What are you watching?

[Alexander Scamilton]

As it is Remembrance Day today, I'm watching The Longest Day.

OMG I forgot it was remembrance day.

 

[Aldarion]

As it is Remembrance Day today, I'm watching The Longest Day.

(Yes, I know it's about WW2, not WW1, but it's close enough)

If you want WW1 movies, watch the Birdsong TV series and Passchendale.

 

[Beleg_Cúthalion]

Here’s a video from a YouTube channel I really enjoy, “Townsends”. He does 18th century historical cooking, and a lot of his recipes are delicious. Townsends also at some point builds a cabin like 18th century people would, and does other things that are of the time period. The food is his main thing, and boy he does a good job. This is “Beef Stew”, and because of him this is a meal that I eat very often.

 

[Server Room Gremlin]

I rewatched Labyrinth. Though it's been quite a while since the last time I saw it: I was a little kid. It was cool to see all the different scenes I vaguely remembered! Certainly an enjoyable watch. And now that I've seen it again, I do wonder whether it had some influence on my imagination and the type of things I like in stories.

 

[Maedhros_Nelyafinwë]

I rewatched Labyrinth. Though it's been quite a while since the last time I saw it: I was a little kid. It was cool to see all the different scenes I vaguely remembered! Certainly an enjoyable watch. And now that I've seen it again, I do wonder whether it had some influence on my imagination and the type of things I like in stories.

I've actually never seen this! (I know, I know, people are probably getting ready to throw rotten tomatoes at me. But there's so many movies I have simply not seen.) It looks like a lot of fun, so maybe I'll have to give it a watch.

 

[Ricardo]

I have a watch list in Disney+ and another in Prime video, between the 2 I select 5 shows to watch and alternate between them.
Currently:
The vampire diaries
The 100
the lost world
Alias
Supernatural

I recently got a Vision Pro son in weekends I am watching some movies in 3D.

 

[Beleg_Cúthalion]

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

The new Ken Burns documentary premieres on PBS tonight.

Sure to be repeated, if you miss it.

 

[Beleg_Cúthalion]

I decided I wanted to rewatch all of Star Wars. This is the one I am currently watching.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

I am currently watching Bluey every evening with my younger sister.
I think I may actually enjoy it more than she does.
COCONUTS HAVE WATER IN THEM

Don't judge.

That’s one of my favorite episodes, along with the video call one and Granny Mobile 😊. Muffin is my favorite lol

 

[Alexander Scamilton]

I actually just watched the 2025 Frankenstein. I hated it personally. Like, it was too different from the book. LIKE INSANELY DIFFERENT, AND IT WASN'T A GOOD DIFFERENT. IDK i just rlly hated it for some reason. I didn't vibe with it.

 

[Deimos]

I actually just watched the 2025 Frankenstein. I hated it personally. Like, it was too different from the book. LIKE INSANELY DIFFERENT, AND IT WASN'T A GOOD DIFFERENT. IDK i just rlly hated it for some reason. I didn't vibe with it.

True, because Mary Shelley is dead. Like, what were you expecting? Shelley can't come back and direct a movie about herself. And if the movie was exactly like the books, it wouldn't work out. A book is very different from a movie. You can't make a movie exactly like the books and that's just reality.
You will never be satisfied. Some could be handed the whole sky and still grumble at the clouds.

 

[Alexander Scamilton]

True, because Mary Shelley is dead. Like, what were you expecting? Shelley can't come back and direct a movie about herself. And if the movie was exactly like the books, it wouldn't work out. A book is very different from a movie. You can't make a movie exactly like the books and that's just reality.
You will never be satisfied. Some could be handed the whole sky and still grumble at the clouds.

OMG u r so annoying. That wasn't my point. im not mad bv of that. I dont' care if it wasn't exactly like the books. It just didn't vibe with me bc it was done badly. Like y is elizabeht in love with the monster. that was silly. like ridiculous.

 

[Deimos]

OMG u r so annoying. That wasn't my point. im not mad bv of that. I dont' care if it wasn't exactly like the books. It just didn't vibe with me bc it was done badly. Like y is elizabeht in love with the monster. that was silly. like ridiculous.

rofl 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 ... Mission accomplished 🙂

 

[Klaatu]

Frankenstein adaptations have always lived in this strange lightning-lit gap between what Shelley wrote and what filmmakers think audiences will respond to. The novel is quiet, brooding, and philosophical—a long meditation on creation, responsibility, and the way loneliness can twist a soul.

Most adaptations toss Victor’s agonized prose straight into the nearest storm drain and sprint toward drama: more romance, more action, more melodrama, more “what if the monster had perfect cheekbones this time?” Every decade reinterprets the story according to its own anxieties. That’s why you can get everything from Karloff’s mournful child-giant to Branagh’s tragic romance to outright popcorn-gothic chaos where people fall in love with the creature because a studio exec whispered “but what if it sells better?”

So if something feels silly or wildly off-tone—yeah, that tracks. Shelley’s book is a hard thing to translate faithfully without slipping into either a philosophy lecture or a monster-mash carnival ride. Some versions balance the two better than others; some fall off the lab table and skitter around like an electrified potato.

Anyway, I once tried helping a director adapt Shelley’s original themes for an off-world production, but the cast kept running off to marry the monster, the monster married me, and the whole thing devolved into a musical number involving 14,000 volts and interpretive dance. Adaptations are messy.

— Klaatu
Moon-Certified Archivist of Misunderstood Monsters
Keeper of the Seven-Fold Socket Wrench of Sorrows

 

[Beleg_Cúthalion]

I'm currently rewatching Pride and Prejudice! I've watched it countless times and never seem to get tired of it 😂

 

[Starbrow]

I'm currently rewatching Pride and Prejudice! I've watched it countless times and never seem to get tired of it 😂 View attachment 45943

I love this adaptation. I rewatch it whenever I need to be cheered up.
Peter Jackson should take some lessons from Andrew Davies on how to adapt a book to the screen.

 

[Deimos]

I'm currently rewatching Pride and Prejudice! I've watched it countless times and never seem to get tired of it 😂

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I love this adaptation. I rewatch it whenever I need to be cheered up.
Peter Jackson should take some lessons from Andrew Davies on how to adapt a book to the screen.

Yep...by far the best one. And an excellent observation; well said.

You know what I found (and still find) to be an endless source of fascination in this dramatization is the breadth of consummate talent demonstrated by the actors portraying the disagreeable characters: Mrs Bennett ,Caroline Bingley, Lady Catherine De Bourgh and Mr Collins**.

Each one (imo) captured the essence of Austen's character "ideal": Mrs Bennett's lack of common sense and [hilarious] hysterics, Caroline's supercilious sneering, Lady Catherine's arrogance of privilege (most especially the scene in the garden with Elizabeth), and Mr Collins' alternating pomposity (with his perceived inferiors) an obsequiousness (to his perceived superiors). The portrayals are absolutely spot-on, unforgettable. No matter how many times I watch it I'm still amazed by these portrayals.

**I have left out Mr Wickham (a true villain and not just a pathetically flawed person) because I didn't think the actor was on the same level as the others.
He was professionally good, certainly, but his portrayal didn't arouse (in me ) the same admiration as the others' performances do.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

This is right up there too, at least for me.

I know there were criticisms that Emma Thompson was too old for the part, but that didn't bother me.

 

[Deimos]

This is right up there too, at least for me.

I know there were criticisms that Emma Thompson was too old for the part, but that didn't bother me.

Yes, I saw that one after I saw P&P... and I thought it was very good too (just not as good as the Firth/Ehle P&P.)
You know, that was my "introduction" to Alan Rickman.... I had never heard about him or seen him before that. (Or if I did, I can't recall it. 🙄)
Anyway I was captivated by him... I clearly remember thinking, "Who is this guy? He is amazing to watch but especially to hear...what delivery!"