EDF Cinema

[Ted Max]

I went on Saturday evening only to find the show was cancelled because they'd run out of 3D specs.

Tool.

[Izodia]

I was a bit disappointed by Alice in Wonderland to be honest. It just felt like too much had been played with. But maybe I'd gotten myself too excited beforehand for it to live up to my expectations. However, Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and Helena Bonham-Carter as the Red Queen were both brilliant.

P.S. I think you're allowed to keep the glasses. It was 50p cheaper to get reusing glasses from a previous 3D film watching.

['bout now]

Anyone else quietly pleased Avatar didn't get the glory? This is based entirely on prejudice and the reviews I've read as I've not seen it myself or that 'locker' one.

I saw Hurt locker last night, it was pretty good, well filmed/ directed. Not a bad story line but if I'm honest I've seen it done better before. However I've also seen Avatar and special effects apart, its shite. I think it's the most expensive film ever made, pity some of the budget didn't go on a script or storyline.

[HAL9000]

'bout now Wrote:

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> I've also seen Avatar and special effects

> apart, its shite. I think it's the most expensive

> film ever made, pity some of the budget didn't go

> on a script or storyline.

I think Avatar's special effects are brilliant. Its story line is somewhat lightweight.

I've just read Cameron's original 'scriptment' for Avatar, which addresses a lot of questions left unanswered in the movie - such as: why 'unobtainium' is so valuable, why some mountains float on Pandora, how the link is established between humans and their Avatars, the nature of Pandora's atmosphere, how interstellar space travel is achieved, and much more. Well worth reading after seeing the movie.

[Narnia]

I saw Avatar and enjoyed the effects but I had a sort of empty feeling leaving the cinema. I couldn't quite put my finger on it but it somehow didn't deliver enough, even though I had no great preconceptions of it. Then I wondered if it was me who was feeling like that and that reflected on my view of the film. Who knows. My other half can watch the same movie several times and says she sees something different in it each time. I'm loathe to call anything 'shite' as it's too easy to do.

[HAL9000]

Narnia Wrote:

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> I saw Avatar and enjoyed the effects but I had a

> sort of empty feeling leaving the cinema.

I felt the same way.

> I couldn't quite put my finger on it but it somehow

> didn't deliver enough, ?

I thought it might be because there is too much to take in during one viewing.

> My other half can watch the same movie several times

> and says she sees something different in it each time.

I'd like to see it again in order to take it all in - perhaps a few times The movie is packed with so many fresh ideas: it's an extraordinary flight of imagination. I couldn't get enough of the visual imagery but the story took too long to unfold - it could easily lose 20-30 minutes, I reckon.

[eusebiovic]

Hello Everyone,

We are starting a campaign to save the last remaining purpose-built Cinema/Theatre left in Camberwell (The Gala Bingo Hall) and preserve it as a secular Arts/Cultural Venue and unique Community Hub. This is one of the last Grade II listed cinemas/theatres left in Southwark.

It has been sold by GalaCoral group in private to an Evangelical Christian Church - with no wider local community consultation whatsoever. A total neglect of their "commitment" to Corporate Responsibility has been excercised here. This remember is an organization which has numerous betting shop outlets in the local area and throughout Southwark.

Many of our venues have been demolished over the past 25 years. 3 in Camberwell,East Dulwich, Elephant & Peckham Odeon's have all been lost forever. Visit our Facebook Page and webpage below for more details.

I hope you will all support this embryonic campaign and see where it can take us! If you are interested then spread the word! A poster can be printed from the website and displayed in the windows of all the local homes,shops,colleges and businesses in Camberwell and environs.

Our Webpage:-

www.CamberwellVillageHall.com

or Facebook Group "Cinema for Camberwell Green"

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Camberwell-United-Kingdom/Cinema-for-Camberwell-Green/314480941967

Kindest Regards,

Victor Ferreiro

[Narnia]

How many threads are you going to post this on Victor?

[Ladymuck]

HAL9000 Wrote:

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> I've just read Cameron's original 'scriptment' for

> Avatar...Well worth

> reading after seeing the movie.

Ha ha ha...

114 pages - you are having a laugh! You could at least have given us a summary!;-)

[Lord Sornoff]

Sorry Hal9000, but since when did Tory MP's have a hand in Hollywood? Or am I missing something here?

[Ladymuck]

James Cameron.

[Lord Sornoff]

Ah, I see. Thank you for clearing that up, Ladymuck. I was in half a mind to cook up an expenses scandal for the fresh-faced Buller.

Ladymuck, are you a real peer like myself and if so - do you know my wife Hortensia?

[Ladymuck]

Lord Sornoff Wrote:

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> Ah, I see. Thank you for clearing that up,

> Ladymuck. I was in half a mind to cook up an

> expenses scandal for the fresh-faced Buller.

Had I known that, I would have kept quiet.

> Ladymuck, are you a real peer like myself

oh absolutely...no doubt about it old bean

>and if

> so - do you know my wife Hortensia?

I say old chap, are you by any chance referring to Haughty? Hortensia Sornoff-Shotgun? Why yes I do old bean...we lunch together at the Ritz every Wednesday (paid for by the taxpayer...naturally).

[HAL9000]

Ladymuck Wrote:

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> HAL9000 Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> > I've just read Cameron's original 'scriptment' for

> > Avatar...Well worth reading after seeing the movie.

>

> Ha ha ha...

>

> 114 pages - you are having a laugh! You could at

> least have given us a summary!;-)

Summary: in just two weeks Cameron wrote a movie scriptment with a box office take of over $2 Billion!

Cameron's other scripments include: The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), True Lies (1994) and Titanic (1997). The guy's a genius.

[Ladymuck]

HAL9000 Wrote:

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> Summary: in just two weeks Cameron wrote a movie

> scriptment with a box office take of over $2

> Billion!

How kind.

> Cameron's other scripments include: The Terminator

> (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989),

> Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), True Lies

> (1994) and Titanic (1997). The guy's a genius.

I fear you are becoming lazy HAL9000. In the past you would have provided us with helpful links for each of those titles.

[HAL9000]

Lord Sornoff Wrote:

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> Sorry Hal9000

Well, I'll be! I was just about to introduce myself to your Lordship but alas I'm too late - you've vanished into the ether. How strange.

[Ladymuck]

HAL9000 Wrote:

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> Well, I'll be! I was just about to introduce

> myself to your Lordship but alas I'm too late -

> you've vanished into the ether. How strange.

Meet me at the Ritz next Wednesday...I can introduce you to his wife Haughty.

[citizenED]

Caught Ken Loach's "Ae Fond Kiss" last night (at home on Lovefilm hire). Absolutely brilliant. Based in Glasgow it is a completely absorbing exploration of arranged marriage/westernised romantic ideal debate that must cause such heartache in the Pakistani Community in the UK. One to catch.

[SeanMacGabhann]

In Bruges is in c4 tonight

Don't be a fackin caant. Watch it

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Love that film. I shall nip out now for supplies.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Just watched Day of the Jackal - long time since I've seen it - such a good film!

I want a Citroen.

[mockney piers]

A classic with an unnecessary and terrible remake starring Bruce Willis; you'd have thought he'd learn from Last Man Standing. Ho hum.

I saw Role Models on the plane. One of those films that's somehow better than it promises to be, like Meet the Fockers.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Winter's Bone

Go and see it. Do. Now

I liked Role Models too btw

[Moos]

Anyone already recommended The White Ribbon?

Really gripping, creepy film and absolutely worth the pain of subtitles (which I usually find offputting).

It's basically a thriller about a small village in Germany in years leading up to the beginning of WW1, where weird and nasty things keep happening but no-one knows why or who is doing them. There's a lot more to it then that but best seen rather than described.

[paragon]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Winter's Bone

>

> Go and see it. Do. Now

>

Sean - saw this partly because of your recommendation and partly because Kermode said it was fantastic. I think you have to be in a certain frame of mind to watch that kind of film...but I was just quite bored for the first hour or so. It is powerful and you almost feel like you are living in the mountains but i thought it dragged a bit. I think the performances from the Girl and Teardrop are fantastic though.

Other movies I have watched recently;

500 Days of Summer - better than your average RomCom but still not great

Unthinkable - Samuel L Jackson, straight to DVD thriller (as studio went bust) turning into a bit of a culty hit as it wasn't promoted at all. Plot is full of holes but there are some genuine shock moments and it goes along at a pace.

Girl with the Dragon tattoo - Personally though it was the best film I have seen in a year or so. (I haven't read the books) so the twists and turns were really interesting.

The Prophet - French movie about a kid in Prison - standard prison fair but much more powerful than recent ones I have seen.