Official Off Topic Discussion Thread #1

[jjohnwm]

Did you end up watching that "Life" jjohnwm . The Martian monster film, the one I mentioned in the TV thread?

I looked for it, but it's not available on the few streaming services to which I subscribe. I want to add a couple more soon and get rid of satellite altogether; maybe I will be able to locate it then. I don't watch much TV; maybe when the snow flies and the temperature drops I'll address that. Too many other things to do in late fall and early winter.

 

[esoxlucius]

I looked for it, but it's not available on the few streaming services to which I subscribe. I want to add a couple more soon and get rid of satellite altogether; maybe I will be able to locate it then. I don't watch much TV; maybe when the snow flies and the temperature drops I'll address that. Too many other things to do in late fall and early winter.

There are that many viewing platforms nowadays, and that many streaming services it is absolutely infuriating. I've lost count of the films/series I've been recommended, only to find I'm unable to view them with what I currently subscribe to.

In this day and age of technology I don't know why someone hasn't come up with a platform where you can search for and view anything that's ever been made, no matter how obscure it may be. Even going back to where it all began, with the silent black and whites.

A huge global library at your fingertips, of everything that's ever been on TV, ever, to view at will. I wouldn't mind paying a decent monthly subscription for something like that.

 

[Ogertron3000]

Hello; Fishing -yes. Not too many good movies out lately. Dare I say too many are too "woke" currently. I have not seen it yet but understand TOP Gun Maverick is outstandingly popular in part because it is good basic entertainment and pro-military. I cannot say yet. Direct TV called and offered me some free movie channels for a time. I turned the offer down. Even free the latest movies are not worth watching. I do look forward to the new season of Yellowstone.

Top Gun maverick was a lot more enjoyable than i expected, i had to take my wife to see it as she is a huge tom cruise fan. Its a good 2 hours of a silly old fashioned movie, very much a throwback to an 80s style film.
As for pro military, it does make it look like being in the air force is great fun but i imagine in reality any pilot who acts like tom cruise does would find themselves never touching a plane again and spending the remainder of their air force contract scrubbing toilets and sweeping the floor. Its definately worth seeing but just as much as a fantasy as star wars.

 

[jjohnwm]

There are that many viewing platforms nowadays, and that many streaming services it is absolutely infuriating. I've lost count of the films/series I've been recommended, only to find I'm unable to view them with what I currently subscribe to.

In this day and age of technology I don't know why someone hasn't come up with a platform where you can search for and view anything that's ever been made, no matter how obscure it may be. Even going back to where it all began, with the silent black and whites.

A huge global library at your fingertips, of everything that's ever been on TV, ever, to view at will. I wouldn't mind paying a decent monthly subscription for something like that.

Agreed. Another pet peeve of mine is the way that a given show will bounce around from one service to another. Yellowstone was on Prime...in fact, several friends recommended it so highly to me that I first signed up with Prime just to watch that show...but when the spin-off/prequel show 1883 was announced, that was on Paramount. And now I have recently seen an announcement that the next season of Yellowstone will be on Paramount+...I don't even know if that is the same as Paramount.

I know plenty of folks who subscribe to this service or that service to specifically watch a particular show, binge watch the whole thing, and then let the subscription lapse a month later. Personally, it doesn't matter to me how good a show may be; it's still just a TV show, and I don't have the patience or the inclination to jump through all those hoops simply to watch TV.

 

[esoxlucius]

Agreed. Another pet peeve of mine is the way that a given show will bounce around from one service to another. Yellowstone was on Prime...in fact, several friends recommended it so highly to me that I first signed up with Prime just to watch that show...but when the spin-off/prequel show 1883 was announced, that was on Paramount. And now I have recently seen an announcement that the next season of Yellowstone will be on Paramount+...I don't even know if that is the same as Paramount.

I know plenty of folks who subscribe to this service or that service to specifically watch a particular show, binge watch the whole thing, and then let the subscription lapse a month later. Personally, it doesn't matter to me how good a show may be; it's still just a TV show, and I don't have the patience or the inclination to jump through all those hoops simply to watch TV.

Yeah, the hassle of chasing the show you want is more trouble than it's worth. I've found that eventually the show will come to you, on a platform that you already have, or can easily access.

If I don't have any luck getting this "Peacock" thingy later via SKY, then "Yellowstone" can wait a while longer. I even waited ages for "Breaking Bad". The whole thing was done and dusted before I even started Season 1, but boy, was that show worth waiting for, lol.

 

[jjohnwm]

Waiting like that even has its own advantages. Plenty of shows that were very highly rated...Peaky Blinders, Breaking Bad, and many others...were done before I even started them. I would then binge them on a couple or three cold winter days or nights.

Nowadays, when I start watching a new show that I enjoy, but which makes me wait (gasp!) a whole week between episodes...I find myself feeling as though I am being very poorly treated...

 

[esoxlucius]

Waiting like that even has its own advantages. Plenty of shows that were very highly rated...Peaky Blinders, Breaking Bad, and many others...were done before I even started them. I would then binge them on a couple or three cold winter days or nights.

Nowadays, when I start watching a new show that I enjoy, but which makes me wait (gasp!) a whole week between episodes...I find myself feeling as though I am being very poorly treated...

Yeah, binge watching certainly has its advantages. No cliffhangers, get straight into the next one, lol.

Once I got into Breaking Bad the wife and I usually watched two episodes per night, occasionally three. One Friday night when we had nothing planned for the Saturday we watched about five episodes on the bounce.

At that point, when we were into that much, if we'd have had to wait a week for the next instalment I honestly think we'd have gone mad, lol.

 

[esoxlucius]

Well I'm not having much luck with "Yellowstone". I can get the "Peacock" channel through SKY, which I've read has the series on, but scrolling through I can't find it.

However, there is a fantastic documentary on there which i've seen before, about a super volcano that, when it erupts, will be without doubt the worse natural disaster ever recorded. It is called....."Yellowstone". How ironic is that, lol.

That's my viewing for the rest of the evening.

 

[skjl47]

Hello; If Yellowstone is on paramount + now i will not get it. That is a subscriber extra sort of thing. Too bad.

 

[deeda]

Yellowstone is still on Paramount, at least with my cable provider Spectrum. It premieres November 13. I sure hope it doesn't go to Paramount + like the prequels did as I won't pay to see them despite the initial 1883 episode shown on Paramount.