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NASA had some fantastic talent at their disposal Barry, that's for sure. They way they got those extra amps was nothing short of a brainwave. Gene Kranz summed it up perfectly. We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option.
Tonights movie is St Martins Lane aka sidewalks of London (1938) Directed by Tim Wheelan and starring Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison. and featuring Larry Adler as Consintine Dan and Tyrone Guthrie; later to become Sir, playing Gentry.
Charles Laughton is one of my favorite actors and is on top form here as Charles Staggers, a street viruoso and besotted by Liberty (Vivien Leigh), and who wouldn't be. She goes on to great things while he, who helped and guided her is left in the gutter (familiar??):lol:
Erich Pommer, who produced Metropolis and Jamaca Inn, Co produced after coming to England to flee Hitler.
Loved the line from Leigh whem Laughton asks her to marry him.....Marry you, Joe? Have you gone out of your mind? I mean you had better look in the frying pan, hadn't you? ;) and one from Laughton which still holds true....There ain't no answer. You're after justice and logic. There ain't no justice, and there ain't no logic. The world ain't made that way. Everything's luck, see. And good temper. And if you can take a joke..... The whole of life's a joke.:eyebrows: shot on 35mm in B&W it is a rarely shown gem.
Viv Leigh shows up well and is an accomplished singer and especially dancer. She went pretty much straight on to Gone with the wind, 21 days and Waterloo Bridge. A rare talent but never outshined Charles Laughton who was by far the senior star of the film then.
Now watching Ice age 1......one of my guilty secrets.:eek:
Ah, but Viv Leigh's a bit easier on the eyes than Charles Laughton!
(The bells...) :)
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Originally Posted by Gazjam
She was a doll Gary....stunningly beautiful. talent + beauty are rare; sure she never need the casting couch.:eyebrows:
Apollo 13 - agreed excellent film.
Regards Neil
Lucy http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2872732/...ef_=tt_trv_trv
Went and saw this yesterday and well I am not sure. Its in places very good, in other places dire and in others just completely bonkers. I think this is Luc Besson's attempt to make a 2001 typed film.
Its a weird mishmash of oriental crime/action film and sci fi, which involves a young lady getting involved in a drug smuggling ring, becoming a human drug smuggling mule in which an assault leaves her exposed to the drugs within her body - with dire consequences.
Where its plain crazy is the way no one - in particular the police - try to arrest her for murdering a number of innocent people in cold blood - never mind the bad guys. Where its different to lots of sci fi movies in the past is the way in which the scientists don't bring the army in to deal with Lucy, credible probably not, but refreshing.
The action scenes are good but clichéd, we have seen it before in many Asian action movies but Luc does try to do a number of newish things but sadly they end up looking like the Matrix meets 2001.
Acting is ok but again I think the film fails to show what a super evolved human would be like.
One very annoying aspect is the way the audience is treated every so often to Sheldon Cooper typed explanation of science, evolutionary theory and reproduction :doh: it was very patronising and not really required in my opinion and certainly not as clips of a documentary nature - plain weird.
Oh yes, very sudden ending which leaves one going is that it :scratch:
Overall 5 out of 10
Ah Scarlett Johansson is rather charming, but have heard that its a bit of a mix Neil. Nice write up and saves me watching it as the boy will likely want it.
If you like short girls with large behinds (bit like Penelope Cruz, but she comes with a moustache too). I think Scarlett may have lost a bit of weight lately though.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Scarlett Johansson is pleasant on the eye, sort of, not really my type but in regards to her acting frankly its workman like but not particularly inspired, someone much better was required but I am not sure who :scratch:
Frankly I think this needed to be longer, which would have allowed the themes to be given more space to develop and the massive plot holes and crazy oversights in how the police would have reacted in a situation like this could have been addressed and explored more.
Regards Neil