Biggest TV disappointment ever

[Londonscottish]

This must rank up there. SWMBO'd popped her head round the door last night and and said "Did you realise that Top Gear is about to start. Want to watch it with me?"

I nearly fell off my chair. This NEVER happens in my house. I said I'd be through as soon as I'd sorted the scanner (as I had an important document that needed to be with a building supplier first thing this morning).

Several reboots (grr....) and twenty minutes later I made it to the TV room. To my horror she'd given up waiting and was now watching the BAFTA's. And they were being hosted by that ultimate smarm ball Jonathan Ross.......

AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Oh well, at least I got an early night........

 

[npuk]

The BAFTAS started after Top Gear finished.

 

[tpwuk]

Maybe she's paused live TV and then gave up waiting.

 

[Londonscottish]

The BAFTAS started after Top Gear finished.

Oh did they? In any case it was immaterial - I'd missed my slot and that was that.

(I only just managed to finish watching the Aussie TG last Saturday - so I've got two stored up now....)

 

[Bellow]

You didn't miss much.
It'll be re-screened - probably this evening.

 

[Londonscottish]

Maybe she's paused live TV and then gave up waiting.

I guess. As per my earlier post it's recorded anyway - I'll just have to find a time to watch it.

Busy job, two young kids, major construction project, blah blah.

So in about three weeks or the next time SWMBO'd goes on a girlie night - which ever is sooner.

 

[Londonscottish]

You didn't miss much.
It'll be re-screened - probably this evening.

Well it's got to better that Wossie and the BAFTA's.

I just don't get films. And as for all the flouncing around.....pass the bucket.

 

[219]

Ah - there was me thinking this thread would be about the much hyped new channel on Sky . It was being shown on Freeview over the weekend , no doubt to encourage some new subscribers .

About five minutes was enough to convince me I am not missing anything and that the subscription I don't have is money wisely not spent .

 

[Londonscottish]

Ah - there was me thinking this thread would be about the much hyped new channel on Sky . It was being shown on Freeview over the weekend , no doubt to encourage some new subscribers .

About five minutes was enough to convince me I am not missing anything and that the subscription I don't have is money wisely not spent .

Actually it was a rather over-hyped title.

I just never get to see what I want when I want these days - am in competition with one wife, two kids, and endless other things that need to get done.

I can't the point of that Sky channel - it's just re-runs of things I wouldn't have watched anyway. I think.

 

[Ted]

I can't the point of that Sky channel - it's just re-runs of things I wouldn't have watched anyway. I think.

Doesn't that apply to ALL of Sky?

 

[Bellow]

W
I just don't get films. And as for all the flouncing around.....pass the bucket.

Maybe you just haven't found films yet. Movies are a fantastic medium - a good one leaves me thinking afresh for the following week.

CBA'd with the standard brain numbing action (kill everyone in sight) ones though. Action films are just boring! All bang bang and no characters. Dull.
Worse still are all award ceremonies - self congratulatory back slapping just makes me sick - and leads to formulaic everything. Never mind the inherent corruption...

 

[Rory]

Ah - there was me thinking this thread would be about the much hyped new channel on Sky .

I thought it was going to be about a 70" 3D television that turned out to be rubbish!

 

[AlanD]

So so many wonderful films! Ask me a genre and I'll give you a whole bunch of recommendations! For starters, here's some from the less standard side of life:

Mulholland Drive
Requiem for a Dream
House of Sand and Fog
A Clockwork Orange
Donnie Darko
Vanilla Sky
Brazil
Lost Highway
Pan's Labyrinth
Blue Velvet
V for Vendetta
Lars and the Real Girl

Ahem .. where'd that tangent come from!?

 

[Bellow]

I'll give the thumbs off to at least half of them straight off.
And add
Sin City, Apocalypse Now, Five Easy Pieces, Badlands, and Betty Blue just off the top of my head.

 

[finisterre]

Zulu

 

[jaymanek]

So so many wonderful films! Ask me a genre and I'll give you a whole bunch of recommendations! For starters, here's some from the less standard side of life:

Mulholland Drive
Requiem for a Dream
House of Sand and Fog
A Clockwork Orange
Donnie Darko
Vanilla Sky
Brazil
Lost Highway
Pan's Labyrinth
Blue Velvet
V for Vendetta
Lars and the Real Girl

Ahem .. where'd that tangent come from!?

You obviously like those films that leave you wondering what the heck happened afterwards....

 

[Londonscottish]

Maybe you just haven't found films yet.

Well I'm 47 and, no, haven't really "got" films yet.......

So therefore don't get the hype either.

 

[Londonscottish]

So so many wonderful films! Ask me a genre and I'll give you a whole bunch of recommendations! For starters, here's some from the less standard side of life:

Mulholland Drive
Requiem for a Dream
House of Sand and Fog
A Clockwork Orange
Donnie Darko
Vanilla Sky
Brazil
Lost Highway
Pan's Labyrinth
Blue Velvet
V for Vendetta
Lars and the Real Girl

Ahem .. where'd that tangent come from!?

I recognise some of those - more the sort of films I do enjoy. Bit left field, bit art house - more thought provoking than the usual Hollywood stuff which doesn't do it for me.

Saw Avatar the other day, for example - I will never get those hours back.......

 

[Stratman]

Some films are good, some films are bad, most are unremarkable.

What is completely unnecessary is a luvvies mutual admiration society whose sole purpose is to award itself prizes in public. Sadly, in the past I've had to work on the televising of this rubbish, and the fawning is truly sickmaking.

 

[AlanD]

You obviously like those films that leave you wondering what the heck happened afterwards....

... and not telling my sister about them as I still seem to land up trying to explain Pulp Fiction to her, never mind the subtle overlay of dream atop reality that is Mulholland Drive!

Requiem for a Dream is un-relentlessly harsh .. a difficult assault on the viewer that leaves one sickened and in admiration of the quality of storytelling that is achievable through cinema.

Pan's Labyrinth is one of the most beautiful, creative and wondrous films, again, set atop a harsh backdrop of the cruel reality of life.

Avatar and Independence Day RULE! With a large popcorn Some films are meant to be dumb and entertaining in the true Hollywood way!!

That or I'm just odd ...