TV/iplayer must watches

[spidermonkey09]

Watched Threads last night. Good film, thought it needed a strong edit though, 2 hours was excessive.

Can see why it tapped into the zeitgeist in the 80s. Particularly thought the use of silence when the missiles came down was effective- a technique reused in Oppenheimer. Not sure why its only been shown 4 times, its hardly *that* grim by comparison to a lot of more modern stuff. Presume it will be licensing issues or similar? Its on iplayer for the next 11 months now.

 

[seankenny]

Do you want nice English girls offering a bite on their jam roly-poly? Do you want handsome cads on their knees announcing “I’m a member of the clit-Tory party”? Do you want country houses, Ford Capris, smoking in restaurants, Princess Di, corporate take overs, hand jobs in bluebell woods, Tears for Fears, golf jumpers, getting smashed on Burgundy on Tuesday afternoons?

If so, you want Rivals, the Disney Plus adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s 80s blockbuster novel.

 

[steveri]

A bit like mentioning that farm safety film “Apaches” (1970s, actually projected to primary school kids in village schools all over the country, with nightmares for weeks after.

Funnily enough my daughter just sent me a link to this. Like a very slow slasher movie…

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-apaches-1977-online

This is my favourite of those public information films https://youtu.be/cZhB7fTLezw?si=Cpa-9bccC5cqmhVT

 

[Oldmanmatt]

Just finished “The Old Man”, season 2. On Disney +.
Very good. Excellent casting and depth.

 

[spidermonkey09]

Just finished the 4 part 2004 Tsunami documentary on Disney. Some of the most unbelievable footage I've ever seen. I spent most of the first two episodes slack jawed. Highly recommended.

 

[seankenny]

Just finished the 4 part 2004 Tsunami documentary on Disney. Some of the most unbelievable footage I've ever seen. I spent most of the first two episodes slack jawed. Highly recommended.

In 2007 Oxfam, my then employer, sent me to Banda Aceh to write a report on the post-tsunami reconstruction process. I spent a week going all round the area interviewing local officials and tsunami survivors, it was all very sobering. One man told me how he'd heard there was a huge wave coming but before he ran he just had time to lock his front door. Afterwards the only possession he had left was the key. Banda Aceh city had been supplied with electricity by a huge generator on a flat barge, this ship ended up something like half a mile or so inland, in an area surrounded by houses. Apparently it's now a tourist attraction. (As an aside, if you ever get a chance to visit Aceh then do go, it's fabulously beautiful, I think maybe Falling Down of this parish has been on a surf trip?)

I immediately started watching the documentary when I saw SM's post, and it is indeed very good with quite astounding footage. I've got as far as the episode on Sri Lanka, my partner is British-Sri Lankan and I've been to some of the places in the film, even years afterwards there was a zone of destruction along the beach south of Colombo that you'd see taking the old coast road. Seeing the footage from the day is like watching my relatives or friends being washed away in the flood.

 

[Oldmanmatt]

Just finished the 4 part 2004 Tsunami documentary on Disney. Some of the most unbelievable footage I've ever seen. I spent most of the first two episodes slack jawed. Highly recommended.

In 2007 Oxfam, my then employer, sent me to Banda Aceh to write a report on the post-tsunami reconstruction process. I spent a week going all round the area interviewing local officials and tsunami survivors, it was all very sobering. One man told me how he'd heard there was a huge wave coming but before he ran he just had time to lock his front door. Afterwards the only possession he had left was the key. Banda Aceh city had been supplied with electricity by a huge generator on a flat barge, this ship ended up something like half a mile or so inland, in an area surrounded by houses. Apparently it's now a tourist attraction. (As an aside, if you ever get a chance to visit Aceh then do go, it's fabulously beautiful, I think maybe Falling Down of this parish has been on a surf trip?)

I immediately started watching the documentary when I saw SM's post, and it is indeed very good with quite astounding footage. I've got as far as the episode on Sri Lanka, my partner is British-Sri Lankan and I've been to some of the places in the film, even years afterwards there was a zone of destruction along the beach south of Colombo that you'd see taking the old coast road. Seeing the footage from the day is like watching my relatives or friends being washed away in the flood.

I’ve never managed to reconnect with the family I lived with in Hikkaduwa. The Dewasiri Guesthouse was less than 60 meters from the sea, right in front of the righthand on the reef.
On a slightly more positive note.
My wife and I were on a Dhow, a little North of Dibba that day and our boat was rounded up with several other small ships and fishing boats and herded deep into a Fjord in the Musandam peninsula, by the Omani coastguard.We had no idea what was happening, even the coastguard could only say “storm coming”. At some point, we got jostled around by some alarming swells. The coastguard kept us there, overnight, so we got drunk and partied, still unaware.
We got back into Khasab the next day, to discover damaged coast roads, torrential rain and the Hajar mountains snow capped for the first time in living memory.
Anyway, nine months later, almost to the day, along came child number one. We were pretty sure, we’d been pretty drunk and hadn’t remembered the rain coats and she’d planned to be off the pill for another couple of months before trying, so it was fairly sure.
So we gave our daughter the initials S.E.A.
Strange to think it’s nearly 20 years.

 

[Duma]

Enjoying black doves on netflix so far

 

[creamtime]

Another vote for this from me. I'm enjoying it.

 

[Will Hunt]

We finished it a couple of nights ago and thought it was great. You do have to suspend your disbelief quite a bit.

 

[teestub]

Yeah very silly but very fun

 

[creamtime]

A confession on Netflix; although originally on ITV. A very watchable murder investigation drama, with a very credible cast. I don't often watch ITV drama (because the number of adverts in them is off putting) but without the ads on netflix they often seem to be really good.

 

[spidermonkey09]

The 7/7 London Bombings doc series on iplayer is amazing. I remembered surprisingly little despite having an encyclopedic knowledge of the Ashes series of the same year. Tough watch at times as you'd expect, but really very good.

 

[duncan]

Thanks spidermonkey,

Started watching this and it completely derailed my day. Very powerful at times. Lots of police sounding just as you expect police to sound. Self-serving from certain parties but that's interesting in itself. One irritant: I found the music and sound design domineering, I don't need emotional signposting, to be told these are Important Events, Bad Things Are Happening and when to Be Sad.

I remember the day vividly. It was pre-smartphones (for me) so when a couple of local tube stations were closed I decided to walk the five miles to work. It was a lovely warm sunny day and central London was going about its usual business. The entire mobile network was down so no-one was able to contact me and I enjoyed the walk oblivious of what had happened. Once at work I checked the news websites and the story was starting to unfold.

 

[SA Chris]

I remember shitting it because my brother had just started working in Tavistock Square, and all mobile networks got jammed with increase in calls. Luckily he was working away from office that day.