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Post by Lawrie on Jun 26, 2008 19:43:57 GMT
I LOVE THE PRINCESS BRIDE!!!! I've seen it about 438 times due to the fact that it's the only film my grandmother owns so between the ages of 5 and 15 I watched it pretty much on repeat every time I visited her. I can quote huge sections off by heart. The book is even better, by the way.So I hear, though I've never read it. As I understand it, it's a novelisation of the the film, isn't it? (i.e. William Goldman wrote it after the film was shot/in conjunction with the shooting of the film, rather than it being a book that was converted into a screenplay for a film)
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Post by the dark fourth on Jun 26, 2008 21:14:03 GMT
Not at all. The film came about 15 years after the book, which was published in 1973. Goldman is still working on a sequel, which he keeps saying is "coming" but which never comes...sadly it's too late now to use the same actors for a film of the sequel (presuming a sequel does come, and they want to make a film of it...)
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Post by Lawrie on Jun 26, 2008 21:21:08 GMT
Okey dokey - I didn't really know anything about the novel and just remember hearing a listener on Mark Kermode's film reviews on Radio 5 saying that the book was a novelisation of the film - they were evidently very wrong then! Incidentally, since it's in the right thread, Mark Kermode is by far and away my favourite film critic. Even when I don't agree with him on a particular film, he usually presents an informed (and very entertaining) argument to support his opinion. The man is a legend, and the weekly podcasts that he does on Simon Mayo's show on 5Live on a Friday are usually amongst the best minutes of my week. Top man.
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Post by hyperborean on Jun 26, 2008 23:28:30 GMT
Most recently watched:
Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs
so good
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Post by Lawrie on Jun 27, 2008 8:37:21 GMT
I recently watched that as well. My verdict on it (which was just about exactly the same as my thoughts on Bender's Big Score) was that it was okay, but nothing more. Nowhere near bad, but equally pretty average compared to the very best bits of Futurama. Both worth seeing though, and the extra on the Bender's Big Score DVD of the full-length episode of Everybody Loves Hypno-Toad just made me cry with laughter, it was genius!
Next up for me is [horror movie] The Ruins. Don't really know much about it, and don't want to until after I've seen it so nobody spoil it for me! ;D
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Post by TremblingWillows on Jun 27, 2008 13:56:55 GMT
Just watched "Devil's Advocate". Excellent movie. Just like all the others I mentioned, it was really well acted and despite having a (kinda) sci-fi/religious storyline, you wern't bludgeoned to death with it. It felt very believable and real. Good moral to the story as well. Certainly impacted me enough to be more careful about the person I am. You'll understand if you see it
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Post by blondeambassador on Jun 30, 2008 19:21:13 GMT
I'm terrible when it comes to films, I never make time to watch any... My favourites are probably High Fidelity, Closer, About A Boy and Enduring Love...mostly films where not an awful lot happens to be fair. I can't deal with action films or horror films, very typically girly really but they bore me, even horror films just seem kind of ridiculous!
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Post by Lawrie on Jun 30, 2008 19:36:38 GMT
I'm terrible when it comes to films, I never make time to watch any... My favourites are probably High Fidelity, Closer, About A Boy and Enduring Love...mostly films where not an awful lot happens to be fair. I can't deal with action films or horror films, very typically girly really but they bore me, even horror films just seem kind of ridiculous! When it comes to film, ridiculous = good. 'Tis an ancient, unbreakable law of nature...
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Post by Lawrie on Jul 1, 2008 23:05:22 GMT
One of my mates just sent me a film trailer of a movie that I'm now DESPERATE to see! It's called The Good The Bad The Weird and apparently it is a Korean film that has been this year. The trailer shows what looks like a spaghetti Western but done by Korean martial arts-type actors: sounds completely bizarre on paper, but the trailer looks ****ing immense IMO: www.traileraddict.com/trailer/the-good-bad-weird/trailerApparently it has been shown at this years Cannes festival and went on general release in Korea, but no distributor in the UK or the US has picked it up yet - I *SO* want to see this movie, please get released over here in Britain, or at least made available on DVD in the UK and/or the States! Not since Sin City has one trailer sold me on a film so much!
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Post by hyperborean on Jul 2, 2008 6:20:52 GMT
Legend. yes Legend by Ridley Scott. I don't remember how it came about, into conversation, but a girl at work lent it to me - it's oddly captivating.
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Post by ryan on Jul 2, 2008 13:03:49 GMT
i'm a film studies student and i'm a bit burned out on talking about film at the moment, but my favourite periods are the french new wave and the dogme 95 movement. i also very much like the films of shane medows and danny boyle. sunshine is the most beautiful film in a long long time. this year i am looking forward to Wall-e, The Dark Knight and the new bond flick.
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Post by Lawrie on Jul 2, 2008 15:16:03 GMT
Re: Shane Meadows - one of my mates is really into his films and was going on about Dead Man's Shoes for ages and ages, saying it was the best film he'd ever seen. He lent it to me, and I thought it was pretty mediocre. I like Paddy Considine in general, and I thought he played his part really well. The problems I had with it were that the people he was taking revenge on were so stupid as to be almost comically moronic (the shotgun scene at the abandoned cottage in particular!), which felt out of kilter with the film. If they'd put him up against some more formidable opponents I think I would've liked it a lot better. Not saying it was all bad - there was definitely the kernel of a great film in it - but I think it was a significantly flawed piece of work overall.
But then I saw This Is England on Film4 the other day, and I was really, really impressed with that; thought it was a cracking film all round. If Shane Meadows keeps making films of that standard in the future I'll be obliged to call myself a fan of his.
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Post by ryan on Jul 2, 2008 16:49:58 GMT
dead mans shoes is amazing, lalalala not listening.
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Post by Lawrie on Jul 2, 2008 16:53:42 GMT
Haha, that was exactly my mate's reaction! ;D
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Post by ryan on Jul 2, 2008 17:28:42 GMT
the fact i'm 2/3 through a film degree means my opnion is over-riding on these matter, sorry (please don't one up me )
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