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Is he faster than a taco truck?
Absolutely loved Moviedrome. I still go on YouTube and play some of the intros by Alex Cox.
Great series! Miss it..Just like I miss the Horror double bills on a Saturday night on BBC2!
I just found a YouTube channel with many of the intro's, I was thinking of doing a Moviedrome retrospective, been looking through my dvd's in storage I think I still have many of the films shown on Moviedrome.
On a side note there is a great channel on UK TV called Talking Pictures (Channel 81 on Freeview), the channel plays alot of classic and some obscure films I had long forgot about.
He is. Sent here to Earth as a baby from the planet Chiton. Has a romance with a colleague named Luisa Lana.
Have only discovered that Talking Pictures channel recently. Some real gems to be found and I love the retro look of it.
Watched a couple of excellent Bryan Forbes movies on it weeks ago, Whistle Down the Wind, and Seance on a Wet Afternoon. Both superb.
Being on a Kubrick binge recently i was ashamed to say i'd never seen this film. I really have no interest in period dramas as such and seeing photo's and synopsis's about the film didn't make me any more enthusiastic for it.
My first watch i really did find this a hard slog, especially at over 3 hours with a glacial pace.
I gave it another go a few days later but watched it in 2 parts. Liked it a lot better and thoroughly enjoyed it. The locations and photography are just stunning and it's like Kubrick has put a living painting on screen.
Like a lot of Kubrick's work it's only after seeing a film more than once does it have the desired effect.
Good points @mattjoes i seem to remember Kubrick mentioning somewhere it was his intention to adapt the book in this fashion.
Both interesting films, I have not seen Seance on a Wet Afternoon since I was 10 years old when I was off sick from school it has a superb score which I have by JB.
Talking Pictures shows many films from an era forgotten, many of the films are what I watched in the late 70's and early 80's on TV. Cinema today I think is quite poor so its great rediscovering and seeing some of these old films for the first time.
Couldn't agree more.
I used to be a regular cinemagoer, Not now. Bond is really the only thing that I am genuinely excited to see on the big screen!
I have been to the cinema maybe two or three times in the last couple of years, I used to go every other week years ago, how times have changed.
Interesting I am a fan of Lynch I will look for the film.
I hope you enjoy it! It’s quite a treat - for my tastes anyway!
Just ordered it from ebay the reviews I read are very positive, I am surprised I have not seen it I collected alot of Manga in the 90's on dvd
Excellent choice, @FoxRox! I'm a fan. I rushed to buy the soundtrack after I'd seen the film. In my opinion, the film is even better than the best of Lynch, but that's just me of course. ;-)
I myself went to see IT: CHAPTER TWO. I don't get the negative reviews. The film stays close to the book. Anyone who's seen the Tommy Lee Wallace TV adaptation from way back when won't be surprised to see certain things. And while some of those things may, in principle, come off as less scary, they still follow the beats, grammar and syntax of IT 2017. The sequel is nothing if not a logical follow-up to that immensely successful film. In truth, the rules end up a tad fuzzy towards the end. And there's some comedy, yes. So what? Again, that's the story, whether people like it or not.
I think the problem is that many folks jumped on the IT wagon two years ago, knowing relatively little about the book and thinking that the new film was somehow much, much more than just a standard jump-scare flick. IT rode the wave of scary-clown horror and became a huge hype; its financial success elevated it to something bigger than it was, which is why many seasoned horror fans like myself were surprised to find it doing that well. It was an adequate scare-fest but nothing more: behind its thick layers of big Hollywood prestige (great cast, beautiful cinematography, full score) it still remained "just" a softcore ripoff of some of James Wan's more thrilling ghost house terror rides. IT was nothing out of the ordinary and certainly not some landmark, bar-raising experience that would redefine the horror genre forever.
And now, suddenly, with IT: CHAPTER TWO, more and more people have begun to discover that it's really a pretty faithful adaptation of a good (but not great) King book first and foremost. Centring the first film around the young kids and the second around the adults may not have been the wisest move either. I've always found the kids' story more haunting, frightening and interesting. So yeah, the corny stuff is, by choice, more prevalent in the second chapter. And that means people aren't getting what they're expecting because they're expecting something IT was simply never going to be.
IT: CHAPTER TWO benefits from an excellent cast, great visuals, an effective score and more. It also clears some narrative space for some cheesy "group hug" moments, a few really good laughs and silly hocus-pocus stuff, as it was always going to. Had IT received the Kubrick/De Palma treatment, which essentially means that filmmakers cut away the dead flesh and "unfilmable" material from King's voluptuous texts and retain only that which can be compiled into a short, concise thriller, then perhaps this movie could have ranked high on a Blumhouse scale of cheep but sometimes really powerful horror films. But that's not what WB set out to do. IT was always going to be the more epic, expanded, "chronicles of the Derry teens" experience, at the cost of losing some of its chills.
So my final verdict is this. IT: CHAPTER TWO is more of the same, really enjoyable stuff, with an excellent cast and some intense jump-scares. It's also a film that allows pauses for other moments, some of which may upset the folks that come looking for a continuous sequence of scares, and which furthermore results in a challenging runtime. To me, this is a perfectly good film and I give it a solid recommend but with the caveat that if you want to leave the theatre pale and frightened to death, you might want to wait for THE CONJURING 3 or something similar. How one reacts to horror is, of course, a very individual thing, so don't take my word for it.
Love caper movies and 'How to Steal a Million' is a great example of its type.
Peter O Toole and Audrey Hepburn are a great pairing!
Yes, excellent movie. Great John Williams score too. Fantastic caper movie.
Very good!
TOPKAPI is another great caper film with Maximillian Schell and an Oscar winning turn by Peter Ustinov.
And of course RIFIFI which I must have watched a million times. Great thriller with one of the most tense robbery sequences in film!
If only caper-mania would make a return. At least those films tried to be smart and were a helluva escapism vehicle.
Agree totally. I think Oceans 11 remake was last halfway decent caper film!
Whatever happened to Brossas follow up to The Thomas Crown affair?
Called Topkapi Affair, no less, but in a different light. Alas, it never happened. All we got was that lousy After the Sunset film.
And you're quite right, Ocean's 11 was probably one of those last good capers. If only Knives Out could make for the return of the "Whodoneit" and then we could see the return of the "Caper". Those were my go-to formats when I wanted some good old escapism. That and spy thrillers, evidently.
Yes. The TOPKAPI Affair, that was a it.
The Hot Rock is another favourite of mine. Directed by Peter Yates and Starring Robert Redford and George Segal. Great fun.
Oh, yes it was.
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Redford did quite a few. One of my favourite actors. Cool as one can be.
Went to the cinema last night to see Ad Astra (pretty cool!) and earlier today went to see Rambo Last Blood - which was a bit of a disappointment if I'm being completely honest.