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BBC,

Coriolanus (1984)

Anthony and Cleopatra (1981)

Good versions of two which - surprisingly in the latter perhaps? - lack definitive film renditions; this indeed is when the BBC collection is handy, for those rarely filmed plays, lacking an Olivier or a Branagh. And you know what you get with the Beeb's collection: dark (late '70s - early '80s) picture quality; austere sets costing about two pence; a wonderful array of thespians; textual fidelity. 

Coriolanus incidentally was my favourite play for years, a tragedy which does not perhaps have the same reputation as Hamlet and Othello (etc) basically because Caius Marcius Coriolanus is such an unsympathetic character, and that the play seems to support fascism! 

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2 minutes ago, lukepowell1988 said:

That seems to pretty much be life in Thailand whenever the wife is watching Thai news it just appears to be reports of murders 

I was in Bangkok when there was a terrorist shootout. They just partition that part of the city off and carry on. Only problem is all flights are cancelled so I was just drinking at the airport bar. A few months later that cinema I was in got blown up. So Thai movies on dvd for me. 

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3 minutes ago, lukepowell1988 said:

Yeah there is a lot of that shit going on at the moment it's strange cos you don't really here much about it we go for 2 months a year and travel about a bit but it scares me cos I have a 3 year old Son 

Yeah probably don’t go to south east asia. Or do but go to resorts. But the one I went to had speedboats of terrorists machine gunning people on the beach. So now the beach is not hotel property. No loungers on the beach. 

Asia is more dangerous. I’ve nearly died 3 times. The bomb, I got eletrocuted in a shower in HK, and blood poisoning. 

But with kids go to decent resorts and don’t wander down the beach too much, because once off hotel property bad stuff happens. 

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5 minutes ago, lukepowell1988 said:

We stay with my mother and father in law and when we ain't with them we stay pretty low key location wise that's the benefit of marrying a local they no the score.

 

Last time we where in HK I saw someone get flattened by a bus that was pleasant 

That’s alright then. I just stagger around tourist spots where bombs go off. 

I’ve seen a few gnarly scooter crashes. When its went one goes down and it’s like dominos. I’ve been hit a few times. My technique is to leverage up off the handles, go over rather then under. In theory

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8 minutes ago, lukepowell1988 said:

China is a mad place for traffic incidents man I have seen a load of horror videos on youtube but the women are hot as fuck.

 

I dunno if I Could live anywhere where Porn and Gambling is illegal however 

I’m not really into either. But chinese do bomb over to HK and Macau to gamble. And there’s a new place that is getting casino’d up. I like just sitting inthe Wynn bar watching people gamble though. 

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10 hours ago, lukepowell1988 said:

Ohhh come on man u gotta love a bit of Vince Vaughan the Japs do some crazy shit tentacles n all.... 

 

Yeah Gambling is Illegal in Thai but every fucker still does it 

I think it might be Vietnam that’s building casinos.

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21 hours ago, marlingrl03 said:

I actually watched Freeway for the first time a month ago. Kind of a different movie for sure. Reese played her role great. That girl was cray cray!!!! :crazy:

Vanessa definitely has a crazy sides, but I think that she is mainly a misunderstood girl. She's doing those things to defend herself and not to out pure joy. 

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Bad Times at the El Royale

First, can we mention the redundancy of having “the” and “el” back to back in a film title?

I really enjoyed this film, but it defintely wasn’t what I was expecting. I thought the hotel was going to be some allegory of hell with the guests as guilty sinners and Chris Hemsworth as Lucifer. It was a lot more straightforward than that...

Instead it was more episodic and narrative bending with normal conventions and Chris Hemsworth as a Manson cult-of-personality. The problem is, there’s no drugs involved and his messiah has nothing to say - so he stands for nothing other than being a designated bad guy.

Other than misusing Thor, the film was a nice little genre entry.

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2 hours ago, appetite4illusions said:

Bad Times at the El Royale

First, can we mention the redundancy of having “the” and “el” back to back in a film title?

I really enjoyed this film, but it defintely wasn’t what I was expecting. I thought the hotel was going to be some allegory of hell with the guests as guilty sinners and Chris Hemsworth as Lucifer. It was a lot more straightforward than that...

Instead it was more episodic and narrative bending with normal conventions and Chris Hemsworth as a Manson cult-of-personality. The problem is, there’s no drugs involved and his messiah has nothing to say - so he stands for nothing other than being a designated bad guy.

Other than misusing Thor, the film was a nice little genre entry.

I watched this today in a double bill with Venom. Thought it was pretty good but about 30 minutes too long.

Venom was enjoyable too. Certainly better than the reviews would have you believe anyway.

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Hitchcock marathon, mostly comprising his '40s/Selznick era stuff,

Waltzes from Vienna (1934)

Saboteur (1942)

Lifeboat (1944)

Aventure Malgache (1944, short)

Bon Voyage (1944, short)

Spellbound (1945)

Notorious (1946)

Frenzy (1972)

I have seen all these films (sans Waltzes and the shorts) many times, sufficing to say Notorious, Lifeboat and Frenzy are Hitch at his absolute best - indeed you could make an argument for Notorious being his greatest ever film and I wouldn't protest too much - Saboteur is high quality Hitch (albeit, of its time), Spellbound flawed Hitch, but it has its moments such as the gun-camera finale, and Waltzes excruciatingly awful.

PS

Oh Vertigo also. 

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