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neoELITE

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On 20/01/2018 at 09:17, Benny said:

I watched The Road. I don't think I've ever seen anything as bleak.

 

There were two specific scenes in the book that never made it to the film that would have made it even bleaker. 

If you've not read the book

The man finds a group of people being kept in a basement. They've had their legs and arms hacked off but they're still alive, being kept there as food.



 

A family cook their own baby on a spit to eat it.

 

If you haven't read the book, please do - it's outstanding and one of his best. I prefer Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and that should really be made into a film/series. We've got Godless on Netflix but that isn't as brutal and epic as McCarthy's book.

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5 hours ago, Benny said:

The first scene in that spoiler is definitely in the film.

 

Is it? I haven't seen the film in years so I've obviously forgotten that. It's a great book and a good film. Vigo Mortenson's great in it. What I love about it is, it isn't obvious what's actually happened. 

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7 hours ago, neoELITE said:

If you've not read the book

 

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A family cook their own baby on a spit to eat it.

 

 

That second example, I seem to recall it just being "some people" who did it, not a family. And yeah, the first one is 100% in the film, in fact they made that section more significant/lengthy.

 

My favourite McCarthy book is The Crossing. It's totally different.

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I watched The End of the F...ing World over the weekend and really enjoyed it. The two leads were excellent, the music was great and I liked the lack of regionalisation. 

 

There's an Irish sitcom on there now called Can't Cope, Won't Cope. About two women in their early 20's starting out in life, first jobs after college, partying all the time and all that. It's not going to change your life but Sienna Kerslake is in it and she's excellent. She should go onto bigger things.

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On 1/20/2018 at 01:27, Sartre84 said:

Agreed on Open House, its ending made the whole movie ultimately pointless . It lacked anything in the way of plot development or a real story arc. It could have been a fairly decent thriller albeit a made for TV one but in the end it went nowhere!

Yeah I wasn't struck on it. But that said, films along the same lines have worked for me in the past:

 

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The Strangers I think is another "the bad guys win" film which worked better because the tension was perhaps better handled. I sort of liked that you never really knew who the killer was but the main protagonists were so badly sketched that I wasn't really rooting for them.

 

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12 minutes ago, AK Bell said:

I randomly watched The Polka King. It's not bad actually. Jack Black really carries along what could have easily been just trash. 

 

Hmm, I love polka, how much of this is an influence on the film as opposed to just and incidental detail of characterisation?

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Anyone seen any of the Netflix Japanese shows? I've watched a few now and really like Midnight Diner and Samurai Gourmet.

 

There's another one that I want to watch called Erased, which i hear has time travel in it. I'm sold!

 

 

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11 minutes ago, ZOK said:

 

Looks like Threads is getting a Blu-ray release, how topical! 

 

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjpayn/the-nuclear-war-movie-that-traumatized-a-generation-is-back

 

I've been waiting on that for a long time, and this is a stinking US release, but it'll surely end up on Netflix before too long, thanks to its marginal demographic.

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There's lots of Monty Python coming on 15 February.

Monty Python And The Holy Grail

Monty Python's Life Of Brian

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python Best Bits (Mostly)

Monty Python's Personal Best

Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus

Monty Python Live (Mostly) : One Down, Five To Go

Monty Python: The Meaning Of Live

Monty Python Conquers America

Monty Python's Almost The Truth

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Adam Nevill book The Ritual was adapted to screen relatively recently and that's getting a Netflix release soon. I have no idea if the film is any good but it reviewed well on dedicated horror sites but the book is damn good. If you like Black Metal, creepy woods, creature features and some really messed up, dark and nasty horror - if the film is anything like the book, you'll enjoy it.

 

 

 

 

 

Off topic, I was watching Godless the other day and it's 4K but my TV every so often made the flesh tones of the characters go green (for a milisecond) - I'm sure that's just a streaming issue but has anyone else had this happen?  It doesn't happen when I watch anything else in 4K - never happened with Youtube or my Planet Earth II disc.

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On 11/01/2018 at 00:14, deerokus said:

La Casa De Papel is a really entertaining Spanish heist thriller series - a group of trope-tastic robbers are brought together by a beardy academic-sort of bloke in an elaborate plan to rob the Spanish Royal Mint. You have the avuncular ex-miner, the sexy lady fugitive whose boyfriend was killed on her last job, a suave veteran jewel thief who would be played by Peter Serafinowicz in a remake, that sort of thing. It has that gripping perfect paced action-thriller feel of early seasons of 24 or Prison Break, with plenty of fun and unexpected twists and turns and a (surprisingly large) cast of good characters.

 

Watch it before it gets an American remarke! 

I’ve watched the first couple of episodes of this and I’m really enjoying it so far. Has anyone noticed, though, how bad the subtitles are? It’s like they’re written by a Spaniard with a decent, but not quite fluent, grasp of English. 

 

So, for example, in the first episode with the school kids on the bus, the boy texts the girl to asks if he can sit next to her and the subtitle reads: “Can I sit by your side?” instead of simply “Can I sit next to you?”

 

It's not a huge deal, but it’s kind of jarring when you’re trying to keep up with the action and you’re used to quickly scanning subtitles and the characters are “speaking” English with a Spanish “accent”.  

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Yes the subtitles are terrible. Some episodes seem to have a different translator who is better. 

 

As I used to have to translate stuff a lot at uni, it grated on me quite a bit. 

 

Similarly, there is a character who is supposed to actually be English, but clearly doesn't speak it at all. 

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