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Post by julesd68 on Aug 19, 2023 13:58:20 GMT
In pitch black, Paul ?  |
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Post by rfan8312 on Aug 19, 2023 14:18:14 GMT
Jules please this is no time for jokes, if you've not seen Pitch Black. View the film. Set up decent sound, if possible. AFTER that you can have all of the knee slappers you want.
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Post by Slinger on Aug 19, 2023 14:20:39 GMT
In pitch black, Paul ? Exactly that, Jules, and if you're drinking, put the glass down between sips to minimise the chance of sharing it with your sofa, and your wife.  |
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Post by Fro on Aug 19, 2023 14:42:45 GMT
"Little Boy"
What a remarkable movie I really enjoyed!
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Post by julesd68 on Aug 20, 2023 12:51:47 GMT
In pitch black, Paul ? Exactly that, Jules, and if you're drinking, put the glass down between sips to minimise the chance of sharing it with your sofa, and your wife. Enjoyed the film, I thought Vin Diesel was exceptional! Didn't know he could act. Amazing what inspiration and creativity can do in the right hands - was shot on a paltry $23m but I was surprised it was made in 2000 - it looks much earlier than that, probably due to the VFX not being exactly state of the art for the time. The plot is just a rework of Alien 2 but who cares, it's a minor classic. |
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Post by MartinT on Aug 20, 2023 16:52:17 GMT
Radha Mitchell also plays her part very well.
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Post by julesd68 on Aug 21, 2023 22:20:28 GMT
So, Talk to Me IS a remarkable film.
I couldn't call it enjoyable as such but I was utterly gripped and taken in by it. Superbly crafted by guys who have obviously studied the classics, I think it will gain its own place in the pantheon.
Be warned, those of a nervous disposition should give it a wide berth. It takes a LOT to make me jump; I did several times. Makes 99% of horror films look like The Brady Bunch.
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Post by rfan8312 on Aug 22, 2023 0:02:23 GMT
Wow. Hopefully can see it Thursday night.
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Post by julesd68 on Aug 23, 2023 10:40:42 GMT
Anyone like 'golden age' Hollywood drama?
If so I can recommend The Lady From Shanghai on Prime. Starring Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth who just looks impossibly perfect with the stunning photography. Naturally in such a film you are given ample opportunity to assess this. The chemistry between the two of them is palpable in every scene of this noir melodrama.
Oh and the fairground finale suggests where The Man With The Golden Gun and Enter the Dragon might have got their inspiration from!  |
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Post by Tim on Aug 23, 2023 16:53:43 GMT
So, Talk to Me IS a remarkable film. Brilliant, so glad you liked it Jules - I enjoy horror (good horror) but don't generally bother these days as they have mostly become very unoriginal jump scare nonsense, with no tension and very predictable plots. This is different though and yup, I jumped a few times too and even had to close my eyes one or twice!!! |
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Post by julesd68 on Sept 3, 2023 21:54:14 GMT
If you're an Agatha Christie fan I can highly recommend Kenneth Branagh's Death on the Nile from 2022. So much better than 'Orient Express' this one makes the best of the uber stylish sets and locations. He even shot it on 65mm but after the Amazon UHD compression that doesn't mean much ...Fantastic ensemble cast, it's proper old school lavish entertainment. My only criticism is that it's occasionally a bit heavy handed with the VFX.
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Post by Tim on Sept 9, 2023 15:51:52 GMT
If you're an Agatha Christie fan I can highly recommend Kenneth Branagh's Death on the Nile from 2022. So much better than 'Orient Express' this one makes the best of the uber stylish sets and locations. I am an Agatha Christie fan, currently wading my way through her books in chronological order. Managed 11 so far, only about 60 odd to go. However, you'd have to drag me kicking and screaming into a Kenneth Branagh Hercule Poirot film and hide any weapons on the way in too, as they'd be another murder to solve!
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Post by julesd68 on Sept 9, 2023 16:08:58 GMT
If you're an Agatha Christie fan I can highly recommend Kenneth Branagh's Death on the Nile from 2022. So much better than 'Orient Express' this one makes the best of the uber stylish sets and locations. I am an Agatha Christie fan, currently wading my way through her books in chronological order. Managed 11 so far, only about 60 odd to go. However, you'd have to drag me kicking and screaming into a Kenneth Branagh Hercule Poirot film and hide any weapons on the way in too, as they'd be another murder to solve!
Oooohhhh, very harsh young Tim! Actually I wasn't expecting to enjoy it, but I did and am really looking forward to seeing his latest effort - A Haunting in Venice. Looks much darker than the first two of course. |
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Post by Slinger on Sept 9, 2023 16:16:52 GMT
There is only one Poirot, and that's David Suchet, like there's only one Sherlock Holmes, Jeremy Brett. Brett brought the correct (for me) hint of madness to Holmes. While I'm at it, although Geraldine McEwan had a decent stab at Miss Marple, I still think Joan Hickson was the quintessential Miss Jane Marple. Those are only personal opinions, obviously, but they're bloody good ones. |
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Post by Tim on Sept 9, 2023 16:24:57 GMT
Haha, yup maybe a little harsh Jules but there are two 'fan favourites' I really struggle to watch, Tom Hanks and Kenneth Branagh. I just can't ever take Branagh seriously, he always looks like he's acting to me, so I can't ever engage with his characters as I just find him false and annoying. If you liked those two previous films, you should like A Haunting in Venice, everyone is saying it's the best one yet . . . I still won't go and see it though, even though it would be free  I saw a great film this week, Afire. It's the latest Christian Petzold film who I really like a lot, up there amongst his best for me.
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Post by MartinT on Sept 9, 2023 16:38:22 GMT
I had a go at reading a couple of Agatha Christie books decades ago. I didn't get on very well with her dry writing style.
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Post by Tim on Sept 9, 2023 16:44:45 GMT
I had a go at reading a couple of Agatha Christie books decades ago. I didn't get on very well with her dry writing style. It does take a few books to get into them, as they are as you say, very dry. But I quite enjoy them now as an interlude to reading a serious book, as they're normally done in a day or at most two. I quite like her use of language 'oh rather old chap' and that sort of thing. Reminds me of the Jennings books I used to read as a kid but a bit more grown up. |
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Post by julesd68 on Sept 9, 2023 16:51:24 GMT
I still won't go and see it though, even though it would be free I saw a great film this week, Afire. It's a freebie?? Go on Tim, take a chance ... Really like the look of Afire, will keep an eye out for that thanks. |
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Post by MartinT on Sept 9, 2023 16:52:41 GMT
'oh rather old chap' and that sort of thing. Reminds me of the Jennings books I used to read as a kid but a bit more grown up. I can enjoy language like that in the Leslie Charteris The Saint books written between 1929 and the 1960s. Lots of 'old chap' and 'gay abandon' when that word could be used for its intended meaning. |
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Post by Tim on Sept 9, 2023 17:14:41 GMT
Really like the look of Afire, will keep an eye out for that thanks. It's very good Jules and I'd say you'd probably like it. I've seen all Petzold's films apart from Wolfsburg, there are 10 in total now.
Only just out at the cinema, but the type of film that might pop up on Film4 - it's not really a Netflix / Prime film . . . BFI or MUBI maybe?. Most likely a MUBI I'd say as they feature a lot of Petzold's work. Other one's to look out for would be Barbara, Yella, Phoenix . . . hmm, well, all of them really!
Barbara was the first one I saw of his and I've been hooked ever since.
I'm a bit of a fan.
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