Author Topic: What are you watching now?...2025 (Read 44612 times)

corbe · « **on:** January 01, 2025, 01:01:51 am »

What are you watching now?...2025

Link to 2024

https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,521068.0.html

verga · « **Reply #1 on:** January 03, 2025, 07:17:35 am »

Netflix 6888. Great movie.
A female African American WAC Battalion is sent overseas during WWII to solve the problem of 17 million pieces of undelivered mail.

Gefn · « **Reply #2 on:** January 03, 2025, 12:03:34 pm »

Quote from: verga on January 03, 2025, 07:17:35 am

Netflix 6888. Great movie.
A female African American WAC Battalion is sent overseas during WWII to solve the problem of 17 million pieces of undelivered mail.

I have been told this is very good show @verga

Glad this is a new thread for the new year.

berdie · « **Reply #3 on:** January 13, 2025, 06:40:12 pm »

I rewatched The War Of The Worlds last night. The 1953 version.

For that time, the special affects were pretty amazing. I looked at the Wiki page to see how they were done. Pretty creative. I always like to see how the older movies made things work.

verga · « **Reply #4 on:** January 14, 2025, 08:43:22 am »

Rewatching "Night Agent" 1st season, before we begin watching the second. First season was pretty good hd a lot of interesting twists.

Sighlass · « **Reply #5 on:** January 17, 2025, 01:22:42 am »

Will Trent Series ...

Season 1 - Pretty Good

Season 2 - Goes Woke w/ usual attacks on religion... plays race card always against whites ... trannies good.

jafo2010 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 17, 2025, 04:34:18 am »

Watched In Plain Sight for the 2nd time. 1st time was long enough ago that I did not remember the plot of the episodes.

The show is about the US Marshals' Witness Protection Service. One of the things I like about the show is that it shows the FBI pukes to be major *ssholes.

Mary McCormack was great in her role. She plays a crotchety marshal, with a quip about everything.

DCPatriot · « **Reply #7 on:** January 23, 2025, 11:35:13 pm »

Guaranteed to keep you awake all night compelled to watch "...one more episode"? Six (6) episodes total.

Netflix's AMERICAN PRIMEVAL is the culprit. A gripping story set in 1850's Utah, which portrays Brigham Young (Kim Coates of SONS OF ANARCHY fame) and his Mormon male flock in a most unfavorable light.

This is America... 1857. Up is down, pain is everywhere, innocence and tranquility are losing the battle to hatred and fear. Peace is the shrinking minority, and very few possess grace even fewer know compassion. There is no safe haven in these brutal lands, and only one goal matters: survival.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8WMvCrywYg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3aJBknd-Mw

Gefn · « **Reply #8 on:** January 25, 2025, 09:36:55 am »

Any Star Trek fans here?

New Trek just started this week- Michelle Yeoh stars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Section_31

Fishrrman · « **Reply #9 on:** January 25, 2025, 05:56:28 pm »

This weekend's movie:
"The Seventh Sign", from 1988.
Not sure what it's about, sounds quasi-religious in nature.
Will find out soon...

jmyrlefuller · « **Reply #10 on:** January 25, 2025, 09:36:30 pm »

Quote from: DCPatriot on January 23, 2025, 11:35:13 pm

Guaranteed to keep you awake all night compelled to watch "...one more episode"? Six (6) episodes total.

Netflix's AMERICAN PRIMEVAL is the culprit. A gripping story set in 1850's Utah, which portrays Brigham Young (Kim Coates of SONS OF ANARCHY fame) and his Mormon male flock in a most unfavorable light.

This is America... 1857. Up is down, pain is everywhere, innocence and tranquility are losing the battle to hatred and fear. Peace is the shrinking minority, and very few possess grace even fewer know compassion. There is no safe haven in these brutal lands, and only one goal matters: survival.

A lot of those early Mormon leaders were not good people. They were, very much, a cult, and the likes of Smith and Young ran their religion like a cult.

It is a testament to the modern CoJC-LDS (and, let's face it, the Osmonds) that it no longer has that air. As someone who is not a Mormon, I'll say that there are a lot of things we as mainline Christians could learn from them, and they do get some things right that a lot of "Christian" churches do not.

240B · « **Reply #11 on:** January 25, 2025, 11:44:05 pm »

Quote from: Gefn on January 25, 2025, 09:36:55 am

Any Star Trek fans here?

New Trek just started this week- Michelle Yeoh stars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Section_31

Watched it. It is as bad as they say. It is a superhero show produced for early-teen children.

ROTTEN TOMATOES
24% critics and 19% audience ... liked the show.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_trek_section_31#critics-reviews

The show has only indirect referential links to anything Star Trek. It is a superhero show, not a Star Trek movie, IMO.

Sighlass · « **Reply #12 on:** January 26, 2025, 12:49:34 am »

Watched an Angel Studio movie (HOMESTEAD) about a TEOTWAWKI (SHTF) doomsday scenario (nuclear bomb off coast of California)... Story centers around a Colorado compound owned by some Christian owners that prepared for this collapse of society and a bunch of moral choices... There was a stupid kid love story that could of been dropped, and the women/wives want to open the doors to everyone while the men see it as a sure fire way to starve to death. Ugg, women should have to watch in one room while us men watch in another... Cause it makes you wanna yell at the screen. Also there is turmoil with the fighter faction and the less tough members (save everyone crowd).

That said, I did like that it was realistic in a lot of ways (no aliens or super-natural creatures to fight)... which I liked... I like that "the government" is not sheltered from being a bad guy. But the end of the movie basically just invites you to watch the spin off series to continue the story (Ugg, and you have to have a subscription to watch their stuff)....

I would like to watch a series that had a lot of the gun guys here writing the story line... because even Mormon can be too PC to stomach at times. Had a decent cast (males)... I guess the women were good too, cause they sure got my dander up yelling at them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpKP085QBwk

DCPatriot · « **Reply #13 on:** January 30, 2025, 06:55:08 pm »

Watched THE TERROR (10 episodes) on NETFLIX.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_terror/s01

https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/3/26/17163368/the-terror-review-amc-dan-simmons-jared-harris

AMC’s The Terror is a near masterpiece of survival horror
The miniseries reimagines Dan Simmons’s Arctic-bound novel — based on a true story — as a long, slow descent into hell.

It’s Simmons’s biggest swing, decoupling from the book entirely to suggest that the apocalypse is no one moment but rather unfurling all around us all the time. Your best day is the end of the world for somebody else. And on it goes.

The irony of bringing the specter of climate change into his book so late is that Simmons has set the bulk of his novel amid the story of the doomed Franklin expedition, which set sail for the Arctic in 1845 in hopes of finding the Northwest Passage, only to find itself iced in for years on end.

The expedition vanished, the men never to be heard of again. The HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, the two warships they retrofitted to be icebreakers, were finally found on the ocean floor in 2014 and 2016, respectively. (You may have read about it.) What remains we have found of the expedition suggest a long, slow descent into utter hell, with the survivors perhaps even resorting to cannibalism.

The melting of the polar ice cap may yet bring about an extinction-level event for humanity, but the members of the Franklin expedition encountered their own apocalypse out there, on all that ice, amid the bleary white. If that sounds like a depressing thing to make a 10-episode TV series about, well, it is. It’s also tremendous.

corbe · « **Reply #14 on:** January 30, 2025, 08:43:51 pm »

Met a lot of these good people, Nawlins is rich in my memory.

FIRST CALL a documentary about people who drink in bars in the morning AM in New York City THE JOJE

THE JOJE

3,069,519 views Jun 14, 2014
FIRST CALL (2000) - BLACK AND WHITE

DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER DIIORIO AND JOE MALONE

HERE IS A 50 MINUTE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT PEOPLE FROM MANHATTAN DURING THE YEAR 2000 WHO LIKED TO DRINK IN BARS DURING THE MORNING.

MOST NEW YORK CITY BARS DURING THAT ERA OFFERED FIRST CALLS - IE THE BAR OPENED AND WOULD/COULD SERVE YOU ALCOHOL STARTING AT 8 AM.

CHEERS!

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

Sighlass · « **Reply #15 on:** January 31, 2025, 03:18:11 am »

The Crazies - 1973 (There was a remake that got good reviews too, but I didn't watch it).

Another older SHTF doomsday virus movie... Small town get a deadly that turn the townfolks into zombie-like crazy people for a few hours then they die. Government sent in to contain the virus that released (plane crash)... It get ugly eventually as the town folks see the government rounding them up (and some are infected crazy).... Fairly intelligent Army/Medical/Bureaucracy in that they don't portray them as stupid. One smart ex-Marine gets a group together to escape.... will they make it?

Can watch for free on Youtube...

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

The guns used in the film can be found here... Mostly M1 Carbines, some with 30 round mags.

https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/The_Crazies_(1973)

I will give it a high rating 7/10 (good for me)... film is a little dated, but enjoyable.

Fishrrman · « **Reply #16 on:** January 31, 2025, 06:27:23 pm »

This weekend:
"The Star Wagon", a tv production of the old Maxwell Anderson play.
Saw it many, many years ago.
I think Orson Bean played the central figure...

jmyrlefuller · « **Reply #17 on:** February 01, 2025, 08:49:44 am »

Been watching The Midnight Special, the 1970s late-night music concert series. Burt Sugarman has been putting the series episodes, one-by-one, on YouTube. It's a fascinating music capsule, obviously heavy on the mainstream stuff but a few gems here and there, and a surprisingly hefty dose of the "oldies but goodies."

The one they posted this week, Bobby Vinton was the host and I was genuinely impressed with how well he adapted his sappy 60s schmalz to a live audience that was attuned to funk and rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IugfSvW__P0

240B · « **Reply #18 on:** February 01, 2025, 06:15:52 pm »

jafo2010 · « **Reply #19 on:** February 03, 2025, 12:23:34 am »

Mark Levin on Life, Liberty & Levin (Fox News Network) had a very interesting show tonight (Sunday, February 2nd).

I encourage all of you to watch it. I presume it is on Youtube at some point.

catfish1957 · « **Reply #20 on:** February 03, 2025, 02:05:35 am »

Quote from: 240B on January 25, 2025, 11:44:05 pm

Watched it. It is as bad as they say. It is a superhero show produced for early-teen children.

ROTTEN TOMATOES
24% critics and 19% audience ... liked the show.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_trek_section_31#critics-reviews

The show has only indirect referential links to anything Star Trek. It is a superhero show, not a Star Trek movie, IMO.

Star Trek died as far as I am concerned after the Bakula era (2000-2005)

As much as I loved the old Star Trek, it has sadly become a steaming hot pile of woke shit.

240B · « **Reply #21 on:** February 03, 2025, 02:21:14 am »

Scott Bakula was in fact the most honest and real portrayal of a 'real' captain on a real ship. I have been deployed and underway with some scary shit going on. Bakula was real. He reacted as a real commander.

The TNG ideal of sipping tea and listening to Mozart third symphony in D major is a Libtard fantasy.

catfish1957 · « **Reply #22 on:** February 03, 2025, 02:48:46 am »

Quote from: 240B on February 03, 2025, 02:21:14 am

Scott Bakula was in fact the most honest and real portrayal of a 'real' captain on a real ship. I have been deployed and underway with some scary shit going on. Bakula was real. He reacted as a real commander.

Same opinion here. Bakula was my favorite too, and I know we are in the minority too though.

DCPatriot · « **Reply #23 on:** February 03, 2025, 03:29:23 am »

Quote from: jafo2010 on February 03, 2025, 12:23:34 am

Mark Levin on Life, Liberty & Levin (Fox News Network) had a very interesting show tonight (Sunday, February 2nd).

I encourage all of you to watch it. I presume it is on Youtube at some point.

LOL! It's rerun every few hours...probably "ON" at this very moment!

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #24 on:** February 03, 2025, 04:04:37 am »

Watching the EDR...sneaking peeks here.

jmyrlefuller · « **Reply #25 on:** February 03, 2025, 02:02:46 pm »

Quote from: 240B on February 03, 2025, 02:21:14 am

The TNG ideal of sipping tea and listening to Mozart third symphony in D major is a Libtard fantasy.

from your lips to God's ears.

I grew up in the era when TNG was the Star Trek. It was... stiff. Boring. Detached. It contributed to my lifelong dislike of the whole franchise. Even now I can't watch it.

If I had grown up in the original series era, I would've thought it was a fun show and not left with the bad taste TNG left in the franchise. Kirk was a swashbuckler. I can enjoy the original series, what little I have seen. But TNG made me never want to watch that franchise again.

catfish1957 · « **Reply #26 on:** February 03, 2025, 02:20:55 pm »

Love Historical Series, movies, etc.

Just completed watching American Primeval on Netflix. Series was pretty weak on historical accuracy, including interaction between Brigham Young and Jim Bridger, and the Mountain Meadow Massacre of 1857, but the effects has a great realism and attention to detail feel to it.

7.5 out of 10.

Gefn · « **Reply #27 on:** February 08, 2025, 08:30:36 am »

Quote from: 240B on January 25, 2025, 11:44:05 pm

Watched it. It is as bad as they say. It is a superhero show produced for early-teen children.

ROTTEN TOMATOES
24% critics and 19% audience ... liked the show.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_trek_section_31#critics-reviews

The show has only indirect referential links to anything Star Trek. It is a superhero show, not a Star Trek movie, IMO.

Thank you @240B

I can't believe how many people gave it a bad review.

As for my favorite captain- It would be Benjamin Sisko first and then Captain Archer (and his loyal pup Porthos)

I never really cared for Picard- TNG is my least favorite of all the franchises .although I do think Sir Patrick Stewart is a great actor. I've seen him in Shakespeare and other stuff, not to mention the voice he does on "American Dad" makes me giggle.

I really like this tread

Gefn · « **Reply #28 on:** February 08, 2025, 08:31:04 am »

Puppy Bowl is on this weekend! Hurray!

DCPatriot · « **Reply #29 on:** February 20, 2025, 11:30:55 am »

To Catch a Killer... NETFLIX

Set in Baltimore, Maryland.

A female Baltimore police officer is asked by a Special Agent of the FBI to assist him in finding a sniper who kills 29 New Year's Eve revelers, perched from a high-rise window.

* * * * * FIVE STARS!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEUX9HwlF5c

DCPatriot · « **Reply #30 on:** February 21, 2025, 01:16:52 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2FOi4YZCDM

In 1912 a man is dropped off at a desolate island for a year to log seasonal weather and quickly finds himself fighting for his life from humanoid creatures from dusk to dawn.

This is a very good story that will keep you thinking for days.

FIVE STARS * * * * *

Fishrrman · « **Reply #31 on:** February 21, 2025, 06:24:51 pm »

Last night:
Twilight Zone season 2 episode, "Dust".
It was a good 'un...

240B · « **Reply #32 on:** February 21, 2025, 06:41:22 pm »

Reacher - on Prime
Superhero show about a guy who is a cross between Batman/GI Joe/Tracker and Mr. Monk. Actually not too bad. It is like the comic books I read as a kid. Totally unrealistic, but who cares? It's fun to watch.

deb · « **Reply #33 on:** February 21, 2025, 06:58:13 pm »

Quote from: 240B on February 21, 2025, 06:41:22 pm

Reacher - on Prime
Superhero show about a guy who is a cross between Batman/GI Joe/Tracker and Mr. Monk. Actually not too bad. It is like the comic books I read as a kid. Totally unrealistic, but who cares? It's fun to watch.

We’ve enjoyed that series as well.

roamer_1 · « **Reply #34 on:** February 21, 2025, 07:23:47 pm »

Quote from: deb on February 21, 2025, 06:58:13 pm

We’ve enjoyed that series as well.

Yep. Me too.

Recently watched Bull for the first time... On Amazon Prime. Features NCIS's 'Tony DeNozzo' as a trial consultant, in a typical lawyer based drama. Many seasons. Pretty good, if a bit predictable to its kind.

Kamaji · « **Reply #35 on:** February 21, 2025, 10:41:31 pm »

Interstellar, from 2014.

Sighlass · « **Reply #36 on:** February 22, 2025, 01:38:30 am »

Quote from: 240B on February 21, 2025, 06:41:22 pm

Reacher - on Prime
Superhero show about a guy who is a cross between Batman/GI Joe/Tracker and Mr. Monk. Actually not too bad. It is like the comic books I read as a kid. Totally unrealistic, but who cares? It's fun to watch.

The beginning had me fooled... No No No Noooo, this is not our Reacher.... but then it flipped the plot and I was hooked, Season 3 is great so far...

jmyrlefuller · « **Reply #37 on:** February 23, 2025, 04:44:23 pm »

Quote from: Gefn on February 08, 2025, 08:30:36 am

Thank you @240B
I never really cared for Picard- TNG is my least favorite of all the franchises .although I do think Sir Patrick Stewart is a great actor. I've seen him in Shakespeare and other stuff, not to mention the voice he does on "American Dad" makes me giggle.

Agreed on Stewart. He deserved far better than to be typecast the way he was. A great Shakespearean, stoic actor... and a fun pitchman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yBM2MWAwJY

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #38 on:** February 24, 2025, 07:16:59 am »

Lie to Me.

https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/200086778/s01-e01-pilot

Still trying to absorb all the facial 'tells' they reference in the show and apply them to politicians (the one class of professional liars most readily observed).

Gefn · « **Reply #39 on:** February 24, 2025, 06:19:31 pm »

Quote from: Kamaji on February 21, 2025, 10:41:31 pm

Interstellar, from 2014.

I added it to my que. I just found out that "Parasite" is on Hulu. Won best picture a few years back - but it has subtitles.

Gefn · « **Reply #40 on:** February 24, 2025, 06:48:34 pm »

Quote from: Smokin Joe on February 24, 2025, 07:16:59 am

Lie to Me.

https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/200086778/s01-e01-pilot

Still trying to absorb all the facial 'tells' they reference in the show and apply them to politicians (the one class of professional liars most readily observed).

I am so happy I found Tubi. A lot of really great shows and movies and it is all free @Smokin Joe

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #41 on:** February 24, 2025, 06:50:44 pm »

Quote from: Gefn on February 24, 2025, 06:48:34 pm

I am so happy I found Tubi. A lot of really great shows and movies and it is all free @Smokin Joe

@Gefn I have a few premium channels, but Tubi is the second most watched, and one I heartily recommend.

Gefn · « **Reply #42 on:** March 14, 2025, 10:29:13 am »

I know at one time there were people here who wanted to see the first season of "The Apprentice"-

It dropped this week on Amazon Prime.

It's just season one. I understand eventually another season or two will drop.

Season one is fun. It's the start of Omarossa's tv career.

Fishrrman · « **Reply #43 on:** March 14, 2025, 06:11:16 pm »

Last night:
Old original "Outer Limits" episode, "Cry of Silence" with Eddie Albert and June Havoc trapped in the desert by tumbleweeds possessed by an alien intelligence. One of the better shows of the series.

This weekend:
Film 3 of "The Hunger Games" series. Not sure what to expect.

jafo2010 · « **Reply #44 on:** March 14, 2025, 06:49:10 pm »

Watching Outlander again. What an excellent story. I love time travel, and the combination of early history in the states is interesting.

jafo2010 · « **Reply #45 on:** March 14, 2025, 07:19:17 pm »

The TV show Reacher is great. Far better this actor than Tom Cruise in the two movies made with him to date.

For those familiar with the Reacher book series, Tom Cruise is not 6'5" as the character in the book, he is at least one foot shorter, and does not measure up as Reacher.

verga · « **Reply #46 on:** March 14, 2025, 08:38:48 pm »

Quote from: jafo2010 on March 14, 2025, 06:49:10 pm

Watching Outlander again. What an excellent story. I love time travel, and the combination of early history in the states is interesting.

@jafo2010 What station is it on. I can't seem to find the most recent season?

jafo2010 · « **Reply #47 on:** March 15, 2025, 12:45:24 am »

verga,

I have a streaming service that comes with every premium movie package, every sports package, about 90,000 movies and 26,000 TV shows going way back, about 5,000 international channels, etc. And all the streaming services you can think of like Hulu, Disney, Starz, and even recent theater movies.

So, I have been watching Outlander on there.

Went from paying $128 for cable, virtually nothing premium to $35 with this service. Only requires a Firestick or similar device.

My neighbor got it when he saw it had European soccer, which is one of his favorites.

And it has many channels from throughout the world. Plus, being from Pittsburgh, I can watch all the local channels, etc. And all the channels that are broadcast in the UK are pretty much there too.

Fishrrman · « **Reply #48 on:** March 15, 2025, 11:19:13 am »

jafo boasts:
"I have a streaming service that comes with every premium movie package, every sports package, about 90,000 movies and 26,000 TV shows going way back, about 5,000 international channels, etc. And all the streaming services you can think of like Hulu, Disney, Starz, and even recent theater movies."

Well...OK.
What's THE NAME of the streaming service you have?

verga · « **Reply #49 on:** March 18, 2025, 06:42:41 pm »

Watching the landing and recovery of the Space X capsule.
Just amazing.
i am so proud to be an American.