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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2017 21:51:13 GMT
What kinda stuff do you favour watching.
Im all late 60's/'70's Sci-Fi but have a very strong attraction in particular to Utopian/Dystopian movies ie: Brave New World, Logans Run, THX 1138 etc etc...
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Post by MartinT on Jan 23, 2017 23:18:59 GMT
I love the small scale but really memorable SF films like Looper, The Jacket, Forbidden Planet, Silent Running, Monsters, Never Let Me Go, Her, Predestination, The Adjustment Bureau, Another Earth, Coherence, Time Lapse.
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Post by Slinger on Jan 24, 2017 2:04:50 GMT
Police procedural dramas, sci-fi, fantasy/horror, 'suspense' movies (which mostly died with Hitchcock), "English" dramas - think Midsummer Murders and Grantchester, Poirot/Marple etc. NCIS, CSI, and all the other acronyms. There are more but this is getting boring,
I don't watch soap operas, reality shows, reality soap operas, most quiz shows (I do watch University Challenge and Mastermind from time to time) most sit-coms (there is still the odd good one, but they are few and far between), and 99% of costume dramas. There are more but this is getting equally boring,
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2017 5:50:38 GMT
It's probably easier to say what I won't watch: Soaps are top of the hate list, followed by game shows and talent shows. Police procedural dramas and costume dramas are a big "no" too. I hate the Sunday night drivel we've been landed with over the years, such as Heartbeat or Ballykissangel. I'm not sure what genre that is, but I call it "tranquilliser TV". Reality TV usually gets a thumbs down too: I have no interest in watching plebs with no manners or breeding trying to lower themselves even further just to grab the spotlight. American sitcoms are poison too. Canned laughter and "live studio audiences" make me so angry. Cheers is the worst show ever to hit the air IMO. I don't tend to watch movies because they require more time and effort than I can invest. Sports are a turn-off too, with the exception of UFC and F1. Oh and anything medical is a total switch off, as are arts programmes, daytime TV, shopping channels, and the entire output of ITV.
I do like documentaries, especially anything about the cosmos or pre-history. I also enjoy some of the 60s and 70s programmes such as The Avengers, Steptoe and Son and Star Trek. I love Father Ted and always will. Anything with Karl Pilkington in it has me glued as well.
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Post by John on Jan 24, 2017 6:42:55 GMT
Movies I like are quite a bit wide
I enjoy a lot of Japanese period films such as Rashoman Seven Samurai Harikuri After the Rain Twilight Samurai etc
I enjoy some film Noir Both modern and old so for Modern think Usual Suspects and Brick
I love a good classic think Cassablanca
I enjoy Art house Films like Central Station and Men with Guns
I enjoy Science fiction and a good action film
For TV I tend to like stuff like Game of Thrones, Lilyhammer, Being Human, The Wire
I enjoy sports Rugby, Football and Athletics
I enjoy bad 70s martial arts movies like Shaloin Excutioner, Raiders of Shaloin and Snake in the Eagles Shadow as reminds me of late friday nights at the movies
Do not really watch a lot of TV to be honest
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Post by MartinT on Jan 24, 2017 6:49:34 GMT
I no longer watch much TV but I'm completely hooked on Game of Thrones, Homeland, Suits and The Blacklist. For foreign, The Bridge is head and shoulders above the rest.
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Post by zippy on Jan 24, 2017 8:35:59 GMT
Good old B&W 1940's/50's war films.
Not just for the film (though many of them are prize-winning), but the amusing propaganda which is not always well hidden, and the wonderful class/accent distinction prevalent (Noel Coward versus Richard Attenborough) !
Examples:
In Which We Serve
The Cruel Sea
Cockleshell heroes
The Silent Enemy
Ice Cold in Alex (my all time favourite)
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Post by Chris on Jan 24, 2017 18:26:31 GMT
I like a good revenge movie. Dead Mans Shoes is a good example and I also enjoy a good UFO/Alien film. I also enjoy factual based documentaries - the one on Gordon Welchman was good as was the look inside Porton Down.
Interesting stuff.
Im with singularity here as well - Father Teds ace as is Chewin the Fat and Still Game.
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