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Post by sc on Oct 30, 2017 18:26:35 GMT
Off to see PIKU tonight  |
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Post by sc on Oct 30, 2017 22:38:28 GMT
I'm sure it's an excellent film but subtitles were too fast AND white font on mostly a very light coloured background made keeping up impossible.
Film revolved around an architect who lived in Delhi, called PIKU, she was stroppy, her elderly hypochondriac Dad, who was obsessed with his bowel movements, they argue constantly, and a Taxi Cab Company owner and their road trip to Kolkata.
It's an Indian Comedy examining the modern Indian family life and structure, but a lot of the humour etc was lost on me because of the subtitles ...... Shame
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Post by mikey on Nov 4, 2017 22:24:24 GMT
the death of Stalin Brutally funny and very well done Just come back from watching death of Stalin. Agree, it was brutally funny. Been to many supposed comedies where the audience have been quiet, the death of Stalin had many laugh out loud moments that the whole cinema joined in. Had to travel a bit further afield to find a screening, hoping it will also be screened at my local and will definitively go and watch again. |
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Post by nigenet on Nov 7, 2017 10:44:48 GMT
Spent an elongated weekend working my way through these little-known films (Episode I on Friday night. II, II, Rogue One and IV on Saturday. V, VI and VII on Sunday). Interesting franchise... I think it could become quite popular   20171106_140734 by Nigel Moss, on Flickr |
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Post by mikey on Nov 7, 2017 17:47:48 GMT
Spent an elongated weekend working my way through these little-known films (Episode I on Friday night. II, II, Rogue One and IV on Saturday. V, VI and VII on Sunday). Interesting franchise... I think it could become quite popular 20171106_140734 by Nigel Moss, on Flickr VII on Thursday 😀 (14th December) |
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Post by mikey on Nov 7, 2017 17:49:35 GMT
New series of Alexei Sayle’s imaginary sandwich shop on Radio 4 Thursday at 6.30. Just hoping it matches up to the last series.
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Post by nigenet on Nov 7, 2017 18:09:10 GMT
VII on Thursday 😀 (14th December) I'm guessing you mean VIII? I'm booked to see it on my birthday which is a week later in 3D on the big IMAX screen in Manchester Printworks. I could see it in the new cinema setting up in Sunny Buxton from Thursday 14th... but I think I'll wait to see it on the very big screen instead and spend a week avoiding spoilers like I have for the past couple of years |
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Post by mikey on Nov 7, 2017 19:23:50 GMT
VII on Thursday 😀 (14th December) I'm guessing you mean VIII? I'm booked to see it on my birthday which is a week later in 3D on the big IMAX screen in Manchester Printworks. I could see it in the new cinema setting up in Sunny Buxton from Thursday 14th... but I think I'll wait to see it on the very big screen instead and spend a week avoiding spoilers like I have for the past couple of years Darnit, never could get the hang of them Roman numeral thingies. No wonder their empire declined and fell so dramatically. |
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Post by calndel on Nov 7, 2017 22:14:11 GMT
Spent an elongated weekend working my way through these little-known films (Episode I on Friday night. II, II, Rogue One and IV on Saturday. V, VI and VII on Sunday). Interesting franchise... I think it could become quite popular 20171106_140734 by Nigel Moss, on Flickr we hope IV V and VI were the original versions otherwise it doesn't count |
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Post by nigenet on Nov 8, 2017 0:48:10 GMT
Sadly they are the trilogy box set that came out in the early 2000s which are annoyingly modified, but thankfully not as horrifically modified as I understand the blu-ray versions are. Don't think it's even possible to get the unmodified versions without turning to the Dark Side...
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Post by sc on Nov 8, 2017 7:00:01 GMT
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Post by mikey on Nov 8, 2017 17:58:08 GMT
What! Only three films, I am surprised from a man with such good taste as yourself. It also matter which 3 you have seen. Episodes I to III pale in comparison to episodes IV to VI and (dare I say) episode VII. on this subject, I can admit that I have never seen Jaws. Not that I did not fancy seeing it but never got round to it. All that will change in the Spring though 😁. I have my ticket to see a screening at the Colston hall with a full orchestra. Cannot wait, should be worth it having waited for forty years or so 😊 |
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Post by calndel on Nov 9, 2017 0:23:57 GMT
Del saw Jaws when was 12, one of his teachers thought it would be a great film to show his class on the last day of school before the summer holiday
Del didn't do much swimming that summer.
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Post by sc on Nov 9, 2017 7:23:22 GMT
What! Only three films, I am surprised from a man with such good taste as yourself. It also matter which 3 you have seen. Episodes I to III pale in comparison to episodes IV to VI and (dare I say) episode VII. Me? Good taste? Oh bloody 'ell Ok maybe I guessed at 3 but it's certainly not all of them, so which ones? it won't be I, II or III because I'm guessing they came later. I honestly don't know the titles I could guess at The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi? but they are both famous phrases. I'll explain scenes that I remember . One of the films had Luke Skywalker, Hans Solo (odd to call one of the main characters what sounds like a slang name for masturbation ) and the Princess, zooming around, bit sexual/nervous tension between Princess and Hans with the inference that they did "get a room" and Hans moves the Princess from Girl to Woman Another scene, bit of a straight lift from Ben-Hur but set in Marrakech, small child (young Luke?) charging through the desert on a chariot thingy (I want one, they look awesome ) Don't really like the racist and stereo typing from the films I've seen: Nomadic Desert People, (Arabs?) - They are bad, they shoot at you, they take part in the slave trade. Evil Empire building people (English?) - They are total evil, never trust the man with an English accent in an American film Long eared (hair?) Hippy and dumb creature with long wavy arms and legs (Jamaican/Rasta?) - Fun cool and useless an exploited by their own corrupt king Heros (American) - Well they funded the films Japanese - Not to be trusted, they break and exploit treaties Queen Lizzie - Tries to be strong but needs American heroes "We will not sign the tweetie" Another scene - Death Star - Attack, lots of zooming around in World War II style dog fights, then zooming along Death Star highways (was that meant to be New York?) etc then BOOM Big Conference and Queenie says "We will not sign the tweetie" R2D2 and the other robot, you know the butler and the whistling dustbin. Oh big sword fights between geezer with a sore throat and a liking for wearing black and the young all american hero. I think it transpires that the chap with a sore throat and who thinks that "Black" is a good look is the Dad of The All American Hero. (small aside, a tutor I had for a Kung Fu course I went on a gazilian years ago was also a stunt man and played some of the Storm Troopers (They wear White but otherwise the same fashion sense as the guy with the sore throat) being blown up / shot etc. Must be some other scenes I've forgotten, but that's the limited watching I've done of star wars, so was that the first 3 or 4 films? I've never seen Titanic |
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Post by sc on Nov 9, 2017 7:43:05 GMT
Ah! Just looking at the covers of the Star Wars Films above, it certainly was New Hope and The Empire Strikes back, not sure which of the overs but probably Return of the Jedi |
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