The TV you like thread - The Bear and Badger

Yossarian

Blocks100 wrote:

a load of cameramen, accountants and other assorted losers on board.

What you saying about our G?

pantyfire

Blocks100 wrote:

Nobody watch Mutiny last night? Sorta like Bear Grylls meets Cast Away. Re-enacting the 4000 mile sea voyage of Captain Bligh, but with a load of cameramen, accountants and other assorted losers on board. It's got that 'man's man' in it, the one who did the SAS survival training TV show. Tit of the show was unfortunately the resident Scouser who insisted upon sulking when told to forage for firewood. Tonight's episode is back to ' killing wild animals to stay alive on a desert island', if that sort of thing floats yer boat.

I liked it. It's on again tonight?
Scouser was a complete prick on that island.

Gremill

Yeah, it was alright. I like SBS man Ant and the rest of them seem alright - with the exception of that Scouser. What a prick - "Adventurer is literally my job title". Is it fuck - you live on a fucking boat in a canal, that doesn't make you Ranulph Fiennes you absolute tit-rifle.

g.man

Hahahaha

Bob

So re-re-booted top gear was a decent watch.

Facewon

Facewon wrote:

Just started Norwegian/French/Netflix co-production called Occupied. Well worth a gander. 2 eps in. Drama/political/futurism. Really well written so far, and has managed to nail a premise that could be easily ridiculous and ott.

Could still go tits up, but so far so good. Highly recommended.

4 eps in. Shark jumping not likely now. Getting great. Well worth a look.

Blocks100

Really looking forward to the return of this next week!

Matt_82

Looks like he's wearing a lot more eye liner than previously.

Dan

Blocks100 wrote:

Really looking forward to the return of this next week!

Nice!

I imagine who ever said the Taboo finale was epic hasn't watched black sails.

Seriously over rated, monotonous show.

The Last Kingdom on the other hand looks great!

Kow

Taboo was the best show I've seen in ages.

Matt_82

Watching mutiny now. Enjoying it. Can only be bothered with ant when he's shouting at Chris, mind you.

Jaco

The new Lethal Weapon TV series is terrible. It's terrible. How do you get Lethal Weapon wrong?

Oh, I know how, you hire entirely the wrong actors.

Diluted Dante

Jaco wrote:

The new Lethal Weapon TV series is terrible. It's terrible. How do you get Lethal Weapon wrong? Oh, I know how, you hire entirely the wrong actors.

Jaco

The horror.

Facewon

YouTube properly entering the TV sub game soon.

Not cheap, but interesting. Missing some big hitters (hbo, showtime), but the infrastructure is there for them to really put pressure on other providers. If they get aggressive with trying to get some more big names on board and with price they could kill it.

Dark Soldier

Sometimes I forget how Always Sunny is basically the greatest TV show of all time.

Then I remember the implication.

[Deleted User]

Jaco wrote:

The new Lethal Weapon TV series is terrible. It's terrible. How do you get Lethal Weapon wrong? Oh, I know how, you hire entirely the wrong actors.

I haven't seen the TV programme, but having the wrong actors is only a very small part of the problem. The three sequels had the same stars and the same director as the original film and they're an absolute disgrace.

Blocks100

Nowt wrong with 2 and 3. 4 was a stinker though

[Deleted User]

As a film in its own standing, 2 is an okay film. As a sequel to the original, it's really poor.

Jaco

LW2 is perfectly fine. 3 is a lesser thing, although wins points for the line: "Rog, I'm gonna suck his eyes out through his nose". As far as I'm concerned, 4 doesn't exist.

LW is an almost perfect action flick, up there with Die Hard, but both films are put on too high a pedestal. They're big, daft, dumb and fun; but that's all they are.

RamSteelwood

I like the LW sequels, 3 is great fun. The thing is though they're different beasts, much more comedy capers. I went back and watched the first recently and was caught by how much it's a darker more straight action movie...apparently originally it was meant to be darker still.
The TV pilot didn't really work, though i didn't find it that terrible...but then again i watched after a night in the pub so was half-cut.

Unlikely

In Shane Black's original draft Rigg's died at the end so yeah, darker.

LW remains one of my favourite films, primarily because of the age I was when it came out. I have seen it more times than almost any other film (possibly apart from Best of the Best. TOMMY, NOOO NOOO).

Unlikely

Dark Soldier wrote:

Sometimes I forget how Always Sunny is basically the greatest TV show of all time. Then I remember the implication.

Yeah I'm a full on rapist. Kids, animals, the disabled.

I_R

Aye, first Lethal Weapon is actually a thriller rather than an action film. Somehow that led to everyone making action films instead of thrillers. Stakeout did better at the box office as well, it was more of a critical and home video sensation.

[Deleted User]

So now there is a movie based on Chips (the motorbike cop TV show, not delicious potato).

I guess the rule now is if you can't reboot a TV show make it a movie, and vice versa.

[Deleted User]

The darker stuff is why the sequels suck. First film opens with a drug fuelled suicide, and as somebody else said, it's an action film with some funny lines, rather than a comedy. Riggs is genuinely psychotic and suicidal, and a bit dangerous. By film two, "Ooh, he's a bit kooky, isn't he? Isn't it funny to have a kooky cop? lol."

[Deleted User]

Andy wrote:

The darker stuff is why the sequels suck. First film opens with a drug fuelled suicide, and as somebody else said, it's an action film with some funny lines, rather than a comedy. Riggs is genuinely psychotic and suicidal, and a bit dangerous. By film two, "Ooh, he's a bit kooky, isn't he? Isn't it funny to have a kooky cop? lol."

Rambo followed a different, yet similar, trajectory. Going back to the first Rambo it's startling how slow and bleak it is. After that...jesus.

g.man

Aye, First Blood was a great film.

Paul the sparky

Rocky can go in that boat too.

g.man

Aye.

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