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« Reply #5550 on: Sunday, March 2, 2014, 13:47:22 » |
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Wolf of wall street. Not as good as I expected it to be. A bit long but di caprio was very good in it. Watchable but nowt special
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« Reply #5551 on: Thursday, April 24, 2014, 20:04:12 » |
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Saving Private Ryan's on FilmFour now, epic film.
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« Reply #5552 on: Thursday, April 24, 2014, 20:13:43 » |
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Saving Private Ryan's on FilmFour now, epic film.
Now there is a film that shows the full reality and horror of war, particularly the landing scenes. Scientifically inaccurate in many ways though (courtesy of some TV program I saw a while back). |
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« Reply #5553 on: Thursday, April 24, 2014, 20:24:19 » |
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Saving Private Ryan has a brilliant beginning and a decent end... but the rest is a little dull. In my opinion, of course.
I love a good war film, they seem to be few and far between these nowadays.
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« Reply #5554 on: Thursday, April 24, 2014, 20:34:29 » |
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Wolf of wall street. Not as good as I expected it to be. A bit long but di caprio was very good in it. Watchable but nowt special
watched this. Spot on. Actually enjoyed the first half. And while the second half was quite good it seemed to go on and on and on. Reminded me a lot of catch me if you can in style. Not just because of LDC. A film that entertained once but wouldn't want to watch twice. |
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« Reply #5555 on: Thursday, April 24, 2014, 20:37:02 » |
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Saving Private Ryan has a brilliant beginning and a decent end... but the rest is a little dull. In my opinion, of course.
I love a good war film, they seem to be few and far between these nowadays.
Not that I'm disagreeing with you, but I think cinematically that's kind of the point- the dullness is reminiscent of the 90% of war that is tedium, coupled with the 10% of bowel-loosening terror. Or at least the conveyance of that. Still one of the most important WW2 films ever made though. |
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« Reply #5556 on: Thursday, April 24, 2014, 20:50:25 » |
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Spielberg and friends nailed many aspects of the 'tedium of war' within Band of Brothers. That sort of subject belongs on the small screen as you have more time to get to know the characters etc.
To be honest, a lot of me likes the simplistic three hour long old school cinema mentality of: See that bunker? We've got to take it. Onwards! I'm not saying that I wanted SPR to be like Inglorious Basterds but it could have been tightened in places.
Schindler's List is Spielberg's war masterpiece.
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« Reply #5557 on: Thursday, April 24, 2014, 20:52:42 » |
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BoB is brilliant. I hoped for something similar from The Pacific but those characters just made me hope they all died.
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« Reply #5558 on: Thursday, April 24, 2014, 21:22:39 » |
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And now you've made me want to re-watch Band of Brothers. Again.
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« Reply #5559 on: Thursday, April 24, 2014, 21:42:35 » |
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BoB is brilliant. I hoped for something similar from The Pacific but those characters just made me hope they all died.
Yeah, that was that weird, not quite gay but almost, cajun guy in the Pacific I was just hoping would buy it every episode. Fucking creeped me out. |
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« Reply #5560 on: Thursday, April 24, 2014, 21:52:51 » |
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Yeah, that was that weird, not quite gay but almost, cajun guy in the Pacific I was just hoping would buy it every episode. Fucking creeped me out.
The characters were so uninteresting that I don't even remember who you're on about... I only remember Jon Seda's character as he was in Treme shortly afterwards. |
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« Reply #5561 on: Thursday, April 24, 2014, 23:09:28 » |
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The characters were so uninteresting that I don't even remember who you're on about... I only remember Jon Seda's character as he was in Treme shortly afterwards.
It took me two watches through Pacific to actually realise some people were the same character/were not the same character. There are too many with nearly identical faces. I couldn't name one character. I could sit here and ream off the Band of Brothers 'characters', but I don't think I need to prove the point. |
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« Reply #5562 on: Thursday, May 1, 2014, 20:32:12 » |
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I just saw an advert for the Frank Sidebottom Movie, with Micheal Fastbender as Frank.
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« Reply #5563 on: Thursday, May 1, 2014, 20:34:07 » |
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I just saw an advert for the Frank Sidebottom Movie, with Micheal Fastbender as Frank.
Quick note before anyone's disappointed- the new Frank is nothing like the actual Frank. Deliberately so. The director didn't want to make a movie about the 'real' Frank Sidebottom because he didn't want to detract from the mystery of the man behind the bobblehead. |
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« Reply #5564 on: Thursday, May 1, 2014, 20:36:32 » |
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Saw grand budapest hotel last saturday. I thought it was one of the best films Ive seen in years. Light, ravishing to look at, beautifully played and genuinely funny.
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