Off Topic The Review Thread

Was given a new beer to taste

Boneface
Sabotage
Double ipa
8.3%

Wow
Was not expecting that to taste so good
Shared it with a genius home brewer and even he thought it was good
Goes on sale soon

 

At that strength they should rename it from Boneface to ****faced

 

Boneface is the brewery
One of five that brews in an old tyre factory near me
Turning into quite the destination
Getting go carts
Bowling alley
And an ice rink added from next month
All those extra people are going to make it a pain getting a beer

 

Somewhere to go on my return to Wellington then? Remember going to a great craft brewery in Christchurch last time I was in NZ, ****ed if I can remember what it was called though!

 

Does anyone else ever watch The Repair Shop on BBC1? A very simple concept whereby people bring in treasured objects that need fixing and experts do just that. A lovely, heartwarming show that I find impossible to watch without getting something in my eye.

 

You need to wear safety glasses

 

Can't stand it
Gets turned off
Prime time on a Friday it is not
Should be on in the afternoon for the old farts to watch

 

It’s excellent and frequently moving.

Sadly The Good Fight, which started off well, has disintegrated into daft rubbish in its second season. It was fun seeing a US series really having a go at Trump and conservatives, but it has collapsed into self parody. Shame.

Other members of the household are watching something called Preacher, which is frankly terrifying. And funny.

 

Preacher was a staple in our viewing habits - loved it. Just don't take it seriously.

Joseph Gilgun is brilliant, as he always is. Plays the role of an unhinged character really well, although he'd have to go far to beat his portrayal of Woody in the This Is England films.

 

Watching Coldplay in concert on Sky Arts (an excellent Channel) playing to 96,000 people in Sao Paulo. I know they ain't cool, but I think they're excellent and so do the Paulistas. Masterful.

 

They were on an excellent programme last night on BBC4 about the Rockfield studio in Monmouth, well worth a watch, though too much time spent on Oasis and the Charlatans who recorded there. Coldplay are great easy listening like Rumours era Fleetwood Mac were.

 

I saw them a couple of times, first time before they released their first single, and second time was about six hours after they performed at Live8 - they played Hyde Park then caught a plane to Glasgow. They were very good.

However, Chris Martin has turned into a bit of a knob in my opinion - probably too much time with Gwyneth Paltrow! It's the same with Bono - brilliant in their early days (saw U2 in 85 and 87) , but then gets the God Complex - insufferable lecturing twat when we saw him at Hampden a few years ago.

 

****, I knew there was something I wanted to watch last night, forgot what it was and ended up watching Bladerunner 2049

 

It will be on iPlayer for weeks mate. I missed the beginning so will have to watch again.

 

Hmm, I'd rate them a bit higher than that, but then I detest the post-Green Fleetwood Mac.

Watched The Departed for the first time last night. An excellent film, but not Scorcese's best, despite it being the only one he got a Best Director Oscar for. De Niro must have been busy, so Marty turned to Jack Nicholson, who is superb. Di Caprio is excellent too, as always.

 

Excellent film - have you seen the original - Infernal Affairs? It's a Hong Kong made film, in Cantonese although I think there is a really good dubbed version too. It's also very good and won a pile of awards when it came out.

 

No, I wasn't aware it was a remake until last night. Do you think they wanted to call it Internal Affairs, but found out there already was one? Can't get on with dubbed films, though.

 

No idea - just found this on wiki...

The Chinese title means "The Unceasing Path", a reference to Avici, the lowest level of Hell in Buddhism, where one endures suffering incessantly. The English title is a word play, combining the adjective 'infernal' (concerning hell) with internal affairs – the police department concerned with investigating its own officers.

Can't remember if it was dubbed or subtitled when I watched it - I've got it on VHS somewhere, remember them

 

I probably rate post Green Mac higher than you (though obviously not as highly a with Green Mac) so it’s not a vicious condemnation of Coldplay. I would never knowingly choose to listen to either of them though.

I thought The Departed was the least Scorsese like film Scorsese has ever made, apart from Shutter Island. Both are good films but hardly distinctive in the way that Mean Streets and loads of others of his are.

 

As you say, The Departed was not typical Scorcese, which makes it surprising that this was the film that got him Best Director at the Oscars.

I loved Shutter Island. Di Caprio is a great film actor and his scenes with Ben Kingsley are worthy of De Niro and Pacino.