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Steptoe and Son, 1972...
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Long suffering Harold pulls a stripper and weds her much to Albert's dismay, and he plans to destroy the match asap... As much as i loved Steptoe and Son, i always felt bloody sorry for Harold..
Carolyn Seymour was very tasty! :)Quote:
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A deeply implausable but entertaing film. Spoilt for me from the start of the film where Kim Philby is shot dead. (:doh:)Quote:
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Harlem Nights, 1989..
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Back to the Future II, 1989....
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To commemorate the release of a 30th anniversary Back to the Future trilogy Blu-ray and DVD release, a short movie called Back to the Future: Doc Brown Saves the World (2015) was filmed with Christopher Lloyd reprising his role of Doc Brown. In the movie, Doc tapes a video message, explaining that he traveled to the 2040s in a rebuilt DeLorean, and discovered that inventions such as the Hoverboard and dehydrated food will cause people to become massively overweight; even worse, a simultaneous glitch in every nuclear Mr. Fusion device on the planet will cause a nuclear holocaust that decimates the world's population. He subsequently travels back in time, and successfully prevents such dangerous devices from ever being invented, thus explaining why the future 2015 as seen in this movie did not come true in reality.
Paul, 2011.. the uncut version..
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What are the cuts that have been retained in the uncut version?
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Originally Posted by Barry
It's better with them in
RED, 2010... again lol
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Looper, 2012...
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Interesting film. :)Quote:
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as well as being well done and having good actors, its quite a good story for a si-fi. one of my favsQuote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Chato's Land, 1972...
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think i mentioned it before but bronson was a private and suspicious man. he didn't like saying 2 words where a look would do. him, his wife jill ireland and winner dined every night together while jack palance ate alone. Bronson thought Palance was the devil and refused to sit or talk to him.
oddly near the end of the shoot he sat down at his table and later came back to winner and said jack is a really nice man.
both interestingly were hard men, both had been in the war etc and were whats known as tough as nails types.
Yellowstone, 2009. Narrated by Peter Firth
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Life Story, 2014.. Narrated by, David Attenborough
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excellent series life story... worth catching again if you get chance.
now some... Jeeves and Wooster - Season 1
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Season One was excellent - but the later series went down hill when the two of them were stranded in America.
Yes I wondered if that was made to export there?
You dirty old manQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Yes, and one of the last films where Bruce Willis appears to know what film he's in. Shame really, I like Bruce.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Strangers on a Train, 1951...
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The final scene of the so-called "American" version of this movie had Barbara and Anne Morton waiting for Guy to call on the telephone. Sir Alfred Hitchcock wanted the phone in the foreground to dominate the shot, emphasizing the importance of the call, but the limited depth-of-field of contemporary movie camera lenses made it difficult to get both phone and women in focus. So Hitchcock had an oversized phone constructed and placed in the foreground. Anne reaches for the big phone, but actually answers a regular one. Hitchcock explained that "I did that on one take, by moving in on Anne so that the big phone went out of the frame as she reached for it. Then a grip put a normal-sized phone on the table, where she picked it up."
The stunt where the man crawled under the carousel was not done with trick photography. Sir Alfred Hitchcock claimed that this was the most dangerous stunt ever performed under his direction, and he would never allow it to be done again.
Tombstone, 1993...
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The line quoted by Doc at the end of the fight at the OK Corral is historically true, and was reported in the Tombstone papers reporting the fight. When confronted by one of the cowboys at point blank range, the cowboy reportedly said, "I got you now Doc, you son of a bitch!", to which Doc gleefully retorted, "You're a daisy if you do!"
Some years after the death of Doc Holliday, Wyatt was quoted in an interview as saying, "Doc was a dentist, not a lawman or an assassin, whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a frontier vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long lean ash-blond fellow nearly dead with consumption, and at the same time the most skillful gambler and the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun that I ever knew."
Robert Mitchum was signed on to star as Old Man Clanton. Prior to principal photography, he fell from his horse and injured his back, forcing him to quit the part. Instead, Mitchum provides the narration at the beginning and end of the film.
Wyatt Earp died in 1929 having never been so much as scratched by a single bullet. The fact his name is known above, for instance, Virgil's, the marshall of Tombstone at the time of the famous gunfight, is largely due to Wyatt's self-promotion. Before his death he walked in Hollywood circles, and John Wayne once claimed to have met him, apparently modelling his famous walk on that of Wyatt Earp.
The Day of the Jackal, 1971..
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During the filming of the final sequence where President Charles de Gaulle is presenting medals to veterans, the many extras were unaware of how close a resemblance actor Adrien Cayla-Legrand bore to the actual President. On the first take, when the President exits his limousine, most of the crowd gasped, and an elderly extra, who was playing one of the veteran soldiers, fainted in shock.
The novel/film adaptation of "The Day of the Jackal" caused the London Public Records and Passport offices to tighten their regulations to reduce the chance of anybody stealing and using a deceased person's identity, as the Jackal did. Frederick Forsyth said in an interview that he was aware that such things happened in the 1960s. (Several years later, it was revealed that the British Member of Parliament John Stonehouse, in a notorious case, had obtained what newspapers called a "Jackal passport" to escape retribution after faking his own death). However, no one in the British government took notice of this in spite of letters of caution from him to them until after this movie was released.
Ghost, 1990...
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The horrific sounds made by the "dark shadows" are really the sounds of babies' cries, played at extremely slow speed backwards.
The role of Molly Jensen was given to Demi Moore largely in part because Moore could cry out of either eye on cue.
When they were filming the chase scene at night in New York City, it was really cold, and everyone else was bundled up except for Patrick Swayze's character Sam Wheat, and since he's a ghost they didn't want his breath showing so they had him chew ice.
One of my favourite films.Quote:
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Yesterday I watched 'The Whistle Blower' (1987) starring Michael Caine
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tonight I'll start the Shogun box set:
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The Jungle Book, 2016..
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The CGI character Baloo (voiced by Bill Murray) is so large and furry, he took almost five hours of rendering time per frame.
The animal characters were motion-captured and performed live on-set by puppeteers from the Jim Henson Company. For the on-set performances, Jim Henson's Creature Shop built elaborate life-sized puppets to act alongside Mowgli, and serve as eye-lines.
All the locations in the movie are computer generated visual effects. The story may have been set primarily in India, but the movie was completely shot at Los Angeles Center Studios in Los Angeles, California.
Lyricist Richard M. Sherman, who wrote songs for The Jungle Book (1967), composed a new verse for "Wanna Be Like You" for Christopher Walken, where King Louie declares that he is a Gigantopithecus.
The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976..
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The Gatling guns shown during the massacre of the surrendering confederates are not Civil War-period versions of that weapon. The Model 1861 Gatling was a .58 caliber weapon firing from individually-loaded brass or steel chambers, which were fed into the receiver via a hopper or chute attached to the side of the gun's housing. As a result, the gun's rate of fire was significantly slower than is shown in in the film. The guns shown in the movie were models of 1867 or later, which were chambered for fixed ammunition, usually 45/70 and fed through a stick magazine on the top of the weapon's receiver.
Absolute Power, 1997..
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Clint Eastwood has said of this movie's development: "I was sent the script by the production team at Castle Rock and I liked it immediately. It was written by William Goldman, who is one of the best screenwriters around. He had nicely tightened up the story from the book to fit into a movie format, while keeping the characters well defined and interesting people."
The cast includes two Oscar winners: Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman; and four Oscar nominees: Ed Harris, Judy Davis, Laura Linney, and Richard Jenkins.
Quatermass and the Pit, 1967..
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A Sony CV-2000B Videocorder - a very early and primitive form of videotape recorder - is on display during the sequences in which the Martian race memory is both recorded and later played back to the skeptical military.
The original BBC serials were not shown on American television. As a result "Quatermass" was unknown to potential U.S. audiences. As was done with the previous two movie adaptations, the title was changed. Twentieth Century Fox released this in the United States as "Five Million Years to Earth" (1967).
The Captain's Paradise, 1953..
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The film was refused approval by the US Production Code on the ground it was immoral because the lead character was a bigamist. An extra scene was shot to say St James only lived with Nita in North Africa, he was not married to her, he was only married to Maud. This allowed the film to be released.
There were further issues with censors in the US. The film was banned in Maryland because it "made light of marriage".
Eventually further changes were made. A line referring to Guinness' character as a "saint" was cut, and an epilogue added to the end which stated the film was only a fairytale.
The movie was seen widely in the USA.
great film that. super casting etc. top script etc.... they don't come much better.
now an episode of poirot before an early night...:) might have another dram too...
We're No Angels, 1955..... Bogart, Ray and Ustinov comedy... top class too.
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The Cruel Sea, 1953... based on the best-selling 1951 novel of the same name by former naval officer Nicholas Monsarrat.
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Jack Hawkins wrote in his 1973 autobiography "Anything for a Quiet Life" regarding this film, "All of us in the film were sure that we were making something quite unusual, and a long way removed from the Errol Flynn-taking-Burma-single-handed syndrome. This was the period of some very indifferent American war movies, whereas 'The Cruel Sea' contained no false heroics. That is why we all felt that we were making a genuine example of the way in which a group of men went to war."
Red Dwarf series 9... back to earth.
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Red Dwarf series 10..
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cant watch one without other i guess so the second best version..
A Christmas Carol, 1984...
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This is probably the only version of 'A Christmas Carol' in which Scrooge wears dress pants with a dress shirt, vest, and smoking jacket instead of his nightshirt, slippers, and cap. Rumor has it that George C. Scott openly reeled at the very thought of portraying Scrooge under such conditions, especially in an English winter. In the book, Scrooge wears his shirt, pants, vest, dressing gown, and slippers. Scott's clothing is very close to the book. Scott was a scholar of Dickens..
George C. Scott noticeably plays a slightly-different version of Ebenezer Scrooge in this film; Scrooge has a slightly dark sense of humor such as laughing at his nephew when he claims Christmas is humbug and refusing to dine with him and at times is sarcastic to his peers, especially the Ghost of Christmas Past, and to a lesser extent the Ghost of Christmas Present. Plus, Scrooge is quite clever at using wit to get what he wants from his fellow businessmen at the exchange; he uses very complex words and claims to be an expert at the game 'Simile.' Scott claimed he wanted to play Scrooge as primarily lonely and exhausted rather than miserly.
Death on the Nile, 2022...
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In both this film and Murder on the Orient Express (2017), Poirot shows signs of being obsessive compulsive (Letitia Wright's character even calls him "obsessive" at one point). His need for balance and symmetry is shown when he sends back one of the desserts so that he has an even number and when he straightens the feet of one of the victims. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (or OCD) is considered a relatively new discovery, but the term was actually coined in 1877 by German psychiatrist Carl Westphal.
Private's Progress, 1956...
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Maj. Hitchcock(Terry-Thomas): Good Lord - Windrush! What on earth are you doing dressed up as a Jerry? You're an absolute bounder.
Cat Ballou, 1965...
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Lee Marvin's larger-than-life personality and fondness for tipping back the bottle made the actor a raucous but irresistible presence on the set. "Working with Lee Marvin was an unbelievable experience," said Dwayne Hickman. "Never have I met such an outrageous personality. Lee loved to drink, and the more he drank, the more outrageous he became. He had a story about everything and everybody. He also had very definite theories on acting and a style that was all his own. Lee figured if a little bit was good, a lot would be so much better. As a result, each take of a scene was bigger than the last." According to Hickman, Marvin sometimes used alcohol to enhance his performance as the drunken Kid Shelleen. For instance, the very first scene that Marvin shot was the one in which everyone meets Kid Shelleen for the first time, and he is falling down drunk. "He rehearsed several times," said Hickman, "and then went behind the barn and took a shot of vodka to steel himself. I ran into him in front of his dressing room where he had just gotten sick. When I asked if he was all right, he said, in typical Lee Marvin fashion, 'Tension, baby...just a little tension.'"
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006.
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Crap 1980s TV night on 'Legend' channel:
'Star Trek' 'TNG' - the first series so veers widely in quality from poor to shockingly poor.
'Knight Rider' - you might remember this as being so bad it was good, but you'd be mistaken.
I used to have a girlfriend who was a big fan of it (she liked the talking car) but that probably says more about me than it does about the programme.
'Walker, Texas Ranger' - according to one critic this show has 'acting that makes William Shatner seem like Marlon Brando' It's watchable, just about.
We got this channel as a replacement for 'Forces TV' but it's not a patch on it.
Isn't that the thing with Chuck Norris? Chuck Bloody Norris? You're a tougher man than me if you can sit through an episode of that. Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal, they're the reason remote controls were invented.Quote:
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with you on JCVD but Seagal films are so bad they are good, except for 'Under Siege' which is a classic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
is that the 'nobody beats me in the kitchen' oneQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Dunkirk, 1958...
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original and best. great cast too.
Sir John Mills was fifty-years-old at the time of filming. The British Expeditionary Force in France in 1940 were a professional army, not conscripts (conscription (the draft) only began after Dunkirk to recoup numbers) therefore, Sir John Mills would be beyond the retirement age for a soldier, and would have been considered too old even for conscription, the maximum age being forty-five. The only soldiers aged fifty or above would have been senior officers, not frontline soldiers, and certainly not Corporals.