krtek a houby
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It didn't really progress the plot but I found it more of a celebration of life, love, sexuality and joy.
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It didn't really progress the plot but I found it more of a celebration of life, love, sexuality and joy.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Sicario - Denis Villeneuve directs this cartel/cops thriller with Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro. Superior.
Love (2015)
A very odd film.
A very odd film.
Bad Santa 2
If you remove all the vulgarity there isn't much here to engage with.
If you remove all the vulgarity there isn't much here to engage with.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Any particular reason that you'd want to do that?
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Under The Skin
5t3IIa
Registered User
And last night Revenge of the Sith. That's that thenAttack of the ClonesNever seen the 'middle' 3 so thought I'd get 'em under my belt. The script is so so awful
Not one redeeming feature between the three of them Virtual Blue
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Nocturnal Animals - 3 stories in 1. Amazing film. Looks good and packs a few truths.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Hunt For The Wilderpeople - Taika Waititi movie about a teenage boy and his cantakerous foster dad who run off into the New Zealand bush to avoid social services. Waititi has already been poached by Marvel and from the storytelling chops and visual style at work in this movie you can see why. Some great comic scenes too, although some of them feel a bit out of place and spoil the tone of the movie a bit.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen. Very good. Miserable as usual....but also often funny.
Looking for Eric. Seen before, but enjoyed the re-watch. Lighter than usual Loach films, but still grim. Lots of laughs too.
Might cheer myself up later by watching Ladybird Ladybird.
Looking for Eric. Seen before, but enjoyed the re-watch. Lighter than usual Loach films, but still grim. Lots of laughs too.
Might cheer myself up later by watching Ladybird Ladybird.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Binge watched the whole of Fleabag. Great stuff.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Someone gave me a box set of Marilyn Monroe movies for Xmas. So on New Year's Eve we watched the following:
How to Marry a Millionaire.
Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable and MM all take a flat in Manhattan, in the hope of snaring a millionaire. Running gag about how near-sighted MM doesn't want a prospective catch to see her wearing glasses, rendering her accident-prone. Bacall is maybe just a tad too hard-boiled for a gig like this, but on the other hand maybe that's not a bad thing. The married man Grable goes off with bore a striking resemblance to my sister's shit of an ex-husband, in fact he could have been the man's twin brother.
Let's Make Love
Avoid this dud from 1960. MM does her best, and she is good, but no one and nobody could rescue this stinker of a film. Yves Montand is the playboy businessman who's being satirised in an off-broadway stage revue that features MM in a key role. Naturally he falls for her, and inveigles his way into the company. This one is just bad, not even so bad it's good. YM (who was too old for the part) apparently hooked up with MM after this (like the music, the celebrity gossip was better in the old days). Also features the old lad who was the British Council guy in The Third Man. He's probably the best thing in it.
Dublin Nightmare
Not featuring MM. A roguish broth-of-a-boy photographer returns to Baile Átha Cliath, only to be informed that he has to identify the body of his deceased friend, killed while robbing a bank for the "movement". If you're thinking "it's that Third Man again" you'd be right, but this is more Lemon and Lime than Harry Lime. A by-the-numbers B-movie, whose one saving grace is the noirish vistas of night-time Dublin in the late 1950s. Also an early example of an experimental electronic music soundtrack - which must have been way ahead of its time for 1958. Said soundtrack is almost unlistenable, but it beats the usual diddley-aye stuff you'd get in a Dublin-set crime flick.
How to Marry a Millionaire.
Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable and MM all take a flat in Manhattan, in the hope of snaring a millionaire. Running gag about how near-sighted MM doesn't want a prospective catch to see her wearing glasses, rendering her accident-prone. Bacall is maybe just a tad too hard-boiled for a gig like this, but on the other hand maybe that's not a bad thing. The married man Grable goes off with bore a striking resemblance to my sister's shit of an ex-husband, in fact he could have been the man's twin brother.
Let's Make Love
Avoid this dud from 1960. MM does her best, and she is good, but no one and nobody could rescue this stinker of a film. Yves Montand is the playboy businessman who's being satirised in an off-broadway stage revue that features MM in a key role. Naturally he falls for her, and inveigles his way into the company. This one is just bad, not even so bad it's good. YM (who was too old for the part) apparently hooked up with MM after this (like the music, the celebrity gossip was better in the old days). Also features the old lad who was the British Council guy in The Third Man. He's probably the best thing in it.
Dublin Nightmare
Not featuring MM. A roguish broth-of-a-boy photographer returns to Baile Átha Cliath, only to be informed that he has to identify the body of his deceased friend, killed while robbing a bank for the "movement". If you're thinking "it's that Third Man again" you'd be right, but this is more Lemon and Lime than Harry Lime. A by-the-numbers B-movie, whose one saving grace is the noirish vistas of night-time Dublin in the late 1950s. Also an early example of an experimental electronic music soundtrack - which must have been way ahead of its time for 1958. Said soundtrack is almost unlistenable, but it beats the usual diddley-aye stuff you'd get in a Dublin-set crime flick.
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
Film day / night with gf last night, 2 choices each:
Calamity Jane - More entertaining than I remember, Doris Day puts in a good central performance and Howard Keel was decent too. Surprisingly more overt lesbian overtones than I remember too.
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - What. The. Fuck. I know films are of their time and all that, but apart from the excellent dancing, this does not come across well now *sings upbeat* "And the women were sobbing, sobbing, sobbing" *slaps thigh* 
The Man from UNCLE (the new one) - Pretty decent actually, Cavill is charm and smugness personified as the US agent, and Armie Hammer does good anger management issues as his Russian counterpart. Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Debicki each put their stamp on what could have been secondary characters, and Guy Ritchie reins in his worst excesses to put out a good (if not excellent) film.
Die Hard - Still brilliant, RIP Alan Rickman
Calamity Jane - More entertaining than I remember, Doris Day puts in a good central performance and Howard Keel was decent too. Surprisingly more overt lesbian overtones than I remember too.
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - What. The. Fuck. I know films are of their time and all that, but apart from the excellent dancing, this does not come across well now
*sings upbeat* "And the women were sobbing, sobbing, sobbing" *slaps thigh* The Man from UNCLE (the new one) - Pretty decent actually, Cavill is charm and smugness personified as the US agent, and Armie Hammer does good anger management issues as his Russian counterpart. Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Debicki each put their stamp on what could have been secondary characters, and Guy Ritchie reins in his worst excesses to put out a good (if not excellent) film.
Die Hard - Still brilliant, RIP Alan Rickman
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Somehow my sister had never Seen either Gypsy or A Matter of Life & Death. So we made her watch them. The former is okay, a couple of good songs and routines, but generally only so so. The latter remains an utter masterpiece, a work of sublime genius and wonder. She quite liked it.
New Years Day was marked with a viewing of the Icelandic bleak comedy Rams. Which was ace, but made me seriously reconsider my notion of becoming a sheep farmer in an obscure (even by their standards) corner of Iceland.
New Years Day was marked with a viewing of the Icelandic bleak comedy Rams. Which was ace, but made me seriously reconsider my notion of becoming a sheep farmer in an obscure (even by their standards) corner of Iceland.
Indeliblelink
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Some ace knitwear in Rams.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Looking for Eric is ace. I am sure when I went to see Sweet Sixteen I read in the paper that it was going to be released with subtitles in the States.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
It was. And a dubbed version.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
And in the UK. At least the version I saw in the cinema had subtitles for the first 20 or so minutes
Reno
The In Kraut
When I watched The Wire I did so with subtitles whenever I could.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I watch everything with subtitles so I don't miss anything
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Me too, pretty much.
Me too. It was The Wire that made me make the switch. I've watched it twice, the second time it had subtitles and I realised how much more I got from it when I knew everything that was being said.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I made a terrible mistake and watched London Has Fallen.
What a lot of racist/xenophobic crap
“Get back to Fuckheadistan or wherever it is you're from.”
Oh dear oh dear
What a lot of racist/xenophobic crap
“Get back to Fuckheadistan or wherever it is you're from.”
Oh dear oh dear
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Also useful for watching films using the "Hollywood Action" mix. I need subtitles to know what anyone is saying, or else the speakers will blow a wall down.
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