All Things Video Thread (Movie or TV)

A sample of perseverance: Brad Dourif

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000374/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t

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Mrs. BEvans I just watched After Life on Netflix. Ricky Gervais is a newspaper writer who just lost his wife to cancer and his Dad has Alzheimer's. And it's a comedy--a dark comedy, one that's very dark in some places, but still a comedy and ultimately very sweet. The first 2 seasons are 12 episodes or so. Very good IMHO.

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Have you watched Outer Banks on NF? Wife asked me about it yesterday, she had heard it wasn’t bad?


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Have you watched Outer Banks on NF? Wife asked me about it yesterday, she had heard it wasn’t bad?


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Its "not bad". Is not great but watchable

Midway (2019) is on HBO this weekend.


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Just heard recently that Robert Plant and Allison Krauss will be working together again soon. I think it's been over a decade since the last time.

Rewatched the John Adams miniseries this weekend. Becoming an annual tradition for me. Exceptional watching.

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Midway (2019) is on HBO this weekend.


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Great movie!

Just started Outlander and Im really enjoying it through two (long) episodes.

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Just started Outlander and Im really enjoying it through two (long) episodes.

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Mrs. BEvans read the books and wanted to watch the show. I resisted but I've enjoyed the last couple of seasons.

I started binge watching The Good Wife a couple of months ago. I thought it was really good until a main character died. Since then, it has been meh. Contemplating abandoning it in Season 6 before finishing (7 seasons).

I hate to not finish, but I also hate to waste my time too. I may start The Good Fight next.

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I started binge watching The Good Wife a couple of months ago. I thought it was really good until a main character died. Since then, it has been meh. Contemplating abandoning it in Season 6 before finishing (7 seasons).

I hate to not finish, but I also hate to waste my time too. I may start The Good Fight next.

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I was like that early on with Dexter. It took a bad turn when his girlfriend died IMO, was OK for a while after that, then started shark jumping.

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I started binge watching The Good Wife a couple of months ago. I thought it was really good until a main character died. Since then, it has been meh. Contemplating abandoning it in Season 6 before finishing (7 seasons).

I hate to not finish, but I also hate to waste my time too. I may start The Good Fight next.

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As someone who watched the last 2 seasons of How I Met Your Mother out of a mixed sense of hate (of how they'd screwed up the show) and commitment (I'd put in all this time, i wanted to see it through), my advice is to bail out now.

(But I hear good things about The Good Fight.)

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As someone who watched the last 2 seasons of How I Met Your Mother out of a mixed sense of hate (of how they'd screwed up the show) and commitment (I'd put in all this time, i wanted to see it through), my advice is to bail out now.

(But I hear good things about The Good Fight.)

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Which is why I won't sit through new Star Trek, or a fair amount of Star Wars, or Dr. Who, or a host of other things, I get it.

After watching Bloodline and Ozark, are there any other similar recommendations for Netflix?


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Batching it until Friday so this weekend I was watching things that don't fit into the Venn diagram intersection of what I like and what Mrs. BEvans likes:

--Crimson Tide: hadn't seen it in years and I'd forgotten what a fun suspense movie it is with great acting--Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington (he looked really young!), Viggo Mortensen, James Gandolfini, even a young Steve Zahn. For the first time I saw it from the CO's (Gene Hackman's) point of view. I know it's set in a post-Cold War period, but this movie and Hunt For Red October are the 2 great Cold War sub movies, IMHO.

--Ken Burns Baseball documentary: I miss sports, and I miss the way baseball used to be.

--The Right Stuff: "Sir...is that a man?" "Yeah, you're damn right it is!" Gets me every time.

--They Shall Not Grow Old, a WWI documentary on HBO. Peter Jackson takes old footage, applies a combination of colorization, CGI and overdubbing and puts you right there in the trenches. It's hard to describe but absolutely memorable.

Saw this on Mental Floss: in "honor" of Harrison Ford's birthday, here are some notable movies he turned down:

--Alien (eventually went to Tom Skerritt)

--Terms of Endearment (the role eventually went to Jack Nicholson)

--Big (eventually went to Tom Hanks)

--Die Hard (also turned down by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds, Richard Gere and Don Johnson, eventually went to Bruce Willis)

--Who Framed Roger Rabbit (also turned down by Bill Murray, eventually went to Bob Hoskins)

--Ghost (eventually went to Patrick Swayze)

--Hunt For Red October (eventually went to Alec Baldwin)

--Misery (also turned down by William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Michael Douglas, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Richard Dreyfuss, Gene Hackman and Warren Beatty, eventually went to James Caan)

--Cape Fear (eventually went to Nick Nolte)

--JFK (eventually went to Kevin Costner)

--Jurassic Park (eventually went to Sam Neill)

--Runaway Bride (also turned down by Mel Gibson, Michael Douglas and Ben Affleck before going to Richard Gere)

--The Patriot (went to Mel Gibson)

--The Perfect Storm (also turned down by Mel Gibson, eventually went to George Clooney)

Any scoop on a new series on AMC, Brockmire?


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ESPN airing the Eagles Live At The Forum again tonight at 9:00 est... Vince Gill and Glen Frys son join the band... it’s really worth a watch if you’re a Eagles fan. Or if you like music, that band is tight.


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Just finished season 2 of Hanna on prime really enjoyed the first 2 seasons.

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ESPN airing the Eagles Live At The Forum again tonight at 9:00 est... Vince Gill and Glen Frys son join the band... it’s really worth a watch if you’re a Eagles fan. Or if you like music, that band is tight.


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Don't know if you've had a chance to see "History of the Eagles"--if not, it's definitely worth a watch. An excellent documentary told by the band members themselves--heavy on Frey and Henley's recollection, but also the others. It's been on the various streaming services over the years, but not sure if it's on streaming now.

99% of my "TV" watching is with my DroidTV app. I can cast it from my phone to TV, but I generally just watch it on my phone. It's great--you download the programs you want to watch, can put some on a "virtual DVR," etc., but there is no buffering (since they are downloaded to your phone already when you watch) and no commercials.

Anyway, yesterday was a great example of why I have it there. I was on my way back from Huntsville in the middle of nowhere and a massive thunderstorm, blinding rain hit where you couldn't see 20 feet ahead of you. I pulled off (fortunately an exist was immediately ahead) into a vacant parking lot. And sat and watched a TV show on my phone until it passed.

Anyway, I've been picking up some older shows during the summer. One of my favorite shows is Blacklist (previously discussed), and I love James Spader. Well, I found out that he starred in the show "Boston Legal." You guys have to remember--for many years, I didn't watch television. I mean, except for sporting events or something, I just didn't watch TV shows or series. So I missed out on a bunch of things like it. Anyway, I started watching it.

Now somebody told me today that Boston Legal is a spinoff of another show, "The Practice," which also had James Spader in it. I have many years worth of episodes now to watch that I will enjoy!

Related note--I started binge watching "The Good Wife" about a month ago, and took me about a month to get through all of the episodes. When they killed off a main character, the show jumped the shark for me. I almost didn't watch the last two years, but I struggled through anyway. I understand there's a spinoff of that one called "The Good Fight" with Christine Baranski in it, and I enjoy her acting, so I'll probably pick that up next.

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Don't know if you've had a chance to see "History of the Eagles"--if not, it's definitely worth a watch. An excellent documentary told by the band members themselves--heavy on Frey and Henley's recollection, but also the others. It's been on the various streaming services over the years, but not sure if it's on streaming now.

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Thanks, I’ll look for it.


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40th anniversary of Caddyshack today--and I suddenly feel very old.

https://twitter.com/OldSchool80s/sta...18532031561728

Cloris Leachman is 96 years old and has 4 movies/TV in production. Amazing!

Mrs. BEvans and I just finished watching "World Without End," a miniseries based on the Ken Follett book set in medieval England. (If it's an English period piece, there's a good chance Mrs. BEvans is in, which means I'm in, even if I'm reading KSR while watching).

Anyway, there's a sub-plot about the Bubonic Plague coming to the English town. The nuns/nurses protect themselves by wearing masks. Many in the town scoffed at the idea and refused to wear them. Most of them got it, and most of those who got it died.

I have no idea whether mask-wearing was actually effective against the Plague, but we both looked at each other when the mask-wearing was mentioned, in light of current events.

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Mrs. BEvans and I just finished watching "World Without End," a miniseries based on the Ken Follett book set in medieval England. (If it's an English period piece, there's a good chance Mrs. BEvans is in, which means I'm in, even if I'm reading KSR while watching).

Anyway, there's a sub-plot about the Bubonic Plague coming to the English town. The nuns/nurses protect themselves by wearing masks. Many in the town scoffed at the idea and refused to wear them. Most of them got it, and most of those who got it died.

I have no idea whether mask-wearing was actually effective against the Plague, but we both looked at each other when the mask-wearing was mentioned, in light of current events.

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Network?


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Network?


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Starz

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Starz

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Thanks, found it. I figure I’ll pass it along to Mrs boss


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^It's a fun watch. I probably made it sound like I didn't like it, but I did. There's sex, violence, plotting, corruption, war--you know, all the hits. :evilgrin0007:

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^It's a fun watch. I probably made it sound like I didn't like it, but I did. There's sex, violence, plotting, corruption, war--you know, all the hits. :evilgrin0007:

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Sex and violence was enough, thanks. :)

Good Old Guy (and Gal) movie now on Amazon Prime video: RED, with Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Ernest Borgnine, Brian Cox et al.

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

We just finished Anne with an E. Just a nice (extended) mini series with some fine acting. The girl is a regular Judy Garland/Shirley temple clone. I highly recommend one watches this if they like family type shows. And the Anne of Green Gables story

Watching The Crown currently and digging it too.

Started watching Dark on Netflix, just finished season10 of shameless.
Dark has started out pretty good.

For those who have a Roku, Barney Miller is now on the Roku Channel.

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Started watching Dark on Netflix, just finished season10 of shameless.
Dark has started out pretty good.

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Ive tried for two months to get finished with the second episode. Something about it fails for me i dont have a clue where its going but somehow the writers manage to put me in an instant state of depression. I dont do well when getting over the hump is grueling.

German shows are like asking for water in Das Restaurant. Something about it I just dont understand.

Instead of get it yourself in the badezimmer, it's go figure the plot out yourself

Somebody posted a 1080 version of On The Beach on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXnRHxI9Lvg&t=4731s

Hadn't seen it in years. When I think of "scary movies," this is what I think of.

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Don't know if you've had a chance to see "History of the Eagles"--if not, it's definitely worth a watch. An excellent documentary told by the band members themselves--heavy on Frey and Henley's recollection, but also the others. It's been on the various streaming services over the years, but not sure if it's on streaming now.

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It's a nice piece of work. I think blu-ray has it on disk if you want to watch it occasionally.

Mrs. BEvans and I watched "The Way" over the weekend. A father (Martin Sheen) estranged from his son (Emilio Estevez) decides to walk the Camino de Santiago after his son dies in a storm during his attempt to walk it. He runs into a lot of fellow pilgrims and learns something about himself and his relationship with his son along the way. We really enjoyed it.

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Really? You haven't seen it?" Movie?

Ok, I'll play...

Any of the Godfather movies
Chinatown
Lord of the Rings
Any Mad Max movie

I'm sure I have a ton more that most people have seen, but those are off the top of my head.

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Dude...:confused0024:

Any Classic Vinyl music fans here? It's available on SiriusXM online and some cars come with it.