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richardh 
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 Posted: November 08 2019 at 00:27 |
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^yep but like all HBO dramas you just have to stick with it ( and it does have Jeremy Irons)
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richardh
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Posted: November 09 2019 at 01:26 |
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Swamp Thing is also well worth a mention if only for featuring one of my favorite actors Will Patton . DC stuff is ruling at the moment when you also consider Titans , Watchmen and the film Joker.
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Posted: November 09 2019 at 06:25 |
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f**king A man.. love me some Will Patton... No Way Out.. you came for the Limo scene.. woo hooo..
you stayed for Will Patton. He absolutely stole that movie and not surprisingly his career took off afterward...
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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richardh
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Posted: November 11 2019 at 00:53 |
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I thought he was great in Mothman Prophecies as well. The film would not have been anything like as good without him. The part where he describes an encounter with one of the supernatural creatures totally creeped me out and set the film up perfectly. It's a long while since I watched No Way Out so will need to revisit that one.
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Posted: November 28 2019 at 20:02 |
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The Expanse is pretty damn cool sci-fi. Watching now.
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...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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richardh
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Posted: November 29 2019 at 00:40 |
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^Thanks for the reminder , rescued from the oblivion of Netflix by fanboy Jeff!
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richardh
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Posted: December 01 2019 at 02:08 |
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Annoyingly The Expanse Season 4 doesn't land in the UK until 15 December . I watched the trailer and they are definitely wandering into 2001 A Space Odyssey territory. Can't wait!
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dr wu23
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Posted: December 02 2019 at 11:48 |
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Just a gripe...but I'm really tired of all the companies splitting and charging their own fees....I already pay enough for Comcast cable but to see many of these shows one has to fork over more money to other channels.
Screw that.
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richardh
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 00:41 |
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I'm guessing this is a USA thing? Yep there are separate streaming platforms from different companies, The main ones we have access to are Netflix Apple TV Amazon Prime Video eventually we will get Disney streaming platform as well in terms of packaged TV (which includes terrestrial channels such BBC , ITV etc) we have Sky , Virgin and BT as the main players although normally you still have to pay separately for the extra streaming content above although confusingly Sky also have a streaming arm called Now which is basically for people like me who don't have access to their Sky Atlantic channel which is the UK home of top rated US shows such as Watchmen and Ray Donovan. TV was a lot simpler growing up when all you needed was an aerial to get the only available 3 channels. (although my home town of Swindon was one of the first English towns that pioneered Cable TV , later to be taken over by Virgin) Edited by richardh - December 03 2019 at 00:42 |
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 01:04 |
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^ you're forgetting BritBox - so now we have to pay for what are basically repeats of telly programs we used to watch for nothing on iPlayer and whatever the ITV equivalent is called today.
Oh how we used to moan about all the repeats on telly, now we positively revel in them. Funny old world. |
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dr wu23
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 13:25 |
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I'm enjoying His Dark Materials.....the HBO remake of the Pullman books....Nicole Kidman did the film some years ago. Good fantasy imho.
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 13:47 |
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Not sure is this qualifies as sci-fi (dystopian future drama) but we just started A Handmaids Tail on Hulu.
Very dark and disturbing. Just started season 2. We were a little late to the party on this one but it's really good so far .
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 14:17 |
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I wouldn't mind seeing a Logan's Run reinterpretation. |
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Dean
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 14:31 |
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I wouldn't mind seeing a faithful adaptation of the book.
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Posted: December 03 2019 at 17:30 |
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^ I wouldn't mind a re-interpretation of my own Logan run.
I was not very explanatory in my OP or properly descriptive with my topic title, but for my purposes, such speculative fiction/ dystopian drama would surely fit. I have yet to see season two. I would love to see Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, and it's subsequent novels (The Year of the Flood and MaddAddam) made as a TV series. HBO was looking to adapt those, Darren Aronofsky had been helming the project, but HBO dropped that in 2016. The last I heard, Paramount Television and Anonymous Content was planning to produce the MaddAddam trilogy. |
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Posted: December 04 2019 at 23:45 |
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Not sci-fi, more alternative reality than fantasy, and fairly dark, Warrior is based on Bruce Lee's original treatment for what evolved into the classic Kung Fu series with David Carradine. It follows a Chinese immigrant in 1870s San Francisco and his entanglements with local gangs vying for control of the City's opium business. Slow start but builds into a watchable storyline, a decent Chinese cast who are not relegated to Asian stereotypes, and reasonable martial arts action.  Edited by Atavachron - December 04 2019 at 23:50 |
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richardh
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yep quite new thing . At least there are no adverts that you are forced to watch on the 'ITV player' and presumably available in HD as well . Don't know if there is any UHD content. I've just bought the Now TV Ultra HD box and loving it!
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richardh
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I loved the first 2 seasons of the Handmaids Tale but just got totally bored about 3 or 4 episodes into S3. I think it lost it's way a bit but maybe it picked up again later. I might revisit it when I have time.
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richardh
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Posted: December 05 2019 at 00:59 |
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Agreed. The film was vastly underrated in my opinion although I've never read the book that Dean mentions . It was a very interesting idea although perhaps not that original in sci-fi.
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Posted: December 21 2019 at 05:01 |
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Just finished the latest season of the Expanse and it's good. More colorful language with the move to Amazon (just about every character asks some variation of what the f*** is going on). Good pacing and is able to juggle all the characters. It's a large cast. Not a series to jump in the middle of.
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