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Watched the Swedish version of Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, assume its the original film.

Really enjoyed it. I never seen the one with Daniel Craig in it so might give it a go after watching the original.

Lefty2Guns wrote: »

Watched the Swedish version of Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, assume its the original film.

Really enjoyed it. I never seen the one with Daniel Craig in it so might give it a go after watching the original.

I thought the original was far better personally and I’m not much into the whole foreign cinema thing.

SilverangelA5 wrote: »

Ive been trying to watch episode 9 and 10 of "This is us" and keeping getting an error message.

Anyone any idea whats going on? Is this due to changes made to amazon after Brexit?

Brexit should be irrelevant unless you were of course signed up to UK Prime. Had a look there's 2 blocks of season 5 that could be the issue maybe but you don't state which season.

hkjohn wrote: »

If you've not seen Patriot, drop everything and watch it.It's bonkers but brilliant

Thanks for recommending, I'm loving it. Bloody brilliant

I signed up for Prime Video & it's works fine. But the Mauritanian movie shows on a banner but won't show on My Prime. Is it not available in Ireland ?

I had been watching Black Sails on Prime and was about half way through season 2, and now they won't play anymore. Seems like you need to subscribe to Starzplay on Prime for an extra £4.99 a month to watch it now. Feckers.

stronglikebull wrote: »

I had been watching Black Sails on Prime and was about half way through season 2, and now they won't play anymore. Seems like you need to subscribe to Starzplay on Prime for an extra £4.99 a month to watch it now. Feckers.

I don't think you can do that in ROI but you can using Rakuten TV or Apple TV.

Hyperbollix wrote: »

Who in their right mind would cast Liam Neeson in such a film AND tell him to use an english accent.

You would have thought James D'arcy (being an actor himself) would have said something.

I am a fan of Liam Neeson (and I know personally that he is a really lovely guy) but he needs to be a bit more picky with the roles, he was terrific in Ordinary Love recently which is a really excellent film.

Occono wrote: »

I don't think you can do that in ROI but you can using Rakuten TV or Apple TV.

What's the story with Rakuten TV?

Is it free, as when we got our new TV last year seen the app was installed with it but never really used it at all.

Have enough other apps like Netflix, Prime and NOW to keep us occupied so haven't really bothered with Rakuten.

peteeeed wrote: »

palm springs getting some really good reviews , out today

Palm Springs review – ingenious time-loop romance you'll hope never ends
With Covid having turned all our lives into Groundhog Day, it’s perfect timing for this razor-sharp take on the genre

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/apr/08/palm-springs-review-the-time-loop-film-is-back-again-groundhog-day

Its really excellent, the two leads (and jk simmons as usual) terrific

manodepeeple wrote: »

I have Getflix DNS running on the home router and can watch live premiership and just watched the first minute of the very first episode of The Handmaid's Tale to make sure - all on Prime.
Don't need a VPN...
Getflix have brilliant step-by-step instructions.
PM if you get stuck.

Also, BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub etc. all working perfectly on all devices connected to the home router.

does it effect gaming consoles speed connected to router ?......also, can you then watch likes of rte player too ?

Finished Season 8 of the X-Files and, like last season, I have mixed feelings. I was curious to see how my thoughts on Agent Doggett and Reyes would hold up as I remember enjoying them when I first watched this season twenty odd years ago. My opinion remained unchanged. I warmed to Doggett quite quickly, and by the time we got to the finale I was fully behind his character. I like the friendship he develops with Scully, but for me the working relationship doesn’t quite come off. Maybe it’s because Scully just doesn’t feel right opposite a sceptic. I also wish they had done an episode with Scully about what happened to Doggett’s son. They give this story to Mulder later on in the season, but I think they could have also worked it in earlier with Scully. It would have made perfect sense with Scully being pregnant. I was surprised on my rewatch how little the back story of his son comes up. I remembered it as being quite prominent in the season, but in actual fact it’s mainly discussed in one episode, and not a very good one at that. We don’t know much about Reyes at this point but she comes across as interesting.

The season feels weird without Mulder. This didn’t bother me much as a kid because I only started watching a few seasons beforehand, but if you’ve been with the guy for 7 seasons straight, and then he’s not there, it does take some getting used to. I can understand why long-term fans at the time must have found this jarring. His presence is particularly lacking in the more mundane episodes, as sometimes the Mulder/Scully dynamic can lift things; but the Doggett/Scully relationship can’t do the same. When he returns to the season, it does give everything a boost. I cheered a few times when I saw him on screen. What’s frustrating though is they take about 2/3 of the season before they explain what happened to him. It’s not because Duchovny wasn’t around, as he appeared in a few episodes here and there. It felt like they teased it out forever.

Overall, I liked the writing for the characters. Kersh is probably the standout of the season. He comes across so sinister and menacing. One of my favourite moments in the season is when Mulder defies orders to investigate an X-File, and when asked for his name, he gives Kersh's.

The writing for the plots leaves a lot to be desired, however. I’m pretty lost at this point when it comes to the mythology. The monster-of-the-week episodes were often poor, and at times the show began to feel like a chore. A lot of them are akin to superheroes acting bad to the point where I was thinking Billy Butcher from The Boys would be better on the case. For example, in ‘Surekill’, we have a guy that can see through walls. In ‘Salvage’, we have a guy that is made of metal. In ‘Badlaa’, a mystic that can manipulate reality so that those in front of him can’t see him. It made me realise the same was true in previous seasons: we had a guy that was super-fast, a woman that could manipulate the earth, a guy that could control the weather, a guy that could control lightning etc. I wonder do the writers when they’re stuck just pull up a list of X-Men characters and pick one of the powers out!

I’d forgotten the way in which Mulder returns to the show and it was pretty OTT. Mulder, earlier in the show, was revealed to have attended conferences, and been a high-profile figure in the UFO world. It’s hard to swallow he could just return like Lazarus and not cause a sensation. I wish he had just returned as Scully did earlier in the show. A lot of the endings were unsatisfying. There’s one episode, ‘Invocation’, where Scully and Doggett, and a plethora of other people, meet and talk with a child who has returned from being abducted years later, but hasn’t aged a day. It later turns out he was an apparition of some sort. Scully at the end of the episode doesn’t seem fazed by any of this, which doesn't sit well.

I enjoyed the episodes where Mulder gets to play off Doggett. Their dynamic works quite nicely, probably because it’s more traditional for the show. The ending of the season was exciting and Skinner gets a big revenge moment against Krychek. The final scene with the kiss is a nice moment, but the explanation for what happened to Scully leaves a lot of questions. I wonder if Chris Carter even knew what was going on. My favourite episode of S8 was one that didn't centre around any of the main characters: 'Redrum', featuring Joe Morton who played Miles Dyson in Terminator 2. The storyline involves him playing a friend of Doggett, accused of murdering his wife, and every day that passes he goes backwards in time, bringing him closer to the fateful day. I really liked the concept here, but few ideas this season got me invested like this.

My feeling coming out of this season was that the characters continued to be ones I wanted to root for, but that the storyline material was getting weaker. Nowadays, series don’t tend to be 20 odd episodes in length, so maybe that’s a factor. Going to give Season 9 a look now and see what I make of the Doggett and Reyes partnership.

larchielads wrote: »

Finally got round to watchin the us office. I know its been out years. Have to say enjoyed it immensely. I laughed and i cried and laughed some more and cried another bit too.

Def worth a watch if u havent seen it already.
All seasons available

I watched it probably six times now, I'm rewatching with herself as shes never seen it. Creeds song hits me in the feels everytime

I prefer It's Always Sunny to The US Office