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Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Last night I had a look at this excellent South African movie, about Andre Stander, the infamous apartheid regime cop turned bank robber:
The film sort of paints him as a de facto anti-apartheid activist, who started knocking over banks because he was disgusted with what he was doing in uniform. As is usually the case in this sort of thing, the real story is a lot more ambiguous.
http://www.brightreview.co.uk/ARTICLE-Whiter-Than-White.html
http://www.brightreview.co.uk/ARTICLE-Whiter-Than-White.html
The film sort of paints him as a de facto anti-apartheid activist, who started knocking over banks because he was disgusted with what he was doing in uniform. As is usually the case in this sort of thing, the real story is a lot more ambiguous.
http://www.brightreview.co.uk/ARTICLE-Whiter-Than-White.html
http://www.brightreview.co.uk/ARTICLE-Whiter-Than-White.html
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May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
The Fountain. Simultaneously engaging and infuriating.
Just watched the trailer, looks like my kind of film, great soundtrack too. Going to try get hold of it
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered this late at night on ITV4 a few years ago. Certainly no great historically accurate drama, I'm sure, but a thoroughly effective period romp that gets progressively darker. And an impressive fake accent/moustache combo from Dexter Fletcher. Nice Temple of Sound (ex-Transglobal Underground) soundtrack too.
ETA:
Consensus amongst those who'd seen it on the Best films most people haven't seen thread was that it was a decent watch and better than anyone thought it would be
Just watched the Hobbit Part 2, the Empire Strikes Back...no, sorry, the Desolation of Smaug.
Can't say I enjoyed it as much as part 1, which i really enjoyed. Perhaps I wasn't in the right dframe of mind, but it feld that Jackson has run out of tricks. Although I know the plot (who doesn't, it's not Sherlock), the viewer is beaten over the head by the foreshadowing and the predictability of it - the last light reveals the keyhole!
Laketown was boring (and, inexplicably, Wales).
Thorin is one of the most twattish people ever.
The interracial love subplot seemed totally out of place.
I don't remember the elves being such bellends.
NOt sure about the confrontation in Dol Goldur either. That doesn't happen in the book does it? Isn't it the case that they don't know it's Sauron in the time of the Lord of the Rings. They aren't sure until they find the ring and realise what it is.
Smaug is certainly impressive, but it's all whirly camera 3d super fun CGI time. Does get a little bit old hat nowadays. I love SFX, but I can' timagine sitting through that in the cinema without a major headache.
I think Jackson has stretched this one out too much.
Can't say I enjoyed it as much as part 1, which i really enjoyed. Perhaps I wasn't in the right dframe of mind, but it feld that Jackson has run out of tricks. Although I know the plot (who doesn't, it's not Sherlock), the viewer is beaten over the head by the foreshadowing and the predictability of it - the last light reveals the keyhole!
Laketown was boring (and, inexplicably, Wales).
Thorin is one of the most twattish people ever.
The interracial love subplot seemed totally out of place.
I don't remember the elves being such bellends.
NOt sure about the confrontation in Dol Goldur either. That doesn't happen in the book does it? Isn't it the case that they don't know it's Sauron in the time of the Lord of the Rings. They aren't sure until they find the ring and realise what it is.
Smaug is certainly impressive, but it's all whirly camera 3d super fun CGI time. Does get a little bit old hat nowadays. I love SFX, but I can' timagine sitting through that in the cinema without a major headache.
I think Jackson has stretched this one out too much.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
This excellent 1978 thriller The Driver
Ryan O'Neal as the taciturn anti-hero, a professional getaway driver, Bruce Dern as the asshole cop determined to bring him in.
A film noir in colour, complete with a femme fatale played by Isabelle Adjani.
It's really good - check it out.
Ryan O'Neal as the taciturn anti-hero, a professional getaway driver, Bruce Dern as the asshole cop determined to bring him in.
A film noir in colour, complete with a femme fatale played by Isabelle Adjani.
It's really good - check it out.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
The Jesus Trip (dir. Russ Mayberry, 1971) - a re-watch for me of the world's first (and doubtlessly only) Christian-themed biker movie. A posse of bikers, led by Waco (Robert Porter) get caught up in a heroin deal burn, and hide out in a nunnery, where after a while, they take a hike with nun Anna (Tippy Walker) in tow. Much running away from the heroin gang ensues, whilst the bikers do dangerous things like....going to bars and drinking beer! Eventually, Waco and co, plus Anna (who has now adopted her own take on the "biker chic" look) hide out in an abandoned church for the climatic fight/shootout, with an ending which sure ain't happy...
This is one of the better efforts in the (extensive) biker movie genre - the Christian angle is treated soberly, the bikers come across as rounded individuals out against conventional society, and the minimal settings add to the pace and feel of it all. Filmed on 16mm in a 4:3 aspect, the print in view was slightly darkened in a number of places, but otherwise perfectly viewable. This has never received a UK cinema, video or DVD release at all, and was incredibly hard to source in the UK for many years.
After subjecting myself to a re-watch of the utterly atrocious "Stone", this came as a blessed relief, and proof that there's plenty of gold to find in them biker movie hills...
This is one of the better efforts in the (extensive) biker movie genre - the Christian angle is treated soberly, the bikers come across as rounded individuals out against conventional society, and the minimal settings add to the pace and feel of it all. Filmed on 16mm in a 4:3 aspect, the print in view was slightly darkened in a number of places, but otherwise perfectly viewable. This has never received a UK cinema, video or DVD release at all, and was incredibly hard to source in the UK for many years.
After subjecting myself to a re-watch of the utterly atrocious "Stone", this came as a blessed relief, and proof that there's plenty of gold to find in them biker movie hills...
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Years ago, I remember watching an Alex Cox moviedrome thing where he introduce a UK biker flick about a dead motorbike gang leader who returns from the grave. I don't think I bothered watching the actual movie, but can anyone remember what it might have been called?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Avengers Assemble - load of shite
Half of Looper - load of bollocks
Half of Looper - load of bollocks
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Psychomania?
Years ago, I remember watching an Alex Cox moviedrome thing where he introduce a UK biker flick about a dead motorbike gang leader who returns from the grave. I don't think I bothered watching the actual movie, but can anyone remember what it might have been called?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
sounds like Psychomania, or maybe Girl on a Motorcycle. both great.
I watched the minor noir 'Devil Thumbs A Ride' last night. Lawrence Tierney playing a 'slap happy bird with a gun' and hitches a lift of a naive young man, and a couple of gals. Heaviness ensues. Not a classic of the genre by any means, and nothing to really make it stand out, but its an enjoyable hour and a bit.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Indeliblelink
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Our Man in Havana (1959), marvellous, I just wish Coward & Guinness had spent more screen time together.
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
A fantastic film all round! Hopefully one day, someone out there will write the definitive book on this one.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
these are Wood Elves. They split from their mainstream elfkind centuries ago and retreated into the forrests, appaled at the state of middle earth and having the right hump with Morgoth. IIRC they even speak a dialect version of sindarin
as for the dol guldur/radagast the ex timelord with birdshit on his head, well radagast wasn't actually in the Hobbit and the White Councils battles with the Necromancer are mentioned but not so much as the details in these films.
but they had to pad out for a full three films, so I am not complaining
it has occured to me: if you take the extended version LOTR DVD's, the three hobbit films, and the fan film, you basically have near 24 hours of Middle Earth shennanigans to watch. Thats a hefty amount.
MellySingsDoom
Decimated by the shrapnel of his rhetoric
Definitely one of my fave Lindsay Anderson movies - and , of course, it features - in a sober, serious role....Robin Askwith!
(I once had an argument w/someone who claimed that Malcolm McDowell's role was not iconic/definitve, and that Malcolm M was "far better" in "Caligula" (dir. Tinto Brass, 1979), a film that - to this day - rates as one of the Ten Worst Films I Have Ever Seen. Needless to say, I was/am right!)
Radagast is the best character in it.
Gandalf just says "hey go through this dangerous forest, but don't get caught by illusions...ok see ya!"
It amused me how totally unhelpful the Eagles at the end of the first movie had proven to be because straight away the dwarves are still running from the orcs who are right on their tail. You could fly them to the Lonely mountain then?
I was hoping the giant gold dwarf would come alive and it would turn into a Japanese monster movie: Mecha Dwarf vs Smaug.
It's not a bad film, but I just fidn't feel it as much as movie no 1. He really has spread his material thin, IMO. Weirdly older, yet younger and with oddly blue eyes Legolas didn't need to be in this.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
dunno what happened there, I was attempting an edit to add more detail but it went wrong
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