Is it a post-apocalypse survival film?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
No, it's not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu_(film).
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Is it a post-apocalypse survival film?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
No, it's not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu_(film).
Casanova 2005
Legendary film actor Peter O'Toole and rising star David Tenant lead a stellar cast in the title role of the major BBC drama Casanova. Tenant plays the 18th century character as a young man whose extraordinary life takes him from Venice across Europe. O'Toole plays the older casanova as he relives his adventures in exile. Fast paced and edgy, Casanova alternates between the gripping love triangle involving the young Casanova, Henriette and her husband Grimani, and the swan song of the world's greatest lothario.
101 Reykjavík 2001
A 30 year old man still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net. His mother’s Spanish flamenco teacher, Lola, moves in with them for Christmas. On New Year’s Eve, while his mother is away he finds out Lola is a lesbian, but also ends up having rampart, drunken sex with her. His mother returns only to break the news that she is also a lesbian and she and Lola are in love. Lola becomes pregnant with his child and she and his mother plan to bring the baby up together. Failing in his suicide attempt, he matures, gets a job, and lives together with his mother, her lover and their (his) baby boy.
Debutant director Baltasar Kormakur shredded a 400-page novel to arrive at this offbeat offering that seems to be both a 'coming out' and 'going straight' kind of comedy.
The reformation is undertaken by Hlynur (Hilmur Snaer Gudnason), who has been content enough, until he impregnates both his girlfriend and Lola (Abril), the Spanish dance teacher who has embarked on a lesbian relationship with his mother (Karlsdottir).
Although it combines Almodovarian touches of extravagance with a peculiar brand of Icelandic humour, there are also distinctive echoes of Fargo and Gazon Maudit in the way Kormakur depicts the snow-sedated community.
Almodovar regular Abril is perfect as the Hispanic spitfire. But it's Gudnason's laconic mommy's boy and Karlsdottir's emancipated house slave who catch the eye, while the dissonant score - co-written by Damon Albarn, who owns a bar in Reykjavik, ensnares the ear.
Fuelled with enough sex, drug use and offbeat humour to make you immediately book a flight to Iceland, this initially chilly comedy soon warms up to pleasing effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101_Reykjav%C3%ADk
The City of Lost Children 1994
The City of Lost Children is a unique film, like everything made by the Jeunet/Caro tandem. It's very much in the shaggy, lumbering spirit of Terry Gilliam, but eschews his stuffy, British sensibilities and satire for a more dream-like quality. If Gilliam were French, this is the type of movie he'd be making.
In a derelict port, a joyless genius, Krank has children abducted so their dreams can be harvested, and so reverse his accelerated ageing process. When Krank's henchmen kidnap a local strongman One's brother, he sets out on a journey to Krank's laboratory, along with Miette, an orphan girl who has her own journey, to rescue their friends.
After many years spent making commercials, short films, and music videos, the duo of French directors Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro made DELICATESSEN, their debut feature film, in 1991. The film, a dystopian dark comedy which won the pair César awards for Best First Work and Best Screenplay, became a cult hit and was an art-house success around the world. Before DELICATESSEN, though, Jeunet and Caro had completed a screenplay for an ambitious science fiction story about a dream-stealing scientist, a group of bickering clones, and a brain living in a fish tank called LA CITÉ DES ENFANTS PERDUS, or THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN.
Funding the production of DELICATESSEN was a difficult and lengthy endeavor, and Jeunet and Caro knew that their vision for THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN would require an even heftier budget. The success of DELICATESSEN finally made this production possible, and thirteen years after its original conception, shooting began on THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN on a soundstage outside Paris in April, 1994. The filmmakers’ conception of the film called for extensive digital visual effects, requiring a lengthy pre-production phase and the services of two different French visual effects companies. At the time it was made, the film was the most ambitious French production in terms of digital effects, with 144 digitally augmented shots for a total of 17 minutes of screen time.
American actor Ron Perlman, who plays the circus strongman One, was best known at the time for his role in television’s “Beauty and the Beast.” Perlman did not speak French, and learned and delivered his dialogue phonetically. The rest of the cast was made up of French actors, including Jeunet and Caro stock players like Dominique Pinon, the star of DELICATESSEN, who would go on play a key role in Jeunet’s most successful film, LE FABLEUX DESTIN D’AMÉLIE POULAIN (2001), known in the U.S. simply as AMÉLIE.
How can you not love this movie? From the amazingly talented team of Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet comes this superbly original fantasy tale, that just oozes inventiveness and drags you into it's world, where it's all too easy to completely lose yourself. Caro and Jeunet were, of course, the good people behind the brilliant 'Delicatessen'. The City of Lost Children is kind of like Delicatessen mark 2. The style is still there in droves, except in this film it's much more abundant, and while Delicatessen had a base in reality, The City of Lost Children can easily be classified simply as 'pure' fantasy. The film is very French, and even if you didn't know where it's makers came from, you'd be able to guess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_of_Lost_Children
'The Six Million Dollar Man'
Unremarkable except that Steve is driving about in a 1976 Mercedes SL450. Nice. That car has aged a lot better than the show.
Given that his bionic legs let him run at 70 mph you'd think he could just jog to his missions and save the taxpayer a few dollars.
He tips a pallet load of bricks on top of two blokes. But don't worry, they're fine. They even give him the information he wants.
Tbh I thought even back then the show was cack. I mean, things like lifting a two ton car with his bionic arm, and somehow his non-bionic spine coped just fine. :rolleyes: I could never get past that kind of nonsense.
I did try watching it again recently on the off chance that my advancing years and a bit of nostalgia might make it more tolerable, but no, the laws of physics still apply.
It is terrible. I watched it religiously back when it was first on. But there were only three channels and I was eight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Having said that it's still more watchable than the modern rubbish.
I remember my best mate had the 6 Million Dollar man Action Figure (OK, doll...) and i it even included the engine he could pick up and the eye thing. Think I'll buy one from eBay, to satisfy my nostalgic curiosity. Or maybe not!
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We spent all those years at school, at college, then working our arses off for a secure future and then it turns out that all we had to do was keep our childhood toys pristine in the boxes and just wait a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
And maybe stash away a few mark one Escorts and some Fiesta Supersports in a lock up somewhere.