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Posted Jan 3, 2012 by coelacanth
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I'm pleased to see people enjoying, and recommending, Hugo. I was one of the 500 or so extras in the train station and it was an amazing film to work on. If I never get another extras job, I know I've worked on the best.
I've seen it twice now and haven't spotted myself, but there's a book, "The Hugo Movie Companion" and I'm very clear to see in one of the on set photos.
Thank you Galaxy Babe. Using your list as a starting point, I've just watched "The Help".
Definitely the best film I've watched this year. Mississippi Mud Pie will never be the same again.
I've just watched Crazies on dvd. I'm not sure I expected it to be a zombie film. I'm not sure I had any expectations to be honest. At least there was one honourable zombie...
Watched a beautiful film last night called It All Starts Today
(Ca Commence Ajourd'hui)
Set in a depressed mining town after the pit closed I thought it was going to be a difficult one to watch.
The film follows the headmaster of a kindergarten school as he tries
to create as normal a school life as possible for the children.
Life is bleak but the film is charming and the story turns out to be
heartwarming and left me with a lump in my throat.
Are you sure it wasn't a frog?
| | Subject: What Films have you seen recently?
Posted Jan 6, 2012 by  HonestIago
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Saw The Iron Lady and, as someone who loathes Thatcher, I expected it to rile me. And it did, but for unexpected reasons.
It spent far too much time in the 'present' and there was no narrative reason for it - it was pretty unpleasant and really quite tasteless. I don't mind the film being released whilst she's still alive and in fact it managed to be really topical, relevant and resonant (even more so once Diamond Dave declares war on Iran to distract us from a tanking economy) so they had to release now but I didn't like how they were speculating about the mental state of a sick old woman which, once all is said and done, is what Thatcher is right now. I found myself squirming and uncomfortable and I don't like feeling that in the cinema
The stuff in the past was excellent and managed, mostly, to avoid being a hagiography - there was a good deal of balance there and the audience is able to pick apart Thatcher's beliefs. I have no idea if they were actually as strongly held as was presented, but even if they were they were still wrong and the film doesn't attempt to persuade you otherwise. The history was really interesting and I just wish there was more of it - another reason the focus on the present was so unwelcome - and there was very little of the Reagan/Thatcher relationship or anything else other than the recession and Falklands conflict. It was a missed opportunity.
The cast was a veritable who's who of British talent and Meryl Streep was, of course, excellent (though me and m'friend agreed Michelle Williams did better as Monroe because, though lighter, it was a harder role) and it looked and sounded fantastic. I guess overall is was disappointing not because it was bad - it wasn't - but because it could have been so much better.
I see The Iron Lady has been rated pg.
Unsuitable for miners.
 
| | Subject: What Films have you seen recently?
Posted Jan 7, 2012 by Pink Paisley
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| | Subject: What Films have you seen recently?
Posted Jan 7, 2012 by HonestIago
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Saw The Artist this afternoon. Go and see it folks: like Another Earth, more films like this need to be made. It's amazing how a film-making technique nearly 100 years old can seem as fresh as a daisy. I was also impressed by how witty it was.
If this doesn't win the Best Picture Oscar it'll be an absolute joke.
St Trinian's. It wasn't as bad as I was expecting it to be. Poor Colin Firth, he'll probably meet his end doing yet another wet shirt scene.
Mol
<pray> yes please (not that he meets his end, though <pray>
I saw a French, coming of age-type film, but I'm not certain of the French title. In German it was Jungs Bleiben Jungs (boys will be boys) and it mostly featured a spotty youth of 15 trying to snog everything in sight. Really funny, really poignant as only a French film seems to manage.
We're going through the Bond films as I got the box set for (Pierce Brosnan) Bond fan Wenzel for 
Last night we watched "The World Is Not Enough".
That's what I'd call  fodder 
This afternoon "The Devil Wears Prada" is on tv, so as I missed that at the cinema I'm going to tune into that.
oh and I finally caught up with "Catwoman" - richly deserving of the Razzie A16224789
| | Subject: What Films have you seen recently?
Posted Jan 8, 2012 by HonestIago
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I love the Devil Wears Prada.
The Artist sounds a really safe bet. If HI and Mark Kermode agree on a film, then it must be good. Hitherto their verdicts on several films have been diametrically opposed.
I saw Dr Panassus this afternoon, having found the DVD in a rummage basket. Not at all what I expected, but then, I suppose I should have known, Terry Gilliam's work after all. I enjoyed it but won't be watching it again straight away. Best bit was Johnny Depp looking at himself in a mirror in surprise and saying his name was "Barry, actually." Anyway, I would rather watch Big Fish again, I think.
Off to the cinema in a few minutes to see MI4.
Parnassus?
| | Subject: What Films have you seen recently?
Posted Jan 8, 2012 by toybox
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Ah, and I saw 'carnage' recently, too, which I quite enjoyed, in a teeth grinding way. Funny to see unspoken alliances shift all the time 
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