A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..

[Mr Larrington]

I bin watching Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The 1979 one with Alec Guinness. In it.  Wot I mite only have seen the odd episode of before due to incarceration at st custards when it was first broadcast.  I don’t think it would have passed muster in this day and age, what with the languorous pace, the lack of sex and explosions and helicopters, and the small matter of everyone smoking all the time.

I thought it was æxcellent.

[T42]

Yes. And it used big words such as impedimenta wot only toffs knows these days. AND used it to refer to significant udders and darling little children, forsooth. No respeck. Why can't they say bitch like everyone else?

[citoyen]

In a similar vein, I highly recommend the 1982 TV adaptation of the Barchester Chronicles, a costume drama in which Alan Rickman neither takes part in any dancing scenes, nor whips his top off to dive into a lake. It's mostly just people talking. In costumes. Utterly brilliant.

[L CC]

You had me at 'Alan Rickman'

[T42]

Got that too.

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Obadiah Slope's take-down at the hand of Sra Negroni is delicious.

[andrewc]

Well that's a different take on "Dune".....  https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1419065511736922112?s=20     


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g18jFHCLXk  new trailer.   

[Beardy]

I must have grown up,at some point when I wasn’t looking. I’ve just tried to watch a second SF series from the early 00s on Prime and not managed to get even half way through the first episode. So that’s Lexx and Andromida that I can highly recommend as AVOID. They’re so bad that they’ve missed kitch and even so bad they’re funny. They’re just totally and utterly dreadful.

[Pingu]

There's nothing more likely to put me off a movie film than one of those ghastly frikkin' trailers.

Well that's a different take on "Dune".....  https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1419065511736922112?s=20     


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g18jFHCLXk  new trailer.   

[Kim]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g18jFHCLXk  new trailer.   

Suggests at least a possibility that it might be not shit...

[citoyen]

Looks like a mash-up of Star Wars and The Matrix. Which may or may not be a good thing. I’m intrigued.

I agree with Pingu though - the trailer is cut in a way that seems deliberately designed to induce nausea.

I still love the Lynch version.

[T42]

Well that's a different take on "Dune".....  https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1419065511736922112?s=20     


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g18jFHCLXk  new trailer.

Dontcha hate it when you've been mentally pronouncing a name this way and they pronounce it that way?  Arrakis vs Arrakis.

[Kim]

Looks like a mash-up of Star Wars and The Matrix. Which may or may not be a good thing. I’m intrigued.

Yes, I was half expecting JarJar to appear...

[mrcharly-YHT]

Looks like a mash-up of Star Wars and The Matrix. Which may or may not be a good thing. I’m intrigued.

I agree with Pingu though - the trailer is cut in a way that seems deliberately designed to induce nausea.

I still love the Lynch version.

The Lynch version was all style and no fucking idea.

I loved it for the graphics and would burn the cinemas down (with Lynch in them) for what he did to the plot and characters.

[Regulator]

Just booked tickets for Mr R and I see to see James Blunt at Wembley next February...

[Cudzoziemiec]

I've just discovered that Neneh Cherry is the stepdaughter of Don Cherry. You probably knew this already because you're cultured and artistic, but I'd never heard of him.

[Legs]

Just booked tickets for Mr R and I see to see James Blunt at Wembley next February...

I saw him in Manchester last February, just before Covid struck, and he was utterly brilliant.  Enjoy! 

[Kim]

I've just discovered that Neneh Cherry is the stepdaughter of Don Cherry. You probably knew this already because you're cultured and artistic, but I'd never heard of him.

Also the sister of Eagle-Eye Cherry, from the 1990s.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I've just discovered that Neneh Cherry is the stepdaughter of Don Cherry. You probably knew this already because you're cultured and artistic, but I'd never heard of him.

Also the sister of Eagle-Eye Cherry, from the 1990s.

But not related to Feargal Sharkey:
https://www.discogs.com/The-Undertones-Cher-OBowlies-The-Pick-Of-The-Undertones/master/24522

[citoyen]

I've just discovered that Neneh Cherry is the stepdaughter of Don Cherry. You probably knew this already because you're cultured and artistic, but I'd never heard of him.

Also the sister of Eagle-Eye Cherry, from the 1990s.

And the mother of Mabel (ask your kids).

[Cudzoziemiec]

I've just discovered that Neneh Cherry is the stepdaughter of Don Cherry. You probably knew this already because you're cultured and artistic, but I'd never heard of him.

Also the sister of Eagle-Eye Cherry, from the 1990s.

And the mother of Mabel (ask your kids).

The Bach family for today. Which means only Wowbagger has yet heard of the next generation.

[Mr Larrington]

I discovered in the wee small hours that “Odin's Raven Magic”, a collaboration between Sigur Rós, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Steindór Andersen, Páll Guðmundsson and Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir actually got an official release in December last year, a scant eighteen years after it was first performed. 'tis an orchestral setting of Iceland poem “Hrafnagaldr Óðins”, m'lud.  Steps must be taken to replace the dodgy bootleg version currently residing on my NAS.

[Pingu]

Just watched a Youtube vid of the theme from Harry's Game by Clannad and there's a pic of Harry Reknapp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y0PpwhgO4Y

 

[MattH]

Is that like the infamous Jocky Wilson photo behind Dexy's on ToTP?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdt6jZ6hYDQ
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/mar/27/jocky-wilson-other-rock-myths

I rewatched Harry's Game only a couple of weeks ago - it's aged pretty well, IMHO.

[citoyen]

Some of you will get this...

I was making dinner last night and my son noticed the ingredients I had out on the counter included breadcrumbs and butter beans.

"We're having chocolate biscuits!" he exclaimed.

[Wowbagger]

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/sep/05/miriam-margolyes-it-was-my-duty-to-tell-truth-about-du-pres-death

I'm not sure if this belongs in here - it's hardly a "small" thing when someone makes a claim like this.

Obviously totally unprovable either way, but Margolyes is someone for who I have always had great respect. On the other hand, so is Daniel Barenboim.