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FANTASTILICIOUS FUN FOR FILM FANS 089: your top 10's of 2020 and most anticipated films of 2021?

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  • BeatlesSansEarmuffsBeatlesSansEarmuffs
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    I think he's going to be a VERY interesting Dr. Strange!
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    BeatlesSansEarmuffs wrote: »
    I think he's going to be a VERY interesting Dr. Strange!
    OH yeah!

  • SirHilaryBraySirHilaryBray Scotland
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    They went downhill, the last good thing for me was Sleepy Hollow, struggled with everything he has done since. Same way people ranted and raved about Johnny Depp. Most people these days have gone off him faster than customs at Australian airports. The two of course have worked time and time again but most recent stuff has been really bad.
  • boldfingerboldfinger
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    Benedict Cumberbatch is absolutely marvellous as Sherlock, although that series is fed very much by the incredible chemistry between Freeman and Cumberbatch.
    I like the way Cumberbatch sometimes overacts, and I´m usually not a friend of overacting. And Cumberbatch is very much capable of understated acting too.
    He hasn´t been put to proper use much outside the Sherlock series, but I would blame the directors more than the actor.
  • Seven_Point_Six_FiveSeven_Point_Six_Five Southern California
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    I'm pretty indifferent when it comes to Cumberbatch. He's a good actor but I really don't understand the hype around him.

    With that said, as it stands now, I think he was a poor choice for Dr. Strange.
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
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    @bondjames I think the problem isn't his lack of range, he is a good actor, I think he has range but he never gets the chance to show it off. He had a small part in Four Lions but he was great in that, playing a character who's nothing like Sherlock, so it's a shame that Hollywood seem to have pigeon holed him into that role (the whole enigmatic mysterious posh guy role that he did so well in Sherlock). I'm looking forward to Black Mass, that new gangster film with Johnny Depp, where I think Cumberbatch is playing some New York cop or politician or something? I think just the fact he's doing an accent will help differentiate it from his previous roles (which have all been very similar since Sherlock).
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited June 2015 Posts: 23,883
    You're probably right @thelivingroyale. I've only seen him in roles that seem to pigeon hole him. However, he didn't do much with Khan, and that's where he could have demonstrated something different.

    He does come across like a posh fart on occasion though. Just his screen presence probably. He seems like a pretty smart, educated guy and that comes across on screen.
  • boldfingerboldfinger
    edited June 2015 Posts: 5,767
    @thelivingroyale and @bondjames, Cumberbatch wasn´t very much typecast or pigeon-holed in Parade´s End, August, Osage County, 12 Years a Slave, or The fifth Estate. In The Imitation Game he copy-pasted Sherlock, although I have the feeling a lot of responsibility lies with the director, as in STID.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    He may be good as Dr Strange, but I would have preferred Joaquin Phoenix.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    boldfinger wrote: »
    @thelivingroyale and @bondjames, Cumberbatch wasn´t very much typecast or pigeon-holed in Parade´s End, August, Osage County, 12 Years a Slave, or The fifth Estate. In The Imitation Game he copy-pasted Sherlock, although I have the feeling a lot of responsibility lies with the director, as in STID.

    I agree @boldfinger. I truly haven't seen enough of his films to form a proper opinion and it's more than likely he was typecast in the films I've seen. I really do want to see the Fifth Estate and 12 Years a Slave.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    He always makes me hungry for a cucumber sandwich.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    <center><font color=#E9AB17 size=6><b>069
    </b>What's your favourite lovemaking/sex scene in a mainstream film?</font>

    * mainsteam i.e. not a porn flick
    ** I couldn't let the 069 opportunity slip, could I? ;-)
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
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    Just for pure hilarity it would have to be Team America! Serious belly laughs! =))
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    Roger Moore and Grace Jones in AVTAK.
  • doubleoegodoubleoego #LightWork
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    Blue is the warmest colour
  • Some_Kind_Of_HeroSome_Kind_Of_Hero
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    The Terminator (1984) — Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor
  • boldfingerboldfinger
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    This one was pretty amazing:





    I love those with innuendos. I believe this wasn´t Hitch´s first one, but it´s pretty good:




    Not sure if this counts:





    Apart from that, most of the shagging scenes in the Bond films up until 1985.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    Basic Instinct - 1992. Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas.

    Risky Business - 1983. Rebecca De Mornay & Tom Cruise
  • BAIN123BAIN123
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    @boldfinger. The Naked Gun and North by Northwest ones are classics. Everytime I hear Unchained Melody I keep thinking of Naked Gun 2 (and yes I know that scene is a parody of the one from Ghost)

    Incidentally, what about the one from the first Naked Gun?

  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Mickey Rourke/Lisa Bonet in ANGEL HEART.
  • SuzanneStoneSuzanneStone
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    The one in the unbearable lightness of being when Juliette Binoche goes to DDL's apartment with a sore throat or something. Great buildup of tension.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    <center><font color=#E9AB17 size=6><b>070
    </b>Are you a fan of 70s cinema and if so, what do you like about it?</font>
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    Oh man, I love the 70's. Full of great classics. A perfect decade for raw edged films.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Oh yes I am.
    The Seventies was a time of unpredictability, of experimentation, and acceptable downer endings. Try making a movie like Parallax View, Vanishing Point, The Seven Ups, Beneath The Planet Of The Apes or Harold & Maude today. Not happening. At least, not on the studio level. Back then creativity trumped focus group box office prediction. Moderate budgets made crazy movies possible; today every film must make money big time for shareholders. Which, by definition means predictability.
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
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    The 70s gave us my two favorite films: Star Wars and Dawn of the Dead. The 70s were f**king awesome. That's all I have to say.
  • SuzanneStoneSuzanneStone
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    Along with the 60s it´s probably my favorite decade in movies for a number of reasons.
  • boldfingerboldfinger
    edited July 2015 Posts: 5,767
    If I look at my dvd shelf, the 70s ambassadors are All the President´s Men, and Jaws. Apart from Bond films. And Apocalypse Now was originally 70s, wasn´t it?
    No, I guess I´m not a 70s geek...
  • Some_Kind_Of_HeroSome_Kind_Of_Hero
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    Compared with the 60s, the 80s, the 90s, and so on, I have to say the 70s offers the fewest films that I really enjoy. However I really do appreciate the 70s aesthetic of filmmaking for all the reasons @chrisisall mentioned, and am always down to try out a new 70s film I haven't seen yet. It was a particularly good decade for horror.

    Some favorites: Alien, Assault on Precinct 13, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Dawn of the Dead, Jaws, Nosferatu, Solaris, Young Frankenstein.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    I love 70s cinema, especially 70s horror films. They were bleak, dirty and hardly ever came to a happy end. I suppose that's where my affections with them comes from. Just look at stuff like Last House On The Left, Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween, Exorcist, Dawn Of The Dead, Alien, Omen, Black Christmas, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, ... Even if someone survives the ordeal, it comes with many sacrifices and the prospects may not be all that hopeful altogether. Several police films go there too. Magnum Force for example, my favourite Dirty Harry film, offers many dilemmas for us, the viewers, and the ending isn't exactly one to put a smile on the face.

    Of course happy films were made at the time, many of which I love too. Star Wars, the Bonds, Close Encounters, ...

    I consider the 70s brave in their naturalism, seeking outdoor locations that would previously have been deemed unfit for a film, using cheap film stock and rough editing, often the result of small budgets and independent projects. I love the demise of old certainties, like the family unit, faith and authorities. Family can no longer protect you; in fact the threat might come from within. Prey all you want but in the 70s, Satan ultimately wins. Authorities may come up with protocols, laws, ... but each must fight for himself in the end.

    In a sense I find the stakes to be generally higher, the outcome more unpredictable and the feeling I'm left with more intense and usually more upset. I'm not saying I dislike the other decades in film but I just have this particular fondness of 70s cinema.
  • patbpatb
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    My gut reaction is that 70s movies, as a trend, expected more form the audience and could not go for the quick bang of CGI. I watched All The President's Men a few weeks ago. I loved it. But my wife could not believe how slow it was. Its a movie for grown ups with no quick cuts or gimmicks. You have to give it all your concentration plus, of course, an amazing cast. If the same movie was released this year, it would really struggle. The audience dont have the patience anymore IMHO
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