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🎄CHRISTMAS TV FILM WATCH 2024 🎅

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  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,010
    Agreed on This is Christmas - very predictable but a lovely easy watch festive film!
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,764
    Is that new Sky Xmas caper film with Lee Mack as much of a Home Alone rip off as the trailer suggests?
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,081
    SuedeAdidas said:
    Is that new Sky Xmas caper film with Lee Mack as much of a Home Alone rip off as the trailer suggests?
    I’m not planning to find out, it looks atrocious. 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,844
    Bedsaddick said:
    Here we go again -   ITTTTSSSSS CHHHRRISSTMMASSS!!!!
    Three recommendations from free to air TV and three from Satellite/Cable/Streaming TV plus one film to avoid every day.
    I have a movie twitter page that has over Fourteen thousand followers if anyone want's to have a look and a Letterboxd Page with all my reviews.
    http://www.twitter.com/MoviePolls4U
    https://boxd.it/1iS4R


    WEDNESDAY 18th DECEMBER
    -------------------------------------
    9.00PM         -       BBC 3                                -       ALAN PARTRIDGE ALPHA PAPA
    10.00PM       -       ITV4                                  -       ROCKY BALBOA
    10.40 PM      -       BBC1                                 -       DIE HARD 2 
    08.00PM       -           SKY CINEMA 00's              -       OLDBOY
    02.00 AM      -       SKY CINEMA THRILLER     -       THE UNTOUCHABLES
    02.05AM       -       SKY CINEMA 00's             -       THE HURT LOCKER

    FILM TO AVOID
    -----------------------
    10.00PM         -       SKY CINEMA ACTION     -       THE MEG 2

                                                                                               RECOMMENDED FILM OF THE DAY
                                                                                                              THE HURT LOCKER
                                                                                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIbFvqFYRT4
    Some good films there. Is The Meg really that bad?
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,844
    golfaddick said:
    ValleyGary said:
    Avoid Love Actually?!!! Are you mad!
    Quite.

    Have to watch it just for Kiera Knightley 😉
    Being picked up by the ‘murcan girls who are so poor they have to share a bed and can’t afford pyjamas is one of the funniest scenes committed to celluloid. 
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 4,908
    North Lower Neil said:
    Agreed on This is Christmas - very predictable but a lovely easy watch festive film!
    It may be me but I can’t see anything with that title on Netflix? Is there a fuller title?
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,081
    valleynick66 said:
    North Lower Neil said:
    Agreed on This is Christmas - very predictable but a lovely easy watch festive film!
    It may be me but I can’t see anything with that title on Netflix? Is there a fuller title?
    Sorry, it’s Sky not Netflix 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,010
    edited December 2024
    valleynick66 said:
    North Lower Neil said:
    Agreed on This is Christmas - very predictable but a lovely easy watch festive film!
    It may be me but I can’t see anything with that title on Netflix? Is there a fuller title?
    It's on NOW if you've got that.

    Or here by the looks of it if you haven't!:

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8m1hw9
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,798
    SuedeAdidas said:
    Is that new Sky Xmas caper film with Lee Mack as much of a Home Alone rip off as the trailer suggests?
    Exactly what i thought. I don't plan on watching it either i'm afraid. Life's too short
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,764
    Bedsaddick said:
    SuedeAdidas said:
    Is that new Sky Xmas caper film with Lee Mack as much of a Home Alone rip off as the trailer suggests?
    Exactly what i thought. I don't plan on watching it either i'm afraid. Life's too short
    Looks like we’ll never know 😄

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  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,309
    Does anyone know how I can watch "The 12th Man" in English (rather than Norwegian with subtitles). Please.
  • West2003
    West2003 Posts: 389
    SuedeAdidas said:
    Is that new Sky Xmas caper film with Lee Mack as much of a Home Alone rip off as the trailer suggests?
    A much shorter version as all that hijinks is condensed into the final half an hour or so. Painfully unfunny with piss poor “acting”
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,849
    edited December 2024
    The haunting is on tonight on BBC 2. 

    Scorsese rates it as the best horror film. 
    Spielberg said it's a subliminal film of his youth. 
    Stephen king rated it as one of his favourites and tried to get a remake. Unfortunately it was remade but not with king. 
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,764
    West2003 said:
    SuedeAdidas said:
    Is that new Sky Xmas caper film with Lee Mack as much of a Home Alone rip off as the trailer suggests?
    A much shorter version as all that hijinks is condensed into the final half an hour or so. Painfully unfunny with piss poor “acting”
    Is that you Barry Norman? 
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,638
    SuedeAdidas said:
    Is that new Sky Xmas caper film with Lee Mack as much of a Home Alone rip off as the trailer suggests?
    Started to watch it last night, manged about 45 minutes before we had to turn it off. Absolute shit.
  • Ian Nightingale
    Ian Nightingale Posts: 392
    Thanks for this once again Beds, much appreciated 
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,798
    edited December 2024
    CHRISTMAS EVE 
    -------------------------------------
    2.10PM                -   CHANNEL 4                              -   A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1984)
    2.30PM                -       ITV1                                       -   IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
    3.15PM                -       ITV4                                       -   SPARTICUS 
    ON DEMAND       -       NETFLIX                                -   AMERICAN GANGSTER
    6.30PM                -       SKY CINEMA MONSTERS   -   CLOVERFIELD
    1.00AM                -       SKY CINEMA 10's                 -   THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

    FILM TO AVOID
    -----------------------
    ( Tempted to put Love Actually again ! but i went for another that will be controversial)

    9.00PM                 -   BBC 3                                       -   TENET

                                                            RECOMMENDED FILM OF THE DAY                  
                                                                      IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE


                                                     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLR3gZrU2Xo

  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,077
    Some good ones there, I’ll go for American Gangster 
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,378
    Tenet, I bought that one on 4K. I had to watch it 3 times to get an idea of what was going on. Certainly won’t be watching that one with my wife. I don’t care much for Cloverfield either but all the others very nice. 
    Wonderful Life is the Christmas film for me. 
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,798
    charltonkeston said:
    Tenet, I bought that one on 4K. I had to watch it 3 times to get an idea of what was going on. Certainly won’t be watching that one with my wife. I don’t care much for Cloverfield either but all the others very nice. 
    Wonderful Life is the Christmas film for me. 
    Me and my son just looked at each after watching Tenet at the cinema and both said at the the same time. “WTF was that all about ? “
    Nolan’s worst film by a country mile . 

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  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,378
    Bedsaddick said:
    charltonkeston said:
    Tenet, I bought that one on 4K. I had to watch it 3 times to get an idea of what was going on. Certainly won’t be watching that one with my wife. I don’t care much for Cloverfield either but all the others very nice. 
    Wonderful Life is the Christmas film for me. 
    Me and my son just looked at each after watching Tenet at the cinema and both said at the the same time. “WTF was that all about ? “
    Nolan’s worst film by a country mile . 
    I'm glad I'm not the only with that view of a "master piece". 
  • O-Randy-Hunt
    O-Randy-Hunt Posts: 10,729
    Chicken run on soon. Probably another one I could add to the animated film thread.
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,501
    edited December 2024
    Jessie said:
    Bedsaddick said:
    charltonkeston said:
    Tenet, I bought that one on 4K. I had to watch it 3 times to get an idea of what was going on. Certainly won’t be watching that one with my wife. I don’t care much for Cloverfield either but all the others very nice. 
    Wonderful Life is the Christmas film for me. 
    Me and my son just looked at each after watching Tenet at the cinema and both said at the the same time. “WTF was that all about ? “
    Nolan’s worst film by a country mile . 
    I watched it at home and was glad I hadn't wasted time and money on it at the cinema.
    I enjoyed it, but it's definitely "James Bond for people who've watched too much Doctor Who", and if that's not your kind of thing then it's probably not worth your time. A couple of things that helped me were
    1) watching it at home so I could have the subtitles on, which made the dialogue easier to parse, as the sound levels were a bit weird.
    2) I'd previously come across the Sator square, which is a Roman word puzzle (see below), and so when Sator and Arepo were mentioned fairly early on I had some idea of where things might be going
    S A T O R
    A R E P O
    T E N E T
    O P E R A
    R O T A S

  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,844
    charltonkeston said:
    Tenet, I bought that one on 4K. I had to watch it 3 times to get an idea of what was going on. Certainly won’t be watching that one with my wife. I don’t care much for Cloverfield either but all the others very nice. 
    Wonderful Life is the Christmas film for me. 
    I think Cloverfield is a very good monster movie.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,798
    AddicksAddict said:
    charltonkeston said:
    Tenet, I bought that one on 4K. I had to watch it 3 times to get an idea of what was going on. Certainly won’t be watching that one with my wife. I don’t care much for Cloverfield either but all the others very nice. 
    Wonderful Life is the Christmas film for me. 
    I think Cloverfield is a very good monster movie.
    I loved it when it came out . A low budget film with low expectations. Even the couple of follow ups were good too . 
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,934
    charltonkeston said:
    Bedsaddick said:
    charltonkeston said:
    Tenet, I bought that one on 4K. I had to watch it 3 times to get an idea of what was going on. Certainly won’t be watching that one with my wife. I don’t care much for Cloverfield either but all the others very nice. 
    Wonderful Life is the Christmas film for me. 
    Me and my son just looked at each after watching Tenet at the cinema and both said at the the same time. “WTF was that all about ? “
    Nolan’s worst film by a country mile . 
    I'm glad I'm not the only with that view of a "master piece". 
    It's one of those films that's too "clever" for it's own good. I only got about 15 mins in the first time I watched it but about 2/3 of the way through the second time, before I realised I just didn't care how it ended so turned it off (and I'm one of those that will always watch a bad film to the end).
  • WHAddick
    WHAddick Posts: 1,165
    I can see where people are coming from with Tenet but I liked it.
    Its worth watching a couple of times to fully get it. But of course you would need to be willing to give the time.
    And there's an argument that a film should be understandable from one watch!
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,798
    edited December 2024
    CHRISTMAS DAY  🎅
    -------------------------------------
    8.20PM                -       CHANNEL 4                              -   RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
    11.45PM             -       FILM 4                                       -   A QUIET PLACE
    01.25AM             -       FILM 4                                       -   IN BRUGES
    ON DEMAND      -       AMAZON PRIME                       -   THE ZONE OF INTEREST 
    8.00PM               -       SKY CINEMA FAVOURITES       -   THE HANGOVER
    8.00PM               -       SKY CINEMA BEST OF 2024   -   DUNE: PART TWO  

    FILM TO AVOID
    -----------------------
    8.00PM               -        SKY CINEMA THRILLER        -    INFERNO

                                                        RECOMMENDED FILM OF THE DAY  
                                                                             IN BRUGES

                                                     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-gG2qo_l_A

  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,908
    Watched In Bruges for the first time when off sick a couple of months ago, great film.

    We’re going for Click & Collect in a minute. Mainly because it’s only 53 minutes long! 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,010
    AFKABartram said:
    Watched In Bruges for the first time when off sick a couple of months ago, great film.

    We’re going for Click & Collect in a minute. Mainly because it’s only 53 minutes long! 
    Watched C&C last night, hadn't seen it before.

    Not a classic but decent enough and as you say, short!

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