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Here’s a guest review from Cinefile who I can safely say is one of my fuckin’ boys. I don’t mean I have some boys whom I fuck I’m trying to imply that if you read “my fuckin’ boys” as if in ebonics then you’ll get what I’m aiming for.

My main grudge against Lost is that just before it aired channel 4 ran a great promo which featured this brilliant music, I’ve since been totally unable to locate the track and the advert it ran on. I watched a couple episodes in season something and Desmond seemed like an interesting character but I really have nothing more to add. I originally recomended, along with other people, that Cinefile should watch the new Battlestar Galactica but at the season finale I decided that while I loved it other people could very easily not, so I un-recommended it. If he likes Lost finale though I may re-recommend.

Anyway, hit the jump for the review.

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The Prisoner (shit version)

First off, I love the original Prisoner, my thoughts here. It’s one of the most refreshing and relevant programmes I’ve ever seen, and having first viewed it 40 years after its inception I consider this high praise indeed.

AMC recently screened the 6 part “re-imagining” over 3 nights, 2 episodes per night, and I can see why. They crammed it all into one event because if they’d tried a six week serial the weekly viewing drop off would probably have been immense.
This is a shoddy, shambling, rambling piece of work and I feel sorry for myself for having seen it.

The whole thing made me angry. Which could be a good thing if it were stirred up expertly against, say, institutional corporatism or prejudice, only the anger was directed towards the material itself.
The whole thing made me confused. Not as in a mind blowing, introspective confused, but more a “this flat out does not make sense” confused. Though I like some things not making sense, Southland Tales for example, this seemed to actively try to not make sense and violated its own reality in doing so.
The whole thing made me sad. It was a piss poor idea to remake something so great, something so highly regarded. The original was the best version of itself it could possibly be, it was obvious without seeing another version because although it misled you, and concealed things from you it was always honest.

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This review and the follow up of the new episodes is the last of the stuff from my old site and was posted late last year, it’s here now mostly for posterity and mostly because I’ve just found it.

A remake of this cult classic series will be out this year. It’ll probably be ok but with it’s “in a contemporary setting” proviso will probably be more a diluted and messy homage. I urge you to catch this amazing original.

A British agent retires and is abducted, placed on an isolated island in a village which is not quite “so”. He is refused a name and referred to only as Number 6. He refuses to be bought, bullied or intimidated and relentlessly seeks an escape.
That’s sort of all there is to the layout, the mileage is in the methods those directed by Number 1, via an ever changing Number 2, employ to try to relieve the prisoner of the information they believe resides in his head.

This series is absolutely a product of the Sixties yet is years ahead of its time. It addresses freedom, coercion, conformity, compromise and the indifatiguable human spirit. All in bite-size 45 minute family friendly digestables. This should not put off those not seeking a family friendly viewing. The dialogue is superb and though I haven’t really seen creator, writer, director and star Patrick Mcgoohan in anything else, he is perfect in this. His restlessness and dynamism permeate his scenes, he always seems like he either has a plan, or is working on the next.

To even hint at the finale would risk a spoiler. It is not what I expected, but could not have been anything else. This is classic, flying by the seat of your pants, guerrilla TV production. Some episodes were not even finished when filming began. Legend has it Mcgoohan locked himself in a room one weekend to finish the two part ending, before filming began on monday.
When you see this, you will see exactly what it is that modern british television has lost, for the most part.
Its stones, its panache, its ability to create great single moments. More on this soon.

Please watch this.

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Philips’ will be releasing their first line up of 3D TVs this year, with their entire 9000 series being enabled, and all except the 32inch of the 8000 range.

As with all upcoming 3D TV models they will display natively according to whatever input you have. You have the option to upgrade to a 3D package which contains a wireless transmitter and two pair of active shutter glasses, with extra specs costing………extra.

This is how all TVs will become 3D ready, every TV will eventually have the function much like HD is standard now. The TV will simply be a good TV foremost and you have the option to utilize the 3D function.

Of course you need a 3D source.

Well Sony has pretty much got your sweet back door covered. Not only will the PS3 be upgraded via firmware to be able to output 3D this summer, but Sony will be launching a 3D-TV channel in 2011 in association with IMAX.

Blu-Rays will be able to support the 3D format so expect BD players advertised as such before too long. ESPN has plans to join the fun and with Sky+ HD boxes being 3D upgradeable, there’s no reason why lots more networks will launch similar products.

As I say, eventually all TVs sold will be 3D ready, you wont be able to avoid owning one and it’ll just be a matter of buying the glasses and transmitter and let’s face it, they’ll be bundled with the telly in a year. After the mad rush of gimmicky content things will settle down and studios and networks will realize not everything needs to be in 3D,can you imagine the migraine? It will become just another option for home entertainment and you will be able to select 3D appropriate material at your leisure.

Great.

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So today we have Snuff box, A little seen BBC3 show that is kind of awesome and kind of wrong.
I didn’t know this existed until a friend found it by looking at what the genius Matt Berry had been up to. If you don’t know Matt Berry can be seen in the IT crowd and Garth Marenghi’s Dark place. He’s awesome and any thing he is in is worth watching.

Now Snuff box is an odd one, part sketch show, part surreal sitcom, It follows Matt Berry and Rich Fulcher’s hang men. In the World of Snuff Box capital punishment is still in full force and these two do the dirty work. Interspersed with their day to day goings on are various odd sketches.
Now I can’t really describe Snuff box, it’s really fucking strange but it’s also really funny. Each 25 odd minute episode has at least 4 or 5 laugh out loud moments, it also has quite a few WTF moments.
It’s a shame this never found a big audience, it’s not surprising but it is a shame. It’s very wrong, very dark and very funny. It’s difficult to choose what to embed below to show you what I’m talking about but I’ll try.

Any way if you like your humor surreal and dark I think you’ll get a kick out of it.
Also you can make an awesome drinking game out of watching this. I’ve done it and it’s a blast.

You make me feel bad.

Fuck you Christina Hendrix.

new pics that I can’t post here over at Warming Glow.

http://warmingglow.uproxx.com/2010/02/now-were-talkin

Is it possible for some one to be too hot? Yes, yes it is.

I just felt like sharing this.

So I managed to watch Battlestar Galactica: The Plan a while ago. It’s a kind of spin off, follow on/prequel movie from the main series (reviewed here) directed by the man himself William Adama (Edward James Olmos).

I really need to lend this to our hero Professor Robot but for some reason I’ve got wank-hands and can’t seem to find it.

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So i missed Band of Brothers when it aired on TV, it showed at like 11pm on a weeknight and I’m not hardcore for that. I also thought it was going to be a saving private Ryan retread, with some slightly different settings. I’d seen my fair share of WW2 dramas so wasn’t overly eager to watch another. My friend however got the blu ray set for Christmas and recommended I check it out.

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Why 14?
Shut up. That’s why.
This includes only programmes which began from 2000, otherwise Futurama and The West Wing would be right up there. You may note a lot of these are comedies, so much so this could’ve been a top comedies of the decade. I like to laugh it seems. Probably because it distracts me from my huge shortcomings.

14. The Big Bang Theory

Much funnier than I could ever believe it would be and it’s nice to see Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco in work.

13. Flight of the Conchords

Whip smart and dryer than vermouth, comedy music can only go so far but this is played so straight, I’m powerless against it.

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So I finally watched the Caprica pilot yesterday. It’s a spin off show from the wonderful Battlestar Galatica. Set almost 50 years before BSG its intent I believe is to show how the Cylons came to be. Now this will contain spoilers, I’m going to talk about things in the episode so if you want to watch this fresh don’t read.

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