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    I've seen 24 of them, and FWIW, I thought The Social Network was an awful film. Fawning sycophancy that avoided addressing any of the genuinely interesting issues.

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    Quote Originally Posted by noel View Post
    I've seen 24 of them, and FWIW, I thought The Social Network was an awful film. Fawning sycophancy that avoided addressing any of the genuinely interesting issues.
    Mmmh. Do you go to the cinema much Noel?

    Or are you more of an ITV devotee?

    "...as dry as the Atacama desert".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Graham Breeze View Post
    Mmmh. Do you go to the cinema much Noel?

    Or are you more of an ITV devotee?

    Not as much as I'd like. I used to quite like going to arty cinemas in my youth. The local cinema - Cinemac (in Macclesfield) is a delight to attend, but I tend to just watch safe films with the family these days.

    I've probably seen most films on flights in the last 5 years. It means I can watch films without needing to think "will the others like this".

    I watch ITV about once a year, normally for sport.

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    Am I the only weirdo that doesn't like films? They make me sleep. No TV in our household. Been to the cinema about once per girlfriend.

    Ok I have exceptions...
    The Godfather
    Spirited away
    probably few more...

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    Quote Originally Posted by millipede View Post
    Go on then Mr Breeze - give us your top ten film recommendations. ItÂ’s going to be a quiet Christmas ....,
    Well I don't think any one could die truly contented unless they had seen:

    Michelangelo Antonioni Blow-Up
    Ingmar Bergman Fanny & Alexander
    John Boorman Point Blank
    Claude Chabrol Le Boucher
    Jean - Luc Godard Pierrot le Fou
    Akiri Kurosawa The Seven Samurai
    François Truffaut La Nuit Américaine (Day for Night)
    Sam Peckinpah Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
    Luchino Visconti The Leopard
    Orson Welles The Magnificent Ambersons
    Billy Wilder Some Like It Hot

    I am now preparing myself for heaven.
    "...as dry as the Atacama desert".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gambatte View Post
    Am I the only weirdo that doesn't like films? They make me sleep. No TV in our household. Been to the cinema about once per girlfriend.

    Ok I have exceptions...
    The Godfather
    Spirited away
    probably few more...
    I haven't been to a cinema since I was a teenager.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Graham Breeze View Post
    Well I don't think any one could die truly contented unless they had seen:

    Michelangelo Antonioni Blow-Up
    Ingmar Bergman Fanny & Alexander
    John Boorman Point Blank
    Claude Chabrol Le Boucher
    Jean - Luc Godard Pierrot le Fou
    Akiri Kurosawa The Seven Samurai
    François Truffaut La Nuit Américaine (Day for Night)
    Sam Peckinpah Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
    Luchino Visconti The Leopard
    Orson Welles The Magnificent Ambersons
    Billy Wilder Some Like It Hot

    I am now preparing myself for heaven.
    Thanks. Will have a look.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    I've only been twice since, and one of them was with the girlfriend from another planet.
    Sounds interesting: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10364402/

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    Haha I love how people posting on a forum on the internet can somehow describe TV and the cinema as a waste of time

    I’m a visual person I guess and I like seeing wonderful things.

    (And no I don’t consider Eastenders or Cash in the Attic wonderful things - like with music, radio, literature, cinema, video games, theatre, art, sport, the internet, and pretty much everything else in life, there’s an awful lot of crap as well as brilliant stuff to be found)

    Criticising great films, just because you’re not interested in them or can’t do something else at the same time while watching them, is much like a non-fell runner criticising the Borrowdale Fell race because they can’t run a great fell race but can umm... listen to the radio and do other things at the same time

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    Watched Hillbilly Elegy on Netflix last night, Glenn Close is incredible, amused Mrs DTR with my inability to speak for about ten minutes at the end a very moving film.

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