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The Wind That Shakes The Barley

 

Ken Loaches 2006 Palme d'Or winner about the Irish war of independence and following civil war. I thought it was amazing. Not it's politics, because they are brushed with such broad strokes (IRA = blue eyed freedom fighters reluctantly taking the only path open to them, British = Nasty brutes who take great pleasure in excessively violent pillaging ) that anyone who's completely taken in and sees it as a valid comment on the history of "the troubles" needs to reset their cynicism gauge. I'm not one of these "No surrender..." monkeys at the England matches who should be hung, but any sympathy one might have for the cause of the IRA is tempered by a distinct over-egging of the pudding. But the emotion and the grief in the performances are overwhelming, and it looks lush.

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Shrek 3. Much better than I was expecting tbh although they could have done with more Donkey.

 

Hollywoodland. Pretty good but let down a bit by the problem that they couldn't give an answer of what really happened.

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Steamboy

 

Imagine this film being made anywhere else. A cartoon about scientific endeavour and it's relationship with the arms trade. Something for the kids to lap up. Second anime from the director of Akira it's well worth a watch.

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

 

Not seen it in a long while, I'd forgotted how utterly terrible Keanu Reeve's accent is, Winnona Ryder's is not much better, quite rightly Gary Oldman steals the show, but the movie is looking surprisingly dated now imo.

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

 

Not seen it in a long while, I'd forgotted how utterly terrible Keanu Reeve's accent is, Winnona Ryder's is not much better, quite rightly Gary Oldman steals the show, but the movie is looking surprisingly dated now imo.

 

"I have trammelled across oceans of script".. ;)

 

 

Oldman is absolute class in this.

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The Fog.

 

Was even worse the second time round.

 

I've got that V+'d to watch, might as well delete it

 

Surely if I think it's crap then everyone else will think the opposite? :pray:

Depends which version you're talking about. The original is canny but I hear the remake is gash.

 

Paris Texas. Truely brilliant. Harry Dean Stanton and Dean Stockwell are both superb but it's worth watching for the beautifull cinematography alone. Reminded me of Thelma & Louise.

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