Netflix - What gems have you found?
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JagLover said:
Olivia Colman wins best actress in a drama series for The Crown S3 at the Golden Globes.
Not entirely convinced that is deserved myself. She seems far too stiff, Claire Foy was a lot better in my opinion.
Agree entirely. I like Olivia Coleman, she's a very versatile actor but she felt wrong in this role; as you say, stiff.Not entirely convinced that is deserved myself. She seems far too stiff, Claire Foy was a lot better in my opinion.
In fact, S3 of The Crown felt altogether weaker than the previous two.
Enjoyed Two Popes over the weekend, and post-pub on Saturday evening we watched Brothers Grimsby - hard to say enjoyed but it had it's moments (but trying a bit too hard with the gross-out comedy).
I've stated a few times on the thread that I'm generally disappointed with the 'Flix' part of NetFlix, but persevere with it for the great kids stuff and 'boxed set' type content.
However, at Mrs PTs insistence we watched a film on it on Saturday, stumbling across 'The Invention Of Lying' with Ricky Gervais - I'm a big fan of his so not sure how I let this slip past me at the cinema in 2009.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhRnmyBjOLs
Well worth a watch if you like his style and a very funny take on God and The Ten Commandments.
However, at Mrs PTs insistence we watched a film on it on Saturday, stumbling across 'The Invention Of Lying' with Ricky Gervais - I'm a big fan of his so not sure how I let this slip past me at the cinema in 2009.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhRnmyBjOLs
Well worth a watch if you like his style and a very funny take on God and The Ten Commandments.
The Witcher - enjoyable, shame they have focused on the rise of the (female obvs') Mage and forgotten a little about the Witcher himself (appx 2 hours of the overall 8 TW is on screen), enjoyable. 7 golden dragons out of 10.
Messiah - watched the first episode, not made up my mind yet.
Lost in Space - looks great, annoyingly stupid characters, especially assuming these are meant to be the most intelligent humans - 3 robots out of 10.
Messiah - watched the first episode, not made up my mind yet.
Lost in Space - looks great, annoyingly stupid characters, especially assuming these are meant to be the most intelligent humans - 3 robots out of 10.
Lord.Vader said:
The Witcher - enjoyable, shame they have focused on the rise of the (female obvs') Mage and forgotten a little about the Witcher himself (appx 2 hours of the overall 8 TW is on screen), enjoyable. 7 golden dragons out of 10.
But for me i much rather look at yennifer 
i just started with the books got very confused when i found your supposed to do the second released book first!
Trustmeimadoctor said:
Lord.Vader said:
The Witcher - enjoyable, shame they have focused on the rise of the (female obvs') Mage and forgotten a little about the Witcher himself (appx 2 hours of the overall 8 TW is on screen), enjoyable. 7 golden dragons out of 10.
But for me i much rather look at yennifer i just started with the books got very confused when i found your supposed to do the second released book first!
Chronological order:
The Last Wish
Sword of Destiny
Blood of Elves
Time of Contempt
Baptism of Fire
The Tower of Swallows
Lady of the Lake
ks.Thesprucegoose said:
jsf said:
What isn't explained is who is the second person in the python video.
there are loads of snake owners who feed live animals to them. it was most likely the snake owner,Mark Benson said:
JagLover said:
Olivia Colman wins best actress in a drama series for The Crown S3 at the Golden Globes.
Not entirely convinced that is deserved myself. She seems far too stiff, Claire Foy was a lot better in my opinion.
Agree entirely. I like Olivia Coleman, she's a very versatile actor but she felt wrong in this role; as you say, stiff.Not entirely convinced that is deserved myself. She seems far too stiff, Claire Foy was a lot better in my opinion.
In fact, S3 of The Crown felt altogether weaker than the previous two.
Part of the problem was some of the casting (though most of the newer characters were great). It also felt a little disjointed I feel because they tried to cover too much in one season. It covers 1964-1977 after all and means that, in particular, the political element feels very tacked on and key events in one episode are history by the next.
S1 1947-1955 8 years
S2 1955-1964 9 years
S3 1964-1977 13 years
American Ninja 4: an evil Arab terrorist and his group of ninjas steal a nuclear bomb and - I'll just stop there, because you know it's the kind of movie where you grab a beer or ten and laugh out loud at someone catching an arrow with their teeth and using it to stab someone in the neck, and lines such as "this ain't no game - they're ninja!" delivered with deadly seriousness.
A Winner Is You said:
American Ninja 4: an evil Arab terrorist and his group of ninjas steal a nuclear bomb and - I'll just stop there, because you know it's the kind of movie where you grab a beer or ten and laugh out loud at someone catching an arrow with their teeth and using it to stab someone in the neck, and lines such as "this ain't no game - they're ninja!" delivered with deadly seriousness.
We call these types of films White Ghosts after making an arduous journey in the 80s during the school holidays to the local video store which was quite some distance away and spending our meagre amounts of money on the most appalling pile of Vietnam flashback/ left behind tat imaginable of the same name. 
It was quite a powerful moment to be 15 years old and to learn that there were actually movies out there that you weren’t capable of watching to the end!
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0096436/
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