What are you watching? (non-porn)

[duke007]

I am going to give this a look next Monday 

Three Part series. 

Lancashire v Yorkshire 

 

[Kahuna]

All I can do anymore is watch....I am a watching fool....

For free on YouTube....Midsomer Murders a Brit series that seemingly never ends and Poitrot  with David Suchet...he makes a great Hercule

 

On Netflix I enjoyed  Blacklist, Longmire and Mindhunter...All three really well done with great casts...I also watch a lot of Asian programming....

Midnight Diner - Tokyo Stories...great little half-hour slices of Japanese life...

 

I'd wager most of you have been with "ladies" who like to spend the evening in your room so they could watch their fav Korean soap...They are

not really soap operas, but rather Korean series that run 16 episodes or so...some of them run for several years...Hello My Twenties for example..

One which is exceptionally good is titled Chocolate staring Ha Ji-won...one of the most beautiful Korea women you will have the pleasure to lust

after...It also stars a pretty boy Yoon Kye-Song...who was a member of g.o.d. the famous Korean male group...it can be a bit serious at times but both

the acting and the story are excellent...

 

But the Netflix winner is a series titled Something In The Rain.... a love story that from the first episode to the final ending is absolutely perfect....In my

opinion no other Korean show on Netflix comes close...

 

But don't trust me,  years back I also fell in love with Kuan Muen Ho....Thai strangers visit Korea....One evening I even dragged PD and his lady along to

watch this Thai film...I wonder if he remembers....

[seven]

Guys, you have to watch Succession if you already haven't. It's absolutely brilliant.

Season 1 trailer.

Season 2 trailer.

 

Season 3 trailer.

 

[duke007]

I came across this Indian News Channel on YouTube a few days ago, very informative stories from around the World and I like the direct style from the newscaster Palki Sharma Uphadhya, she's also good to look at. 

Here is a sample from the other day, after the headlines there is a very good story about the dangers of the Alexa device (starting 7 mins 20 seconds in) 

 

[duke007]

8 hours ago, Fenton said:

Not quite Susanah Reid, but she's really easy on the eye. Totally Anti-Chinese 555.

No nonsense lady  :-).

Totally agree, straight to the point, think I've found a new crush 

Both these are brilliant imho, she's great 

 

 

[Pdoggg]

2 hours ago, duke007 said:

think I've found a new crush 

 

So your New Year's resolution is to bone her?  

That would be what I refer to as a stretch goal but she refers to it as OKR, Objective Key Responsibility.

[duke007]

9 hours ago, Pdoggg said:

So your New Year's resolution is to bone her?  

That would be what I refer to as a stretch goal but she refers to it as OKR, Objective Key Responsibility.

I can't deny that Palki Sharma gives me the horn PD .

As I'm not one for watching the News (especially Politics) on TV or reading about it in newspapers, she has got my interest back with her style of reporting . 

[Ashoka]

Just watched Kate with the gf and she liked it more than me.. so ladyboy approved.

[Ashoka]

Recently finished Dexter New Blood.

Kind of better ending than the last finale 9 years ago but still really far fetched.

I'm not disgusted like the last time when I was like WHAT THE FUCK? and I don't think I've once watched season 8 again but this one is watchable!

[seven]

Only watched 2 episode but pretty good so far. Guess the director?

 

[seven]

Can't go wrong with Chris Walken and John Torturro? I haven't started yet, but will give it a go.

 

[seven]

Gary Oldman, one of the best. Haven't watched yet.

 

[The-Sith]

On 1/1/2022 at 10:43 AM, duke007 said:

I came across this Indian News Channel on YouTube a few days ago, very informative stories from around the World and I like the direct style from the newscaster Palki Sharma Uphadhya, she's also good to look at. 

Here is a sample from the other day, after the headlines there is a very good story about the dangers of the Alexa device (starting 7 mins 20 seconds in) 

 

 

 

I love this broadcast. Watch it several times per month. They released some information recently about how Pfizer was leveraging their vaccines to strong arm the Argentinian government to put liens on their assets overseas.

 

 

[The-Sith]

 

BEACHBUM is a Harmony Korine movie (he made that iconic movie Spring Breakers and wrote Kids....if any of you remember that classic).

 

it has an all star cast. Matthew McCaughey, Snoop, Jonah Hill, Martin Lawrence, Zac Efron plus others....

 

There is a scene where Jonah Hill, who plays McCaugheys literary agent is at a Ladyboy GoGo Bar in the US. It's all white and black trans....actually it's CDs because they had to make it noticeable that the hot babes he was partying with and buying drinks for are not actually women.... Western media tends to do that.

 

I went out with a trans from NYC who told me the TV show she had a recurring trans role in.... (I recall it was Law and Order or something first tier like that).... would CGI her face to make it more masculine. And I've been with trans girls who complain when those American Prep commercials come on and the trans is always audacious and very recognizable as a trans..... big body, big nose, etc...

 

Anyways..... I liked the movie and commend Harmony for representing that in a movie because we all know that partying it up at a bar for trans women is tons of fun and lots of boozing.... plus everyone gets laid!

Plus it was with a tier I actor too.

 

It's about time it's represented in a movie as something cool instead of the stereo typical "Hangover" style where the guy wakes up crying the next morning.

 

Although I'm sure some of us cried after our first LB GoGo Bar visit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Quietguy]

I just watched the entire second series of Top Boy on Netflix in a week. It's sort of like a black Gomorrah, with the Italian Napoli drug gangs replaced by black London drug gangs.

I'll have to catch up with Series 1 now, and then Series 3 and 4.

  

[seven]

On 4/23/2022 at 2:23 PM, Quietguy said:

Top Boy

Are you sure about the title? I typed it in and something very different came up.

[Quietguy]

19 hours ago, seven said:

Are you sure about the title? I typed it in and something very different came up.

A few years back little May from Horny Bar asked if I would take her to a gogo. I thought it was going to be a gg gogo. But she took me to Top Boyz GoGo in Boyz Town!

[duke007]

Watched this last night, 7.5 minutes of absolute brilliance from both Bands imho, had the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end, total respect

 

[ciobha]

Anybody watched "Yellowstone" and what's your thoughts on it? Box sets of the first two series available for £10 a pop in my local Tesco, so was thinking of giving it a go.

[Quietguy]

Yellowstone is on 5ACTION Channel, which is on Sky, and possibly elsewhere. I had a look at the first 20 minutes, not enough to make a judgement, but I don't think I would watch more.

[Pulci Gorgon]

 

[Quinn]

Just watched 'Vanilla Sky' (2001) movie. Tom (shorty) Cruise and Penelope Cruz. Not bad - but this shot leapt out at me ! Very clever - inspiration from where ? Answers on a postcard !

[seven]

12 minutes ago, Quinn said:

inspiration from where

Apparently its a popular spot to take a photo.

Its a good movie.

[Ashoka]

Just watched The Batman with the missus yesterday with Robert Pattison.

Felt more like it was watching a murder mystery and Zoe Kravitz's in a sexy corset.

Not terrible..  5/10. felt like the directors knew they couldn't compete with Nolan so went a completely different route.

The Christian Bale trilogy is still the best imo!

[seven]

I'm so excited to watch this movie. I think he's directed 4 or 5 before and they all  have been excellent. There are nothing feelgood about his movies whatsoever.

Triangle of Sadness review: The most disgusting film of 2022?

After winning Cannes' top prize for The Square, director Ruben Östlund is back with a cruise liner comedy that's an excruciating, vomit-filled 'assault on the super-rich', writes Nicholas Barber.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220523-triangle-of-sadness-review-a-gross-vomit-filled-satire

Ruben Östlund won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2017 with his modern-art satire, The Square. Five years on he returns to Cannes with another satire, Triangle of Sadness, and it's even better – a frontal assault on the super-rich, and on the capitalist system in general, which has enough rage and riotous abandon to compensate for its lack of subtlety.

Actually, that's not entirely fair, because although Östlund makes his points with unapologetic frankness, the Swedish writer-director's first English-language film shows that he is still capable of quietly uncomfortable, penetrating social comedy. This is what we get in the opening scenes, when the film appears to be a straightforward lampoon of the fashion industry. In advertising shoots, notes Östlund, the more expensive the brand, the more grumpy the models have to pretend to be. As for the title, the "triangle of sadness" is the term given to the frown lines between your eyebrows.

The poor soul who may need Botox to treat his own triangle is Carl (a superb Harris Dickinson), a gangly male model who would like to be intellectually and politically progressive, but whose better instincts are always overtaken by his insecurities. His girlfriend Yaya (Charlbli Dean) is a model, too, but because she is female, she gets paid much more than he does – so why is she so slow to pay the bill at a fancy restaurant? The couple's disagreement on this matter could have come from an episode of Seinfeld, but Östlund doesn't ease the tension with a punchline. Just as he did in his breakthrough film, Force Majeure (which was remade in America, incidentally, with Julia Louis-Dreyfus from Seinfeld in one of the starring roles), he keeps the argument going well after the stage that most directors would have given up and moved on. It's an excruciatingly funny reminder that Östlund is cinema's king of the awkward situation, but it also sets up the question which will recur throughout the film: why is it that some people are deemed to be more worthy of money than others?

This question is unavoidable when the action moves away from the modelling industry and on to a luxury cruise liner: Yaya and Carl are on board for free, because the photos of her posing with food she won't actually eat will be seen by millions of Instagram followers. The couple meets a grotesque array of haves and have-nots, plus the have-somes in between. The haves include a cheerful oligarch (Zlatko Buric) who made his millions by selling animal droppings as fertiliser, and a cosy old British couple who amassed their fortune in an even less savoury way. The have-somes include a captain (Woody Harrelson) who would rather get blind drunk in his cabin than mix with the passengers he despises, and a steely chief steward, Paula (Vicki Berlin), who is left to run the show. One searing example of the haves' entitlement comes when a passenger insists, on a whim, that the crew members enjoy themselves by having a swim. It doesn't occur to her that they'd rather get on with their jobs: she wants them to swim, so that's what they'll do.

 

But the hierarchy is about to change. First, some stormy weather and some glutinous haute cuisine results in the most hilariously disgusting vomiting scene since the Mr Creosote sketch in Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life. The sozzled captain and the oligarch swap quotes from Noam Chomsky and Ronald Reagan, and the cruise seems to be hurtling towards a bacchanalian anarchy redolent of JG Ballard's High-Rise. Then Östlund begins a sardonic third chapter. For reasons I won't reveal, eight people from the ship ended up stranded on a desert island, and suddenly it doesn't matter who has the most dollars or Instagram followers. Antonia (Dolly De Leon), the cool, savvy toilet cleaner, is the only person capable of catching a fish or lighting a fire, so she becomes the survivors' leader. She alone has the power to give or withhold packets of pretzel sticks. Offers of Rolex watches aren't going to sway her, but some time alone with Carl just might.

Be warned. Triangle of Sadness rants and smirks at the state of the world over two-and-a-half hours, which is quite some running time for a satirical comedy. But it is never boring. Partly that's because the political commentary is so shrewd, and partly it's because it has a surprising amount of warmth and nuance, too. Östlund ensures that while the situations may be absurd, the people in them are as human as any of us.

And when it comes to the island, everything is upside down. What does the hot young model have to offer there? “All of a sudden he’s dealing with a different power structure and he realizes about his value in sexuality and looks,” said Östlund. “You’re starving. So all of a sudden he’s willing to use his currency in sexuality and looks in order to get more fish. And I think also that is probably true in many relationships, that there is a transaction going on. When it comes to class, and social groups, it’s very seldom that you marry someone that is not coming from the same social group as you. It’s an economic situation you are aware of when you’re picking your partner and building your future.”

 

As for the big sale, the international sellers agreed to screen the film privately in Cannes a few days before the public screening, but 30West and WME did not start serious negotiations until after the movie played for the public and press. The movie provoked bouts of laughter and even applause after hilarious scenes. It’s rare for a Cannes Competition title to sell at the festival for a significant seven-figure sum (sources cited an $8 million asking price); this one did because it’s a crowdpleaser, another rare commodity in the Competition. (“Parasite” fell in that category, but Neon already had acquired it before the festival.) Streamers weren’t interested in “Triangle of Sadness,” mainly because they want worldwide rights, and are chasing movie stars. Neon will give the film a serious theatrical release, likely after a fall festival platform.

Next up: Östlund already has another idea he’s starting to write; Woody Harrelson has already signed on. “Entertainment System Is Down” takes place on a long-haul flight. “So quite soon after takeoff, the passenger gets the announcement: ‘Unfortunately, the entertainment system is down.’ So he is doomed to hours and hours of this flight without any digital entertainment that can distract him. Let’s see what happens with the modern human being in that same sociological lab.”