The Man Who Never Was, 1956.
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The Man Who Never Was, 1956.
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just finished...Shooter, 2007..
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The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003..
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Excellent! Never seen him in a truly dreadful movie.Quote:
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28 Weeks Later, 2007
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The Outfit, 1973..
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casablanca, 1942.. [got my new apple box working, yay]
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wonderful film this, and the new release shows the radiance of miss bergman... funny too, that both bergman and bogart wanted out of the film feeling it was total crap... just shows you how wrong even the stars can be
David Copperfield, 1935..
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The film was well-received upon its release in January 1935. Andre Sennwald of The New York Times called it "the most profoundly satisfying screen manipulation of a great novel the camera has ever given us."[7] Variety wrote that it had "one of the most evenly good casts ever to have been assembled", with staging and costumes that were "almost always excellent."
Chinatown, 1974..
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Well it was a bit of a hotch potch from three screenplay writers. Nonetheless, despite the clichés, it is one of my favourite films.Quote:
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(BTW - I understand there is a 'colurised' version - ugh!)
Another great film!Quote:
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1978...4k.
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nice transfer and this ltd ed comes with cards and poster plus book.
During the taxi ride, Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams's nervousness is genuine. Don Siegel had lost much of his vision and was driving through the dark streets of San Francisco without his glasses.
Harry the homeless banjo guy's banjo playing was performed by Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia. The song being played (and sung) is the traditional "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad," which was a regular tune played by The Dead in live performances, and appears on several live albums.
The man asking for help is Kevin McCarthy, the star of the 1956 adaptation Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).
Joe Versus the Volcano, 1990..
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Soylent Green, 1973.
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this was edward g robinson's final film. he died a few months before it was released at 79. he was pretty much deaf and it took him a lot of effort and multipe tries to get into the swing of the dialogue in scenes timing wise. on occasion when director called cut in a scene, he would just continue to recite his part without knowing.
A dreadful film, but remarkably prescient.
It's set in 2022 with the global population at 7 billion. Today in 2024 the global population is 7.9 billion.
Today there are people here in the UK who have to go without food close to the end of the month, yet others cannot afford to keep up with their mortgage payments due to inflation.
As I said remarkably prescient.
i think it was meant, in a way, to be dreadful...alas it was not heeded.Quote:
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an only fools special. jolly boys outing
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Stargate, 1994..
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Doc Hollywood, 1991..
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Free State of Jones, 2016.. the true story...https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...nes-180958111/
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The Guns of Navarone, 1961..
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One of my favourite films.
First saw it on release, with my father (not sure what the BBFC classification was at the time, but I was only eleven, so might have needed to be accompanied by an adult.) Anyway it was a good job he was there, as he could explain the 24 hour clock system to me.
To receive a 'U' certificate the original UK cinema version was overdubbed to remove all of Barnsby's (richard Harris)uses of the word 'bloody' (the word was replaced with the less offensive 'ruddy'), and this same print appeared on early video releases.Quote:
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Marathon Man, 1976..
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Not a bad film, but IMO, Lawrence Olivier totally over acts the Nazi dentist.
To Have and Have Not, 1944..bluray
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dune, 2021.. 4k
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How does it compare with the David Lynch version?Quote:
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Another of my all time favourites. :)Quote:
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Mildly amusing, but doesn't do justice to the novel.Quote:
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i was very impressed overall, but needs a rewatch i think. its got a lot in it ; and part 2 to come.. ive got the lynch one which is good too, but think this may be better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
would be awesome on big screen
Head and shoulders above...Quote:
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Looking fwd to Pt 2 and watching Pt 1 again before hand. Packed with detail and texture.Quote:
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I'm not surprised, the Lynch version was IMO a disaster!Quote:
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the lynch one isnt bad but this is on a much grander scale. plenty action etc and some of the sets are quite classy in their way.Quote:
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im one of the few who liked this. good cast and well enough written for a fairly light action comedy. My Fellow Americans, 1996..
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The Jungle Book, 2016..
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For the sound design, director Jon Favreau and composer John Debney sought to recreate the Fantasound experience Walt Disney had in mind for Fantasia (1940). When mixing the soundtrack in Dolby Atmos, as Favreau said, "we isolated instruments when we could, and in the sound mix, we created a Fantasound mix. If you see the movie in Atmos, you will feel that there are instruments that move around the theatre."
Around one thousand remote jungle locations in India were photographed and used as reference in post-production.
The animal characters were created entirely in key frame computer animation, with the assistance of footage of real animal movement, the actors recording their lines, and performance capture for reference. The production team underwent a thorough process to realistically convey the animals' speaking, while still making them perceptually believable to the audience. Director Jon Favreau researched earlier movies featuring anthropomorphic animals, including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Bambi (1942), and Babe (1995), and adopted certain techniques from those movies into this movie. Nearly seventy separate species of animals native to India are featured in this movie, with several species being portrayed as "one hundred fifty percent larger" than their actual counterparts. Jim Henson's Creature Shop was brought in to provide animal puppet figures for Neel Sethi to act against, although none appear in the finished movie. The animal puppets were performed by Artie Esposito, Sean W. Johnson, Allan Trautman, and April Warren. Favreau utilized motion-capture with certain actors and actresses, expressing a desire to avoid overusing the technology, in order to prevent evoking an uncanny valley effect.
Murder by Decree, 1979...
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Sherlock Holmes investigates London's most infamous case, Jack the Ripper.
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.
Publicity for this movie stated that it was the one hundred thirty-fourth Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson movie. The first had been Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1905).
Think I might have seen it. Is it the one which suggests The Ripper has links to the Palace?
I think that's the mini-series with Michael Caine and Bodie off of 'The Professionals'. But it's not a Sherlock Holmes film, Caine just plays some copper.Quote:
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both suggested govt and palace involvement. ive got the caine'brodie one which was a mini series. this was a film, re prince of wales having secretly married and tubbed a lass[genevieve bujold] who told prostitute friends and asked them to protect her baby as she knew she and baby were in trouble and marked partly as she was catholic..Quote:
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its well enough done
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006..
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The Boys from Brazil, 1978..
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In a promotional interview with Roger Ebert, James Mason explained that he had hoped to get either Laurence Olivier's or Gregory Peck's role, and was disappointed to be offered neither, but then was contacted about the subsidiary role of Seibert: "They'd found that when Dr. Mengele was in Paraguay, he had no one to talk to. So they fleshed out the other Nazi, and he fell into my lap. It was convenient, it was acceptable, I could even make sense of the character, and besides, it was four weeks work in Portugal, where I'd never been before."
A truly grim film - I hated it, despite having three fine actors in it. Perhaps it was because they played their parts so well. :rolleyes:Quote:
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Little Big Man, 1970..
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A New Leaf, 1971
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The Final Countdown, 1980..
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Sneakers, 1992..
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
David Bowie was a perfect fit for the part. Uneven and confused in a typical Nicholas Roeg sort of way.