What have you seen recently? 3

[Penfold]

 

[The Mad Collector]

Just watched The Grand Budapest Hotel, great fun

 

[Sister Jennifer]

Just watched The Grand Budapest Hotel, great fun

My favourite of 2014. Glad you liked it. Movie heaven for me

 

[Catch-up]

Horns. Good, not great. Felt like it could have been a lot shorter.

 

[raptornx01]

Saw Rubber. what a strange, strange film. funny. but strange.

 

[Sister Jennifer]

I saw What We Do In The Shadows. I highly recommend it. Fantastic characters, story & special effects. If you liked Shaun Of The Dead you'll enjoy this.

 

[Dotsie]

Looks good, out in the UK in April. I'll keep an eye on it

 

[Catch-up]

Finally saw V for Vendetta. Not what I was expecting, but I still enjoyed it.

And, saw Expendables 3. Really, really bad. And not in a good way like the first two.

 

[Penfold]

I've been watching re-runs of really old Dr Who episodes on one of our tv channels. They've just finished 'Brain of Morbius' with Tom Baker.

 

[Dotsie]

Finally saw Pacific Rim. Robots vs aliens, cor!

 

[Ghost]

Saw Beaches for the first time in ages yesterday
oh god I forgot how much that film makes me cry at the end

 

[Catch-up]

We've been watching a show called Leverage on Netflix. It's good!

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Just back from watching Jupiter Ascending the 'Watchowskis have done their magic again for me, excelent film to see on a cold, windy, rainy, and snowy bleak afternoon, lots of action kept me engrossed great bit of escapism.

 

[MongoGutman]

Been watching Star Trek with Mark Watches... rewatching the old episodes, most of which I've seen multiple times before... it's kinda opened my eyes to just how BAAAAD much of it was... the third season of TOS had a couple of gems but most of it was crap (I have a theory that they didn't expect a third season so when one came along they cobbled together most of it out of previously rejected material) the first 4 films were OK... I rate them all... but now we've hit TNG and although the pilot was good the next episode was a rehash/ripoff of an old TOS episode in which the main source of entertainment was the crew behaving out of character... but since the characters haven't really been established yet it just falls flat and the next episode was something described by Jonathon Frakes as "A racist piece of shit" which seems more than fair.
I'm still a Trekkie and i know it gets better as it finds its feet, but, well, Good Golly Miss Molly!

 

[Dotsie]

most of it was crap (I have a theory that they didn't expect a third season so when one came along they cobbled together most of it out of previously rejected material)

Their budget was cut, so Gene Roddenberry resigned as producer, there were far fewer writers and the ones they had weren't much cop... it wasn't a fitting end.

Mind you, I really struggle to watch the first season of TNG, it was awful!

 

[pip]

I watched the Paddington film and suprisingly enjoyed it.
Less annoying than I thought it would be.

 

[Catch-up]

We watched the recent Hercules with Dwayne Johnson a couple of nights ago. Didn't have really high hopes for it and was still disappointed. For a brief time at the beginning, I thought they might go in the campy direction, but sadly no.

 

[janet]

Case Histories - BBC's adaptation of Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie novels.
I think Jason Isaacs would be very good as Sam Vimes

 

[Penfold]

I watched Godzilla (2014 version) the other night and rather wish I hadn't bothered.

 

[hattie]

I watched Inception...again
and The Colour of Magic...again...I just wanted to see him