Q: What are you watching (TV/Streaming/Movies) and want to recommend?

Watching Chernobyl on HBO, been wanting to see it since it first aired so no spoilers!

Seems like a lot of egghead scientists overblowing things in EP1. Have some faith guys, jeez! It’s just a little sunburn!
 
it's not too bad;It still amazes me how badly designed it was. 'Prompt critical' Is not good in a reactor.
 
Grog6 said:
it's not too bad;It still amazes me how badly designed it was. 'Prompt critical' Is not good in a reactor.
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I’m about halfway through and it watches pretty good, I knew a little about the disaster going in from documentaries and articles over the years to spot some dramatic license(like the helicopter crashing from flying too close to the open reactor vs hitting a crane IRL), but it tells the story well.
 
I tried to watch “One battle after another “ after 10-15 mins I grew bored, and then kinda watched it on fast forward but gave up altogether. Just not for me.

Fun fact: At the very beginning of the film they have a green mn12 Thunderbird. Honestly I only watched as long as i did to see if I could see the car again.
 
Green T said:
I tried to watch “One battle after another “ after 10-15 mins I grew bored, and then kinda watched it on fast forward but gave up altogether. Just not for me.

Fun fact: At the very beginning of the film they have a green mn12 Thunderbird. Honestly I only watched as long as i did to see if I could see the car again.
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Me too, only other movie I watched the whole thing of to see a MN12 in action was Jade…. I should have just been satisfied with the YouTube clip 😆
 
XR7-4.6 said:
Me too, only other movie I watched the whole thing of to see a MN12 in action was Jade…. I should have just been satisfied with the YouTube clip 😆
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I looked it up. Did not expect that LOL what da hell.

There's one in front of the motel for the movie Memento. Another tease, partial shot, no driving.

Is there a movie with decent exposure, like actual driving? I recall Mulholland Drive was mentioned, I should watch that.
 
Still working through Peaky Blinders. On Season 3 episode 4. This series is fantastic. I can’t recommend highly enough.
 
I'm still working through King of the Hill on Disney+ / Hulu.

Though, it might take a slight pause for a temporary switch to watch Fallout on Amazon.
 
Finished Chernobyl… So I’d say it’s decent; 6/10, I expected it would be longer tbh, for just 5 episodes I think they could have just edited it down into a movie. I was really expecting they’d show the Elephant’ foot or containment structure construction since that’s what I think a lot of people like myself are casually aware of, but instead it wrapping up with a very Hollywood court scene and forced character arc that I seriously doubt happened left me pretty soured. Had great visuals and acting though, just seems a little wasted.


Currently, resuming one battle after another where I left off, and hey! I finally found the other Tbird in it! Just like I thought from the trailer it’s a red 90 SC with a black interior. Shows up about a hour in. You can see the VMM lights and early autodimming rear view mirror in this scene, shows up an hour in. No exterior shots yet so now that I know it’s there I’ll tough it out and finish it 😆

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Leo spills a bunch of that piss water in it, annoyingly


Edit: Hmm, maybe it is a 91-92, 89-90s just have a standalone moonroof switch, this one has the one with dome lights seen to 97s. The seat perforations are 90-92 spacing though, so not a 93

(I stopped following the plot at this point lol)

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Green T said:
I tried to watch “One battle after another “ after 10-15 mins I grew bored, and then kinda watched it on fast forward but gave up altogether. Just not for me.
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I now actually recommend toughing it out, I checked out like you did on my first viewing attempt but once it flashes forward to present day it gets a lot better.
 
Green T said:
I tried to watch “One battle after another “ after 10-15 mins I grew bored, and then kinda watched it on fast forward but gave up altogether. Just not for me.

Fun fact: At the very beginning of the film they have a green mn12 Thunderbird. Honestly I only watched as long as i did to see if I could see the car again.
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I actually sat through the entire movie. I'd say it isn't horrible, but it took way too long to develop all of the story lines. I definitely expected more based on the trailers.
 
Kurt K said:
I actually sat through the entire movie. I'd say it isn't horrible, but it took way too long to develop all of the story lines. I definitely expected more based on the trailers.
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Frankly I think the first 45 minutes could be skipped entirely and it wouldn’t be confusing in the slightest, pick it up from the bank onwards. The movie isn’t that complicated, I think I went in expecting it would be like a Scorsese or Tarantino flick with the run time and the first hour of exposition but after that it’s basically just a road thriller like Black Dog.
 
LOL I will give it another try this weekend.
 
So I just found it streaming free on the Roku channel, but I saw it before when it aired on AMC and loved it the first time I watched it; The Terror. I remembered it watching Chernobyl last week which also starred Jared Harris, but this was much longer with an equally interesting true story at its basis but in this case featuring a heavily fictionalized horror element…(which IRL it was anyway).

It’s based on the doomed Franklin expedition to find the northwest passage. The acting is superb, the true elements are really true (lead poisoning, mutany and cannibalism) and the made up shit is at least interesting(though I’ll admit the CGI is a little video gamey).

If you’re into maritime disasters as I am and want to see others suffer worse fates in the brutal winter, this is the show for you.


Also it’s season 1. The show’s named the Terror as a double entendre for the ship’s name. Season two is about internment camps or something and ludicrously boring, if that’s what you find don’t bother, it’s shit.
 
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Being a fan of the stand alone X-file episodes, I will certainly recommend Pluribus. I wasn't big on the second episode but all the others are good
 
Vicinity said:
Being a fan of the stand alone X-file episodes, I will certainly recommend Pluribus. I wasn't big on the second episode but all the others are good
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I would second this recommendation. Rhea Seahorn is great at playing an unlikeable character who is still interesting enough to watch.
 
Not sure if any of you youngsters watched the series Scrubs when it first aired, but if you did and enjoyed it, the reboot with many of the same actors was pretty good for the first two episodes.
 
I started watching Initial D again after a snippet came up on my IG feed. I was like, "Yeah, that was a good show!" and fired it up on my Plex account.

Kurt K said:
you youngsters
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How old are you to be calling us "youngsters"? By how we talk here and piecing together where we're all at in our lives, I'd say some of the younger (active) members here are in their early 30s. I'm in my early 40s myself.
 
Kurt K said:
Not sure if any of you youngsters watched the series Scrubs when it first aired, but if you did and enjoyed it, the reboot with many of the same actors was pretty good for the first two episodes.
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I watched the trailer and my first reaction was "man all of these actors look like they've had their faces stretched back pretty signicantly" to the point of being seriously distracting. I thought it was entertaining enough for the time (early 2000s) but clearly died on the vine in the last few seasons.
 
CDsDontBurn said:
I started watching Initial D again after a snippet came up on my IG feed. I was like, "Yeah, that was a good show!" and fired it up on my Plex account.



How old are you to be calling us "youngsters"? By how we talk here and piecing together where we're all at in our lives, I'd say some of the younger (active) members here are in their early 30s. I'm in my early 40s myself.
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Jonathan:
If you liked Initial D, skip his follow-up Anime/Manga about a race series in the new future taking place on street courses in Japan: MF Ghost.
- Basic gist is that Fujiwara's protege comes to Japan from the UK to race in the series in an GR86 and upends the current race order with his "brilliance"
- It's terrible with pacing even slower than Initial D.
- There are some seriously creepy undertones to the series: a competitor driver who only likes dating 17 year olds, others creeping on the "race girl" who happens to be a HS student and is also the daughter in the host family of the new driver.
 
The idiot I knew who liked young girls, forgot they lie, lol.
He got 12 years in GA, and when he gets done there, TN gets him for 20.
The 17+ chick he met online, was 12 IRL. :facepalm:
 
CDsDontBurn said:
How old are you to be calling us "youngsters"? By how we talk here and piecing together where we're all at in our lives, I'd say some of the younger (active) members here are in their early 30s. I'm in my early 40s myself.
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Ha! Well, I know there are a few that have been around since the OG Birdcats, and I was still older back then. FWIW, I'm in my later 50s
 
Zep5.0 said:
We need an anonymous poll. I'd venture a guess that the average age is low 40's.
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Thread 'Are We Really That Old?'

Recent discussion in a separate thread sparked the idea of how old we are. We suspect we're mostly middle aged, but are we? Are we all youngsters with the MN12 being our first (or one of our first) car? Or are we all a bunch of old retired guys with all the time in the world doing nothing but talking, working, or chatting it up here about our MN12s?
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@Kurt K
 
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