What's your favorite movie/tv series? (And why)

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The reboot. I’m totally ignorant as to the original series. All I’ve seen are clips that were used in the film Space Mutiny that aired on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
 
Oh man. I can’t believe I didn’t give props to the show that formed my sense of humor. Mystery Science Theater 3000. My mom and I found it one Saturday morning surfing for something to watch and it was the ‘guy and two robots watching a movie’ show.
 
I am watching The Last Kingdom - Season 1. It is really good. I have read severa!
books by Bernard Cornwell, but not the ones these are based on.
 
As far as movies, it’s probably The Great Escape. It’s clever, gritty, tragic, yet full of hope.

With TV shows it’s probably Community or MST3K, with Cheers and The Venture Bros. right behind. All four are smart comedies that work at different layers.
 
The books have too much of an anti-Catholic undercurrent to them. I do like the TV series.
 
Not for sure to count it as a movie or a TV series, but Lonesome Dove should be on everyone’s list.
 
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As a lover of westerns I’ve been advised more than once to watch that.
 
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Which books are you referring too?

The Last Kingdom is about Alfred the Great - a Catholic king.
 
StudentMI said:
The reboot. I’m totally ignorant as to the original series. All I’ve seen are clips that were used in the film Space Mutiny that aired on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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Hope you enjoy. The new BSG is one of the few shows which I’ve watched every episode. (Of the main run; I think I missed two of the TV-movies that were released after the final episode.)
 
Between TV & movies there’s something I missed: miniseries & anthologies.

I think the Jeremy Brett portrayal of Sherlock Holmes was just masterful. Every story was a classic. I also thoroughly enjoyed Sean Bean’s portrayal of Richard Sharp from the Bernard Cornell novels.

For that matter, Masterpiece Theater had some great, great material. One of the best short series I’ve ever seen was the dramatization of Derek Robinson’s “Piece of Cake” about WWII RAF pilots, starring guys like Neil Dudgeon and Boyd Gaines.

Gosh, ❤️ That British TV. Heck, I loved
The BBC’s dramatization of “the Tripods” in the 80s. I’ve been hooked ever since.
 
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I hate to be so uncharitable on thus forum as to question one’s honesty, but you love westerns and have not seen Lonesome Dove? :). It should move to the top of your coronavirus lockdown viewing list.

The book may be one if the best novels written in the last 50nyears also. I don’t know which I like more, the miniseries or the book.
 
Few more classics I forgot:

The Andy Griffith Show
The Rifleman
Gunsmoke
 
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The BBC’s dramatization of “the Tripods” in the 80s. I’ve been hooked ever since.
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I’ve never actually seen that (though I could probably find it on YouTube). I remember reading the comics in Boys’ Life magazine some 35 years ago when I was a scout.
 
That’s how I found it! I read the comics of the first book in Boys Life; then went and found the second and third books in my school library and loved them. When I found out they’d been done by the BBC I was over the moon (although they never made the 3rd book).

Making them into TV was a challenge, in part because the first book has lots of walking but often long stretches where little happens. BBC did a nice job with it, on a shoestring budget.
 
  1. A Man for All Seasons. Paul Schofield plays Sir Thomas More in the first film adaptation of Robert Bolt’s stage play. Bolt was an actual listened to advisor and the production is practically flawless. Only moderately fictionalized from the historical events (do NOT get me started on the BBC/PBS adaptation of Hillary Mantel’s hatchet job) this movie is truly “evergreen”.
  2. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. For what it is, this movie is practically perfect, and still in an era before CGI, produced the greatest prolonged action-chase sequence, surpassing even the chariot race in Ben Hur. A tale of redemption of a desolated man from a devastated civilization.
  3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Sergio Leone lead the Italian film industry in utterly reshaping the American Western. Clint Eastwood (Blondie, the Good), in his third go round as the Man with No Name, is superbly supported by Lee Van Cleef (Angel Eyes, the Bad) and Eli Wallach ( Tucco, the Ugly). Musical score by Ennio Morrricone helps drive this long but never tedious movie along to it’s operatic three way gunfight at Sad Hill Cemetery.
  4. The Blues Brothers. “We’re on a mission from Gaad”. John Belushi and Dan Akroyd are joined by Carrie Fisher, Frank Oz, and John Candy as well as some minor league musicians: Cab Callaway, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, James Brown, and the Blues Brothers Band
  5. Young Frankenstein. Director Mel Brooks at the top of his game, script co-writen by lead Gene Wilder. Slightly raunchy , you forgive the 1970s attitude towards sex in this comedic homage to the early 1930s James Whales directing Boris Karloff movies. Sadly, other than Brooks, Cloris Leachman, and a very ill Terry Garr, all of the principles (Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Madelyn Kahn, Gene Wilder, and Kenny Mars) have died now. Never to be forgotten, “Putting on the Ritz” , “Put the candle back!” as well the best running gag of all time, “Frau… BLUCHER!!!”
 
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Young Frankenstein. Director Mel Brooks at the top of his game, script co-writen by lead Gene Wilder. Slightly raunchy , you forgive the 1970s attitude towards sex in this comedic homage to the early 1930s James Whales directing Boris Karloff movies. Sadly, other than Brooks, Cloris Leachman, and a very ill Terry Garr, all of the principles (Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Madelyn Kahn, Gene Wilder, and Kenny Mars) have died now. Never to be forgotten, “Putting on the Ritz” , “Put the candle back!” as well the best running gag of all time, “Frau… BLUCHER!!!
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One of the funniest lines and deliveries ever was, “Yes! Yes! Say it! He vas my boyfriend!!”
 
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