Neil Oliver presents Rise Of The Clans. This should be hilarious.
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I am 17 minutes in, and it's 45 minutes later. I keep having to pause to catch up with the jokes. He's too good for me, is Stew. And isn't Slobodan Milosevic looking rough these days?
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Originally posted by Cal Alamein View PostDidn't see anything so far for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
Took us a few days to finish all six vignettes, but all well done and highly recommended. My favorite was the wagon train work.
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Originally posted by Cal Alamein View PostDidn't see anything so far for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
Took us a few days to finish all six vignettes, but all well done and highly recommended. My favorite was the wagon train work.
"First time?" Brilliant.
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I'm going through a phase when I find I don't really want to watch anything - or mostly don't want to watch anything - but I'm having a lot of back problems and the only chair I find comfortable is the one I have in front of the TV, so I find myself sitting there a lot hoping to find something. So I've been rewatching a lot of easy-to-digest stuff like the recent Star Wars films and the Expanse. I rewatched all of The Magicians. Meanwhile, I'm distracted by my phone. It's not a good habit.
I need to do more reading.
I'm also listening through all of the unabridged readings of all the Tolkien books. I also recently rewatched the extended versions of all the films. They do drag a bit don't they? I'm starting to respect Peter Jackson's a lot more and understand why he cut so much out, angering all the nerds. If he'd made the movies they - and Christopher Tolkien - wanted, they'd each be seven hours long and be really dull. A lot of people thought the ones he made were dull anyway (though I don't see how one comes to that opinion). The Hobbit didn't need to be three films, but it would have lost a lot if they'd just made it a tight single film. The third movie - the five armies one - is the worst, but it deserves more time than Tolkien actually gave it. It's a battle of five fukin' armies and it's just about a chapter in the book.
I've also decided to listen through all of Led Zeppelin's albums in order. Just to see what happens.
No, I haven't taken up pot, but I guess it sounds like I have.
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Started waching that Mrs Maisel on Amazon after seeing it bigged up here and elsewhere. A bit glossy and stuffed full of stereotypes, but funny nonetheless. I’m assuming Joan Rivers is the template comedienne?
Also watching the Vic & Bob’s Big Night Out reboot on the BBC. Still gloriously silly - had us laughing out loud at times.
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Began watching Dogs of Berlin on Netflix the other night. First hour in I thought it was going to be brilliant. Star German international footballer found dead in a scuzzy area of the city. Married homicide cop with a secret mistress and a serious gambling addiction takes over the case. He's straight, but doesn't want the death announced until he can place a massive bet on the upcoming Germany v Turkey WC qualifier. Unfortunately the excellent premise is getting suffocated by more over-plotting than you'd see in ten seasons-worth of Eastenders. There's nasty social services people, Turkish gangs, neo-Nazis, envious cops, and on and on. Every character has to get beaten up at least once and there's dog-shit everywhere. (It's a kinda metaphor.) I'll stick with it, mainly because it might get seriously ludicrous.
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