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What films/TV shows are you watching? *see mod warning, post #3*

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    #1862
    Namlub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭Namlub


    ^Ahaha, that was so ridiculous

    Also I watched The Cove last night, it's about Japanese fishermen killing dolphins, like they literally turned the sea red. THE SADNESS. Watch it.


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    #1863
    Mollikins
    Registered Users Posts: 600 ✭✭✭Mollikins


    I watched The Invasion yesterday. Twas pretty good. The boy who plays Nicole Kidman's son in it is sooo cute. :o

    Watched The Way Back last week. I thought it was brilliant. Wish I had gone to see it in the cinema when it first came out because I'd say the scenery was fantastic on the big screen. :)

    Also I saw The Simpsons episode from the new series on Sky earlier. Gotta love The Simpsons sure. :D


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    #1864
    oneshotfinch
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭oneshotfinch


    I found a boxset of all the Lost episodes for 80 euros. Good stuff.


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    #1865
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    Smartly Dressed wrote: »
    Just watched The Shawshank Redemption for the first time.

    I couldn't decide whether or not it's the best movie I've ever seen. Then I asked myself the question, 'if you had to recommend one film to someone, what would it be?' It was then I understood how much of a masterpiece it is.

    I still have not seen that film!

    Saw The Wizard of Oz the other night. Or bits of it, anyway. It's awful. I'm glad I never saw it as a child because it really is cringeworthingly bad.

    Parents currently watching The Cider House Rules. I'm half-following it but it seems a bit dull tbh.


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    #1866
    jefreywithonef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭jefreywithonef


    Watched a couple of German films in the last couple of days after scouring Roger Ebert's top 250 films list. First one was Wings of Desire, definitely the most poetic film I've seen. It's about an angel (Bruno Ganz, who played Hitler in Downfall) who watches over Berlin but grows weary of being immortal after falling in love with someone so decides to become a human and seek her out. Cinematography is amazing in it and it also boasts Nick Cave and Columbo.

    Aguirre: Wrath of God. Another really good film. It follows a Spanish expedition seeking for the mythical El Dorado. Not much of a plot other than that one member mutinies, becomes crazy and perseveres despite being targeted by the local tribes. It's a bit like Southern Comfort / Deliverance, only much darker. Next films on the list are Adventureland and Amelie. :)


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    #1867
    Slow Show
    Registered Users Posts: 4,248 ✭✭✭Slow Show


    So I've been watching Band of Brothers. I got the DVD boxset ages ago, watched the first episode which I found good but not really living up to the hype and I forgot about it. But then I got Easter holidays and boredom + unwatched DVD boxset = win, so I moved onto episode two....wow.

    Best series ever. I'm not quite finished yet, nearly there but it's just so engrossing and interesting and just brilliant in so many ways. I'm definitely gonna have to watch The Pacific during summer, I've heard it isn't quite as good but if it's even on the same wavelength.../may be slightly obsessed and have spent hours looking up the most intricate details of what I've seen. WHY am I not doing LC History? :(


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    #1868
    upandcumming
    Registered Users Posts: 2,718 ✭✭✭upandcumming


    Watched a French film Angel-a there during the week.
    Very good.


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    #1869
    illiop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 682 ✭✭✭illiop


    I watch "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" the other day. It was really, really good. Kinda weird at the start where it's all from his point of view but I guess it had more meaning that way. Also I watched it dubbed into Spanish; I hate dubbed films.


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    #1870
    Lawliet
    Registered Users Posts: 2,761 ✭✭✭Lawliet


    Doctor Who is back! :D


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    #1871
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,380 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    I just watched Raging Bull. Absolutely brilliant film.


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    #1872
    soccymonster
    Registered Users Posts: 9,553 ✭✭✭soccymonster


    War Of The Buttons, what a movie :)

    And anyone see Fair City last night? It was so funny but so shocking at the same time.
    They threw a tea towel over her head!!! :pac:


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    #1873
    Slow Show
    Registered Users Posts: 4,248 ✭✭✭Slow Show


    soccymonster wrote: »
    War Of The Buttons, what a movie :)

    And anyone see Fair City last night? It was so funny but so shocking at the same time.
    They threw a tea towel over her head!!! :pac:

    Ahahahaha, 'she's not dead, she's concussed' and she's just there not moving with her eyes wide open. Poor Barry.

    The Wind That Shakes the Barley on TV3 in a few minutes. Cillian Murphy om nom nom...


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    #1874
    HxGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 767 ✭✭✭HxGH


    Got back into That 70s Show :)


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    #1875
    Namlub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭Namlub


    Found loads of full Disney movies on youtube (cos I'm 7), Mulan is amazing. Best songs ever and the I still kind of find the Huns scary.
    "Would you like to stay for dinner?"
    "Would you like to stay forever?"


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    #1876
    Seren_
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    illiop wrote: »
    I watch "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" the other day. It was really, really good. Kinda weird at the start where it's all from his point of view but I guess it had more meaning that way. Also I watched it dubbed into Spanish; I hate dubbed films.
    Love that movie! The book is amazing too.


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    #1877
    oneshotfinch
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭oneshotfinch


    Namlub wrote: »
    Found loads of full Disney movies on youtube (cos I'm 7), Mulan is amazing. Best songs ever and the I still kind of find the Huns scary.
    "Would you like to stay for dinner?"
    "Would you like to stay forever?"

    You're NEVER too old for Disney.


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    #1878
    Arcade Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Arcade Panda


    Your Text Here wrote: »
    Love that movie! The book is amazing too.

    "Mithra-Grandchamp is the women we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses"

    Love that book.


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    #1879
    MavisDavis
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    The Ring. Seven days. LOL.


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    #1880
    red_red_wine
    Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭red_red_wine


    I haven't read through the entire thread, so I don't know if it's already been mentioned, but I've been engaging in a year long love affair with The West Wing.

    If there were ever a programme you'll get addicted to, it's this (but I tell myself it's ok, because it's borderline educational!)

    If you don't know much about US politics (which I didn't, a year ago) you'll learn quite a bit. Obviously, it's fiction, but the partisan dynamics seem fairly realistic, now that I've become a bit less ignorant to the US politics of the real world.

    If you want eye-candy, there's plenty of that too :p


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    #1881
    HxGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 767 ✭✭✭HxGH


    Been ordered to watch Dr.Who? Maybe after the LC...


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    #1882
    jefreywithonef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭jefreywithonef


    Watched Requiem For A Dream yesterday. Fantastic film about drug addiction, by far the most evocative thing I've ever watched judging by the amount of times I grimaced during it (and it takes a lot for me to get squeamish).

    Also watched Amélie the other day. Good, very good, but didn't live up to what I was expecting. Maybe it was because of my tired, cranky mood, but by the end I was just bemused by her tomfoolery.

    Oh and Adventureland. Great film. The girl from Twilight is in it, and she can act!

    Also finished all four seasons of Mad Men in just a month. Class/poetic/amazing/masterful/engrossing. Have to say, my month-long obsession with it and the lack of forthcoming episodes (til 2012 at least) has made it leave a noticeable void in my life. :(

    (Probably should stop watching stuff and instead concentrate on cramming a whole module's worth of stuff that I know preciously little about. :()


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    #1883
    Papa_Lazarou
    Registered Users Posts: 1,863 ✭✭✭Papa_Lazarou


    Watched all 3 hours and 25 mins of the uncut version of Das Boot earlier.


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    #1884
    upandcumming
    Registered Users Posts: 2,718 ✭✭✭upandcumming


    red_red_wine wrote: »
    I haven't read through the entire thread, so I don't know if it's already been mentioned, but I've been engaging in a year long love affair with The West Wing.

    If there were ever a programme you'll get addicted to, it's this (but I tell myself it's ok, because it's borderline educational!)

    If you don't know much about US politics (which I didn't, a year ago) you'll learn quite a bit. Obviously, it's fiction, but the partisan dynamics seem fairly realistic, now that I've become a bit less ignorant to the US politics of the real world.

    If you want eye-candy, there's plenty of that too :p
    I didn't like it because they didn't go in-depth enough into possibly brilliant story-lines.


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    #1885
    Arcade Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Arcade Panda


    90210 ..... it's actually brilliant!

    I'm loving the Max/Naomi storyline :)


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    #1886
    QueenOfLeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,109 ✭✭✭QueenOfLeon


    jefreywithonef wrote: »

    Also watched Amélie the other day. Good, very good, but didn't live up to what I was expecting. Maybe it was because of my tired, cranky mood, but by the end I was just bemused by her tomfoolery.

    Watched that in TY, don't think it lived up to the hype at all. She was annoying and it was boring as far as I remember :P


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    #1887
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,890 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    I liked Amélie... :(


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    #1888
    Slow Show
    Registered Users Posts: 4,248 ✭✭✭Slow Show


    I watched thirty minutes of Amelie and got bored. Tale for another day I guess...


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    #1889
    jefreywithonef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭jefreywithonef


    It's very funny in places (the orgasm scene(s) in particular) but I just found the love story to be totally contrived and silly. Still liked it, mind.


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    #1890
    suitcasepink
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,849 Mod ✭✭✭✭suitcasepink


    We'd to watch that on French day, all the TYs with english subtitles

    By god we hated it... :pac:


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    #1891
    Slow Show
    Registered Users Posts: 4,248 ✭✭✭Slow Show


    Yes, I am a year late to the party (although in my defence I've had it downloaded since before Christmas) but wow, Inception is probably the best movie I've ever seen. Also, something is seriously wrong with me but I kinda teared up at the end. I don't cry at films, ever. I'm also rather proud of myself that it didn't confuse me that much. :pac:


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