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I worked it out eventually from Rickman’s prosthetics, but should have got it quicker as it’s one of the rare films that I’ll watch if it happens to be on, even if I need to got to bed. Must watch again actually! So funny!
 
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Framed - The daily movie guessing game

Guess the movie from 6 frames. Come back each day to see if you can guess the daily movie, or visit the archive to answer the days that you missed!
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Genuinely one of the best films I've ever seen. (Film snobs would probably disagree because their best list is entirely stuff that is beautiful to look at, well acted, and makes you want to slit your wrists).
 
scifisam said:
Genuinely one of the best films I've ever seen. (Film snobs would probably disagree because their best list is entirely stuff that is beautiful to look at, well acted, and makes you want to slit your wrists).
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I probably bitch enough about superhero movies and moth other fodder to be called a film snob, but I agree. The plot and the dialogue are a pitch-perfect pastiche and the rampant, campy silliness just works, seemingly effortlessly. Rickman as insufferable Proper Actor and Weaver as a character written as Dumb Blonde are both thoroughly delicious, but Enrico Colantoni's turn as the Thermian leader turns on a ha'penny from hilarious to tragic and back again and is the standout for me.

Mrs Miggins said:
Well, I just watched this on the strength of everyone's enthusiasm and yeah, it's good!
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So pleased that this film can still work its magic despite being a 23yr old comedy about a subject matter that most people thought at the time would only appeal to male pimply-faced teenagers... who'd all hate it because it was taking the piss out of their sacred cows.

I think Seanbaby put it best when he said "Alan Rickman can pack so much tragedy, rage, injustice and disgust into a single line that you'd swear it was a McRib".
 
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Also got it in two. Didn't recognise the first frame at all (and seems like it's done mid-run? Dunno if anyone else recognises it but seems a poor choice) but the presence of the whatever the bomb-defusing suits that bomb defusers wear are called in frame 2 made it obvious.

DaveCinzano said:
Frame 1 a nice googly 👍
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Cricket? :/
 
stdP said:
Also got it in two. Didn't recognise the first frame at all (and seems like it's done mid-run? Dunno if anyone else recognises it but seems a poor choice) but the presence of the whatever the bomb-defusing suits that bomb defusers wear are called in frame 2 made it obvious.



Cricket? :/
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Are the frames ‘chosen’ though? I assumed they were randomly selected
I thought it looked like a landing site for a spacecraft so guessed The Martian and then Interstellar before clocking the bomb proof suit
 
spanglechick said:
Yes - it couldn’t work randomised.

I failed. I haven’t seen it. Doesn’t appeal.
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It's one of those sleeper cult hit things. Like the Big Lebowski etc.

If you have a perfect track record of pre-judging on genre and synopsis, then you have better precognition than me. Otherwise, might be worthy of a look if you find yourself at a loose end.
 
8ball said:
It's one of those sleeper cult hit things. Like the Big Lebowski etc.

If you have a perfect track record of pre-judging on genre and synopsis, then you have better precognition than me. Otherwise, might be worthy of a look if you find yourself at a loose end.
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Today’s?
Didn’t it win best picture? Or best director? It’s a big, famous film.
 
spanglechick said:
To answer my own question: It won both. Six Oscar’s, six BAFTAs, Kathryn Bigelow achieved all kinds of “first female director to win [x award]” statuses.

And yet. Meh. Dusty humourless grimness.
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I just checked. I was thinking of a previous film, sorry. Had a few beers.

Anyway the one you are talking about is really good and when I watched it I wasn’t expecting it to be my sort of thing.
 
stdP said:
I probably bitch enough about superhero movies and moth other fodder to be called a film snob, but I agree. The plot and the dialogue are a pitch-perfect pastiche and the rampant, campy silliness just works, seemingly effortlessly. Rickman as insufferable Proper Actor and Weaver as a character written as Dumb Blonde are both thoroughly delicious, but Enrico Colantoni's turn as the Thermian leader turns on a ha'penny from hilarious to tragic and back again and is the standout for me.



So pleased that this film can still work its magic despite being a 23yr old comedy about a subject matter that most people thought at the time would only appeal to male pimply-faced teenagers... who'd all hate it because it was taking the piss out of their sacred cows.

I think Seanbaby put it best when he said "Alan Rickman can pack so much tragedy, rage, injustice and disgust into a single line that you'd swear it was a McRib".
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Nice to see Tony Shalhoub as well. I used to love Monk.

I don't really get that Seanbaby quote though. A McRib? What?
 
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Framed - The daily movie guessing game

Guess the movie from 6 frames. Come back each day to see if you can guess the daily movie, or visit the archive to answer the days that you missed!
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A total guess based on I don't know what.

Wouldn't touch this with a bargepole to be honest. I really can't stand the whole "oh woe is me being in the US army is just so damned hard" genre.

Now I may be selling this and many other films of this type short with that assumption but I've got other stuff I'd rather watch thanks.
 
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