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Worth a watch for all you cyclists. Try not to get too annoyed at some of the outlandish claims and dodgy sportsman links :D
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Worth a watch for all you cyclists. Try not to get too annoyed at some of the outlandish claims and dodgy sportsman links :D
Kieslowski's Three Colours: Red the other night
masterpiece.
I agree Wheeze, I thought it went on far too long or maybe that was me getting bored?. The "Goodfellas" voiceover didn't work for me this time either. Thought Dicaprio was much better in Django unchained which I had watched the week before (thought that was an ordinary film as well).Quote:
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Rise of the Planet of the apes 2011 - Watched this yesterday and enjoyed it. Anyone not CGIed as an ape was crap. The extras included some deleted scenes which gave you a glimpse of Andy Serkis (without the CGI) in top form doing his "ape stuff" :D
I thought Wolf of Wall St was excellent! As was Django Unchanined for that matter.
Di Caprio is an excellent actor.
That's interesting. I've watched blue and white, but never completed the trilogy. I'll have to add it to my list.Quote:
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Liberty, equality and fraternity; says it all, doesn't it? Often used to see Kieslowski out on KinderQuote:
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Sorry, only saw this now.Quote:
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Remake. But believe it is the same as the original, scene for scene.
I too thought Django Unchained was a bit ordinary. And what was with all of the blood splashes :)
I saw Gravity with my daughter a few weeks ago and that was probably the best film I've seen in ages - tense, completely plausible and stunningly brilliant
Wholeheartedly agree, I love this trilogy. I am going to make Stolly watch them all.;)
A friend has beggared off with Red though so I'll have to buy it again. I repeatedly asked when she'll give it back and have now found out she gave it to someone else along with some of my other favourites because she thought he'd lent them to her, godammit!
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by curious coincidence, last night, another masterpiece with a three letter title beginning with R...
Kurosawa's Ran
Lady Kaede has to be the most ruthless character ever in cinema history - I get goosebumps just thinking about her scenes :eek:
Gravity - I was hanging on to the chair arms, trying to find my artificial horizon, bobbing and weaving, feeling every crash and bump, holding my breath! Very enjoyable film :cool:
The reluctant fundamentalist. I'd be interested to hear other people's takes on this. I thought it didn't really deliver.
Snap, just watched it. Great film, not brilliant. But thoroughly entertaining.Quote:
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Gravity?Technically clever but boring, American Hustle, a better film and Hollywood at its best, Inside Llewyn Davis, (Coens), worth a second viewing but too many in-jokes to be popular,...Quote:
Originally Posted by noel
but then on DVD the restored, extended version of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: Peckinpah's master piece.
Is this the 2005 version of 'Pat Garret' edited by Paul Seydor whose great contribution to world cinema editing was 'Turner and Hooch' ? :rolleyes: The 1988 Turner Preview Edition is the closest you will get to a Director's cut for Pat Garrett. 'Ride the High Country' is still IMHO the best western Peckinpah made before the excesses of later years :cool:Quote:
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As you know there are 3 versions of PG&BTK. The original theatrical version (1973), the so called Turner/ Preview version which is the longest (1988) and a slightly shorter version based on Peckinpah's notes (2005). If anything the latter is the "Director's cut". I have the two longer versions.
Six (6!) editors were credited with the original MGM butchered version. The Turner version is about 15 minutes longer and is one of the finest westerns ever made. It has a subtlety beyond High Noon or Liberty Valance or other "classics".
I have Ride the High Country and ithas a simple purity but PG&BTK has a wonderful witty script, it is elegiac, Dylan as "Alias" is magical and Coburn is superb. All in all it is a film of astonishing depth.
Of course Peckinpah later went crazy. Booze? LSD? I once saw him being interviewed on live TV drunk and drinking from a bottle of whisky. They don't make them like that any more!
watched gravity last night,it was in 3d so was just superb,
i would recomend 3d over the normal every time
Anyone been to the Screening Rooms at Cheltenham? An extra fiver compared to the cinema next door but no kids, only 35 seats and food and drink served to your seat, we are in the area next week so we might give it a try
The only film I've seen in 3D and really enjoyed it.Quote:
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Looking back, the story itself is a bit slight. But still great entertainment.
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What at an absolute load of tosh. Watched it last night. Lost an hour and 34 minutes of my life never to get back. Zero story line, Sandra Bullock having an hour long panic attack. No wonder there oscars were far and few.....
It would have made a better silent film: then the lack of a decent story line compounded by the clunky, clichéd dialogue wouldn't have prompted one to remember how good 2001 (1968) and Dark Star (1974) really were.Quote:
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Perhaps Gravity would have benefited from a scene chasing around a mischievous beach ball-shaped alien. Dark Star - genius.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
I watched Gravity on Saturday and quite enjoyed it...
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Do you get out much Dom?
No, not much these days.....Quote:
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Haha regarding the nay sayers of Gravity. It's a fantastic film, the first (and probably only) film thats been made even better by 3D. Added to that, it's an an edge of your seat, tense survival and escape story that sticks to exactly to that and doesn't try and drag things out by adding some sort of side sub-story (Sandra falling for George for instance). The thing that grabbed me most of all, other than the visuals, is the plausibility of it all. And it doesn't drag things out either, telling it all in 90 minutes.
It's strange that Graham is comparing this film to science fiction films, where all sorts of weird and wonderful elements can be thrown into the mix (because they're all imaginations of the future), when in fact the film is wholly grounded in what could perhaps really happen. Gravity better compares to Apollo 13, equally brilliant.
You mean Hollywood film stars retraining as astronauts?Quote:
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Hollywood films stars retraining as <insert any old film role ever here> is not at all plausible, I realise. Some of them are even crap at acting :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
It did not prevent one becoming president of the United StatesQuote:
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The problem of space debris colliding with space craft and satellites by the way will be solved in the next 10 years. So if Sandra and George go up again, they might be okay this time
Dark Star was a film of it's time.
You'd have to be stuck in 1974 to think it's owt special these days.
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Oh dear. And I watched Wings last evening (William Wellman 1927).
I was surprised by the Hunger Games films, I really enjoyed them. Worth watching if you haven't already :)
Incidentally, i found The Hunger Games to very 70s in feel.
Watched the 1960 School for Scoundrels for the umpteenth time last week, it never fails to amuse.
OK OK Back to 2014.Quote:
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The Grand Budapest Hotel.
"...a fanatical and fantastically detailed, sugar-iced, calorie-stuffed, gleefully overripe Sachertorte of a film (Sight & Sound)
And laugh-out-loud funny.
Glad it's good, I want to see go and see it, I really like Wes Anderson films.
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Aye, I've had my eye of this as well.
Suspect I'll wait until it's out on rental.
At the risk of being thought pompous, patronising and pretentious....Quote:
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It is ironic, is it not?, that "Hollywood" has spent $zillions (with the camera makers) investing in superb high-tech Dolby sound, digital filmmaking technology etc etc for much of its product to be watched on televisions, or at the nadir, postage stamp sized screens on the back of seats in aeroplanes or on mobile phones.
The Grand Budapest Hotel was actually shot in three different ratios; 2.35:1, 1.85:1 and the classic 1.33;1 to differentiate (or illustrate) the three different time lines in the film. A subtlety that may be lost on a television?
Still, it is said that his Bobness used to play the demos of his new recordings on a cheap tape recorder so he could final-mix his recordings as they would most often be listened to by his audience.
Which in the case of Knocked Out Loaded or Under The Red Sky may have been a small mercy.
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At the risk of being thought pompous, patronising and pretentious....
You'd never do such a thing Graham.
This may well be true, but I resent the cinema experience enough that it'd probably be lost there too. At least at home I'm better able to envelop myself in the storyline. Rather than muttering darkly about how cinemas (I mean other people) annoy me. Too easily distracted, the story of my life and my school report cards.Quote:
A subtlety that may be lost on a television?