Films you've watched recently.

Young Merryl Streep looks a lot like that chick from Ronin, Natascha Mcelhone.

I also like Helen Mirren.

They're going to remake Deer Hunter with Shia Lebeouf apparently.

Henry wrote:Young Merryl Streep looks a lot like that chick from Ronin, Natascha Mcelhone.

Agreed.

Eric Air Emu wrote:They're going to remake Deer Hunter with Shia Lebeouf apparently.

it was worth a watch just for denzel / travolta, pretty good til the last third or so.

never realised streep was such a minx in her day. agree, mirren is another gilf. but we digress...

bourne 2 and 21 grams next on the list

American Beauty is a very good film as well. Kevin Spacey is so wonderfully deadpan.

Here's a good chocie for a day's movie watching, assuming the beers (and possibly weed) flows throughout.

Bloodsport (Solid, Van Damme shit man)
Back to the future
The Wedding Crashers
Vacuuming completely nude in paradise (Google it, then rent it....it's a great, gritty British comedy starring Timothy Spall and directed by Danny Boyle)
Blade


Quality.

DJ_Smerk wrote:I watched The Deer Hunter a few months back, one of the best Vietnam film's I've seen which isn't specifically about Vietnam itself.

The first time I saw the Deer Hunter I thought it was one of the best films I'd seen, but after a few repeat viewings I find the first hour to be totally boring. It's all about the russian roulette scenes really, and they aren't even historically accurate as there are no reports of POWs ever being forced to play it.

I still think it's a great film though, even if my opinion is based almost purely on how intense those russian roulette scenes are. Deniro should have won an oscar that year for his performance.

@ henry - where the fcuk is rocky?

I once saw "Brazil" with Terry Gilliam there, when I was a student in the 80s. At the end you were allowed to ask him questions. Unfortunately, the session was hogged by loud right-on mouthy b'stards who kept trying to make out the film had racist undertones (it doesn't) and giving him a hard time, despite the fact that it was very good of him to turn out to talk to us at all. The quieter majority of us, who mostly loved it, never got to tell him and the whole evening still makes me cringe. The poor bloke must have been left thinking all the students there were wanqers (which was not necessarily true). Do universities still have similar tw*ts giving the others a bad name I wonder?

I went to see Inglourious Basterds twice at the cinema - I thought it was farking immense. I could sort of see how it was flawed, but I cared not one jot.

Also finally got around to watching the Shawshank Redemption, which was absolutely marvellous. That's the length of five football fields.

Hudsucker Proxy
The Big Lebowski
Barton Fink


All Hail The Coen Brothers.

Burn After Reading?

Fargo?

Yes, Smerk and Pete - me and my bro were on about the calibre of the Coen Brothers the other day. We may well do a CB marathon.

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie. Cimematic gold....although youse poms probably won't get it.

I watched Kenny. I got that.

Brass Monkey wrote:I watched Kenny. I got that.

That was a shithouse movie.....Boom Boom

Big Dog wrote:The Adventures of Barry McKenzie. Cimematic gold....although youse poms probably won't get it.

Brave choice. Wierd but brave.

Big Dog wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:I watched Kenny. I got that.

That was a shithouse movie.....Boom Boom

:D:D

I still consider The Deer Hunter a great film. At times it's been my absolute favourite.

I find the "slow" opening hour captivating. Perhaps it's because it made me think of my own mates. We all used to do silly things like leaving someone behind on the road, reversing back slowly then driving away again... multiple times.

That first hour allows you to really spend time with the characters. They aren't just cardboard cut-outs. They come off as real and it makes the tragic second half of the movie all that more powerful.

I also don't have a problem with the Russian roulette stuff. I always considered it to be a metaphor and believe it works very well on that level.

I'll always remember the feeling I had when I watched the film for the first time. I was emotionally shattered and literally unable to speak for a good 30 minutes. It's powerful stuff.

As for films I've watched recently.

I saw Ian McKellen's 1995 version of Richard III for the first time last night.

It's one of the better adaptions of Shakespeare for the screen. It doesn't simply film the play - it turns it into a true movie.

It also updates the time-setting to 1930s England, imagining the place as something of a fascist state.

Wasn't bad considering the dialogue was written 400 years ago.

Saw "G-Force" in 3D recently. Easily the best film about talking special-agent-guinea-pigs I've ever seen.

Brass Monkey wrote:I watched Kenny. I got that.

got it on DVD. never watched it. any good?

Saw Inglourious Basterds last week. Thoroughly enjoyable, especially the stabby parts.

Monsters Inc.
Sheer class.