fasstrack Posted August 25, 2016 Report Share Posted August 25, 2016 He wished that he were a fish: https://www.google.com/search?q=the+incredible+mr.+limpet&safe=off&biw=1280&bih=702&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj4ydyH5d3OAhUHLB4KHQHrCrYQ_AUIBygC#imgrc=wS077VsqaqTKTM%3A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted August 26, 2016 Report Share Posted August 26, 2016 Spike Lee double bill. Malcolm X (1992) He Got Game (1998) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted August 26, 2016 Report Share Posted August 26, 2016 Top notch WB gangster stuff, but how could they go wrong with Cagney and Raft in the same film? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted August 26, 2016 Report Share Posted August 26, 2016 Released in the UK today and seen this afternoon. A disappointment - melodramatic, as to be expected with Almodovar, but this time straight-faced without the camp humour that makes his often banal stuff tolerable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted August 26, 2016 Report Share Posted August 26, 2016 Hell Or High Water Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted August 27, 2016 Report Share Posted August 27, 2016 Billy Wilder double bill. Sabrina (1954) The Apartment (1960) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted August 27, 2016 Report Share Posted August 27, 2016 Ang Lee double bill. The Ice Storm (1997) His best film imho. Life Of Pi (2012) Visually and technically amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted August 28, 2016 Report Share Posted August 28, 2016 23 hours ago, kinuta said: That's got to be the dopiest cover for a DVD/Blue Ray I've ever seen. Makes it look like a film version of Three's Company... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted August 28, 2016 Report Share Posted August 28, 2016 Don't Think Twice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted August 28, 2016 Report Share Posted August 28, 2016 2 hours ago, Jazzmoose said: That's got to be the dopiest cover for a DVD/Blue Ray I've ever seen. Makes it look like a film version of Three's Company... Indeed. It also adds to the myth that it's a comedy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted August 28, 2016 Report Share Posted August 28, 2016 (edited) Robert Rossen double bill. All The King's Men (1949) Body And Soul (1947) Edited August 28, 2016 by kinuta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted August 29, 2016 Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 Our Kind Of Stranger - Susanna White (2016) Involving and well done. Good but not great. Stellan Skarsgard a standout as the Russian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duaneiac Posted August 29, 2016 Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 (edited) A good movie, although Donald Sutherland is miscast. Why is it most British actors can adopt an American accent (even geographically specific accents) with seeming ease, yet American actors so often fail miserably when attempting any semblance of a "British" accent? Most of the film deals with how the robbery will be done, as the thieves have to acquire copies of four keys which will unlock the two safes carrying a gold shipment on the train. Sean Connery is to be given credit because he actually did some of his own stunt work on the top of a moving train -- something you could never pay me enough money to do! Correction: Sean Connery apparently did all of his own stunt work on top of the moving train. I listened to the commentary track by Michael Crichton and he said they built the train with extra wide roofs and with a sand-papery like skid-resistant surface. Still, there was one point where Mr. Connery fell down on the roof and Mr. Crichton, viewing from his chair inside the train, wasn't sure if it was an acting choice or a real slip. It was a real, and potentially dangerous, slip. Edited August 29, 2016 by duaneiac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted August 29, 2016 Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted August 29, 2016 Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 Little Men Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasstrack Posted August 29, 2016 Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 17 hours ago, BillF said: Penelope again? Ooh lah lah... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted August 29, 2016 Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 1 hour ago, fasstrack said: Penelope again? Ooh lah lah... Yes, but they get rid of her 2/3 way through. Saving on the budget? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasstrack Posted August 29, 2016 Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 4 hours ago, BillF said: Yes, but they get rid of her 2/3 way through. Saving on the budget? Spoiler alert. ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted August 29, 2016 Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 Douglas Sirk double bill. Written On The Wind (1956) Fascinating, gaudy, wildly over the top melodrama. Brilliantly directed, kitch masterpiece. Robert Stack teeters on self parody, Dorothy Malone the ultimate sleazy bad girl. All I Desire (1953) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Equity - Anna Gunn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasstrack Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Gets me every time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 Sam Mendes double bill. American Beauty (1999) Jarhead (2005) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 On 8/29/2016 at 10:12 PM, duaneiac said: Why is it most British actors can adopt an American accent (even geographically specific accents) with seeming ease, yet American actors so often fail miserably when attempting any semblance of a "British" accent? Amen. Last one I heard was Don Cheadle in Ocean's Eleven. I immediately wrote an apology note to Dick Van Dyke. On the other hand, I remember watching the Waldorf Salad episode of Fawlty Towers and getting totally confused when the actor "mispronounced" one word and suddenly became British, right before my eyes. But what an accent! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 On 8/29/2016 at 4:09 AM, kinuta said: Our Kind Of Stranger - Susanna White (2016) Involving and well done. Good but not great. My response too when I saw it in the cinema a while back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 1 hour ago, A Lark Ascending said: My response too when I saw it in the cinema a while back. I'll back those comments. On 8/29/2016 at 6:12 AM, duaneiac said: Why is it most British actors can adopt an American accent (even geographically specific accents) with seeming ease, yet American actors so often fail miserably when attempting any semblance of a "British" accent? I'm not sure that this is true, but if it is, couldn't it be something to do with the amount of exposure we get in Britain to American media, in contrast to the rarity of British media in the US? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_forumlogo.png.a607ef20a6e0c299ab2aa6443aa1f32e.png)
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.