1. Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!

Off Topic TV, Entertainment and Arts thread

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

  1. ForestHillBilly

    ForestHillBilly Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 12, 2011
    Messages:
    14,663
    Likes Received:
    6,006
    Gove turned up at the last minute complete with Boris's Dad, knowing he would not get on. If it had been negotiated beforehand it might have been different. Boris would have floundered last night. Let's see if Cummings lets him face Andrew Neil.
     
    #661
  2. lardiman

    lardiman The truth is out there
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Mar 6, 2016
    Messages:
    13,150
    Likes Received:
    8,753
    Channel 4 would be better off being edited by Ben Dover.
    I think he's editing Channel 5 at the moment though.
     
    #662
  3. ForestHillBilly

    ForestHillBilly Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 12, 2011
    Messages:
    14,663
    Likes Received:
    6,006
    C4 and the Guardian<cheers>
     
    #663
  4. ForestHillBilly

    ForestHillBilly Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 12, 2011
    Messages:
    14,663
    Likes Received:
    6,006
    It appears that Andrew Neil's interviews with Messrs Sturgeon & Corbyn have frightened the other party leaders so much that the planned interviews are not going ahead. Shame. The aforementioned clashes were terrific viewing.
     
    #664
  5. lardiman

    lardiman The truth is out there
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Mar 6, 2016
    Messages:
    13,150
    Likes Received:
    8,753
    A BBC mini-series I was very much looking forward to was War of the Worlds.

    It seemed to begin promisingly enough, though I thought the divorce sub-plot was a bit odd. Not from the book certainly. Unfortunately it was only a taste of what was to come.
    Sadly and annoyingly, the whole thing did not work for me in the end.

    Rather than faithfully telling the story as Wells wrote it, the 'right on' producers turned the screenplay into clumsy ridicule of the British Empire, and what they considered to be wrong Victorian (or Edwardian) values. Special effects were OK, but even the Martians and their machines were unnecessarily mucked about with too often.

    That's three visual attempts to tell this story in the last 70 odd years, none of them satisfactory.

    In the 1950's the Americans 'Americanized' it, producing some impressive effects for the time, but not connecting with the original story at all.

    The Tom Cruise movie had even less to do with Wells' novel, and was a frankly awful film.
    I was hoping after 15 minutes that his infuriating on-screen daughter would be killed.

    Now the BBC have missed a great chance to do the book justice, because they are so desperate to be woke and politically correct, that the past and the different values of past times are fit only to be judged and condemned.

    It has seriously hurt it's Doctor Who franchise in my opinion, for the same reasons. Apparently though, viewing figures for the last series were the highest since it was re-launched in 2005. So what do I know.
     
    #665
  6. ForestHillBilly

    ForestHillBilly Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 12, 2011
    Messages:
    14,663
    Likes Received:
    6,006
    Wrong. Jo Swinson faces the Grand Inquisitor tonight at 7:30.
     
    #666
  7. Ponders Revisited

    Ponders Revisited Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jun 16, 2011
    Messages:
    9,885
    Likes Received:
    6,241
    I quite liked the Tom Cruise film. Excellent special effects. Agreed about the annoying daughter, though.

    Nothing beats the original film.
     
    #667
    lardiman likes this.
  8. Clb74

    Clb74 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 17, 2018
    Messages:
    1,014
    Likes Received:
    850
    Just watched a pension programme on channel 5.
    Will be knocking away games on the head at 65
     
    #668
  9. The Elfsborg Sparrow

    The Elfsborg Sparrow Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Nov 11, 2015
    Messages:
    15,779
    Likes Received:
    7,758
    Good for you mate, Kojak will do it until his coffin.
     
    #669
  10. ForestHillBilly

    ForestHillBilly Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 12, 2011
    Messages:
    14,663
    Likes Received:
    6,006
    <laugh>
     
    #670

  11. Clb74

    Clb74 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 17, 2018
    Messages:
    1,014
    Likes Received:
    850
    Pension programme about to start on channel 5.
    I wouldnt mind being a pound note behind @Royston Vasey
     
    #671
  12. ForestHillBilly

    ForestHillBilly Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 12, 2011
    Messages:
    14,663
    Likes Received:
    6,006
    Probably Attenborough's last series has now finished<wah>. I can't think of anyone who possesses more wisdom than this man. It's been a privilege to watch his programs.
     
    #672
  13. User deleted as requested

    User deleted as requested Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Aug 13, 2013
    Messages:
    18,206
    Likes Received:
    8,085
    Its a shame he had been somewhat hijacked by the fanatical Green lobby in his last years.
     
    #673
  14. ForestHillBilly

    ForestHillBilly Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 12, 2011
    Messages:
    14,663
    Likes Received:
    6,006
    Sir David gets hijacked by nobody. It's a shame that the Right thumbs its nose at the laws of physics.
     
    #674
  15. ForestHillBilly

    ForestHillBilly Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 12, 2011
    Messages:
    14,663
    Likes Received:
    6,006
    Shame on BBC and ITV for swallowing and reporting as fact the lie from Conservative Central Office that Matt Hancock was punched by a Labour activist. Dead cat bounce.
     
    #675
  16. lardiman

    lardiman The truth is out there
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Mar 6, 2016
    Messages:
    13,150
    Likes Received:
    8,753
    There is a coordinated programme of left wing activists harassing Conservative politicians though. That has not been denied.
    Small bunches of people being verbally abusive and jostling them wherever they go - not spontaneously (as they want voters to believe) but acting under orders.

    Not very savoury, but typical of the way Momentum Labour operates.
    Anybody who spoke out about ani-Semitism got much the same treatment.
     
    #676
  17. ForestHillBilly

    ForestHillBilly Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 12, 2011
    Messages:
    14,663
    Likes Received:
    6,006
    Momentum hate "Blairite Scum" above all else. I've just had my third membership renewal form from Labour, this time with a letter from Jennie Formby. I see Tony Robinson has left, I also have friends who have left recently. Momentum will have the party all to themselves soon.
     
    #677
  18. Clb74

    Clb74 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 17, 2018
    Messages:
    1,014
    Likes Received:
    850
    Wife's got make a wish for Christmas
    Channel 5
     
    #678
  19. ForestHillBilly

    ForestHillBilly Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 12, 2011
    Messages:
    14,663
    Likes Received:
    6,006
    Voted Ben Stokes in SPOTY, he should win. Usually we get bile n vitriol abahrt Gary Lineker And the BBC?
     
    #679
  20. lardiman

    lardiman The truth is out there
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Mar 6, 2016
    Messages:
    13,150
    Likes Received:
    8,753
    I forgot it was on!

    My vote goes to whichever member of the Royal Family is on the list <bubbly>
     
    #680

Share This Page