swee'pea99
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Spot on! Plus, as per AndyRM's comment, one of *the* towering central performances of all time.
What film did you watch last night?
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slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
Yebbut, was it really necessary to torture the audience for 158 minutes to point that out?
AndyRM
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Personally, I reckon that if you felt tortured after a film like TWBB it's done a pretty good job of delivering its message.
I certainly felt drained by it!
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
Good point. It was rather like having to listen to an interminably tedious Calvinist sermon, wasn't it?
AndyRM
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I'm not sure we watched the same film?
John the Monkey
Frivolous Cyclist
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- Crewe
Fire In Babylon
A documentary about the astonishing West Indies cricket teams of the late 70s and early to mid 80s, which attempts to place them within the political and social events of their times. I can't say whether it would work for the non-cricket fan (in the way that, say, Moneyball does if you don't give a monkeys about baseball) but I really enjoyed it.
Cricket wise, the film points out their antecedents in the aggressive bowling of Australia's Lillee and Thompson (and argues that they didn't receive the opprobrium that the West Indies fast bowlers did), looks at attitudes to the team when they were viewed as loveable "Calypso" losers and when they were an all conquering force in world cricket. It also gives the batsmen credit, with some lovely footage of Viv Richards and Gordon Greenidge.
Politically and socially, it looks at the impact of the success of the team in their home islands, and further afield, with one section covering apartheid era South Africa, and the rebel tour (Viv Richards' interview about this is particularly good, as are the pieces from the "rebels" themselves).
The film itself is a little short on critique of the team, with that being supplied mostly by the relatively easily dismissed hysterics of the British papers. There is a piece from David Frith in the dvd Extras that enlarges that (although I'd have liked to see him quizzed about the Australian team that the film argues inspired the West Indies, and whether he felt so strongly about that too). Also in the extras is a really good film about what it was like to face the West Indies' fast bowling attack.
A must for cricket fans, I think.
A documentary about the astonishing West Indies cricket teams of the late 70s and early to mid 80s, which attempts to place them within the political and social events of their times. I can't say whether it would work for the non-cricket fan (in the way that, say, Moneyball does if you don't give a monkeys about baseball) but I really enjoyed it.
Cricket wise, the film points out their antecedents in the aggressive bowling of Australia's Lillee and Thompson (and argues that they didn't receive the opprobrium that the West Indies fast bowlers did), looks at attitudes to the team when they were viewed as loveable "Calypso" losers and when they were an all conquering force in world cricket. It also gives the batsmen credit, with some lovely footage of Viv Richards and Gordon Greenidge.
Politically and socially, it looks at the impact of the success of the team in their home islands, and further afield, with one section covering apartheid era South Africa, and the rebel tour (Viv Richards' interview about this is particularly good, as are the pieces from the "rebels" themselves).
The film itself is a little short on critique of the team, with that being supplied mostly by the relatively easily dismissed hysterics of the British papers. There is a piece from David Frith in the dvd Extras that enlarges that (although I'd have liked to see him quizzed about the Australian team that the film argues inspired the West Indies, and whether he felt so strongly about that too). Also in the extras is a really good film about what it was like to face the West Indies' fast bowling attack.
A must for cricket fans, I think.
John the Monkey
Frivolous Cyclist
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- Crewe
Saluki
World class procrastinator
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- ...Norwich over the water.
Tron Legacy.
I love the 2 Tron movies
I love the 2 Tron movies
Haitch
Flim Flormally
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- Netherlands
Spotlight, an old-fashioned tale of how the Boston Globe revealed child abuse by Catholic priests. Straight-on narrative, strong characters, comfortable plot tension and a story line from another age. Enjoyable and, according to the journalist I went with, very accurate in its portrayal of a newspaper.
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
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- Hexleybeef
The Revenant - we went for a romantic valentines day trip to the cinema to watch a fully immersive juggernaut of a film.
It has some flaws but these can be overlooked, but otherwise it is deserves all the awards it will win.
It has some flaws but these can be overlooked, but otherwise it is deserves all the awards it will win.
AndyRM
XOXO
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- North Shields
OP
OP
Hitchington
Lovely stuff
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- That London
I would have thought Antichrist was the perfect Valentine's movie - couple go off to woodland cabin for romantic break...
John the Monkey
Frivolous Cyclist
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- Crewe
