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Old 17-02-2006, 03:35 AM
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Hotel Babylon
Has anyone else been following this series?
Apart from the luxury there are some good stories and some good performances for the light fluff that it is.

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And Scum takes gritty to a new level. It's still quite shocking today, but remember that it was made in 1977/9.

You can get it on DVD in the States. Places like Amazon do the 1977 film version on a DVD by itself or you can get both versions plus some of Alan Clark's other gems like Made in Britain & The Firm in a boxed set. That's a mere $89.99.

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Oh, this is great. Thanks for the research, Steve. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img]

I was thinking about it tonight while doing errands and was just going to start searching. When I get focused on a film, I have to see it. I guess we said the word was 'obsessed.' [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

What are Made in Britain and The Firm about? Amazon will have summaries, but I'd rather hear your comments.

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Old 17-02-2006, 07:03 AM
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Mind you, I did used to laugh; imagine Frank Marker with electronic gizmos!!!! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rotfl.gif[/img]
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My learned friend, started off good with some great dialogue,then sort of fizzed out for me. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ermm.gif[/img]

Island of terror, highly enjoyable sci-fi/ horror romp,as with most of these if only there had been a bigger sfx budget,or just dont reveal the monster/ ers. cushing / judd were great [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img]

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I shall be watching Folk Britannia tonight - been an excellent series [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]
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Old 17-02-2006, 07:57 PM
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Oh, this is great. Thanks for the research, Steve. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img]

I was thinking about it tonight while doing errands and was just going to start searching. When I get focused on a film, I have to see it. I guess we said the word was 'obsessed.' [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

What are Made in Britain and The Firm about? Amazon will have summaries, but I'd rather hear your comments.

Best,

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Like many of Alan Clarke's films - they're about disaffected youth and/or an underclass that nobody else was looking at.

Made in Britain (1982) stars Tim Roth as Trevor, a skinhead who despises all authority and although he shows signs of intelligence and his social worker tries to get through to the good within. But Trevor would rather carry on with his life of racial abuse and casual violence.

The Firm (1988) stars Gary Oldman as a happily married estate agent (realtor) who's hobby is to lead a gang of football hooligans and fight with other gangs of football hooligans. A good study of a strange phenomenon where some followers of the beautiful game thought that they were more important than the game itself.

Both have an almost documentary realism feel to them although they are really dramas and some stunning performances from many young British actors.

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Like many of Alan Clarke's films - they're about disaffected youth and/or an underclass that nobody else was looking at.

Made in Britain (1982) stars Tim Roth as Trevor, a skinhead who despises all authority and although he shows signs of intelligence and his social worker tries to get through to the good within. But Trevor would rather carry on with his life of racial abuse and casual violence.

The Firm (1988) stars Gary Oldman as a happily married estate agent (realtor) who's hobby is to lead a gang of football hooligans and fight with other gangs of football hooligans. A good study of a strange phenomenon where some followers of the beautiful game thought that they were more important than the game itself.

Both have an almost documentary realism feel to them although they are really dramas and some stunning performances from many young British actors.

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Thanks for this, Steve. I just ordered the set, which as you say is a steal for five DVDs + the Clarke doc.
I'm looking forward to seeing Winstone in Scum plus a young Oldman and Roth at work.

Another bargain DVD site for US members is DeepDiscountDVD.com which has the set for $59 and free shipping. Unbelievable for those titles. I can't wait.

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Old 18-02-2006, 11:06 AM
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Cuckoo in the Nest

The usual misunderstandings from Lynn, Hare and Walls that you'd expect in an Aldwych farce. Not their finest hour tho.
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Thanks for this, Steve. I just ordered the set, which as you say is a steal for five DVDs + the Clarke doc.
I'm looking forward to seeing Winstone in Scum plus a young Oldman and Roth at work.[/b]
I managed to pick up The Firm for £4.99 in a sale at Blockbuster, and I really enjoyed the film - beware though, it's deeply, deeply violent - not just physically but mentally too. I find it quite disturbing the way in which Gary Oldman's character Bex is on the face of it, a man of sound mind holding down a good job. However, he is, in reality, a violent psychopath who is quite prepared to kill people purely to massage his ego.

The outstanding feature of this film for me though, is the extreme nature of the acting. Gary Oldman and Phil Davis are fine actors and turn in fine performances. However, Charles Lawson (Jim McDonald in Corrie), Steve McFadden (Phil Mitchell in Eastenders) and Patrick Murray (Mickey Pearce in Only Fools and Horses) are television actors, and hell does it show!! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/no.gif[/img]
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'DILEMMA' (1962)

A school teacher returns home from work to find his wife has vanished and a dead body has appeared in the bathroom.
Without further ado; he digs up the front-room floor and sets about burying the body; well, you would, wouldn't you?
Numerous interruptions to his task ensue; including a nosy neighbour bringing him a cup of tea, a blind piano tuner, a policeman making house calls and a boy arriving for piano lessons.
It goes from bad to worse.

Utter crap.
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CROSSPLOT - the newlu released DVD....

Soundtrack seems a bit tinny, but other than that as fun a romp as ever. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img]

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Two Thriller eps,

Spell of evil,
with diane cilento playing a nasty witch with long scatchy finger nails (oops sliped in to fairy liquid mode)
quite entertaining.. sucubus...sucubus...sucubus.

The eyes have it,
peter vaughn,dennis "feme tune" waterman,alun armstrong,sinaed? cussak.
hackneyd "blind" plot a bit slow but not the worst one ive seen.

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Slap up sunday Dinner, and two eps of The New Avengers,

The Trap, with the most ludicrous villain i've seen in a while,the most none chinese looking chinaman with a voice like greenback from Dangermouse,still watchable tho'...ah Purdey. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wub.gif[/img]

The Hostage, highly enjoyable [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img] Steed gone Bad ? [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/no.gif[/img]

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Hotel Babylon
Has anyone else been following this series?
Apart from the luxury there are some good stories and some good performances for the light fluff that it is.

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Yes Steve I have, I missed the first one but watched from the second and it is good. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

What it did remind me of was Hustle with Adrian Lester and Robert Vaughan and looking through IMDb there are connections:

Gareth Neame (son of Christopher) is executive producer of both.
Alrick Riley director of HB and also 2 episodes of Hustle.
Howard Overman who worked with Alrick on Hustle and is part of this writing team.

Like you say light fluff, but nice escapism.

As an afterthought it also had the feeling of the law series North Square which lasted only for one series but IMHO was worth far more, unlike Deed which ran out of puff one or two series ago.

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I think this film is great. I love the part at the end when the police arrive to arrest "Cosh Boy" and decide to come back later so that his step-father can give him a beating first. Ah, those were the days!!!
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