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WCpete wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 7:00 pm I wondered about Macca's 'boss' comment when I heard it. John was speaking like the boss, more or less berating Paul for being controlling. The fact that John said that in the past and during these sessions both he and George had been reluctant to give input (to the point where they wouldn't comment at all) about Paul's songs because Paul would shut them down suggested to me that in practice Paul took the roll of the boss a fair amount of time.
I think that largely happened because out of the 3 of them, Paul probably found it the easiest to write songs. Imo, of course.
I think John & George both found it naturally harder to write songs than Paul did. Don't get me wrong, they both wrote some great songs but I think Paul was a quicker, more productive & naturally gifted writer & so, he might have appeared to have been 'in charge', more than them. Which would have understandably caused resentment & which ultimately, probably ended the band, really more than any other thing at the time.
It had come to a natural end.
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The final episode of The Outlaws. A good finish to a very enjoyable series.
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Morocco Mole wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 7:29 pm Stick with it bro. Best thing I’ve seen for ages.
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Finished Part 3 of Get Back. The entire production is so, so good. Sincerely, apart from West Ham playing some good football, this is probably the only good thing to have come out of the covid lockdown. I think Peter Jackson might just be a super hero for putting this film together. It's a special piece of work.
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bigcarpchaser wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 11:07 pm Succession.
Am not feeling the forum love for this show, not one of the characters has a single redeeming feature. In fact, I’d like to punch the lot of the nasty bastards. Especially the dimwit husband of the sister, and the slimy cousin, and the little brother, and the dad.
Mrs likes it, I think I’ll fall asleep during the remaining episodes.
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Started to re-binge ST Discovery Series 2....so I can get up to date with Series 4 that's running.

I quite like it, above Enterprise and possible a lot of DS9 for me.
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Watched the latest episode of Succession. I am getting a little bored of it now. The best part of the show, for me, is Logan Roy, played brilliantly by Brian Cox. However he seems to have taken a back seat this season and Kendall Roy has taken over as the headline act and I just cannot seem to enjoy him anywhere near as much. I feel like he overacts.

I'll stick with it as I loved the show up until this point and still very much enjoy the Tom & Greg relationship, which again last night were the highlights of the episode. I just really hope Logan snatches some airtime back.
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Denzil wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 10:12 am Watched the latest episode of Succession. I am getting a little bored of it now. The best part of the show, for me, is Logan Roy, played brilliantly by Brian Cox. However he seems to have taken a back seat this season and Kendall Roy has taken over as the headline act and I just cannot seem to enjoy him anywhere near as much. I feel like he overacts.

I'll stick with it as I loved the show up until this point and still very much enjoy the Tom & Greg relationship, which again last night were the highlights of the episode. I just really hope Logan snatches some airtime back.
I know what you mean, I'm still enjoying it though, mainly due to the fact I have absolutely no idea what's going to happen.
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I'm working my way through an Israeli/US series on Netflix called Hit & Run. It's been quite decent so far and I think a lot of the negative reviews on imdb are a little unfair. I have heard though that the series 'Fauda', also from writer/actor Lior Raz, is much better so I might give that a go next.
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Venom 2. I quite liked the first one it had a sort of charm to it but the second one lacked pretty much everything. Read somewhere that it was restricted by a PG-13 rating and could benefit from being 'Deadpooled'. I don't agree Deadpool worked because it was funny and there was a connection between the characters, it had a 'soul' the fact there was bad language and violence was sort of irreverent. Venom 2 lacked any soul, the dynamic between Hardy's 'Gollum/Smeagol' which was present in the first wasn't there this time which is strange as Gollum himself was directing it this time.

Most intriguing part was the mid-credit scene. Can they? Will they? Have they?
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True Story. Netflix original with Kevin Hart and a jacked-up looking Wesley Snipes.

Got right into this from the off. Thought it was really well done despite being totally implausible, but the ending was a massive let-down. The ‘twist’ such as it was, simply wasn’t because it was obvious from the start and the whole thing just petered out really. /semi-spoiler.

Hart was very good in it though and it’s probably worth a watch if you’re struggling for something.
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S-H wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 10:24 am I know what you mean, I'm still enjoying it though, mainly due to the fact I have absolutely no idea what's going to happen.
Yep, that's what is keeping me on tenterhooks. I have my ideas of what'll happen but there are various avenues to which way it could go. Roman is also still excellent.
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bigcarpchaser wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 11:07 pm Succession.
Am not feeling the forum love for this show, not one of the characters has a single redeeming feature. In fact, I’d like to punch the lot of the nasty bastards. Especially the dimwit husband of the sister, and the slimy cousin, and the little brother, and the dad.
Mrs likes it, I think I’ll fall asleep during the remaining episodes.
I couldn't remember but reading your post now jerks my memory and I do recall I was conflicted as I struggled with the characters as well. Even though they may not necessarily redeem themselves fully, characters do become more fleshed out and three dimensional. I found this with quite a few shows such as Sons of Anarchy. In the beginning they always seem cartoonish. And annoying!
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They just remind me of all the twonks on The Apprentice.
Would you really have that Roman dude anywhere near the boardroom of a multi billion dollar company?
Nope.
Bobby Axlerod is a much nicer bad person lol
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Royal Bastards: Rise of the Tudors - Sky History

I have never had any interest in the Royal Family. My disinterest started at school and continued as they current Royal Family imploded with the antics of Charles, Diana, Will and now Andrew.

I chose to watch this mainly because Phillip Glenister is one of the narrators - and boy was I glad I did.

This mini series is superb TV. Told by three narrators - one represnting The Yorkists. one the Lancastrians and the other Marget Beaufont, who is the main players throughout the whole war of the Roses - who put their "spin" on the events that happened during this period.

It has everthing, historical fact, dramatisation and interpretation. Lump in a whole load of swearing, espeionage, counter espionage, political back stabbing, warfare, violence and general scheming and you have a top program.

Phillip Glenister is superb as the Yorkshire narrator and he really grabs your attention.

I didn't know that the Tudor Royals swore so much! Watching The whole Royal family swear on a very regular basis - with Edward calling his councillor a "Cocky ****" - are jaw droppng moments.

If they taught history like this at school I would have paid much more attention.

I binge watched the whole 3 episodes. Warning: Any monarchists with red white and blue tinted specs look away now. It doesn't show any of the decendents of the royal family in good light and shows that their family linage and claim to the throne is open to debate.
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Cowboy Bebop...the Netflix live action version. Which led me back to watching the anime again...forgotten just how good that was.

The live action one wasn't too bad either.
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After starting Bond latest No Time to Die and realising I remember nothing about the Craig series at all (and them assuming you do in the first ten minutes) I binned it and decided to acquire the previous four efforts.

Last few days -

Casino Royale (2006) - First of all I am amazed this is 15 years old. For me this is one of the best Bond films ever and is 90% perfect, only the final 'Venice' instalment lets it down, random bad guys just appear at the end and it doesn't quite land it. Well cast and a great start to the series. I must be spending too much time watching F1, I was annoyed bond wrote of the lovely DB5 to avoid crushing Eva Green.

Quantum of Solace (2008) - Rather maligned by the critics this one moves on directly from Casino Royale. I find it ok, but if Bond tries to be about fights, car chases etc. then Bourne is superior. It lacks the charm that makes Bond, Bond.

Skyfall (2012) - A return to form, the fights and the car chases are still there but there is more depth to this one with Dame Judy taking a bigger role. Some look at Bond's origins as well in Bonny Scotland. Very good but not quite Casino Royale. The villain gives me David Walliams vibes... Bitty...

One more to go before I give 'No Time to Die' another go.
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Hawkeye ep 3. It’s getting worse as it goes.
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Tonight, I cancelled the scheduled recording of 'I'm a celeb..'.
Then I deleted all of the episodes recorded from the start, but still unwatched.
I now feel strangely liberated. :scarfer:
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Had a day to myself and thought I'd put my new Sony X-700 to use -

Selected a Russian language war film ' White Tiger ' - 2012 - d. Karen Shakhnazarov

Aleksey Vertkov - Vitaliy Kishchenko - Valeriy Grishko

Had this film in my collection for a while but hadn't got round to watching it -

Spoiler Alert - Spoiler Alert -

Starts off promisingly enough - set on the Eastern Front during WW2 it concerns a young Tank Driver/Mechanic found badly burnt and on the point of death -Much to the Doctors' disbelief he somehow recovers , the burns that covered his body heal and almost disappear altogether , it's a miracle and the film now takes almost a supernatural turn as the young man recalls being attacked by a ghostly German tank , ' A dead tank ' , a White Tiger - this is all he can remember , he can't even remember his name or whether he has family - Next we see a captured German Officer who confirms the stories of an all powerful German Tiger Tank which destroys everything before it .
The young man is renamed Naydenov and is given an armoured T-34 and two other Tank operators , their mission , to hunt down and destroy the White Tiger .

It does feel very authentic in parts , with some realistic scenes of tank warfare as the T-34 stalks the Tiger through the undergrowth and German soldiers being marched off while surrendering , but I didn't think the supernatural element which Shakhnazarov tries to implement works all that well as it feels all too real and what starts off nicely somehow gets lost
as the film is unsure of where it wants to go and which story it wants to tell - is it a war film or a ghostly tale ? Personally I think it could have been a better film if it had combined the two elements a bit more cohesively , instead it felt disjointed as it switches from place to place - one minute we're on the battlefront , next the Russians are discussing whether the White Tiger is some figment of the imagination , next we see the Germans signing the surrender agreement over a meal and soldiers marching through the streets .
For Naydenov the war will never be over until he's destroyed the Ghost Tank but as Hitler [ quite surrealistically ] says as he speaks to some unknown character during the closing scenes , there'll always be war .

It's a film I need to watch again soon . 7.5/10
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