy billion characters and you just lose the will to live after three pages.
 
It had a good review on Must Watch best tv of 2024; they said the storyline with Danny Dyer was good. I can’t watch it anyway as I’m not subscribed. Going to start watching Industry which was Hayley Campbells no 1 series. I’ve never heard of it even though it’s on BBC. Three series and another has been commissioned so someone must like it. Supposedly full of sex and drugs so it will be a bit of a culture shock given that I’m current rewatching Middlemarch ( I can’t remember anything about it even though I loved it first time round).
 
I loved rivals, but it wasn’t my favorite book by a long way. I even forgave RCB for not being blonde ( though it did take me a while to get used to it !) very much looking forward to the next set where they ( hopefully) finish the book.
 
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