Good call - he should have been Moriarty. Whoever the pudding was that DID play Moriarty was terrible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
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Good call - he should have been Moriarty. Whoever the pudding was that DID play Moriarty was terrible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
"Act of Valor"
Avengers was my last and I really enjoyed it. Tomorrow I plan to see Prometheus. I have a thing for the original Alien movie (in fact half of my left arm is taken up by a tattoo of the chestburster from that movie). I know this isn't strictly an Alien prequel but I'm looking forward to it anyway.
Man on a Ledge
Star Trek
Chronicle
Pennies From Heaven - with Steve Martin. Great though not as good as the original BBC TV series.
The Grey.
Meh...Had it's moments. :shrug
MalcolmX -A Spike Lee Joint. There are joints and there are Spike Lee films (some of them are even worth watching, Inside Man, for example is a good film but obviously suffers from the rank incompetence of Denzel Washington). On this occasion the effect is flat or even down, rather than high. Poor script, poor concept, poor acting; historically inacurrate, biographically untrue, intellectually superficial, the film goes on too long in an attempt to give the 'epic' treatment to a controversial figure. Where the use of music at times is appropriate to the time and place, in some scenes -notbaly interiors with Malcolm and his wife or close associates, their conversation is drowned in anodyne music that sounds like a cross-between Aaron Copland and Stephen Sondheim.
The dvd was deleted when I read Manning Marable's outstanding biography of Malcolm; this is a new two-set re-issue with extras -unfortunately including a 1972 documentary with a lot of footage of the real Malcolm, a world away from the wooden, almost lifeless pseudo-acting of Denzel Washington -and if that aint a 'slave name' I don't know what is!!).
MALCOLM X - Trailer - (1992) - HQ - YouTube
Quatermass and the Pit - the 1950s TV series (okay not technically a movie) written by Nigel Kneale and shown the BBC. Look past the wooden acting, the wooden acting and the sets and it is actually a very interesting experiment in TV drama. It is possible to see why it was such a sensation when first shown in 1958 - with people talking about never having seen so scared by anything on TV and viewers hurrying home from the pub of wherever to catch it.
Quatermass And The Pit / Complete Series - YouTube
I saw this a couple of years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
I thought there were a couple of episodes missing from that series. Have they found the lost ones, are am i bolloxing on about something else?