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Saw The Kings Speech tonight. Very good movie well acted with several good performances and Colin Firth is very good. Remains to be seen if he gets the best actor. I liked it because the subject matter is relatively narrow but the development of the story is nicely done.


Colin Firth was very good but Geoffrey Rush as his speech therapist was superb. Timothy Spall as Forest Hill's version of Churchill .

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Drove over to Clapham to go and see Black Swan on Saturday, but there was a big police incident in the High Street causing us to miss the showing at the picturehouse.


But I did catch the stunning Requiem for a Dream on Friday night on TV. A completely amazing, shocking, intense film.




Thanks for that clip Mick Mac - poignant considering the Torres move this week. Thomas did that for us and was then a Liverpool player

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This thread or the computer games thread? Aah this one.


"We are Sexbobomb and we are here to make the funniest film I've seen in a long time!!!!!!!!"


Also on my transatlantic sorties Paul, mildly funny, self indlugent nerdfest.

The Eagle, hackneyed, cliched homoerotic adventure that I swear is actually Last of the Mohicans in the second reel with CGI faces of the new actors pasted on, but for all that actually quite fun.

Killing Bono, sort of Withnail and I meets The Commitments without being nearly as good as either but again passed muster as entertainment, and I'd love to know how much of it is true.

Wow, I've just realised that the director of Scott Pilgrim Versus the World, Wright, is Edgar Wright of Spaced & Sean of the Dead fame.


It would seem that Simon Pegg may not have actually been his muse after all, but may have been holding him back!!! And that would explain why every single scene is packed with a dizzying array of cultural references from cinematic classics through horror and pop to, of course, video gaming.


It comes close to genius frankly!

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I saw this last night. I thought it was beautifully shot, and I really enjoyed the soundtrack, but I thought the content dire. It's almost as though the the Director couldn't make up his mind as to whether he was making a drama, an arthouse movie, a nature programme, or - even - a documentary on the cosmos. What a shame; I was looking forward to a film of substance, but - to me - the result was confusion. Very pretentious stuff. As per Ladygooner, do something else with your 2 hours.
Oh dear. I was planning to see TTOL tomorrow, then saw the above two comments and provisionally changed my mind. Then a look at the Wikipedia article, and changed my mind again. But it was David Cox's review in the Guardian that's decided me that I can wait until I'm in a truly curious and disinterested frame of mind, or it turns up on the box, or I find out who Jennifer Aniston is and that I like her work, before seeing it.

The advice seems to be that you've got to give it four hours of your life!

David Sexton in the Evening Standard, Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian, Jason Solomon in the Observer, admitted that it made a lot more sense second time round, although Nigel Andrews in the FT only gave it 2 out of 5.

Ooh, a Terence Malick film, cool. Will definitely check it out.

I don't think he's ever put a foot wrong personally (though averaging a film a decade, there'e not a huge canon to be fair).


His films tend to be more like tone poems than drama as such. If cinema as art isn't your bag then I guess his films just seem a bit boring.


I remember coming out of Thin Red Line with bored crowds complaining about the length and lack of Saving Private Ryan moments, whilst I thought it was one of the most beautiful and poignant films I'd ever seen.


I've no idea what this one's like, but it might be an excuse to finally return to the cinema after an almost 2 year absence thanks to the mocklet.

Saving Private Ryan = Noel Gallagher = Brash, two dimensional and not as good as it thinks it is


The Thin Red Line = Damon Albarn = good quality, rather too pretentious and when you stop to think about it a bit annoying*


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*but not as annoying as Alex bloody James!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think that pretty-much sums it up.


Though I'm definitely in the 'loves a good pretentious film' camp, so I would say that.


'Senna' is definitely well worth seeing, though I'm unsure as to how much a large-screen viewing really adds to the experience. Unlike Maxi Jazz with his brief vocal expostulations delivered from the rear of the Brixton auditorium - as the story unfolded.

Please Give


Watched this last night


( lovefilm )




Ahh yes, I liked it very much.


There's a whole thing going on about the pursuit and provenance of "collectables & vintage " furniture etc, which made me laugh out-loud.



( I very nearly fell off my danish leather Stouby sofa )




NETTE:)

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Has anyone caught 'Drive'?


I missed the hype so knew nothing about it beforehand. It's risible, pointlessly pretentious, shambolic, shallow and gratuitously unpleasant. It really is one bad film.


We ought to be talking Razzies here.. why is this film generating a positive reaction amongst reviewers?

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Managed to sneak a trip to the brilliant Clapham Picturehouse last week and caught the thought provoking documentary by Carol Morley called "Dreams of a Life" about Joyce Vincent, a woman who was found in her Wood Green flat three years after she died. A remarkable piece of work. "Dreams of a Life"

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