What are you watching?

[Eljorahir]

Tonight, I watched the first 2 episodes of the new show 'Dexter: Resurrection'.

As TV shows go, all the Dexters are definitely a cut above the rest. IMO.

 

[Vardarianna]

Tonight, I watched the first 2 episodes of the new show 'Dexter: Resurrection'.

I too watched the 2 episodes of Dexter: Resurrection. The jury is still out with me as to whether they are 'jumping the shark' with this or not. Not sure what I think of Jack Alcott as Harrison Morgan. I'll continue to watch, but will make a conclusive review of it later on in the run. I did like the 'Dexter: Original Sin' show.

Another series I have enjoyed was Bosch, and Bosch Legacy was alright. I started watching the spinoff 'Ballard' and am liking it so far.

 

[Halasían]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail for the umteenth time.
With all the death going down this week, it's time to bring around the cart.

 

[Deimos]

In this previous post for KInd Hearts and Coronets I mentioned that I ordered the Criterion DVD.
It arrived last week and I watched it a few evenings ago.
It was great 😄 just like always .....a keeper fer shure fer shure. 😍

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

I watched Happy Gilmore 2. For a sequel it was a really good movie. 7/10

 

[Ent]

As TV shows go, all the Dexters are definitely a cut above the rest. IMO

hhmmm.... one of the Ent sons advocated Dexter to me once, as worth the watching.
I never indulged.
Just read the premise of the thing... an interesting premise but feels a bit 'dark'.
What makes the shows stand out, in anyone's opinions?

 

[Eljorahir]

hhmmm.... one of the Ent sons advocated Dexter to me once, as worth the watching.
I never indulged.
Just read the premise of the thing... an interesting premise but feels a bit 'dark'.
What makes the shows stand out, in anyone's opinions?

Dexter is definitely more than a bit dark. I almost stopped watching somewhere in the first season because at times it was too dark for me. Either I got used to it or the show toned it down a bit for season 2.

A primary compelling aspect of the show is we frequently get to hear Dexter's inner monologue. We hear what he's thinking as he manages his way through life with his affliction, his "dark passenger" as he calls the part of his psyche that generates his urges. And, he is quite likeable in spite of all the darkness within.

The show will not be everyone's cup of tea; sometimes the darkness, gore, and horror are quite intense.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Li'l something like this?

When I posted this sequence back in May:
Post in thread 'What are you watching?' https://thetolkien.forum/threads/what-are-you-watching.23834/post-626847
I wasn't aware that another mv followed it (makes sense, as they were about to go through the Door to the Other Side) -- i just didn't get the connection at the time, so I append it here:

We see Ian, in Mr. Insanity mode, accessing memories of childhood trauma (reconfigured) until a bolt from MITO puts a stop to it.

 

[Vorondil]

I'm rewatching all the Star Wars films, starting tonight.

 

[Deimos]

I'm rewatching all the Star Wars films, starting tonight.

The human brain is amazing, especially in the young, what with how much abuse and punishment it can withstand 😬 ... and evidently it's a lot. 🙄

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I'll be watching the latest discoveries at Pompeii on PBS tonight.

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Join the final chapter of Pompeii's largest excavation in a generation.

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[Eljorahir]

I finished my rewatch of Twin Peaks. Original series, movie, and "The Return".

That was one straaaaaaange show. Worth a watch, in my view, but it's quite the cryptic puzzle.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

The Kyoto Tachibana High School Band.

These girls are amazing. 😊

 

[herlig9]

 

[Rivendell_librarian]

I recently ordered the DVD "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (made 1949) .
Best version DVD is one by Criterion Collection. There is a BD --can't recall the maker-- that gets a lot of 👎).

It is a wickedly funny British dark comedy with a great ending twist.
I have watched it at least a half dozen times, but back then I rented it (when you could rent Tapes and DVDs).
But now I own it...yeeeeessssss!!! 😁

And why (you may well ask) would anyone re-watch a movie that has a twist at the ending, once one knows the twist and the surprise factor is gone?
I will tell (and show) you.
For this reason:
Remember these pics from the other thread?

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Alec Guinness portrays eight different characters in the movie (in that last pic he plays a woman).
They are all members of the D'Ascoyne family whom the protagonist (played by Dennis Price) has decided to murder because they stand in the way of his inheritance, he also a D'Ascoyn but much farther down the trough.
The story is told in flashback by the murderer, now in prison, convicted, and awaiting execution by hanging.
And that is all I'm going to say about the plot.
Alec Guinness, as always, shines. And that is what makes it worth re-watching, even if it weren't a very entertaining story. But it's that too. 🙂

and of course it's really funny - just about perfect especially the cynical Dennis Price commentary. My favourite bit is when he sends the lovers over the weir at Maidenhead and comments that he saved the girl from a fate worse than death.

 

[Rivendell_librarian]

Recently I watched a western I had watched a long time ago, probably on a wet Sunday afternoon: Broken Lance

It features Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Richard Widmark and Katy Jurado (who features so memorably in High Noon)

As the story progressed the light dawned and I realised this is King Lear transferred to the wild west, and very well done it is except for the usually wooden Robert Wagner. (Jeffrey Hunter would have been better).

A big shout out for Richard Widmark who in the key scene with patriarch Spencer tells him what he thinks about him - and dominates the scene. Is he not one of the most underrated of film stars - always memorable in his films.

 

[Deimos]

Recently I watched a western I had watched a long time ago, probably on a wet Sunday afternoon: Broken Lance

It features Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Richard Widmark and Katy Jurado (who features so memorably in High Noon)

As the story progressed the light dawned and I realised this is King Lear transferred to the wild west, and very well done it is except for the usually wooden Robert Wagner. (Jeffrey Hunter would have been better).

A big shout out for Richard Widmark who in the key scene with patriarch Spencer tells him what he thinks about him - and dominates the scene. Is he not one of the most underrated of film stars - always memorable in his films.

Thank you for this post. 🙂
Lear is one of my favorites of the Bard's tragedies (Macbeth is tops).
I have never seen Broken Lance, and now I will put it on my Movie Short List.

Re Richard Widmark ... he is underrated now as are so many actors of movies in the first half of the 20th C.**
But I do not think that was the case at anytime in the 20th C, even the latter half.
Who can ever forget this scene:

** What can you possibly reply to the statement made typically [but not always] by younger folks: "I don't watch old movies because they are in Black and White and there's no action and too much talking."
I usually hold my tongue and refrain from uttering any of my favorite 5-letter words..... "moron", "idiot", "loser" .

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I caught this short story about Jules Verne on France 24 last night:

Not emphasized is the history of poor English translations; British and American publishers treated -- and promoted -- his works as for children and "young people", cutting out, and even severely altering, whole sections, and in general "dumbing them down". Recent decades have seen better translations, but due to their public domain status, the old ones continue to be reprinted.

I'd love to have some of the editions shown in the story! 😁

 

[Rivendell_librarian]

Thank you for this post. 🙂
Lear is one of my favorites of the Bard's tragedies (Macbeth is tops).
I have never seen Broken Lance, and now I will put it on my Movie Short List.

Re Richard Widmark ... he is underrated now as are so many actors of movies in the first half of the 20th C.**
But I do not think that was the case at anytime in the 20th C, even the latter half.
Who can ever forget this scene:

** What can you possibly reply to the statement made typically [but not always] by younger folks: "I don't watch old movies because they are in Black and White and there's no action and too much talking."
I usually hold my tongue and refrain from uttering any of my favorite 5-letter words..... "moron", "idiot", "loser" .

He could play good guys as well, but always with that intensity as if he really meant it e.g. Cheyenne Autumn

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

He played a heroic Naval medical officer a few years after "Kiss":