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I'm Andr'e.
Might Watch the first 'Planet Of The Apes' movie in bed tonight, i bought the six DVD box set with the five 60's/70's movies + bonus disc a while back at a give away price, you can still get it cheap now
http://www.dvdcollections.co.uk/foru...c-edition-299/
Hard to believe Pierre Boulle also wrote 'Bridge Over The River Kwai' novel..
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It's a brilliant film but I can't watch it now without thinking of the Troy Maclure musical: 'Stop The Planet of The Apes, I Want To Get Off' :Originally Posted by The Barbarian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUkYHcK3FfY
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I'm Nodrog.
Leading on from Al's Mac woes elsewhere, we watched 'Jobs' last night.
What a load of old tosh. Must be the worst biopic I have ever seen. Whatever you think of the man, whoever wrote this seems to have left all the important bits out on purpose. All the characters were cardboard cutouts and the jumps between time made it look as though Steve had also cracked time travel too (or at least, one of his technical people had).
Just made to cash in on his death. Utter crap.
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Oh my gawd,
Just had a quick look at Noah
Not sure I shall bother watching after the first ten minutes of utter tripe.
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It looked bad from the trailers which is always a warning sign.
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I'm Nodrog.
Film makers seem to think that if you make it moody enough, with enough special effects to impress, then you can get away with nonsense dressed up as meaningful and acting to make the Ents look wooden, together with a script that is basically a series of grunts. They have some of the Ents in here helping to build the ark too. I think, on balance, just, I prefer the Ents in Lord of the Rings but they didn't quite manage to live up to the image I had of them from reading the books.
So thats two out of two that get zero points from the French jury.
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We have just watched Alien resurrection.
Thoroughly enjoyed it, by far the best of the follow ups. Could never beat the original but a bloody good effort.
The pair of us were holding hands whilst we watched (all together now) but we had to let go as we were leaking a bit - I don't sweat and Ronnie just glows of course.
Great.
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Just watched Thor on Netflix on the new Virgin Tivo, the Dolby Digi plus came over really well also, the Mrs. Had a marathon and watched both series of the US House of Cards over three daysReally like the Tivo good video and audio quality.
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Watched the restored version blueray of the African queen again...have to say it is probably the best restoration I've ever seen. Simply stunning
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“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
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Latest restration is To Kill A Mockingbird.....part of Universal's 100th anniversary celebrations. this is the film's 50th anniversary edition, and very good it is...love B & W restores, and was always one of my fav films and books.....
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work.... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
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Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
***SMILE, BE HAPPY***
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