What we watching? – Mudspike at the movies

For no real reason, really. :grin:

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If you have Netflix this documentary is worth checking out.
Miracle: The Boys of '80:

https://www.netflix.com/title/81995302
https://youtu.be/40ZWbeMFJ6I
Uploaded to YouTube on January 26, 2026

Wheels

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Just finished Watching Second Season Of Fallout ,I really enjoyed it….Very well written and fantastic soundtrack.

It did the job and got me to MLB Spring Training :baseball:

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Revisiting Game of Thrones after Instagram decided to flood me with banger banter from Tyrion. Back when it first came out I got up to season 2 then called it quits. I’m now halfway through season 4 and enjoying it this time around, though it still reminds me why I didn’t like it the first time I tried to watch: All the good honorable people get ■■■■■■ while all the psychopaths get glory. Too much like the real world for escapism to settle in.

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Yes.. but Tyrion. And so much T&A

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I would be lying if I said the T&A weren’t part of what’s keeping me invested in the show.

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Meanwhile.

Has anyone else watched A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms?

Pretty much zero T&A but IMHO the Best ‘Westeros’ series yet. I bought the ebook and the first novella that this series is based on is almost word for word… There were just a few minor changes in the last half of the final episode.

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Loved it.

Favourite movie quote of the admittedly still young year 2026: “An itchy ****hole is beyond your abilities, my friend.”

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I enjoyed that a whole lot. Fight was good too. Bit light on the T&A tho :wink:

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Loved it too - and so great the episode lengths were just what they were, without having to stick to a half hour / hour format.

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Man, the Pitt was great again. I just love that stuff. Not the medical stuff per se, but the hero stuff, the people being their best selves.

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Ooooh!!
Excited!!

I got my copy of the newly restored 4K version of the old classic The Battle of Britain!

I have no idea how many times I’ve watched this movie, growing up. It predates VHS and cable TV. It even predates me! :slight_smile: Whenever this title was on one of our two TV channels, me and dad were glued to the TV.

So cool that someone actually took on the project of restoring this movie!
Now, where’s my Blu-ray player..? :thinking:


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Nice!!

What a film, would love to see the restored copy. Hopefully at some point it will be available on it’s own as opposed to the collectors edition (it looks great, but a little steep for me right now).

Plus now that I’ve clicked on that link, I’m eyeing the restored ‘A Bridge too Far too’!

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Damn, that’s a beautiful set.

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Peaky Blinders: Immortal Man.

Kinda meh to be honest. Loved the setting and costumes (and the diabolical Mills bomb pub scene) but the story seemed generic and the whispering dialogue drove me nuts.

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I just watched Sinners with my wife. Pure fun from the first minute to the last. @Navynuke99 mentions the music in his praise of the film. And the music is…(no words—imagine an Italian chef kissing is thumb and forefinger. That!). The kid playing Sammie has one helluva smooth baritone. The Buddy Guy cameo was both a surprise and a hoot. The film exhibits a love for Mississippi. The filmmakers could easily have painted a place that is simply ugly, hot and racist. But they chose to rise above that and give us instead an expanse of cotton fields, traditional black towns, even the lives of sharecroppers, and imagine for us a life that can be beautiful when made so by beautiful people thriving as best they can among an oppressive ruling class. The revenge against that class takes on a very Tarantino-esque pique of revenge violence that is as satisfying as anything he has ever done. The scene with the party at its peak (before the vampire siege) with music in all its forms, past, present, and future; represented by the shamans that played it, was, was, (that chef’s kiss thing again). Funny, uplifting and beautifully told. Better even than “One Battle After Another” and my favorite film of 2025.

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I really REALLY enjoyed sinners as well. The only part that i felt let it down was when it all went last action hero at the end against the klan. I thought that was a little wasted and could have been smarter
But the rest of the film was incredibly good

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Unlike most years, where for me, the Oscar nominations for best picture amount to one clear winner or Meh! across the board. This year I had real trouble making up my mind.

One battle after another was an outstanding movie, but like you I would have given it to Sinners as well (I was torn between that and Train Dreams).

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Sheeeit, Train Dreams was this year too? Whoa. Some great cinema indeed. Weapons was a great little horror story too. The ending to that was beyond awesome, had me hootin’ and hollerin’ in the night :wink:

I am with the grumpy airliner driver, that central dance scene in Sinners was beyond awesome. It made all the vampire bovine excrement worthwhile. I also liked the final scene, even if it did feel a little tacked on. It felt great. Git some!

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Agree.

Another that flew under the radar was ‘Good Boy’. Freaked me out, especially when our cat did that thing they do where they suddenly stare at ‘nothing’ halfway through the movie.