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Re: Disappointing... yet brilliant | 10 quick thoughts about Rogue One: A Star Wars... | Search results for:

pb14 — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 07:21:44 -0000

Yes, the Felicity Jones fresh off the hockey field line nails mail problem with her in the trailers. She's clearly keen and game but I wonder if she was foistered on Edwards unlike the rest of his appealingly grubby cast.

Re: Disappointing... yet brilliant | Carol Director Todd Haynes Stars Cate Blanchett,... | Search results for:

pb14 — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 12:19:13 -0000

Tend to agree, though I did get caught up in the sweeping romance of it all. I wonder if there was a bit on the cutting room floor with the Carrie Brownstein character, who I assumed would make a pass thus confirming Therese's need for Carol. That said I found the vaguely upbeat ending completely at odds with what I expected, which was enough to make me blub. (Also post affair Rooney Mara seemed to transform into Audrey Hepburn which was a bit of a shock to me!)

Re: You knew this was coming... but are you ready for a Pixar-made STAR WARS film?

pb14 — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:19:49 -0000

I'm just waiting for a Muppet Star Wars.

Re: Disappointing... yet brilliant | 12 Years A Slave Director Steve McQueen Stars... | Search results for:

pb14 — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 11:37:32 -0000

Not sure I wholly agree. I think the power in the film is tied to its detachment and some of that comes from some of McQueen's trademark long, static takes (which you allude to above). There is a shot which I think is brilliant, or Ejiofor almost, but not quite, breaking the fourth wall, staring right out not quite at us, but the person next to us. He holds it for about forty seconds, and I thought was formally really rather daring.

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pb14 — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 08:14:04 -0000

There is nothing funny about Sting.

I caught this on iPlayer soon, it being one of those legendary UK indies that I had never got round to seeing, and agree that it is underwhelming. A bit of Kraftwerk, a bit of Northern Ireland and a lot of shuffling around uncomfortably.

Re: Disappointing... yet brilliant | Stray observations having watched three-quarters... | Search results for:

pb14 — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 06:31:31 -0000

You're are right about it being a Western, and also about it being a more inclusive action film, I remember it being terrific fun and am a bit scard to revisit it. I was never quite sure what happened to Swayze's career, Dirty Dancing, Ghost were huge, and this and Point Break are both iconic in their own ways. Then pretty much nothing. Who did he (or his lookelikee brother Don) piss off.

Coyote Ugly contains my favourite songwiritng scene in a film ever, when Piper Perabo "writes" Can't Fight The Moonlight by interpolating all the street noises on the roof. What other American films can we use to trace the idea of "The Bar". (Cocktail, some salloon heavy Westerns...)

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pb14 — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:26:02 -0000

Baldwin and Lee don't quite have this (Lee perhaps as an adjunct) but Affleck and Vaughn are both the pretty boy halves of "double acts", whose less showy partners have perhaps gone on to exlipse them, for a bit. OK John Favreau is probably now down in the dumps a bit as a director, but my money is still on Matt Damon winning a best actor Oscar over Affleck. Unless of course, as you identify, Affleck packs on the pounds.

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pb14 — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:15:32 -0000

Having now been to a couple of strip mall US multiplexes my Cineworld Wood Green experience seems to be pretty universal. At least in the US the films start on time without an advert telling me why I should love cinema so much... But the audience thing becomes even more telling there. Watching Argo whre we were the only people in the audience under 50 was a battle of the "himmoff" brigade. (My favourite if you can have a favourite annoying old giffer was the bloke two rows back saying "This was all Jimmy Carter's fault" OVER AND OVER AGAIN).

In the end the audience can spoil it for you. The room is less important, though the right film with the right audience and the right room can be amazing.

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pb14 — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:45:56 -0000

There's something in this. I get a bit of a skew by a Cineworld Card, to shuttle between the Wood Green Cineworld and the so bad its good* Troc, but the crowd you see a film with and their expectations can't help but rub off on you. A reverse of seeing Shame at the Beckenham Odeon would be seeing various kung fu films at the NFT. Its not that the crowd didn't know what they are getting, the whole atmosphere and reverence seemed wrong (and yet right...)

I think your brief hints about the staff hold the key. Queueing at the concessions just to get a ticket is demoralising in British multiplexes. What I have never understood is why the process of giving someone as bucket of popcorn and a litre of liquid, when these are the only things being served, takes quite as long as it does. Though nothing, nothing is more soul destroying than being behind someone asking the poor Coke jockey "So what's good then?"

*And bad again.

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pb14 — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 06:15:42 -0000

What film do you think has best old person / and or ageing prosthetics in movies? I was really impressed by Liz Taylor's in Giant (though its let down by Jimmy Dean's wispy old man getup).

Re: Two Webs, Two Brains

pb14 — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:51:23 -0000

I've got Thinking Fast & Slow at home so will be interested to read it, but the two minds theory has quite a bit of traction elsewhere. I've read Jonathon Evans' book Thinking Twice: Two Minds In One Brain which is a quite detailed pulling together of the disparate research in this area - which he boils down tot he intuitive brain and the reflective brain, which seems to match that you have said above. But I guess the interesting part is around the idea that our own brain fools itself into not accepting this practice at all, that there potentially a dual identity within ourselves which we cannot accept.

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pb14 — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:48:42 -0000

They might be heelies!

Re: Imaginary Communities #1

pb14 — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:23:37 -0000

Do posts have a lifespan as well and will departed users be marked as such when threads are potentially taken up again. With the arbitrary "death" of a poster, how will the new "active" posters respond to those that they can no longer talk to. Will old posts be ignored, less respected, part of a bygone day. Will other posters be aware of the other posters lifespan (will each username have a ticking clock next to its name), and thus be aware of how important each comment might be?

Interesting.

Re: Strength, Stability, and Supermajorities

pb14 — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:41:55 -0000

Supermajhorities on votes of confidence (or constitutional issues) are very common in organisations with large voting memberships with this kind of power over the executive and as such 55% is barely a supermajority (the recomended supermajority for SU's by the Charities Commission is 75%). As such this is not so much a supermajority than a peak condition Olympic athlete majority. Or a Batmajority.

Re: http://katstevens.tumblr.com/post/441754487

pb14 — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:23:48 -0000

I only scored seven.

Re: The Vids Are Alright - Basement Jaxx - Raindrops. A disorientating mess...

pb14 — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:16:40 -0000

I am sure at POPTIMISM on the 26th June (where you are DJ-ing and I will be playing this) we can get some green two litre bottles as RECREATE the sensation. Pear cider is everywhere.