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The Minsky Moment

#33570
July 15, 2016, 09:59:28 AM
Quote from: mongers on July 14, 2016, 09:39:30 PM
Quote from: Siege on July 14, 2016, 09:32:00 PM
I wad going to recommend the British show "the last kingdom", about Alfred the great and the norse invasions and colonization. Available on Netflix.

It's not a bad choice, I think Malthus likes it too.

But I can't get over past it being set around where I live, yet the visuals are all clearly shot in places like Ireland.   :bowler:

Too much development in England now.
We have, accordingly, always had plenty of excellent lawyers, though we often had to do without even tolerable administrators, and seen destined to endure the inconvenience of hereafter doing without any constructive statesmen at all.
--Woodrow Wilson

Malthus

#33571
July 15, 2016, 10:10:27 AM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on July 15, 2016, 09:59:28 AM
Quote from: mongers on July 14, 2016, 09:39:30 PM
Quote from: Siege on July 14, 2016, 09:32:00 PM
I wad going to recommend the British show "the last kingdom", about Alfred the great and the norse invasions and colonization. Available on Netflix.

It's not a bad choice, I think Malthus likes it too.

But I can't get over past it being set around where I live, yet the visuals are all clearly shot in places like Ireland.   :bowler:

Too much development in England now.

Finally, something good will come out of Brexit! 

... future seasons of this show can be shot in mongers' back yard, once all that obnoxious visible economic development is gone.   :D
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

mongers

#33572
July 15, 2016, 10:48:16 AM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on July 15, 2016, 09:59:28 AM
Quote from: mongers on July 14, 2016, 09:39:30 PM
Quote from: Siege on July 14, 2016, 09:32:00 PM
I wad going to recommend the British show "the last kingdom", about Alfred the great and the norse invasions and colonization. Available on Netflix.

It's not a bad choice, I think Malthus likes it too.

But I can't get over past it being set around where I live, yet the visuals are all clearly shot in places like Ireland.   :bowler:

Too much development in England now.

I think it's do able with careful selection of camera lines, but I suspect the real reason is it's just too expensive to film in England vs Ireland and when you chuck in tax-breaks it makes abroad a compelling option.

I should add, filming it in Normandy/Brittany would have gotten a better result and possibly still accrued some financial benefits?

Polanski shot 'Tess' there, perhaps for other reasons, but the results were a very good approximation for rural Southern England 130 years ago.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Sheilbh

#33573
July 15, 2016, 10:51:37 AM
Last Kingdom was largely filmed in Hungary :contract:

Tax is why loads of films are done in the Isle of Man though.
Let's bomb Russia!

mongers

#33574
July 15, 2016, 10:52:54 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on July 15, 2016, 10:51:37 AM
Last Kingdom was largely filmed in Hungary :contract:

Tax is why loads of films are done in the Isle of Man though.

Well that makes it even more 'foreign'.  :bowler:   


:P
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Josephus

#33575
July 15, 2016, 11:44:36 AM
Surprised "Isle of Man" is still a thing. You'd think by now some ultra liberal has gone on how it should be Isle of Person
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

crazy canuck

#33576
July 15, 2016, 11:49:59 AM
Finished binge watching season 2 of Marco Polo.  It is a much better Game of Thrones then Game of Thrones.
Awarded 17 Zoupa points

In several surveys, the overwhelming first choice for what makes Canada unique is multiculturalism. This, in a world collapsing into stupid, impoverishing hatreds, is the distinctly Canadian national project.

celedhring

#33577
July 15, 2016, 11:51:59 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on July 15, 2016, 11:49:59 AM
Finished binge watching season 2 of Marco Polo.  It is a much better Game of Thrones then Game of Thrones.

Bold statement. I thought season 1 was uneven but I will give 2 a go, then.

Sheilbh

#33578
July 15, 2016, 11:52:58 AM
Quote from: Josephus on July 15, 2016, 11:44:36 AM
Surprised "Isle of Man" is still a thing. You'd think by now some ultra liberal has gone on how it should be Isle of Person
Ultra liberal on the Isle of Man is opposing corporal punishment for petty crimes. Liter.
Let's bomb Russia!

celedhring

#33579
July 15, 2016, 05:43:13 PM
The Best Offer. One of those twist ending films where you can see how everything is going to unfold 15 minutes in.

Habbaku

#33580
July 15, 2016, 09:04:05 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on July 15, 2016, 11:52:58 AM
Quote from: Josephus on July 15, 2016, 11:44:36 AM
Surprised "Isle of Man" is still a thing. You'd think by now some ultra liberal has gone on how it should be Isle of Person
Ultra liberal on the Isle of Man is opposing corporal punishment for petty crimes. Liter.

Liter?  Does the Isle of Person also refuse to use the metric system?
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

celedhring

#33581
July 16, 2016, 04:49:45 AM
The world is doing a lot of scary news again and I'm not sure what will happen anymore. I think now is a good time to re-watch The Fugitive. If I know anything for certain, it is that Dr. Richard Kimble is innocent.

Duque de Bragança

#33582
July 16, 2016, 05:47:59 AM
Watching the biggest reptilian conspiracy ever: V!

Michael Ironside inside. :)

crazy canuck

#33583
July 16, 2016, 10:21:46 AM
Quote from: celedhring on July 16, 2016, 04:49:45 AM
The world is doing a lot of scary news again and I'm not sure what will happen anymore. I think now is a good time to re-watch The Fugitive. If I know anything for certain, it is that Dr. Richard Kimble is innocent.

You could get into the mood and watch Occupied on Netflix - near future Russian occupation of Norway...


Watched an episode of Black Mirror.  Canadian Netflix only has one episode - White Christmas.  I thought it was very well done.
Awarded 17 Zoupa points

In several surveys, the overwhelming first choice for what makes Canada unique is multiculturalism. This, in a world collapsing into stupid, impoverishing hatreds, is the distinctly Canadian national project.

celedhring

#33584
July 16, 2016, 10:25:50 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on July 16, 2016, 10:21:46 AM
Quote from: celedhring on July 16, 2016, 04:49:45 AM
The world is doing a lot of scary news again and I'm not sure what will happen anymore. I think now is a good time to re-watch The Fugitive. If I know anything for certain, it is that Dr. Richard Kimble is innocent.

You could get into the mood and watch Occupied on Netflix - near future Russian occupation of Norway...


Watched an episode of Black Mirror.  Canadian Netflix only has one episode - White Christmas.  I thought it was very well done.

I have heard lots of raves about Occupied. Gonna get added to the list.

Black Mirror is great.
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