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Legend
Elementary on Prime a great Holmes and Watson series. We are on season 5 episode 6
What are you watching?
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Wallander - very creepy, Kenneth Branagh is just fabulous.
The Lost World Of Mr. Hardy.
Rambo First Blood
Capt Insano Emeritis
Legend
Watched Amistad tonight, incredible filmed and extraordinarily pertinent given the current times we are living in. Slavery is not acceptible
Just started “The Sticky” with Margo Martindale on Prime. Hilarious. Watched the first two episodes last night. Think of it as Doug & Bob McKenzie meet Justified. It’s Canadian based, eh’ with Maple Syrup as the catalyst.
Margo Martindale played Madge in Justified among other great recent show characters. Great actor. I’d drink beer with her anytime!
What say ye, @Canuck from Kansas ?
Margo Martindale played Madge in Justified among other great recent show characters. Great actor. I’d drink beer with her anytime!
What say ye, @Canuck from Kansas ?
On Prime eh?, I'll have to take a look, but if it has Maple Syrup (liquid gold), hopefully on bacon or in baked beans, or ham, or on just about anything else, it hasta be good, eh.
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The term “liquid gold” is used quite frequently. I’m waiting for a mention or sight of the gravy on the French fries to make sure it’s following reality, then of course Poutine for the Home Run!
I have to finish up "Prime Suspect, Tennison" (I'm on a British murder/mystery kick) first, then will dive into this - from what I saw from the Google machine, it was filmed near some of my old haunts as a lad growing up in Montreal, looking forward to it.
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Enjoyed the first 3 episodes of "The Sticky" last night.
Margo is a gem….
OK, I'm 2 episodes into it. Wonderful. While I don't drink anymore, I'd definitely have lunch with Ruth at the Rotisserie; probably don't have smoked meat there, but the BBQ chicken with fries would be fabulous
Montreal rotisserie BBQ chicken is a whole different ball game from what Americans call BBQ - wonderful dining experience - look up Pointe Claire BBQ - .great place, best fries I ever ate, good pizza before going home after a few nighttime hours at the Cartier lounge shooting pool.
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The Revenant
Capt Insano Emeritis
Legend
Still on the end of Elementary season 6 .
As kind of a history buff I have spent the winter watching as many WWII videos and real films as possible. Mostly I have concentrated on the war in the Pacific as two of my uncles fought in the island hopping campaign on the route to Japan. Some of the naval battles were horrifying as many capitol ships went down with the loss of their entire crew with sometimes only a handful surviving. Submarine warfare was the most frightening to me since I am a little claustrophobic and can't imagine a worse or more terrifying way to die.
But an event in Norway in 1940 caught my eye and I watched several iterations and descriptions of the event. It was the Battle of Drobak Sound when the Germans tried to sneak up the Oslo Fjord and capture the king of Norway and the entire government. They came in darkness late at night hoping to surprise the Norwegians with the newest and most modern ship in the navy-the cruiser Blucher. Loaded with troops it was to be an easy operation with lots of firepower and blitzkrieg troops. In a remarkable occurrence of serendipity they were spotted near a pinch point in the fjord where two ancient guns that hadn't been fired in decades were manned by inexperienced crews. Not knowing who they were firing at, they fired at the blacked out ship and remarkably scored 2 direct hits igniting the Blucher and sounding its death knell. The guns were so old and took so long to reload that they were only able to get off one shot but a little further up the fjord some old out of date torpedoes were fired from an underwater facility and they connected. The Blucher went down on it's first patrol with a huge loss of life. The loss of the ship and subsequent shelling of the warships behind it caused the raid to abort and gave the king and his family and the government officials time to escape to Britain for the rest of the war and take the gold in the treasury with them.
It is such an unlikely story that it probably would have made a good movie, it didn't need any embellishments or Hollywood drama but I'm sure the movie industry would have squeezed an ingenue in there somehow...
But an event in Norway in 1940 caught my eye and I watched several iterations and descriptions of the event. It was the Battle of Drobak Sound when the Germans tried to sneak up the Oslo Fjord and capture the king of Norway and the entire government. They came in darkness late at night hoping to surprise the Norwegians with the newest and most modern ship in the navy-the cruiser Blucher. Loaded with troops it was to be an easy operation with lots of firepower and blitzkrieg troops. In a remarkable occurrence of serendipity they were spotted near a pinch point in the fjord where two ancient guns that hadn't been fired in decades were manned by inexperienced crews. Not knowing who they were firing at, they fired at the blacked out ship and remarkably scored 2 direct hits igniting the Blucher and sounding its death knell. The guns were so old and took so long to reload that they were only able to get off one shot but a little further up the fjord some old out of date torpedoes were fired from an underwater facility and they connected. The Blucher went down on it's first patrol with a huge loss of life. The loss of the ship and subsequent shelling of the warships behind it caused the raid to abort and gave the king and his family and the government officials time to escape to Britain for the rest of the war and take the gold in the treasury with them.
It is such an unlikely story that it probably would have made a good movie, it didn't need any embellishments or Hollywood drama but I'm sure the movie industry would have squeezed an ingenue in there somehow...