SSgt Baloo Posted February 21, 2012 Report Share Posted February 21, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Episodes 1 & 2 of the series The Middleman. I wish I had been aware of this series while it aired, but whenever I saw the title I assumed it was about wholesalers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? It was a straight remake' date=' mate.[/quote'] Waste of time and film then. They didn't improve anything or change anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Caught up on "The River".....Some game potential there. ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted February 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Waste of time and film then. They didn't improve anything or change anything. Which is why I skipped it. Sort of like that remake of Psycho a few years back that was a shot-by-shot adaption. The only difference was color. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadmaster Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Caught up on "The River".....Some game potential there. ~Rex I think Gurps Riverworld was based on the same books as the TV show. It was one of the very early supplements so not easy to find these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolgroth Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Star Trek TOS - The Cage Season 1, Episode 1 Been a very long time. Grimaced through much of the special effects, but the story was top notch. Interesting to see Spock before the whole Vulcan logic thing became canon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NinjaGeek Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Game of Thrones, Season 1 on DVD According to Amazon.com season 1 hasn't been released on DVD yet, but I have a friend who worked in Iraq for several months and he picked up a boot leg copy from a local vendor. I wished they had toned down the nudity and sex. I can't remember the last time I saw an R-rated movie with as much sex and nudity. HBO seems to really enjoy being in your face about the fact that they don't have to worry about broadcast TV standards. In any case, the story was excellent and really sucked me in. I stayed up late and devoured all 10 episodes in two nights. It makes me want to read the books, but I'm resisting since G.R.R. Martin has two more books to write and by the time he finishes them I'll have to reread everything to remember who all the characters were and what was going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Monday: The Gods Must Be Crazy 2 Tuesday: The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? New week, new films: Monday: Bound Tuesday: The Gods Must Be Crazy 2 Wednesday: The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising Tried to watch The Shining...maybe tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? justice league the savage time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt the Bruins Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Which is why I skipped it. Sort of like that remake of Psycho a few years back that was a shot-by-shot adaption. The only difference was color. Well, and that instead of a slender and seemingly unthreatening Anthony Perkins it had a hulking, alcohol-bloated Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I think Gurps Riverworld was based on the same books as the TV show. It was one of the very early supplements so not easy to find these days. While a huge fan of Riverworld (PJF being one of my favorite writers), and the GURPS supplement, the current TV show isn't based on that material.... It would however make for an incredible Pulp atmosphere Supernatural kind of game. The folks running the show are the guys that did the Paranormal movies, it's got a nice sort of take on the "Discovered Footage" meets Reality Show kinda angle, with Spielberg money behind it and a pacing and level of creepiness I haven't seen since, oh Hitchcock. Shame the Riverworld TV show never took off on SyFy, but, Expensive, Actors Dying off in the middle of production, and stinktastic ratings because they dumbed it down for the LCD crowd...... ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? challenge of the super friends Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevelon Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Green Hornet. While I was on my second martini while watching, I was sipping them slowly enough to only be slightly drunk. Should have pounded them both back while hitting play. Campy, irritating characters, in-your-face bad effects, the list of problems go on. I knew it was bad going in (hence the liberal application of gin) but did not expect suckage of this magnitude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Green Hornet. While I was on my second martini while watching' date=' I was sipping them slowly enough to only be slightly drunk. Should have pounded them both back while hitting play. Campy, irritating characters, in-your-face bad effects, the list of problems go on. I knew it was bad going in (hence the liberal application of gin) but did not expect suckage of this magnitude.[/quote'] you men the movie or the tv series? super friends rub 3 times for disaster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevelon Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? you men the movie or the tv series? Movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? The Road Dark, bleak film, literally and figuratively. I wasn't put off by the depressing aspect so much (hell, Leaving Las Vegas is one of my favorite movies), but I was put off by the monotony. Very few ups and downs, even at the end. However, that may have been intentional, to draw the viewer in and give them a sense of the weary monotony of the character's lives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Shaun of the Dead. Still very fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Battleship Potemkin, the masterpiece of Soviet propagandist Sergei Eisenstein. A silent film made to make the twentieth anniversary of a failed revolt in Russia in 1905, it's brilliant and bombastic at the same time. Eisenstein did things with the camera and with film editing that were truly innovative in their day. He doesn't do nearly as well with actors, though, and the script is distinctly unsubtle in its message. Weirdly enough Eisenstein would have to edit some of his films at the last minute to mark changes in Soviet government and had his final film Ivan the Terrible Part Three literally destroyed before completion under orders of the Stalin regime. Yes, they actually burned the negatives to insure the film would never see the light of day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? jaguar lives Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted February 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? The Name of the Rose, in which Sean Connery is (in effect) a 14th Century Sherlock Homes... and a Franciscan monk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? "William of Baskerville", indeed. Umberto Eco has owned up to the inspiration.^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted February 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? The Road Dark, bleak film, literally and figuratively. I wasn't put off by the depressing aspect so much (hell, Leaving Las Vegas is one of my favorite movies), but I was put off by the monotony. Very few ups and downs, even at the end. However, that may have been intentional, to draw the viewer in and give them a sense of the weary monotony of the character's lives. That is so. The book is (very) slightly different, but maintains the dullness of the post-apoc wasteland. The Road Warrior this isn't. That said, the book and movie are excellent ... although the movie is not one I'd want to watch again (and again.) I do own the book, mostly because I have a small collection of post-apoc novels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? That is so. The book is (very) slightly different' date=' but maintains the dullness of the post-apoc wasteland. [i']The Road Warrior[/i] this isn't. That said, the book and movie are excellent ... although the movie is not one I'd want to watch again (and again.) I do own the book, mostly because I have a small collection of post-apoc novels. Agreed. It was generally well done (the kid is very good) but I won't be watching it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 25, 2012 Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? New week, new films: Monday: Bound Tuesday: The Gods Must Be Crazy 2 Wednesday: The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising, half of Kubrick's Odyssey, The Shining (part) Thursday: The Shining (finished) Friday: Eragon Saturday: The Third Man, just started watching 49th Parallel. Hope to watch In Which We Serve and Brief Encounter tomorrow (both directed by David Lean) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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