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Post by tzarine on Mar 13, 2019 16:39:27 GMT 2
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Post by Scrubb on Mar 26, 2019 1:02:32 GMT 2
Films NOT to watch: "The Family Fang" - Nicole Kidman, Jason Bateman, Christopher Walken. Should've been great, but it was lackluster. Thanks for the warning. I read and liked the book, so probably would have watched it if I got the chance. Now I know better.
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 26, 2019 9:48:44 GMT 2
Radio Days:
Amusing, good fun nostalgia but very forgettable. I thought it was a film I had recorded but never watched, but who knows? An hour after it finished I couldn't remember how it ended.
Les Belles de nuit (1952):
Bizarre, borderline surrealist phantasy, wonderfully made anachronistic hotch-potch of early cinema style.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 27, 2019 23:54:12 GMT 2
for the novelty, ken russell's lair of the white worm w a young hugh grant, peter capaldi & amanda donohoe camping it up as snake lady
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 28, 2019 9:35:10 GMT 2
for the novelty, ken russell's lair of the white worm w a young hugh grant, peter capaldi & amanda donohoe camping it up as snake lady
How and why did he make that film? If it was any worse it would be better.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 28, 2019 17:55:18 GMT 2
glenda jackson wasn't available?
the youngsters wanted to work w the legendary director?
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Post by trentt on Mar 29, 2019 0:39:03 GMT 2
I kind of liked it, me. Amanda Donohoe gave me a lob-on.
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Post by Scrubb on Mar 29, 2019 2:28:22 GMT 2
Heh. I kind of liked it too, but not for the same reason as Trentt :-)
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Post by Netsuke on Mar 30, 2019 14:12:00 GMT 2
An interesting film and one I recommend, is Billy Elliot which I have just watched.
Made in 2000, it tells the story of an 11 Year old boy who wants to dance and learns ballet. The younger son of a miner in a northern mining town, it's set amid the miner's strike of 1984 and the prejudice of the era.
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Post by OnlyMark on Mar 30, 2019 15:12:05 GMT 2
Netsuke - if you liked that one, have a look for a film called "Kes" 1969. Somewhat older but still good. Also "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" 1962 and "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning", 1960. There are quite a few 'gritty' drama films of that era. You must have seen The Full Monty? Then you have "Pride" and Brassed Off" as well.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 30, 2019 18:13:44 GMT 2
mark
pride was great fun
also loved mona lisa, set in brighton w bob hoskins
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Post by tzarine on Apr 12, 2019 22:05:09 GMT 2
garden of women keisuke kinoshita's devastating look @ the politics & corruption of a women's college in post war kyoto
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Post by Baz Faz on Apr 22, 2019 23:11:10 GMT 2
Last night we watched Airplane. Ridiculous and so funny.
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Post by tzarine on Apr 23, 2019 0:59:23 GMT 2
baz
yes, plain silly fun
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Post by Voy on Apr 23, 2019 1:49:17 GMT 2
Looking forward to actually going to the movies - Pom - coming out in mid May - Diane Keaton - about a group of women in a retirement home who form a cheerleading group with pom-poms
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Post by Netsuke on Apr 23, 2019 3:44:34 GMT 2
I watched The Karate Kid. Wax on!.... Wax off!
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Post by Netsuke on Apr 23, 2019 10:41:09 GMT 2
OnlyMark, I think everybody over eighteen to ninety-eight has watched The Full Monty. I never did like Robert Carlyle though. He had a mouthful of bad teeth.
I've seen Brassed Off, didn't remember the name, looked it up. I remembered the story, a young woman joins the band and she plays the flugelhorn which had belonged to her granddad. I remember the haunting solo she played, the Adagio from the Concierto de Aranjuez.
I watched a couple of YouTube videos of Brassed Off showing the band playing. Surprisingly, I recognised a few famous faces - DCI Banks playing the trumpet, Inspector Japp playing, and Carson the butler conducting! An excellent movie. I loved it.
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Post by trentt on Apr 25, 2019 2:58:49 GMT 2
I saw "The Secret Scriptures", with Rooney Mara, Vanessa Redgrave, and Eric Bana. It has a somewhat unbelievable plot and revelation at the end. It could've been sappy and awful, but the strong cast lifted it somewhere above mediocrity.
"Braid" - odd and unsettling and ultimately not-so-good.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 25, 2019 20:26:52 GMT 2
I sat through all 181 minutes of Endgame yesterday. I survived, but two of the major characters did not.
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Post by trentt on May 16, 2019 1:52:24 GMT 2
I liked "Apollo 18", and though most found-footage films are junk, this one is sparing with the jump scares so that you truly jump at real scares 2 or 3 times.
I was also pleasantly surprised by "The Hole in the Ground", a European (Irish? Finnish? Both?) flick (in English) about a single mom having just moved to a remote place near some woods (and yes, there is a big hole there). Her son goes missing one night, and upon his return, over time, she begins to suspect he is an impostor. Is it the pills she's taking? The power of suggestion raised by local gossip? Something alien? Is she losing her grip? What?? It is fairly slow paced, though it picks up in the final third, and then all those possibilities seem plausible at any given moment as she goes to extreme lengths to find the truth.
Finally, there's "Nothing Really Happens", a surreal Lynch-esque examination of the friendship between two men and how one's devotion turns the other's banal existence into such a nightmare that he questions his own humanity. Strange and funny! Credits roll at the halfway point, so stick with it - it is not over.
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Post by Netsuke on May 16, 2019 2:09:15 GMT 2
I sat through all 181 minutes of Endgame yesterday. I survived, but two of the major characters did not. Somebody give that man a medal!
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Post by slowcoach on May 16, 2019 10:51:24 GMT 2
And I thought Endgame was a play and the Avengers starred Patrick Macnee.
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Post by Netsuke on May 17, 2019 23:07:44 GMT 2
And I thought Endgame was a play and the Avengers starred Patrick Macnee. Ah, Mr Steed and Miss Peel. Very forward-thinking and progressive for the time.
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Post by trentt on Jun 2, 2019 0:10:06 GMT 2
Two I liked: "The Perfection", a film that is not what it appears to be at first, second, or third glance. It is of a specific genre, but I won't say which because it is not clear throughout most of the movie and that would give it away.
"Hostile": I usually reject films whose descriptions begin with "In a post-apocalyptic ...", but the other options were worse so I relented. I was surprised, engrossed, surprised again, totally swept up in it, and was near tears at the end if my tear ducts worked. There's a backstory (via flashbacks) seemingly unrelated to the current events, but all weave together towards a tragic denouement that left me speechless.
Three that were a waste of time:
"Dormant" - hackneyed writing and wooden acting and an unexciting plot, and I had the sense to exit to other more mediocre offerings after 30 minutes.
"Closure" - UK film, which usually bodes well (better than Hollywood anyway), Gillian Anderson, but it's a hectic and badly drawn plot and I'm not sure why the characters do what they do. Much much better than "Dormant", but that's truly faint praise.
"The Vanishing" - at first, I thought this might be another, even worse, remake of the great Dutch film from the 1990s (?), but no, it's about lighthouse-keepers off the Scottish coast and some treasure and some other stuff, double-crosses and back-stabbing and maybe even Facebook dislikes, if such things exist. It seemed much longer than it is, and I'm not sure how it ends really. I tried to pay attention.
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Post by Scrubb on Jun 2, 2019 2:16:23 GMT 2
If anyone likes horror movies, I watched "Us" recently. Pretty creepy, and a few times I really jumped and screamed, too. It's actually very tense at first, although less so as it goes on.
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Post by Netsuke on Jun 2, 2019 11:37:30 GMT 2
I watched a really good movie the other day and thought I must post about it here, but I can't remember what it was.
I do know I enjoyed it though. I enjoyed it a lot.
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Post by trentt on Jun 2, 2019 15:01:48 GMT 2
I'm a big fan of horror films, and I see that "Us" stars Elisabeth Moss (so good in "The Handmaid's Tale"), oso I will search for that one. Thanks, Scrubb!
I also love great, yet instantly forgettable films, so I will search for the one Netsuke mentions. Thanks Netsuke!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 28, 2019 22:13:31 GMT 2
Toy Story 4 is crap. Sorry, I liked 1, 2 and 3.
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Post by Netsuke on Jul 6, 2019 14:38:24 GMT 2
Death in the Clouds is rather good. Kept guessing right to the end the identity of the murderer. Classic Agatha Christie.
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Post by tzarine on Jul 12, 2019 20:32:15 GMT 2
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