Monkeys Fist 38743 Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 My two went with Mrs. Fist last week. Loved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 8989 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Saw Ant-Man recently, oddly needs more of the protagonist in it. Some good moments, but too heavy on the cgi for me. One for a quiet Friday night in, rather than going to the cinema, I reckon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3194 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Saw Ant-Man recently, oddly needs more of the protagonist in it. Some good moments, but too heavy on the cgi for me. One for a quiet Friday night in, rather than going to the cinema, I reckon. You think a film based on the premise of a man shrinking down to the size of an Ant had too many special effects? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 8989 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 You think a film based on the premise of a man shrinking down to the size of an Ant had too many special effects? Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3194 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Yes. DId you think Dawn of the Planet of the Apes had too many special effects? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 8989 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 DId you think Dawn of the Planet of the Apes had too many special effects? Thought that was all right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3194 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Thought that was all right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 34425 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 That was like being in the Hale and Pace writers room, YOU GUYS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 14031 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Curiosity led me to this list of "recurring sketches" from Hale & Pace's penultimate series in 1997: London cabbies Waiter/s with "black pepper" Are you nervous...nervous now? Curly & Nige: (1) In the garage (2) At the D.I.Y shop American sheriff & his deputy Rappers with baggy clothes Yorkshiremen Crime boss & his muscle Two redheads who copy the end of what people say Trainspotters Elderly gentleman who can't swear Meditating man who wishes for things to happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30385 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Can't actually remember any of that. The one with the 'tache just pulled 'funny' faces is all I seem to recall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30385 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Reminded me of being out on the piss once and about 3 or 4 of us ending up back at some lasses house. She had (what would've been VHS copies of) Joe Pasquale and Jim Davidson stand-up gigs. Amongst others. Probably included Hale and Pace. Joe Pasquale man :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1117 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 I watched Cinema Paradiso the other night. Thought it was a bit depressing for a sunday night when I was on a bit of a comedown but canny all the same. The last scene was superb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 12767 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Reminded me of being out on the piss once and about 3 or 4 of us ending up back at some lasses house. She had (what would've been VHS copies of) Joe Pasquale and Jim Davidson stand-up gigs. Amongst others. Probably included Hale and Pace. Joe Pasquale man :lol: Remember his short lived revival after I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here? Fucking advert after advert of him going "OOH, ME JACOBS!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30385 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Remember his short lived revival after I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here? Fucking advert after advert of him going "OOH, ME JACOBS!" I didn't watch that but who the fuck was in it if he won? Ghenghis Khan, Stalin, Hitler and Essembee? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30385 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 I watched Cinema Paradiso the other night. Thought it was a bit depressing for a sunday night when I was on a bit of a comedown but canny all the same. The last scene was superb. Great show. I mean film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 26789 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 That was like being in the Hale and Pace writers room, YOU GUYS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 14031 Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 The mother-in-law visited at the weekend, which (as usual) means finally watching a DVD or two that she's bought us for Christmases past and that we've been too lazy to even take the plastic off. That spacewalking show was perfectly enjoyable as a romp and visually remarkable, though as noted by many, there's not a great deal more to it than that. Like with Interstellar, there was a specific point in Sandra Bullock's journey where I wish the film would have been able to end on an unexpected and massive sci-fi downer, but obviously Hollywood would never allow it to happen. That French revolution singing show was pretty faithful to the stage version within the given parameters, which is fair enough I suppose, there'd have been hell to pay if they'd changed it too much. The "live" singing obviously brings some intimacy to proceedings but it does flag up the flaws of some of the actors too. Hugh Jackman is worryingly Shatneresque in the scenes where Jean Valjean has a bit of "upstanding citizen" pomp about him, but he's great in the pathetic/tortured/dying scenes so I'll let him off. Russell Crowe is fundamentally useless and the stage-school-Cockney kids from Oliver! are a right pain in the arse, but all in all the BIGNESS of the production outweighs some of the more manipulative stuff. Or as I apparently said at the time: Les Mis is one of the few musicals I've got any real time for, in fact it's probably the only one I actively like as a whole - but that's on stage, with all the grandeur that entails and the option of choosing how involved you decide to become in the whole thing. I'm expecting the constant close-ups and so on in the film to provide emotional button-pressing that's already there in the music/lyrics (and then some!) so doesn't need to be hammered home additionally. I guess that's broadly true, although the emotional button-pressing scenes with Anne Hathaway are by far the best thing in it, so I can't really complain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38743 Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 I watched that "Irish Copper and Black FBI agent in Connemara" show last night. I think the bogtrotter is a very amusing actor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30385 Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 The mother-in-law visited at the weekend, which (as usual) means finally watching a DVD or two that she's bought us for Christmases past and that we've been too lazy to even take the plastic off. That spacewalking show was perfectly enjoyable as a romp and visually remarkable, though as noted by many, there's not a great deal more to it than that. Like with Interstellar, there was a specific point in Sandra Bullock's journey where I wish the film would have been able to end on an unexpected and massive sci-fi downer, but obviously Hollywood would never allow it to happen. That French revolution singing show was pretty faithful to the stage version within the given parameters, which is fair enough I suppose, there'd have been hell to pay if they'd changed it too much. The "live" singing obviously brings some intimacy to proceedings but it does flag up the flaws of some of the actors too. Hugh Jackman is worryingly Shatneresque in the scenes where Jean Valjean has a bit of "upstanding citizen" pomp about him, but he's great in the pathetic/tortured/dying scenes so I'll let him off. Russell Crowe is fundamentally useless and the stage-school-Cockney kids from Oliver! are a right pain in the arse, but all in all the BIGNESS of the production outweighs some of the more manipulative stuff. Or as I apparently said at the time: I guess that's broadly true, although the emotional button-pressing scenes with Anne Hathaway are by far the best thing in it, so I can't really complain. George Clooney is basically Buzz Lightyear in it, isn't he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3194 Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 (edited) George Clooney is basically Buzz Lightyear in it, isn't he? George Clooney plays Buzz Lightyear in Les Miserables? Talk about a directors cut. Edited August 5, 2015 by Kevin Carr's Gloves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30385 Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 No Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 34425 Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 That one's gonna need workshopping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 14031 Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 Give it to an improv group, let them spin a 90-minute show out of it, no bother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonotl 2411 Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 That was like being in the Hale and Pace writers room, YOU GUYS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catmag 336 Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 Russell Crowe is fundamentally useless Throughout the whole film it was bugging me as Crowe's voice reminded me of someone else. A few days later I realised it was David Essex and I've watched it subsequently just waiting for him to burst into "Oh What a Circus" from Evita. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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