Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love. One of the great films this....with both a salient point and super humour.
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love. One of the great films this....with both a salient point and super humour.
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“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
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Watched it a few years ago and loved it - quite violent in bits!
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The Mirror dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Probably a bit too 'art house' cinema for some, but I love Tarkovsky and have copies of all his films.
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"Gentlemen - You can't fight in here! This is the War Room"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love. One of the great films this....with both a salient point and super humour.
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Classic old British sixties B&W drama on TalkingPictures TV at 11.35 tonight. 'A Taste of Honey' with Rita Tushingham. Some great acting!
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Probably the most accurate depiction of British spy-craft during the '60s (along with 'Callan'); unlike the sheer fantasy of the Bond franchise.I did Marco. its one of those greats from the era.
now a more modern near great, The Ipcress File from 1965, and starring Michael Caine.
Sidney J. Furie's direction, with his angular camera shots is brilliant, as is the wonderful John Barry music score. The sequel: 'Funeral in Berlin' was also good, but the final part of the Harry Palmer trilogy: 'Billion Dollar Brain', was IMO rubbish.
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'Beneath Loch Ness' (2001)
What if you decided to make a film but couldn't really be bothered to come up with a story? You'd just pick a story that's already been made, change a few names and then make a very bad film.
In this case the story ripped off is Jaws. Only instead of being a shark that is killing people and scaring the tourists away it is the Loch Ness monster.
Bennet from 'Commando' is in this as is Patrick Bergen and Lysette Anthony (no longer at the height of her powers but you still probably would). But it is indescribably shit. I was up at Loch Ness last summer for a week and although I didn't go everywhere I really don't remember it looking like California. And I've been to California and its similarity to the Scottish Highlands was marked by its absence.
And that is probably the best thing about this film. You get a bit of stock footage of the real Loch Ness then you cut to the actors, who are supposedly standing on its shoreline, and they are in California. Quite obviously, no intention of trying to hide it, they are in California. There are palm trees and everything.
They go to a pub and it is just an American bar, they go to the hospital and all the nurses are wearing American nurse uniforms. The bloke even pays at the bar in dollars. I didn't try that in Scotland but I'm willing to bet that it won't work.
And you may be surprised to learn that the Coastguard is now 'H M Coastguard'. And that their Scottish HQ is located in California.
Kubrick managed to film 'Full Metal Jacket' in London when it was set in Vietnam. And you couldn't tell. So what the problem was here I can only guess at.
In summation, not as bad as 'Stonehenge Apocalypse' in the same way that Bono is not as bad as Bob Geldof.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work.... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
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Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
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Great movie. Perhaps not to everybody's taste?
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