What have you seen recently? 3

[Catch-up]

Finally got the 4th season Being Human U.K. on Netflix streaming. Watched the first episode and feel like I've missed a whole season. Either I've forgotten a lot from the previous season or they took a huge plot jump.

Yeah, I don't think they had much choice. They abruptly lost a couple of actors, and had to deal with it as well as they could.

Good point! That's a shame too. George was absolutely my favorite.

 

[Catch-up]

Today my friend & I went to the cinema & saw Rise of the Guardians. It's a lovely film, well worth the price of a ticket. Brilliantly made, the animation for these films gets better & better. Great plot & the voice actors are great too, bit scary in places for very young kids, but it's PG rating shows this. Having typed that, there were a few under 5's in the small audience, but none seemed traumatised by the scary bits.

Whilst I wouldn't disagree (I haven't seen it, I hear it's good), I'm just so tired of US films having British baddies and American heroes. If I have one criticism of the new Star Trek films, that would be it (although in the first film the baddie was Australian, and the British guy was just a dickhead who almost cost the mission).

We've been wondering if that's good. Might make an effort to get to the theater to see it. Don't know why they're still making the bad guys British in some of these movies. Don't blame you for being irritated.

 

[Dotsie]

Meh. I am quite evil. But Hollywood doesn't know that!

 

[Tiffany]

Today my friend & I went to the cinema & saw Rise of the Guardians. It's a lovely film, well worth the price of a ticket. Brilliantly made, the animation for these films gets better & better. Great plot & the voice actors are great too, bit scary in places for very young kids, but it's PG rating shows this. Having typed that, there were a few under 5's in the small audience, but none seemed traumatised by the scary bits.

Whilst I wouldn't disagree (I haven't seen it, I hear it's good), I'm just so tired of US films having British baddies and American heroes. If I have one criticism of the new Star Trek films, that would be it (although in the first film the baddie was Australian, and the British guy was just a dickhead who almost cost the mission).

I didn't even realise this. It doesn't bother me, I just thought it was an excellent film.

 

[Conforumist]

We went to see Argo last night. We thought it was very good!

 

[Ghost]

after recently watching both seasons of Alphas I'm re-watching the 4400 and I'm almost halfway through season 3 and I am loving it really well written and a brilliant bit of si-fi

 

[raptornx01]

Watched Endhiran (Robot). A bollywood big budget scifi romance action film. Very strange, cool, cheezy, badass movie. Some (ok, most) of the effects are dodgy but you get what they were going for. can't say i've ever seen any bollywood stuff before (know of them, but never sat down and watched one) so i don't know how this stacks up, but i liked it.

trailer

 

[Sister Jennifer]

I'm watching, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.

 

[Dotsie]

Bizarre!

 

[Bouncy Castle]

after recently watching both seasons of Alphas I'm re-watching the 4400 and I'm almost halfway through season 3 and I am loving it really well written and a brilliant bit of si-fi

Oh, I loved that, what I saw of it. It was on Sky3 (as it was then called) years ago, but at stupid o'clock.

I'm tempted to get the DVDs, as I'd love to know what happened. PLEASE tell me they brought it to a satisfactory conclusion?

 

[Tonyblack]

Sharlene recently ordered me a copy of Disney's 'That Darn Cat' (the original version) and I was really kind of dubious about watching it. It turned out to be an absolute hoot and it had me laughing out loud through the entire film.

 

[raptornx01]

Can't go wrong with classic Disney

 

[Catch-up]

Tony, I haven't seen that one in ages! I'll have to get it from the library or Netflix to watch again.

Just picked up a few movies from the library. Hatfields & McCoys with Kevin Costner, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter and The Raid: Redemption. Don't know if I'll get up the nerve to watch the last one. When I was in New Mexico on a girls' trip, a waiter overheard me mention that I like kung-fu movies. Turns out he did too and he very animatedly told us about a movie he was going to see that night, which is the last one on my list. He made it sound pretty gory though. Kung-fu I like, gory, not so much.

 

[Sister Jennifer]

Watched Endhiran (Robot). A bollywood big budget scifi romance action film.

This is now at the top of my 'to watch' list. Thanks for posting.

 

[Dotsie]

The Raid: Redemption. Don't know if I'll get up the nerve to watch the last one. When I was in New Mexico on a girls' trip, a waiter overheard me mention that I like kung-fu movies. Turns out he did too and he very animatedly told us about a movie he was going to see that night, which is the last one on my list. He made it sound pretty gory though. Kung-fu I like, gory, not so much.

Got that out of the library a couple of nights ago. Watched about 20 minutes of it, then gave up. Kung Fu Hustle it ain't! The kung fu might have been good, but I didn't wait that long. Not trying to put you off though

 

[Catch-up]

The Raid: Redemption. Don't know if I'll get up the nerve to watch the last one. When I was in New Mexico on a girls' trip, a waiter overheard me mention that I like kung-fu movies. Turns out he did too and he very animatedly told us about a movie he was going to see that night, which is the last one on my list. He made it sound pretty gory though. Kung-fu I like, gory, not so much.

Got that out of the library a couple of nights ago. Watched about 20 minutes of it, then gave up. Kung Fu Hustle it ain't! The kung fu might have been good, but I didn't wait that long. Not trying to put you off though

Good to know! I'm the same way. I need to see something good quickly or I lose interest. Tried watching Little Big Soldier. Love Jackie Chan movies! But, I got bored before I got to any good action scenes.

 

[raptornx01]

Watched Endhiran (Robot). A bollywood big budget scifi romance action film.

This is now at the top of my 'to watch' list. Thanks for posting.

No Prob. let me know what you think if you get to see it.

 

[Dotsie]

The Raid: Redemption. Don't know if I'll get up the nerve to watch the last one. When I was in New Mexico on a girls' trip, a waiter overheard me mention that I like kung-fu movies. Turns out he did too and he very animatedly told us about a movie he was going to see that night, which is the last one on my list. He made it sound pretty gory though. Kung-fu I like, gory, not so much.

Got that out of the library a couple of nights ago. Watched about 20 minutes of it, then gave up. Kung Fu Hustle it ain't! The kung fu might have been good, but I didn't wait that long. Not trying to put you off though

Good to know! I'm the same way. I need to see something good quickly or I lose interest. Tried watching Little Big Soldier. Love Jackie Chan movies! But, I got bored before I got to any good action scenes.

Well, there was action, it just wasn't kung fu. More like cutting people in two with machine guns. Maybe they had to resort to kung fu when they ran out of bullets Not a good film!

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

The Hobbit was good I enjoyed it, a bit extended did not do it any harm for me a couple of funny one liners one of which you won't find in the book, but made me laugh out loud don't know how that will go down with the purists but I don't care, will go back and see it next week in 2D. post more later just having coffee then got to get my train before rush hour.

 

[Catch-up]

Thanks Dotsie! I think I'm just going to pass on that one.

Has anyone seen Duck Dynasty? It's a "reality" show. I usually don't watch those but my father in law talked us into watching it while we were visiting. There were actually some hysterical moments.

It shows the lives of the Robertson family, which went from poverty to being wealthy due to the sales of their duck calls, primarily the Duck Commander.

The family business began in a dilapidated shed, where Phil Robertson spent 25 years making duck calls from Louisiana cedar trees. His son Willie is now the CEO of the company.