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Post by The-Ghost-Dancer on Nov 8, 2022 14:34:36 GMT -5
watched LA Confidential for the 1st time last night,cant believe ive waited 25yrs
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Post by oasisserbia on Nov 8, 2022 18:24:10 GMT -5
Good Omens
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Post by tiger40 on Nov 8, 2022 19:04:26 GMT -5
And, now I'm watching Inside on All4, I decided to give it another try after not being sure about it before. I finished watching this last night and now I'm watching Maria Kallo on Acorn TV which isn't bad. I've given up on Maria Kallo as it got a bit boring. Besides I'm sure I'll find something else to watch. |
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Post by jezza2 on Nov 11, 2022 22:13:46 GMT -5
Goodbye, Farewell and Amen. The greatest finale to the greatest T.V. show ever made.
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Post by tiger40 on Nov 12, 2022 13:45:05 GMT -5
Beck season 3 on Amazon Free Vee. I've not seen the earlier ones which they did only the later ones.
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Post by oasisserbia on Nov 13, 2022 17:18:36 GMT -5
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Post by matt on Nov 13, 2022 18:19:38 GMT -5
The Banshees of Inisherin
The darkest of dark comedy, outstanding. Probably my favourite post-covid film.
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Post by tiger40 on Nov 16, 2022 13:57:34 GMT -5
I finished watching Beck season 3 on Amazon Free Vee and now I'm watching season 4 on there which I started last night.
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Post by tiger40 on Nov 18, 2022 13:47:08 GMT -5
Beck season one which I started last night.
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Nov 19, 2022 17:19:43 GMT -5
Winter Light (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1963)
Ingrid Thulin is phenomenal in this. One of the best screen performances I've seen. She should have won the Oscar for Best Actress -- ludicrous that she wasn't even nominated. What the Swedes were doing at this time with acting was light years ahead of Hollywood.
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Post by Elie De Beaufour 🐴 on Nov 20, 2022 0:44:57 GMT -5
The Dark Tower (1943)
Herbert Lom's performance should have been nominated for an Oscar, I've never seen a more serious character in a circus movie ever.
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Post by tiger40 on Nov 22, 2022 14:04:44 GMT -5
Beck season 2 which I started watching last night.
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Post by tiger40 on Nov 27, 2022 13:35:40 GMT -5
Black Money which I started watching last night on Netflix. I've caught up with the earlier seasons of Beck now which I enjoyed.
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Post by tiger40 on Nov 30, 2022 13:59:55 GMT -5
Black Money which I started watching last night on Netflix. I've caught up with the earlier seasons of Beck now which I enjoyed. I've really got into this it's really good. However, it's going to take me ages to watch it as there's over 100 episodes of it. |
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Post by Elie De Beaufour 🐴 on Nov 30, 2022 20:46:41 GMT -5
The last house on dead end street.
Drags on too long, apparently this was meant to be 3 hours.
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Post by matt on Dec 5, 2022 19:46:54 GMT -5
If you have a spare 20 minutes, watch this beautiful little documentary about a Welsh shepherd called Wilf Davies. Touches upon a sense of place and a sense of identity, a true character formed by the land and rhythm of seasons but very mellow too in that he seems to be the last of a dying breed in declining community.
There's none of this middle class 'lone enraptured male' bollocks that surrounds rhetoric about the beauty of the countryside, he's the last of a dying breed in being an honest, hardworking, salt of the earth individual that is rare in society.
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Post by Elie De Beaufour 🐴 on Dec 8, 2022 17:35:06 GMT -5
Dope opera's infamous sex scene
I was expecting Bruce to punch her at the end, don't know why.
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Post by RocketMan on Dec 10, 2022 9:24:12 GMT -5
Cant believe how good Andor is. Love it
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Dec 16, 2022 17:25:30 GMT -5
Watched Avatar again yesterday, as I hadn't seen it for about ten years and I'm mildly interested in what on earth James Cameron has planned for the sequels. I quite enjoyed it really.
It's baggy and probably too long, some of the CGI doesn't hold up, and I thought that much of the design of Pandora and its indigenous species' was so-so and unmemorable. That last point is central to why I think Avatar doesn't feel like essential pop culture viewing in the way that, say, the original Star Wars trilogy does. The original Star Wars films were not particularly well made, but they had some of the best designs ever, and the music was never less than superb. By comparison, Avatar feels rather generic. I'm not too surprised it's had such little shelf life as far as home video sales and streaming has gone.
All the same, it works when it needs to. For instance, the final act, when the cartoony strongman marine and the snivelling CEO make good on their promises and attack the Na'vis with guns and missiles: there is a sense of threat, characters you've enjoyed spending time with don't always make it, and you do find yourself leaning into the action, mouth agape slightly at the sheer scale of what's being depicted onscreen. Even after the last decade of Hollywood mainstream film output, saturated as it has been with overblown action-adventure pyrotechnics, parts of Avatar still impressed me watching it again.
The film, though flawed in itself, was absolutely mind-blowing in the original 3D -- and it was a legitimate technological breakthrough. Unfortunately, in part because movie theaters are dying, the vast majority of people never saw Avatar the way it was intended. It seems that even with the vast improvements in 3D it still is not really ready for mass audiences. Too cumbersome, too expensive, too many people find it makes them queasy and too hard to emulate at home. Some thought Avatar was going to usher in a whole new era of 3D filmmaking, only it seemed to have the opposite effect! It's still far and away the best 3D film ever made ... I don't remember if I saw Avatar in 3D or not back in 2009, but I can well imagine what a mind-blowing experience it must have been. I watched The Way of Water this afternoon, and I was astounded by how good its visuals were. The combination of superbly composed 3D shots and top drawer CGI left me open-mouthed in amazement on several occasions.
Same as the first one, it's easy to find fault in the film -- its bloated run time, episodic storytelling, baggy second act -- but I don't have the heart to criticise it when there's so much invention and artistry to enjoy, and (again) a pretty much perfect final act. The Way of Water gave me a cinematic experience I know I'll cherish for many years to come. And even though I felt myself disengaging at times during the film's rather shapeless second hour, I now feel full of regret that I'm not back at my local cinema about to watch it all over again (it's 22:30 as I write this, and I've been up since before 8).
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Dec 16, 2022 17:26:55 GMT -5
The Remains of the Day, starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. Don't be put off by it's staid and posh English stately home setting, it really is an ideal setting for this film. It's a very sad film about how status and principles repress people from being their authentic self. Christopher Reeve is also excellent as the American politician who sees through such facades. Brilliant film. Five stars. Yep. Five stars from me as well.
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Dec 16, 2022 17:30:23 GMT -5
I'm working through Poirot. On series two now, which originally aired in 1990.
It's great comfort watching. Really well made, with great location shooting and costumes, generally good acting and directing, and that fabulous theme tune which is never far away. I enjoy the campy tone of these earlier episodes, when there was more of an ensemble of recurring characters around Suchet. Will be interesting to see how it changes as they get to the great Christie novels.
Hugh Fraser is brilliant with every line he delivers! One of the best portrayals of a Tim-nice-but-dim character I've seen. And laugh out loud funny too. |
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Post by oasisserbia on Dec 16, 2022 18:08:33 GMT -5
The Banshees of Inisherin
0/10
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Post by matt on Dec 16, 2022 20:55:39 GMT -5
The Remains of the Day, starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. Don't be put off by it's staid and posh English stately home setting, it really is an ideal setting for this film. It's a very sad film about how status and principles repress people from being their authentic self. Christopher Reeve is also excellent as the American politician who sees through such facades. Brilliant film. Five stars. Yep. Five stars from me as well.
A rarity in that I think both the novel and the book are equal in quality. |
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Post by matt on Dec 16, 2022 21:01:52 GMT -5
It needs to be said... but I need to mention that Michael Caine's performance in Muppet Christmas Carol is genuinely one of his greatest performances in an epic acting career.
Maybe the first film I ever remember watching as a child, I enjoy seeing it as a grown up and just how serious and straight faced Caine is the whole way through! Never once resorts to panto like performance.
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Post by Lennon2217 on Dec 16, 2022 22:42:05 GMT -5
The Banshees of Inisherin Disturbing as fuck. Farrell was great. I feel like he’s always great and is under appreciated.
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