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Post by Gareth on Dec 5, 2011 8:32:57 GMT
BLOODY HELL! I just watched the first episode of Black Mirror on Channel 4. Written by Charlie Brooker. 2 more episodes to go, but they are all individual stories, and Brooker sights The Twilight Zone as some form of inspiration for the ideas. Epsiode one: The National Anthem. Holy heck! I don't think I've ever sat through anything like that before. Totally gripping, engaging, gut-wrenching, horrendous and thought provoking. I'm not going to describe the story at all, just go and watch it on 4OD. Just be warned that it is quite sick.... but not in any visual sense, just in its ideas. I put it on at about 1.30am thinking, "I'll just watch the first 10 minutes and see what it is like". ... but no chance! Just totally gripped and shocked after the main revelation is made in the first five minutes. You will definitely be thinking "WHAT THE F**K? Did I hear that correctly". haha I thought it will surely play out as a comedy from there on in, but no, it's played as a fully straight drama, making the sick idea feel all the more horrendous and real. Definitely worth a watch if you don't mind a sick idea or two! it was amazing wasn't it! wasn't really expecting anything near that! can't wait to see the others!!! |
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Post by Bill Edwards on Dec 5, 2011 19:42:22 GMT
Blimey. I must've been watching something else. I thought it was a bit flat. HA! FLAT! Thank you, I'm here all week.
No but seriously, I thought it lacked something or wasn't as venomous as I was expecting. It all seemed a bit at a school boy sniggery level to me. Well acted but a bit glib and plot holey.
On reflection, I will be watching the next one though. ON REFLECTION! You've been great... ;D
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Post by Dave on Dec 5, 2011 22:52:44 GMT
Blimey. I must've been watching something else. I thought it was a bit flat. HA! FLAT! Thank you, I'm here all week. No but seriously, I thought it lacked something or wasn't as venomous as I was expecting. It all seemed a bit at a school boy sniggery level to me. Well acted but a bit glib and plot holey. On reflection, I will be watching the next one though. ON REFLECTION! You've been great... ;D **BLACK MIRROR very mild SPOILERS** I see what you mean, but I was somehow totally gripped by it.. probably because I had no idea what the programme was all about. The school-boyish sniggering aspect I'm not quite so sure on. I liked how this most ludicrous of scenarios was played totally straight... horribly straight! Worst bits I thought were the punters in the pub and the hospital staff watching events. Shoddy acting all round in the hospital especially. I didn't really accept the fact that the streets pretty much emptied to watch what was going on on TV. I certainly wouldn't have watched. oh.. here's a trailer for the second Black Mirror story: Amusingly starts after the X-Factor final finishes on ITV (as the trailer mentions) |
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Post by Bill Edwards on Dec 10, 2011 18:33:55 GMT
It's your fault, Dave, that I even know about Charlie Brooker. I'd never heard of him until joining this forum. And I can't thank you enough. He's brilliant and, along with David Mitchell, talks a lot of sense which cuts straight through the bullshit. I think I was expecting something like In The Thick Of It rather than a dramatised Viz cartoon. Sorry Charlton.  I feel I could die and go to heaven with Charlie Brooker sometimes... Black Mirror: 15 Million MeritsThat was more like it Mr Brooker! Loads of great ideas rather than just one headline grabbing one. Very dark and fucked up. Brilliantly written, performed and designed too. The 'Charlie Brooker' gag was very funny. No hope for no one. Nice. Looking forward to next week's ep. Toby Kebbell's in it! |
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Post by jill on Jan 3, 2012 10:49:44 GMT
Did anybody catch Moonwalk One on Discovery a couple of nights back? I only saw half an hour of it (nodded off-tired, not bored), but some bits I did catch were amazing. It's a documentary of the Apollo 11 launch, which includes footage that was captured by cameras set up only to film the launch in close up so technical faluts could be analysed, if they occured. A lot of the documentary is pretty dated-scene of people boogying in night clubs etc-but the close-up footage of the launch and the shots of bits of the rocket being jettisoned in space were fantastic. I'm not much of a tech-head, so it's possible this is old news to some people on the forum (couldn't find any clips on youtube though-not from this docco, at least). Well worth seeing, if it's repeated. The film-makers on the forum would really like it, I think.
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Post by Dave on Jan 3, 2012 20:38:43 GMT
Did anybody catch Moonwalk One on Discovery a couple of nights back? I only saw half an hour of it (nodded off-tired, not bored), but some bits I did catch were amazing. It's a documentary of the Apollo 11 launch, which includes footage that was captured by cameras set up only to film the launch in close up so technical faluts could be analysed, if they occured. A lot of the documentary is pretty dated-scene of people boogying in night clubs etc-but the close-up footage of the launch and the shots of bits of the rocket being jettisoned in space were fantastic. I'm not much of a tech-head, so it's possible this is old news to some people on the forum (couldn't find any clips on youtube though-not from this docco, at least). Well worth seeing, if it's repeated. The film-makers on the forum would really like it, I think. That does sound cool... I wonder if it is rarely scene footage or whether I may have seen it before (I've seen quite a lot things about the Apollo programmes). I wish there was a non-verbal film about all the Apollo stuff... just footage set to music without commentary or interviews. I would be transfixed I bet! |
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Post by GR on Jan 7, 2012 23:06:14 GMT
Season 2 of the sketch-comedy Portlandia started last night on the Independent Film Channel. Funny stuff ("We can pickle that!").  And Season 2 of Downton Abbey starts tomorrow night on PBS's "Masterpiece! Classic".  |
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Post by Bill Edwards on Jan 8, 2012 11:16:24 GMT
Watched all of the Royal Institution Christmas lectures the other weekend on iPlayer. All about your brain.
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Post by Dave on Jan 8, 2012 12:08:10 GMT
Watched all of the Royal Institution Christmas lectures the other weekend on iPlayer. All about your brain. My brain? Oh, how embarrassing! |
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Post by Bill Edwards on Jan 8, 2012 12:22:12 GMT
Watched all of the Royal Institution Christmas lectures the other weekend on iPlayer. All about your brain. My brain? Oh, how embarrassing! No it was really interesting. Some of the girls in the audience fainted...  |
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Post by saffy on Jan 10, 2012 21:58:01 GMT
Hollie got us season one of Breaking Bad for Xmas .. Impulsive!
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Post by jill on Jan 13, 2012 21:04:55 GMT
Really like Breaking Bad-it's a long wait for each series to come out on DVD though-just as well you've got S2 and S3 to go.
Has anybody seen this new Danish political thriller Borgen? Getting good reviews. Is it really worth watching?
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Post by Hyde on Jan 17, 2012 1:49:58 GMT
I wish there was a non-verbal film about all the Apollo stuff... just footage set to music without commentary or interviews. I would be transfixed I bet! 2001 a space odyssey just kidding, i really enjoy the crime channel just now, some brilliant stuff on there. |
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Post by jill on Jan 17, 2012 9:56:00 GMT
One of my new year's resolutions was to STOP watching the crime channel-I'd started working out the odds of one of my fellow train passenger's being a serial killer (not good). Did you see that one about the (Hungarian?) master of disguise bank robber? Would make a brilliant film Edit: Just discovered it is...from W'pedia: The story of the Ambrus has been made the subject of a book, Ballad of the Whiskey Robber (ISBN 0-316-01073-1) by Julian Rubinstein, and a Hungarian cabaret. A screenplay of the book written by Clifford Thurlow and writer-director György Dobray, went into production in 2011. Based on Ambrus' adventures, the film stars Luke Goss, Jonas Armstrong and Andrea Osvárt. The film is produced by Kornél Sipos and Bill Chamberlain with music by Mike Moran.. |
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Post by Hyde on Jan 19, 2012 1:20:52 GMT
I never seen it but I know I will at some point, ha
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