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It's good to see a holo-world strand starting up and the scarcity of annoying blonde woman is good.

I'm even starting to warm to the taurans-as-italian-gangster-rip-offs
 
Gotta love archer though

'Increasingly I find my thoughts turning to Mecca'

'MECCA!'

'My religion is of great comfort to me sir'

:D it's a very quoteable film

I love the bit when he's having a cup of coffee with the bloke of brookside playing the warden

"I give you my fucking coffee and all you do is rip the fucking piss" :D
 
Good man, a great film. And I hope whoever wrote that Leap Year shite has paid P&P a vast sum for ripping them off.
 
We watched 'I know Where I'm Going' again the other night. What an odd little film.

This is one of those films that gets better with each viewing. The wedding anniversary scene for me is among the most touching and magical in all of cinema and I'm in love with Catriona, the girl with the hounds.
 
I watched the supernatural thriller Triangle, which was pretty good. In terms of mood it reminded me of the excellent The Machinist and there are some odd similarities to the recent Spanish sci-fi/horror film Timecrimes ( though they were in development at the same times). Afterwards the plot twists take a while to unknot, but the puzzle starts falling into place if you know your Greek mythology.

can't wait to see this - it was one of the films my flatmate reviewed at last year's frightfest and he was very impressed
 
This is one of those films that gets better with each viewing. The wedding anniversary scene for me is among the most touching and magical in all of cinema and I'm in love with Catriona, the girl with the hounds.

Pamela Brown, mmmm

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"I've never seen a picture which smelled of the wind and rain in quite this way nor one which so beautifully exploited the kind of scenery people actually live with, rather than the kind which is commercialized as a show place."
Raymond Chandler
 
A Bronx Tale, in my effort to watch every gangster film ever made.
De Nero's tastefully done it, but a few of the plot half nelsons where a but much.
 
Gotta love archer though

'Increasingly I find my thoughts turning to Mecca'

'MECCA!'

'My religion is of great comfort to me sir'

yeh :D :cool:

I keep trying to get my lass to watch it, just cos I think it's one of those films that everyone should watch once in their lives
 
it's well tame compared to what's coming out now. the only bit that still gets me is that black lad learning his wife is dead in such a horrible manner.
 
This is one of those films that gets better with each viewing. The wedding anniversary scene for me is among the most touching and magical in all of cinema and I'm in love with Catriona, the girl with the hounds.

I was showing it to my G/F. She'd never seen it.

She likes trains, mountains, the sea, boats and dancing.....so this film had a lot going on for her.
 
it's well tame compared to what's coming out now. the only bit that still gets me is that black lad learning his wife is dead in such a horrible manner.

See, I don't think it is. I feel it still stands up as a horribly brutal and disturbing film in so many ways
 
The raped kid slitting his wrists is pretty raw, even today.

And that utterly bleak ending with winstone and archer bloodied bruised and chucked in solitary. Still powerful stuff.
 
It's good to see a holo-world strand starting up and the scarcity of annoying blonde woman is good.

I'm even starting to warm to the taurans-as-italian-gangster-rip-offs

The holo world is a lameo idea. People are still walking about without hover shoes or space hats but they can all plug into the matrix if they get passed a bit of paper under the school desk. I might believe it if it looked like Vice city, but as it stands it's too perfect not to be a much bigger issue or something that crops up in BSG.
 
The holo world is a lameo idea. People are still walking about without hover shoes or space hats but they can all plug into the matrix if they get passed a bit of paper under the school desk. I might believe it if it looked like Vice city, but as it stands it's too perfect not to be a much bigger issue or something that crops up in BSG.

they do not run networked computers in BSG. They do not do integrated computations of any sort. Precisely because of cylon interference. The BattleStars are relatively primitive machines comp wise. Hence all the star charts and that. This precursor as to how machine intelligence gets a toehold is perfectly logical.
 
What got me about that whole rape scene was the way they set it up.
The kid quietly potting plants in what was obviously his only sanctuary from the horror of his life in there.
:(

the reaction of the screw was what got me 'pull your trousers up boy'. Fucking animals.
 
they do not run networked computers in BSG. They do not do integrated computations of any sort. Precisely because of cylon interference. The BattleStars are relatively primitive machines comp wise. Hence all the star charts and that. This precursor as to how machine intelligence gets a toehold is perfectly logical.

Yes yes I know but you would think there would have been something about it before the bombs and the battle. And you think that people would have been less amazed by the virtual head worlds the cylons could go into if humans had been at it 60 years ago.
 
I just watched an Australian film called The Horseman, which is basically Dead Man's Shoes meets Get Carter and Hardcore with added torture and murder and bare knuckle fighting.

The scene in which the protagonist puts a football pump to creative use when torturing a pornagrapher had me bent double.

Actually, I was so anxious during the violent scenes that I gave myself cramp down one leg.

It had brawls which were like real fights, clumsy, messy, crash, bang, blood and eyes and ears and arms and legs and furniture crashing...

...a very intense film, let down a tiny bit towards the end by introducing some very one dimensional redneck baddies, but still relentless.

Good lead turn as well from Peter Marshall - he played it very subtle.....or as subtle as you can when bashing someone's head in with a hammer.

http://thehorsemanfilm.com/

NOTE: Don't get this mixed up with the Dennis Quaid serial killer film of the same name which is also just out on DVD....although it might be a bit lighter in tone.
 
Yes yes I know but you would think there would have been something about it before the bombs and the battle. And you think that people would have been less amazed by the virtual head worlds the cylons could go into if humans had been at it 60 years ago.

oh dont be daft. You seriously expect a tv series made over eight years to have fully considered everything that might have gone on in the first episodes' prevous century just in case the series is popular enough to make a sequel??
 
It's good to see a holo-world strand starting up and the scarcity of annoying blonde woman is good.

I'm even starting to warm to the taurans-as-italian-gangster-rip-offs


Mmm. I find the references to a criminal 'Mafia' under-culture troubling -it roots the series in a literal framework that works against Sci-Fi. I quite like what references to Islam though - the exploration of an emergent monotheism (a la Mecca) is interesting - if obvious.

Where is Medina?
 
I'll sleep when I'm dead

Very slow moving, mostly dull brit gangster whodunnit which I would have turned off after 10 minutes if it wasn't all set in Brixton/Loughborough Junction and Camberwell :)
 
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