Binging my way through First season of this.
Big fan of the books, the series is very good.
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Binging my way through First season of this.
Big fan of the books, the series is very good.
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First thing I watched on my new 4K telly. Most impressive :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Gazjam
'Copland' just starting on ITV4
Good film Cop Land.
Some cast, Stallone, De Niro, Keitel, Liotta & Stallone does some acting!Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
The Rock. 1996.. Connery/Cage fight for good v evil..
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Classic action film
Just finished watching 'The Big Country' 1958, with Gregory Peck. What a fantastic film, probably the best western ever made, even better than The Man From Laramie that I watched and really enjoyed last week. Both of which I've seen many times.
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What a great Musical Score!
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Red Heat. 1988.
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The Sweeney's Ford Console gt. Me thinksQuote:
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Splash. 1984..Directed by Ron Howard and stars Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah and John Candy.
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Blade Runner. The Final Cut.
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The Rolling Stones - Hyde Park Concert 2013
Got a load of these gigs that I've taped off of Sky Arts but I've been waiting to get the 'Home Theatre' system back up and running before I watched them. Great sound quality on Sky Arts.
A Matter Of Life And Death.. Powell and Pressburger classic stars David Niven
Lol - what DA FUCK?:doh::DQuote:
Originally Posted by struth
The only "splash" I'd want to hear is the sound of it being chucked in a river!:lol:
Looks like some kind of rom-com shee-ite...
Marco.
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Kansas City Confidential 1952.. film noir crime film directed by Phil Karlson starring John Payne and Coleen Gray.
review of time... Kansas City Confidential, an imaginative little noir from 1952, exemplifies the bread-and-butter UA film of the 1950s ... Mr. Karlson, interestingly, concentrates on the story within the story: The leader of the gang is an embittered former police captain ... who dons a mask when he interviews prospective collaborators whose names he has drawn from police files ... The recruits are three young actors who would come to define menace in the 1950s and beyond: Neville Brand, Jack Elam and Lee Van Cleef, who here has his best role before For a Few Dollars More. Mr. Karlson’s filmmaking has few of the standard noir flourishes: the dark and brooding shadows, the bizarrely canted camera angles. Instead, he works through gigantic close-ups and an unusually visceral treatment of bare-knuckle violence. With refinements, he would continue to pursue this theme (revenge) and this style, right up through his creative resurgence in the 1970s: Ben (1972), Walking Tall (1973) and Framed (1975).
It is and it's horrendous. The worst Tom Hanks film ever, surpassing the almost as terrible 'Big'. Which you wouldn't have thought was even possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
was on the disney channel so free.. it was ok, and john candy did his best to hold it together. not seen it since it came out and it didnt really age that wellQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Doesn't help that I never fancied Daryl Hannah. I have the same problem with Julia Robert's romantic films. Blokes going through all sorts of aggravation to try and pull her - I just can't relate to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Prefer julia tbh.
Letters from iwo jima.
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The Abyss.. 1989, Directed by James Cameron.
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It won the 1990 Oscar for Best Visual Effects..
Probably won an award in the best wet T-shirt competition! :D
Another Coward/Lean colaberation. Former wrote, latter Directed.. This Happy Breed 1944.
Superb cast too
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Cocoon 1985, directed by Ron Howard.
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All quality(mostly elderly) cast again with this fountain of youth Alien close encounters film.
not great but some good performances from the veterns
Not a bad film that but the sequel is dire.
certainly not as good... not quite dire tho, there was a lack of humour in itQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
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St Martin's Lane 1938..(yes marco there were films in 1938;))
Vivien Leigh, Charles Laughton and Rex Harrison are the main participants with Larry Adler appearing too with his harmonica.
Marvelous stuff
MacArthur 1977, starring Gregory Peck in the eponymous role as American General of the Army Douglas MacArthur.
The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan in World War II, to 1952, after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Harry Truman.
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The 1978 version of Buchan's 39 Steps. Robert Powell gets the gig this time.
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Saw the original many years ago, and there is a part where the main character was going to Inverary, and I thought "Ooh, I've been to Inverary for a fishing holiday, this'll be interesting". But then he said something like "This isn't the road to Inverary!" Disappointing. Saw the remake many years later, and guess what? He still didn't go to Inverary :(Quote:
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The moors was shot at Mitchellslacks in Dumfrieshire
Wilt 1989, starring Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, Alison Steadman, and Diana Quick.. watched this fairly recently but fancy it again.. it appeals to my sense of humour:eyebrows:
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Tom Sharpe novels were always amusing in a slightly mucky way - there was a TV adaptation of "Blott on the Landscape" produced in the 80s, starring David Suchet, which I remember enjoying :)Quote:
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Anything with Diana Quick in it is worth watching.
The adaptations of Tom Sharpe's books to the small screen have all been done well: 'Porterhouse Blue' and 'Blott on the Landscape'. I would love to see screenplays written for 'The Throwback' and for the South African books: 'Riotous Assembly', 'Indecent Exposure'.
Ripping Yarns
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opening with the classic Tomkinson's Schooldays
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Das Boot. directors cut
Always wondered, is that a cut down version of the mini series? I've seen the latter it's brilliant but probably not for everyone, hence the cut I imagine.
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The first to be shown was the theatrical version at about2 and half hrs... Lots more footage was available and the bbc showed the ministries 5* 50mins series in this country.. about 1984 i think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawrence001
dvd Das Boot, The Original Uncut Version, was released and slightly shorter coz it was cut lol ... this is the directors cut at 208mins.
complex lol.. i have the uncut version as well in german
I watched it originally as the weekly serial on BBC - brilliant, one of those shows where you really don't want the episode to finish. But I watched it again a couple of years ago and it wasn't as gripping as I remembered it being. Still good though.Quote:
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i remember sitting up with my brother and watched the whole series in a oner one night on bbc2 i think, many moons ago.. must have been 84..Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Yes 1984. but it was one episode a week. Might have been a Sunday night, I don't recall exactly. Your brother must have taped it.
we watched it all night I remember that. Don't think it was taped tbh. As we couldn't go to bed lol
Das Boot has to be seen in one uninterupted sitting to appreciate the claustrophobic life on board a submarine.
I saw it in the cinema, and coming out at the end into daylight and fresh air was a revelation - and a relief!
I saw 'Morning Departure' as a youngster and that put me off any ideas of going in a submarine. Terrible way to die.
Although I did have a tour of one once but it was just sat in the harbour so I thought it was pretty safe. Can't remember the type but it was an American boat.
Cabaret 1972, directed by Bob Fosse, and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York, and Joel Grey.
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Fab film that. Had a bit of grit about it for me and exposed well the growing nazi attitudes.
Think it won 8 oscars
follow that with the mini series Traffik from 1989. stars Bill Patterson and Lindsay Duncan.
quality stuff this.... very hard hitting...
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