Author Topic: What are you watching now? (Read 129690 times)

roamer_1 · « **Reply #1000 on:** December 31, 2021, 03:36:41 am »

Quote from: Hoodat on December 30, 2021, 11:08:07 pm

Too much weed, whites, and wine.

Close. Usually a night like that indicates shine or tequila. Or both.

deb · « **Reply #1001 on:** December 31, 2021, 04:25:32 am »

We are watching the Hulu series “Dopesick”, about Purdue Pharma and their opioid drug OxyContin. I’m sure it’s highly dramatized, but after the BS the pharmaceutical industry has belched out during Covid, I wouldn’t doubt that the series is more true than not.

sneakypete · « **Reply #1002 on:** December 31, 2021, 04:51:54 am »

Quote from: debrawiest on December 31, 2021, 04:25:32 am

We are watching the Hulu series “Dopesick”, about Purdue Pharma and their opioid drug OxyContin. I’m sure it’s highly dramatized, but after the BS the pharmaceutical industry has belched out during Covid, I wouldn’t doubt that the series is more true than not.

@debrawiest

I have ZERO personal experience with illegal drugs since around 1982,but still casually know a few people who participate as enthusiastic fans.

From what I have seen and heard from them,I would tend to believe almost anything negative about oxy,and I have never seen the show.

Like with all other drugs,the addiction level is dependent on the chemical makeup of the human taking the drug,but Oxy seems to be a VERY good "persuader" when it comes to habitual abuse.

As with every other drug,it is ALWAYS the human at fault because no drug in history has ever forced or convinced any human to do anything. Drugs are inanimate and have no minds.

Much like the people who use most of them on a daily basis.

Sighlass · « **Reply #1003 on:** December 31, 2021, 06:35:29 am »

Rewatching a beautiful old classic from the 80's ... A masterpiece if you can past the somewhat slow beginning of the movie.

Babette's Feast (1987) - trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5w9skKcdnA

Can be streamed at OK(dot)RU

Gefn · « **Reply #1004 on:** December 31, 2021, 11:32:05 am »

I saw “Don’t Look Up” on Netflix, this past week. Enjoyed.

Gefn · « **Reply #1005 on:** December 31, 2021, 11:33:11 am »

Quote from: debrawiest on December 31, 2021, 04:25:32 am

We are watching the Hulu series “Dopesick”, about Purdue Pharma and their opioid drug OxyContin. I’m sure it’s highly dramatized, but after the BS the pharmaceutical industry has belched out during Covid, I wouldn’t doubt that the series is more true than not.

My neighbor who is a nurse also suggested this series to me. I’ll have to watch it.

jmyrlefuller · « **Reply #1006 on:** December 31, 2021, 01:25:49 pm »

Quote from: debrawiest on December 30, 2021, 08:42:49 pm

I’m watching the Beatles documentary on Disney. Finding it fascinating and somewhat sad. Those boys were incredibly young and incredibly talented.

The Beatles are proof that if you get that much talent into one band, creative differences will usually tear you apart.

If you think about it, how many bands keep the same lineup intact for a decade? There's almost always turnover. If not due to disagreements, then self-destructive behavior. Thankfully, other than Yoko, the Beatles didn't really go too deeply into that. All of them had solo success.

It makes you wonder how some of these other bands held their core together for decades on end.

catfish1957 · « **Reply #1007 on:** December 31, 2021, 01:32:41 pm »

Quote from: jmyrlefuller on December 31, 2021, 01:25:49 pm

The Beatles are proof that if you get that much talent into one band, creative differences will usually tear you apart.

If you think about it, how many bands keep the same lineup intact for a decade? There's almost always turnover. If not due to disagreements, then self-destructive behavior. Thankfully, other than Yoko, the Beatles didn't really go too deeply into that. All of them had solo success.

It makes you wonder how some of these other bands held their core together for decades on end.

I agree. Rush might have been one of the few exceptions to that rule.

Hoodat · « **Reply #1008 on:** December 31, 2021, 05:55:00 pm »

Quote from: Sighlass on December 31, 2021, 06:35:29 am

Rewatching a beautiful old classic from the 80's ... A masterpiece if you can past the somewhat slow beginning of the movie.

Babette's Feast (1987) - trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5w9skKcdnA

Can be streamed at OK(dot)RU

Another good foreign film from that same period is Jean de Florette. You may enjoy that one, @Sighlass

DCPatriot · « **Reply #1009 on:** December 31, 2021, 06:16:22 pm »

Watched something titled "The Hundred Foot Journey" last night. I give it five popcorns.

Stars Helen Mirren as a haughty owner of a nationally renowned French restaurant who suddenly sees the building just across from her front entrance become a restaurant catering to the Indian culture.

Very nicely done!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWo67uhzoQg

roamer_1 · « **Reply #1010 on:** December 31, 2021, 06:27:38 pm »

I been watching the old 80's show 'Andromeda'

I give it four poops and a duck.

Sighlass · « **Reply #1011 on:** December 31, 2021, 06:37:33 pm »

Quote from: Hoodat on December 31, 2021, 05:55:00 pm

Another good foreign film from that same period is Jean de Florette. You may enjoy that one, @Sighlass

Hey thanks, found a copy at archive (finally)... they are bad to mess up sync with sound, so we will see. It seems to have won a lot of awards and looks to be right up my ally. Thanks for throwing this old dog a bone. @Hoodat

deb · « **Reply #1012 on:** January 01, 2022, 09:10:06 pm »

Quote from: jmyrlefuller on December 31, 2021, 01:25:49 pm

The Beatles are proof that if you get that much talent into one band, creative differences will usually tear you apart.

If you think about it, how many bands keep the same lineup intact for a decade? There's almost always turnover. If not due to disagreements, then self-destructive behavior. Thankfully, other than Yoko, the Beatles didn't really go too deeply into that. All of them had solo success.

It makes you wonder how some of these other bands held their core together for decades on end.

I just finished the series. If you don’t have 6 hours to wade through it, the 3rd episode includes the concert on the rooftop. I was blown away by it.

GtHawk · « **Reply #1013 on:** January 02, 2022, 04:18:50 am »

I am right now thoroughly enjoying the From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2022 on PBS's Great Performances.

Gefn · « **Reply #1014 on:** January 02, 2022, 10:48:27 am »

Quote from: Hoodat on December 31, 2021, 05:55:00 pm

Another good foreign film from that same period is Jean de Florette. You may enjoy that one, @Sighlass

That is a good one. I saw it when ir first came out on a blind date. (dinner and a movie. This was the movie. If I recall, we had a nice time but never had the second date)

I also recommend “Eat, drink, man, woman”

It’s foreign with subtitles, but like “Babette’s Feast”, it also showcases a lot of food too. This time Chinese.

Fishrrman · « **Reply #1015 on:** January 02, 2022, 11:01:20 pm »

Last night, I watched "The Last Survivors" from 2014, about a young couple hiding out in central Oregon after an environmental disaster in which no rain had fallen in ten years. It was OK, nothing great...

Tonight, it's "Human Desire" with Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame and Broderick Crawford, 1954.

I would have never heard of it except for having seen a thread (elsewhere) about movies with trains in them, and this one was mentioned.

It's on YouTube, full-version -- unlike the poster, it's in black & white:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOYTDZp_ZTM

Gefn · « **Reply #1016 on:** January 02, 2022, 11:31:45 pm »

Just started watching “Eureka” on Prime. That should keep me busy for a bit

sneakypete · « **Reply #1017 on:** January 03, 2022, 01:11:12 am »

STILL catching up on missed episodes of "Law and Order,SVU"

I only watched the early seasons sporadically,so am now playing "catch up".

Up to Season 10 now,and it's starting to go a lot faster as I just blast by episodes I had already watched.

DCPatriot · « **Reply #1018 on:** January 03, 2022, 05:56:49 pm »

Quote from: sneakypete on January 03, 2022, 01:11:12 am

STILL catching up on missed episodes of "Law and Order,SVU"

I only watched the early seasons sporadically,so am now playing "catch up".

Up to Season 10 now,and it's starting to go a lot faster as I just blast by episodes I had already watched.

I'm winding up 2 seasons (20 episodes) of MINDHUNTER.

It's about the F.B.I. forming a department/profiles on SERIAL killers, by interviewing them to find out how they think...they're backgrounds, etc..

Season two, they interview 'Charles Manson' and 'follow' the current on-the-loose BTK (Bind/Torture/Kill) Killer in Kansas.

Terrific casting. Now on NETFLIX

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFlKiTwhd38

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDYBmNYc8IA

HIGHLY RECOMMEND! (I confess...I fast forwarded the "Tex" Interview (Manson)

Gefn · « **Reply #1019 on:** January 03, 2022, 06:11:15 pm »

Quote from: sneakypete on January 03, 2022, 01:11:12 am

STILL catching up on missed episodes of "Law and Order,SVU"

I only watched the early seasons sporadically,so am now playing "catch up".

Up to Season 10 now,and it's starting to go a lot faster as I just blast by episodes I had already watched.

They are bringing back the original starting next month. I can’t wait.

240B · « **Reply #1020 on:** January 03, 2022, 06:24:50 pm »

Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss -- on Prime
What a weird movie. It is not what I would label a 'good' movie but it is weird enough to make it to a 'watchable' movie. It stayed with me. Do not think I will forget it any time soon. Thought provoking is what the critics would say, I think ...

sneakypete · « **Reply #1021 on:** January 03, 2022, 07:32:41 pm »

Quote from: DCPatriot on January 03, 2022, 05:56:49 pm

I'm winding up 2 seasons (20 episodes) of MINDHUNTER.

It's about the F.B.I. forming a department/profiles on SERIAL killers, by interviewing them to find out how they think...they're backgrounds, etc..

Season two, they interview 'Charles Manson' and 'follow' the current on-the-loose BTK (Bind/Torture/Kill) Killer in Kansas.

Terrific casting. Now on NETFLIX

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFlKiTwhd38

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDYBmNYc8IA

HIGHLY RECOMMEND! (I confess...I fast forwarded the "Tex" Interview (Manson)

@DC Patriot

Thanks! That's the kind of stuff I like best,and it is now on my "next watch list".

DCPatriot · « **Reply #1022 on:** January 03, 2022, 09:18:16 pm »

Quote from: sneakypete on January 03, 2022, 07:32:41 pm

@DC Patriot

Thanks! That's the kind of stuff I like best,and it is now on my "next watch list".

@sneakypete

240B · « **Reply #1023 on:** January 07, 2022, 04:33:46 pm »

Just finished 'Don't look up' on NetFlix. Very pretentious movie with a very predictable storyline.
Talk about 'over-produced'. The whole movie could have been a single Twilight Zone episode.

Imagine if you will, a two and a half hour film, with the story of a half hour skit ...
You have just entered ... "The Twilight Zone!"

jmyrlefuller · « **Reply #1024 on:** January 09, 2022, 02:54:36 am »

Right now, I'm watching the old 1980s episodes of The Price Is Right. (it's on Pluto for the cord-cutters)

Some of the prizes they give out on the show are real conversation pieces...the kind where you say "A player piano? Where did you get that, anyway?" "Well, I won it on The Price Is Right!" Then, yesterday, I saw one of the items up for bids was to tell Bob Barker the spot price for an ounce of gold that morning, with the closest guess without going over winning a one-ounce gold bar. Now that's a challenge and a curveball!

Every so often I'll tune into the original Bill Cullen version on Buzzr (also on Pluto and almost every other free streaming service), which is a totally different experience.