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Re: Last film watched
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:06 pm
by kk67
paddy no 11 wrote:Das boot- oh to have seen this one in the cinema, classic
Only with subtitles. Otherwise it's balls.
'La Cage aux Folles' is another that must be watched with subtitles....and that French classic about the inappropriate guest. He's like a Columbo....??
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 9:16 am
by Stones of granite
kk67 wrote:paddy no 11 wrote:Das boot- oh to have seen this one in the cinema, classic
Only with subtitles. Otherwise it's balls.
'La Cage aux Folles' is another that must be watched with subtitles....and that French classic about the inappropriate guest. He's like a Columbo....??
I prefer Das Boot without subtitles, I find them a distraction and don't always convey the meaning of the dialogue very well.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 5:31 am
by SerjeantWildgoose
Have you ever watched Apocalypto with the sub-titles turned off. Its amazing!
Amazing that even without a single understandable syllable of dialogue Mel Gibson is capable of producing utter shyte.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 6:25 am
by Stones of granite
SerjeantWildgoose wrote:Have you ever watched Apocalypto with the sub-titles turned off. Its amazing!
Amazing that even without a single understandable syllable of dialogue Mel Gibson is capable of producing utter shyte.
It’s the kind of shite I would only watch while being incarcerated in economy on a transatlantic flight.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 6:35 am
by SerjeantWildgoose
I first saw it playing in the background of the Java Coffee House in departures at Jomo Kenyata Airport. It was around 7 o'clock in the morning and while all the Happy Valley mammies and daddies were getting their first fix of the day, their unattended kids were all glued to a muted movie showing Mayans having their living hearts ripped out and scoffed in front of their not yet dead eyes. Nice.
It struck me at the time that I may have missed something due to the lack of dialogue. Turns out I hadn't.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 10:46 pm
by kk67
Going to say this only once,....Das Boot and La Cage Aux Folles must be seen with subs.
That's just a fact of life. Same as original Producers is definitive.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 10:58 pm
by kk67
Stones of granite wrote:
I prefer Das Boot without subtitles,
You lie. No one prefers Das Boot without subtitles. They made the ginger fella sound like a twat.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 7:31 am
by Stones of granite
kk67 wrote:Stones of granite wrote:
I prefer Das Boot without subtitles,
You lie. No one prefers Das Boot without subtitles. They made the ginger fella sound like a twat.
He was a twat!
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 2:49 pm
by Which Tyler
kk67 wrote:Stones of granite wrote:
I prefer Das Boot without subtitles,
You lie. No one prefers Das Boot without subtitles. They made the ginger fella sound like a twat.
Ahem - somepeople are bilingual you know. Hell, some speak a dozen different languages - but we mosty ignore the Swisss
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 9:05 pm
by J Dory
OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies and OSS 117: Lost in Rio
Has to be subtitled versions, both had me in tears of laughter.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 3:29 pm
by morepork
J Dory wrote:OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies and OSS 117: Lost in Rio
Has to be subtitled versions, both had me in tears of laughter.
Good call. Cheers.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 4:55 pm
by kk67
Interesting bit of movie trivia. Alan Parker was a big fan of Andy Ripley. Which is why sigourney's character is also called Ripley.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 11:04 pm
by Banquo
kk67 wrote:Interesting bit of movie trivia. Alan Parker was a big fan of Andy Ripley. Which is why sigourney's character is also called Ripley.
what is Alan Parkers connection with the Alien films??
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 11:18 pm
by kk67
I read the paperback because I was too young to see the movie . I was thinking Parker had written the screenplay but it was Ridley Scott. Maybe it was him that was a Ripley fan. I saw someone say it.
Many years ago, probably when the 2nd movie was being released.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2018 10:38 am
by WaspInWales
Seems apt:
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2018 5:53 pm
by Banquo
cashead wrote:kk67 wrote:I read the paperback because I was too young to see the movie . I was thinking Parker had written the screenplay but it was Ridley Scott. Maybe it was him that was a Ripley fan. I saw someone say it.
Many years ago, probably when the 2nd movie was being released.
Well...
this is awkward....
zooms over my head!
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2018 6:32 pm
by Which Tyler
Banquo wrote:
zooms over my head!
mine too - even google image search didn't help
I guess it's because we're normal people who don't tend to know what the people behind the camera looks like.
Hell, personally, I struggle to know what the people the camera points at look like.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2018 10:09 pm
by Banquo
cashead wrote:Banquo wrote:cashead wrote:
Well...
this is awkward....
zooms over my head!
The two guys in the first photo are Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett, who wrote the original script. O’Bannon did the majority of the writing, while Shusett’s major contribution was coming up with a way to get the creature on the Nostromo (“What if it screwed one of them?”). While O’Bannon had written the character who would become Ripley as a man, he added a note under the character list (which was also lacking any first names), that all characters in the film are unisex, which led to Ridley Scott agreeing to looking for an actress to fill the lead role.
The second photo is Walter Hill and David Giler, who are 2/3 of the producers that make up Brandywine Productions (the other is Gordon Carroll, who passed away in 2005). They rewrote the script over 8 drafts, renamed all the characters and introduced the Ash subplot.
Cool
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2018 10:12 pm
by Mikey Brown
Yeah. Why did I just read all that? What did that have to do with KK’s ramblings anyway?
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 9:13 am
by Which Tyler
cashead wrote:The two guys in the first photo are Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett, who wrote the original script. O’Bannon did the majority of the writing, while Shusett’s major contribution was coming up with a way to get the creature on the Nostromo (“What if it screwed one of them?”). While O’Bannon had written the character who would become Ripley as a man, he added a note under the character list (which was also lacking any first names), that all characters in the film are unisex, which led to Ridley Scott agreeing to looking for an actress to fill the lead role.
The second photo is Walter Hill and David Giler, who are 2/3 of the producers that make up Brandywine Productions (the other is Gordon Carroll, who passed away in 2005). They rewrote the script over 8 drafts, renamed all the characters and introduced the Ash subplot.
I mean - how did we not all get that from 2 pictures
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 6:26 pm
by Banquo
cashead wrote:Which Tyler wrote:cashead wrote:The two guys in the first photo are Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett, who wrote the original script. O’Bannon did the majority of the writing, while Shusett’s major contribution was coming up with a way to get the creature on the Nostromo (“What if it screwed one of them?”). While O’Bannon had written the character who would become Ripley as a man, he added a note under the character list (which was also lacking any first names), that all characters in the film are unisex, which led to Ridley Scott agreeing to looking for an actress to fill the lead role.
The second photo is Walter Hill and David Giler, who are 2/3 of the producers that make up Brandywine Productions (the other is Gordon Carroll, who passed away in 2005). They rewrote the script over 8 drafts, renamed all the characters and introduced the Ash subplot.
I mean - how did we not all get that from 2 pictures
I figured someone would recognise the faces. I obviously overestimated you lot.
Hapless, us
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 7:49 pm
by Which Tyler
cashead wrote:
I figured someone would recognise the faces. I obviously overestimated you lot.
You're talking about a bunch of people who'd mostly never heard of Harvey Weinstein 12 months ago, let alone be able to recognise him.
As mentioned, I struggle to recognise some A-list actors, O doubt I'd recognise more than a couple of directors, and no hope whatsoever of recognising any producer or screenwriter
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 3:15 pm
by kk67
cashead wrote:Mikey Brown wrote:Yeah. Why did I just read all that? What did that have to do with KK’s ramblings anyway?
Because he was wrong, corrected himself, and was still wrong.
I was wrong,....but I did see one of them make the association.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 3:20 pm
by kk67
'The Death of Stalin'... I've watched it twice and it just keeps getting better.
It's the most quotable comedy movie since The Producers.
'I miss the Tsar'......Michael Palin taking a slash in the flowerbeds.
'Yeah, off you go, Flower' Paul Whitehouse to Geoffrey Tambor.
Some knowledge of Russian history is useful but not entirely necessary.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 3:46 pm
by Numbers
kk67 wrote:'The Death of Stalin'... I've watched it twice and it just keeps getting better.
It's the most quotable comedy movie since The Producers.
'I miss the Tsar'......Michael Palin taking a slash in the flowerbeds.
'Yeah, off you go, Flower' Paul Whitehouse to Geoffrey Tambor.
Some knowledge of Russian history is useful but not entirely necessary.
Is this the Armando Ianucci thing?