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Bencat57 wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 3:37 pm As my wife is covid positive I have had to stay in so things have had to be watched to keep me a little amused . Waited till now so I could watch the full series of the The Foundation . My elder brother is a huge fan of the books and has been disappointed with the series. I read the books so long ago that I had forgotten most of it so just accepted the series as what it is and enjoyed it as a pretty fun Sci Fi series. Just bought and read the trilogy in hard back and can fully see why the series has to be different as the time scales in the books pass so quickly no chance to identify with any one character.

Also watched the latest Matrix film was honestly not expecting much at all but it was okay nothing like as startling as the first but still an intelligent addition .
I was pretty disappointed with Foundation, as it obviously strayed from the books, and the story just felt clunky.
I then went back and read the books, and, oh my God, they weren't that great either! (The first half of the first book starts off with an inspiring "big idea" but it's all downhill from there. Teenage me was clearly quite easy to impress.)

I hope the new Matrix offering is better than the last one. (Quite liked the first two.)
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I'm binge watching The Wire.

This shit is motherfuckin' awesome,

Involuntarily talking West Baltimore to everyone I bump into in the village is a little inconvenient, tho...
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Foundation should have carried a warning stating "Based Upon Characters Created By Isaac Asimov".

I've been a huge Asimov fan since my teens, over 50-ish years now, and it was NOT Foundation. My mum had a phrase she used about shoddy ill-fitting clothing, which I think applies. It fits where it touches, she'd say.

Having said all that, it was big, it was glossy, there was obviously a lot of money thrown at it, and perhaps people coming to the story for the first time enjoyed it more than us curmudgeonly Asimov train-spotter-esque obsessives. :lol:
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slinger wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 4:59 pm Foundation should have carried a warning stating "Based Upon Characters Created By Isaac Asimov".

I've been a huge Asimov fan since my teens, over 50-ish years now, and it was NOT Foundation. My mum had a phrase she used about shoddy ill-fitting clothing, which I think applies. It fits where it touches, she'd say.

Having said all that, it was big, it was glossy, there was obviously a lot of money thrown at it, and perhaps people coming to the story for the first time enjoyed it more than us curmudgeonly Asimov train-spotter-esque obsessives. :lol:
Indeed if I had no knowledge of Asimov I would probably have loved it, as it is it was more irritating than enjoyable. I have no doubt that Wheel of Time gang are probably muchly upset about the amazon series, but as I have zero knowledge of the books I quite like it.

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For a music doc binge on netflix check out The Long strange Trip on the Dead, Count Me In about drummers which is really good, Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue and the old Rush Doc. All great fun, but I'm afraid I really really liked the Grateful Dead one, hmmmm.
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savvypaul wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 4:40 pm I'm binge watching The Wire.

This shit is motherfuckin' awesome,

Involuntarily talking West Baltimore to everyone I bump into in the village is a little inconvenient, tho...
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BillyBones wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 9:03 pm
savvypaul wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 4:40 pm I'm binge watching The Wire.

This shit is motherfuckin' awesome,

Involuntarily talking West Baltimore to everyone I bump into in the village is a little inconvenient, tho...
A cast iron, 100% classic. Every series is good and it doesn't run out of steam, superb TV up there with the very best.
I've done 3 series in about 5 days. Like a book you can't put down...
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I've binge watched Band of Brothers and Pacific for the second time. Harrowing stuff in places.
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I might have mentioned this earlier but can't remember. However the French detective series Spiral was superb, I watched all of them in about a week earlier this year on BBC iPlayer. I've found that with virtually all non English speaking shows, I stick with the original dialogue with subtitles rather than the dubbed version.

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savvypaul wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 9:47 pm
BillyBones wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 9:03 pm
savvypaul wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 4:40 pm I'm binge watching The Wire.

This shit is motherfuckin' awesome,

Involuntarily talking West Baltimore to everyone I bump into in the village is a little inconvenient, tho...
A cast iron, 100% classic. Every series is good and it doesn't run out of steam, superb TV up there with the very best.
I've done 3 series in about 5 days. Like a book you can't put down...
On the basis of these recommendations, I bought all 5 series on dvd, I am onto disc 5 of series one, but I have motherfuckin awful difficulty trying to understand what the drug dealers are actully saying lol.
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