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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4165 Registered: 05-2005 |
We Have A Pope. Not quite as good as the Sydney Morning Herald review said it was, but not far off it. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 181 Registered: 05-2005 |
Watched the last episode of The Wire Series 5 last night - my life suddenly feels emptier - maybe start again?! Also went to see Hugo yesterday - extraordinary - more than two hours, slow moving story telling with a cinema full of kids transfixed. A real old fashioned family film and for once the 3D kind of made sense. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4188 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm on to season 6 of The West Wing, where the Matt Santos character enters. Wonderful stuff. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4214 Registered: 05-2005 |
Took my daughter to see Dolphin Tale today. Pretty good Christmas/summer film for kids. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4226 Registered: 05-2005 |
Parks & Recreation, series 3. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2319 Registered: 01-2005 |
Homeland, the first 12 episodes over the last few days. Claire Danes is quiet the actor playhing the bipolar CIA operative Carrie Mathison. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2184 Registered: 09-2006 |
Kubrick's Paths of Glory, on Criterion Blu-ray. Looks incredible, remains a deeply powerful movie, great extras. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 684 Registered: 04-2005 |
A great documentary "Tous au Larzac" at my local cinema. The audience clapped at the end ! Told the story of the 10 year struggle against the expansion of a military camp on the plateau of Larzac in the Massif Central in France. What was incredible in the movement was that it managed to bring together so many disparate groups to help the "paysans" (funny how in English the term "peasant" has such negative connotations) fight to keep their farms. It is a mix of footage from the times and present day interviews with many of the major players in the action. Even after 30 years, some of those interviewed break down with emotion describing some of the events that they witnessed. In the end they only really won as Mitterand was elected president in 1981, but that should not detract from their struggle. And today the movement continues, fighting against globalisation. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4237 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andrew, you're making me look very shallow with my bigging up of US sitcoms above... | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 686 Registered: 04-2005 |
Pádraig, It's only because we don't have a television. And believe me I've watched a great deal of sitcoms in my time. French TV is largely appalling, but I am not quite sure where I would now find the time to watch TV. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4241 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just finished the last episode of the last season of Spooks. Great way to finish. Earlier I went to Hugo in 3D. What a film. It deserves some Oscars. Now I'm going to watch Tucker & Dale Versus Evil. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 182 Registered: 05-2005 |
Glad you enjoyed Hugo Padraig, I thought it was tremendous and could n't stop thinking about it for days. My seven year old son and his friend also loved it and he is demanding we rent the dvd of Georges Melies's work! A couple of things interested me afterwards 1) The film is critcally acclaimed but commercially has not lived up to expectations- 'the film they dare not call a flop' is a comment I heard on the radio. 2) Does anyone know about the book it is based on? The Invention of Hugo Cabret seems virtually unobtainable unless you want to pay Ł50+ on EBay. Seems incredible it has not been reprinted on the back of the film - was it always difficult to find? | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 183 Registered: 05-2005 |
and bizarre coincidenace. Thought I'd look the book up on line to find out more and cam accross this page http://www.theinventionofhugocabret.com/ about_hugo_order.htm see bottom right. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4242 Registered: 05-2005 |
My 10-year-old also loved Hugo. She loved The Muppets (which we saw today) even more though. I really liked the Muppet movies too, but Hugo is a masterpiece. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 184 Registered: 05-2005 |
Saw The Artist yesterday. Entertaining and certainly an interesting experience to watch a silent, black and white movie in a cinema. Not quite sure it is the masterpice it is being painted as - if it had been colour and a talkie it would have been pretty average, which for me makes it an materpiece on a technical level only. Worth seeing though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4245 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Story Of Ireland. A five hour BBC/RTE co-production on the history of my homeland. Brilliant, fascinating and very moving. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1555 Registered: 10-2008 |
iS that the one presented by Fergal Keane Padraig? If so, watched it last year - very good. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 371 Registered: 02-2007 |
Just finished watching it myself Padraig, got it as Christmas present. I agree very good. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4248 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes, the Fergal Keane one. Made me want to go to a Celtic/Rangers game! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4250 Registered: 05-2005 |
An Irish film called Kings, which has dialogue almost exclusively in the Gaelic language. A powerful film. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4265 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Descendants. Absolutely stunning. If it had come out here last year it would have been my film of the year. George Clooney is one phenomenally gifted man, but everyone in it is great, as it the writing and direction. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4266 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Tallest Man On Earth doing a great version of Thin Lizzy's classic Dancing In The Moonlight on Swedish TV. It starts out with the piano into from The Boomtown Rats' I Don't Like Mondays. Who knew Kristian Matsson was such a fan of Irish music from the 70s? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2332 Registered: 01-2005 |
episode one of the new David Milch series "Luck" on HBO. Hard to see it measuring up to the greatness that was Deadwood. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4274 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Not quite the masterpiece I'd been led to believe it is, but still very good in an understated way. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 357 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, I have yet watch it but, for those of us of a certain age, it is difficult to see how it could it could even begin to equal, never mind surpass, the BBC Mini Series. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4277 Registered: 05-2005 |
Friday Night Lights, season one. Really great. Anyone else here ever watch it? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 524 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Killing season 2 Spiral season 2 Downton Abbey season 2 Brothers and sisters season 5 Dexter season 6 Hung season 3 Grey's anatomy season 8 In treatment season 2 Black Books series 1 Life? What life? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2847 Registered: 03-2005 |
Well, if it's still super cold there Stuart, that seems like a good solution. I remember Jeff commenting about the weirdly warm winter in Bratislava. I guess it's now bipolar weather. I keep wondering what our disagreeable share of climate change will turn out to be in Southern California. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 387 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hey Padraig, I am a huge Friday Night Lights fan, my sons are both huge fans too. I am just about to watch the last episode of Homeland, have been completely gripped by this showalthough it's hocum of course. I am madly in love with Morena Baccarin who plays Damian Lewis wife in the show, she is beautiful | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 525 Registered: 10-2006 |
Italy is indeed closed due to snow, Randy. The philosophy of "If we don't plan for it, it won't happen" has let us down yet again. The silence and the lack of traffic is wonderful, though, and the dog is having a great time. And cold weather always makes me hungry, and Italy is at least a great place to be hungry in. Hands off Morena, Cosmo, she's mine. Saw her for the first time at the Golden Globes and then, strangely, just the next day, she turned up looking equally wonderful in an oldish How I met your mother episode. Homeland starts here tonight, whoopee. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4319 Registered: 05-2005 |
Le Voyage Dans La Lune by Georges Méličs. A surrealist masterpiece. I got it on DVD with the new Air album, which also serves as a soundtrack for the film, which is now 110 years old. The restoration job is brilliant. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 697 Registered: 04-2005 |
Tony Palmer's "impressionistic" (his words) film of Leonard Cohen's '72 tour, "Bird on a Wire". Simply extraordinary! The version of 'Chelsea Hotel' is beautiful. This review sums it up better than I can. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 698 Registered: 04-2005 |
Bertrand Blier's '74 black comedy "Les Valseuses". With a very young and almost handsome Depardieu. Not exactly a pleasant film to watch, the misogyny is very much of its era. How come there is full-on female frontal nudity and not even a limp male member to be seen anywhere ? OK, so it's an anti-conformist tale, but the scene with Brigitte Fossey in the train is really trying to tell us what exactly ? Interesting to find out that for such a provocative piece of cinema, it was enormously popular in France when it came out (almost 8 million cinema entries). I read an article recently saying that cinema had almost forgotten how to make "adult" films (not in the sense of porn, but in the sense of not being directed at everyone of all ages). I also found it interesting that French actors/actresses obviously had no fears (in terms of their careers) in appearing in such a film. Isabelle Huppert makes one of her first screen appearances (and promptly loses her virginity in a group sex scene), Jeanne Moreau kills herself by putting a pistol between her legs. And Brigitte Fosey (that little blonde girl from "Jeux interdits") gets her breasts sucked by Patrick_Dewaere. And there is even a link with my little village in the SW of France. The actor Jacques Rispal (a minor part in this film) was born there, was in the resistance against the Nazis and was a life-long communist. In the 60s he went to prison for helping fund the Algerians against the French in their war of independence. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4331 Registered: 05-2005 |
Carnage. Hilarious. I laughed out loud more often than I have in the cinema since Bridesmaids. The cinema was packed for Carnage. I had to sit very near the front. Word of mouth, a great review on ABC and a wet Saturday afternoon no doubt helped fill the seats. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2341 Registered: 01-2005 |
The Man Who Would Be King of the Popes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk0vx4BWZ e8 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4338 Registered: 05-2005 |
Saw The Artist the other night. Quite brilliant. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4339 Registered: 05-2005 |
This is a hilarious explanation of daylight savings. http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012 /03/12/daylight_saving_time_explained_by _handy_and_hilarious_video.html?wpisrc=n ewsletter_slatest | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4342 Registered: 05-2005 |
Went to The Rum Diaries today. It was just OK. Really nothing special. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4350 Registered: 05-2005 |
ITCHY & SCRATCHY - Every Episode In 48 Minutes. See it on YouTube before Fox has it removed. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4354 Registered: 05-2005 |
I finished season four of Friday Night Lights a couple of nights ago. Waiting for season 5 to arrive. Friday Night Lights is now my third favourite TV series ever after The Sopranos and The Wire. I believe in American exceptionalism in television dramas. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 543 Registered: 10-2006 |
FN Lights doesn't seem to have caught on in the UK or Europe, Padraig. Too much American football in it maybe? I'm on Spiral 3, meanwhile, the French cop show where this season's motto is apparently to send all the main characters' careers down the pan. Lead as usual by Captain Berthaud, still looking as if she's been up three days running and hasn't had a decent meal in over a month. Great performances all round though. I prefer it when shows like this stay away from serial killers but at least it avoids Biblical quotations and weird clues. Meanwhile, Parisian police still seem to be the ones to avoid if you have to get arrested. Better to go with Wallander's Swedes, you're less likely to get slapped about. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4368 Registered: 05-2005 |
It wasn't a huge hit in the US either Stuart. Series 5 has arrived! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4382 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm four episodes into series 5 of Friday Night Lights. I'll be sad when it's over, because that's it. I'll a couple more before going to bed tonight. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 546 Registered: 10-2006 |
Well, I've ordered season 1, Padraig - had to order it from France! - on the basis of your listing it after Wire and Sopranos -that's a big claim to make though!! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4412 Registered: 05-2005 |
Finished Friday Night Lights last night. Now I'm sad. Has season 1 arrived Stuart? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 550 Registered: 10-2006 |
Watched the first two episodes last night and really enjoyed them. I was expecting something a bit One Tree Hillish, but it's far less soapy than that. The texture of small town life is beautifully rendered, with its various churches and huge investment in the local team. America really does seem a foreign country in stuff like this. Always liked Kyle Chandler,good to see him get his teeth into something grittier than that series with the newspaper and the cat. Still baffled by American football though. All those code sequences that they use to define various moves: I mean, are they standardised, or does each team make up its own, or what? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4424 Registered: 05-2005 |
Going to watch the two commentary tracks on the final disc of season five and then that really is it for Friday Night Lights. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4432 Registered: 05-2005 |
Went to see The Well Digger's Daughter this afternoon. Daniel Auteuil's first film as a director. It's very good until the end which is a bit too tidy. Please don't let that put you off seeing it though. It's still worth watching, even if it's not up there with Jean de Florette or Manon des Sources. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4438 Registered: 05-2005 |
Saw This Must Be The Place last night. Great film. I love how it leaves so many loose ends (in stark contrast to my post above). Some of it was shot round the corner (literally) from where I used to stay with a grand aunt in Dublin. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 559 Registered: 10-2006 |
Well, we are all hooked here now Padraig. I never thought I'd see Italian women get so excited over an American football match. I'm puzzled by the fact that they never kick goals though, I'm sure they used to. Has that part been elided from the game? It seems to be all touchdown points now. Also saw The Kids are Alright, the Moore/Benning one, and really loved it: shows what you can do with a great cast, an ok script, and California looking like heaven on earth. And Mia Wasikowska, what a gem. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2196 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hey Michael B., you probably already knew this, but if not: Mr. Whit Stillman finally has a new film out! http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_ came_running/2012/04/some-notes-on-whit- stillman-damsels-in-distress-and-eric-ro hmer.html#comments | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2361 Registered: 01-2005 |
Hey Allen, it sure has been a long time since Last Days of Disco. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2198 Registered: 09-2006 |
Indeed, though not so long since the actual last days of disco, which as we all know never actually came. The video for Tom Robinson's "War Baby." Don't know why I've never seen this before. Brilliant, all the way to the final shot, which could've been too much (crawling out of a bomb crater to find a rose) but is just dead on. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2931 Registered: 03-2005 |
I can't believe such a great quality live video dates from this period. The Move before Jeff Lynne. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b42ck7iaL b4 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4481 Registered: 05-2005 |
30 Rock, season five. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 724 Registered: 04-2005 |
The French presidential election : yes, we've got rid of the poisonous dwarf ! 5 years of the arrogant creep... Given that I firmly believe that the power has long-departed from the control of the politicians the election of Francois Hollande might not make that much difference, but at least his tone is not as divisive as Sarkozy's. And more importantly, how long before Carla Bruni leaves him and finds a young rock star ? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2935 Registered: 03-2005 |
Andrew, I was cheering yesterday when I read the headline out here in California. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4523 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sherlock Holmes, the modern BBC adaptation. Just started series 1 last night. Excellent. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 726 Registered: 04-2005 |
RIP Donald Duck Dunn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_juH0AHv wk A blistering sweat drenched performance by Sam and Dave of "Hold On (I'm Coming)" during the '66 Stax European. The rhythm section lock together and never let go ! Some people might rave about fancy fast playing guitarists, but for me Steve Cropper with his simplicity and sheer groove is the KING. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2208 Registered: 09-2006 |
Killer indeed...and just as much as the backup they gave Aretha, Otis, Wilson, etc. the Booker T. & the MG's records really hold up - they're what I've got on today. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2209 Registered: 09-2006 |
Powell & Pressburger's Black Narcissus, on Blu-ray Grows more complex with each viewing, Deborah Kerr is a marvel, creating a center both strong and fragile around which everything else swirls. And it looks more ravishing than ever. Blu-ray players & prices have now come down to DVD levels, so I'd advise anyone with an affection for this movie to take the plunge. Now on to The Red Shoes... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4543 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Dictator. LOL. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 445 Registered: 05-2005 |
Allen, I watched the Jack Cardiff documentary the other night and was really excited seeing the Black Narcissus clips, it's been a long time since I saw it but am now scheduling a quiet evening with a bottle of wine to soak up the Archers genius again. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 446 Registered: 05-2005 |
Deborah Kerr is also amazing in The Innocents which is an incredible film, saw it on the big screen about 10 years ago and it was astonishing | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4557 Registered: 05-2005 |
Back to the Sherlock Holmes (series 1) DVD again last night. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2214 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Innocents is Turn of the Screw, right? Haven't seen that one in a long time, but I have pretty vivid memories. Haven't seen nearly enough Deborah Kerr, though. One that I've been meaning to get to forever is An Affair to Remember. It was recommended to me yet again recently and I think I'll finally go for it. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2216 Registered: 09-2006 |
Being a big Wes Anderson fan I'm also jonesing for Moonrise Kingdom, just one week away. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4565 Registered: 05-2005 |
Margin Call. The acting in it is uniformly superb. Even Demi Moore. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 583 Registered: 10-2006 |
Watching Spacey is always a joy. I wish I'd been able to catch his Richard 3 in London, that must have been something to see. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4583 Registered: 05-2005 |
Went to see The Five Year Engagement yesterday. I enjoyed it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4586 Registered: 05-2005 |
Watched The Field Of Blood on DVD last night. Excellent BBC drama set in a Glasgow newspaper in 1982. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1798 Registered: 10-2008 |
Was that the one where Peter Capaldi plays the drunk reporter Padraig? If so, yes it was exceelent. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4589 Registered: 05-2005 |
That's it Kevin. I got the impression that a lot of what he shot ended on the cutting room floor though. He was billed very high on the credits, but didn't have a whole lot of screen time. I'm sure he must have been a much bigger character in the book. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2221 Registered: 09-2006 |
Barcelona, for the umpteenth time - my wife had never seen it, and at first Chris Eigeman's character was driving her up the wall (as, of course, he's supposed to do). The movie worked it's subtle charms perfectly, though...by the end she absolutely loved it. Michael B., I'm trying to remember...did you ever mention a liking for Noah Baumbach's movies? He treads a lot of the same ground as Stillman (down to using Eigemen to great effect in his first movie, Kicking and Screaming) although he goes much further in portraying some pretty unlikeable main characters. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1816 Registered: 10-2008 |
A must see http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01 jcdbc/Evidently..._John_Cooper_Clarke/ | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1817 Registered: 10-2008 |
The above is a primer for Punk Britannia, the latest set of BBC4 documentaries which airs this Friday from 9pm, part 1 of 3, with 2 and 3 coming on the next two Fridays. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00s81jz http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2012/05/pu nk-britannia.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/showcase#/col lections/p00rgt7s | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1818 Registered: 10-2008 |
Back from the dead!! http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/showcase#/cli ps/p00t1b12/in/collection/p00rgt7s Even more interesting when you consider the band includes Jamie Perret and Peter Perret Jnr. The guitar solo, while a carbon copy is excellent. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 457 Registered: 05-2005 |
such a great riff! vocals not so great | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4610 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Shadow Line. Just watched the first episode. Very intriguing so far. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 459 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Shadow Line sucks Padraig, didn’t you think the collapsing over the secret money ending was ridiculous? it’s over written, over acted and trying much too hard. You seem to like a lot of the TV shows I love, watch Sons of Anarchy instead, it’s Hamlet basically and massively addictive | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 460 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hamlet as an American motorcycle gang drama | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1104 Registered: 08-2004 |
A good doc as part of the aforementioned Punk Britannia season on BBC about TV Smith/The Adverts. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4613 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cosmo, seeing as I just mentioned above that I've only seen one episode, what makes you think I've seen the ending in the meantime? It's seven hours long. Please be more careful about revealing endings. I'll make up my own mind about whether I like it or not. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4614 Registered: 05-2005 |
OK, I realise now that you were only talking about the end of the first episode. But what makes you think I would think that ending was "ridiculous" when I described the program as "intriguing"? I thought it was a good beat. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 461 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig, the show was hyped up here in the UK and I had several conversations with friends about it after the first episode including writers and media folk, the general consensus amongst us including those who liked and disliked it was that the ending (of the first episode) was ridiculous, badly acted and dramatically forced. The series divided opinion here overall and lost viewers at an alarming rate. Clearly you are entitled to make up your own mind as am I, you described it as intriguing which suggested to me that it had aroused your curiosity not that you had formed an unwavering opinion of it (had you written a lengthy positive review of it I would either have said nothing or challenged it in proper detail). I thought it sucked, that was my opinion. This board is a forum for many different opinions or at least I thought it was | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 462 Registered: 05-2005 |
Prometheus I don't think I have ever been so excited to see a film. Unfortunately I regret to report that it really isn't very good. The visuals are stunning and it is by far the best 3D film I have seen in terms of it's use of the effect.I am now starting a campaign to prevent Ridley Scott from making a sequel (or prequel) to Bladerunner | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4615 Registered: 05-2005 |
So old Nick didn't like it then? | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 463 Registered: 05-2005 |
Who's old Nick? | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 465 Registered: 05-2005 |
other than the devil? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1831 Registered: 10-2008 |
Yeah I wondered about that too but thought I had missed something obvious. I think we should be told! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1832 Registered: 10-2008 |
1) "Kenny". Brilliant mock doc fly on the wall type tale. All about an Australian called Kenny Smyth who works for Splashdown, a company which specialises in, err, "waste management". I'm sure Padraig will have seen it, I would recommend it unreservedly to everybody on here "Kenny is a mockumentary that follows the fictional Kenny through his daily life. His work and his personal relationships are explored as Kenny goes about his day to day activities and speaks directly to the camera and his audience. Kenny provides a most basic service to the community: portable toilets. The audience sees Kenny interviewing potential clients and involved in major public events. It is important to Kenny to know the kind of food and drink to be served at these events as this will determine the level of service he provides. Never ashamed of his job, Kenny regards himself as a professional. Even at the most prestigious events for which he caters, Kenny realises that the most glamorous will need his portable toilets. He sees life in all of its complexities through the need of his services. When Kenny travels to Nashville to attend a toilet convention, he is thrilled to travel outside his native Melbourne. His ingenuousness and commitment to his profession opens business opportunities in Japan and the potential for a new relationship. Kenny declines the opportunity to become an executive and is ambivalent about the new relationship, until she shows herself to be sincerely interested in Kenny, for himself." 2) Anvil, The Story of Anvil. This is a true tale, but no less gut wrenchingly funny than "Kenny", and sprinkled with moments of poignancy too. "Anvil! The Story of Anvil is a 2008 documentary film about the Canadian heavy metal band, Anvil. The film begins by listing the headlining acts of the Super Rock festival held in Japan in 1984: Scorpions, Whitesnake, and Bon Jovi, all of whom have gone on to sell millions of records, except one: Anvil. Despite their ambition, the Canadian band was unable to achieve the same level of success. Instead, singer and guitarist Steve "Lips" Kudlow drives trucks for Children's Choice Catering, delivering food to schools and institutions. Drummer Robb Reiner works in construction. But both would rather be playing on stage at the local sports bar to their small but dedicated group of fans, as shown during a show for Steve's 50th birthday party" Both films were watched during the wee small hours last Sunday on nightshift. I was sceptical about watching Anvil, but glad when my workmates talked me round, it was brilliant. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 466 Registered: 05-2005 |
In space no one can hear your disappointment | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1105 Registered: 08-2004 |
No-one can hear you blue screen! | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 337 Registered: 05-2005 |
You are right about 'Anvil' Kev. Funny, tragic - but ulimately life-affirming. What a shame about 'Prometheus' Cosmo! Had planned to take the kids this coming weekend and was hoping for something of the calibre of Blade Runner or the original Alien. Sounds like Ridley has lost his mojo completely. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2225 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Secret World of Arriety Gorgeous to look at, of course, but not half as deep as even the shallowest previous Miyazaki. |