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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1100 on: 14 February, 2011, 09:42:56 am »
La Vie en Rose on the telly at the weekend. Edith Piaf had a shit life ...
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1101 on: 14 February, 2011, 09:52:29 am »
Yogi Bear with my son. Was hilarious, laughed ot loud at times.

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1102 on: 14 February, 2011, 12:36:12 pm »
Found myself getting drawn in to Four Weddings And A Funeral on Film4 on Saturday evening. It's some years since I last saw it and I have to say I enjoyed it much more than my memory has led me to expect. Though it is a little dated - Hugh Grant looks so young! (Even though he was apparently in his mid-30s when it was made.)

"Casablanca" , I'm 46 and have somehow never seen it before........

I would comment on this but there are plenty of classic films I haven't seen... Anyway, I've lost count of how many times I've seen Casablanca. Such a great film.

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1103 on: 15 February, 2011, 05:01:08 pm »
'Never let me go', at the weekend. I hadn't read the book, so had full benefit of the creeping realisation of what was happening. Deeply disturbing.
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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1104 on: 15 February, 2011, 05:11:36 pm »
'Never let me go', at the weekend. I hadn't read the book, so had full benefit of the creeping realisation of what was happening. Deeply disturbing.

Was it good? I read the book last year and found myself increasingly frustrated at the FAIL of the science to the detriment of my enjoyment.  :-[
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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1105 on: 15 February, 2011, 06:36:40 pm »

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1106 on: 15 February, 2011, 06:50:13 pm »
Night at the Museum 2, because my imaginary secret husband is in it. I laughed enough.
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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1107 on: 15 February, 2011, 08:09:02 pm »
'Never let me go', at the weekend. I hadn't read the book, so had full benefit of the creeping realisation of what was happening. Deeply disturbing.

Was it good? I read the book last year and found myself increasingly frustrated at the FAIL of the science to the detriment of my enjoyment.  :-[

The science is largely unexplained, other than a reference right at the start to a medical breakthrough that took place in 1952. It's all seen from the viewpoint of the main characters, for whom there's no choice - other than a possible deferral of the inevitable. Someone said afterwards - why didn't they just run away? But the details of tagging, medication & control are left mainly to the imagination.
It's more of a 'what if' story, in which scientific accuracy / plausibility is less important than the relationships & the morality of what society chooses to do. The science might have been stretched but - given that it's fiction - I didn't think it was too unbelievable.

So yes, I thought it was very good. But I'd naively assumed that it was a just trad love triangle story of 3 children at boarding school and their later relationships as adults, so it came as something of a surprise. Of the 5 of us who went, 2 had read the book (apparently it's standard book group fare) and both enjoyed the film.
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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1108 on: 15 February, 2011, 08:23:08 pm »
How to train your Dragon.

My kind of film. I just love computer animated pap.

The main theme has a Sigur Ros twang to it (which is hardly surprising: Jón Þór Birgisson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). TimO was right, the main character dragon is part Our Cat, part Salamander.

Most of all though. This film gets 10/10 for Beardology.  :thumbsup:

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1109 on: 17 February, 2011, 12:49:00 pm »
Coogan's Bluff.  Clint doesn't even kill anyone.

Very poor.
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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1110 on: 19 February, 2011, 03:05:55 pm »
Coogan's Bluff.  Clint doesn't even kill anyone.

Very poor.

Yebbut isn't this the film where he comes out with "drop the blade punk or you won't believe what's happening even while it's happening" ?

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1111 on: 19 February, 2011, 03:08:19 pm »
I have just been press ganged into watching 'Love, Eat, Pray'. 

So far up its own arse it's not true and to make matter worse we watched the interminable Directors cut.

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1112 on: 19 February, 2011, 03:21:04 pm »
The Steve Coogan version of "Around the World in 80 Days"

I don't recall there being Jackie Chan style choreographed chop suey in the orginal novel by Jules Verne.

Still, not a bad movie for a wet afternoon....

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1113 on: 19 February, 2011, 03:58:32 pm »
Yesterday I saw Paul.  After seeing that I nipped out today and bought CE3K to follow up.

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1114 on: 19 February, 2011, 09:16:40 pm »
Paul, just now. Very funny, and Woolly laughed himself silly (and loudly).  :D

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1115 on: 19 February, 2011, 11:37:53 pm »
Sigur Ros - Heima on Sky Arts just now. One for fans only, but if you like their music, you'll utterly love the film.

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1116 on: 19 February, 2011, 11:44:08 pm »
Sherlock Holmes (the 2009 version).

Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1117 on: 19 February, 2011, 11:46:33 pm »
Persepolis after a recommendation from this thread. Very good! Am going to get lent the comic/book soon.

We have watched a couple of Bigas Luna films on your recommendation Citoyen. Jamon, jamon being preferred to Huevos de oro.
Some ending!

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1118 on: 20 February, 2011, 12:19:28 am »
The Ruins. Creepy Mayan man-eating creeper.
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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1119 on: 20 February, 2011, 04:30:37 pm »
"Inception"  I haven't got a scooby-doo what it was about. Another 2 hours of life wasted.   :-\
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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1120 on: 20 February, 2011, 04:32:57 pm »
"Inception"  I haven't got a scooby-doo what it was about. Another 2 hours of life wasted.   :-\
It's only 10 mins in the real world.  :thumbsup:

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1121 on: 20 February, 2011, 08:14:13 pm »
"Inception"  I haven't got a scooby-doo what it was about. Another 2 hours of life wasted.   :-\
It's only 10 mins in the real world.  :thumbsup:
That's all right then!   :-\
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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1122 on: 20 February, 2011, 08:28:14 pm »
Kings speech for the second time in a week last night. (Took Ms TC who is back from uni for the weekend after taking Mrs TC last weekend.)

I enjoyed it just as much the second time - possibly more.

Brilliant film - and tragic in some respects:

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1123 on: 20 February, 2011, 09:46:35 pm »
Sigur Ros - Heima on Sky Arts just now. One for fans only, but if you like their music, you'll utterly love the film.

d.

Just watched it.  I utterly loved it.

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Re: What was the last film you watched?
« Reply #1124 on: 21 February, 2011, 07:38:05 pm »
S O B.

Finally got a copy after a matey found it on the net a nd burnt me a disc.

Julie Andrews bares her boobies, Robert Vaughan plays a transvestite studio exec, Robert Preston as a Hollywood quack. A cynical look at the movie business with a real tongue-in-cheek storyline. Proper funny.
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