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"BBC1+2 show good movies?"

I have noticed during the past few weeks, that BBC1 and 2 are starting to shoe some very good films. Friday, 'The President' and a Keanu Reeves film was on BBC1. Anyone else agrea with me here?

Say whatever you want about Macgyver the movie: but don't diss Macgyver in general. The Macgyver series was an excellent 80s TV show that easily rivalled the A-Team and Knight Rider. Some of the inventions he used to come up with were so ridiculous that they made the series hilarious and great fun to watch.
And Richard Dean Anderson's mullet was entertainment in itself....

We were laying about one Sunday and it came on, neither of us had the energy to get up or change the channel.

It was crap, but Brian Blessed shouted a lot and laughed with his mouth open really, really wide.

Goatboy wrote:
> SnoopDoggyDan wrote:
> BBC are showing some fairly decent films
> recently, but your argument
> falters as soon as you mentioned
> "Johnny Mneumonic(or
> whatever)". That film is
> terrible! (has it already been on? i
> think i missed it...) You
> don't need to look past "Macgyver:
> the Movie" for
> the quality the BBC are going for this summer!


Oi!
Me and my
> mate watched Macgyver The Movie.

It has Brian Blessed in
> it.
Which makes it cool


MacGyver the Movie? How the hell do they stretch it out for over an hour?

SnoopDoggyDan wrote:
> BBC are showing some fairly decent films recently, but your argument
> falters as soon as you mentioned "Johnny Mneumonic(or
> whatever)". That film is terrible! (has it already been on? i
> think i missed it...) You don't need to look past "Macgyver:
> the Movie" for the quality the BBC are going for this summer!


Oi!
Me and my mate watched Macgyver The Movie.

It has Brian Blessed in it.
Which makes it cool

Surely everbody was saying BBCs summer of "quality" movies is rubbish - my case in point was the Mneumonic was so spectacularly bad it didn't even get a UK theracle release.

BBC are showing some fairly decent films recently, but your argument falters as soon as you mentioned "Johnny Mneumonic(or whatever)". That film is terrible! (has it already been on? i think i missed it...) You don't need to look past "Macgyver: the Movie" for the quality the BBC are going for this summer! (The film just ain't the same as the classic series...)

What a crap post i've just done. It's easier just to post it than delete it so here we go. Enjoy. (God my imagination these days is getting worse and worse) DAMN YOU ALCOHOL!!!

*Oh just post it will you - the longer it gets the deeper the hole you dig yourself into*

Sorry. (Where's my pint?)

Wasn't Mneumonic a straight to video? BBC showing real quality in their Summer of big movies...

I do agree with you that the BBC show some quality films but I wouldn't say that they have just started it. And I also wouldn't say that Johnny Mneumonic (the Keanu Reeves film)is a quality film. It was utter crap. I'd seen it before but I watched it again anyway and I wasn't disappointed at all. It was just as bad as I remembered.

The American President was quite good though. I'd seen that before aas well.

:)

ITV should hire me to cencor their films - it'd be great... well I'd have fun anyway.

Using an example from another thread...

"What's your encore? Do you, like, my mother while pouring sugar in my gas tank?"
- Dante Hicks, Clerks


99% sure I'm only making myself chuckle... and you can get locked up for that... I'll stop.

I don't understand why the BBC or ITV feel the need the Censor films shown after the watershed. After all we are subjected to Rape, Child Abuse, Incest, Drug Abuse and violent crime on a daily basis and I am not talking about real life (although we are). Although not graphic or grotesques nearly every soap on British TV including the highest rated ones shown on the BBC and ITV feature extremely strong storylines. Currently ITV's Coronation street is featuring a Paedophile storyline, while Eastenders is currently sporting stories on attempted murder, kidnap and Domestic Violence. ITV goes one future with Crossroads. Although Crossroads to the best of my Knowledge hasn't featured such strong storylines as Eastenders or Coronation Street, It does feature adult content but is marketed at young children. Crossroads is continually "plugged" by the presenters of Children's ITV and a message is given at the to "Stay tuned crossroads is Up Next". So if children are being encouraged to watch adult shows and other "soaps" are allowed to feature any storylines that will boost ratings, then why are Films after the watershed (when children are not supposed to viewing) still continually censored? Has the world gone mad?