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Shambles said:
The original Manhunter is a top film, Missus. Not sure if I've seen the remake which leads me to think that either I haven't seen the remake or it's not very memorable :D
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Yeah, I generally try to avoid remakes like the plague. And I certainly haven't seen the Manhunter one either. I kinda lost interest when Jodie Foster did. I trust her judgment as she's a pretty fucking smart business woman imo. Anyhoo, I also like William Petersen. He's just so damn cool. %)

Anyway, I'm kinda curious to see what they do with the Nightmare On Elm Street remake. But that's truly one of my favourite films and I know it'd just break my heart in two.

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I'm also a bit of a fan of Natural Born Killers, Wibs. Think I've only seen the director's cut though.
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Yeps, me too. T'is by no means perfect, but I'm fond of many aspects of it. I love that pastiche where Mickey and Mallory first meet. You know, that scene where she's supposed to be going to the John Lee Hooker concert. Fucking brilliant. :D <3

What's happened to Juliette Lewis though?. She used to be awesome, then she started doing any ol' shit movie and joined the church of Scientology. 8) Her band are pretty good though. Well, the first album was anyway.
 
On the subject of scientology (and we can pretend this post is related to films by mentioning Tom Cruise) they have an office in Edinburgh and they stand outside every day offering people free stress & personality tests amongst other things but never once mentioning what they are really all about. They often have people picketing outside or protesting dressed in V for Vendetta masks (another move reference ;)) and other such things. I walked past with a mate last weekend and he was handed a flyer and asked if he wanted a free stress test. He's a bit gullable and a bit stressed recently and stopped to see what it was all about. I said 'mate it's that scientology shite we're not interested' and the women handing out the flyer went off her nut and started telling me to give it a chance before I rubbished it. Ended up in a big argument with her in the street calling her a 'gullable fucking idiot' amongst other things. :D

Films are good, OK. ;)
 
Films are great, Scientologists are not so great. For people that are supposed to have cured all worldy stresses and perfected their personalities through spending shitloads of money on all the books and tests and donation they're not half a bit uptight and litigious :D

Juliette Lewis is interviewed in the Panaroma on Scientology thingy. Really is quite hilarious how paranoid that lot are. She gets a lil uncomfortable with some of the questions to say the least =D
 
How can anyone honestly beleive and follow it though when it's the most blatent load of nonsense ever? The founder of scientology even said many years ago he wanted to start up a cult / organised religion in order to make money, I beleive. :\
 
Dare I go and see Ingouroiousofolashfoaiu Basterdasdsdfgas...?
Dare I set foot in a cinema?
Dare I think that anything QT has done since 1997 is any good?
Oh wait I know what I should do, I should watch Kill Bill 1 and 2 as I've never actually seen them due to me losing all interest in QT after 1997.
Of course read too much of the plotoff KB and IB, but I feel I owe to it to my 17 - 18 year old self from the good old days of Reservoir Dogs ,then Pulp Fiction and before I pulped my brain out.....3 times at the cinema and my like of it went down exponentially to the point that when I saw it on video I was no longer into QT and then Jackie Brown was underwhelming.
Probably should watch JB one day randomly and find that actually I like it now.
Death Proof for the lose.
 
Yes you should go see it, apparently it's great, and report back. The clips haven't done much to convince me yet but I'll maybe try and see it anyway before I go away.

What's wrong with going to the cinema? You not got any decent places near you?

Everything Tarintino has done is good, including Death Proof. ;)

Kill Bill 1 & 2 are both cool films as is Jackie Brown, watch and re-watch I reckon.

I've just watched 'When The Wind Blows' which someone on here must have recommended, not bad.
 
I recommended it and you were supposed to watch it in the triple bill of nuclear terror also featuring Grave of the Fireflies and Threads.

I am broke as fuck which is one reason I don't go to the cinema. Also I hate spending £7? when I can rent it for approx £1 on lovefilm a few months later. Also I can pause/rewind, go and eat, make a drink at home and I love doing it that way.
I was obsessed with watching films at the cinema in the 90's as VHS was wank, and a rip off and it would take too long to come out on and they weren't in widescreen. Watching films 92 - 2000 were really good for me, but DVD came along and changed it all for me.
I watched Quantum of Solace at the cinema as my Mum wanted to go and has Orange 2 for 1 Wednesday tickets.I also watched Coraline as it was in 3D which won't work properly yet on dvd.
I usually like watching stuff on my own without others talking,rustling....and fucking emergency exit signs and little lights about.

However I have to say that the first time I saw Pulp Fiction in a packed cinema the day after it came out in 94 was the single best film experience of my life....I'm not joking that the total sense of communal get togetherness that the crowd all shared was like the way that many people try to describe a really good MDMA experience.
There I've said it fuckers Pulp Fiction better than MDMA.Only the first time though:|
 
I like going to the cinema but I prefer when it's not busy and I don't have to sit next to anyone.

LOL @ Pulp Fiction being better than MDMA. :D
 
TheSpade said:
Nope. You've missed the point again.

Just because they have the the actual language for the country the film is set in doesn't mean it's good it just means its more authentic and beleiveable which means there's more chance of me enjoying it but not neccessarily.


Nothing pretentious about wanting a bit of authenticity in a film. When a films about Nazis for example and the actors are all speaking in broad American accents it detracts from the film. It doesn't seem right and it ruins the film in most cases. I'm not the only one on here who thinks this, I know a few folk have mentioned in the past that it irks them too.
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Complete bollocks :p:p

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was a good film and was set in Nazi germany with everyone speaking in english accents, the upper class in a more posh dialects more well spoken than characters from other backrounds. If it were in German with subs, I would not be able to distinguish dialects, language and accent's. The film worked very well with all english actors actually.

Defiance was also a good film not spoken in native language, although putting on fake foreign accents is not something that I agree with.


Enemy at the Gates Was in my opinion a good movie too, although there was some foreign language in it too, the english language being spoken didnt detract at all from the film.

The Reader was also a good film spoken mainly in english

Its hard to think of more of the top of my head, Schindler's List was spoken in English though wasn't it.

I haven't seen them myself, but ive heard that Gigi was a pretty amazing film spoken in english and set in france. The Pink Panther was also in english if im not mistaken, also Camille

Think I have pointed out quite a few good and some great films that were English language but foreign, and Im sure there are more that I am not aware of. :p

Enemy at the Gates was probably my favourite out of the ones mentioned though.
 
It would appear that me, thespade and the SILENT MAJORITY;) think that films should be in the language of the country it is set in. And if the subtitles are done well you can tell regional distinctions or class etc.
I declare that the US should only be allowed to make English language films if the people in them really would speak English.
And as a final note on the matter:
Treacle said:
The Pink Panther (2006). 93 minutes of hell followed by 24 hours of insomnia and the worst comedown I've ever had. What a load of shit.
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The Reader was also a good film spoken mainly in english
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This film was shite. Not a good example for your argument.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was a good film and was set in Nazi germany with everyone speaking in english accents, the upper class in a more posh dialects more well spoken than characters from other backrounds. If it were in German with subs, I would not be able to distinguish dialects, language and accent's. The film worked very well with all english actors actually.
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I've not seen the film but it sounds like a dreadful way to do it. So it's set in Germany but in order to distinguish between the German upper and lower class they give the characters posh English accents? Sounds like the sort of film that would piss me right off.

although putting on fake foreign accents is not something that I agree with.
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Yet you agree with fake accents in English even though the film is set in Germany?
 
The only solution is to have the language in which the film is set or the character is from. Anyone who can't read subtitles and watch a film should get a slap.
 
I have nothing against subtitles, I often have them up during english language films anyway, just incase i miss a word. I love subs me. We can agree to disagree on the language debate though :)
 
You've added so much to the topic there robydoo, thanks for that.

Shall I watch A Scanner Darkly or Twin Town next?
 
I loved it =D one of my favourites of the past few years for sure, very close to the source material which I was already a massive fan of.
 
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