What film did you watch last night?

[lazybloke]

Bit of miseryness for you....

Threads (1984)

The BBCs bleak and realistic look at a Nuclear attack on the UK, it's got better practical effects than many contemporary films. It was 40 years old this year and I think still as relevant today as it was then. Its utterly harrowing, and spans roughly 20 or so years so shows a good amount of the short-medium term effects on the country.

Ghosts (2006)

Inspired by the 2004 Morecambe Bay Cockling disaster where at least 21 Chinese migrants drowned after being cut off by the tide. The film is a fictional story, and some liberties are taken such as showing the local cocklers being hostile to the Chinese, as actually local cocklers did try to warn them of the dangers. However it paints an utterly bleak picture where these people had taken a 6 month journey to the UK, and being paid as little as £100 per week for long hours, and the miserable conditions and lies they are given and forced to endure.

Both films 10/10 for me though.

OOh I'd like to see Threads again; but I can't see it on iplayer.
Must be nearly 40 years since I saw it, that was at school.

 

[wiggydiggy]

OOh I'd like to see Threads again; but I can't see it on iplayer.
Must be nearly 40 years since I saw it, that was at school.

Its available through the internet archive:
View: https://archive.org/details/threads_202007

 

[lazybloke]

Its available through the internet archive:
View: https://archive.org/details/threads_202007

I really hadn't remembered much of that; I thought it might be interesting drama, i wasn't prepared for it to be so horrifying.

I think I've had my fill of it for another 4 decades, but for anyone else; Radio 4 are doing a feature on it, "Reweaving Threads" on Saturday evening. BBC4 was going to televise the film the next month.

 

[wiggydiggy]

I really hadn't remembered much of that; I thought it might be interesting drama, i wasn't prepared for it be so horrifying.

I think I've had my fill of it for another 4 decades, but for anyone else; Radio 4 are doing a feature on it, "Reweaving Threads" on Saturday evening. BBC4 was going to televise the film the next month.

Thanks I'll listen to that.

I watched in school as well (as part of Religious Education class - our RE teacher was an old hippy and very pro CND) and remember having to write an essay about it. I've watched it a few times since, never ceases to horrify me.

Theres another BBC film called 'The War Game' I need to watch, this one wasn't actually screened on the BBC for 20 years after it was made although it was seen elsewhere in that time.


View: https://archive.org/details/TheWarGame_201405

 

[MontyVeda]

Psychomania... it never ceases to entertain. 9/10

 

[dicko]

Airport ‘79, total rubbish couldn’t wait for it to finish.

 

[AndyRM]

Airport ‘79, total rubbish couldn’t wait for it to finish.

It's peak B Movie territory, the bit where the pilot shoots a flare gun out the cockpit is gold!

 

[AndyRM]

Lee - 7/10

Biopic of the photographer Lee Miller elevated by the performances of Kate Winslet and Andy Samberg.

It's a bit all over the place tonally, and for a film about a photographer I didn't think it was particularly well shot. There's clearly a lot more to Miller's life which is only hinted at in the film. It would benefit from being over two or three parts, but from what I've read it struggled with funding so that probably just wasn't possible.

 

[Stephenite]

Tall Girl - brilliant, a must see...
...thought my 9 year-old. Actually, the kids got bored of it and the grown-ups dutifully 'followed-through' the teenage love-flick. Positive messages all round. Will probably watch Tall Girl 2 - with the kids.

 

[slow horse]

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Emma Thompson:
For nearly all of our first day of rehearsals, Sophie, Daryl and I rehearsed entirely nude, which was amazing. We talked about our bodies, our relationship with them, the things we like about them, the things we find difficult about them. It was a wonderful experience – although I don’t think I could have done any of it before the age I am now.

 

[stephec]

The Running Man

Must be at least 20 years since I last watched this, but as my lad's never seen it I treated him yesterday.

Not quite Arnold's best but still very entertaining, we've got Raw Deal lined up next. 😊

 

[HMS_Dave]

The Running Man

Must be at least 20 years since I last watched this, but as my lad's never seen it I treated him yesterday.

Not quite Arnold's best but still very entertaining, we've got Raw Deal lined up next. 😊

It has Mick Fleetwood in it so there are always plus points...

 

[NorthernSky]

The Running Man

Must be at least 20 years since I last watched this, but as my lad's never seen it I treated him yesterday.

Not quite Arnold's best but still very entertaining, we've got Raw Deal lined up next. 😊

loved the Running Man as a kid. Arnie could do no wrong during those years (in my teenage eyes )
will need to get a watch of it again. i think i watched Raw Deal a while back, it's less memorable to me though

 

[stephec]

I've always preferred Raw Deal over the Running Man, the one line, 'you should not drink and bake,' is enough to win it for me. 😂

Although the all time fun pack Arnie action classic has to be Commando, more one liners than Roger Moore.

 

[AndyRM]

Raw Deal is Cobra but even sillier.

That's either a bad or a good thing depending on how you look at it.