cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
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you need to get them to watch to have and have not ....
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What film did you watch last night?
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you need to get them to watch to have and have not ....
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Ay727EYzw
Adam4868
Guru
Australian film The Stranger starring Sean Harris.who is one of my fave actors in a "Christ he gives me the creeps" way !
Also Joel Edgerton who I also love.Based on true events,it's beautifully shot.Dont want to give too much away but I enjoyed it.Although I'm not sure enjoy is the right word.Its dark !
Also Joel Edgerton who I also love.Based on true events,it's beautifully shot.Dont want to give too much away but I enjoyed it.Although I'm not sure enjoy is the right word.Its dark !
Grant Fondo
Guru
- Location
- Cheshire
Mission Impossible 1, 2 & 3!!
I need to get out on the bike very soon.
I need to get out on the bike very soon.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
Some of the most sexy scenes on film - it's surprising the celluloid doesn't catch light !
"you know how to whistle don't you?"
Proto
Legendary Member
- Location
- East Devon/West Dorset
The Great Beauty
Watched for the second time, a real joy. There’s no complicated plot, not much of a story at all, but such a fabulous film. The wonderful cinematography, the fabulous characters, the acting, the amazing scenery, the music. Outstanding, a ‘must see’.
PS football enthusiasts might enjoy another film by the writer/director, Paulo Sorrentino, The Hand of God. Excellent. For a more mainstream movie experience his early film The Consequences of Love is very good.
View: https://youtu.be/Dyt430YkQn0
Watched for the second time, a real joy. There’s no complicated plot, not much of a story at all, but such a fabulous film. The wonderful cinematography, the fabulous characters, the acting, the amazing scenery, the music. Outstanding, a ‘must see’.
PS football enthusiasts might enjoy another film by the writer/director, Paulo Sorrentino, The Hand of God. Excellent. For a more mainstream movie experience his early film The Consequences of Love is very good.
View: https://youtu.be/Dyt430YkQn0
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StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
- Location
- Portsmouth
No Time To Die Except At The End of the Film When He Dies. Can someone please terminate Purvis & Wade's scriptwriting careers? A workmanlike, functional action movie? Yes. Good Bond film? No. Largely humourless. What humour there is shows up how miserable everything else is. Dull chief villain and faceless henchmen. Five films all linked in a story arc for no good reason other than to confuse casual viewers. Clunking references to the rest of the series (the DB5…). Great Bond & supporting performances the only lights in this tunnel. And most egregious to my mind, you cast the brilliant Christoph Waltz as the greatest Bond villain of all, Blofeld…and then waste that, twice. First a lumbering shared backstory in Spectre, and then killing him off in this one. It's like trying to make a Bond movie without really liking or understanding Bond movies.....
matticus
Guru
StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
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- Portsmouth
It'll have to be, really. Don't get me wrong, it was perfectly watchable, beautifully made, mostly well acted (etc), but- Casino Royale, and to a lesser extent Skyfall, excepted, none of the Craig movies are really up there with the best Bonds. They went all Jason Bourne, forgetting Paul Greengrass wasn't trying to make Bond films & Ludlum didn't create another Bond either.
mustang1
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- London, UK
Uncle Buck starring John Candy. A comical, entertaining movie. Buck has been called to baby sit his brother's kids.
Caveat: there was a time when I found this movie a little irritating (McCaulkin) but I got over that.
Caveat: there was a time when I found this movie a little irritating (McCaulkin) but I got over that.
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Profpointy
Legendary Member
A few we've watched recently
Equilibrium. - in a totalitarian future where feelings are supressed by compulsory drugs (as feelings were blamed for a devastating ww3) and Christian Bale plays a warrior monk assassin helping supress those trying to overturn the system, or merely having feeling or holding onto keepsakes. Naturally he gradually changes sides. A strange film being a bit of a mish mash of 1984, v for vendetta and farrenheit 451. Great cast includes Sean Pertwee (as a sort of Big Brother), Sean Bean, and Emily Watson (not Blunt as I wrote originally). Though it is admittedly decidedly derivative, I thought it rather good.
Hugo - a rather lovely whimsical film by Scorcese of all people, but not a gangster in sight. An orphaned boy lives in Gare Motparnasse mending and winding the various clocks, and works on mending an automaton which had come into his late father's possession and various adventures ensue. a thoroughly enjoyable tribute to early cinema, though this only emerges gradually. Some of the script is a bit weak but the actors all do their best, but the story / journey is a delight and the film is a joy to look at. Great cast of often major actors in minor side roles add to the fun. Frances de lat Tour and Richard Griffiths are ageing regulars at the station cafe who find love, Sacha Baron Cohen as a clouseau like martinent who mellows, Ben Kingsley as the grumpy and initially unpleasant shopkeeper who turns out to be much more,
A lovely film
The Courier
A true tale of a British businesman (Benedict Cumberbatch) who's persuaded to act as a go-between with a Russian intelligence officer. Somewhat similar to the various Le Carre fictional stories; excellently done, and Cumberbatch is particularly good in this
Again, well worth watching
Equilibrium. - in a totalitarian future where feelings are supressed by compulsory drugs (as feelings were blamed for a devastating ww3) and Christian Bale plays a warrior monk assassin helping supress those trying to overturn the system, or merely having feeling or holding onto keepsakes. Naturally he gradually changes sides. A strange film being a bit of a mish mash of 1984, v for vendetta and farrenheit 451. Great cast includes Sean Pertwee (as a sort of Big Brother), Sean Bean, and Emily Watson (not Blunt as I wrote originally). Though it is admittedly decidedly derivative, I thought it rather good.
Hugo - a rather lovely whimsical film by Scorcese of all people, but not a gangster in sight. An orphaned boy lives in Gare Motparnasse mending and winding the various clocks, and works on mending an automaton which had come into his late father's possession and various adventures ensue. a thoroughly enjoyable tribute to early cinema, though this only emerges gradually. Some of the script is a bit weak but the actors all do their best, but the story / journey is a delight and the film is a joy to look at. Great cast of often major actors in minor side roles add to the fun. Frances de lat Tour and Richard Griffiths are ageing regulars at the station cafe who find love, Sacha Baron Cohen as a clouseau like martinent who mellows, Ben Kingsley as the grumpy and initially unpleasant shopkeeper who turns out to be much more,
A lovely film
The Courier
A true tale of a British businesman (Benedict Cumberbatch) who's persuaded to act as a go-between with a Russian intelligence officer. Somewhat similar to the various Le Carre fictional stories; excellently done, and Cumberbatch is particularly good in this
Again, well worth watching
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matticus
Guru
(What is it about Emily Blunt and SF movies? They're usually great, but it's an odd thing to have panned out ... )
Yes!!! (and nice to see the much-maligned Baron Cohen getting credit ;P )
Yes!!! (and nice to see the much-maligned Baron Cohen getting credit ;P )
Profpointy
Legendary Member
Scorcese himself is in it too, but you have to pay attention or you'll miss him. When we watched it I'd not realised he was the director, so spotting him was even more of a surprise
figbat
Slippery scientist
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- South Oxfordshire, UK
Well the CGI is astonishing insomuch as most of it isn’t CGI but real flying - this is a key aspect of both the first and second films. For me it’s the flying sequences that are astonishing as they are real.
Confused and disjointed. 007 was a....I cant bring myself to say it...a woman!! I've nothing against women, pretty things and quite good at cooking, but this " woman" was trying to do bondish things..quite un natural. Must write to editor of Telegraph to complain
