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Last night we span up first contact on the proj, tonight the not as good (4th season TNG worthy) insurrection. I'll need rum for nemesis.
The Road was one hell of a bleak film. I'm not sure I've ever recovered from that scene in the basement of that house. It was a good film but I'm in no hurry to watch it again, especially in this current climate.Thanks for sharing that. Brilliant parody of his work and true to boot. Really enjoy Curtis' documentaries but treat them as entertainment first and foremost.
Anyone looking for a cracker of a dystopian story check out Yevgeny Zamyatin's We. It was also adapted into a film by a German production team (I think) but I haven't seen it yet. You can find it on Youtube under its original title Wir (1982). The book is fascinating and unnerving in equal measure. One of the most disturbing technological dystopias imagined and quite prescient in a number of ways. I believe both Orwell and Huxley borrowed ideas from it and used them in 1984 and Brave New World respectively.
Maybe I oversold Equilibrium by calling it great. Should have said fun instead. Great dystopian films from that decade are ones like Children of Men (@RicksonGracie1972's favourite sci-fi ) and The Road. And The Island obviously. There are a lot of bad and forgettable sci-fi films out there but I don't think Equilibrium is one of them. Going to check out some other B-movie sci-fi soon. Got The Colony with Morpheus himself to watch soon.
Edit - I'm mistaken - Huxley denied being influenced by We when he wrote Brave New World. Don't tell porkies, Aldous.
The Road movie was a very bleak but compelling movie. The book was even bleaker..
Sounds like it's a film I would like!Yeah that's for sure! Just before the film came out I wanted to read the book but couldn't find the time so bought the audiobook to listen to in the car. Had to abandon it after a while as it was depressing and too grim to listen to during the morning commute. Switching to Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 felt like relief and that ain't right!
Sounds like it's a film I would like!
The audiobook or the car?Yeah that's for sure! Just before the film came out I wanted to read the book but couldn't find the time so bought the audiobook to listen to in the car. Had to abandon it after a while as it was depressing and too grim.
The audiobook or the car?
I've watched it several times in the hope that I'll like it but I just don't!Don't Look Now - 7/10 - This Nic Roeg chiller is regarded as a classic and whilst I really admire it, the Venetian setting, the downright eeriness of the whole thing I can never say I really like it, Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie play a couple who's daughter drowns in their garden pond, they take time out in Venice where John Baxter (Sutherland) is managing the restoration of a church, after a chance encounter with an elderly blind woman visions of the dead daughter start to happen and things get more mysterious, theres the infamous sex scene and the very creepy ending to add to the mix in a film you should see.
It’s currently available on the BBC iPlayerBen wanting to watch 12 Monkeys recently. Last time was when it came out in the cinema (remember those places?) - Anyone know if its available to stream or purchase digitally? I can't see it anywhere.
Great stuff!!It’s currently available on the BBC iPlayer
Twelve Monkeys, Twelve Monkeys: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01fhfjy via @bbciplayer
Random question, but where does it display picture quality on the iPlayer?It’s currently available on the BBC iPlayer
Twelve Monkeys, Twelve Monkeys: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01fhfjy via @bbciplayer
Sending my sympathies to youWe've started our annual Harry Potter marathon at home this weekend so we're getting onto number 6 tonight! Big fave in our house
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Open Range
Browsed Amazon and found this often forgotten gem of a western. A brooding Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall taking on Michael Gambon over that damned theme of grazing cattle.
Kevin Costner cops a bit of flack now and again but put him in a western and let him do what he does best and it’s hard to think of another actor who best suits the genre.
It’s a slow burn and tops in at well over 2 hours but everything here is top notch and everyone is on their game. If you like a decent western there’s nothing not to like and it’s one of the best of the past 25 years.
Thoroughly recommended