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
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
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.Originally Posted by Alf
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
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,...
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' ?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
Is this the 2005 version of 'Pat Garret' edited by Paul Seydor whose great contribution to world cinema editing was 'Turner and Hooch' ?
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.
Looking back, the story itself is a bit slight. But still great entertainment.
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
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.....
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