TV/Movies Megathread

[viper37]

Black Hawk Down I barely remember which leads me to deduce its meh.

Your problem is you have poor memory my friend.

Kingdom of Heaven is one of the historic "It should have been great" movies. Such a waste that ended up thoroughly meh.

Kingdom of Heaven would not please Valmy, that's a given.  About as realistic as Braveheart.

The director's cut is a big long, but much better because some things do make sense.

[Tamas]

Yes the director's cut of KoH is much, much better. Most notably: the king's sister has a son, did you know? So her brooding and actions suddenly make sense - she was worried about her son's future both in terms of health and succession chances. But from the theatrical cut the boy has been cut out.

Also in the theatrical version I was very annoyed at some random French village blacksmith educating the Arabs not just on how to irrigate the desert but how to construct siege engines. In the longer version, it is explained that he is a war veteran who was an engineer.

[celedhring]

The KOH director's cut is much better indeed, definitely turns it into one of Scott's best post-1980s movies.

[Duque de Bragança]

I suspect I might have seen it but honestly don't remember it.

Given that Network DVD, the UK publisher of the series (among many), has gone into liquidation recently, that show will probably be harder to find soon in the British Isles, anyways.

Damn, that's annoying as that company did some great dvd releasese.

Thanks Duque for the bad news. :-(

No Jason King on blu-ray for you then, sorry.

I hope you supported them back then when they released of Hawk the Slayer, the British sword and sorcery/Fantasy film predating Conan the Barbarian. 

Such a great catalogue. '60s shows on HD with excellent 5.1 remixes (original mono being available of course).

[mongers]

I suspect I might have seen it but honestly don't remember it.

Given that Network DVD, the UK publisher of the series (among many), has gone into liquidation recently, that show will probably be harder to find soon in the British Isles, anyways.

Damn, that's annoying as that company did some great dvd releasese.

Thanks Duque for the bad news. :-(

No Jason King on blu-ray for you then, sorry.

I hope you supported them back then when they released of Hawk the Slayer, the British sword and sorcery/Fantasy film predating Conan the Barbarian. 

Such a great catalogue. '60s shows on HD with excellent 5.1 remixes (original mono being available of course).

Yeah bought a lot of dvds there, my favourite is probably their release of the 'Flashing Blade' probably not as good as the French original, but the dubbing seems decent to me!

Also have a fond spot or the low budget 'Arthur of the Britons' starring Tobias, the other chap and with guest appearences from BRIAN BLESSED.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z54XNJivHOs&ab_channel=WarnerBros.Entertainment

the B5 trailer

[HVC]

So... sliders reboot?

[Duque de Bragança]

Yeah bought a lot of dvds there, my favourite is probably their release of the 'Flashing Blade' probably not as good as the French original, but the dubbing seems decent to me!

Le Chevalier Tempête? Not  my time, I can see why the DVDs were interesting in a British context, however:

The UK screenings of this serial on BBC Television were plagued by technical problems. The BBC cut the original 4 x 75-minute editions down into 12 x 25-minute ones, but the print of episode 12 somehow created seemingly insurmountable vision breakdowns, causing picture interruption on the early attempts to broadcast it. For further repeats of the series (apart from 1979), 11 episodes was shown. In 1979 (for reasons unknown) only 10 episodes was shown.

Also have a fond spot or the low budget 'Arthur of the Britons' starring Tobias, the other chap and with guest appearences from BRIAN BLESSED.

I prefer Brian Blessed's role as Prince Vultan in Flash Gordon. 

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Also have a fond spot or the low budget 'Arthur of the Britons' starring Tobias, the other chap and with guest appearences from BRIAN BLESSED.

king of the who?

[Barrister]

So... sliders reboot?

??

[HVC]

So... sliders reboot?

??

The B5 trailer. Jumping between dimensions/alternate realities trying to get home.

[Barrister]

So... sliders reboot?

??

The B5 trailer. Jumping between dimensions/alternate realities trying to get home.

Ah.  You had me googling whether Sliders was rebooted.

Which forced me to watch the video, even though I am at work.  Yeah.  Movie seems completely unnecessary, although fun nostalgia bit.  Love me some Zathras.

[grumbler]

So... sliders reboot?

??

The B5 trailer. Jumping between dimensions/alternate realities trying to get home.

At least Peter Jurasik has some experience with the phenomenon.

[Josquius]

Man Sliders. Prime example of the criminality of US TV in cancelling shows without giving them an actual ending.

[Barrister]

Man Sliders. Prime example of the criminality of US TV in cancelling shows without giving them an actual ending.

I mean a really liked Sliders at first.

The problem was it never had any kind of over-arching storyline.  It was literally just "universe of the week".  I guess it was perfect for network television back in the day for just that reason - you could watch it completely out of order - but makes it rather unsuited for more modern Peak TV sensibilities.

I mean what would the ending be?  "Oh.  We just slid home.  Yay!"