Netflix/Amazon/Gaming and Book Recommendations

Richard Latimer

Never considered Audible but I don't have the patience or concentration for reading anymore so maybe a good alternative.

Akiva Anderson

@dan-mackinnon said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@matt-wood said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

Slightly off topic, but if anyone uses Audible there is a 2 for 1 sale currently on with quite a lot of decent books included.

Its probably common knowledge, but if you use Audible never pay the full price for books. It’s most cost effective to buy 3 more tokens and each book works out about £4. They’re also forever having some sort of sale on.

(Apologises, that is the cost consultant in me coming out)

I buy loads from audible. I love it!

Dan MacKinnon

@matt-wood said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

Slightly off topic, but if anyone uses Audible there is a 2 for 1 sale currently on with quite a lot of decent books included.

Its probably common knowledge, but if you use Audible never pay the full price for books. It’s most cost effective to buy 3 more tokens and each book works out about £4. They’re also forever having some sort of sale on.

(Apologises, that is the cost consultant in me coming out)

Matt Wood

Slightly off topic, but if anyone uses Audible there is a 2 for 1 sale currently on with quite a lot of decent books included.

Richard Latimer

@matt-wood said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@richard-latimer said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@matt-wood said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@john-folan said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@dan-mackinnon said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

GOT went down the same route as LOTR with the Hobbit. Shall we just have another battle episode but make it bigger than the last one?

Not watched the Hobbit yet for this reason.

Me neither, although I didnt think that much of LOTR, 9 hours of walking and listening to/looking at Orlando feckin Bloom.

He wasn't in about half of it haha! Did you even watch it haha??

Yea I did but cant stand him so it sticks in the mind lol. Vigo was good as Aragorn though, decent actor that, A history of Violence is brilliant.

I just have a bit of a downer on LOTR, probably the only person in the world haha, appreciate that when written it was waaay ahead of its time in the genre and led the way. Just did not really buy into it that much. Tom Bombadil missing from the films was a downer too.

Also I read the Silmarillion and that was tough going.

Tolkien is spinning in his grave right now hàha

Matt Wood

@richard-latimer said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@matt-wood said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@john-folan said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@dan-mackinnon said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

GOT went down the same route as LOTR with the Hobbit. Shall we just have another battle episode but make it bigger than the last one?

Not watched the Hobbit yet for this reason.

Me neither, although I didnt think that much of LOTR, 9 hours of walking and listening to/looking at Orlando feckin Bloom.

He wasn't in about half of it haha! Did you even watch it haha??

Yea I did but cant stand him so it sticks in the mind lol. Vigo was good as Aragorn though, decent actor that, A history of Violence is brilliant.

I just have a bit of a downer on LOTR, probably the only person in the world haha, appreciate that when written it was waaay ahead of its time in the genre and led the way. Just did not really buy into it that much. Tom Bombadil missing from the films was a downer too.

Also I read the Silmarillion and that was tough going.

John Folan

@richard-latimer said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@john-folan said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@darri said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

The Hobbit was just a more child friendly version of Lord of the rings, LOTR was one of my top tier list, i honestly hope when it comes to the new amazon series that its with the originals in mind

I'm with you on that. LOTR was next level. I've got high hopes for the television series.

LOTR one of the only films/series of films that's inspired me to read the novel. Plenty of novels have worked the other way around but not many films that make me think I want to read 400 pages of that. In this case, well over 1000.

The Handmaid’s Tale, The Expanse and The Boys all got me doing that. The Boys being Graphic Novels.

Richard Latimer

@john-folan said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@darri said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

The Hobbit was just a more child friendly version of Lord of the rings, LOTR was one of my top tier list, i honestly hope when it comes to the new amazon series that its with the originals in mind

I'm with you on that. LOTR was next level. I've got high hopes for the television series.

LOTR one of the only films/series of films that's inspired me to read the novel. Plenty of novels have worked the other way around but not many films that make me think I want to read 400 pages of that. In this case, well over 1000.

Richard Latimer

@matt-wood said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@john-folan said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@dan-mackinnon said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

GOT went down the same route as LOTR with the Hobbit. Shall we just have another battle episode but make it bigger than the last one?

Not watched the Hobbit yet for this reason.

Me neither, although I didnt think that much of LOTR, 9 hours of walking and listening to/looking at Orlando feckin Bloom.

He wasn't in about half of it haha! Did you even watch it haha??

John Folan

@darri said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

The Hobbit was just a more child friendly version of Lord of the rings, LOTR was one of my top tier list, i honestly hope when it comes to the new amazon series that its with the originals in mind

I'm with you on that. LOTR was next level. I've got high hopes for the television series.

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The Hobbit was just a more child friendly version of Lord of the rings, LOTR was one of my top tier list, i honestly hope when it comes to the new amazon series that its with the originals in mind

Matt Wood

@john-folan said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@dan-mackinnon said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

GOT went down the same route as LOTR with the Hobbit. Shall we just have another battle episode but make it bigger than the last one?

Not watched the Hobbit yet for this reason.

Me neither, although I didnt think that much of LOTR, 9 hours of walking and listening to/looking at Orlando feckin Bloom.

John Folan

@dan-mackinnon said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

GOT went down the same route as LOTR with the Hobbit. Shall we just have another battle episode but make it bigger than the last one?

Not watched the Hobbit yet for this reason.

Dan MacKinnon

GOT went down the same route as LOTR with the Hobbit. Shall we just have another battle episode but make it bigger than the last one?

Dan MacKinnon

@ryan-carruthers said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

Like we all did in drama at school when the teacher sent us off create this in 15 mins, spend 14.30 pissing about and 30 seconds planning it.

Your school gave you 30 minutes to write the ending of GOT? I think your teacher needs to adjust their expectations

Ryan

Agree on the GOT one as soon as they left the books it dropped, like they were all sat in a room going Jon would say this wouldn’t he? Nah, surely he would? Then realise s**t we have 10 mins left.

Like we all did in drama at school when the teacher sent us off create this in 15 mins, spend 14.30 pissing about and 30 seconds planning it.

John Folan

@martin-futter said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@john-folan said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@richard-latimer said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@matt-wood said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@martin-futter Kinda like a Game of Thrones situation then.

Will have to think about it before I start Lost then. Thanks for the heads up

I would never start Lost based on what I've read of the ending.

I watched them all. Bitterly disappointing. The trifecta. Lost, GOT, and LOD.

Haha me too. I was watching Gogglebox yesterday and the funny girl from Blackpool nailed it about Line Of Duty ending (and the others when you think about it) she said 'It's like they were told they had ten minutes to write an ending'.

I think with LOST they wrote a show that got so tangled up in a deep story that they didn't know how to end it in a satisfying way.

GOT ending was rushed because the author of the books has not even written the last two yet, so he just told them roughly what would happen and it had no depth because there was no real reference material to work with.

Not sure what happened with Line Of Duty, felt like they got six episodes in before being told they had to wrap it all up in one last episode, when they were expecting to have an eighth episode or something.

Exactly that. GOT went down the toilet after it moved away from the source material. (Peaked in series 5). They rushed the last series as originally the two producers were going to make a Star Wars Trilogy but then the sequels were crap so they bailed and are writing stuff for Netflix.

LOST I did love. Didn’t love the ending. Again felt rushed and this writers strike that’s been mentioned probably had an impact.

LOD. That is how it felt. Rushed and thrown together. Shame as I’d rather they finished on a cliffhanger and finished it properly over another series. Plus Buckells? Really?

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@martin-futter If I remember with Lost there was a massive writers strike at the time and there was a huge gap between the first few series and the last one or two. After it came back it just seemed to go off in a strange tangent

It was a great show to start with but like you said it got so tangled that it was hard to bring it together at the end

Matt Wood

Think I might still give Lost a go at some point.

Im sure I remember reading years back that it was only intended to be 1 season originally.

It followed on the success of the first couple of 24 seasons didnt it? Loved the 24s.

Martin

@john-folan said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@richard-latimer said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@matt-wood said in Netflix/Amazon/Etc Recommendations:

@martin-futter Kinda like a Game of Thrones situation then.

Will have to think about it before I start Lost then. Thanks for the heads up

I would never start Lost based on what I've read of the ending.

I watched them all. Bitterly disappointing. The trifecta. Lost, GOT, and LOD.

Haha me too. I was watching Gogglebox yesterday and the funny girl from Blackpool nailed it about Line Of Duty ending (and the others when you think about it) she said 'It's like they were told they had ten minutes to write an ending'.

I think with LOST they wrote a show that got so tangled up in a deep story that they didn't know how to end it in a satisfying way.

GOT ending was rushed because the author of the books has not even written the last two yet, so he just told them roughly what would happen and it had no depth because there was no real reference material to work with.

Not sure what happened with Line Of Duty, felt like they got six episodes in before being told they had to wrap it all up in one last episode, when they were expecting to have an eighth episode or something.