That's Tim Curry.
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I have watched that and I liked it , but then again I enjoyed he original with Tim Curry, liked the way they gave him a part in the remake.
The dark haired girls is Victoria Justice, she is/was in a kids program called Victorious , which my 2 lads like to watch
I bet they do!I have watched that and I liked it , but then again I enjoyed he original with Tim Curry, liked the way they gave him a part in the remake.
The dark haired girls is Victoria Justice, she is/was in a kids program called Victorious , which my 2 lads like to watch
Legend
That's my friend. Legend. He went all out to replicate Tim Curry. And he did it over Skype.
Film was ruined a little for me by how historically inaccurate it was. It implied Turing basically did everything himself which isn't true, and Crumblesnack's portrayal of Turing was completely wrong. Made him out to be a complete weirdo (I couldn't separate it from Sheldon Cooper).
Also thought the film died once enigma was cracked, the last 20 minutes was rather boring.
I quite enjoyed Magnificent 7 last night seeing as it only cost me $5 on cheap Tuesday. I had no idea that was Vincent D'Onofrio until the final credits. Their plan was rubbish and the bad guy showing up and then riding through town on his own was stupid. Chris Pratt's character asking what a syllable was and then later having a line "statistically speaking they should have hit something" was daft. The woman bowling about all movie with her tits out was ridiculous too.
Needless remake IMO but a fun watch nevertheless.
Needless remake IMO but a fun watch nevertheless.
Springtime in a Small Town (2002) - Not as good as the original but it isn't far from it, a beautiful and worthy remake, one of the greatest remakes that I can recall actually. I could watch loads of different takes on this story.
Can I see seven films on a single weekend?
Hell or High Water
Elle
The Handmaiden
The Age of Shadows
The Light Between Oceans
The Red Turtle
American Honey
Sounds like a challenge. And about $100 in tickets.
Hell or High Water
Elle
The Handmaiden
The Age of Shadows
The Light Between Oceans
The Red Turtle
American Honey
Sounds like a challenge. And about $100 in tickets.
Yes, yes you can.
I wouldn't bother paying money for The Handmaiden though, but it does have the hottest lesbian sex scene of 2016.
Easy! I did 4 in a day once.
I'm on the fence about The Light Between Oceans. I like Derek Cianfrance and the Fassbender/Vikander coupling is alluring, but it looks pretty wet in general.
Yeah, I kinda want to see it but at the same time I'm not really that excited about it.
I'd like to hear your take on Elle though, I'm still not sure what I thought of it. Verhoeven really is mystifying.
For some reason I decided to watch three adaptations of Dostoevsky's White Nights.
Four Nights of a Dreamer - Had some great, sensual direction, but the unprofessional actors were a bit of a problem, often two planks delivering lines to each other. I still very much liked the film though. The short musical interludes really set the tone.
Le Notti Bianche - The highly stylized set looked great, but that added with the fact that it succumbed way too often to it's melodramatic tendencies gave the film an air of artificiality. Marcello Mastroianni was great but it took a while for me to accept him as a shy and socially awkward man, I'm still not sure if I totally bought into it. The dance scene was a nice breath of fresh air though.
Two Lovers - Kinda decent, but also a bit bland, the dialogues felt a bit stilted compared to the other two. Joaquin Phoenix was very Joaquin Phoenix, which was both a good and a bad thing, Vanessa Shaw looked like an attractive version of Hilary Swank, Elias Kotseas should be in more stuff and I'm not sure why Isabella Rosselini kinda has a Swedish accent, I don't think she speaks it.
Four Nights of a Dreamer - Had some great, sensual direction, but the unprofessional actors were a bit of a problem, often two planks delivering lines to each other. I still very much liked the film though. The short musical interludes really set the tone.
Le Notti Bianche - The highly stylized set looked great, but that added with the fact that it succumbed way too often to it's melodramatic tendencies gave the film an air of artificiality. Marcello Mastroianni was great but it took a while for me to accept him as a shy and socially awkward man, I'm still not sure if I totally bought into it. The dance scene was a nice breath of fresh air though.
Two Lovers - Kinda decent, but also a bit bland, the dialogues felt a bit stilted compared to the other two. Joaquin Phoenix was very Joaquin Phoenix, which was both a good and a bad thing, Vanessa Shaw looked like an attractive version of Hilary Swank, Elias Kotseas should be in more stuff and I'm not sure why Isabella Rosselini kinda has a Swedish accent, I don't think she speaks it.
Lights Out
One of the better horror films I have seen in a while.
Good story, good acting.
Teresa Palmer and Gabrial Bateman , playing brother and sister , Rebecca and Martin both excellent.
Maria Bello has the nutty mother also very good.
Only let down was the ending, thought it was crap, but still worth watching, music is very atmospheric and made the film feel creepy.
6/10
One of the better horror films I have seen in a while.
Good story, good acting.
Teresa Palmer and Gabrial Bateman , playing brother and sister , Rebecca and Martin both excellent.
Maria Bello has the nutty mother also very good.
Only let down was the ending, thought it was crap, but still worth watching, music is very atmospheric and made the film feel creepy.
6/10
Yeah quite enjoyed that film. Loved the use of car headlights!
Is it worth watching Godfather's 1 & 2 on the big screen? I've seen them both so many times but never at a theatre.
Which one - 50s or 70s? I think they're both great, even if like you said, the 50s one (like all horror films of that age) is hammy as feck.
Must be pretty great, most films are better on big screen imo. I'd love to see them at a movie theatre.
The place beyond the pines
Gosling and Cooper in full form! Great photographs, somehow 3 movies in 1 (genres: thriller,coming of age, police and gangster movie,drama) but made fluidly and atmospheric.
Also good music which fits totaly.
8/10
Gosling and Cooper in full form! Great photographs, somehow 3 movies in 1 (genres: thriller,coming of age, police and gangster movie,drama) but made fluidly and atmospheric.
Also good music which fits totaly.
8/10
Could you give us your top 3?
No mention of Mendelsohn? He was the best part of the movie. What an actor
He was great too! Didnt want to not mention him with intention.
Anyway, I saw a couple of films this weekend. Sing Street was about a little Dublin poofter that I imagined to be Cina basically, so it was set in 1985 and the kid wanted to impress this cool girl that hung around his school (beautiful Lucy Boynton). To do so, he forms a band and they play music - the whole film is set around their 'romance' and the music he and his mates compose along the way. It's very naive but in a nice way, the music is pretty cool (mix of original songs composed for the film and 1980s stuff) and the film has loads of energy and feels very sincere, so it's a nice watch.
I saw Captain Fantastic also, with Viggo Mortensen. This is the IMDB synopsis: "In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent." I found it pretty great, it's like Little Miss Sunshine but more extreme and more quirky. A lot of funny moments, decent music and great cinematography (especially in the first half of the film). Viggo is a fantastic actor and all the kids are great as well. One of my favourite films of 2016 so far.
Sing Street is brilliant.
50s version.
The 50's versionis an excellent commentary on the dangers of conformity in the US. The 70's one has Brooke Adams' tits. I know which one is my fave.
New Jack Reacher is meh. 5/10
I preferred Dana Winters, sans tits. Very classy.
Both versions of the story were good, but I think its time period gave the older film an advantage. Everything seemed so stable in the 50s, the American way of life set in stone with values so universally accepted, that the intrusion of anarchy was harder to believe. The film played off the mundane ordinariness of its small town setting. By the 70s, when the remake was filmed, all the old certainties had dissolved, and the aliens were less of a surprise. Just another bit of shit hitting the fan.
I wish Captain Fantastic had stuck to its guns and the kids had all turned into nutters instead of giving us the old "a little bit of both is the answer". Also the singalong at the end made me physically ill.
Anyway, I saw a couple of films this weekend. Sing Street was about a little Dublin poofter that I imagined to be Cina basically, so it was set in 1985 and the kid wanted to impress this cool girl that hung around his school (beautiful Lucy Boynton). To do so, he forms a band and they play music - the whole film is set around their 'romance' and the music he and his mates compose along the way. It's very naive but in a nice way, the music is pretty cool (mix of original songs composed for the film and 1980s stuff) and the film has loads of energy and feels very sincere, so it's a nice watch.
I saw Captain Fantastic also, with Viggo Mortensen. This is the IMDB synopsis: "In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent." I found it pretty great, it's like Little Miss Sunshine but more extreme and more quirky. A lot of funny moments, decent music and great cinematography (especially in the first half of the film). Viggo is a fantastic actor and all the kids are great as well. One of my favourite films of 2016 so far.
RiP loves his singing streets and singalongs.
Hell yeah mothafecka
I hate you
Deathproof
Two separate sets of voluptuous women are stalked at different times by a scarred stuntman who uses his "death proof" cars to execute his murderous plans.
Not Tarantino' best film , but I enjoyed it.
The acting was OK , the story was pretty decent.
Plenty of references to other Tarantino films and you get Kurt Russelll doing his Jack Burton voice.
6.5/10
Two separate sets of voluptuous women are stalked at different times by a scarred stuntman who uses his "death proof" cars to execute his murderous plans.
Not Tarantino' best film , but I enjoyed it.
The acting was OK , the story was pretty decent.
Plenty of references to other Tarantino films and you get Kurt Russelll doing his Jack Burton voice.
6.5/10
You really wanted us to go visit Tarantino's IMDB page didn't you?