Oh pooh on China Beach. I don't even use the DVD player anymore, and the XBox is just gathering dust now.

I have been on a British crime drama kick, starting with Inspector Lewis, then moving on to Luther, The Fall, Prime Suspect, A Touch of Frost, Endeavour and Inspector Morse.

But now I'm on a blast from the past with the Adventures of Young Indiana Jones. I'm waiting for the kid to grow up and for Sean Patrick Flanery to move into the role - I really liked him back then and I want to see if his acting stands the test of time.

Excalibur.

Been in a little bit of an Arthurian mood lately, not that I need an excuse to watch this film. It's worth it just for the sight of Patrick Stewart going to town on some knights with a bloody great axe

Firefly

Was playing the boardgame on saturday (love that game, and I won!), and just had to dust off my Browncoat

I started watching Sharknado last night, now I am finishing up with the last hour. To quote Higgins: "Oh, My, God!" This movie is so bad.

I'm just starting The Walking Dead with my brother. I've heard good things about it.

I watched the first two seasons of it, then gave up. It was too soap operaish for me. Everyone is sleeping with everyone else behind everyone's back, etc... And the idea that guns are almost impossible to find in rural America just had me rolling. If they had gone to my father's house, they would have had enough guns for an army. He had a health scare a few years ago, and my brother and I went through the house in case he died. We found over 40 guns. Most of them had legal paperwork. Most.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Aug 13 2014, 05:22 PM

On the recommendation of a friend I picked up the first season of True Blood. Only on the second episode, but it's pretty good so far.

Meh. First season was great, second season was great. Third season onward the show went downhill. Big time. I stopped halfway on the fifth season. As much as I enjoy the supernatural predators we know as vampires and werewolves, the show just . . . did it wrong. It was too comical and over-the-top bloody. I love comedy, but there's a limit when you try to mix it with violence and too much foul language. I . . .feel . . . like cringing.

Well, I kinda binge-watched my way through season 1, and to be honest it's already wearing kinda thin. Vampires exploding into bloody messes(wtf?), gratuitous sex scenes, and the whole Sookie and Billy thing leaned way too heavily on Buffy and Angel.


Now I just have to decide whether to work my way through Buffy and then Angel, or just skip all the high school stuff and go straight to Angel.

Hmm...

I never saw True Blood, because my impression was that it was basically Twilight on t.v. Lots of teen/twenty something sex and ham-fisted 'romance'. Oh, and they're vampires too, isn't that cool! I wasn't expecting exploding vampires though, so maybe there is something to it after all!

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Aug 19 2014, 12:54 AM

I quit watching True Blood a while ago due to the danger posed by excessive eye-rolling, but I’ve been watching this season since it’s the last. Series finale next week. I was really hoping that they’d kill off a bunch of characters. So far not nearly enough.

Watching Captain America The Winter Soldier.

Good film, but the identity of the Winter Soldier is a bit blegh;



That said

I saw the Winter Soldier's identity coming a year before the movie came out. Events in the first Captain America movie strongly suggested that character was going to be used again.

But I also see Steve Rogers as a Winter Soldier as well. I posted about it before the movie came out here in the States


This post has been edited by SubRosa: Aug 20 2014, 04:33 PM

Well, we saw in Avengers Assemble that Cap was suspicious of Fury, but there's an extra element in play. Unfortunately I had that part indirectly spoiled for me, which took the edge off it.

But I don't really recall seeing anything in the film that suggested why the Winter Soldier was called that, when it does seem to fit Captain America better, based on what you posted.


On an entirely different note, I had to laugh when I saw they'd thrown in a reference to Pulp Fiction

This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Aug 20 2014, 04:55 PM

The Winter Soldier is actually from the comics. I always figured it was a literal thing, given that in both the comics and the film that the character 'died' in any icy / winter situation.

That would only work if they knew who he was. And in the film at least, they didn't until long after he'd been given the name.

Frankly, there are a couple of plotholes you could fit a helicarrier through in the film.

They have witches too which are pretty ridiculous. They seriously butcher everything.

If vampires hadn't become such of a fad.... Stephanie Meyer. It is her fault. Bram Stoker is twitching in his grave right now.

I just started watching Low Winter Sun. This is Detroit through and through. Not just filmed here, but they did their homework on local life. One member of the Greektown crew of hoods remarks on how six months ago they were scrapping copper and getting hand jobs after the Dream Cruise. Only someone from Detroit would know about scavengers, or the Dream Cruise. Though I suspect people in other cities know about hand jobs...

Watched Underworld: Awakening.

Not bad. Not great, but not bad.

At least it's better than the others that followd the first Underworld film...

They are rebooting Underworld. It was confirmed a few days ago.

Doesn't a movie have to be a classic for it to be rebooted?

Underworld Awakening= Meh. Worst of the series. I think Rise of the Lycans was best but maybe its because I like the medieval settings.