I've noticed that Amazon prime likes to recommend me things I've already watched. Think their algorithm needs work.
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I've noticed that Amazon prime likes to recommend me things I've already watched. Think their algorithm needs work.
Its the You Tube app on the TV Martin. Often its a case of why are they recommending that, and then great suggestions appear. There are days I just watch You Tube, recently it wasn't working but its back again :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Frequency
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Frequency is really two different--though inextricably linked--movies. First, the emotional drama of a father and son reunited after 30 years of separation. Then there is a science fiction thriller, in which a couple of chance solar storms, occurring exactly 30 years apart, can provide the agency through which the father and son can communicate using the very same ham radio in parallel time frames of 1969 and 1999. The son is John Sullivan (Jim Caviezel), a cop, and his father is Frank (Dennis Quaid), a firefighter who died on the job when John was six, which just happens to be tomorrow for Frank when he and his now-adult son begin talking across time. This is great for John, because now he can warn his dad about the upcoming fire and avert the catastrophe that left him fatherless for most of his life. Accomplishing this gives John new memories of his life with Dad, but unfortunately alters the course of a serial killer, with tragic effect on John's family history. Since John is a cop, and the case he's working on turns out to be the same unsolved case from 30 years before, he and his father work together over the ham radio to solve the case and hopefully avert the tragedy that befell their family. Time-travel stories have always been problematic, demanding either an extra degree of credulity on the part of the audience or an extra level of explanation on the part of storytellers, which is invariably cumbersome. Frequency handles the troublesome time paradoxes by having John explain how, having altered his past, he now experiences both timelines, as if he's had two pasts that converge in his present. And as changes continue to be wrought in John's past, we see him becoming more and more confused. No doubt the audience can sympathise, at least those of us who try to follow the ramifications of the rapidly accruing time fractures. Luckily, the bond between father and son is so strongly realised in the deeply felt performances of both Caviezel and Quaid that you don't even need to consider the science fiction elements in order to enjoy the film. But if you can suspend your disbelief long enough to allow for the possibility of time shifts, you will have a far richer experience. --Jim Gay, Amazon.com
Good film, not seen it in years but enjoyed it at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
That is quite good film, despite being a bit schmaltzy.
Like Neil I've seen it a couple of times, but have been on the lookout for a cheap copy. Found it in a boot sale for £1. Yes at times it's a bit schmaltzy, but it's the time travel aspect that interested me, and the careful avoidance of paradox.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Never heard of that one.
Back watching this... Disc 2 series 1.. Quite enjoyable, and I'm not sure whyQuote:
Originally Posted by struth
Real blast from the past that one, good as I recall.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
It is good to revisit it. Seems even better with age somehow:)
Just been watching a documentary on crop circles. Didn't realise there were records of them going back to the 17th century.
Hmm. There is certainly nothing 'extra terrestrial' about them (or anything else, apart from maybe radiation and meteors).
Big argument ensues.....................
Some are hoaxes of course but there are substantial differences between those and the unexplainable ones. A very strange thing.
Last night we watched Luis Bunuel's surreal comedy 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie' (1972), about a group of friends in France who get together for meals that they never get to eat. Funnier than it sounds.
I'm an admirer of Luis Bunuel, think I have seen all of his output at one time or another.
Same here. I first saw 'The Discreet Charm..' at the university cinema society not long after it was released. I was mad keen on foreign films in those days; in retrospect I wonder whether I liked them because they were foreign rather than for their intrinsic merit. (Obviously some genuinely were cinematic masterpieces).Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Not overly big on foreign language films(American aside). That said ive seen some very good ones too. The seven samurai and red rivers...forgot there correct names.. Were excellent. The French do some well made and interesting films on occasion. Alas not speaking the lingo is always a hindrance a!d strain to my old eyes
I love foreign language films. Hungarian, black and white - Barry Heaven!
I like Alain Delon's films but not a fan of those French flics where it is just people talking in rooms for 2 hours.
What's interesting too is which English-languages films foreigners like. As well as the usual suspects (Hitchcock, John Ford, John Huston) the French were very keen on more obscure directors like Nicholas Ray and Budd Boetticher. They also loved the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe, who in the UK is regarded as a bit of a lightweight.
Weirdly, the Americans loved Benny Hill and Are You Being Served. Must be that subtle, understated British humour.
...and Albanians loved Norman Wisdom. Mind you, communism had a lot to do with it, but none the less, he was a God there
I kind of like the idea of a Supreme Being who's clumsy and wears ill-fitting clothes. If man really is made in God's image, there's proof of His existence walking around most streets.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
'Yesspeak'. Very good. Best line up, some performances of old songs, the best ive ever heard them performed.
Just starting series 3 of Survivors. Good revisiting this series...
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The Railway Man - awful but wonderful. Wanted to see it for awhile and it was worth the wait. Beautiful film. Mans cruelty to man, one mans forgiveness of another.
'Withnail And I'
You may know it. If you don't that's okay, but you should probably watch more films. :)
Only a few films are resilient to repeated watching. I think it is fair to say this is one of them.
Yeah. Good movie that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Sadly, I must be the only person in the Universe who loathed that film.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Wasn't one of mine either.only seen it once though
Watching last 3 episodes of Survivors. Certainly worth the watching again. interesting in those days at least the middle class were the only honest, intelligent ones, and the poor were lazy, thick and murderous....especially every Scot(even the Kid).... and the rich wanted to get richer and federalise everyone to their way of thinking
...the times have not really changed attitude wise.
It has a seedy and grimy hopelessness about it that appealed to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Just finished Ep 19 of Law and Order season 1.
...now The School for Scoundrels from 1960 and starring Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott and Alastair Sim. Peter Ustinov wrote some of the screenplay for this minor masterpiece.
Made at Elstree Studios and premiered at the Warner Theatre in Leicester Square, London on 24 March 1960, where it ran for a month.
The two salesmen (Dennis Price and Peter Jones), who sell him a ramshackle 1924 "Swiftmobile" were characters from a radio show some years earlier and their catch phrase of "run for it" was reused.
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One of my favourites, that. Everyone in it gives perfect performances and the script is genius.
Now Paul the Alien; the uncut version. much better for it too.;) great film and soundtrack
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The football with commentary in Welsh.
The last thing I watched was a God-awful 'supernatural' programme called The Living and the Dead. Utter shite from start to finish.
Withnail's great. I've seen it twice in the cinema, and I've lost count of how many times on videotape/DVD.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
It is very hard to pin down what makes it so good. A total one-off. Improves with every watching, like a good album improves with every listen.
I get the same thing with 'Miami Blues' too. The guy (Alec Baldwin) is nuts and a total loser all the way through, but it's a magic movie.
Not seen that one. I'll look out for it.
Watch it free: http://hdmovie14.net/watch/miami-blu...-hd-full-movieQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Nice one. I'll give it a watch tomorrow night if I can.
Macca you terrible c... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Terrific film.
Try Luka's Child on You Tube, biggest load of rubbish I have ever flicked through. I have no idea how crap like that gets made, made the Troma films studios output look good and that's saying something. Smart TV You tube channel recommended it, why I do not know - how do such algorithms work :scratch:Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe
I bought a laptop off Amazon recently. Now they e-mail me daily trying to persuade me to buy another laptop. Not a carry case or a bluetooth mouse or an external disc drive or any other accessories I might actually be interested in given that I have just bought a laptop. No, instead they want me to buy another of the thing I have just bought. It is actually the least likely purchase I might make right now and they know thisQuote:
Originally Posted by Dalek Supreme D L
Algorithms my arse.
'Treasure Of The Sierra Madre'
Simple rule of films: If Humphrey Bogart is in it then it is almost certainly worth a watch. Three blokes go high up into the titular mountains to pan for gold. What could possibly go wrong? The answer is: quite a lot.
One of my favs too Martin. Gold, like women, is always a recipe for trouble :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I'm watching Trouble in Store from 1953, and stars Norman Wisdom, Jerry Desmonde as the baddy and Moira Lister; with Megs Jenkins and Margaret Rutherford in support.
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nowt to beat the classics;)
Blackadder Series 2 from 1986
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"there's a man being indecently assaulted by 8 foreign sailors and he still has a smile on his face ":rfl::rfl::rfl:
Dads Army 2016
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Part of my digital library. Mirrored to Apple TV from flixster