OddHat Posted February 5, 2007 Report Share Posted February 5, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Just watcher the episode of Rome where Vorenus picks up his children from the slave camp. Not really up to the standards of the series; the scenes were all OK in and of themselves, but they didn't really build well. Not liking Vorenus and Pullo the liberators, either. Vorenus is an ex slave-owner and wanabe slave dealer himself, and Pullo has had more than his share of enslaved whores. The righteous indignation may be culturally appropriate, but the knowledge of who these men are just kills my sympathy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted February 5, 2007 Report Share Posted February 5, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Just watcher the episode of Rome where Vorenus picks up his children from the slave camp. Not really up to the standards of the series; the scenes were all OK in and of themselves, but they didn't really build well. Not liking Vorenus and Pullo the liberators, either. Vorenus is an ex slave-owner and wanabe slave dealer himself, and Pullo has had more than his share of enslaved whores. The righteous indignation may be culturally appropriate, but the knowledge of who these men are just kills my sympathy. Sounds like something I should be watching. I like morally ambiguous characters - they're more like how most people really are. Just watched episode 13 of season 3 of Stargate: Atlantis. And enjoyed the end of the "Kolya" arc thoroughly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted February 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I had some time to kill before heading out for the evening's Champions game, so I watched Toy Story. Man, that movie is fun (and funny). I also noticed Joss Whedon was listed as a writer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzMike Posted February 5, 2007 Report Share Posted February 5, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Tonight I watched (well, my wife watched) The Biggest Loser Australia edition, followed by about half an hour of Top Gear. This was followed by the Russell Crowe episode of South Park. Sigh. But at least one class of my students is watching Spiderman tomorrow and another will be watching Memento later this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted February 6, 2007 Report Share Posted February 6, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I just saw the last 90% of Joe and Max. I had heard of Joe Louis, and Max Schmeling's fights. I even heard of their friendship and the swarm of geo politics around them ... but I really enjoyed this movie. How historically accurate it is I don't know, but I still reccomend it and I don't even really like boxing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gojira Posted February 6, 2007 Report Share Posted February 6, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? An Inconvenient Truth. While you may not agree with the politics or science, it's darn interesting to see what Al Gore is talking about, and how he backs it up. Likely to be the subject of a lot of political debate in the coming years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? The 2007 Royal Rumble. The championship matches did not exactly make the earth move as neither Test nor Mr Kennedy were up to the task of taking down their opponents. The Rumble itself was ok but saved by HBK and the Undertaker. Taker for the title at Wrestlemania Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Serpent Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I just got done with Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit from NetFlix. Oh... my... God.... too funny. I nearly died laughing at a couple of points. Wallace and Gromit are the shiznit. If you haven't seen them yet, I highly recommend the other ones in the series. Should be able to pick up a combo set. Much shorter than the CotWR - when watching CotWR I kept expecting it to wrap up because I was used to the shorter times, but it kept going! OK, now I'm going to have images of vacuumed-up floating bunnies in my head all day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Confoundo Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I found Were-Rabbit to be too long. Wallace and Gromit are great in shorter doses, but their full-length feature made me doze off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? The director's cut of Alexander the Great. I never knew that the Macedonians all spoke Irish. And then in old age could speak English so eloquently. And guess what ? Alexander was gay. Angelina Jolie is the only one who even attempted a Greek accent. She came out of the thing quite well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Angelina Jolie is the only one who even attempted a Greek accent. She came out of the thing quite well. I agree with that. She gets a lot of static over a weird personal life (standard issue for a Hollywood star) and some bad script choices, but she's a pretty solid actress even in bad films. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted February 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I just picked up -- but haven't yet watched -- the following DVDs: Samurai 7 vol. 3, The Amazing Screw-on Head, And Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketchpad Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Sword of Storms was great Mike I'm curious about the The Amazing Screw-On Head ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzMike Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Watched episodes 1-6 of Robotech. Enjoyed it thoroughly way back when - still enjoying it now. Bought the whole remastered box set and am going to watch it all. And yes, anime purists, I know all about it being three different series and not being like those original Japanese series. And I don't care Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 Lansdale Watched Oliver Stone's JFK. As powerful as they say it is. The 3 most powerful parts are: 1) the first 10 minutes. W-O-W!! 2) the scenes with Mr X 3) the concluding court case with Jim Garrison/Kevin Costner debunking the Report of the Warren Commission. Thanks Jim for bringing the only court case in this travesty, and for being a "soldier of truth". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thag13 Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? ON Encore there was a showing of "Heaven and Earth" a big budget Japanese Samurai movie with lots of big battle scenes and some amazing scenery. Sub titled but well worth watching. I have no idea if it was historically accurate, but it was a great movie. Caught the two parter of Criminal Minds last night. Pretty good show and a stand out episode. Reed is in for a world of hurt. I saw Lost last night, I will save that for the right thread. I watched Top design also. Its ok. I am not much of a "reality TV"viewer, but my son likes this one, so I watch it with him when possible. I have like 20 DVD I need to set thru. The local pawn shop game me a really good deal on some DVDs at about 3 bucks a pop. So for about a month and a half of Netflix, I got some keepers. I will take a lot of them to the used book store for credit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted February 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Sword of Storms was great Mike I'm curious about the The Amazing Screw-On Head ... I saw some of the on-line preview and it looked to be totally whacked steam-punk/pulp action, so.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I saw some of the on-line preview and it looked to be totally whacked steam-punk/pulp action' date=' so....[/quote'] The Amazing Screw On Head rocked, very deep weirdness. Shame it never became a series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Dodgeball. Vince Vaughan playing a decent guy and Ben Stiller playing the awful White Goodman. Fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapsedgamer Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Second season of the new Dr. Who series. I'm actually turning into a fan after decades of hating Dr. Who. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? An episode of Samurai Jack in which Jack doesn't actually speak a single word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thag13 Posted February 13, 2007 Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Just watched My Name is Earl and Four eps of Little Mosque on the Prairie. the latter is quite funny. FYI the show is about a small group of Muslims living in a Canadian small town who finally get a small mosque in an rec hall of a church. Misunderstandings and such happen. Its a standard sitcom, with some neat twists on standard characters. Its funny enough. Not as edgy as I thought it would be, but that's OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted February 13, 2007 Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Welcome to the Jungle. Action comedy with a surprisingly hard climactic scene. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted February 13, 2007 Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Watched Place Promised in Our Early Days on Friday. On Sunday, Josh and I went out to see Pan's Labyrinth for a second time, and then we came home and watched Mystic Pizza on DVD. And we've been watching "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr." intermittently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentor Posted February 13, 2007 Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Future Weapons, Mythbusters, Driving Through History. Not much time for TV in the Mentor house, either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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