Freeview Boxes : Classic or Dud?

Disappointing, indeed.

Shall we all watch THE LAVENDER HILL MOB tomorrow anyway?

btw I missed TITFIELD because it started 40 minutes earlier than the last schedule I saw had announced!

Saturday we should watch LONG DISTANCE RUNNER. Not as if any footy's on.

Magnificent Men - I have a soft spot for those sprawling, international ensemble, chase-type films from the late '60s. Great Race, Monte Carlo or Bust, It's A MMMMM World, etc. Would happily watch for the cast alone for at least 30min.

The Robe - would be curious to see this as it was "the last film I saw at the pictures with your mother; y'know, with Victor Mature" - my Dad, every time anyone mentioned going to the cinema, 1975-2007.

But...work. Not seeing any daytime tv atm.

I watched Magnificent Men a couple of months ago, it's definitely comfort food

the ealing things are entertaining enough but also familiar enough to not be a distraction. but then my home office is the sofa, facing the tv.

TMMITFM was a Pointless question the other day. john the measurer was a pointless answer (in two of the three jackpot round categories, the other one being The Wrong Box, which i've never seen)

chitty chitty bang bang is the only good bond movie

Benny Hill was in both CCBB and TMMITFM (and the italian job)

exactly

Gert Froebe obv in CCBB, TMM and Goldfinger

Benny Hill in a Bond film would've been a treat

high-speed chase through the undersea lair

i can almost hear the mash-up of the John Barry theme and Yakety-Sax in my head

I wished I'd started watching this version "Dorian Gray" with Helmut Berger earlier. Dubbing is abysmal.

I have a soft spot for those sprawling, international ensemble, chase-type films from the late '60s. Great Race, Monte Carlo or Bust, It's A MMMMM World, etc. Would happily watch for the cast alone for at least 30min.

Tremendous post. When I was, what - 7, 8? I can't think what age - it's a MMMM World seemed like the most exciting film in the history of film. Well, apart from THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK if that had been released by the time I'm thinking of.

1:15 today, remember:

https://www.radiotimes.com/film/fj5j8h/the-loneliness-of-the-long-distance-runner/

Some lovely shots, him running through the puddles.

Prefab housing as well is interesting as well.

The final fuck you is great though.

one of Hull's most beloved <3

bolan's girlfriend is ben fogle's mum.

Thing from Another World last night
This Island Earth on right now.

(Chitty also on as i type)

actually, it's classic sci fi weekend on horror.

tomorrow
The Giant Claw (no idea)
Incredible Shrinking Man
20 Million Miles to Earth (Harryhausen)
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (Gerry Anderson)

Ben Fogle's mum also on BBC2 this afternoon (Half A Sixpence; Marti Webb dubbed her songs... Bolam also a minor role).

incredible shrinking man is such a weird mixture of WHAT IT SAYS ON THE TIN and unexpected philosophical turn

Ben Fogle's mum also in the All Coppers Are mentioned recently. It's Ben Fogle's Mum season, obv.

For that authentic lockdown experience Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies is on 5Select (channel 54) at 11 o'clock this morning

"The Swimmer" on Sony Movies (Channel 50) AT 7.05pm.

^^^this is grebt

Yes one of my all time faves

Yes, one for when you think you're having a bad day.

I think THE SWIMMER is repeated next weekend and I will watch then. Never seen it yet.

I'd strongly recommend it!

likewise

INDIANA JONES - all 4 films on BBC over the weekend including RAIDERS Friday, TEMPLE Saturday and BOTH 3 & 4 today.

I watched TEMPLE on Saturday for first time in decades and it was ... even more disappointing than in 1984.

A TASTE OF HONEY is on Sony Classics AGAIN tonight for anyone who missed it.

BABY DRIVER is worth seeing once.

WOLF HALL is apparently ongoing on BBC4.

I think I will watch IJ AND THE CRYSTAL SKULL at 6:40 before UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE - a semi-final?

we watched raiders last night and it was far more old-fashioned than i’d remembered! i hadn’t actually seen it since 1982. big tin-tin energy.

the scenes where they find the real actual tomb poking out of the sand is lifted straight from cigars of the pharaoh

other overlaps: central hero never seems to be doing the job he's paid for, small puttering planes travelling immense distances, quite racist

yes my son said that. “dad this is pretty racist”

he also noticed no black people in mad max fury road which was a v good point

vaguely watching "Carry On Girls" and it's a bit sexist tbh

They'll be telling us "Mutiny on the Buses" is sexist next.

... was on Freeview the other day fwiw.

mutiny on the lost bus

Mutiny on the Buses is the feminist installment of the Buses Trilogy

The Robe's on BBC2. Richard Burton's hair is pretty funny.

Hindle Wakes on TPtv right now, probably only notable for morrissey's pun in that moors murders song.

(it was quite a famous play and an interesting look at the Wakes Weeks thing that industrial towns used to do)

are they showing the 16:9 version?

(i have the dvds of TOS sat in front of the tv, i think i've finished them but can't remember. there's no real end to it - the last episode is just another episode)

Voyager on later in the day too. and Lost in Space. and Time Tunnel (the original?).

Re: Star Trek. Yes, they are the 16:9 version, I think? Anyway, they look great, in fact Star Trek must have blown a few minds when it was first shown, some of the photographic effects (not the polystyrene rocks) are still impressive. The first season of Star Trek is so good.

(LOL McCoy wearing is so much make up in this current episode)

"so for this episode we'll be needing a LIFE FORM OF PURE ENERGY"

"WOLF HALL is apparently ongoing on BBC4."

Yeah it was EP3 by the time I saw that :-(

Fuck, missed it too.

WOLF HALL must be on iPlayer now - I think I'll watch it all again next week.