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Quote from: Ed Vette on December 02, 2022, 09:34:39 PMAdded you to the December Bdays.

thanks 👊

Happy birthday to all, mines the 8th of December so I get it lol.

Quote from: DaveBrown74 on November 29, 2022, 07:02:19 PMI have been watching the second season of "White Lotus" and have found it very entertaining. Interestingly so, because I wasn't a big fan of the first season.

I'm also very much enjoying "Yellowstone" and "Tulsa King" right now.

Tulsa King is phenomenal just wished they dropped it all at once.

Quote from: Jolly Blue Giant on November 29, 2022, 02:57:06 PMThanks for the tip on Echo 3. Right up my alley. Loved the Reacher series with Alan Ritchson (a drifter and former military policeman) that much more closely resembles character and plot of Lee Child's Reacher book series...compared to the Tom Cruise Reacher movies...which are okay, but nothing like the books. In the books, of course, Reacher is 6'6", tough as nails, and doesn't talk a lot. Hard to watch 5'5" Cruise (who talks a lot) as the Reacher I've read about for the last couple of decades. And none of the movies follow a particular story in the books. The Reacher TV series though, follows the book "The Killing Fields" very well

Curious, is there an Echo 1 and Echo 2?

I already plan on watching 1923. Loved Yellowstone, but not going to watch the last season that just came out until I can binge it. 1923 should be very interesting. For me, Yellowstone is about the story and the wild ass daughter who knows no bounds. Interestingly, there is a huge fan base that loves the show for the horses. They have brought in some of the world's best trained horses for the show that showcase their talents. Nice side show. Even I...who don't really love horses (have had three growing up) am in awe of the horses on this show. But really, it's all about John Dutton (Kevin Costner) and his nasty daughter Beth (Kelly Reilly). She had me at walking across the yard butt naked to take a bath in the horse water tank in front of all the hired hands...LOL

Been watching Stitchers on HULU. Thought it would be dumb, but I've binged the first season and half the second already after getting hooked. Unlike most shows, the girls aren't hotter than fire and the guys are nerds. Basically it's thus: a CIA unknown top secret department that has a sophisticated underground lab about an eighth mile under the surface. It's a super lab with a quantum computer and loads of high-tech machinery. The gist of the show is that when a person dies, their memory remains active for 48 hours, but the closer to the time of death, the better the memory and the longer one waits, the memory gets fuzzy then unavailable - so quickness is a given. What the secret organization does in that lab, is to take the dead body (typically a victim of murder), put it in a special glass cabinet-like vessel, then a woman (the main character Kristen - played by Emma Ishta) wears a skin like suit and lays in a tub of water and is mic'd up so she can talk to everyone while being "stitched" (living in the dead person's memory). Once the stitching begins, she takes over the dead person's memory and walks through areas that he remembers. The guy who controls the part of the memory then moves her around to different times in his or her life. She can only survive being stitched for 5 minutes, so they gather as much information as they can about what happened so they can solve a crime. Actually quite interesting

I also binged Warrior Nun, which I liked much more than I thought I would. Doesn't hurt that the main character is played by Portuguese actress, Alba Baptista. Now she is the definition of eye candy. She is not a nun and doesn't like religion or Catholicism, but got stuck in a role after she was murdered. A ring brought her back to life with super powers. I looked her up and was surprised that she is the girlfriend of Captain America and 2022 Peoples magazine, "Sexiest Man Alive" Chris Evans. All I can say is "he has good taste" LOL

This is Baptista:

No Echo 1 or 2, not sure why it's called echo 3 now other than there are 3 central characters.

Not sure if you've seen it but along the reacher/Ryan genre is " Condor "After a low-level CIA analyst returns from lunch to discover everyone in his office has been killed, he goes on the run trying to elude hit men and uncover the truth about who is behind the murders. Based on the film Three Days of the Condor". It's absolutely phenomenal as well.

I love espionage shows, military shows, and period pieces specifically solving crimes but I work for a film studio so I end up consuming a ton of content from everywhere.

Also Jack Ryan season 3 drops In a few weeks. And if you run out of stuff Epix and BBC just did a collab called Rogue Heroes about how the SAS was formed in WW2 and its a lot of fun but short with only 6 episodes.

Not sure if anyone has heard if it but Echo 3 just came out on Amazon and seems to be a blend of Jack Ryan tv show and the Reacher TV show. It's about to special operators who work together and don't really like each other as one marries the other ones sister. The sister then gets kidnapped in Columbia as a scientist and these special operators go to work.

It's a great show, they've only dropped the first 3 episodes and the rest will be weekly releases.

Also just saw the trailer for 1923 the Yellowstone prequel with Harrison Ford and it looks phenomenal.

Quote from: LennG on November 20, 2022, 12:08:01 PMOne of the best, but look who starred in it--would you expect anything else from them?

I know it's so good, I'm only 34 and I still watch it once a year. They don't make casts like that anymore!

Even the free stuff these days has actual good stuff. I was watching my girlfriends grandmother the other day and she had Tubi and Pluto TV which are free apps that have tons of free movies and TV with just 2 commercials per movie. I put on the John Wick trilogy and she was content knitting and Wicking it up!

I registered as an independent awhile back and found that instead of getting bombarded by one party constantly I started getting bombarded by both parties lol. So that might be the only downside but I live in LA.

Quote from: LennG on November 19, 2022, 06:45:07 PMSaturday afternoon is MY time to watch with my darling wife usually taking her much-needed nap, so I scroll thru u the listings, trying to find something I would like and she wouldn't.

I saw a bleep in the paper the other day about a new series on Prime called 'The English'. Why it is dubbed that, I really don't know except one of the main characters is English. Anyway, I saw it as a sort of revenge western, and, to me, it shouldn't get any better than that. I LOVE westerns and I also LOVE those revenge-type movies where our heroes get the worst of the bargain, only to exact their revenge later on, so this seemed like a no-brainer for me.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11771270/

So, story, the English lady meets an Indian scout and they team up to go somewhere together and each has their own reasons for it. Maybe it should have been called Pawnie as that is what the Indian is.

So I am 4 episodes in and I have mixed feelings. There is some really good action, but also so many subplots I get confused along the way. What should be a simple story, now has evolved into much more, and all of it isn't that good. Why do shows always feel the need to doctor up things when a good simple story will do? You need everyone's 'inner' feelings now to ex[plain everything else.

I probably won't finish it until next week, but I will stay with it.

They don't make episodic westerns like Lonesome Dove anymore.

Gangs of London season 2 just dropped and its phenomenal.

Also the new Jack Ryan season drops In the next week or so!

Quote from: LennG on November 19, 2022, 02:16:36 PMSo it's almost the holiday season and my wife and I always watch the regular crop holiday movies sometime before the New Year, Miracle on 34th St (the original), It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol, and a couple of others. Yes, I know most are corny, but it has become a tradition to watch all of these and you know about 'Tradition' in a Jewish household.

Which brings me to my point, the other movie we always watch is A Christmas Story, probably my favorite of them all. I was, and still am, a HUGE fan of Jene Shepard, who wrote the story and narrates the movie. I related to so many of his stories and his humor. So, when I heard they were making another Christmas Story, I was annoyed. Thinking another remake of a classic movie will never be any good. But then, I learned that this was not a remake, but a sort of continuation, following Ralphie into adulthood with a family of his own. I was filled with anticipation that maybe they could really pull this off.

WRONG, WRONG  WRONG

This is the way I saw it, my darling wife liked it more than I did, but nowhere near what we were expecting. I will not go into specifics because each thing might ruin the movie for any who might want to see it. If you were also a fan of the original Christmas Story, you will have to see this one and form your own opinion.
Peter Billingsly who was Ralphie in the original, never acted again after that movie until now. He was OK but way too much narration as he surely is no Jean Shepard. The cast tries hard, but the cuteness, originality, and just plain good family humor that we all could relate to, is dearly missing here. PLUS, no leg lamp returns.

See it and let me know what you liked or dislike.

A Christmas Story Christmas on HBO.
 

Yeah I didn't want to watch it and opted for "spirited" with Ryan Reynolds and Will Farrell instead and it was ok!

Quote from: LennG on November 11, 2022, 05:08:49 PMI enjoyed Reacher very much. The Terminal List was OK, but, to me, it really got a bit silly about 3/4 of the way thru.

You're right the first part of Terminal list was good but got to big at the end.

Quote from: DaveBrown74 on November 11, 2022, 01:13:12 PMHaven't seen Terminal List or Reacher. Have heard good things about Reacher though.

You should watch them both, phenobarbital.

Quote from: DaveBrown74 on November 11, 2022, 10:20:11 AMWe started the most recent season of The Crown the other night. It has never been my absolute favorite show, but it's definitely solid and my wife is a big fan.

The new Yellowstone comes out very soon. I'm definitely getting fired up about that.

The crown has always been good enough that you can put it on and enjoy it without having to be all in. Have you seen the terminal list and Reacher? I watched them a while back.

While there hasn't been a ton of new streaming stuff the past couple of weeks I've actually consumed a lot of traditional TV shows that are phenomenal right now.

S.w.a.t
East New York
Alaska Daily
Seal team
So help me Todd
The Equalizer
Fire country

While they won't win Emma's Still enjoyable TV shows.

Also Tom Clancys Jack Ryan on Amazon is about to drop its 3rd season in the next couple of weeks.