Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
The Greatest Showman.
The Wolverine singing and some chick with a beard.
-562/10
The Wolverine singing and some chick with a beard.
-562/10
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What film did you watch last night?
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figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
The other night I stumbled upon Meet Joe Black and ended up staying up far too late. I’d forgotten what a great film that is.
Cathryn
Legendary Member
- Location
- Marlborough, Wiltshire
We watched Gladiator with our son for the first time. It's still so good. He loved it.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I watched TGTBATU with a friend this evening. We both really enjoyed it again this time.I used to have a DVD of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly but I lent it someone and never got it back. It is one of the rare films that I have watched multiple times but always enjoy watching again***. I was thinking that I have not watched the film since my so-called pal 'mislaid' it. 5 minutes later I checked the TV schedule - it is on ITV4 tonight!I wouldn't have considered watching it on ITV4 until recently because the picture quality was awful but now it is in glorious HD. I'll record it and skip through the ads.
On the off-chance that somebody hasn't watched it before (and if you haven't - DO!), I'll put some comments in a spoiler...
I think this was the later Director's Cut. It included extra scenes which didn't work and voiceovers by elderly actors that sounded really odd!
The slow pace of the film is great. If a scene would look better sprawling out over 5 minutes, Sergio Leone took 5 minutes! These days it would be ACTION, CUT SCENE, ACTION, CUT SCENE, ACTION... GO, GO, GO!!!
No bloody awful CGI!
The battle for the bridge...There needed to be a bridge over the river so they cut down a load of trees and built one - no CGI-painted bridge. No hordes of CGI soldiers, they simply used 1,500 extras. There needed to be a bridge over the river so they cut down a load of trees and built one - no CGI-painted bridge. The explosions due to cannon fire were very real-looking. As for blowing up the bridge - they actually DID blow it up!Eastwood and Wallach dived behind some sandbags hundreds of metres up the hillside and were hiding there when the bridge went up. I doubt that anybody realised that big chunks of wood and rock would then rain down all around them, several pieces very close to Eastwood's head! 
I have just read that they accidentally blew up the bridge before the cameras were rolling so they had to build another bridge and do it again!
The Mexican stand-off final shoot-out... No CGI cemetery. Leone apparently got the Spanish** army to build a huge cemetery set for the film. It later became a tourist attraction.
This kind of cinematography is why we desperately needed widescreen TVs. In this case it was super-wide, broadcast letterboxed to 16:9. I once had the misfortune to watch the film panned and scanned for a 4:3 set - absolutely appalling! Ditto for Bridge Over The River Kwai!
** You did know that it was filmed in Franco's Spain, didn't you?
The slow pace of the film is great. If a scene would look better sprawling out over 5 minutes, Sergio Leone took 5 minutes! These days it would be ACTION, CUT SCENE, ACTION, CUT SCENE, ACTION... GO, GO, GO!!!
No bloody awful CGI!
The battle for the bridge...There needed to be a bridge over the river so they cut down a load of trees and built one - no CGI-painted bridge. No hordes of CGI soldiers, they simply used 1,500 extras. There needed to be a bridge over the river so they cut down a load of trees and built one - no CGI-painted bridge. The explosions due to cannon fire were very real-looking. As for blowing up the bridge - they actually DID blow it up!
Eastwood and Wallach dived behind some sandbags hundreds of metres up the hillside and were hiding there when the bridge went up. I doubt that anybody realised that big chunks of wood and rock would then rain down all around them, several pieces very close to Eastwood's head! I have just read that they accidentally blew up the bridge before the cameras were rolling so they had to build another bridge and do it again!The Mexican stand-off final shoot-out... No CGI cemetery. Leone apparently got the Spanish** army to build a huge cemetery set for the film. It later became a tourist attraction.
This kind of cinematography is why we desperately needed widescreen TVs. In this case it was super-wide, broadcast letterboxed to 16:9. I once had the misfortune to watch the film panned and scanned for a 4:3 set - absolutely appalling! Ditto for Bridge Over The River Kwai!
** You did know that it was filmed in Franco's Spain, didn't you?
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
That is another film that I have watched and enjoyed multiple times. I might watch it again soon.
Get it watched - it's a great film
Following the Cronenberg theme I watched A History of Violence a couple of nights ago - a tale of a small-town diner-owner whose reluctant act of self-defense uncovers something much darker in him; with repercussions for the idyllic family life he'd built..
I really liked this - while Cronenberg's known for his excessive body horror (which is still present to an extent; if toned-down and far less surreal) the moments of extreme violence are treated with the gravitas they deserve and the film's so much more engaging and unsettling as a result.
Great performances all round and an affecting, thought-provoking film. 8/10
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Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
Fast and Furious - Hobbs and Shaw.
Load of utter bollards. 2 hours of my life I'll never get back.
1/10. And it only got the 1 because I'm frightened Dwayne Johnson slap also me if I give it a 0.
Load of utter bollards. 2 hours of my life I'll never get back.
1/10. And it only got the 1 because I'm frightened Dwayne Johnson slap also me if I give it a 0.
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Profpointy
Legendary Member
Victoria and Abdul. Dame Judi Dench once again as Queen Victoria in events some years after the similar tale told in "Mrs Brown". Abdul, a clerk working in a prison in India is selected to present a special coin to the Queen, after giving good advice to his boss on some carpets which somehow went up the chain and were a hit with her majesty. Anyhow, him and his pal are sent to England, and she takes to him and he becomes initially her manservant, then gets a higher status role her her musthi (teacher) and teaches her Urdu and so on, which predictably puts a few courtiers' noses out of joint. Really good fun, very witty script, and the acting is excellent. Dame Judi is of course good as always, but there's also a terrific supporting cast: Michael Gambon as a grumpy PM Lord Salisbury, Eddie Izzard as Prince Edward (Bertie), and the two other leads Ali Fazal as the handsome Abdul, and almost stealing the show, Adeel Akhtar as his more cynical pal Mohamed who really just wants to go home.
Excellent film
Excellent film
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Wild Card.
TV was plumbing the depths last night. The Stafe has done some decent actioners, one or two good action thrillers (Blitz, Hummingbird), and did a superb comedy turn in Spy with Melissa McCarthy, a brilliant film in which Statham hams it up pricelessly as an MI6 spy - well worth seeing for Statham's performance alone.
Sadly Wild Card is a heap o'sheet. Too weak for a thriller, not enough people getting slapped for an actioner, and funny for all the wrong reasons. Avoid at all costs.
0/10.
TV was plumbing the depths last night. The Stafe has done some decent actioners, one or two good action thrillers (Blitz, Hummingbird), and did a superb comedy turn in Spy with Melissa McCarthy, a brilliant film in which Statham hams it up pricelessly as an MI6 spy - well worth seeing for Statham's performance alone.
Sadly Wild Card is a heap o'sheet. Too weak for a thriller, not enough people getting slapped for an actioner, and funny for all the wrong reasons. Avoid at all costs.
0/10.
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Is that the one where he uses a playing card as a ninja death star to take out a mafia baddie? 🤣
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
For the umpteenth time a Knights tale
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Sadly, yes.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Blood Simple... finally got round to watching the first Coen Brothers' film, it didn't disappoint.
figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
Always a good watch.
matticus
Guru
Or is it the one where he threw oil everywhere, then used cleated cycling shoes to get traction and win The Fight?
Great movies ...
