ah back with old friends, Clever Green is fully jumping the shark in this one (S5 Rake)
Sex education , I laughed a lot.
Lion
Watched last night. Great film.
Aye, it's a cracker Alpin.
Watched Get Out last night.
What an excellent film, more than lived up to the hype.
ah back with old friends, Cleaver Green is fully jumping the shark in this one (S5 Rake)
totally agree, didnt think much to S5 at all, but really enjoyed the first 4 series.
watched a couple of excellent sets over the last 2 days, got to share them with you as i think youd all enjoy them. ironically both had people i cannot stand in them but still really enjoyed watching them.
firstly, although its not netflix (catch-up) we watched that Fred, Gino and Ramsay triple part jobbie. basically a lads road trip in each respective country with food, drink and just general pissing about. had us in stitches in places, gino's a real nutter 😀
(in case you were interested, its ramsay i cant stand)
and last night.....WOW! totally unexpected as i cannot abide ricky gervais, but wife had heard good things about After Life on netflix so we gave it a try.
suicidal bloke coming to terms (or not) with his wifes death from cancer you say? may be hard viewing you say? wrong! stunning tv! in parts hilarious, heart-wrenching, it went through all the emotions. we've lost my dad and my wifes nan to cancer this last few months and wife was in tears watching it, both with laughter and sadness.
exceptional dialogue, i really recommend you all watch this.
totally agree, didnt think much to S5 at all, but really enjoyed the first 4 series.
Well I'm only 2 episodes in but I'm actually enjoying it as the ridiculous finale it is 🙂 Just good fun
After Life, not a fan of Ricky Gervais but it's excellent. The cast is fantastic.
Yeah, Ricky Gervais suxks, pathetic little fat man, no one's bloody laughing.
A new series of Secret City has started - Aussie political type thriller. One would probably have to watch the first series for the second to make sense. Nothing world class but both series would make a good bingeable watch over a weekend.
Brooklyn nine nine, season 5 is finally on Netflix.
So funny I have to keep pausing it to laugh.
Just watched E1 of Afterlife. I can't stand Ricky Gervais but that was brilliant, good comedy usually does have some tragedy in with it. He's caught the self destruction of someone going through depression perfectly.
Might have been mentioned but Beyond the Curve was really good.
After life Is excellent!.
Might have been mentioned but Beyond the Curve was really good.
Yeah finished that this am so simply done.
After Life is genuinely excellent, and you can certainly see Ricky Gervais has moved on and tackling the futility/meaning of life.
Production is fantastic and owes a little debt to Curb and Lead Balloon perhaps.
So much better than I was expecting. Netflix has given him the room to do what he wants, really really well.
Love all the little local stories, and a pitch perfect supporting cast.
Paul Kaye in particular.
Oh and for the fan of Oz satire
https://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/utopia/
Keeping on with Rake it's a perfect satire of the current Australian political system
Just finished Umbrella Academy this evening.
One of their best original series IMO. Soooo much better than the Marvel guff.
Yeah need to finish that.
I’ve just binge watched Homeland, a brilliant CIA series. Also really enjoyed Narcos, power (even with the terrible acting), stranger things and Luther. I found better call sol a little disappointing after breaking bad.
Sex Ed next.
Really enjoying star trek discovery 2nd series. Just started After life after this thread. Not laughed so much at a comedy in a while.
I also enjoyed the first couple of episodes of After Life. I keep expecting to see Andy and Lance walking round the corner.
Currently enjoying Star Trek Discovery .
We watched Behind The Curve last night....pretty funny, can't say that I was blown away by it.
Dawn Wall is now on Netflix and it shows some amazing stuff.
Also watched Valley Uprising, really really enjoyed that too.
Thinking that I may start on the civil war series.
Big fan of Gervais in Office and Extras, but pretty much hated everything else. Derrick is worse than Mrs Browns Boys...
After Life is a storming return to form!
'The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind' looks like it's worth a watch.
I would like to watch Get Out but i understand it's a bit of an horror movie and i don't like horror movies. Am I right or i better stay away? thanks
so much more than a horror movie!
The only horror is how long it drags on for to reveal the obvious plot.
I would like to watch Get Out but i understand it’s a bit of an horror movie and i don’t like horror movies. Am I right or i better stay away? thanks
Spoilers... not really, but just in case anyone complains
It's more of a mystery/thriller until the final reel. I thought it was an interesting and original premise, and well executed, but ended up with a conventional genre "hero dispatches the baddies gruesomely one by one" which was a bit disappointing.
Yeah go for get out, not real horror but a great film
Line of duty new series due for easter, happy days!
Get Out is brilliant, even if you don’t like horrors.
Obviously nowhere nesr as good as The Last Jedi or any other kid’s films 😉
Loving ‘After Life’... never has the C word been used in such abundance!
The only horror is how long it drags on for to reveal the obvious plot.
What, you figured it out?
Yeah the clues were blindly obvious.
Wormwood is my most recent watch. A mix of a documentary and dramatisation of events around the death of a CIA agent involved in the MK Ultra project. Very good indeed.
The only horror is how long it drags on for to reveal the obvious plot.
Having heard a lot about the film the twist/reveal was always coming and the reviews/chat had spoilt the surprise. Still enjoyed it though, coming in fresh it would have been better.
Just watched the Dawn Wall. Mind blowing.
Triple Frontier with Ben Affleck.
Good action in the South American jungle and a good soundtrack.
Enjoying Titans at the moment, some fairly savage violence at times though (which I quite enjoy).
Triple frontier, very watchable retread of the heist movie, good cast and we'll directed
Watched triple frontier last night, solid tab a slot b stuff which is what my brain was in the mood for.
Triple Frontier is my choice tonight as my missus is out. Brain out stuff I guess.
I was going to ask what Triple Frontier was like as it popped up on my recommendations list so thanks for the comments ^^
Oh man, finally got round to starting on After Life this evening. So funny. Really really good.
It's awesome Ciaran, has everything.
Thanks for the triple triple frontier heads up!
The director (margin call) is excellent so looking forward to this.
Still giggling now thinking back through some of the scenes.
Oh man, finally got round to starting on After Life this evening. So funny. Really really good.
Am I the only one who thinks this is completely miserable? Actually it’s 99% miserable and 1% funny, mostly the swearing.
Just watched the Dawn Wall. Mind blowing.
Didn't realise until today this is the same mountain as Free Solo.
So what's the difference here? (Apart from different climbers)
Actually it’s 99% miserable and 1% funny, mostly the swearing.
Pathos, dude. But still funny.
Love , death and robots was actually enjoyable. It was a nice take on things for a change. Giving triple frontier a go, and the madeleine mccann docu this weekend.
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Just watched the Dawn Wall. Mind blowing.Didn’t realise until today this is the same mountain as Free Solo.
So what’s the difference here? (Apart from different climbers)
There are many different routes on that wall, Alex (free solo) was the first person to climb el capitan using no ropes. Tommy (Dawn Wall) was the first ever person to climb the dawn wall, leading climbing so no assistance from the rope.
Just finished After Life. Not greatly impressed by it. There were some funny bits - but some bits were just out of place I thought; the drug taking and overdose bits in particular.
We started The AO the other night. 3rd episode in and it seems very good.
There are many different routes on that wall, Alex (free solo) was the first person to climb el capitan using no ropes. Tommy (Dawn Wall) was the first ever person to climb the dawn wall, leading climbing so no assistance from the rope.
Thanks for that. I watched Dawn Wall earlier and now on Free Solo.
Started to piece it all together.
Dawn Wall was an incredible story, very well done, with some surprising moments.
Love Death + Robots was fantastic. Anyone who enjoys 2000AD, future shock and twist in the tale type sf shorts will love this. Stand out for me was Alastair Reynolds’ "Beyond the Aquila Rift".
18 sf animated shorts in different styles all 5-17 minutes long
3 episodes into After life and I think it's the best comedy I've seen in many years. Almost comparable to peep show and spaced but maybe that's just because I've not found a comedy that I like for so long. I love the contrast of the silly humour with the sad and dark moments. I personally thought the drug taking scenes were extremely well done and very realistic and thought provoking about how people use drugs and can become dependent and things can spiral.
Just watched 'Get out'. Excellent. I'd say disturbing rather than scary with a couple of twists.
I can’t wait to watch After Life. I thought Derek was so good.
gervase's humanity stage show is available. very funny but the easily offended will curl up and die
Love Death + Robots - moments of brilliance and something for everyone. Some bits NSFW (or young family).
Knightfall. A bit too much artistic licence in the way they treat the character Guillaume de Nogaret. (But it is a film story after all)
Afterlife was excellent. Proper lol’d at a lot of it !! Very touching in places too.
Just watched ‘The Night Comes For Us’.
Subtitled film with loads of action and brutal fight scenes.
The actor Iko Uwais from ‘The Raid’ co-stars in it so if you've seen that you’ll know what to expect.
3 episodes into After life and I think it’s the best comedy I’ve seen in many years. Almost comparable to peep show and spaced but maybe that’s just because I’ve not found a comedy that I like for so long. I love the contrast of the silly humour with the sad and dark moments. I personally thought the drug taking scenes were extremely well done and very realistic and thought provoking about how people use drugs and can become dependent and things can spiral.
Beautifully put. I think you perhaps have to have experienced depression either yourself or in a very close friend or family member to find it relatable, which in turn lets you see the humour, odd though it seems.
I would not normally watch Ricky Gervais. After Life is brilliantly written, funny, and tear-jerking at the same time.
If you're only laughing at the swearing I think you're missing the point.
Afterlife. Breast milk rice pudding and vaginal yeast bread. I will never forget that scene.
I can recommend formula 1 drive to survive on Netflix after watching the whole series over the weekend. A really good insight into the sport and the decisions around it from the same director as Senna and Amy.
It even made me consider going to Silverstone this year until i saw the unbelievable prices to watch cars go round in circles.
Flaperon, nail on head fella.
Love Death + Robots was fantastic.
Thanks for the tip, it is great. The sort of thing that would have passed me by.
We watched After Life last night. Absolutely brilliant! I don't know how he does it? Hysterically funny but with some moments of genuine pathos. A difficult mix to achieve.
One of the opening scenes, where the ginger kid calls him a peado, had Mrs Binners laughing so hard I thought she was going to have a seizure
I watched three episodes last night and was quite touched by it all. I think Gervais does a great job of portraying the character's amount of ***** given.
Watching the last episode of After Life tonight and apart from maybe The Office, is definitely his best work.
Don't think I've ever watched anything that can have me crying with laughter one minute, and trying to hold back tears the next. The whole cast are excellent and the vaginal yeast scene had me spurting Dr Pepper out of my nose. One of the few programmes that I can't wait to see a second series of.
One of the few programmes that I can’t wait to see a second series of.
I wouldn't, despite absolutely loving it, there's no need for a second series, it ended perfectly.
****.
Just watched Free Solo. [NOT Netflix]
Holy ****!!
Watching the last episode of After Life tonight and apart from maybe The Office, is definitely his best work.
See, I quite like Gervais as a human being based on some of his social media output, but I find him about as funny as trepanning. The Office was good despite him rather than because of him, Crook and Freeman drove it for me.
That said, would I like After Life or should I give it a wide berth?
Do it. It's not your standard Gervaise humour.
Philomena cunk is brilliant in it too.
That said, would I like After Life or should I give it a wide berth
There's actual acting in it that has moved well away from David Brent.
I'd take a punt on it.
He stills has thing about trying to be offensive for the sake of it, bit it's better than the sum of its parts in that respect.
That said, would I like After Life or should I give it a wide berth?
I can’t stand his previous stuff this however is brilliant. It’s still has a touch of Gervais is Gervais in a comedy by Gervais but not enough to ruin it.
I can't recommend The Dawn Wall (Netflix) enough. I thought it was a much better story than Free Solo. (Amazon / Google for rental)
Watched them both back to back, and Dawn Wall twice.
I also preferred the sincerity of the film making too.
But they're both fantastic films.
I can’t recommend The Dawn Wall (Netflix) enough.
If you haven't seen it already Valley Uprising is also very good. I watched it after Free Solo and Dawn Wall but if anyone hasn't seen any of them start with Valley Uprising to give a wider context to the other two.