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Post by Lord Fickle on Apr 30, 2020 22:58:15 GMT
Anyone watching this? Bloody hell! They're not kidding when they say it's the most violent TV series ever made. Makes The Sopranos look like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, only no one's Happy. Seen the first three episodes back-to-back, and can't wait to see episode 4. Brilliant stuff!
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Post by Steve on May 8, 2020 13:03:11 GMT
Gonna get round to watching this.
I've been watching Death In Paradise. A fantastic show.
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Post by pg on Jun 30, 2020 19:44:10 GMT
Gonna get round to watching this. I've been watching Death In Paradise. A fantastic show. Somewhat of a contrast, despite the death rate in St Marie |
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Post by waywardgenius on Sept 1, 2020 17:34:41 GMT
Anyone watching this? Bloody hell! They're not kidding when they say it's the most violent TV series ever made. Makes The Sopranos look like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, only no one's Happy. Seen the first three episodes back-to-back, and can't wait to see episode 4. Brilliant stuff! I watched the entire series and loved it. Some of the violence was just off the scale for a TV series. I'm still a tad surprised that the usual suspects didn't complain to Ofcom about the violence levels. Mary Whitehouse must be whirling in her grave.  |
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Post by Lord Fickle on Sept 1, 2020 18:03:25 GMT
Anyone watching this? Bloody hell! They're not kidding when they say it's the most violent TV series ever made. Makes The Sopranos look like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, only no one's Happy. Seen the first three episodes back-to-back, and can't wait to see episode 4. Brilliant stuff! I watched the entire series and loved it. Some of the violence was just off the scale for a TV series. I'm still a tad surprised that the usual suspects didn't complain to Ofcom about the violence levels. Mary Whitehouse must be whirling in her grave. I have to admit, I felt that it lost a little bit of propulsion after episode 5, but it was still very watchable all the way through. I've got the Bluray so intend to watch it again when I get time. 😄 |
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Post by waywardgenius on Sept 1, 2020 22:54:39 GMT
I watched the entire series and loved it. Some of the violence was just off the scale for a TV series. I'm still a tad surprised that the usual suspects didn't complain to Ofcom about the violence levels. Mary Whitehouse must be whirling in her grave. I have to admit, I felt that it lost a little bit of propulsion after episode 5, but it was still very watchable all the way through. I've got the Bluray so intend to watch it again when I get time. 😄 Agreed, it did tend to ramble a bit in the latter episodes, but I can be pretty forgiving if something contains high levels of graphic violence. (That explains my fondness for Lucio Fulci movies...  ) |
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Post by Lord Fickle on Sept 1, 2020 23:11:46 GMT
I have to admit, I felt that it lost a little bit of propulsion after episode 5, but it was still very watchable all the way through. I've got the Bluray so intend to watch it again when I get time. 😄 Agreed, it did tend to ramble a bit in the latter episodes, but I can be pretty forgiving if something contains high levels of graphic violence. (That explains my fondness for Lucio Fulci movies... ) I'm actually quite a horror fan, and usually the gorier the better, but I remember watching Fulci's The Beyond on a pirate video tape back in the 80s and it gave me nightmares for weeks! I'm not keen on spiders at the best of times, but that did me in! 😖 |
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Post by waywardgenius on Sept 3, 2020 17:44:05 GMT
Agreed, it did tend to ramble a bit in the latter episodes, but I can be pretty forgiving if something contains high levels of graphic violence. (That explains my fondness for Lucio Fulci movies... ) I'm actually quite a horror fan, and usually the gorier the better, but I remember watching Fulci's The Beyond on a pirate video tape back in the 80s and it gave me nightmares for weeks! I'm not keen on spiders at the best of times, but that did me in! 😖 Back in the late 1980s my then-wife's brother visited us just as we were about to watch the uncut version of Fulci's 'Zombie Flesh Eaters'. The scene with the splinter and the eyeball completely freaked him out. He had nightmares about that scene for weeks!
I can't think of any horror films that have given me nightmares, but when I was at university I used to help out at an undertaker's preparing the bodies for funerals, so I reckon that has tended to desensitize me to onscreen gore.
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Post by Lord Fickle on Sept 3, 2020 19:03:59 GMT
I'm actually quite a horror fan, and usually the gorier the better, but I remember watching Fulci's The Beyond on a pirate video tape back in the 80s and it gave me nightmares for weeks! I'm not keen on spiders at the best of times, but that did me in! 😖 Back in the late 1980s my then-wife's brother visited us just as we were about to watch the uncut version of Fulci's 'Zombie Flesh Eaters'. The scene with the splinter and the eyeball completely freaked him out. He had nightmares about that scene for weeks!
I can't think of any horror films that have given me nightmares, but when I was at university I used to help out at an undertaker's preparing the bodies for funerals, so I reckon that has tended to desensitize me to onscreen gore.
Yeah, the splinter in the eyeball looked quite gruesome at the time, but when you see it now, on a video that's all been cleaned up, it looks so fake it's almost laughable. In many of those films, the acting was more horrific than the actual subject matter. |
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Post by waywardgenius on Sept 3, 2020 19:46:16 GMT
Back in the late 1980s my then-wife's brother visited us just as we were about to watch the uncut version of Fulci's 'Zombie Flesh Eaters'. The scene with the splinter and the eyeball completely freaked him out. He had nightmares about that scene for weeks!
I can't think of any horror films that have given me nightmares, but when I was at university I used to help out at an undertaker's preparing the bodies for funerals, so I reckon that has tended to desensitize me to onscreen gore.
Yeah, the splinter in the eyeball looked quite gruesome at the time, but when you see it now, on a video that's all been cleaned up, it looks so fake it's almost laughable. In many of those films, the acting was more horrific than the actual subject matter. That's so true. I often wonder if those movies that were banned at the time were banned purely because of the woeful standard of acting, and not because of the subject matter and/or the gory content. As you say, the effects in most of those movies were pretty iffy at best, and high-definition formats only highlight their shortcomings. Tom Savini had nothing to worry about when compared to those wannabes. |
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Post by BrƎИsꓘi on Sept 4, 2020 5:48:35 GMT
opening scene of GOL grips you. and from then on it doesn't let up.
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