EADD Film Club!

[Marmalade]

so, what did you recon to tarka the otter?

personally I thought a man called horse was better, but that's just me

[edit]

I'll be watching Heart this evening, or this afternoon. turns out it's one of the dvds I've 'purchased/hoarded' over the years so i can watch it on a proper telly without having to fanny around hooking up my laptop.

btw, I bet there's at least 1 person who managed to 'purchase' a copy of Three Dog Night's Greatest Hits

 

[parttime crackhead]

Fuck knows when I'm going to get round to this. It'll need to be Monday I think. I've got a fucking bursting hangover right now & I my only plans for today are to somehow make tomorrow's hangover worse than today's. Definitely not the right mindset to be watching subtitled communist Russian dog movies.

 

[Marmalade]

you know where to find sympathy, yeah?

NSFW:

it's in the dictionary between shit and syphilis

stawp whining and ger it watched.

 

[parttime crackhead]

Aye, cheers for that Mardy-baws.

I've found sympathy in valium, the banging scran I've just cooked up, the joint I'm gonna puff when food is over & later I shall find more at the bottom of a green chib-shaped bottle, so I'm all good. Fillums will need to wait though.

 

[knock]

The wrong I film I got half way through was The Secret in their Eyes. I discovered it was the wrong film because I got bored to tears with it and had a nagging doubt something was wrong as I was sure the right film sounded interesting.

My instinct was right, and the right film was fucking interesting. So interesting it came in two parts with an interval just to allow me to let off some interest.

Spoiler: Heart of a Dog

There's no way I have enough historical or cultural knowledge to understand half the references in it, but that's OK because MSB knows everything and he'll fill us in soon enough. I am sufficiently educated to guess that the dog-human experiment was an allegory for the working-class/peasants in the USSR being dragged into the 20th century by... Bolshevism? History? Something. Actually I think it was history represented by Dr Philopovitch, but I'm not sure. Anyway I found the comparison a bit contemptuous and contemptible, although I think it was done with some sympathy. But I think the political message, if there was any, comes from a place far too close to the centre of the action to be capable of any historical perspective.

Stylistically the film seemed to borrow from both surrealism and horror. I enjoyed it, it was good to watch and indeed to listen to. It's clunkily produced but it gives it some charm. The visual aesthetic of sets, characters and props are highly unusual in my own cinematic experience so that alone was enough to keep me engaged for the duration.

Definitely worth a watch for fun but I wouldn't try to take any kind of message away from it.

 

[Mr Smokes Blunts.]

Haha, I remember switching off The Secret in their Eyes, but I thought it was cus I had a bad copy or a lack of patience. Cheers for saving me the time knock, i'll de-purchase that right away :D

 

[knock]

Yeah, it seemed very well produced but it just didn't grab me for some reason. It just came across as a run-of-the-mill whodunnit I think, plotwise, and fairly mainstream in style.

 

[effie]

Alright going to try to get this watched tonight

 

[tragiclemming]

Yeah, it seemed very well produced but it just didn't grab me for some reason. It just came across as a run-of-the-mill whodunnit I think, plotwise, and fairly mainstream in style.

FYI. The book on which the film was based was written in 1925. As you may have guessed, the author was not a big fan of the new administration.

 

[knock]

^ my comment there was about the Secret in their Eyes film

 

[tragiclemming]

^ my comment there was about the Secret in their Eyes film

I was commenting on the spoiler

 

[Marmalade]

^^ don't believe him TL, he was actually talking about Pretty in Pink but deleted his post

 

[knock]

rumbled

 

[Marmalade]

( I queued - on my own, with no friends - outside of the cinema on the day of PIP's release, in a little Pink Jacket, carrying a copy of the novelisation in my little, lonely hands)

My True Romance with James Spader was in its early stages, and my friends just didn't understand

 

[brimz]

Higher Learning is a Dope Film just saying like.

oh also it's great when Mugz goes all special

 

[parttime crackhead]

( I queued - on my own, with no friends - outside of the cinema on the day of PIP's release, in a little Pink Jacket, carrying a copy of the novelisation in my little, lonely hands)

That has to be one of the saddest things I've ever read lol. I would have almost shed a tear were it not for my cold black heart.



Brimz - %)

 

[Mugz]

guess this didn't catch on in my absence. Shame. It had so much potential.

 

[knock]

Nothing stopping us getting back to it! Apart from internecine disputes.

 

[Mugz]

Shall we nominate films again for round 2? or shall we choose a poster as Marmz wanted and then let them choose the film?

 

[knock]

Oh I forgot about that particular dispute!

I think Marmz is right though, what's the point in voting for what we're going to watch and review? We'd just be watching the most popular films all the time.