smuts wrote:The scenes of the English and the captured German POW's laughing and joking together and helping each other out carrying stretchers, swapping hats, etc really hit home what a senseless waste of millions of lives it was on both sides.
Especially when we'd do it all again, just 21 years later, only bigger & even worse.
How lucky for all of us, just by chance to have been born much later..& how unlucky for all them..
Been a bit unwell over the weekend , some virus going around I guess , sore throat , achey and extremely tired - It'll pass .
In the meantime I just sat in my chair taking in a lot of television . You may notice the theme .
The Old Man of Storr wrote:Been a bit unwell over the weekend , some virus going around I guess , sore throat , achey and extremely tired - It'll pass . Saving Private Ryan .
Make sure it's not 'Shaving Ryan's Privates', TOMoS!
Hope you feel better soon.
If you didn’t see ‘They Shall not Grow Old’ you should put that right. Incredible television. Sparse and full of life, as well as death at the same time. Never seen that war brought home to us to such a degree.
DaveWHU1964 wrote:If you didn’t see ‘They Shall not Grow Old’ you should put that right. Incredible television. Sparse and full of life, as well as death at the same time. Never seen that war brought home to us to such a degree.
There were so many little moments to it. The comment that, after they were enlisted, soldiers were drilled to march amongst the public, and that they almost always ended up marching back to Chelsea Barracks with a further collection of civvies behind them has really stuck with me....especially when it is contrasted with the footage of one set of fresh men arriving close to the front, to be 'greeted' by those who are coming back to safety from it.
That could have been left silent, really. The expressions on the faces said it all.
Caught up with episodes 4 and 5 to set things up for this week's finale. This is seriously good and has Paddy Considine on top form with a startling good performance from Nabhaan Rizwan as the Informer Raza .
All 6 episodes are available on iPlayer so I'm not sure if I can wait till Tuesday and might just fast forward to iPlayer to see how it all pans out.
Going through "The Pacific" - I gave this a hard time, well sort of hard time when I first saw it due in main comparing it the almost perfect B of B. The Pacific is quite brilliant in its own right, it is not as good as B of B, and it got me thinking why.
The only reason I can come up with is the actors playing the lead characters did not bring you in as close as they did in B of B. Perhaps writing, screen time maybe, class of actor maybe as B of B was littered with faces.
I am though thoroughly enjoying The Pacific on its own merits this time around.
Clacton-ammer wrote:Going through "The Pacific" - I gave this a hard time, well sort of hard time when I first saw it due in main comparing it the almost perfect B of B. The Pacific is quite brilliant in its own right, it is not as good as B of B, and it got me thinking why.
The only reason I can come up with is the actors playing the lead characters did not bring you in as close as they did in B of B. Perhaps writing, screen time maybe, class of actor maybe as B of B was littered with faces.
I am though thoroughly enjoying The Pacific on its own merits this time around.
If you enjoyed that, I'd recommend you read the book "Helmet For My Pillow" by Robert Leckie. It's one of the books The Pacific was based on. Really riveting read - I think I read it in two days.
Caught up with episodes 4 and 5 to set things up for this week's finale. This is seriously good and has Paddy Considine on top form with a startling good performance from Nabhaan Rizwan as the Informer Raza .
All 6 episodes are available on iPlayer so I'm not sure if I can wait till Tuesday and might just fast forward to iPlayer to see how it all pans out.
I watched episode 5 last night. Really enjoyed it thus far. Will be finishing it off tonight after work.
Very kind of you , it's nothing too serious , the thing is I take such strong pain killers every day anyway so I'm not feeling too bad , just achy and unusually tired , one of Dan's lecturers has been off for two weeks with flu so something's doing the rounds . I've been indoors for 3 days now and the weather apart from today has been glorious .
Trapped [ BBC Alba ] - Icelandic thriller - Excellent 10/10
Dark Heart [ ITV ] - Detective drama - very good - 8/10
Frasier - downloads off Sky Q [ cheers Cuenca , I've been enjoying them and they haven't aged one bit ] .
Friends - been watching a few episodes as they never fail to cheer me up .
Monkey Mike wrote:
I watched episode 5 last night. Really enjoyed it thus far. Will be finishing it off tonight after work.
Watched final episode of Informer last night. Didn't see that coming! Brilliant conclusion to a fantastic drama that got better and better with each episode and had two big performances from Paddy Considine, who always delivers, and from newcomer Nabhaan Rizwan.
Thoroughly recommend this if not seen yet, all 6 episodes on BBC iPlayer.
Harry Potter prequel. Pretty enjoyable as it happens. I'm not really a big HP fan, but I quite liked this. We'll be trying to see the sequel next week.
I'm a celebrity......
Not a bad crowd this year, even :arry: and John Barrowman appear bearable so far.
Clacton-ammer wrote:Dark Heart - new old bill series on ITV - It's no Luther, but it's ok.
If you close your eyes you'd swear that Tom Riley who plays DI Will Wagstaffe or Staffe as he's known is that fella off of Sherlock , Andrew Scott who plays Jim Moriarty .
Had to look twice to see it wasn't him .
I know not of this Sherlock actor you talk of TOMOS, sorry old chap.
So seen the first two episodes, looks like a new story starting for the next one, I think I have 4 left, worth giving the rest a go? I am a bit "it's ok", but not grabbed me by the short n curlies.
Dark Heart is a British television crime drama series, based on the Will Wagstaffe novels by writer Adam Creed, that first broadcast on 9 November 2016.[1] The series stars Tom Riley as DI Will Wagstaffe, a police detective haunted by the unsolved double murder of his parents when he was just sixteen years old.[2] A single feature-length pilot, based on the novel Suffer the Children, was written by Chris Lang and directed by Colin Teague. It first broadcast on ITV Encore on 9 November 2016.[3] The initial pilot co-stars Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Tom Brooke, Anjli Mohindra, Charlotte Riley and Miranda Raison.
Following strong audience reception, a series of six hour-long episodes was commissioned in December 2017, with filming taking place in Spring 2018. The series consists of four newly-written episodes alongside the pilot, which has been re-edited, with some scenes re-shot, to form the first two episodes of the series.[4] Lang returned to pen the four new episodes; including two which were co-written by Ben Harris. Teague returned as director.
thought the name rang a bell....I am pretty sure that I have seen the original "pilot" thingy.....
prophet:marginal wrote:Watched the curious end to Making A Murderer Series 2.
Anyone else watched this series?
S-H wrote:Yes!
I know the show is very one sided, but I'm convinced that Avery didn't do it!
And WTF is going on with Brendans brother, dude? Even if he wasn't involved, why is he not behind bars?
:shock:
I love Steven Avery's new lawyer. Got this Southern drawl of a voice and rarely seems to even crack a smile, but the lengths she is going to show he didn't do it are incredible! I was skeptical at first, because some of her theories seem so incredible, but she's nailed them on the hood latch DNA; all the evidence, when set side by side suggests that this was definitely taken from one place and planted in another.
As for Bobby Dassey, I know half or more of the world doesn't want its browsing history publicised, but his?!! My word, what a wrong'un!