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So the Facebook algorithm suggested "River" on Prime in my feed the other day.  British police procedural starring Stellan Skarsgård.

We're three episodes in and it's really good.  Surprised it's 10 years old and had never heard of it.

 

 

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September 5 - movie that tells the 1972 Munich Olympic hostage crisis from the viewpoint of the ABC control room. Pretty good show all around. 

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9 hours ago, MAROON said:

September 5 - movie that tells the 1972 Munich Olympic hostage crisis from the viewpoint of the ABC control room. Pretty good show all around. 

That is an excellent movie. I was happy they didn't try to replace Jim McKay with an actor and went with historical footage.

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Biopic series from a few years ago: GRANT.  Very, very well done and revealed so much history I never knew before.  Brit actor Justin Salinger portrayed Grant and did a fine job of showing how USG never lost sight of the objective.  Plotline shared common themes with Surly CR threads.  Grant was branded “dictator” for sending US troops to quell mobs during Reconstruction.  When Grant died in 1885, Reconstruction was essentially over and America devolved.  Jesus, my _grandfather_ was born in 1880!  A gritty, bloody biopic.  Sherman was right.  War is all hell.

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Heads of State stars John Cena and Idris Elba, and is really terrible. Just awful.

I went to rotten tomatoes fully expecting a score of around 15%, and it's at 65%. Audience score is 80%. 

 

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13 hours ago, Red Five said:

Heads of State stars John Cena and Idris Elba, and is really terrible. Just awful.

John Cena out front should have been a clue.

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On 7/3/2025 at 3:39 PM, pyrohornIII said:

I finally got around to watching American Thunder.  It was solid.  Taking NASCAR to LeMans.  Learned a lot about both sports in one doc.

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I guess it might have been discussed somewhere on this thread but not lately. Has anyone ever watched this Australian cooking show “My Kitchen Rules”? My in-laws are British and Irish so they’re always watching and suggesting various Commonwealth shows they find on Britbox or wherever and they told us about this one on Prime. 

We’ve watched almost two seasons and it’s pretty good, thoughtless fun. 

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On 7/3/2025 at 2:24 PM, Red Five said:

Heads of State stars John Cena and Idris Elba, and is really terrible. Just awful.

I went to rotten tomatoes fully expecting a score of around 15%, and it's at 65%. Audience score is 80%. 

 

Eh.. it's very cliché and predictable but it's John Cena and he's the US president. It's mindless dumb entertainment. Some people enjoy that occasionally. Also:

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8 minutes ago, Red Five said:

It is certainly mindless and dumb. Not sure I'd call it entertainment. 

Some people enjoy that occasionally

Which part of some was unclear in my original post? 

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Heads of State was a lot of fun.  It's a summer popcorn flick with lots of well done fight scenes and jet fights and crazy car chases.  The jokes were plenty good enough.  

Some people may prefer a classic novel or the local playhouse.  

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26 minutes ago, Elvis said:

Heads of State was a lot of fun.  It's a summer popcorn flick with lots of well done fight scenes and jet fights and crazy car chases.  The jokes were plenty good enough.  

Some people may prefer a classic novel or the local playhouse.  

AND Priyanka Chopra Jonas in a lot of tight fitting clothes... but who likes that sort of thing.

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