The "I Just Watched..." Thread

[A Robot Bit Me]

The Up Series: a seven part documentary that follows the lives of a handful of British children. The series begins in 1964 when they are seven and checks in on them every seven years thereafter. The world has changed a lot since 1964, but do the subjects, or is the child truly the father of the man? You'll have to watch to find out!

I remember writing in an elementary school journal that my idea of heaven was a VCR and a television in an infinite library of VHS tapes. On each tape was the recording of a single person's entire life filmed in the first person: everything they saw, did, and thought. There was such a tape for anyone who ever lived. I would spend eternity watching them. Creepy? Probably. Telling? Certainly.

There was a new installment released just this month. I cannot wait to see it.

[Compass]

I haven't seen the one due out this month, or the one just before. I saw the others, I think up to 35 Up. I love the idea, but damn, they start recapping so much that by the fourth one, there's like a half hour of new content and the other hour and a half is a rehash, some of which you've seen three times already at that point.

I like the homeless guy the best.

I could have sworn there was a Russian series exactly like this. I've brought it up on here before. I caught one installment many years ago on Discovery or some such. The kids were either seven years old or fourteen, can't remember. I'm pretty sure I didn't imagine it because the only reason I started watching the 7 Ups a few years ago was because I thought, "Hey, this sounds just like that Russian one I saw." But nobody seems to know what the heck it is.

[fake edit]: Google search says it's 7/14/21 UP Born in the USSR. Netflix does not have it. Youtubeing movies is ghetto, but maybe I'll do it anyway. I remember it being better than the US version...

[Josh]

Xbox, apple tv, or ps3(?) will put those tubes on your tv.

[Josh]

And yeah, the up series is pretty cool... It is NOT meant to be watched back to back and it shows.

[Compass]

Oh, snap, that wiki page shows a few other similar documentaries for other countries (including the Russia one). I wanna see the chan one...

[Razor Ramon]

Been watching the UK version of Shameless. It's pretty funny.

[Rumpy]

Weird, I just started watching the 2nd series. Waited until the 2nd season of the US version was over to get back into it.

[Razor Ramon]

It stops being dark in the second season and becomes pretty silly.

[TobalRox]

Watched Haywire and In Time thanks to free Red Box codes. Both worth watching but not amazing.

[Drewbacca]

Just finished watching a prescreening of Snow White and the Huntsman... very melodramatic (too much so for me) but it was well made overall.

Glad i got free tickets though.