And the year has barely started.
But if Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter don't get Oscars for The Kings Speech, there is no justice in the world.
I urge you to wander down to your local multiplex/kino/fleapit and see it.
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Wrong forum?
Kick------>
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Who's going to give Zero a rollicking for posting this in the wrong forum?
Been here long enough, should know better, etc.
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ok ok hands up, wrong forum
WAITER OH WAITER
Get this moved old chap.
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Should've just said ...
"I urge you to DRIVE down to your local multiplex/kino/fleapit and see it."
... and all would be fine.
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Avatar seemed to be the Film of Last Year, but I was a bit underwhelmed when I saw it on Sky a few days ago.
Not sure what I was expecting after all the hype, but I'll not be watching it again.
Is Toy Story 3 any good?
I quite fancy that tonight.
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Kings Speech - a very good film and the time passed in a flash but am I alone in thinking that it was spoilt with a mis-cast Guy Pearce, hamming up the accent, along with (I can't remember his name) the guy that plays Churchill overdoing it?
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For reliability and consistency may I recommend.................Where Eagles Dare?
Ok Ok>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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>> For reliability and consistency may I recommend.................Where Eagles Dare?
Broadsword calling danny boy
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...Broadsword calling danny boy...
"We have it, we have it all."
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>> am I alone in thinking that it was spoilt with a mis-cast Guy Pearce, hamming
>> up the accent, along with (I can't remember his name) the guy that plays Churchill
>> overdoing it?
Timothy Spall was Churchill.
A little maybe, certainly Spall, but it didnt detract from the film.
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>> Timothy Spall was Churchill.
Vic Reeves was the voice of Churchill until he charged with drink-driving - Oh Yes!
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I watched Toy Story 3 the other day. Takes a little while to get going. It's not too bad. Bit over sentimental but that's American films for you.
I'll wait for King's Speech to come out on DVD rental. Can't be bothered with the cinema as they generally want £7 a ticket..Like I'm paying that much. Can nearly buy it for that price.
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Haven't been to the cinema for years, the smell of boooze, fags, and BO ruins the atmosphere and the sound of eating (think pigs at the trough) ruins the soundtrack.
Home cinema every bit as good, and room to cuddle up.
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>> Haven't been to the cinema for years, the smell of boooze, fags, and BO ruins
>> the atmosphere and the sound of eating (think pigs at the trough) ruins the soundtrack.
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Yes clearly some time, sounds like the "20 fags, 2 pints and a babycham, fish and chip supper, and a packet of three" for a quid days.
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Very witty Iffy, you know full well i mean the smell that people bring in with them.
You must be getting on a bit to remember prices like those mind..;)
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and your Altzhiemers must be playing up today to think I am Iffy
Really quite insulted actually
Sniff.
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>> and your Altzhiemers must be playing up today to think I am Iffy
Put it down to the flu or possibly the flue (sniff).;)
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OH! Manflu!
The very worse.
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>>I quite fancy that tonight >>
>> and room to cuddle up.>>
There's an offer for you Iffy :-).
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...There's an offer for you Iffy :-)...
Almost makes up for being mistaken for Zeddo.
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I tried to get other members of my family to come and see Toy Story 3 with me but got no takers - would still like to see it.
Did see the film that beat Avatar to the best film Oscar, The Hurt Locker, but like iffy was underwhelmed. Most enjoyable film I saw was 'Up' on the plane to the States.
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Saw Toy Story 3 at the cinema in 3D, was brilliant and I don't mind admitting having a lump in my throat at the end!
Just watched it on DVD in the house, but no lump this time. See me, I am as tough as old boots now!!!
As long as they don't say Andy on the sole.... wonder if BBD's boots say Andy??
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>> Toy Story 3
My 4 year old son has most, if not all, of the toys connected with this film. He will watch it on DVD (or at least have it playing in the background) at least once most days when he's at my house. I know every word of the script now and I still haven't tired of it, which shows how good a film it is.
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>> I tried to get other members of my family to come and see Toy Story
>> 3 with me but got no takers - would still like to see it.
Finally got to see it earlier this week - it was one of the DVDs we bought to take with us to our holiday cottage in Wales for evening entertainment. And as others have said, what an excellent film; definitely would get my vote as film of the year. It made Mrs F cry twice, and even I started welling up at one point; never cried at a film before. This was just on a 19" TV and no additional speakers BTW.
Actually the 19" screen was a luxury - during one of 2 power cuts there were 5 of us peering at 'Blood Diamonds' on stepson's HTC Desire HD :)
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>> Where did you stay ?
Just outside Newport in Pembrokeshire, 1.2 miles from Newport Sands. Nice and quiet, and scenic of course. Couldn't believe they didn't have a chippy in Newport though (apart from one pub doing take-away cod & chips for £8)!
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Ah yes of course, I remember the discussion now, by chance I'm heading down to the land of the Hwntws next weekend, going to St David's with some motorcycling pals for an overnighter.
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Took a 'boat' trip (open rigid inflatable orange thing) from St Davids out to Ramsey on a windy day; good fun. Saw quite a bit of wildlife including porpoises. Watching the more adventurous souls jumping from great heights into the Blue Lagoon good as well.
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Toy Story 3 is very good.
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...Toy Story 3 is very good...
Last time I went to the cinema was to see the original Toy Story.
I'd been laid up in the house with 'flu for a couple of days and was starting to get cabin fever.
It was a matinee performance and I felt a little uncomfortable as the only lone adult among lots of mums and dads with children.
Saw Toy Story 2 on ordinary Sky Movies.
Toy Story 3 is on Box Office, which I rarely use because it's a payment too far.
But I'm tempted, although it will appear on the ordinary service in a few months.
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Been to see it this afternoon.
Quite simply the best film I've seen in ages
Colin Firth was excellent
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>> Colin Firth was excellent
Worst film I saw last year by a long way (might have been end of 2009 actually) was St Trinians 2. You might think you couldn't go wrong with lots of good looking young women in school uniform, but you'd be very wrong. There was only one good thing in it - Colin Firth.
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Good film, went to see it this afternoon (despite my republicanism) - very well made, crafted in fact. Just like the Christmas showing of Upstairs Downstairs (same era). Spall hammed up Churchill without a doubt. Two major "what-ifs" emerged from it.
1. What if King Dave hadn't abdicated - would he have had sufficient pull to have involved Lord Halifax in a coup and capitulated to Hitler with all the implications that carries.....?
2. The monarchy had collapsed and failed in 1936...?
My own view is that Chamberlin was one of the most misunderstood Prime Ministers the UK ever had, he kept us out of the war long enough. I think his reputation was undeserved.
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Certainly popular - tried to get tickets for this evening but sold out. Booked for tomorrow.
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Whatever happened to the re-make of the Dambusters....?
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>> Whatever happened to the re-make of the Dambusters....?
Drought.
Blame Global Warming.
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Just back from seeing it. Absolutely excellent. The well formed Firth looks nothing like the cadaverous Bertie and I'm not sure either his or his wife's personality match the accounts of, for example, Churchill. But brilliantly acted and believable for all that.
And you cannot do Churchill without hamming; the man himself was an actor to his fingertips. At least it wasn't Timothy West or Robert Hardy in the role!!!
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There are claims in the Sunday Times today, that some US Jewish groups are circulating emails, claiming King George VI was anti semetic and a Nazi Sympathiser, and that the film is a whitewash.
Good job they didn't make a film about Edward VIII!
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I think Inception was a very good film, probably not the best film of the year but certanly close.
Unfortunatly most americans never understood the story.
Just check the forums on imdb web site and you will see that some people just did not understand the film.
One of the best films I have seen is Downfall ("Der Untergang").
Very well made and felt completly absorbed into the film.
inglourious basterds almost makes it onto my favorite list but only let down by the wild west story line.
Christoph Waltz is a very good actor.
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I have downfall on DVD. Its ruined a bit tho, in the scenes where Hitler rages after being told that his armies dont exist, I always expect to see a rant about Football, or His X-Box.
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I enjoyed that as well - cracking film, I expected a rant about pop-ups.
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...or the iPad (contains strong language!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_EcybyLJS8. Many different flavours of this clip, some funny, many not.
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>>I'll wait for King's Speech to come out on DVD rental.
How long does this usually take?
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I don't think you'll lose much with a decent TV - doesn't need to be seen in the flicks !
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>> ...or the iPad (contains strong language!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_EcybyLJS8.
The Usain Bolt one was best I feel. I wont link to it as the language is right over the top, but people can find it.
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Never trust US Jewish pressure groups on anything outside the US. Like most things they have no understanding at all about matters outside the US and have little religious knowledge either.
Have you notice that most 'pro Israel' trouble makers in Israel are American or of American origin? The real Israelis and European origin Israelis as usually far less excitable or indeed anti-Palestinian.
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Its money at work, they are trying to kill its chances for an Oscar.
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...they are trying to kill its chances for an Oscar...
Used to be a lot of Jews in Hollywood.
Dunno if that's still the case.
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I'm not a believer in conspiracy theories, but wheels will be revolving inside wheels, as they do in most businesses.
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>> they do in most businesses.
And thats all the Oscars are.
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For those of you who have seen it,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAhFW_auT20
For those who haven't seen the film, watch the youtube clip after you have.
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It cost 15 million dollars to make, Has taken 35 million dollars at the US box office since mid november, and took 3.5 million pounds in its opening week in the UK.
The irony is, its been financed by the British Film council, soon to be disbanded by the government.
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Don't think that George VI would get on with our swear-filter would he !
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I see Firth got a Golden Globe - whatever one of those is.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12184166
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More hot news from the Golden Globes.
Seems the Americans are not keen on Ricky Gervais's sense of humour:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12205469
Ac-tors taking themselves too seriously?
Surely not.
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"Seems the Americans are not keen on Ricky Gervais's sense of humour:"
Never really found him funny either. Seams to have based an entire career on one funny dance in "The Office''. Not done anything worthwhile since.
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A few of his quips - as reported in the link - at the Globe awards made me laugh.
I don't begrudge the film stars their lavish lifestyles, but they ought to be big enough and ugly enough to take a bit of lampooning.
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It's an odd sort of humour, based on toe-curlingly embarrassing jokes and behaviour. The Burbank sitcom 'Curb your enthusiasm' does something similar, but much nastier deep down and also much better scripted, so funnier really.
I haven't seen the George VI movie which is so admired. I will wait for TV or disc as I nearly always do, being surrounded by world-class movie buffs from time to time and having to defend myself with philistinism. The big screen is overrated, and these days absurdly expensive and arduous. A good small one is really good enough for me, and I can drink, smoke, shout and scratch my gonads during the performance.
I was brought up to do these things. As a child I used to go to the cinema in Trincomalee with my parents. The two cinemas were vast corrugated iron sheds called the Nelson and the Wellington. Rich folk like us sat in boxes at the back, with tables and armchairs. Wobbly ceiling fans hung above them from the remote smoky recesses of the roof. The adults used to chain-smoke and drink gin brought by harassed stewards. At the front, where the local populations sat on rows of conventional wooden tip-up seats, Tamil and Sinhalese interpreters would shout out the lines. Others would sometimes comment, and occasionally brawls would erupt. When it rained you couldn't hear the (poor and crackly) sound over the thunder of water on the roof. Sometimes the many leaks would short out the equipment and stop the film too.
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He was very funny in Extras. Mind you I never "got" The Office - I think his co-comedian, Stephen Merchant, is very funny though - brilliant in fact.
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...Mind you I never "got" The Office...
Oh I did.
I think most people who've ever worked in an office in the South East would identify with it.
Lots of David Brents around there.
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Maybe I worked in the wrong sort of office. Extras was extraordinarily funny - especially the one with Kate Winslet dressed as a Nun.....absolutely brilliant.
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...Maybe I worked in the wrong sort of office...
Or maybe you were David Brent. :)
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...more Merchant I'm afraid without the excellent eyes...
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>> Extras was extraordinarily funny - especially
>> the one with Kate Winslet dressed as a Nun.....absolutely brilliant.
...and the one with Daniel Radcliffe, hilarious. Thought The Office was great as well.
I think RG is best as a comedy scriptwriter and comic actor rather than 'comedian' (haven't seen the Golden Globes stuff yet).
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My fav films of 2010 were Up in the air, Dogtooth, KickAss, Toy Story, Inception and a Mike Leigh film whose name escapes me, but featured Imelda Staunton.
For what its worth.
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I saw Saw III, but have never seen Saw up in the air, you say you saw,
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Just watched some clips of the GGs - His pre-show inteview sums him up. He should have gone to Specsavers.....!
He really thinks he's someone doesn't he ?
Mr Bowie sums it up quite eloquently
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv6mEv_rDdE
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Saw "The King's speech" last night and have to agree that it is an outstanding film and must surely lead to an Oscar for Colin Firth although what made the film exceptional was the quality of the cast.
Particularly fine performances by Helen Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush as Lionel Logue, the speech specialist. Guy Pearce as Edward VIII was I though spot on in his portrayal as an essentially weak man dominated by a much stronger personality in Wallis Simpson.
Firth deserves to win the best actor award this year - he was unlucky last year as his performance in "A Single Man" was equally fine but the award was always going to go to Jeff Bridges for the performance of a lifetime in "Crazy Heart".
Saw the film in our local independent and was absolutely packed. Good to see.
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Enjoyed Inception immensely, although I could do with watching it again to tie up a couple of loose ends that I missed. Very absorbing and very clever.
As an experience, Avatar in 3D was my most memorable cinema visit of 2010. Whatever the shortcomings of this film, and putting aside for a moment the whole debate around 3D, the sheer beauty and polish of it was remarkable. I very much enjoyed it.
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>> But if Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter don't get Oscars for The Kings Speech,
>> there is no justice in the world.
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>> I urge you to wander down to your local multiplex/kino/fleapit and see it.
Finally saw it last night, on the big screen, and the cinema was nearly full - ok it was Saturday night, but even so it's been out for a long time time.
Given the apparently simple storyline I couldn't really see how it could be that entertaining, but it was. Top stuff.
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Going to see it again on Tuesday (this time as a usherette) I'm told the screening I'm going to is already a sell out and there are two others in the same venue.
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Its been a great year for the cinema. Agree "The King's Speech" deserves all the praise it has been given but "Inception", "The Social Network" and True Grit" have also been outstanding films. I saw True Grit last week and it is a must see if you like westerns or Coen brothers films. Jeff Bridges superb as the marshall but truly amazing performance from 14 year old Hailee Steinfield. Matt Damon also give a fine performance as the Texas Ranger. In my opinion a far better film than the John Wayne version.
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Another vote for True Grit.
Jeff Bridges is a real life drunken scoundrel, its not acting for him, so he pulls it off far better than John Wayne.
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Jeff Bridges played a similar role in "Crazy Heart" last year as an ageing country singer. His role in "True Grit" takes the character a step further. You could amost smell the booze!
Fantastic perfomance in the court scene at the beginning. Did have a problem in understanding what he was saying in most of the film but somehow it didn't matter.
I don't think John Wayne was really an much of an actor as such. - He only ever played the character "John Wayne". I think he began to believe that he was that character in the end.
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It helps that this film has great foundations, harking much more back to the spirit of the novel by Charles Portis, but still keeping the best parts of the original screenplay by Marguerite Roberts.
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>>Did have a problem in understanding
>> what he was saying in most of the film but somehow it didn't matter.
I have this problem nearly every time I go to the pictures, which isn't often now as she gets annoyed with me asking her to tell me what they said. Acting is one thing, mumbling is just maddening. I often watch American films, on TV, with subtitles.
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John Wayne (IMHO) was a crap actor.
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A little harsh perhaps.
He was certainly not an actor in the classic sense, nor was he adaptable - could never have played Shakespearean parts for example.
Like many American screen actors of his type and era, he developed a style that fitted a genre of films. Law & Order, War and Cowboy.
HE had presence, the look, the walk, the slow considered drawl, that fitted these genre perfectly.
Alas he was rabidly right wing, like Charlton Heston.
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I have this problem nearly every time I go to the pictures,
Strangely enough you won't really have this problem with True Grit. Hailee Steinfeld talks in a nineteenth century almost biblical language with amazing clarity especially when talking at speed. Jeff Bridges' drawl is totally in character as the drunken Marshall
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"The Real King's Speech" Wednesday C4 9.00pm - worth a punt.
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I thought that all the roles were very well played. While Colin Firth portrayed the late King well I thought that Rush's performance wider ranging and more watchable.
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Went to see The King's Speech last night at the village hall - I think most people had seen it, though I hadn't.
There was a breakdown 10 minutes in owing to a leaky kettle tripping the electrics (no riot, happily) and an "intermission" with party nibbles handed round. Bar of course. Most enjoyable way to pass a Friday evening with friends and neighbours.
Good film I thought, and a few lumpy throats at the end.
Next month's is "A Bunch of Amateurs" with Burt Reynolds and Derek Jacobi. I wouldn't go the Odeon to see it but I'm sure it will suit the occasion.
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This evening I went to see
My Week with Marilyn
Synopsis C/O IMBD
Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during production of The Prince and the Showgirl.
Its a very nice engaging amusing film. Nicely set in its period, lots of old cars, tho I think the routemaster bus strikes an out of place memory.
Kenneth Branagh plays an excellent bombastic, irascible pompous megalomaniac Sir Larry, and provides an insight into typical actors fears. Michelle Williams injects real pathos, insecurity, loneliness and childlike qualities into the role of MM, yet strangely fails to make her at all sexually irresistible - the films only failing in my eyes.
Take your significant other, its one of those rare films you can both watch, for different reasons.
Recommended by me.
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Heard good things about it.
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I would mostly agree with your review. An enjoyable evening and not a bad film if rather light but not perhaps a contender, in my view, for film of the year.
Very similar in a way to "Me and Orson Wells" starring Zac Efron which I enjoyed more. If you haven't seen it get the DVD
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Slipped to me privately on a flashdrive, a very good movie indeed called Drive. Central character is a race and part-time getaway driver, but there isn't much hyped-up car action thank goodness. What there is is all right, but it isn't that sort of movie. It's character led, with a fabulous lead couple from the casting point of view and several other terrific performances, really a dark crime drama and finally quite gory. I'm not quite sure if it can be called a film noir. Those always seem to me to have stupid central characters.
Fabulous. Anyone heard of it? Perhaps it isn't out yet.
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>> Fabulous. Anyone heard of it? Perhaps it isn't out yet.
Seems to be getting good reviews:
www.imdb.com/title/tt0780504/
www.rottentomatoes.com/m/drive_2011/
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>>Fabulous. Anyone heard of it? Perhaps it isn't out yet<<
For the rest of your life you're gonna be looking over your shoulder ~
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWX34ShfcsE
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>I think the routemaster bus strikes an out of place memory<
I hate to be Mr A N O'rak.
The Prince and the Showgirl, released 1957.
ACV Routemaster, introduced (IIRC) 1958.
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Film of the year? - FuzzyDuck
