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Post by Charles Bronson on Dec 10, 2019 7:52:24 GMT
Thanks for posting your opinion of Thr Irishman Lord Emsworth. I still haven't seen it even though it's been on Netflix for two weeks now. I will give it a go this week. I hear its three hours long so I will watch half of it one day and the second half the next day.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Dec 10, 2019 9:32:35 GMT
Might try and catch The Irishman this weekend, sort of running out of time this side of Xmas...
Thanks for the reviews and the book looks interesting and something to get hold of too LE!
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Post by Batgirl on Dec 28, 2020 14:20:28 GMT
Netflix has a lot of newish films that may or may not have made it to the cinema. Film - Juliet, Naked (2018)I watched ' Juliet, Naked' but I'm not going to show the trailer as it really covers too much of the plot. It stars Chris O'Dowd, Rose Byrne and Ethan Hawke. Rose dates Chris who is obsessed with a musician who disappeared from public life years ago after a failed romance. He runs a blog for fans of the muso. It's a comedy romance but it's got a lot more to it than that. The characters are likable and questions about being a parent to children across extended complicated families and the theme of perceived success by ourselves and others is explored. I like all three main actors so decided to watch it. I guess it's one of those films that won't change the world but when you're expecting little it is pleasantly surprising.
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Post by Three Litre on Dec 29, 2020 0:03:40 GMT
It's years since I've been but I'm tempted to go and see 'Le Mans 66'. By all accounts it's a good film with Matt Damon and Christian Bale both giving excellent performances, the downside being the large number of inaccuracies with some of the cars used and the timeline, missing out important stuff (such as the early development of the GT40 with Lola and Lotus involvement) to keep the running time down to less than two and a half hours. Enzo Ferrari is portrayed as being at the race in '66 but he never went there. There's lots of footage of the drivers miraculously finding another gear when already going flat out down the Mulsanne straight at 200mph, but that's typical of many Hollywood racing films. Still looking forward to seeing it though, the story itself is fascinating and the stills I've seen taken behind the scenes look particularly good. Villain I saw the film 'Ford V Ferrari' on the weekend and loved it ! Sure there may be inaccuracies but how great that this story becomes known to a new generation of film goers. I don't know how accurate Christian Bale's portrayal of Ken Miles was but it certainly was a fascinating watch. I thought Ford vs Ferrari was pretty good. It captured the essential elements of the story the main players were believable. The CGI didn’t detract from decent action scenes for me.
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Post by Steve Austin on Dec 29, 2020 11:20:40 GMT
Netflix has a lot of newish films that may or may not have made it to the cinema. Film - Juliet, Naked (2018)I watched ' Juliet, Naked' but I'm not going to show the trailer as it really covers too much of the plot. It stars Chris O'Dowd, Rose Byrne and Ethan Hawke. Rose dates Chris who is obsessed with a musician who disappeared from public life years ago after a failed romance. He runs a blog for fans of the muso. It's a comedy romance but it's got a lot more to it than that. The characters are likable and questions about being a parent to children across extended complicated families and the theme of perceived success by ourselves and others is explored. I like all three main actors so decided to watch it. I guess it's one of those films that won't change the world but when you're expecting little it is pleasantly surprising. I like Chris O'Dowd so I'll probably give this a watch, thanks Batgirl
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Post by Charles Bronson on Mar 28, 2021 19:03:05 GMT
I was recently looking at a British film for sale in the Asda DVD section. Its called 'Muscle' and stars an actor called Craig Fairbrass. I thought it might be ok, so I got it and watched it last night with the wife. The story involves a call centre worker who at a bit of a low ebb decides to join a hard core gym. After a while he finds his life is being increasingly dominated by a senior member played by Fairbrass.
At first the film was better that I'd hoped it would be, but about half way through there was a graphic orgy scene and the wife wasn't happy so I turned it off. Its very hard to find watchable films these days. A lot of them can be very depressing.
Anyway, I'll have to watch the rest of the film on my own in a day two whilst the wife is at work 🤫 I must see how it turns out.
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Post by Three Litre on Mar 28, 2021 19:20:53 GMT
Its very hard to find watchable films these days. A lot of them can be very depressing. Too true, same for a lot of TV as well. I tried watching that The Terror on BBC2. Think I'm tired of that level of violence and general depression as you state. There a film on Sky, The Lighthouse. Just reading about the plot on Wikipedia put me off. Think I'll settle down with a mug of cocoa and a good book.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Mar 28, 2021 20:17:21 GMT
We recently watched a 10 part American TV series called 'Your Honour' about a decent judge who becomes corrupt in order to protect his teenage son from gangsters. It started off ok but after a few episodes it became increasingly heavy and gloomy. At least the wife enjoyed it though. As you said three Litre some of the violence in films now is a bit too much.
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