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Best TV shows or movies you can recommend (4 Viewers)

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Captain Dart

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  • Jun 24, 2025
  • #4,341
SBT said:
How much does Man In The High Castle follow the book? I read the book earlier this year but wouldn’t have thought it would stretch to multiple seasons!
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The later seasons aren't much based on events in the book at all the book doesn't really have an ending and Dick never wrote the sequel he intended. Amazon wrote in an ending which I found deeply disappointing.
 
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CCFCSteve

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  • Jun 26, 2025
  • #4,342
Late to the party but just finished This City Is Ours. Best thing I’ve seen in BBC for a while. Probably on here somewhere already (sorry) but if you like gangland stuff worth a watch
 
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AOM

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  • Jun 27, 2025
  • #4,343
Nick said:
Just watched the latest final destination, final destination standard film with a good ending
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Wasn't arsed about watching it, but thought it was actually pretty good. Some of the deaths were actually funny as well.
Been rewatching the previous ones again in order since
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jun 27, 2025
  • #4,344
Started watching Ironheart. Meh. I’m not a massive fan of the comics or the characters cameos so far, but had hoped with the recent reset Marvel TV might have got a bit better. Clearly not. I will of course watch it all anyway because my relationship with Marvel is seemingly the same as my one with CCFC.
 

Sky_Blue_Daz

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  • Jun 27, 2025
  • #4,345
I was going to watch 28 years later but seen mixed reviews so might wait for it to come on the firestick
 

Ccfcisparks

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  • Jun 27, 2025
  • #4,346
Just finished the first 2 episodes of the new squid game. GUT WRENCHING.
 
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Terry_dactyl

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  • Jun 28, 2025
  • #4,347
Ccfcisparks said:
Just finished the first 2 episodes of the new squid game. GUT WRENCHING.
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Is it? Worth a watch then?

I watched the last one and thought it was ‘alright’ and was expecting better given the hype.
I had really enjoyed the film ‘Battle Royale’ which I think SG takes from.
 

chiefdave

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  • Jun 28, 2025
  • #4,348
Not film or TV but just got on the train home after seeing My Neighbour Totoro at the theatre.

Absolutely stunning. Would recommend for anyone but if you’ve got kids and want to hook them on theatre take them to this. Only problem being they will probably never see anything this good again.
 
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Terry_dactyl

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  • Jun 29, 2025
  • #4,349
chiefdave said:
Not film or TV but just got on the train home after seeing My Neighbour Totoro at the theatre.

Absolutely stunning. Would recommend for anyone but if you’ve got kids and want to hook them on theatre take them to this. Only problem being they will probably never see anything this good again.
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The studio Gibli film at the theatre?! Im gonna check this out.
 
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chiefdave

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  • Jun 29, 2025
  • #4,350
Terry_dactyl said:
The studio Gibli film at the theatre?! Im gonna check this out.
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My Neighbour Totoro

Book your tickets for the RSC and Joe Hisaishi’s acclaimed production of Studio Ghibli's My Neighbour Totoro. Now playing at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, London.
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Otis

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  • Jun 29, 2025
  • #4,351
chiefdave said:
Not film or TV but just got on the train home after seeing My Neighbour Totoro at the theatre.

Absolutely stunning. Would recommend for anyone but if you’ve got kids and want to hook them on theatre take them to this. Only problem being they will probably never see anything this good again.
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Yeah, my stepdaughter went and said it was absolutely fabulous.
 

Ccfcisparks

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  • Jun 29, 2025
  • #4,352
Got a day of coming up soon so I’m gonna go watch it. What position were your seats in @chiefdave
 

Jamesimus

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  • Jun 29, 2025
  • #4,353
Mo on Netflix if not already mentioned is great.

About a Palestinian American guy and his family living in Houston Texas waiting for their asylum process to be completed. It’s a comedy, but not constant laugh out loud - definitely has an underlying serious tone about it. Very much enjoyed though.

Sounds like it’s a hard watch; it isn’t, doesn’t go too deep or anything. Just kind of fun.
 
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Farmer Jim

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  • Jun 29, 2025
  • #4,354
28 Years Later.

What a disappointment.

I appreciate that this is a completely different film to first two and they`re trying to bring it to a whole new audience, but some of it was just woeful, trying to be too " surreal and clever ".

Jody Comer and Raiph Fiennes were just wasted - turning him into a " nice " tango tanned Colonel Kurtz, I mean WTF

The plot made no sense - the infected starved to death after five months, yet here we have super alpha infected infected running around and fat slow ones crawling around eating worms

The island community added nothing at all to the film, even though it was a very good idea. I`d have been happy of everyone of them had died.

There were a couple of good bits - the causeway chase scene and the petrol scene in particular ( amazing camera work ). Some of the general camera work was excellent too, especially the aerial shots.

One thing I did love and thought it was just so bonkers and leftfield, was Jack O`Connell and his gang of velour tracksuit clad ninjas !!!

I didn`t go in expecting the mad frenetic intensity of the first two, but this was just such a let down.
 
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chiefdave

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  • Jun 29, 2025
  • #4,355
Ccfcisparks said:
Got a day of coming up soon so I’m gonna go watch it. What position were your seats in @chiefdave
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Stalls O23, excellent view. It's not a huge theatre tbh so you'll get a good view from anywhere. Might be worth just trying for tickets on the day. It's been on a while now so I don't think many performances are total sell outs. I went Saturday afternoon and it was full but not sold out.
We are pleased to offer a limited number of £25 day seats, available for each performance located in the Stalls.

These are limited to two per customer and once purchased they are non-exchangeable and non-refundable.

Book online via the LW website only from 10am on the day of the performance.
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shmmeee

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  • Jun 30, 2025
  • #4,356
Watched M3GAN 2.0. I enjoyed it but they’ve really leaned into the camp comedy rather than horror stuff. Was pretty funny in places and looked like everyone involved had a blast. The young dancer who plays MEGAN is incredibly talented, some of the movements are just spot on.
 

Ccfcisparks

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  • Jun 30, 2025
  • #4,357
shmmeee said:
Watched M3GAN 2.0. I enjoyed it but they’ve really leaned into the camp comedy rather than horror stuff. Was pretty funny in places and looked like everyone involved had a blast. The young dancer who plays MEGAN is incredibly talented, some of the movements are just spot on.
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Yes planning to go and watch that this week. Glad its got a decent review, the trailer made it look really camp compared to the first which was actually quite scary.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jun 30, 2025
  • #4,358
Ccfcisparks said:
Yes planning to go and watch that this week. Glad its got a decent review, the trailer made it look really camp compared to the first which was actually quite scary.
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I wouldn’t say it’ll blow your socks off, but it was a fun couple of hours.
 

Ccfcisparks

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  • Jun 30, 2025
  • #4,359
shmmeee said:
I wouldn’t say it’ll blow your socks off, but it was a fun couple of hours.
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I think I'll make time for it. Need to go and watch the F1 movie too, unless it gets horrible reviews.

Next couple weeks not much is out particularly interesting, Jurassic World and Superman which looks terrible
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Jul 1, 2025
  • #4,360
Farmer Jim said:
28 Years Later.

What a disappointment.

I appreciate that this is a completely different film to first two and they`re trying to bring it to a whole new audience, but some of it was just woeful, trying to be too " surreal and clever ".

Jody Comer and Raiph Fiennes were just wasted - turning him into a " nice " tango tanned Colonel Kurtz, I mean WTF

The plot made no sense - the infected starved to death after five months, yet here we have super alpha infected infected running around and fat slow ones crawling around eating worms

The island community added nothing at all to the film, even though it was a very good idea. I`d have been happy of everyone of them had died.

There were a couple of good bits - the causeway chase scene and the petrol scene in particular ( amazing camera work ). Some of the general camera work was excellent too, especially the aerial shots.

One thing I did love and thought it was just so bonkers and leftfield, was Jack O`Connell and his gang of velour tracksuit clad ninjas !!!

I didn`t go in expecting the mad frenetic intensity of the first two, but this was just such a let down.
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The alpha had a massive length though. Nearly took my eye out from the screen!

Jack O'Connell wasn't far off his character in sinners, should have just done a crossover.

Surely they were inspired by a certain sex offender from the BBC?
 
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Terry_dactyl

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  • Jul 2, 2025
  • #4,361
I watched 28 Years Later this week. I thought it was alright…haven’t got too much to add to what’s already been said really.
However they showed the trailer for the naked gun, which looks like it’s going to be either greatest or shittest film ever made…Manslaughter/man’s laughter!
 
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Otis

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  • Jul 2, 2025
  • #4,362
Terry_dactyl said:
I watched 28 Years Later this week. I thought it was alright…haven’t got too much to add to what’s already been said really.
However they showed the trailer for the naked gun, which looks like it’s going to be either greatest or shittest film ever made…Manslaughter/man’s laughter!
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Yeah, just watched the trailer. Not at all convinced it's going to be any good.

Laughed a couple of times, but that was it.

He interesting to see what the reviews say when they come out.
 
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ajsccfc

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  • Jul 2, 2025
  • #4,363
The mans laughter gag is a good one but then the way they have them basically explain it ruins it, original Police Squad/Naked Gun they're absolutely firing these out quickfire and trusting the audience.
 
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Otis

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  • Jul 2, 2025
  • #4,364
ajsccfc said:
The mans laughter gag is a good one but then the way they have them basically explain it ruins it, original Police Squad/Naked Gun they're absolutely firing these out quickfire and trusting the audience.
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Exactly
 
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Farmer Jim

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  • Jul 2, 2025
  • #4,365
Nick said:
The alpha had a massive length though. Nearly took my eye out from the screen!

Jack O'Connell wasn't far off his character in sinners, should have just done a crossover.

Surely they were inspired by a certain sex offender from the BBC?
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It`s 100% Jimmy Saville, Jack O`Connell`s character in the film is called Jimmy Crystal and his followers are called " the flying Jimmies " - seriously !

He`s the young lad, who`s dad is the priest at the very beginning, who willingly gets chomped by the infected in the church, as he thinks it`s " End of Days ".

So from the little you see and hear of his dad, you are led to assume that the young Jimmy Crystal hasn`t exactly had a conventional upbringing - hence him leading a velour clad cult of ninja Jimmies !
 
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Terry_dactyl

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  • Jul 2, 2025
  • #4,366
ajsccfc said:
The mans laughter gag is a good one but then the way they have them basically explain it ruins it, original Police Squad/Naked Gun they're absolutely firing these out quickfire and trusting the audience.
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Airplane and Police Squad etc are ridiculously good at playing it straight. Airplane especially. I’m chuckling to myself thinking about it now…
“This man needs to get to a hospital”!
“What is it”? Etc etc etc.
 
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ajsccfc

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  • Jul 2, 2025
  • #4,367
'Who are you and how did you get in here?'
 
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Farmer Jim

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  • Jul 2, 2025
  • #4,368
Terry_dactyl said:
Airplane and Police Squad etc are ridiculously good at playing it straight. Airplane especially. I’m chuckling to myself thinking about it now…
“This man needs to get to a hospital”!
“What is it”? Etc etc etc.
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It`s the type of comedy that the only the Americans are so good at doing.

Tropic of Thunder is another that you laugh so much at, that it actually starts to hurt
 
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Otis

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  • Jul 2, 2025
  • #4,369
Terry_dactyl said:
Airplane and Police Squad etc are ridiculously good at playing it straight. Airplane especially. I’m chuckling to myself thinking about it now…
“This man needs to get to a hospital”!
“What is it”? Etc etc etc.
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It's a weird one.

I saw Airplane at the cinema and everyone in the audience were splitting their sides, myself included. I thought it was the funniest thing I had ever seen.

Fast forward to just a few months ago, one of my stepdaughters said she wanted to watch it, because she had heard people talk of it as one of the best comedies ever made

So, we sat down to watch it, my missus, myself and her two stepdaughters...

And I think I saw them laughing probably 3 times in the whole movie.

They just didn't find it funny and even though I still liked it. I thought it had dated very badly.

Definitely of its time.
 
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Terry_dactyl

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  • Jul 2, 2025
  • #4,370
Otis said:
It's a weird one.

I saw Airplane at the cinema and everyone in the audience were splitting their sides, myself included. I thought it was the funniest thing I had ever seen.

Fast forward to just a few months ago, one of my stepdaughters said she wanted to watch it, because she had heard people talk of it as one of the best comedies ever made

So, we sat down to watch it, my missus, myself and her two stepdaughters...

And I think I saw them laughing probably 3 times in the whole movie.

They just didn't find it funny and even though I still liked it. I thought it had dated very badly.

Definitely of its time.
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Yeah, the context/time within which we watch comedy definitely changes it, I’d say.
I think Airplane has a lot to give though…I’m now thinking about the captain asking the boy if he watches gladiator movies…and who would recognise Kareem Abdul Jabaar!
It’s a really, really silly film. Maybe how straight it’s played misses the mark for some? It’s a piss take of an already dated style of disaster movie right?
 
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AOM

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  • Jul 2, 2025
  • #4,371
Terry_dactyl said:
Airplane and Police Squad etc are ridiculously good at playing it straight. Airplane especially. I’m chuckling to myself thinking about it now…
“This man needs to get to a hospital”!
“What is it”? Etc etc etc.
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I remember actually crying the first time I saw the co-pilot in Airplane.
Especially the scene when he flies the plane away at the end.

Don't think it would be as funny with a rewatch though, and not convinced they'll be able to replicate that type of comedy now with this remake
 
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Terry_dactyl

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  • Jul 2, 2025
  • #4,372
AOM said:
I remember actually crying the first time I saw the co-pilot in Airplane.
Especially the scene when he flies the plane away at the end.

Don't think it would be as funny with a rewatch though, and not convinced they'll be able to replicate that type of comedy now with this remake
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Yeah, although Neeson might be cast well in it…given his moody, brooding usual appearances.
It’s almost certainly gonna be shite isn’t it.
 
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Captain Dart

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  • Jul 2, 2025
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Terry_dactyl said:
Yeah, although Neeson might be cast well in it…given his moody, brooding usual appearances.
It’s almost certainly gonna be shite isn’t it.
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Most Neesom vehicles are in my experience.
 
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Terry_dactyl

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  • Jul 2, 2025
  • #4,374
Captain Dart said:
Most Neesom vehicles are in my experience.
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Yeah, I’d agree with that.
 

RegTheDonk

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  • Jul 2, 2025
  • #4,375
Terry_dactyl said:
Yeah, the context/time within which we watch comedy definitely changes it, I’d say.
I think Airplane has a lot to give though…I’m now thinking about the captain asking the boy if he watches gladiator movies…and who would recognise Kareem Abdul Jabaar!
It’s a really, really silly film. Maybe how straight it’s played misses the mark for some? It’s a piss take of an already dated style of disaster movie right?
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Watched Airport 1975 the other day, it was on Legend or something, I'd seen it as a kid in the cinema so watched for nostalga. Quite a few moments when I laughed thinking of the Airplane scenes, like the stewardess playing the guitar or Captain Kramer being a micky take of Heston. I think it holds up pretty well as a slapstick kind of comedy and it led to Police Squad being made which I loved, but you're right how people and times change, we tend these days to appreciate more sophisticated comedies for their word play.
 
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