Don't know if you have the option but Netflix has all of them available for streaming. I actually love Netflix because of this.

Watched a couple of Magnums last night...The first one I forget...Oh, the one with the P.I. award with Luther Gillis and Annie Potts in!!...That was fun...Mostly...

But the other one was that Death and Taxes one that Subrosa mentioned ages ago...The one with the Genesis song (Mama) in it...Where the serial killer kept ringing him up with riddles and stuff...

Proper creepy episode...Loved it!...Hells, even McDaughter was hooked, and she really doesn't like watching it anymore!...Well, she likes the characters of Magnum and Higgins, but the others, as she says, "Oh my Gahhhhhd!"...

But yeah, Magnum at its finest!...

The Magnum Vice episode! That was a really cool one, and really weird. It has such a different feel than the other episodes in the show.

Absolutely!...Definitely one of the best ones of the whole series...

There was much joy expressed by the McKids when I mentioned that there was "Only" 30 episodes or so left... ...

We've decided when we've done the Magnum, we're going to finish off The A-Team DVDs we've got...Only two seasons to go with that too!!...We were halfway through season 3 when we stopped...That leaves the full season 4 and the half-season 5!!!...Awwww, they're gonna be so pleased... ...

What Happens in Vegas.

I only put it on due to boredom, but it's not actually a bad film.

Just watched The Life Before Her Eyes. It was a nice, slow, poignant movie. I do not want to give away any spoilers, though the movie does give plenty of little hints, like the rain, the water, the song "She's Not There" always playing, and so on, that lead to the sad ending. If you are in the mood for a good - if sad - chick flick, try this one.

Melanie Griffith was in Hawaii Five-O last night...What the hell happened to her?!!!...I mean, she was never...Amazing looking (IMO)...But oh my... ...

Anyways, Five-O and NCIS:LA...

I am trying to watch The Amazing Spider Man. The main character is such a douche bag, that I don't think I can sit through the entire thing. But even that aside, the movie feels souless, like a blatant cash grab. The more I watch, the more I wish I was watching one of the Raimi movies instead. I think I am going back to The Shield.

...Oh, fair dues...Each to their own and all that...Like I said before, I was surprised how much I enjoyed the new version...I couldn't stand the "old" ones...Well, never been a Spidey fan really...

Anyways, just watched Doctor Who - The Satan Pit...The second one of the Black Hole Spacebase with The Devil™ and The Ood...

I really had forgotten how good this one was...It's one of them that never really leaps to the front of the brain when I think of the series...Which is a shame, because I really, really enjoyed that...

Looking forward to the next one...It's another I've rarely seen...Maybe twice, all told...Love & Monsters...The Doctor-Lite episode with Peter Kay as The Absorbalof and Marc Warren as the Jeff Lynne loving lad that tries to track the Doctor down with his L.I.N.D.A. bunch...

I´ve gone back to Seinfeld..

Awesome it is, even today!

I thought that'd be one of the best things about it.

I have forgotten to mention I watch Deadliest Catch and Gold Rush. I especially like Gold Rush

Vicious, Mom and Warehouse 13...

WH13 was really good...It's a shame it's the last series...I have quite enjoyed that down the years...

Just watched Solomon Kane.

Not bad, though personally I think it would have made for a better film with a little less of the "sold his soul to the devil" cliche.

Oh please don't let Always Sunny fall.

It's seemingly getting a bit stale, they even made fun of themselves for rehashing an old plot but with some changes.

The jokes aren't nearly as funny, I hope it gets back to being funny.

Still worth a watch since Seasons 1-3 are some of the best TV ever and 4-7 are amazing as well.

I'm sure we watched that a few months back... ...It's got that welsh bloke in it, hasn't it?...Hmmmm...I'm sure we did...

Ne'ermind, no matter...

Top of The Pops '79 and Castle...I love Castle, it's an absolutely excellent series...So funny and warm and clever and exciting...Which is just what you need of an evening sometimes... ...

I am watching Milius. It is a fascinating look into the career of Hollywood legend, John Milius. He's bombastic, machoer than macho, and in his own words absurb. This is the guy who wrote lines like "Do you feel lucky punk?" from Dirty Harry, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning", the USS Indianapolis scene from Jaws, and of course "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!".

He was the writer for Apocalypse Now, and when Martin Sheen was doing the narration he though Sheen could do better. So he took out a .45 automatic, cocked it, and put it in Sheen's hand. Then he had him read it over again.

Revenge of The Sith...

I enjoyed it a hell of a lot more than I had before...I'm not sure why really...

Yes, there's massive problems with many aspects of it...But...I seem to have forgotten most of the film...Then again, it is nearly 10 years since it came out...McBoy pointed out he was 4 at the time...*Shrug*...That's the sort of thing he usually remembers anyways...

But yeah, I feel like reading the novel again...It is by far the best of the SW movie to book adaptions...It may even be one of the best movie to book adaptions of any film...So good...

Anyways, on to the original trilogy next...The kids are already complaining... ...But, as I said to them, a deal's a deal...We were watching them all...So we have to...So there... ...

I started into the final season of The Shield. Wow. Vic Mackey could school Machiavelli. It starts out with the Mexican Mob quietly taking over Los Angeles, Vic about to be thrown off the police force, and the Armenian Mob out to kill him and his family. By the end of the first episode Vic has saved his job, at least for a time, killed the hitman sent after his family, and engineered a gang war between the Mexicans and Armenians. The pièce de résistance though is that he convinced his former best friend (who ratted him out to the Armenians), that they are cool again, when in actuality Vic is going to kill him once the dust settles.

Just watched a couple of Magnum episodes...

One where Magnum's ex-wife, Michelle turns up with her daughter...Who may or may not be, but is in all likelihood Magnum's...

Also...Jean Scott Bruce!!!!... ...

And then one where Thomas and Higgins were getting a bit stupid with the getting back at each other...Not the greatest episode of the season, that's for sure...

Yeah, that one with Magnum and Higgins going at one another was probably one of the all time worst episodes in the show.

Just finished watching RED.

Gotta love that film

Hawaii Five-0, NCIS:LA and Magnum...The first one of the crossover episodes with Murder, She Wrote...Not that impressed again, really...I was expecting better, I must admit...Nice to see Jessica Fletcher and all...But the rest of it got on my wick...Shame really...

I was pretty unimpressed with that Magnum/Murder She Wrote crossover too. My Magnum disc had the Murder She Wrote episode on it too in the bonus features. So even watching both parts, it was not very good. Like a lot of the later Magnum episodes, it is ho hum.

Well, we're going to do that one in a bit...So looking forward to it... ...We've been enjoying these of the latest series up to now...Shame really...

Watching Prohibition, by Ken Burns. Like everything he does, it is very well done. Very enlightening too. For example, modern day Americans drink 1/3rd the amount of whiskey than they did in the 19th Century. So back then, people really drank a lot!

We actually really enjoyed the Murder, She Wrote episode...That part 2 of the Magnum/MSW crossover thing...

The only complaint I really have is that the Magnum one tied it all up really neatly, so that any repeats of Magnum wouldn't need to be tied to MSW...but the "Previously On" thing at the start of MSW had the ending from the one that tied in properly and had Magnum arrested for murder...

But, no biggie...


Also...Almost Human, which is good...Warehouse 13, also good...Top of The Pops 1979, which is properly awesome...Castle, which is so truly fantastic as it should be a series on its own network that only shows Castle episodes back to back and I wouldn't ever complain it is that good...*Draws breath*...And Agents of SHIELD...Meh...

Oh, I quite like Murder She Wrote. Sometimes they run Jessica marathons on the tellie here. Sort of like a Disneyesque murder show.

Anyway, I figure out whodunit at about 57 minutes into the 60 minute show when Jessica tells me. Darn Mrs Acadian usually figures it out the moment the show drops that one 'clue' of something that doesn't quite 'belong'.

McWife is like that too!!... ...It's like, "Shush woman!! Us hard of thinking need to keep the mystery a little longer!"... ...

We both used to watch Murder, She Wrote with our respective families back in the day, when it was first on in the UK...Probably late eighties I remember much of...Around the time Magnum finished over here...

Oh, yeah, we never got the last season of Magnum on tele btw...No, the last we saw of Magnum was as he walked off into the clouds!...So that's going to be a new one on us anyways...

But yeah, we got the huge grins on at the MSW theme tune...It's been ages since we heard that!...

I miss Tom Boseley(?) Ritchie Cunningham's dad!!!... ...

My granny enjoyed Murder, She Wrote.

now feel old.

The Eurovision Song Contest...*Nods*...Recent years have been classics...Loads of awesome songs...Not so much this year...It's as if everyone's fielded a song that is almost guaranteed to not win, but is still actually quite good...Y'know?...

Anyways, it was won by a bearded woman impersonator...As you do...

Actually, this was an awesome song...Deserved winner...But, like I said...I think everyone else let it somehow...

The over reaction about Austria winning was stupid.

Countryball had a sh*tfit

I'm watching The 51st State

Love this film

The sad thing is, I'm sure that these people overreacting to what the lad is, are missing the point that he was pretty much the only one who performed properly...And brilliantly...And was, really, the best song on the night...

Sad really...



Aaaamywho...Watched the Magnum where he gets held prisoner on that island...Well, kind of...

And, oddly enough, Hawaii Five-O and NCIS:LA...

I am through 2 of the 3 episodes of Prohibition. Each is about an hour and a half long, so they are like watching a movie. Some of the stories about the bootleggers are just astounding. Like a guy named George Remus who bought up some of the shut down distilleries, and then some pharmacies. That is because during Prohibition alcohol could still be bought from a pharmacy if you had a doctors prescription. A lot of people suddenly got sick as soon as the Volstead Act went into effect... Finally, Remus even created his own trucking company. So he made the booze, which was supposed to go to the pharmacies to be sold legally, but in reality he hijacked most of his trucks and sold the liquor illegally, since there was a lot more money to be made that way. He made $40 million in just three years.

Of course Remus eventually went to prison. If that was not bad enough, while he was behind bars, his wife took off with the federal agent who had arrested him, the two of them took all of Remus' money, and she finally divorced him! When he got out of prison he shot and killed his now ex-wife. The jury let him off on a temporary insanity plea!

All these bootlegging and gangster stories got me in the mood for The Untouchables, which I just finished. Next up, I think I might watch Mobsters.

Mom...

Vicious...

and this awesome programme called Man vs Weird...Where this excellent chap went around eastern Europe in search of people with apparently superhuman abilities...He, for the most part...Failed...Still, awesomely interesting programme...

On to Part 3 of Prohibition, and the gangsters taking over bootlegging. The Beer Wars stared in 1926, when Al Capone started his takeover of Chicago. By the end of the year over 76 mobsters had been murdered, then 54 more in 1927, and not one person was arrested for them. The depth of the corruption is just staggering.

On the happier side, before Prohibition, women never went into saloons. They were a purely old boys club. But when Prohibition came along, the saloon died. The Speakeasy that took its place - where laws were not enforced - became a home for women. Before Prohibition American men and women never drank together. Afterward, women would be found at every bar. It is a great example of the Law of Unintended Consequences. No one ever imagined that making alcohol illegal would get women out partying with the boys.

Is there Irish police.

There has to be.

"boyo"

Saw the last episode of "Crossing Lines." Not sure when Season 2 will be available. AND they left us with a cliff-rac... um... cliff-hanger ending. Thus am I repaid. sigh

Enjoyed the series quite a bit, good cast, with only one "known" (to us) actor. And then there is Badger Bait, who is NOT hard to watch at all.

GOT. Peter Dinklage desserves an Emmy for his performance in this scene. That outburst!

What made it powerful was the fact that Tyrion was always a comical character who held back his emotions throughout the seasons all the way up onto this point.

Oh my... ...Wow...Fair dues, that was mighty, right there, that was... ...So help me, I might actually read what happens there now... ...



Anyways, completely skipped the Doctor Who episode, Fear Her...The one with the alien in the girl's head and it's ship in the patch of road, and the whole drawing pictures that moved etc...Oh, and the Olympic flame thing...Urgh...Yawn...Wasn't a fan of it back then...Back when the 2012 it was set in was still some way into the future...*Shudders*...So couldn't bring myself to waste a watching with it anyways...

So, skipped forward to Army Of Ghosts, the one where The Doctor and Rose go back to Earth and there's things that the people presume are their dead relatives coming back...And it turns out to be Torchwood and the rift and Cybermen and The Daleks and Tracy Ann Oberman's cleavage...Oh wait...No...That's not...Ooooh!!!...Freema!!!...*Sighs happily*...Freema indeed...

Nevermind...Another one I've not seen in years and thoroughly enjoyed...Yes, I might have actually enjoyed Fear Her...But...Probably not...



Well...She's...Wow... ...

Just watched The Fantastic Four. I'll watch the second one tomorrow

Gods, I do love those films

Warehouse 13...Ye Gods that was the best one ever...Mostly in Spanish...You had to watch it really...But so funny....

Almost Human...Interesting series...Shame it got cancelled...Karl Urban is really excellent in it...Well, he's been excellent in everything I've seen him in anyways, so it's not really a shocker... ...

Killer Elite.

I'm not really sure what to make of it. It has it's good moments and its bad.

*shrug*

Going to see Godzilla!!

He looks fat in all of the pictures I have seen.

Yep. He was huge.

Monstrous, perhaps?... ...




Aaaanyways...Just Castle, last night...

They recently had the finale over there in the US...People were unimpressed by the artificially created jeopardy that they found in the story...It looks like a late final signing on of Nathan Fillion and the network's granting of another series kicked them in the head when it came to a finale story... ...

Still, we're not there yet, over here...So it was awesome!!... ...

So how was G-Zill? Most of the reviews I read say it was good, but not great. They say the cgi G-Z looks excellent. I read in one place that Andy Serkis was even brought in at one point to help them nail down things like facial expressions.

But they also say there is a big slow slump in the middle of the film, and that it seems to miss out on opportunities. One of the strongest things of the original Gojira film (before Raymond Burr came along) was that it really did something with Godzilla being the fruit of nuclear weapons. On one hand he was a rampaging force of nature that was coming back to make humanity pay for its hubris. But as the palentologist from the original movie stressed, Gojira had suffered a massive dose of radiation poisoning and survived. He was the key to overcoming the harmful effects of nuclear power and weapons. My understanding from the reviews is that the new movie misses out on using G-Z as that force of nature, in either respect.

I really liked Godzilla.

I thought the monster parts were great. The story was interesting and paced in a way that made me anxious for more monster. Usually when they try to be too technical the characters just sound silly, and this movie was vague enough to not distract with pretend science.

The big (in scale) scenes were exciting and often beautiful to see. I suppose that’s art direction. Those guys did a great job. There was one scene that took my breath away, it was that gorgeous. They also did an awesome job of creating suspense. These creatures are HUGE, and yet they managed to create some tense and surprising scenes out of smoke, darkness, claustrophobic cityscapes, and equipment failures.

The small scenes where people were in offices and houses usually provided a lot to look at. Background clutter, rooms that looked lived in, that aspect was well done. However the reason I noticed this is that the human stories were so boring I was looking at the dishes, vintage toys, and cat figurine just like the one a Japanese exchange student gave me during the time period portrayed in the scene. That’s not good. The background should be rich, but in the background. I’m pretty sure I was supposed to care about the characters.

I’d guess that the part the reviewer identified as dragging was the family story. There was a message about the sacrifices made by the families of active military and first responders. At one point someone must have realized that they had accidentally portrayed the protagonists as the actual worst parents in the world, because they spent a lot of time backpedaling and creating a bunch of unlikely happy situations instead of going for grim. It would have been a better movie if one of them had died.

The reviewer completely missed the boat on the force of nature bit. Godzilla was very much a force of nature in this movie. It couldn’t have been plainer. The “wise” character even talked about him in those terms. There were also visual references to earthquakes, hurricanes, and tsunamis in addition to the things that were stated outright. I’d say that the insignificance of human endeavor to nature was a pretty big theme. Of course this Godzilla took a different role than he did in the original movies, so that might have thrown them off.

To me the biggest mistake was trying to develop some of the characters too much. In most cases the points could have been made better with an unnamed series of characters in vignettes rather than the bunch of people they tried to let the audience know personally. We just needed to recognize the humanity in the moment. The backstory was often unnecessary baggage.

There were other cool monsters but the star of course was the big G himself. I thought he looked awesome. There should be a new award for Best Tail. They really seemed to honor the original vision of Godzilla as some sort of pear shaped dinosaur-gorilla-alligator-whale creature unlike anything else. I remember watching the old movies, and from the first glimpse this guy was definitely my Godzilla.