I think you’d really enjoy The Meg. It’s a bit like a Bergman production with additional sharks and Jason Stratham, what’s not to love.
I think that’s what it was meant to be, a kind of piss-taking homage. Craig’s accent was also meant to be a joke, it was ridiculous.
I quite enjoyed this.
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someone mentioned it upthread so I thought I’d give it a go and it’s brilliant
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It is isn’t it. But It really shouldn’t be.
May even watch the Eurovision this year as Hanna Waddingham is hosting it!
Cocaine Bear. Curious film really. Seemingly unsure whether it’s a full on black comedy or a monster on the rampage gorefest. Tries to be both. Some good moments but the script could’ve been snappier & the telling of the story could’ve been much better
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I quite enjoyed it despite my reservations. It does what it says in the title. 
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Parole on BBC. Fascinating and informative.
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A young ish Simon Sachma History of Britain S2, 4 episodes that take you from the English Civil War to the start of Empire.
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Yes there were some good moments. It just needed someone like Carl Hiassen to write the screenplay.
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And Prog band Voyager is representing Straya 
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One of my favourite writers, comes a close second to Colin Bateman
Decided to suspend my usual reservations and watch the first part of “Secrets of the Jurassic Dinosaurs” on 't Beeb…
Me watching anything palaeo-related is invariably a source of rant-related misery for Sam…
So, they’ve thrown a thoroughly uncharismatic neontologist in as presenter - someone who doesn’t even seem to have consulted The Ladybird Book of Dinosaurs beforehand to try to get up to speed (but much more importantly, she’s youngish, brownish and female, so yay! Inclusivity!). The show consists of a mix "Ooh wow!"s coupled to a rolling series of cretinous, ill-informed generalisations and plain-wrong hyperbollocks, and still they manage to miss some of the most interesting info - or perhaps with such a thinly-spread remit it’s just TBA…
About one-16th of the entire USA comprises the Morrison Formation. Exposures go-on for hundreds of miles, and it’s been intensively studied since the first half of the C19th - yet we have a team of dreary Brits and enthusiastic-amateur Septics chipping-out yet more examples of what are some of the best-known dinosaur taxa in the World!
Hundreds of similar specimens already sit in plaster-jackets in poorly-funded museums worldwide awaiting processing… In nearby Utah, the impossibility and futility of digging-up SO many of the same things was dealt with brilliantly by making the entire site into a Museum with the bones left in-situ:
[person for scale bottom right]
Meanwhile in places like Niger and Mongolia, massively less well known stuff is weathering to dust in the middle of nowhere, because, you know - it’s actual hard work to work there…
…and that’s just one episode.
~sigh~
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So , is it worth a watch ?
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You really should watch the one narrated by Stephen Fry, you’ll fucking explode 
I think the only dino docs that I’ve found interesting were the ones exploring the history of some of the more well known sites. One was on the original gold rush expedition, one of the results being the Dippy copy that used to sit in the entrance. The other doc i liked told the tale of the Cambrian period fossils of Walcott and the burgess shale.
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I thought I’d have a look for that, 30 seconds in, agreed, shite. On the plus side next to it on the Beeb was Secrets of Sugar Baby Dating, there’s some fucking strange people around!
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