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Was a great film
(Really enjoyed it)Not sure where I'm upto in this thread? Gay wrestling thing Channing Tatum in spandex! Biggest problem - he never takes it off.
I cant recommend this enough 'The little death' - its just so funny/honestly it has to be seen.
Lets not forget the polish codebreakers that got there first... read a bit about them and it seems just as sad that they were left in the shadows... if they were to be put together with turing and the reat i think they wouldve done the job even faster
BigG
Ex-Bluelighter
The whole Enigma/ Ultra story is fascinating.
When ever a piece of Ultra intelligence was used there had to be a cover story implying that the intelligence itself could have come from elsewhere so as not to give the game away that we had cracked the Enigma code.
If we learned something that would be obvious to the Germans that we could have only obtained that info by reading their signals it couldn't be used less the secret That Enigma had been cracked got out.
The Colossus computer was fascinating too...completely valve driven and analogue.....
I've not seen the film but I like tl
When ever a piece of Ultra intelligence was used there had to be a cover story implying that the intelligence itself could have come from elsewhere so as not to give the game away that we had cracked the Enigma code.
If we learned something that would be obvious to the Germans that we could have only obtained that info by reading their signals it couldn't be used less the secret That Enigma had been cracked got out.
The Colossus computer was fascinating too...completely valve driven and analogue.....
I've not seen the film but I like tl
steewith2ees
Bluelight Crew
Had a blu ray splurge yesterday on hmv's 5 4 30 pound so hopefully if the weed is plentiful then my next 2 weekends are sorted-
dr strangelove (never seen it, despite owning 'Stanley Kubrick - Visionary Filmaker Collection on bd its not included)
The Raid (seen it, love it)
The Raid 2 (not seen it heard good things)
V For Vendetta (probably my favourite comic book adaption but lost my previous copy on 'permenant loan'
The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo (David Fincher version)
I love fincher, and had a marathon last saturday after gettting seven, the game and gone girl on bd from amazon. Warmed up with Zodiac and The Social Network which i had already.That was a good day.
However, ive avoided finchers girlwtdt so far as i couldnt decide whether to just watch the sweedish millennium trilogy. Ive heard the two sequals (hornets nest and played with fire) arnt much cop and after reading that finchers not ruled out making the sequals ive plumped for the hollywood version.
Might need more than this to getme through to interstelllars release on march 30th tho
dr strangelove (never seen it, despite owning 'Stanley Kubrick - Visionary Filmaker Collection on bd its not included)
The Raid (seen it, love it)
The Raid 2 (not seen it heard good things)
V For Vendetta (probably my favourite comic book adaption but lost my previous copy on 'permenant loan'
The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo (David Fincher version)
I love fincher, and had a marathon last saturday after gettting seven, the game and gone girl on bd from amazon. Warmed up with Zodiac and The Social Network which i had already.That was a good day.
However, ive avoided finchers girlwtdt so far as i couldnt decide whether to just watch the sweedish millennium trilogy. Ive heard the two sequals (hornets nest and played with fire) arnt much cop and after reading that finchers not ruled out making the sequals ive plumped for the hollywood version.
Might need more than this to getme through to interstelllars release on march 30th tho
steewith2ees
Bluelight Crew
Bloody hell not much going on here.
As for my shoping splurge, got through 3 of the new discs over the weekend.
Friday night - The Raid - first time ive seen it since the pictures - just as amazing as i remember but its one ugly fucking blu - ray. I dont think theres an issue with the transfer, i think its simply down to how it was shot (cheaply) - lots of flat, muddy textures and the shithole sets and locations dont help
Saturday night - The Raid 2 - gorgeous blu-ray, shows clearly the expanded budget they had after the success of the original - lovely cinemascope aspect ratio and the picture just pops. Brilliant film as well, expands the themes set up in the first film to create a worthy crime epic, nice and fresh with no need to retread over old ground
Sunday afternoon - Dr Strangelove - im probably the last person in the world to see this and it lived up to all my expectations. Turned it into a double bill with Kubricks Lolita as well
As for my shoping splurge, got through 3 of the new discs over the weekend.
Friday night - The Raid - first time ive seen it since the pictures - just as amazing as i remember but its one ugly fucking blu - ray. I dont think theres an issue with the transfer, i think its simply down to how it was shot (cheaply) - lots of flat, muddy textures and the shithole sets and locations dont help
Saturday night - The Raid 2 - gorgeous blu-ray, shows clearly the expanded budget they had after the success of the original - lovely cinemascope aspect ratio and the picture just pops. Brilliant film as well, expands the themes set up in the first film to create a worthy crime epic, nice and fresh with no need to retread over old ground
Sunday afternoon - Dr Strangelove - im probably the last person in the world to see this and it lived up to all my expectations. Turned it into a double bill with Kubricks Lolita as well
ethnocat55
Bluelighter
Yeah, Snowpiecer was very cool
steewith2ees
Bluelight Crew
Im a Big Paddy Considine fan so why its taken me so long to get around to seeing 'Tyrannosaur' is beyond me.
However, ive just spent the last 90 minutes remedying the situation and it was as class as i expected it to be. Fantastic seeing Eddie Marsan playing a total cunt for a change - the guy just has the midas touch, 'Filth', The Worlds End', the man is incapable of making a shit film at the moment.
29 days untill 'Interstellar' blu-ray.....
However, ive just spent the last 90 minutes remedying the situation and it was as class as i expected it to be. Fantastic seeing Eddie Marsan playing a total cunt for a change - the guy just has the midas touch, 'Filth', The Worlds End', the man is incapable of making a shit film at the moment.
29 days untill 'Interstellar' blu-ray.....
felix
Bluelight Crew
Tyrannosaur is a fucking amazing film.
If you like Eddie, have you ever watched the series "Ray Donovan"? It's great. And I agree that Eddie Marsan is usually a sign of quality, in whatever he's in.
If you like Eddie, have you ever watched the series "Ray Donovan"? It's great. And I agree that Eddie Marsan is usually a sign of quality, in whatever he's in.
Vurtual
Bluelighter
Watched 'The Caller' the other day "Troubled divorcee Mary Kee is tormented by a series of sinister phone calls from a mysterious woman. When the stranger reveals she's calling from the past, Mary tries to break off contact. But the caller doesn't like being ignored, and looks for revenge in a unique and terrifying way..."
Quite good suspensful thriller with a touch of sci-fi.
Also, i know i can't really recommend a film that wasn't made, but i came across mention of the sci fi film that director Shane Carruth (Primer, Upstream Color) was planning to make before he gave up on it and made upstream color - called 'A Topiary' sounded like it could have been amazing - i hope he ends up making it - it's described in this article (spoiler alert in case he ever does make it).
Talking about films that were never made, Jodorowsky's Dune is an excellent documentary about the most amazing film that never got made, but still influenced cinema massively (or they didn't make his film, but kept all his ideas)
Quite good suspensful thriller with a touch of sci-fi.
Also, i know i can't really recommend a film that wasn't made, but i came across mention of the sci fi film that director Shane Carruth (Primer, Upstream Color) was planning to make before he gave up on it and made upstream color - called 'A Topiary' sounded like it could have been amazing - i hope he ends up making it - it's described in this article (spoiler alert in case he ever does make it).
Talking about films that were never made, Jodorowsky's Dune is an excellent documentary about the most amazing film that never got made, but still influenced cinema massively (or they didn't make his film, but kept all his ideas)
Shambles
Bluelight Crew
Two most recent watchings would be Interstellar which I had very high hopes for but was a complete dog's dinner. Not that I need to say cos I know it rather divides opinion. Fuck knows what anybody saw in that though. Was just a mess. Only reason I kept watching for all three painful hours was cos I'd heard that the end makes it all worthwhile... and then it isn't.
Aside from the blatant cribbing, I seriously cannot see the connection people keep making to 2001. The difference is night and day. 2001 is a great film on many levels whilst Interstellar is a barely coherent pile of wank that seems virtually thrown together with no idea of plot or character or anything beyond ego-stroking. Fucking dire.
To be fair, he's the most overrated director I know of. He's not made a properly good film in years - if at all - that I can think of. Lotta hype but zero actual content beyond rather vacuous schoolboy pyschology and the like. There's not even any really impressive visuals or owt in this recent one which at least excuse some of his other output. Probably his worst yet and that really is saying something![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
T'other fillum I've watched recently was Terry Gilliam's latest The Zero Theorem. Like so many Gilliam films it's both brilliant and also deeply frustrating cos that brilliance comes in fits and starts and doesn't quite hang together and hold out the whole way. It starts off well (overtones of Brazil, dystopian futures, weird shit and so forth) and unfolds into an intriguing enough premise... but quite a thin one that isn't really backed up enough by anything to be as good as you want it to be. Has some great moments - and is genuinely funny in places which is not always the case in his more recent films - but I was ultimately left feeling like it fizzled at the end.
However, I would happily watch it again cos I feel there is probably more to be taken from it than I got initially. I really don't get that impression from Interstellar. Both are films about somewhat abstract concepts but one has soul and t'other feels utterly devoid of it to me.
Whilst he remains alive I still hope that somehow he gets to make that film.
... and why not
Aside from the blatant cribbing, I seriously cannot see the connection people keep making to 2001. The difference is night and day. 2001 is a great film on many levels whilst Interstellar is a barely coherent pile of wank that seems virtually thrown together with no idea of plot or character or anything beyond ego-stroking. Fucking dire.
To be fair, he's the most overrated director I know of. He's not made a properly good film in years - if at all - that I can think of. Lotta hype but zero actual content beyond rather vacuous schoolboy pyschology and the like. There's not even any really impressive visuals or owt in this recent one which at least excuse some of his other output. Probably his worst yet and that really is saying something
T'other fillum I've watched recently was Terry Gilliam's latest The Zero Theorem. Like so many Gilliam films it's both brilliant and also deeply frustrating cos that brilliance comes in fits and starts and doesn't quite hang together and hold out the whole way. It starts off well (overtones of Brazil, dystopian futures, weird shit and so forth) and unfolds into an intriguing enough premise... but quite a thin one that isn't really backed up enough by anything to be as good as you want it to be. Has some great moments - and is genuinely funny in places which is not always the case in his more recent films - but I was ultimately left feeling like it fizzled at the end.
However, I would happily watch it again cos I feel there is probably more to be taken from it than I got initially. I really don't get that impression from Interstellar. Both are films about somewhat abstract concepts but one has soul and t'other feels utterly devoid of it to me.
Whilst he remains alive I still hope that somehow he gets to make that film.
Barry Norman signing off.
... and why not
Shambles
Bluelight Crew
Thank you for firmly blatantly and probably accidentally putting yerself in my age category there appreciated
Most age categorisations tend to go for 25-39 so...
Vurtual
Bluelighter
Watched The Nines - quite interesting sort of film "A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways." It goes weirder than that indicates but hard to describe without spoilers (that's probably a spoiler) - bit cheap but i enjoyed it (it might piss some people off).
Also watched The Babadook - "A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her." - That was an excellent australian 'psychological' horror - full of atmosphere, nice filming and believable characters
Also watched The Babadook - "A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her." - That was an excellent australian 'psychological' horror - full of atmosphere, nice filming and believable characters
steewith2ees
Bluelight Crew
Saw the fincher version of 'The Girl With The Dragan Tatoo' - ive put off watching this for ages as Ive never seen the Millenium Trilogy and couldnt decide which version to watch, but as a total Fincher afficinado I thought id go with this one. Excellent. I was suprised tho - i thought hed transposed the story to american characters annd setting, but he kept the sweedish elements re - writing only the script in english. The cast even performered in faux scandanavian accents (apart from Stellan Skarsgard whos from that neck of the woods anyway)
I thought it was Lurching who'd recommended this, my bad. The first half was quality and I enjoyed it but then it kinda went down hill after that...
Must watch you other recommendation.
Vurtual
Bluelighter
^ I had a niggling feeling someone had mentioned it here - I know what you mean about the second half, though i decided that it was just about her insanity rather than a demon or something and it made sense to me then. I don't think the nines is the same 'quality' and it may piss you off (but it was alright).
Got round to watching Synecdoche, New York - an arty charlie kaufman film (being john malkovich, adaptation) with Phillip Seymour Hoffman (i'm sure someone's mentioned it here) - was good and kaufmanish and i wanted to watch to the end (which is always a plus in 'clever' films); though i wish i'd watched it on mxe as it seemed it would have made more 'sense'.
Speaking of 'clever'/arty films that would have been better on mxe - watched The Tree of Life (dir: terrence malick, brad pitt, sean penn) - the word they use is 'impressionistic' (translation for most people: 'what the fuck is this about') - nice visually and quite engaging characters sparsely drawn, nice space sequences - maybe too pretentious for many (on mxe though...)
Got round to watching Synecdoche, New York - an arty charlie kaufman film (being john malkovich, adaptation) with Phillip Seymour Hoffman (i'm sure someone's mentioned it here) - was good and kaufmanish and i wanted to watch to the end (which is always a plus in 'clever' films); though i wish i'd watched it on mxe as it seemed it would have made more 'sense'.
Speaking of 'clever'/arty films that would have been better on mxe - watched The Tree of Life (dir: terrence malick, brad pitt, sean penn) - the word they use is 'impressionistic' (translation for most people: 'what the fuck is this about') - nice visually and quite engaging characters sparsely drawn, nice space sequences - maybe too pretentious for many (on mxe though...)
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felix
Bluelight Crew
I know what you mean about Synecdoche & MXE. I loved it, but I think that would have made it even better. :D
Fucking Babadook. First half was excellent; second half lost the plot entirely. God dammit! It's like it was written and directed by two different teams.
Go and watch Bad Boy Bubby, everyone. THAT'S a proper weirdie creepy unsettling Aussie film. :D
Fucking Babadook. First half was excellent; second half lost the plot entirely. God dammit! It's like it was written and directed by two different teams.
Go and watch Bad Boy Bubby, everyone. THAT'S a proper weirdie creepy unsettling Aussie film. :D