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Re: What films have you watched lately?
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:24 am
by Gavin Chipper
12 Angry Men. Forget Oppenheimer. This is a film. Very much recommended.
Re: What films have you watched lately?
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:53 am
by Marc Meakin
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:24 am
12 Angry Men. Forget Oppenheimer. This is a film. Very much recommended.
Its probably in my top ten of best American movies of all time.
IMDB has it as no 5 in the all time ratings. (Oppenheimer is 88)
So for context Oppenheimer not bad but 12 Angry Men is exceptional
Am I right in saying there were no women in this film?
Re: What films have you watched lately?
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:18 am
by Gavin Chipper
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:53 am
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:24 am
12 Angry Men. Forget Oppenheimer. This is a film. Very much recommended.
Its probably in my top ten of best American movies of all time.
IMDB has it as no 5 in the all time ratings. (Oppenheimer is 88)
So for context Oppenheimer not bad but 12 Angry Men is exceptional
Am I right in saying there were no women in this film?
No women main characters. Maybe milling about in the court lobby at the start of the film.
Re: What films have you watched lately?
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:50 am
by Marc Meakin
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:18 am
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:53 am
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:24 am
12 Angry Men. Forget Oppenheimer. This is a film. Very much recommended.
Its probably in my top ten of best American movies of all time.
IMDB has it as no 5 in the all time ratings. (Oppenheimer is 88)
So for context Oppenheimer not bad but 12 Angry Men is exceptional
Am I right in saying there were no women in this film?
No women main characters. Maybe milling about in the court lobby at the start of the film.
I know women were not allowed on juries at the time of th he film.
I think there were no credited women in the film
Re: What films have you watched lately?
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:36 pm
by Paul Worsley
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:50 am
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:18 am
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:53 am
Its probably in my top ten of best American movies of all time.
IMDB has it as no 5 in the all time ratings. (Oppenheimer is 88)
So for context Oppenheimer not bad but 12 Angry Men is exceptional
Am I right in saying there were no women in this film?
No women main characters. Maybe milling about in the court lobby at the start of the film.
I know women were not allowed on juries at the time of th he film.
I think there were no credited women in the film
At the time of the making of the film only 3 US states excluded women from serving as jurors (Alabama, South Carolina and Mississippi). Women had been allowed on juries in New York state from 1927, but were regularly screened out, as were other minorities, as they were deemed emotionally unsuitable(!), especially for capital cases. Also, in many states, women had to opt in to jury service, and most didn't.
Women have been allowed to serve on juries in the UK since the 1920s, but seldom did, as all jurors at that time had to be property owners.
12 Angry Men was originally written as a radio play. The film is outstanding, and Lee J Cobb's emotional speech at the end is one of my favourite pieces of screen acting.
Re: What films have you watched lately?
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:39 am
by Mark James
Finally watched Sexy Beast and Layer Cake. Enjoyed both but Sexy Beast was my favourite. Layer Cake was good but there was something about it. People rate it higher than the likes of Lock Stock but I don't know. I prefer Guy Ritchie to Vaughan.
I have Sisu ready to watch and I'm going to see my favourite movie of all time, Midnight Run, in the cinema tonight.
Also watched Being John Malkovich again the other night. How does one come up with a movie like that? It's amazing.
Re: What films have you watched lately?
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:01 pm
by Ian Volante
I saw the Last Stand the other day. Sort of good fun, but struggled to tread the right line between enjoyable action and taking the piss out of itself, not necessarily getting it right.
Re: What films have you watched lately?
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:41 pm
by Marc Meakin
Mark James wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:39 am
Finally watched Sexy Beast and Layer Cake. Enjoyed both but Sexy Beast was my favourite. Layer Cake was good but there was something about it. People rate it higher than the likes of Lock Stock but I don't know. I prefer Guy Ritchie to Vaughan.
I have Sisu ready to watch and I'm going to see my favourite movie of all time, Midnight Run, in the cinema tonight.
Also watched Being John Malkovich again the other night. How does one come up with a movie like that? It's amazing.
Midnight Run is an excellent road movie.
DeNiro and Grodin are superb.
Sisu is a great action film with very little dialogue.
Sexy Beast is better than Layer Cake but I liked both.
DO NOT watch the Sexy Beast TV series its awful.
Re: What films have you watched lately?
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:47 pm
by Marc Meakin
Watched Immaculate
A nunexploitation film that has a lot of gore.
Having watched Polite Society recently I realised Immaculste basically copies the same subplot.
Still a good horror film
Re: What films have you watched lately?
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:03 am
by Marc Meakin
Late Night With The Devil.
Alan Partridge meets The Exorcist.
Great slow burn horror that starts out as a comedy but gets darker.
Im not a fan of horror films but this was highly original.
Good to watch in the cinema with a crowd of jumpy students
Re: What films have you watched lately?
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 1:11 pm
by Mark James
Sisu: over-the-top, Finnish, revenge flick featuring lots of nazi killing. Good fun.
Pearl: Classed as a horror, I suppose. Not really frightening but enjoyably creepy. Mia Goth is excellent. Apparently it's a prequel to another movie I haven't seen but I want to now.
Re: What films have you watched lately?
Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 5:22 pm
by Marc Meakin
Unfrosted.
On Netflix.
If you fancy of Seinfeld then this is hilarious.
It's a spoof product biopic that's wacky and hit all my funny buttons.
Worth watching unless you really don't like Jerry Seinfeld
Re: What films have you watched lately?
Posted: Tue May 07, 2024 10:40 am
by Gavin Chipper
I just watched Raiders of the Lost Ark. I was having a bit of a debate with some people about which is better out of Raiders and Temple of Doom. Everyone seems to think Raiders is better, but I don't really see it. They're both good films, but I'm not seeing anything about Raiders that makes it obviously the better film. I actually think the latter stages of Raiders (from where Indy and Marion escape out of the pit onwards) is actually a little bit nothingy and just a case of the rest of the film just playing out. The rather long scene with the truck on the road isn't as good as the equivalent scene in Temple of Doom with the carriage on the rails either. Nor do I think the face-melting scene at the end makes up for it!
Re: What films have you watched lately?
Posted: Wed May 08, 2024 3:10 pm
by Marc Meakin
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 10:40 am
I just watched Raiders of the Lost Ark. I was having a bit of a debate with some people about which is better out of Raiders and Temple of Doom. Everyone seems to think Raiders is better, but I don't really see it. They're both good films, but I'm not seeing anything about Raiders that makes it obviously the better film. I actually think the latter stages of Raiders (from where Indy and Marion escape out of the pit onwards) is actually a little bit nothingy and just a case of the rest of the film just playing out. The rather long scene with the truck on the road isn't as good as the equivalent scene in Temple of Doom with the carriage on the rails either. Nor do I think the face-melting scene at the end makes up for it!
Why isn't Last Crusade in the reckoning , I would rank it higher than Temple in fact ,controversially here are my rankings Indy movies I will just use numbers
1st =1
2nd=3
3rd = 5
4th =2
Way down in 5th is Crystal Skull
Re: What films have you watched lately?
Posted: Wed May 08, 2024 4:30 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Well we were just discussing those two. I haven't seen Last Crusade for a while. Will report back.
Re: What films have you watched lately?
Posted: Wed May 08, 2024 8:44 pm
by Andy McGurn
Re: Temple of Doom
My wife (who is Indian) was eleven when this movie came out, she ended up being insulted at school by other kids who assumed she ate things like snake surprise, chilled monkey brains and eyeball soup.
Also, apparently a lot of Indian people feel the film insults their culture