What are you watching at the moment? (TV, DVD,whatever)
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 8:08 pm
by Dennis
Shaft - right now on TV. Blaxploitation rules! Guns, heists, car chases, cool leather jackets, cool soundtrack, puts me in the right mood for the new AA record...
Re: What are you watching at the moment? (TV, DVD,whatever)
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 9:53 pm
by Ross
I very rarely watch live TV, but the series Lucy and I are working through at the moment are Carl Sagan's Cosmos, Jonathan Creek and the 1980s version of The Twilight Zone.
Re: What are you watching at the moment? (TV, DVD,whatever)
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 10:13 pm
by dubmasta
Was about to continue my Matrix journey with The Matrix Reloaded but a good documentary just started on TV - In the Shadow of the Moon.
Re: What are you watching at the moment? (TV, DVD,whatever)
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 11:14 pm
by Pandemonium
I too almost never watch TV,
even documentaries, if I see something I like go to Wiki and then download it and watch it in peace with no commercials
right now, well, right now all the good sci-fi series ended so I watch some decent series waiting for the next sci-fi film / series...
Series:
- Falling Skies - yeah I forgot this one, it's a decent sci-fi, the story is i bit wobbly but its developing some decent lines...
- Magic City - Miami mafia 1959, very well done.
- Under The Dome - a new mystery series from Stephen King, its... not bad, I never did admire King a lot... we'll see, just 6 episodes in...
- also waiting for new seasons of Star Trek TNG on the HD remasters, they really did a fine job and the lots of effects and photographies are re-touched and really remastered.
Movies:
- Pacific Rim - saw it at the cinema, huge robots fight enormous monsters - what's not to like - on a more serious note, this movie is actually well done.
- Oblivion - the new sci-fi movie with Tom Cruise (yeah, he sucks - but the movie is awesome) - the photography and the directing are really spot-on. Some say it's some king of a rip-off of The Moon (2009), but it's more of an homage to movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey and all those movies that have 1 actor in the frame 90% of the time, including The Moon (2009) which is pure art-form of a movie.
Re: What are you watching at the moment? (TV, DVD,whatever)
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 9:17 am
by Dennis
Is that "cosmos" documentary where the samples from the last MPB-vol. are from? (You know, like "We invite you to a journey through the cosmos..." or so) Sounds interesting, although I find a lot of those "Space"-Documentaries on the local Doc-channel here quite formulaic, relying too much on CGI-animations trying to impress the audience(although I find myself sometimes watching with the sound turned off and rather listening to FSOL or The Orb instead ) I sometimes wish there would be less "entertainment" and more scientific facts (btw. I hate the term "docutainment" thats often used for stuff that's aiming more for an audience that wants to be rather entertained than really learn something.)
Re: What are you watching at the moment? (TV, DVD,whatever)
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 9:43 am
by Pandemonium
Well, Dennis, COSMOS is THE space-documentary.
It's made in 1980 and still the best in it's genre - a few came close but none above...
- also, check out the soundtrack on that wiki page
I highly recommend for watching.
Re: What are you watching at the moment? (TV, DVD,whatever)
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 11:50 am
by Ross
It's not just about space either, it tries to cover pretty much all known science.
Re: What are you watching at the moment? (TV, DVD,whatever)
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 2:55 pm
by billybatts
Breaking Bad season 5. Although we're having a hard time getting motivated to finish it. They could have left it at Season Four. I don't need every loose end explained and tied up.
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