Subject: Stay At Home Viewing
Posted by: Godwit
Date: Apr 25 20
Curious, what are you watching while the world spins around us?
What's your favorite thing about it? Does it help you get through?
Posted by: Godwit
Date: Apr 25 20
Curious, what are you watching while the world spins around us?
What's your favorite thing about it? Does it help you get through?
979 replies. On page 38 of 49 pages. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49
Godwit 
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How about nice WARM MOVIES? There's another snow storm brewing--so sorry those who don't have power-- --Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Hawaii) --Blue Hawaii (Elvis) --Lawrence of Arabia --The Beach (Thailand) --The Flight of the Phoenix (Jimmy Stewart) --Theeb (award winner about a Bedouin boy crossing the desert) --Beach Bum (McConaughey a drunk poet) --The Way Back --The Adventures of Priscilla, queen of the desert --Sahara (Bogart) --Holiday in the Sun (Atlantis? --Mad Max --The Gods Must be Crazy --Pirates of the Caribbean --Castaway (Hanks is starving and lonely, but warm!) --Walkabout --Woman of the Sands (I donno. You seen it? It is rated 8.5 of 10) --Tequila Sunrise (Russell, Gibson and Pfeiffer) --Fifty First Dates (Hawaii) Reply #741. Feb 16 21, 1:24 PM |
paulmallon
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Don't forget James Cagney in "White Heat". Also "The Summer of '42" Reply #742. Feb 17 21, 1:26 PM |
| Godwit
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oh wow, that takes me back. The Summer of 42'. :) Reply #743. Feb 17 21, 3:13 PM |
| paulmallon
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I fell in love with Jennifer O'Neill after seeing it:-) Reply #744. Feb 18 21, 3:00 PM |
| Godwit
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There was a sequel, Summer of 44, Paul. Has anyone seen that? I read just now that Streisand was going to play the role in Summer of 42, so O'Neil had a tough time even getting a reading. Also that O'Neil broke her neck and back, horse riding, in her teens. And she's had a rich and full life, still living, model and speaker, married nine times. I don't remember the movie so much as a wonderful feeling of summer, youth, sweetness in the air-- Reply #745. Feb 18 21, 10:55 PM |
| Godwit
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"The Bletchley Circle" (2012-2014) (2018) is a fascinating, well-acted UK miniseries about four female codebreakers out of WWII who are struggling with ordinary life 7 years later. They decide to investigate serious crimes based on patterns they can see using their codebreaking skills. It's based on real-life Bletchley Park, and the women who worked there in WWII. (Though no knowledge of such place or people is acknowledged by this thread) Reply #746. Feb 19 21, 10:26 AM |
flopsymopsy
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I'll acknowledge the place, it's not far from here! :D Reply #747. Feb 19 21, 12:40 PM |
| Godwit
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Oh flopsy, that made me laugh! It looks to be quite a gorgeous building. A museum, now? Reply #748. Feb 19 21, 5:21 PM |
| flopsymopsy
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Two museums... well, one is Bletchley Park itself, which isn't a museum exactly, it's more like a preserved/conserved set of buildings - a bit like a stately home with huts and notes. :D The second actually is a museum, the National Museum of Computing. Bletchley Park was not only the wartime home to Alan Turing and his team of Enigma codebreakers but also to the team led by Tommy Flowers who broke the Lorenz cipher and built the Colossus machine to do it. Colossus was the world's first programmable digital electronic computer and they've rebuilt one, which sits in the museum with its bank of valves blinking. The whole place is testimony to the work that led to the development of modern computing - both in terms of the programming and the hardware. It's fascinating. Reply #749. Feb 19 21, 7:26 PM |
| paulmallon
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G Do you know if "The Bletchley Circle" (2012-2014) is on either Netflix or Amazon Prime. Sounds intriguing. Reply #750. Feb 19 21, 8:43 PM |
| Godwit
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For "The Bletchley Circle" I saw it on Britbox via Prime. I found one source that says it's also on VUDU, Google Play and Itunes. Britbox I think is a few dollars a month or they may have a free trail during which one could easily watch the 2 seasons plus one set in San Francisco later. I thought it was great. Hope you are able to catch it. Reply #751. Feb 20 21, 12:19 AM |
| Godwit
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If you have or can get Britbox some of the best shows I've seen since the pandemic started are there. High quality detective series especially. Reply #752. Feb 20 21, 12:22 AM |
| Godwit
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National Museum of Computing--sounds like a place a person could spend a week. Thanks for the info on that Flopsy. (Naturally, with apologies) I thought Cray, a US company, built the first programmable. I look it up--and I find that Cray Supercomputer was the "fastest" in the world, not the first by a long shot. Cray, the man who designed it, built cryptographic equipment first--so we're back to that. And he designed "UNIVAC" the first "commercially successful scientific computer." says Wiki. Computer history is apparently elaborate, competitive and "secret". Your museum must be fascinating. Reply #753. Feb 20 21, 12:37 AM |
| Godwit
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Paul, not a free "trail". I don't even have a good excuse for that one. Time for sleep. Hope everyone is A-ok out there. Reply #754. Feb 20 21, 12:42 AM |
MariaVerde
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Re: Britbox - I think it's $7/month and $70/year (or $6/month, $60/year) - basically, if you sign up for a year you get two free months. I signed up because it has Classic Who and some of the "cardboard set" era dramas I grew up with on Masterpiece Theater. Reply #755. Feb 20 21, 9:14 AM |
| Godwit
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That's so helpful, thanks for the info. Reply #756. Feb 21 21, 12:09 AM |
| Godwit
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Anthony Hopkins was on radio this a.m., to promote his new movie "The Father". He plays a man who has dementia, and he and his daughter attempt to cope with it. They portray questions about how much a grown child should give up their own life, what is owed to the parent, how does a person come to terms with their diagnosis-- questions a ton of people are dealing with in real life. The producer said they provide no clear answers because film isn't the place for answers. Hopkins said he's 83, so he found playing the role "easy". Though the radio host pointed out it doesn't appear to be an easy role. The father character tries to prove he's fine and doesn't need anyone's help. It seems to me I recall Hopkins saying he found other roles "easy". While real life has been harder for him to do. Reply #757. Feb 26 21, 10:48 AM |
| Godwit
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Maria Verde, or anyone: Please explain a "cardboard set" era drama? Reply #758. Feb 26 21, 10:54 AM |
| paulmallon
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Anthony Hopkins makes playing every role look easy. Reply #759. Feb 26 21, 12:17 PM |
| Godwit
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That is so true Paul! Hopkins is amazing. Reply #760. Feb 27 21, 1:35 PM |
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