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?
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Godwit 
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No one cares about the couch-sitting non-February no host no Zoom mask wearing Oscar ceremonies this weekend? Reply #821. Apr 23 21, 3:56 PM |
flopsymopsy
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Over here the Oscars are on the wrong channel at the wrong time and so I just watch bits on YouTube when I can. I used to watch but since the current channel, name withheld to protect myself from mad Aussie-Americans, bought the rights the show was over for me. :( Reply #822. Apr 23 21, 4:26 PM |
MariaVerde
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I'll watch - I've seen at least part of every ceremony except one since I was 11 or 12. My movie watching declined dramatically in the mid-2000s due to my work schedule but I still watch the awards shows. I just don't care much at this point about who wins. Reply #823. Apr 23 21, 8:14 PM |
HairyBear
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I haven't watched the Oscars since I was a kid, which was quite some time ago, but the politics nowadays would prevent it in any case. I did watch Ricky Gervais' Golden Globes speech from early 2020 on YouTube, epic and hilarious. No one deserved that skewering more than the Hollywood elite. It's too bad more comedians don't take on the Hollywoke establishment more often. Reply #824. Apr 24 21, 10:25 AM |
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Wow, thanks for those fab and unexpected comments. One of my work buddies used to have an Oscar party every year. We all tried to watch every movie before the party and then Oscar night we gather at his place, placed bets, talked our heads off and booed the TV. It was great fun. There were Oscar parties all over the country. But...sounds like those days are long gone. Maybe Hollywood itself--the Greats who most people loved and respected--those generations are older now, or passed on. Dustin Hoffman and Streep, Eastwood and Redford, De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Walken, Hopkins and Jodie Foster, Surandon and Nicholson--still here. But not part of Hollywood elite. I don't know where to put Tom Cruise, Cage, Willis, Will Smith, Schwarzenegger...and the comedians Jim Carrey etc I think the comedic hosts used to get in some good jabs at the expense of the Hollywood elites. But...no hosts, of late. Reply #825. Apr 24 21, 1:37 PM |
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MariaVerde and I will watch. Reply #826. Apr 24 21, 2:28 PM |
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So sorry your access to Oscars is cut off flopsy! That's so wrong. Here are the Oscar BEST PICTURES "The Father" "Judas and the Black Messiah" "Mank" "Minari" "Nomadland" "Promising Young Woman" "Sound of Metal" "The Trial of the Chicago 7? On movie actors out there. Are you still a fan? Sean Penn and Ed Norton. Forest Whitaker. Sissy Spacek. Helen Mirren. Danny Glover, Judi Dench. Frances McDormand. Viola Davis, Johnny Deep. Samuel Jackson. Not Hollywood Elite, I don't think. Nicole Kidman. Might be an elite. Seems a sweet person. Sally Field. I think of Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Robert Downy, Adam Sandler, Hugh Grant, Winona Ryder, Zeta-Jones as their own type of actor. Iam Neeson and Denzel Washington I wish they hadn't gone into formulaic action thrillers. I know Leonardo DiCaprio is all that but not for me. Compare him to Michael Douglas for acting skill, no contest. Reply #827. Apr 24 21, 3:10 PM |
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So, Maria, anyone, what did you think? Reply #828. Apr 25 21, 10:13 PM |
rockstar51
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Well I completely forgot about them! Reply #829. Apr 26 21, 12:55 AM |
agony
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Most years I would have seen at least half of the Best Picture nominees, but I haven't really been able to watch many movies this last year. I know most people have upped their streaming and stay-at-home watching during covid but I found it harder than usual to sit in my chair and watch something. Maybe a few of them will get another chance at the big screen once theatres open here again. Reply #830. Apr 26 21, 5:51 AM |
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I liked how they skipped the forced "comic" banter that tried to rely on the chemistry of actors who've met three times, and I liked how the winners got to speak without being played off (some went long, but not ridiculously so). I'd like to hear the original songs performed live, and I have the same complaint every year - show some movie clips! I'd rather have clip montages than the weird skits (there was only one this year, and I'm OK with there being one). It was a good choice to drop the host a few years ago. Most of the awkwardness and time overrun comes from the host segments. Reply #831. Apr 26 21, 8:09 AM |
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I haven't yet seen "Father" but I've heard Best Actor winner Anthony Hopkins was astounding. I heard him on radio a while back saying something like, "playing an old man who can't remember what day it is was easy". He's 83 I think. Now the oldest actor to win this Oscar. Still Hopkins has always said his roles are 'easy', perhaps because shedding his identity and taking on that of a character comes naturally to him. They say even his finest and most subtle gestures in this film are remarkable. He's one of the old-school actors still in front of the camera. Me too, hoping the big theatres are available to everyone before too very long! Miss them. Popcorn! Sharing the dark and a laugh with a crowd. Thanks Maria for precision eval. Interesting. Maybe the pandemic has changed the Oscars forever. Reply #832. Apr 26 21, 5:03 PM |
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Agony--me too, I haven't seen a single one of these movie nominations. That feels weird. Reply #833. Apr 26 21, 5:05 PM |
gracious1
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Godwit, I have seen Professor T, though he's Belgian, not Icelandic. There's also 'Aben Berger', a legal-profession series from Norway. I found I couldn't watch 'The Cliff', the Icelandic one. Just a little too dark for me! Reply #834. Apr 29 21, 8:07 PM |
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I didn't mean to suggest Professor T is Icelandic, but that it fits into the quality detective shows we were discussing. The Icelandic one was suggested here way back. "Trapped". It is set during a snow storm. The detective is a big, rugged family man. I'll try those you mentioned, dark or not, I'm liking the far north shows a lot. Reply #835. Apr 29 21, 10:47 PM |
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Aha! I found a list of great snowy detective shows out of the far north countries: "Cardinal" out of Canada, detectives and lots of snow "The Killing", Denmark, don't go for the American version they say, because season 1 ends in a sloppy cliffhangar. "The Bridge", out of Sweden. Nix American remake. Find it on Amazon. "Pagan Peak", Germany-Austria. Again with the horrid American adaptation. Sensing a pattern here...it's occult killings which don't interest me but apparently it's "a gem". "Wisting" out of Norway "Trapped" (definitely Iceland). You see a LOT of snow, windy snow, deep snow. But it's the characters make it so worthwhile. "Deadwind" from Finland "Bordertown", Finnish, a favorite of Stephen King. Thanks to paste magazine for these suggestions. Add "Professor T", naturally, Belgium. Lemme know if you find and watch any of these. Reply #836. Apr 29 21, 11:01 PM |
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Today's the day. Today we find out whodunnit in the 'Line of Duty'. Or maybe we don't. This is the BBC, they don't always wrap things up in pretty finished parcels with a bow on top. We don't even know if there will be another series. They did say that series six would be the last one but rumours of a seventh are rife. Or not rife depending who has got hold of the bucket of cold water. Reply #837. May 02 21, 9:46 AM |
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Of Godwit's list, the only one I have seen is "Cardinal" and it is very good. Worth watching for many reasons, one of which is how authentically cold it makes you feel ;) Reply #838. May 02 21, 10:31 AM |
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Lol well at times cooling off can feel really great. Glad to hear a positive review. Line of Duty Ohhhh Nooooo Yahhhhhh Maybe? Here's to everything you could hope for Reply #839. May 02 21, 2:39 PM |
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My brain hurts. Reply #840. May 02 21, 3:11 PM |
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