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[struth]

Jeff Bridges was nominated for the an Oscar for best actor so couldn't be that bad i like Karen Allen too.

[struth]

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007..




The most expensive film ever made (at the time), not adjusted for inflation. The budget ran to $300 million. That's more than the budget of all three Lord of the Rings films combined.

A real-life council of pirates existed at one time. The Brethren of the Coast was a loose coalition of pirates and buccaneers, active in the 17th and 18th centuries in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico. They had a base on the island of Tortuga, off the coast of Haiti, and in Port Royal, Jamaica. The Brethren were originally French Huguenots and British Protestants, but their ranks were joined by other adventurers of various nationalities, including Spaniards and Africans.

The flags hoisted by the pirate fleet are based on flags of real-world pirates: Christopher Moody (red flag with a winged chalice, arm and knife, and skull on crossbones), Thomas Tew (an arm with a cutlass), De Vranck (a man clubbing a skull and crossbones), Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts (a man dancing with a skeleton, who holds a spear), Edward "Blackbeard" Teach (a skeleton holding a spear, stabbing a red heart), and Edward Low (a red skeleton). The flag hoisted by the Black Pearl is that of John "Calico Jack" Rackham (a skull and crossed cutlasses).

[Macca]

'A Walk In The Woods' (2015)

Robert Redford is travel writer Bill Bryson attempting to hike the whole distance of the Appalachian trail, with Nick Nolte tagging along.

Bryson's books are mildly amusing but this isn't really. Nothing much happens, and what does happen isn't very well done from a comedy point of view. Nick Nolte is very good in it and carries the film along enough that I watched it to the end, but it's all just too bland and a bit trite in places too.

[struth]

American Guerrilla in the Philippine, 1950...


classic american patriotic film this, and classically not all that good, but watchable for all that. Director Fritz Lang only made the film to pay his bills. In later years, he actively denied even making it.



The bamboo dance in the movie is known as the Tinikling dance. It involves two people hitting bamboo poles on the ground and against each other in coordination with one or more dancers who step over and in between the poles in a dance. It is a Philippine traditional national dance that is still performed to this day at Fiesta.(it may be the highlight if the film actually.)

[struth]

First Blood, 1982... 4k bluray.




Sylvester Stallone accidentally broke the nose of Alf Humphreys (Lester) during the jail escape scene by elbowing him in the face, which is why he is seen wearing a band-aid throughout the rest of the film. Coincidentally, this is what Rambo does to a policeman in the novel during the exact same scene.

After watching a rough cut of the film, which was about three hours long, Sylvester Stallone and his agent claimed that the film was so bad that it made them sick. Stallone also feared that the film would kill his career, and he attempted to buy all the footage and destroy it. When he couldn't do that, he suggested that the producers cut much of his part and let the rest of the characters tell the story. After heavy edits, the film was cut down to 93 minutes and set a precedent for future action movies.

[Barry]

Doctor Zhivago



David Lean's great film epic was just shown today on BBC TV.= (although I do have a copy).

[Lawrence001]

First Blood, 1982... 4k bluray.




Sylvester Stallone accidentally broke the nose of Alf Humphreys (Lester) during the jail escape scene by elbowing him in the face, which is why he is seen wearing a band-aid throughout the rest of the film. Coincidentally, this is what Rambo does to a policeman in the novel during the exact same scene.

After watching a rough cut of the film, which was about three hours long, Sylvester Stallone and his agent claimed that the film was so bad that it made them sick. Stallone also feared that the film would kill his career, and he attempted to buy all the footage and destroy it. When he couldn't do that, he suggested that the producers cut much of his part and let the rest of the characters tell the story. After heavy edits, the film was cut down to 93 minutes and set a precedent for future action movies.

One of my favourite films this, I wonder what the 3 hour version was like.

[Lawrence001]

One of my favourite films.

Yesterday I watched 'The Whistle Blower' (1987) starring Michael Caine

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tonight I'll start the Shogun box set:

I have fond memories watching Shogun with my mum when it was on TV, I was at school back then.

My mum passed away last Sunday bless her.

[Barry]

Now:

Hidden Figures



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures

[struth]

One of my favourite films this, I wonder what the 3 hour version was like.

so bad sly tried to buy it and destroy it