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Discussion in 'Charlton' started by User deleted as requested, Oct 8, 2018.

  1. Ken Shabby

    Ken Shabby Well-Known Member

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    Back to rubbish films. After the England - Scotland match, I was sat in front of the TV, and ended up watching Cowboys v Aliens. Honestly it was entertaining, but as daft as they come - there wasn't even a slight attempt to make it coherent (would have taken a seriously clever writer to do that, and a seriously good writer wouldn't have touched it with a barge pole!). They even managed the traditional cowboy riding off with the job done style ending. The acting was good, but I'd like to know who looked at that as an idea and thought 'hey, nice plot!'
     
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  2. lardiman

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    Yes, that movie could have been worse but it could have been a lot better.
    Is quirky enough to be watchable for the first hour or so, then gets too silly.

    A bit like Kong: Skull Island.
    Started really well, then went downhill rather with CGI monsters.

    Connecting back to Daniel Craig,
    I wonder if his last Bond movie will be worth the wait.
    I was a bit disappointed with 'Spectre' thought it was the weakest of the four he has been in so far.
    Not terrible, just not as good as the others.
    Of them all, I still think Casino Royale is my favourite.
    Cracking title music too from Chris Cornell, RIP.
     
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    Casino Royale head and shoulders above his other Bond films.

    Skyfall was pretty decent, but Quantum and Spectre were poor.
     
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  4. lardiman

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    Quantum of Solace was little more than a sequel to Casino Royale really. Tying up some loose ends.
    Was it based on a short story rather than a full novel?
    I thought it was an OK watch.
    Skyfall was a decent watch. The tube train stunt was overblown, but the end of the movie was pretty good.
    Daniel Craig is my second favourite Bond after Connery, and not far behind him either in my view.

    My favourite movies of other Bonds are as follows;

    Connery - Goldfinger. I liked You only live twice, but the whole 'training to be a ninja in 48 hours' was silly. It was a pretty silly movie, but enjoyable.
    Lazenby - N/A (OHMSS had a few good moments, but I don't rate it, or him)
    Moore - Live and let Die ... For your eyes only is my second fave Moor movie.

    I have a soft spot for The Spy who loved me and Moonraker because they came out when I was a young teenager.
    But both are very one-dimensional really. The battle inside the oil tanker at the end of the Spy who loved me is impressive though.

    Dalton - The Living Daylights. Licence to kill was OK though.
    Brosnan - The World is not enough - the one with Robert Carlyle and Sophie Marceau in it.
    The speedboat chase along the Thames to the Millennium Dome was my favourite opening sequence I think.
    Goldeneye was pretty good too.
     
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  5. ForestHillBilly

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    Catching up on three missed weeks of Gardeners World and Beechgrove, the last week tonight:D:emoticon-0157-sun: :grin:.
     
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  8. lardiman

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    NOT quality TV:

    Confessions of a Drug Mule on BBC Three

    Come on BBC, leave this kind of crap for Channel 5.
    I don't want to know anything about a dumb bimbo caught trying to smuggle 11Kg of drugs in South America.
    She isn't a celebrity.

    Except now she is.
    I hope the narcotics cops did a good hard search up here :emoticon-0172-mooni
     
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    Not only on BBC3 but actually been on BBC1 after the news.
     
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    Coming up on the BBC this autumn...

    Shamima Begum "Confessions of an ISIS Bride" :bandit:
     
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    I'd say good for her. I've never listened to her music, but she must be quite popular otherwise her father and the rest of the crew wouldn't be so keen to keep exploiting her as a cash cow.
     
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  13. lardiman

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    Sometimes being f**ked over can bring the best out of an artist.

    What I consider to be the only truly great pop song George Michael ever did (Freedom '90) was a brilliantly composed dig at the record company that had exploited him, and the whole rotten industry.

    Maybe when Britney wins her battle we'll get a few decent tunes :emoticon-0159-music
    Sadly she'll never get close to that first video she did though :emoticon-0152-heart
     
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  14. The Penguin

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    I once asked a songwriter why he wrote so many sad songs.He said "Because they're easier to write".
     
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    Big match revisited just starting on itv4 with Charlton v Leicester 1979-80 season :emoticon-0148-yes:
     
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    Anyone watching the Olympics?

     
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    I watched a bit.
    A cycling race. Somebody unexpected won it I think. I had to go out before it finished.
     
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  18. ForestHillBilly

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    Watched a bit. Also the rugby highlights. Love the Lions tours.
     
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  19. lardiman

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    Good news for the Doctor Who anoraks among us <ok> :emoticon-0126-nerd:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57940451

    13 million watched Whittaker's first episode back in 2018.
    The BBC crowed about this, and implied that the show was now being watched by more viewers than ever before.

    That 13m figure was the highest ever for one episode.
    But viewing figures have since dropped to around 6 million.
    Something I was not aware of.
    I had almost given up on this show, assuming audiences for the ultra-woke preaching were growing ever larger, and that I must be hopelessly out of touch in my view that Whittaker was the poorest incarnation since Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy.
    But it seems I'm not alone in that view.

    I don't blame her. Jodie Whittaker is a reasonably good actress.
    Colin Baker was a much better actor than the character they gave him.
    Both of them were let down by awful producers and material.

    Question is - will the BBC get a new Producer who really knows and loves the old values of the programme?
    Or another woke dumb-down merchant who'll just ignore the heritage and wander all over the place just getting stuff comically wrong.
     
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  20. The Penguin

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    Stopped watching it because of Russell Davies's OTT scripts, and the reliance on expensive special effects. I watched one of the last series and thought the scripts had got even worse. Dr Who actually used to be genuinely scary because there were ordinary characters in it leading believable lives which were being threatened by whatever the series was about. You could identify with them, and the build-up was slow, but a certain amount was left to your imagination, and that's scary. Think of the shower scene in psycho, far more scary than if they showed the stabbing, which would happen in a modern film. Maybe audiences have a shorter attention span now.
     
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