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Post by Crunchy Col on Aug 23, 2021 20:02:53 GMT
Very good but it veered very close to 'spy thriller cliche' quite often.
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Post by Charlie O. on Aug 23, 2021 20:20:58 GMT
Rewatched To Be Or Not To Be last night. What a great flick.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Aug 31, 2021 16:31:32 GMT
I remember watching this as a teenager and thinking it was shit but I am happy to report it is now the 2nd Antonioni movie I really liked.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2021 17:24:51 GMT
A culture clash story set in a Cornish village. It combines a neo realist treatment, with arty, disjunctive editing and various other alternative techniques. If this sounds foreboding, don't be put off - the result is hypnotic and oddly powerful. I reckon Dougie would like this one. You can find it on Channel Four's catch up archive.
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Post by Charlie O. on Aug 31, 2021 20:31:49 GMT
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965) I watched this on TV with my family when I was... four, maybe? All I really remembered was that it climaxed (if that's the word) with a football (American) game in an Arabian oil field, and that we enjoyed it. I happened to think of it late last night and decided to see if it was on YouTube, and by gum it was! So I watched it this afternoon. Despite my hazy memories, I honestly expected it to be crap, and a chore to sit through. Well, it is crap, in that mid-sixties American studio way - a broadly broad (and somewhat politically incorrect) farce with vague pretensions to satire - but I enjoyed it anyhow. I mean, with a cast including Shirley MacLaine, Peter Ustinov, Richard Crenna, Jim Backus, Harry Morgan, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Jackie Coogan, and a surprisingly uncredited Telly Savalas - not to mention a host of "oh yeah, that guy" character actors - how unwatchable could it have been? (Best of all, it was written by William Peter Blatty!) Interesting trivia from Wikipedia:
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Sept 2, 2021 16:35:03 GMT
A culture clash story set in a Cornish village. It combines a neo realist treatment, with arty, disjunctive editing and various other alternative techniques. If this sounds foreboding, don't be put off - the result is hypnotic and oddly powerful. I reckon Dougie would like this one. You can find it on Channel Four's catch up archive. I watched it at the cinema. It's good yeah, heavy on atmos and, you know me, anything that has digs at the middle class is good with me although, I must admit, I was rather hoping it would explode into Straw Dogs style violence and the locals would string 'em up!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2021 16:37:56 GMT
A pool ball did get thrown at a car!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2021 15:15:53 GMT
I hope lucas is enjoying all the fucking money, something has to make him feel better after seeing this shite. I had high praise for jj abrams when he rebooted star trek, but then after super 8, and these shite star war films he's nothing but a fucking hack he keeps doing the same derivative shit. This film is everything that shows what's wrong with his work. He brought every muthafucker back that he could for the last film. They're dead, doesn't matter, fuck it, bring them back. The story for this film is all over the place and hard to follow. I genuinely prefer Lucas's prequels, like really prefer them compared to this dross. Hopefully this abrams and star war nightmare is finished.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Sept 8, 2021 10:23:16 GMT
^ Yeah, it was dreadful. There is a lot of shit going on at Lucasfilm and has been for a while now. Basically a civil war between the Kathleen Kennedy faction and the Favreaa one.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2021 10:26:20 GMT
Why would people expect it to be good though?
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Sept 8, 2021 10:42:22 GMT
I don't think people were though. After The Last Jedi I think many fans watched it because they actually wanted to see how bad it would turn out to be. Like how much worse can they make this shit. It was like rubbernecking.
I know you have no interest in these things but there has been a huge fan backlash with Star Wars. It's one of these culture wars things and part of a larger backlash and fan movement against current pop culture i.e. Disney etc
It's a shame cos they could have done something very good with those movies but they just fucked up completely and they were so lazy and stupid.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2021 10:47:40 GMT
I don't think people were though. After The Last Jedi I think many fans watched it because they actually wanted to see how bad it would turn out to be. Like how much worse can they make this shit. It was like rubbernecking. I know you have no interest in these things but there has been a huge fan backlash with Star Wars. It's one of these culture wars things and part of a larger backlash and fan movement against current pop culture i.e. Disney etc It's a shame cos they could have done something very good with those movies but they just fucked up completely and they were so lazy and stupid. What was the last good one though? Star Wars?
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Sept 8, 2021 11:07:49 GMT
Rogue One was a good standalone film. A lot of fans liked that one but in terms of Star Wars movies the last good one is fucking Return of the Jedi lol
It's one of these examples where Hollywood has really lost the plot. Like they have actually lost the ability to make entertaining films that satisfy fans but, like I said, it's also one of these examples where current cultural trends have influenced these movies too and fans are RAGING about that as well. They have created a situation where it's basically Hollywood versus the Fans essentially and the latter are organising themselves online to keep people informed but they are also committed to not giving Disney money.
The people have spoken G!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2021 11:28:10 GMT
Rogue One was a good standalone film. A lot of fans liked that one but in terms of Star Wars movies the last good one is fucking Return of the Jedi lol It's one of these examples where Hollywood has really lost the plot. Like they have actually lost the ability to make entertaining films that satisfy fans but, like I said, it's also one of these examples where current cultural trends have influenced these movies too and fans are RAGING about that as well. They have created a situation where it's basically Hollywood versus the Fans essentially and the latter are organising themselves online to keep people informed but they are also committed to not giving Disney money. The people have spoken G! What are they hoping to get out of it though? It's just weird, obsessive behaviour.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Sept 8, 2021 13:22:24 GMT
Star Wars fans....weird, obsessive behaviour?!
They are nerds, this is their life and they feel that pop culture and the shit they like and grew up with is not what it was and that those in power are ruining it and treating them with contempt. For example when there was a backlash against the Last Jedi the actual director was chiming in and calling fans misogynists etc and, funnily enough, they took umbrage.
It's weird to us cos we are not fussed about some Marvel nonsense and have moved on from this stuff but they are still watching Doctor Who. You know the type.
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