Hope it wasn't too awful. Had a few myself.Quote:
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Hope it wasn't too awful. Had a few myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roy S
rectum??... damn near killed him :ner:
Pretty sore, still feeling the after effects :(Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Involved a probe up there actually...Quote:
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an alien probing eh? lol nasty.Quote:
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That bit wasn't so bad.
It was digging about with a big needle through the perineum that was a bit ouchy.
lol yes there are lots of nerves around there. ive given up on the medics..Quote:
Originally Posted by Roy S
His Girl Friday, 1940 ..The Criterion Collection,Blu-ray.
One of the first films (preceded by "Stage Door" (1937)) to have characters talk over the lines of other characters, for a more realistic sound. Prior to this, movie characters completed their lines before the next lines were started. It is estimated that the normal rate of verbal dialogue in most films is around 90 words a minute. In this, at times its 240 a minute...
Ginger Rogers wrote that she was offered the role of Hildy Johnson. She read the script, but this was before Cary Grant was cast, and she turned it down. After learning that Grant was cast, she regretted it.
According to Ralph Bellamy, the line, "There's a guy in a taxi down at the court building looks just like that movie star, what's his name? Ralph Bellamy!"!" was ad-libbed by Cary Grant. Harry Cohn, the studio head, saw the dailies and responded in fury at the impertinence, but he let Howard Hawks leave it in, and it has always been one of the biggest laughs in the film.
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Heaven's Gate, 1980... bluray remaster. Director Michael Cimino.
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Sir John Hurt spent so long waiting around for something to do that he made The Elephant Man (1980), then came back to shoot more scenes for this movie.
Wondering why they were paying so much to rent the land where they were filming, United Artists checked local records. The owner turned out to be writer and director Michael Cimino.
This is considered one of the most notorious screen disasters in the history of film. After struggling with personal movies that went nowhere, Michael Cimino finally got to make The Deer Hunter (1978), which brought him critical and commercial success and earned five Academy Awards. Afterward, United Artists was willing to allow him anything he wanted. According to Steven Bach's "Final Cut", Cimino got $11.6 million to make his next project, a western about a land war in Johnson County, Wyoming, featuring a first-rate cast. It went over budget almost immediately, mostly due to Cimino's insistence on absolute perfectionism. Stories abounded that he was tearing down sets for no reason, and hiring and firing crew members almost weekly. Many of the stories were exaggerated, but the cost ballooned to a then-astronomical $40 million ($125 million in 2020 dollars). When Cimino presented the movie to United Artists, it ran well over five hours. After some squabbling, he agreed to trim it down to less than three hours. The movie was a commercial and critical disaster that destroyed Cimino's career as a director. It nearly bankrupted United Artists, which merged with MGM. That year, MGM had a hit in For Your Eyes Only (1981). Cimino didn't work for another five years, and his career never recovered. When Waterworld (1995) was being made, its production encountered so much difficulty, and Kevin Costner received so much negative press concerning the shooting, it was called "Kevin's Gate".
Isabelle Huppert was cast as Ella over the objection of United Artists executives. Michael Cimino insisted on casting her, and threatened (not for the last time) to take this movie to Warner Brothers, and United Artists capitulated. Even afterwards, Steven Bach, at one point, told Cimino to his face, that his leading lady was so unappealing, that the audience was going to wonder why Kris Kristofferson and Christopher Walken "weren't fucking each other, instead of her". Cimino told him to go fuck himself.
What's ironic about Heaven's Gate is that while the film takes many liberties with history, some of the things people criticize the film for were historically accurate. There was a roller skating rink in Johnson County, Wyoming around that time. The part where Nathan Champion writes a farewell note mentioning that he is trapped in a burning cabin, a scene which Roger Ebert called "ridiculous", actually happened. The residents of Johnson County did make movable breastworks out of logs and wagons to use in battle. Members of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association did offer to pay mercenaries $5 per day plus expenses and $50 for each person they killed. There's a photo of the real Frank Canton wearing a Cossack-style hat like Sam Waterston does in the movie. The wealthy cattlemen and their hired guns were rescued by the U.S. cavalry. The scene in the prologue set at Harvard where the graduates circle around a tree and rowdily compete to grab a wreath of flowers was based on a real Class Day tradition from the 19th century.
Heaven's Gate does contain historical inaccuracies. The movie exaggerates the number of people who were marked for death by the cattle barons and the number of people who were ultimately killed. In reality, only four people were killed during the invasion of Johnson County: Nathan Champion and Nick Ray, who were murdered by the invaders, and two of the gunmen hired by the cattlemen, who accidentally shot themselves with their own guns. While European immigrants did settle in the Great Plains, and there was nativist opposition to new immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe in late 19th century America, most of the residents of Johnson County, Wyoming at the time had been born in the United States. The music that plays during the roller skating scene is anachronistic, as it was first released in 1951. While Wyoming's Acting Governor and Senators might have had advanced knowledge of the cattlemen's plot to invade Johnson County, I know of no evidence that President Benjamin Harrison did. Many of the characters in the movie are named after historical figures, but bear little resemblance to their real-life counterparts. The real James Averill (sic) wasn't a wealthy Harvard graduate and U.S. Marshal. He was a small businessman who was born in Canada and lynched along with Ella Watson in 1889, a few years before the invasion of Johnson County. The real Nathan Champion never worked as a hired gun for the Wyoming Stock Growers Association. Instead he was one of the leaders of the independent ranchers opposed to the WSGA. The real Frank Canton wasn't from a wealthy, politically-connected family. He was a former outlaw born Josiah Horner who changed his name and became a stock detective for the WSGA and a Johnson County sheriff. The real William C. Irvine wasn't a reluctant participant in the invasion of Johnson County but an unrepentant defender of it.
imo a superb film ive always liked. i know its not accurate but its a bit of film artistry and magic, and a good story(if not accurate).
It was pulled from viewing due to it being slated by audiences and critics alike. Much of that was down to the start of the Regan years where 'slagging off' America had become a dirty idea suddenly. if it had come out a few year earlier it would have perhaps been different. In later years it became a classic and perhaps rated as the 'Great American Film'.
ps, the remastered bluray is pretty superb.
I don't know about that. It is quite good but even so it's not good enough to be as long as it is.
Worth sticking with Roy, one of the best things on telly ever. Well, very good anyway.
"I'm not in danger, I AM the danger!"
Bit late with this post. I'm referring to Breaking Bad of course.
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Dunkirk (2017)
Fionn Whitehead is a young British soldier trying anything to escape the beaches, Mark Ryland has to take his little boat across the Channel and help with the rescue.
Another one where I'm not sure what to make of it. Very little in the way of characterisation, or dialogue. Not much story either and there's times that it looks a bit cheap, like a 1970s BBC production where they're trying to replicate a huge battle in Studio 2 with six people and ten bob's worth of scenery . It feels like a very empty film.
I did think it was a low budget production and so gave it a pass but I've since found out it cost $150 million.
Pass revoked.
Despite the massive box-office success and critical acclaim I can't rate it. Just about worth a watch but not one I'd ever return to.
In comparison the 1958 'Dunkirk' is a much better film, I've seen that half a dozen times and would happily watch it again.
Death on the Nile, 2022...
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This version of Poirot is implied to have been born much later than his literary counterpart, who was in his fifties at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. In this movie, Poirot is shown in the prologue as a young soldier in 1914, making him at least thirty years younger than Book Poirot.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge, 2017...
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The father of Captain Jack Sparrow was played by a Rolling Stone (Keith Richards), and in this movie, the uncle of Captain Jack Sparrow was played by a Beatle (Sir Paul McCartney).
The Latin inscription on the diary reads "Verum omna simul astra", which bluntly means "all the stars speak the truth always."
Been watching "Stranger Things" on Netflix this last few weeks. I had assumed it was a kids' thing. It isn't. We're on season 4 now.
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Clue, 1985....
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Three endings were shot, and a different one shown at each theatre. All three are included on video. The DVD, however, aside from all three endings, also offers the option to play the movie with one randomly selected ending. In some cities, the newspaper print ads indicated which version ("Ending A", "Ending B", or "Ending C") was being shown at each theatre.
Madeline Kahn's short "Flames...on the side of my face" monologue about her hatred for Yvette the French maid was ad-libbed.
The entire house is a set, except for the ballroom, which was shot on-location at a mansion in Pasadena, California.
Murder by Decree, 1979...
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Although Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle never wrote a story about Jack the Ripper, the idea of Holmes working on that case is not entirely without basis in fact. Joseph Bell, who inspired the character of Sherlock Holmes, was consulted by Scotland Yard on the case.
The replica nineteenth century dockland set took two months and fifty men to construct at Shepperton Studio's largest soundstage. The set also included a replica muddy Thames River.
"Prey" was superb.
As good as (and hate to say it...possibly better?) than the original.
(Keeping vague to avoid spoilers)
Its terrifying, a real back to basics horror movie version of something familiar.
awaiting its bluray release. thats the commanche version yes?Quote:
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Yeah Grant.
Its superb.
Do you know... I don't think I've ever seen that.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
I love the originals with Rathbone. Very cheesy and innocent now but they're still a good watch.
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its pretty good for its time. great cast tooQuote:
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My Favorite Brunette, 1947...Film Noir Parody.
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Included among the American Film Institute's 2000 list of the 500 movies nominated for the Top 100 Funniest American Movies.
A Call to Spy, 2019...
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After shooting, lead actress Sarah Megan Thomas's left Achilles tendon ruptured. The rupture occurred due to complications of playing Virginia Hall on screen (a historical character with a wooden left leg). Thomas needed surgery and extensive rehab to repair the tendon.
Monopoly games really were used in WWII to help people escape. Allied intelligence sent packages to their POWs that featured clandestine escape kits, which included tools like compasses, metal files, money, and, most importantly, maps all disguised as parts of the game.
The Cat and the Canary, 1939... bluray directed by Elliot Nugent... reg a disc...
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Many people believe that the lawyer's name (Crosby) is an in-joke reference to the Bob Hope(I)/Bing Crosby pairing. In fact it's a coincidence; this was the character's name in the stage play as well as the two previous film versions. Moreover, Hope and Crosby did not make a film together until Road to Singapore (1940) the following year.
In one scene at the beginning of the movie, a crocodile is shown swimming through the bayou. If you look closely at its snout, you can see tape, preventing it from opening its mouth.
6.10pm today on Talking Pictures TV, 'Two Way Stretch' with Peter Sellers & crew. One of the best sixties comedies, great fun!
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just watching that now... was wondering what to put on :DQuote:
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The Mouse on the Moon, 1963..
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Ron Moody was only four years older than Bernard Cribbins, who played his son Vincent.
The American premier was held at Cape Canaveral, Florida, where cast members mingled with NASA astronauts.
Paul, 2011...
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A good take-on, and spoof of films about extra-terrestrials.
some needed humour now with... Throw Momma from the Train, 1987.
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When Larry reads the book title "100 Girls I'd Like to Pork", the word "pork" is clearly dubbed in, because he is saying something else, most likely "fuck", which you cannot say in a sexual context without receiving an R rating from the MPAA. The word "pork" is at a different volume and doesn't match his lip movement.
The movie was set in 1987, the present day. At the end of the movie, Larry and Owen meet again the next year, 1988, and Larry asks "How's Momma?" to which Owen replies "Dead." Sadly, Anne Ramsey did die in 1988, a year after the movie was released.
I watched 'The Big Country' 1958 once again on 5 ACTION channel last night. I'd forgotten what a superb movie it was, a proper treat!
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'10 Rillington Place' (1971)
Richard Attenborough is serial-killer John Christie in a fairly accurate re-telling of the real-life events.
Good film this mainly because Attenborough and John Hurt both give very convincing performances. Ludovic Kennedy, who wrote a book about it, was a technical advisor, as was hangman Albert Pierrepont, who was brought in to ensure the hanging scene was as accurate as possible.
The exterior shots in the film were on the actual location. The street was renamed in the 1950s and then the whole area demolished completely not long after the film was made. It has since been re-developed beyond recognition. The street no longer exists under any name.
Christie had a high IQ but his big problem was disposing of the bodies. He buried some in the back yard but his dog was digging them up. An initial police search failed to find the shallow graves, or notice that a human femur was propping up the fence.
With the yard full, Christie resorted to stashing corpses in an alcove of his kitchen and then wallpapering over it. They were discovered when a new tenant attempted to fit brackets for a shelf he was putting up. At his trial Christie pleaded insanity but the jury didn't buy it and he was hanged.
yeah, timothy evens got a short drop which they couldnt sort of make right too...think they gave him a queens pardon(which im sure chuffed him to his knickers) ..very good, chilling and realistic film.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Little Big Man, 1970.
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The role of Old Lodge Skins was initially offered to Marlon Brando, who turned it down. Other sources claim Arthur Penn's first choice for the role was Sir Laurence Olivier. When that didn't work out, Richard Boone was slated for the role. When Boone backed out at the last minute, Chief Dan George was given the part and earned an Oscar nomination.
Little Big Man was the name of an actual historical figure. He was a Native American, an Oglala Lakota, who was a fearless and respected warrior who fought under, and was rivals with, Crazy Horse. He also fought at the Battle of Little Big Horn, a battle which is depicted in this film.
just finished... Hitchcock's Frenzy, 1972..
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Now,...Scarlet Street, 1945...Fritz Lang....
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Twelve paintings done for the film by John Decker were sent to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City for exhibition in March of 1946.
Director Fritz Lang and three of the stars (Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, and Dan Duryea) also made the similarly themed The Woman in the Window (1944).
According to Ben Mankiewicz on TCM, when first released, local censor boards in New York, Milwaukee, and Atlanta banned this film entirely for being "licentious, profane, obscure, and contrary to the good order of the community".
a marvellous bit of entertainment. just top class.. although not credited, kurt russell directed it too. oh, and all but one of the moustaches were in fact reall.lolQuote:
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The Casebook Of Sherlock Holmes...
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Perfect Holmes in my view. I mean everything not just the acting. The costumes were a strong influence on my late teen fashion. Got a few funny looks in my rural market town on a night out [emoji23]Quote:
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Not a bad series I agree.
I like to look for how they cover up modernity in the exterior shots. Usual trick for hiding white road markings and yellow lines is to smear a load of clay over them. Watched one the other day where they go to a boarding house and it had a coax TV cable running up the outside wall.
And no doubt they were all grown for the part bar. one. I can imagine the producer saying, "right guys, go away and grow your taches, and we'll meet up here in two months' time. Sam, you can start Monday" :)Quote:
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I do the same :).Quote:
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