Amazon Prime Video, what gems have you found? (NO SPOILERS)

[Gavin_Essex]

Just finished James May : Our Man In Japan over the last couple of evenings. Absolutely brilliant! Very natural presenting style that makes a few references to his 'other' job, but clearly still having a blast travelling on his own / with a different crew without having his car amusingly crashed into in some remote jungle.

I knew I wanted to visit Japan before but this has confirmed it for me. His fixer/guide Yujiro had me in stitches at times.

Also... never noticed how much I liked Japanese girls before... think James might have been the same

[JagLover]

Gavin_Essex said:

Just finished James May : Our Man In Japan over the last couple of evenings. Absolutely brilliant! Very natural presenting style that makes a few references to his 'other' job, but clearly still having a blast travelling on his own / with a different crew without having his car amusingly crashed into in some remote jungle.

I knew I wanted to visit Japan before but this has confirmed it for me. His fixer/guide Yujiro had me in stitches at times.

Also... never noticed how much I liked Japanese girls before... think James might have been the same

Well he certainly seemed very taken with his translator in ep 2 and yes many Japanese girls are awesome.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Beati Dogu said:

"Thud Pilots" is pretty good.

Pilots' stories and experiences flying the F105 Thunderchief "Thud" in the Vietnam war.

I started watching it, but found it fairly light on facts and rather biased. When the narrator referred to the Peace Protesters back in America as "siding with the enemy", I turned it off in mild disgust.

[Halb]

kowalski655 said:

As in cancelled from Prime?I read today season 2 was being filmed

Aha!
Excellente! I got it confoozled with another DC show.

[irish boy]

Was half way into royal pains with the wife and it’s been pulled. Very frustrating.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

irish boy said:

Was half way into royal pains with the wife and it’s been pulled. Very frustrating.

Sounds like a royal pain (in the arse).

[Rumblestripe]

Just finished The Expanse 4th Series, very good recommended if you like "hard" Sci Fi, more like Babylon 5 than anything. I'd love to know how they did the "weightless" effects which are particularly striking.

Just started Jimbo May in Nippon (managed to watch first 20 minutes before a minor drama interrupted me) looks well worth watching.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Rumblestripe said:

I'd love to know how they did the "weightless" effects which are particularly striking.

If you look on YouTube then Kyle Hill (Because Science), Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame), and others, have done videos about it.

TL;DR - mostly wire work and camera angles. Often the actor will be suspended horizontally and the camera rotated, so the final shot shows the actor vertically, thus fooling the eye.

eg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgvI6RbkMnQ

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Thursday 6th February 12:12

[Lordbenny]

The Marvellous Mrs Maisel.

Just watched the first episode of the first season...just incredible...fantastic script, acting and sound track. Really funny....REALLY funny story of a Jewish housewife who’s wanna be stand up comedian husband leaves her for his secretary. So she decides to try stand up for herself. Looking forward to episode two.

[irish boy]

Anyone see the mid season finale of Vikings?

[DocJock]

Yup. It seemed to me to be very rushed in the first half so that they could get the big battle scene in before the mid-season break.

Surely they can't have killed off Bjorn with ten episodes left to go?

[Zippee]

irish boy said:

Anyone see the mid season finale of Vikings?

Latest series and episode? 601 ep10?

[irish boy]

Zippee said:

Latest series and episode? 601 ep10?

Yes.

[Zippee]

irish boy said:

Zippee said:

Latest series and episode? 601 ep10?

Yes.

Cool - got that downloaded to watch on my way home tonight

[Evil Jack]

irish boy said:

Anyone see the mid season finale of Vikings?

Something to look forward to then, because there hasn't been much.

[monthefish]

Lordbenny said:

The Marvellous Mrs Maisel.

Just watched the first episode of the first season...just incredible...fantastic script, acting and sound track. Really funny....REALLY funny story of a Jewish housewife who’s wanna be stand up comedian husband leaves her for his secretary. So she decides to try stand up for herself. Looking forward to episode two.

It was very good to start with but tailed off dramatically, think about episode 4 or 5.
If you persevere, let me know if it gets better.

[GetCarter]

monthefish said:

Lordbenny said:

The Marvellous Mrs Maisel.

Just watched the first episode of the first season...just incredible...fantastic script, acting and sound track. Really funny....REALLY funny story of a Jewish housewife who’s wanna be stand up comedian husband leaves her for his secretary. So she decides to try stand up for herself. Looking forward to episode two.

It was very good to start with but tailed off dramatically, think about episode 4 or 5.
If you persevere, let me know if it gets better.

I thought the first few eps of Mrs Maisel were fab. Really clever stand up comedy when she 'let go' when off her head. Sadly, she stopped letting go. Downhill all the way after that. Such a shame as she was really funny and original when pissed.

[quigonjay]

DocJock said:

Yup. It seemed to me to be very rushed in the first half so that they could get the big battle scene in before the mid-season break.

Surely they can't have killed off Bjorn with ten episodes left to go?

Are we sure he is dead though? Especially so after they killed of Lagatha as well

I'm not so sure, there is not many, if any, strong characters left so i wouldn't be surprised if he makes a miraculous recovery

[Macron]

There is a lengthy Vikings thread if you didn't know:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...


And none of them were shown to die. Defeated yes at the end, but when the crown went there wasn't a definitive last breath, Bjorn had the newfangled surreal filming thing with Ivar, and is he dead or was it metaphorical as the convo was merely about defeat? Shame it will take so long to find out...

[Killer2005]

Falling in love with a Killer - 5 part Ted Bundy documentary about his long time girlfriend, her daughter, law enforcement involved and some of his victims who survived being attacked.