What will you be watching on TV tonight?

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TastyReuben said:
I love ballet, the opera, orchestra concerts, would rather see a play than a movie, Shakespeare In The Park...but I hate musicals.

Put it this way: I'm a Monty Python fanatic in general and Holy Grail specifically, and I was ready to stab my ears bloody and scrape my eyes out with my fingernails during Spamalot.

I've been to several (Billy Elliot may have been the worst), and they're just torture to me. I feel like I'm either watching a play that keeps getting interrupted by a concert, or a concert that keeps getting interrupted by a play, and I want one or the other, to not a mix of both.

I don't even like Rocky Horror Picture Show. What does that tell you?
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I love ballet, the opera, orchestra concerts, would rather see a movie than a play*, Shakespeare In The Park would be nice, though, and I don't hate all musicals. Hence, we're not identical, my spiritual brother, TastyReuben! Finnish theaters (especially the ones in Lahti) are not that great. I've seen maybe three good performances during my lifetime (and I've been to quite a few). *I recall seeing Rex Harrison performing in W. Somerset Maugham's outdated comedy "The Circle" on Broadway in 1989, a year before he passed away. Boy was he charismatic.

About musicals... I love "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg"/"The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" (1964) although it was made "several years" before I was born. Young Catherine Deneuve is cute and the plot is heartbreaking. I don't like the singing that much, though, so I totally get TR's "why is the movie interrupted by a concert" view. This Finnish musical ("Myrskyluodon Maija"; based on a TV series in Swedish) has wonderful music (sung first in Swedish, then in Finnish):


I have a love/hate relationship regarding musicals but "Chess" and "Mamma Mia" in London were quite entertaining. "Bombay Dreams" was nice too. I hated the musical TV series "Crazy Ex Girlfriend" on Netflix first but continued to watch and got hooked. I noticed that the exact copy of my BF's mom performed a song in the series:


Monty Python is the butter on the bread for my hubby and me. He's currently watching old episodes - and we regularly take a rerun watching "Holy Grail" and "The Life of Brian". "№ 1: The Larch" is one of our strange mutual/reciprocal mottos; used in several occasions - pointing in no specific matter and meaning absolutely nothing - just lifting the mood. So, back to the topic... I'll be watching Monty Python for the next hour or so. Then we'll probably watch a horror movie or a comedy from local channels, Viasat or Netflix. (Not to forget higher cultural endeavours, I'll maybe read two pages of Dickens before going to sleep).
 
Hemulen said:
I love ballet, the opera, orchestra concerts, would rather see a movie than a play*, Shakespeare In The Park would be nice, though, and I don't hate all musicals. Hence, we're not identical, my spiritual brother, TastyReuben! Finnish theaters (especially the ones in Lahti) are not that great. I've seen maybe three good performances during my lifetime (and I've been to quite a few). *I recall seeing Rex Harrison performing in W. Somerset Maugham's outdated comedy "The Circle" on Broadway in 1989, a year before he passed away. Boy was he charismatic.

About musicals... I love "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg"/"The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" (1964) although it was made "several years" before I was born. Young Catherine Deneuve is cute and the plot is heartbreaking. I don't like the singing that much, though, so I totally get TR's "why is the movie interrupted by a concert" view. This Finnish musical ("Myrskyluodon Maija"; based on a TV series in Swedish) has wonderful music (sung first in Swedish, then in Finnish):


I have a love/hate relationship regarding musicals but "Chess" and "Mamma Mia" in London were quite entertaining. "Bombay Dreams" was nice too. I hated the musical TV series "Crazy Ex Girlfriend" on Netflix first but continued to watch and got hooked. I noticed that the exact copy of my BF's mom performed a song in the series:


Monty Python is the butter on the bread for my hubby and me. He's currently watching old episodes - and we regularly take a rerun watching "Holy Grail" and "The Life of Brian". "№ 1: The Larch" is one of our strange mutual/reciprocal mottos; used in several occasions - pointing in no specific matter and meaning absolutely nothing - just lifting the mood. So, back to the topic... I'll be watching Monty Python for the next hour or so. Then we'll probably watch a horror movie or a comedy from local channels, Viasat or Netflix. (Not to forget higher cultural endeavours, I'll maybe read two pages of Dickens before going to sleep).
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Haha, I do exactly the same thing with "the larch," purely random and out of context!

Several years ago, my manager, who has a reputation for very circular and contradictory logic, tried explaining to me something he wanted me to do, and it was a jumbled confusing mess that left me with no idea what he wanted.

I answered him by starting the conversation between the father and the two guards, regarding watching Erbert, because that's about how nonsensical his instructions were to me.

After I stopped, he looked at me like I was crazy, and said, "What?"

"You know, the two guards, for the prince, from Holy Grail. You're making about as much sense."

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"I hate Monty Python."

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Regarding Sophia Loren, I forgot to mention her role in the John Wayne movie "Legend of The Lost." I like that one too.
 
Tonight's TV is another movie, "James Bond, 007, Dr. No."

This is the first movie (1962) of a set of 24.

Another 'final' in the series is currently under production, but delayed by the virus, "James Bond, 007, No Time to Die." That will make the set 25.

The actual first James Bond Movie was a 1954 TV Spot "Casino Royal."
 
We're watching an absolutely atrocious version of A Christmas Carol, so bad it's good.
 
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