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Schraderbrau said:
Yeah but I've only read the book and it's also one of my favourites.
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After reading the book the first version of the Movie was god awful. Maybe it would have been ok had I not read the book. Give it a miss.
It has been a while since I read the book so many of the details are a bit cloudy so watching the second version of the movie may be enjoyable.
I agree with what you said earlier though. The strike rate of turning Stephen King novels into books is pretty poor.
Shawshank Redemption was probably the best.
 
ottoman said:
After reading the book the first version of the Movie was god awful. Maybe it would have been ok had I not read the book. Give it a miss.
It has been a while since I read the book so many of the details are a bit cloudy so watching the second version of the movie may be enjoyable.
I agree with what you said earlier though. The strike rate of turning Stephen King novels into books is pretty poor.
Shawshank Redemption was probably the best.
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The Shining is a classic though still not as good as the book. The Green Mile was a great movie imo and I quite liked the mini series they did of the Stand even though it's very dated. It would be very awesome if Netflix or somebody did the Stand over 10 episodes or something imo. I haven't actually scene misery (or read the book) but apparently it is a very good movie. The problem is that there have been so many God awful Stephen King movies that you forget about the few good ones. Apparently the Dark Tower is diabolical speaking of which.
 
Schraderbrau said:
The Shining is a classic though still not as good as the book. The Green Mile was a great movie imo and I quite liked the mini series they did of the Stand even though it's very dated. It would be very awesome if Netflix or somebody did the Stand over 10 episodes or something imo. I haven't actually scene misery (or read the book) but apparently it is a very good movie. The problem is that there have been so many God awful Stephen King movies that you forget about the few good ones. Apparently the Dark Tower is diabolical speaking of which.
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I forgot all about misery.
Would recommend both the book and the movie.
Book first of course
 
JB1975 said:
I went and saw 'Dunkirk' last weekend, and I recommend it to anyone who hankers for a good, old-fashioned war movie. It relies on special effects, as action movies these days must, but it still feels very raw and pared back. Really, it's just the horror of each soldier's situation which creates the intensity and suspense.
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Saw it, very good and pretty historically accurate according to the readings I have done
 

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Baltimore Jack said:
Saw it, very good and pretty historically accurate according to the readings I have done
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I'm not one for military history, but my understanding is that is was accurate about most things. For some reason Hitler halted the German advance on Dunkirk, and if it wasn't for that order then the best of Britain's army would have been slaughtered before they even got to the beach. But there was hardly any scope for the director to make note of such a fact.

It really is a fantastic film that stays with you for a while.
 
Schraderbrau said:
The Shining is a classic though still not as good as the book. The Green Mile was a great movie imo and I quite liked the mini series they did of the Stand even though it's very dated. It would be very awesome if Netflix or somebody did the Stand over 10 episodes or something imo. I haven't actually scene misery (or read the book) but apparently it is a very good movie. The problem is that there have been so many God awful Stephen King movies that you forget about the few good ones. Apparently the Dark Tower is diabolical speaking of which.
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Saw this last night, started off very promisingly, got a bit slow, then I kept falling asleep and getting woken up by my wife for the rest of it.....
 
AuckMel said:
Not long home from my local where I watched, Split.

Absolutely loved it. James McAvoy was outstanding.
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Was having a look through the thread to find something to watch.
Came across this post so I gave the movie a go.
Was good.
And your right James McAvooy was very good
 
AuckMel said:
Not long home from my local where I watched, Split.

Absolutely loved it. James McAvoy was outstanding.
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ottoman said:
Was having a look through the thread to find something to watch.
Came across this post so I gave the movie a go.
Was good.
And your right James McAvooy was very good
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+1 to the recommendation, I just finished watching it a few minutes ago.

It was pretty solid but not as good as Unbreakable which is about my fav comic book related movie.
 
Schraderbrau said:
+1 to the recommendation, I just finished watching it a few minutes ago.

It was pretty solid but not as good as Unbreakable which is about my fav comic book related movie.
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Thanks for the heads up.
I am pretty sure I haven't seen Unbreakable. Will watch it in the next couple of days.
 
Just watched Red Dog : True Blue with the kids.

We all really enjoyed it.
 
Ive been going to the British Film Festival.
Two wonderful movies, each a true story, are Breathe and Goodby Christopher Robin.

If they come out on general release they are well worth seeing
And there’s a great line up of movies in the festival

What with the Italian Film Festival just finishing, and now the British, I’ve seen more films in the last 6 weeks than I have in the last year. (9 Italian plus....):)
 
I know a lot of people were crapping on about Deadpool last year.

Just watched it, best comic book movie evahhhh!!!!
 

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Schraderbrau said:
+1 to the recommendation, I just finished watching it a few minutes ago.

It was pretty solid but not as good as Unbreakable which is about my fav comic book related movie.
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Being a fan of unbreakable years ago, the ending of split destroyed my mind.
 
Schraderbrau said:
soundtrack was fantastic imo and totally necessary because the movie had very little dialogue. It was basically 90 mins of flat chat action and usually those sorts of movies suck but this was the best war movie I've seen for years.
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Yep excellent movie...until Tom Hardy and the amazing gliding Spitfire scene..as an ex plane freak it kinda spoiled it..
 
JB1975 said:
I'm not one for military history, but my understanding is that is was accurate about most things. For some reason Hitler halted the German advance on Dunkirk, and if it wasn't for that order then the best of Britain's army would have been slaughtered before they even got to the beach. But there was hardly any scope for the director to make note of such a fact.

It really is a fantastic film that stays with you for a while.
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I think his tanks ran out of fuel and his soldiers who had marched across Belgium and Holland at record speed high on Benzedrine needed a rest... the Brits and Frogs did counter attack just before Dunkirk which spooked Adolf and the boys a bit..
 

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wicksy said:
Being a fan of unbreakable years ago, the ending of split destroyed my mind.
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I absolutely loved Unbreakable, and had no idea that Split was tied into it. Will eagerly await the third installment now. If the Horde believes the broken are the more evolved, then he’s going to be disappointed in David Dunn who wouldn’t have a scratch on him!
 
Mukesh said:
Yep excellent movie...until Tom Hardy and the amazing gliding Spitfire scene..as an ex plane freak it kinda spoiled it..
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I get what you're saying with the scene, Tom does seem to glide on forever, but I think it was lovely in a cinematic way. There is a grinding realism to the battle scenes in the rest of the movie, so much sound and fury, and it felt nice to have a more silent and poetic interlude in that plane before the battle is over.

But I'm not an ex-plane freak, which leaves me free to imagine that the rest of the air scenes in the film were rather realistic!

On the other point, the one about Hitler not advancing on the retreating Allies, I read a short while ago that the German officers were keen and ready to finish them off and that there was no cause to halt for 24 hours. The argument was that Hitler was a bit disturbed by the habitual exercise of initiative by the German officers in the previous six weeks, and that he chose the site of Dunkirk to reassert some authority. I'm sure there are other historians with other views. Maybe the more interesting point is the way in which massive events sometimes hinge upon flickering moments in time.
 
JB1975 said:
I get what you're saying with the scene, Tom does seem to glide on forever, but I think it was lovely in a cinematic way. There is a grinding realism to the battle scenes in the rest of the movie, so much sound and fury, and it felt nice to have a more silent and poetic interlude in that plane before the battle is over.

But I'm not an ex-plane freak, which leaves me free to imagine that the rest of the air scenes in the film were rather realistic!

On the other point, the one about Hitler not advancing on the retreating Allies, I read a short while ago that the German officers were keen and ready to finish them off and that there was no cause to halt for 24 hours. The argument was that Hitler was a bit disturbed by the habitual exercise of initiative by the German officers in the previous six weeks, and that he chose the site of Dunkirk to reassert some authority. I'm sure there are other historians with other views. Maybe the more interesting point is the way in which massive events sometimes hinge upon flickering moments in time.
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Good points. I suspect the German generals didn't take the prospect of a full scale evacuation seriously and thought they could round up the Brits at their leisure. I guess they were also concerned about the significant number of French troops to the south, essentially behind their backs. As it transpired they didn't have too much to really worry about. I'm also a little wary of any explanation that lays the full responsibility at Hitler's feet. Certainly he interfered, often with disastrous results, but in this case I suspect the Wehrmacht were looking to shift some of the blame for a decision which in retrospect might be seen as a major contributor to them losing the war. Of course invading the Soviet Union was never a good idea.
 
Jack would have to be the worst film ever directed by an Oscar winner. And it's not like it's "bad" in that way where sometimes an award-winning director goes a little mental/experimental like Lars Von Trier in Melancholia, it's just a genuinely bad attempt at a feel-good Robin Williams movie. Youth Without Youth was also pretty crappy, and Bram Stoker's Dracula was pretty bad too if I'm being honest, but that was probably more Keanu's fault than anyone else's.
 
I really liked the second part of Melancholia. It was the first part that was drudgery incarnate.
 

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