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Midnight Sun, a new Scandinavian crime series.

The opening scene was totally unrealistic, but apart from that it seems pretty good.

A man finds himself tied to the main rotor of a helicopter. The helicopter then starts its engine, the rotor spins up and the man is killed.

Now, I did some calculations and found that a weight of 75 kg placed at a radius of 1.25 meters from the axis would produce a centrifugal force of 260 kN if the rotor spins at 500 rpm. Surely the helicopter would sustain quite a bit of damage from such an imbalance.
 
Midnight Sun, a new Scandinavian crime series.
Episode #1 was OK.
Felt like a mix between The Hunters (Jägarna), Beck and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män Som Hatar Kvinnor).


What are you watching?

Lots of memorable quotes in this movie. It's been a long time since
I watched it, got the DVD lying around somewhere but I conveniently found it on YouTube in HD.

One of my favorite quotes @ 46:28

When my kids were real little I used to play a game with 'em.
I'd give each one of 'em a stick and, one for each one of 'em, then I'd say, 'You break that.'
Course they could real easy. Then I'd say, 'Tie them sticks in a bundle and try to break that.'
Course they couldn't. Then I'd say, 'That bundle... that's family.'
 
Just got Netflix so I started watching some of the Marvel's Defenders series, and have made a good start on Jessica Jones. I'm 5 episodes in and am loving it so far, has a great cast and I love the noir setting of the show. David Tennant also does a fantastic job of playing the villain and I can't wait to learn the origins of some of the characters.

I've also been catching up on NCIS: LA Season 8 (currently on Episode 4) which is still as amazing as past seasons despite one member of the team being out for most of the season so far, and I'm liking the storylines they've started this season.
 
Designated Survivor

When a terrorist bombing during the State of the Union address kills every senior member of government, the Presidency falls to Tom Kirkman (Kiefer Sutherland) - an independent member of cabinet chosen as the "designated survivor", or someone who is deliberately absent from the address in the event of such a disaster to ensure continuity of government. As Kirkman struggles to rebuild the government, he faces domestic and international pressures that threaten to derail his presidency. Meanwhile, an FBI investigation into the Capitol Hill bombing leads Special Agent Hannah Wells (Maggie Q) to believe that there is a much greater conspiracy at work, and that more attacks might be coming.

It's a cross between "The West Wing" and "Homeland", but sacrifices the depth of the former and refuses to take itself as seriously as the latter as it tries to balance the political drama with the tension.
 
Asterix and The Mansion of the Gods.

Lots of good fun in that film - really took me back to the books with its fine, adapted humour - i especially liked the Godzilla scream at the end.
 
Brosnan Bond movies. Man, they are bad. Judi Dench looks so fresh though. And she was in her mid-sixties.

I mean, you can't really blame the actor for the direction the movies took in that era. Late 90s and early 2000s all tech stuff. Not to mention the fact that the company decided to go and use BMW instead of the loyal Aston.


Replied only because I've been going on a 007 marathon from Connery all the way to Craig.

Least favorite Bond is Lazenby. Speaking of disliked Bonds, why is Timothy Dalton flamed? He's a good actor and his movies were actually closer to what Ian Fleming's Bond really was before Daniel Craig came along.
 
Speaking of disliked Bonds, why is Timothy Dalton flamed?
His films were quite flawed. The Living Daylights is a taught spy thriller, but it lacks the larger-than-life qualities that the series was known for. The plot hinged on a villain subtly manipulating things from behind the scenes, but Koslov had virtually no screen presence whatsoever. Quantum of Solace suffered from the same problem.

As for Licence to Kill, it was generally felt that the film took Bond's character to a place that he couldn't come back from. Bond has a licence to kill "whom he chooses, how he chooses, when he chooses", but only when on assignment. He goes completely rogue in Licence to Kill, and so commits straight-up murder throughout the film.
 
I've been watching a lot of stuff lately. I watched the Revenant and The Magnificent 7 in the past few days. Both of those movies weren't as good as I thought they would be.

The Revenant was still pretty good, but as a guy who likes a lot of westerns, I wasn't impressed at all with The Magnificient 7. It wasn't near as good as I was expecting, I found a lot of it almost boring and just not well done. It was almost cheesey. Not a fan of it.

I did finally see Ex Machina, I liked that movie a lot. I also fell in love with the Black Mirror series. That's a super cool show and it's really well done. It brings out some weird emotions, kind of awkward or hard to watch feelings, but just a hint of that.
 
Shetland

A BBC adaptation of Ann Cleeves' Jimmy Perez series - a wayward detective solves crimes on the remote Scottish archipelago of Shetland. Unfortunately, it's got nothing on the books. Everything that made Jimmy Perez interesting is gone, replaced by a pretty ordinary police procedural. The plot is also dumbed down; I could guess every key point halfway through the episode.
 
I have been catching up quite a few things lately:
  • Designated Survivor
  • The Librarians
  • Shooter
  • Black Mirror
  • Agents of Shield
  • Star Wars The Clone Wars
Once new episodes come back, I will be watching:
  • Any of the above if they have new episodes
  • Brooklyn Nine Nine
  • Lethal Weapon
  • Superstore
  • The Good Place
  • Bob's Burgers
  • Star Wars Rebels
 
I mean, you can't really blame the actor for the direction the movies took in that era. Late 90s and early 2000s all tech stuff. Not to mention the fact that the company decided to go and use BMW instead of the loyal Aston.


Replied only because I've been going on a 007 marathon from Connery all the way to Craig.

Least favorite Bond is Lazenby. Speaking of disliked Bonds, why is Timothy Dalton flamed? He's a good actor and his movies were actually closer to what Ian Fleming's Bond really was before Daniel Craig came along.
I like Dalton.

I don't blame the actors at all. Moore had the best scripts, but no way could he do the things Craig's Bond can pull off(shame we couldn't see Craig and Baptiste in the Moore movies).

Moore was all charm(and nowhere near as physical as Connery, Lazenby, Dalton & Craig).
 
Moore was all charm(and nowhere near as physical as Connery, Lazenby, Dalton & Craig).
Moore was a product of his times. EON Productions had a policy of not having Bond square off with the Russians; this was partially motivated by a desire not to isolate a potential market, but also because they didn't want the series to get stagnant (despite the irony of both The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker bring re-treads of You Only Live Twice). On the one occasion that Bond directly went up against someone in the Soviet high command - General Orlov in the criminally-underrated Octopussy - the film made it quite clear that the Soviet Union was aghast at his plan.

Ian Fleming had the same idea when he first wrote the novels. He believed that the Cold War could end within a few years, and so did not want to have Bond constantly battling the Russians. And so he created SPECTRE, an amorphous multinational criminal organisation with tacit links to various governments of ill repute. EON couldn't use SPECTRE (until recently) because of the legal action launched by Kevin McClory, and SPECTRE had already featured in six of the first seven films.

Personally, I think the best order to watch the Bond films is this: Casino Royale, Thunderball, From Russia With Love, For Your Eyes Only, The Living Daylights, GoldenEye and Skyfall.
 
Just finished TT: Closer to the edge......
I got Guy Martins autobiography and once I'd read that I remembered I had that dvd kicking about that I hadn't watched.
I'm stunned by the speed and commitment those guys have. That has to be the ultimate thrill... :eek:
 
Charlie Brooker's 2016 Screen Wipe. A great look at the disaster that was 2016. These annual accountings are usually pretty good and entertaining; this one though was perhaps the best.
 
Animal Kingdom
Haven't watched all of the first season yet(or even the Australian Movie it's based on) but this show is seriously addictive, The show is based around a High School Senior who's Mother died infront of him Over Dosing on Heroin that he helped her do, he then moves in with His grandma and his Uncles who are all Career Criminals who make their money doing Heists, the Grandma is the one that does all the Planning while the Uncles(and later himself) do all the hard work, I won't say too much more to spoil it but this show is just an Awesome Crime Drama and I highly recommend it.


 
Penn & Teller: Fool Us

Bored with the same old stage magic routines, Penn & Teller have set this show up to find the next big thing in magic. Each of the contestants performs a routine for the audience, with Penn & Teller judging. If they cannot figure out how the trick was performed - thereby capturing the wonder of witnessing magic - the contestant wins a prize, opening for Penn & Teller a one of their Las Vegas shows. Of course, they never reveal how the tricks work, so the audience get to see a full magic show.

The only bad thing about it is Alyson Hannigan. She simply cannot do improv or live acting.
 
Over the last few months I've been watching all the series of "Monkey Business" & then "Monkey Life".

Both series follow Alison Cronin & her late Husband Jim Cronin. Both from the USA The founded Monkey World in the UK to re-Home rescued primates from around the world. They're not a Zoo but a rescue centre and focus on trying to stop the theft and killing of primates in the wild and even with their other centre in Vietnam try and put Gibbons back into the wild.

Also watching "Deadwood" and then thinking I may rewatch "Twin Peaks" and "Fire Walk With Me" to get ready for the new series later this year.
 
Strange Calls is the current series I'm enjoying. Set in Oz a the new night duty police officer in a rural resort encounters some strange phone calls. Think Haven with comedy and less impending apocalypse.
 
Person of Interest

The fifth and final season is here at long last, and it hasn't disappointed. It does feel a bit rushed at times, like they were planning to do a full season (and possibly a bit more), but only got thirteen episodes.

I just finished the hundredth episode, and while I saw Root's death coming the moment she started waxing philosophical, the final moments with Finch asking the Machine to break his rules and directly intervene more than made up for it.
 
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Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

One of the dumbest films that I have seen for a long time. It would make for a great drinking game - take a shot every time Lucy Liu's expression says "why did I agree to do this again?".
 
Just seen both Resident Evil: Afterlife & Retribution on Netflix, and I thought they were pretty good. Plot wasn't the greatest, and there was a few things that could've used more explaining or development, but it had some amazing action scenes and overall I thought both movies were really good.

Also on Netflix was Skiptrace, starring Jackie Chan and Johnny Knoxville. It was a really good movie that has some really funny moments while also having a decent plot and some great action scenes.
 

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