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    TTH Watch Along, sponsored by deadly pandemics

    With all sport cancelled until we die, we are all going to need something else to do and so as suggested by Boydy earlier, it's time to launch TTH Watch Along.

    Now we've all watched different stuff, and our regular or random media viewing may be best kept in the usual threads. With this new void in our lives, however, and a possible lengthy spell of working from home for some, many of us may have the opportunity to catch up on some of the things we've missed, and flag them up for others. Some people may wish to go on the same watching journeys as other posters, while some may have their own quirky TV or movie desires to fulfil and post about.

    The gap in my personal viewing history is film (or as our Trump-voting brethren call it, 'the movies'). Truth be told, I just haven't seen many films and I don't really understand the medium like other people do. As such, my personal mission launching from now and lasting either until I finish it, or until sport comes back (whichever is the sooner) will be to watch, review and rank every Oscar Best Picture winner since 1960 (year chosen so I don't have to sit through Ben Hur again), in order. This will no doubt land me some duds, but it's the easiest way to get a broad and somewhat representative history of generally good films. In doing this I hope to learn something, surprise myself, and maybe even enjoy a few of them as well.

    I have seen a handful of the Best Picture winners before (fewer than 10, at first glance) but I'm hoping that by watching them all in sequence over a period of however long this takes, I will perhaps gain a new appreciation for life, the universe and everything. Or perhaps I will be bored senseless. Either way, there aren't going to be many goals scored in this calendar year, not even by Roy Krishna, so here I am.

    Maybe you will join me for a few of these films, but maybe your own special viewing quest will be very different and more enjoyable. Post about it in here.

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    Brilliant idea and I'll join you in that. There are still a few that I haven't seen and if the start date means not watching Ben Hur again, I'm in.

    I warn you now though, there are some proper turds in there.

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    Yeah, very good idea for what to watch. I'll join in too, it'll introduce me to quite a few I've not seen.

    It might be harder to get hold of some of the older ones though.

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    It gets a bit ropey towards the back end, but the seventies looks like the best decade for it. The eighties was shocking, it has been hit and miss since.

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    So many musicals in the 60s...

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    Doesn't Yev have a Marvel-athon to finish?

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    I do, but I was doing that with a friend, now ex and I don't really have the impetus to do it on my own.

    The films just aren't that good.

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    You were giving the more solid ones sixes and sevens and weren't even into the better phases.

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    Yeah, that was all I was watching and it fucked with the scale. They'd all get revised downwards, bar perhaps Winter Soldier.

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    Is that what you fell out over?

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    Good idea.
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    “Ben Hur and musicals”


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    My only memory of Ben Hur is taking some of my mam's painkillers whilst having the flu, being knocked out for a few hours, and then waking up to find the film was still going.

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    I should add that some of these will involve a rental fee or the extra Ł5 MGM subscription on Prime/wherever, which I will pay because I'm only otherwise spending money on the mortgage, petrol and tinned lentils at the moment, but if you wish to use your wits to find them gratis then that may be preferable.

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    The seventies are proper tasty.

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    70s do look the part.

    00's is the decade I've seen the most, I'm only missing A Beautiful Mind.

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    Evidently, everything in the spoiler is a spoiler.

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    Year: 1960
    Film: The Apartment
    Where Found: Amazon Prime / MGM
    Director: Billy Wilder
    Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine and others
    Comments before watching: This seems like a low-key start in many ways. Not only is this a film I have never watched, it is a film of which I have never heard. I've also never heard of the films it beat to the Oscar, other than John Wayne's The Alamo, so it may have been a weak year. Among the cast, only Jack Lemmon is familiar to me. It is also in black and white - not the only film in the Best Picture list to be in black and white, but I think the only one not made so for knowing reasons. This arrived as JFK took the oath, just on the cusp of the crossover to technicolour. As such, if you only have eyes for colour it may be one you wish to skip. I, however, have no such luxury, so off we go. The great thing about this is that I have absolutely no idea what to expect. I don't even know what sort of film this is.
    Premise: Jack Lemmon is a junior office man who lets his superiors use his apartment for their carnal habits - to his own detriment.
    Breakdown:
    Toggle Spoiler

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    Brilliant idea, for the structure if nothing else. It's Saturday lunch time and I already feel like it's half-term, and I've only seen The Apartment once.

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    I'd be tempted to do something similar in the F1 thread to cover race weekends.

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    Crap idea. Make a coronavirus prediction thread.

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    The Apartment is brilliant. I'd have it ahead of Vertigo and and maybe just behind Strangers on a Train and Rear Window in the Hitchcock table.

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    I do love Strangers on a Train.

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    Rope is tremendous.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Manc View Post
    Rope is tremendous.
    This is correct.

    I didn't like Vertigo at all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SvN View Post
    The Apartment is brilliant. I'd have it ahead of Vertigo and and maybe just behind Strangers in a Train and Rear Window in the Hitchcock table.
    Is it Hitchcock? I couldn't find any reference to him when I was reading in afterwards.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Offshore Toon View Post
    Crap idea. Make a coronavirus prediction thread.
    It will be just Floyd doing this. The rest of us will be doing the lunch/dinner/tea debate every three days and running an enormous Late Night Thread.

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    I'll come out of semi-retirement to make a few threads a day if I'm working from home.

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    'Offshore's Office', taking over where Penaldo's Pleb Pit left off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Offshore Toon View Post
    Crap idea. Make a coronavirus prediction thread.
    You make one if you want it so much.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Offshore Toon View Post
    Crap idea. Make a coronavirus prediction thread.
    Draft up some questions in the main thread and then start a new one for predictions only.

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    I will do if I nobody else does. I'm not being lazy, I just know there are others who have a better knowledge of the situation than I do.

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    Trust me, within a few days/weeks we're going to want to think about literally anything that isn't coronavirus.

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    Right, I'll do a draft thread.

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    I feel like this should be more of a free for all rather than a film club. Videos of cool shit, preferably longer in length.

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    It can be whatever you want, as stated in the OP. I have had 3 hits at the 1961 film so far and hoping to drag myself to the end in the coming days.

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    I legitimately like this stuff in a Letters from America kind of way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Is it Hitchcock? I couldn't find any reference to him when I was reading in afterwards.
    I have spent years and years thinking it was a Hitchcock film. You've just blown my mind.

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    Are you thinking of Rear Window? That's Hitchcock and based around an apartment.

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    Nope, I know the film well, I just always assumed it was Hitchcock.

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    It's by Billy Wilder who apparently fell out with Monroe when they worked on SLIH the previous year, hence why there's a rather cutting gag about her early on in The Apartment.

    West Side Story is coming, fucking hell, there must be better times ahead than this.

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    I'm thinking about watching The French Connection later but I think I'm remembering that I've already seen it. I remember the chase on the station platform and the bit where Hackman's taking the car apart for drugs or something.

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    I can't see me watching any of these now. Can't even concentrate on an hour-long episode of a TV show at the minute.

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    That's what I'm struggling with. I can do work as I feel like I have a responsibility to the staff in my team to show leadership, and that won't wane, but afterwards all I'm doing is consuming more misery (which has actually been somewhat useful for work) and I'm not switching off at any point as a result.

    I've had jobs before where there was a lot of driving and a lot of hours (I've done a few 3am finishes in the office and a few all-nighters, I mention for context not to sound like a twat), but the thing with that was I always knew at some point in the not too distant future I'd be able to hit the town and have a massive blow out, which would always get rid of the cobwebs and somewhat reset things. Then periodically I'd be able to go away somewhere nice and forget about work and everything and that was great. This job was easier than that, but now I've no idea when either of those things will happen again, and all I'm left with is watching Chris Whitty in macabre NHS adverts.

    Couple that with the fact that I'm also single (which definitely has its plus points at times like this) and I've genuinely no idea when I'm going to get laid again. It could be months. 6 months? 12 months? who the fuck knows? What I do know is couple the two and it's just not healthy.

    That said, I'll still get through the isolation and (as it stands currently) I'm one of the lucky ones and won't forget that in a hurry, if ever. What I now definitely do know though, is that I sure as shit won't be watching West Side Story again in a hurry.

    Godspeed Jim.

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    I've been watching Suits. Easy mong watching.

    I reccomend Drive to Survive for even those not interested in racing. It's very good.

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    I've been watching Upstart Crow episodes to cheer myself up. It needs to be something with an immersive world and as far away from current reality as possible. And ideally with some laughs.

    I'm also thinking about going balls deep in meditation.

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    I've finished up The Vikings (good but loses a lot of what made it good in season 4, doubling the episodes in the season didn't help too), watched This Country (tremendous) and working my way through The IT Crowd (pretty damn good).

    Think I'll do Peep Show next or finish one of the following: Black Sails, The Americans, Better Call Saul, Lucifer, The Blacklist, Preacher, Orphan Black or Blue Bloods.

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    Might move to BCS next. Only 3 seasons into the Americans.

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    It's taken a global pandemic (and I don't believe for one minute they're not doing to encourage all of the people bumming around to get their credit cards out), but FIFA Ultimate Team has had some consistently good content for days now. Which will suffice for a while.

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    I was going to start that Drive to Survive (which is difficult anyway as it’s one only for me) but a lad in work gave me Ford v Ferrari and Star Wars today so it’s well on the back burner now.

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    +1 for not being able to concentrate properly, just give me lockdown so I can be a hermit.

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