Rate the last TV Show you watched

[skend04]

That's my opinion as they are to me.

I'm glad it wasn't a sweeping statement Vlad.

[VladimirIlyich]

I'm glad it wasn't a sweeping statement Vlad.

There are always exceptions to the rule,Family Guy has some cracking musical pieces,The Simpsons too.

'You have AIDS' is a classic.

[Numero Veinticinco]

'Book by its cover' bastards.

[moof]

I don’t know, musicals are fucking great. Show Boat is still one of my favourite movies of any genre.

[VladimirIlyich]

Musicals are for women and their gay male friend,that seems to have become a thing.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Just like what you like, and fuck everyone else. 

[SasaS]

When I was a child, I liked westerns a lot (I still do). I remember one day looking forward to watching the one about Oklahoma or something. It began fine, credits rolling like in big cinemascope picture, great lettering, some cattle and a cowboy riding towards the camera. Imagine my disappointment when he finally filled the screen, opened his mouth and started singing. I think that was the moment my hatred of musicals was born.

 

Admittedly, I enjoyed about 3 so far: Oliver, Fiddler on the Roof, Hair  and as of last year, La La Land which I almost didn't see because it was a musical. So, four. Cabaret was also good, OK, five. And Everyone Says I Love You.

[Mook]

I can't stand musicals apart from three of them...

 

Oliver (the Oliver Reed one)

The Jungle Book (1967)

Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory (the Gene Wilder one)

 

All made over 40 years ago, any new ones can fuck right off, I've seen me having to leave people's living rooms before when some arsehole in the middle of a film breaks into song.

 

Sci fi, horror, period dramas & romantic comedies are other genres I tend to swerve although most of them have the odd exception.

 

On the original point, Game of Thrones is not something I'd be remotely interested in watching at all, other people are welcome to it but to me it looks & sounds absolutely awful. I could be wrong but I'm happy living in ignorance, there's plenty of other shite to be getting on with.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

I tend to think a musical can be good, it all depends what music genre is used. 

 

I'd class any film which has full music interludes as a musical. 

 

I watched 'The Sapphires' earlier in the year and thought it was fucking ace. Obviously I like Motown which influenced my opinion. 

[SasaS]

I have not seen GoT but I fully intend to give it a go when the last series begins, and on the point of dismissing genres, I've seen a fair few good things that initially didn't look like my cup of tea, I have very little interest in zombiana but I really liked Walking Dead which I started watching by mistake, True Blood is another thing I wouldn't normally go for, but I usually look at show creators and it was the guy who created Six Feet Under, so

 

I gave it a go. Mad Men I didn't wont to watch initially because it was promoted as oh so super cool and it was loved by a lot of trendy marketers who mistakenly thought it was a show about them, but when I realized it was created by a man who took over Sopranos I was in.

For me, when deciding what to watch, the first thing is who is behind it, then it's reviews / recommendations from trusted sources then the genre / premise. So I mostly wouldn't dismiss a show on the basis of a genre / premise alone, but it would have to be twice as good to win me over than something I would normally pick.

[SasaS]

I can't stand musicals apart from three of them...

 

Oliver (the Oliver Reed one)

The Jungle Book (1967)

Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory (the Gene Wilder one)

 

All made over 40 years ago, any new ones can fuck right off, I've seen me having to leave people's living rooms before when some arsehole in the middle of a film breaks into song.

 

Sci fi, horror, period dramas & romantic comedies are other genres I tend to swerve although most of them have the odd exception.

 

On the original point, Game of Thrones is not something I'd be remotely interested in watching at all, other people are welcome to it but to me it looks & sounds absolutely awful. I could be wrong but I'm happy living in ignorance, there's plenty of other shite to be getting on with.

 

 

Well yes, old Disney classics of course, but I don't think of them as musicals so much, since I always expected them to have songs 

[lifetime fan]

Just wait for the sequel to Mamma Mia...

[Guest]

I can't stand musicals apart from three of them...

 

Oliver (the Oliver Reed one)

The Jungle Book (1967)

Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory (the Gene Wilder one)

 

All made over 40 years ago, any new ones can fuck right off, I've seen me having to leave people's living rooms before when some arsehole in the middle of a film breaks into song.

 

Sci fi, horror, period dramas & romantic comedies are other genres I tend to swerve although most of them have the odd exception.

 

On the original point, Game of Thrones is not something I'd be remotely interested in watching at all, other people are welcome to it but to me it looks & sounds absolutely awful. I could be wrong but I'm happy living in ignorance, there's plenty of other shite to be getting on with.

I tried watching Game Of Thrones years ago, the first season and I just did not get on with it at all. It started off as a stonking period piece with really authentic looking outfits from years gone by and then suddenly it started turning on it's head with monsters and ghosts and the like. I didn't know what it was trying to be so I just gave it up.

 

It's probably brilliant for most people for the reasons I've given that I didn't like it.

[Tony Moanero]

[Elite]

Great shout Tony.

[Guest]

[VladimirIlyich]

I think there is a big difference between films with music in which are about say people forming a band and doing gigs and shows,and all out musicals.

[VladimirIlyich]

Season 3 of The Bureau was very good again. The Bureau,Braquo and Spiral are all decent French tv series.

[Brownie]

Stranger Things 2 was sublime.

[Jose Jones]

SasaS, on 10 Nov 2017 - 12:14 AM, said:

 

When I was a child, I liked westerns a lot (I still do). I remember one day looking forward to watching the one about Oklahoma or something. It began fine, credits rolling like in big cinemascope picture, great lettering, some cattle and a cowboy riding towards the camera. Imagine my disappointment when he finally filled the screen, opened his mouth and started singing. I think that was the moment my hatred of musicals was born.

 

Admittedly, I enjoyed about 3 so far: Oliver, Fiddler on the Roof, Hair and as of last year, La La Land which I almost didn't see because it was a musical. So, four. Cabaret was also good, OK, five. And Everyone Says I Love You.

The Wizard of Oz? Stone cold classic.

[manwiththestick]

Started watching The Sinner on Netflix last night, not a bad start, I love Jessica Biel so there's a plus point already and you have Bill Pullman playing a slightly weary cop with a pervy side. 7/10 after two episodes.

[Torvald Utne]

Do street dance movies count as a genre? Nobody can defend them surely.

[Hades]

The Good Place 7.5/10

 

Interesting concept. Easy to binge-watch.

[Anubis]

Just finished series one of Mindhunter. 7/10.

 

9/10 for Anna Torv in some close-fitting 70's blouses.

[VladimirIlyich]

The Sinner 6/10

 

Very disappointing. Way too long and pretty uninteresting after a good start to the series.