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Posted Nov 8, 2009 by No, four Goshos. Goshos for forks
RocknRolla
This has Guy Ritchie written through it like a stick of rock has Southend on Sea  It was everything I hoped it would be, although I think Ritchie peaked with the characters created for Snatch, especially Brick Top. I don't think he's ever going to be able to beat Snatch and Lock Stock, no matter what he does.
What's this obsession he's got with indestructible Russians?
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Posted Nov 10, 2009 by No, four Goshos. Goshos for forks
The Naked Civil Servant
Not exactly a movie, but longer than most television programmes so I think it counts for inclusion. It's been a very long time since I last this. So long that I didn't even realise that one of the kids at the end is Phil Daniels. Must have been a few years before he made Scum with an equally young Ray Winstone.
I remember watching this on television 1975, which means that I must have still been living at home and watched it with one or both parents. I'm pretty certain that if my dad was there at the time he would have harrumphed and gone to bed, muttering something about not wanting to watch this sort of thing the way that he did with 10 Rillington Place when Richard Attenborough climbed on top of Judy Geeson after having just killed her.
Mother was a little more easy going about such things but still got embarrassed about anything blatantly and overtly sexual. I think she would have drawn the line well before anything on Eurotrash 
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Posted 3 Weeks Ago by No, four Goshos. Goshos for forks
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Closely followed by
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Now I'm up to speed and ready for Terminator 4 which I didn't get to see at the flicks and which I think is released, or at least is available on Netflix, on DVD tomorrow.
Start Trek: First Contact
Sometimes you've just got to get back to the things you love. For me, Start Trek's one of them so I'm going to watch again all the films following this one. I've already done the previous ones to death.
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Posted 3 Weeks Ago by Count Zero
I watched Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls.
Yep... it was weak.
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Posted 3 Weeks Ago by No, four Goshos. Goshos for forks
Yeah. Forget duck and cover, just climb into an old fridge. You'll be fine 
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Posted 3 Weeks Ago by Count Zero
Yep. Ten minutes into it and I'd worn out my B.S. alarm.
The question that kept going through my mind was 'why is Indy telling Natasha Fatale everything she wants to know?'
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Posted Last Week by No, four Goshos. Goshos for forks
The Wrong Box
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061204/
Ripped from YouTube and therefore in nothing like the sort of quality I'd like to watch it in, but when the people who have the wherewithal to put it out on DVD steadfastly fail to do so, one has to do what one must in order to see such a masterpiece. I think that if I ever win employee of the month at work this is probably the film I'd like to show, if we could get a 35mm print.
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Posted Last Week by No, four Goshos. Goshos for forks
The Road
Don't waste your money. It goes nowhere and it takes its sweet time getting there, no pun intended. Truly awful.
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Posted Last Week by Count Zero
It was a good book. But I can see why it wouldn't be a good movie. It's basically a very depressing version of Lord of the Rings. (Lord of the Rings is at heart a whole bunch of walking.  )
Now, if they ever get around to getting Tarantino to direct Blood Meridian (or better yet resurrect Sam Peckinpah to do it) that'll be a film to see. It is also a lot of traveling but it definitely goes somewhere... it just doesn't stop.
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Posted Last Week by No, four Goshos. Goshos for forks
I haven't read it, but if the book of The Road is as good as the book of No Country, it's a wasted opportunity, given that No Country was so good.
I know what you mean about Lord of the Rings. It could have been subtitled 'Let's Walk From One End of Middle Earth to the Other and See If We Can Hit Every Possible Danger and/or Source of Evil on the Way'.
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Posted Last Week by No, four Goshos. Goshos for forks
The Deal
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381131/
The Deal - directed by Stephen Frears
The Queen - directed by Stephen Frears
The Deal - starring Michael Sheen as Tony Blair
The Queen - starring Michael Sheen as Tony Blair
The Deal - a well-researched and convincing report of events
The Queen - a well-researched and convincing report of events
And both completely riveting. I found myself reliving the moments shown in The Deal - the Falklands war, Thatcher's second and third electoral wins, Michael Foot at the Cenotaph, the Sheffield rally, the 1992 election, Kinnock's resignation, John Smith's death. I'll never forget waking up on the morning of April 10th 1992 to the awful, unbelievable, inconceivable news that the Tories had won the election.
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Posted Last Week by No, four Goshos. Goshos for forks
This looks intriguing but I'm rather peeved to see that it doesn't include anything after 2000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Special_Relationship_%28film%29
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Posted Yesterday by No, four Goshos. Goshos for forks
Volver
There just isn't enough Pedro Almodovar on Netflix  We showed this one when it came out in the US and I went to see it. I was almost alone in the theatre.
Y'know, people can go on about Marilyn Monroe, and for sure she was sexy, but I reckon Penelope Cruz has the edge over Norma Jean 
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Posted Yesterday by KerrAvon - Regret is a part of life. But keep it a small part.
The Road is a great book, but it is very unrelenting. It's just sheer survival, without any time to stop and think. It's as depressing (and worryingly, probably as realistic) as John Christopher's The Death of Grass. It does leave you thinking 'oh what's the bloody *point*. But in a good way. Will probably see the film anyway (no offence Gosho) as SFX gave it a good review and they've usually on my wavelength for films.
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Posted Yesterday by Count Zero
I was thinking Abre los Ojos was an Almadovar film, but it's not. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125659/
But it does have Penelope Cruz. 
I'm SO glad she got away from Tom Cruise as quickly as she did. This was the film that Vanilla Sky was based on. It's more restrained than its successor. I like both films. Vanilla Sky is one of the very few Tom Cruise films I can watch. He actually makes sense in this role. Vanilla Sky really split audiences though. I thought it was a great ride and worth multiple viewings. Abre los Ojos, though was more restrained, more 'art-house' (and foreign of course). If you haven't seen Vanilla Sky, watch Abre los Ojos first. (They both have Penelope Cruz in the same role.)
The first Almadovar film I saw was ¡Átame! (Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down). It was also the first film I saw with Antonio Banderas. His role in this is very incongruent to his typical Hollywood roles as the confident Don Juan type. He couldn't play this role now because no one would buy him, the great ladies man, as a creepy mental case who kidnaps a porn star. It's not Almadovar's best, but it's fun.
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Posted Yesterday by No, four Goshos. Goshos for forks
I can't remember what the first Almodovar film I saw was but I know there are still quite a few more I haven't seen.
Abre los Ojos made an appearance in this thread a year or two back and I think it was suggested that I see Vanilla Sky then too. I haven't done so yet but maybe one day I'll steel myself to watch Tom Cruise.
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Posted Yesterday by Count Zero
I know... I find him more annoying all the time.
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Posted Yesterday by No, four Goshos. Goshos for forks
I think The Road got to me because I saw too many parallels between the film and what I see around me and in the news every day. A lack of humanity, and feral selfishness. Obviously the comparison isn't direct but I saw enough of a connection for it to register with me.
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