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Thought I'd start a thread about movies and tv BMs are watching and recommend. I'll start off with a hard-science fiction series I just finished watching. It's an Amazon Prime original. The Expanse (IMDb 8.5) "A police detective in the asteroid belt, the first officer of an interplanetary ice freighter, and an earth-bound United Nations executive slowly discover a vast conspiracy that threatens the Earth's rebellious colony on the asteroid belt." There are four seasons, and it is available on EZTV. I haven't tried to download any episodes as I have a Prime membership. I found it very enjoyable. The special effects are fantastic. The plot is interesting though a bit heavy on the action.
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The missus and I were relaxing in bed, watching TV. She, of course, had control of the remote, and ceased channel surfing at the beginning of a movie. Said movie turned out to be hilariously awful: terrible acting, cheesy dialogue, SFX that most have cost literally 10s of $s (and it's all there, up on the screen), hackneyed directing - well, you get the picture. I recognised Ming Na Wen (ER, Marvels Agents of SHIELD) and Nicholas Turturro (NYPD Blue) sleepacting their way through this mind-bogglingly awful turd of an excuse for a farrago of a sham of a travesty of a movie. At one point, Turturro's character is supposedly on an oi rig which has drilled into an undersea volcano and is filing up with molten lava, his uncle has sustained a life-threatening injury, two friends have just been killed, and there is a super-storm directly above threatening the rig. Turturro reacts to this with less emotion than someone complaining about a dirty spoon in a restaurant. So, I simply had to look on IMDb to find out more. The horror was revealed to be Super Cyclone (2012), and is now officially the worst movie I've ever had the pleasure of viewing (and I've seen several Michael Bay films, Star Trek Into Darkness, and the last batman film, which was so bad I seem to have erased its name from my memory - so it's up against some pretty stiff competition). All of this led me to wonder what is the worst movie YOU have ever seen, worst TV show, and worst book you've ever read? For me, the TV show has to be the 1990 adaptation of Jeffrey Archer's Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less. Apart from the SFX, I could pretty much copy and paste the comments re acting, writing, and directing from those about Super Cyclone. My buddies and I watch this rubbish with a mixture of horror and fascination, topped off with bouts of uncontrollable laughter. I can highly recommend this show as an antidote for depression. As for books, Ghost House (Clare McNally, 1979) is eye-wateringly, ludicrously funny. not that it's meant to be. My girlfriend of the time (a GG - I know, I know) were on holiday in the north of Italy, and were housebound due to a combination of bad weather and illness. We raced through all the seemingly half-decent literature that previous tenants had left behind. And then I picked up Ghost House. Seemingly standard awful late-seventies Amityville rip-off fare (clear by the end of the first paragraph), it wasn't until the last line of the prologue that it made me sit up and laugh, as it hit me then that this book was not just bad, but had the potential to be truly, interestingly awful. The GF and I spent the rest of the afternoon reading alternate chapters aloud to each other, as we could barely get through a single chapter without collapsing into fits of giggles. So, those are my choices. Over to you, dear BMs...