I remember the earlier film... IIRC it was simply called The Krays. Main thing I remember is the brothers were two very different personalities. All the makings of a good, dual-role challenge for our boy.

Aside: I think the Krays were the model for the MPFC "Piranha Brothers" skits.

Recording it in high-def as we speak

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I did see another movie about the krays many years ago.

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And could not agree more on Hardy. I was enjoying his work before I knew his name, Inception and Band of Brothers. Hard pressed to think of a male lead whose work I currently like more.

Now I watch him in anything that comes on. Thought he stole The Revenant out from under Leo. He made Fury Road more watchable than I thought it could be. And out of nowhere he made The Drop one of my Top Ten-ish movies. Still have yet to see Legend... hope to correct that over the holidays.

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The thing about this movie, is that it tells the story, apparently of the very first thing that any of us ever saw in the Star Wars Universe:

The story of the rebel spies who stole the plans of the Death Star, mentioned in the very first two paragraphs at the beginning of the scroll at the start of the Star Wars movie going back to 1977.

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Taboo... coming to FX (or FXX) in January. Hard to tell what it's about from the promos so far... witchcraft... Gothic horror... other... but it's starring Tom Hardy, so I'm in.

DVR is already set.

More or less the same pattern as Halt and Catch Fire... so I have hope for S3.

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Meanwhile was scrolling down my recording list last nite and saw a folder I'd forgotten about... Mr. Robot Season 3. That'll be up next for us.

@tour2ma said:

• told ya...
• Watched Ep 1 and it did not grab me...

Could not get beyond episode 1 season 2 True Detective though.

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@westside-steve said:

1. told ya...
2. Watched Ep 1 and it did not grab me...

On the other hand... after the Westworld false start, we watched season 3(?) of AMC's Halt and Catch Fire over the past few evenings... thoroughly enjoyed it. Almost as much as Season 1... much more than season 2.

@westside-steve said:

Didn't realise humans was on amazon prime now. It's a channel 4 show, the first series was a year ago and the second is airing now. Watched the first, it's a bit twisty and unnecessarily so sometimes but an interesting concept, of sentient android 'home help' that is discovering consciousness along the way. Decent, not unmissable.

Right now in the second season of Daredevil which I don't like so well.

I think Westworld will be next up. Amazon Prime has something called humans which looks intriguing.

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It's quite neat, and as you'd expect with this genre, there's the theme of 'hey, the robots are doing small things we didn't tell them to and it's getting more noticeable every week" and a sub plot of "wait a minute, there's more to this world than we expected" - the usual stuff, but then the story is 40+ years old.

@gftchris said:

I like that.

What I mean is, if you like dystopian and/or AI things, this is pretty good.

Ha

I usually love those things. Looking forward to the post apocalypse. I used to like the graphic comic Magazine heavy metal which had a lot of that stuff.

But I just thought the story was funny.

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What I mean is, if you like dystopian and/or AI things, this is pretty good.