What did you watch last night?

[Korea Hammer]

Yeah, I couldn't deal with Cracker, even back in the day.

[Burnley Hammer]

I'm still working my way through 'Only Murders in the Building' season 2. Can't believe that Steve Martin is 77. He's looking excellent for his age. Obviously he's always looked older than he is due to the hair - but his face, the way he carries himself, talks etc barely seems to have changed in over 30 years. I thought the same fairly recently about John Lithgow when I watched 'The Old Man'. Jeff Bridges in that really does look and talk like an old man now - but John Lithgow didn't really look much different to when he was in Cliffhanger!

[Cuenca 'ammer]

got a fair few series to work my way through, but this week I haven't felt like getting into something where I have to keep up and follow night after night.

so as posted earlier, New Tricks I've done the first series and bashed a few Poirot episodes this week also. 1 and a half hours then finished, then a New Tricks finishes up the evening nicely.

[kenthammer]

Lancaster
Brilliant documentary on sky about the aircraft and crews
Gripping stuff but the last ten mins just left me with tears running down me cheeks,so brave and humble
RIP lads and thanks

[Burnley Hammer]

I watched Halloween Ends. It wasn't that bad actually (I enjoyed it more than some of the imdb reviewers anyway it seems) - but didn't really feel like a Halloween film. I appreciated them doing something a little different but - if this was supposed to be the last one - then Michael Myers really should have taken centre stage and not relegated to a minor role. After all, he's the reason people are watching it.

Edit: Actually, thinking about it more, one of the things I didn't like was the fact they completely humanised Myers. They reduced him to just being an old man with a mask, still incapacitated from carrying the injuries of the previous films. He looked a bit pathetic really. He even acted a bit pathetically at times. I'm not sure that's acceptable and he deserved better than that send off. I always assumed he was supernatural, but now I'm supposed to believe that this completely human character has survived being shot, stabbed, and burnt numerous times and keeps on coming back as strong as ever? If he was completely human he wouldn't have even survived the fire at the end of the first film in this trilogy. Overall, it felt more like a random Halloween spin off than the concluding part of the Halloween franchise, and that's really how I'm seeing it. I give it 4/10, the missus gives it 5/10

[sendô]

The original Clash Of The Titans is on BBC right now.

The special effects get better each time I watch it.

[Burnley Hammer]

The original Clash Of The Titans is on BBC right now.

The special effects get better each time I watch it.

Eyesight does deteriorate with age.

[Chicken Run Supreme]

Yeah, I couldn't deal with Cracker, even back in the day.

Watched To Be a Somebody over the weekend, which IIRC was the second storyline of the original series with Robert Carlyle in full psychopath mode as Albie. The murder of DCI Bilborough (Christopher Eccelston) was no less shocking all these years later. Coltrane and Carlyle’s interrogation scene was blistering.
Landmark tv

[OFT]

BBC1 and iplayer,
First two eps of the latest series of Strike Troubled Blood

Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger again as the 'oddball' private detectives, with Ruth Sheen as the smart but grumpy 'secretary'. Very good as always.

I did mention that Holliday Grainger is in it didn't I

[Metal Hammer]

BBC1 and iplayer,
First two eps of the latest series of Strike Troubled Blood

Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger again as the 'oddball' private detectives, with Ruth Sheen as the smart but grumpy 'secretary'. Very good as always.

I did mention that Holliday Grainger is in it didn't I

Ha we did the same, will probably watch the final 2 tonight.

[old fart]

Yeah, I couldn't deal with Cracker, even back in the day.

but Barbara Flynn was in it, I'd had a crush on her in her starched nurses uniform back to "A very peculiar practice"
The archetype older woman

[dasnutnock3]

Realised I'd never seen Die Hard in full - just chunks of it at certain times. Wasn't all that, if I'm honest, but like many blockbusters of the time, you probably needed to see them AT the time, in order to properly enjoy them. I don't imagine anyone watching Commando for the first time in 2022 would be entirely impressed.

Ah, who am I kidding, of course they'd be impressed. Vernon Wells as Bennett remains a high watermark in 80s action.

[S-H]

I don't imagine anyone watching Commando for the first time in 2022 would be entirely impressed.

[S-H]

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Can't beat a good old bit of slapstick comedy.

[fjthegrey]

Vernon Wells as Bennett remains a high watermark in cinematic thespianism.

[sendô]

I don't imagine anyone watching Commando for the first time in 2022 would be entirely impressed.

Ah, who am I kidding, of course they'd be impressed. Vernon Wells as Bennett remains a high watermark in 80s action.

How could anyone fail to be impressed by the awesomeness that was Commando?

[S-H]

[westham,eggyandchips]

BBC1 and iplayer,
First two eps of the latest series of Strike Troubled Blood

Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger again as the 'oddball' private detectives, with Ruth Sheen as the smart but grumpy 'secretary'. Very good as always.

I did mention that Holliday Grainger is in it didn't I

We enjoyed this too.

Btw, my future sister in law is a ringer for Holliday Grainger.

[alf git]

Realised I'd never seen Die Hard in full - just chunks of it at certain times. Wasn't all that, if I'm honest, but like many blockbusters of the time, you probably needed to see them AT the time, in order to properly enjoy them. I don't imagine anyone watching Commando for the first time in 2022 would be entirely impressed.

Ah, who am I kidding, of course they'd be impressed. Vernon Wells as Bennett remains a high watermark in 80s action.

[OFT]

Btw, my future sister in law is a ringer for Holliday Grainger.

No gawping Eggy