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Old 18-08-2007, 02:00 PM
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I'd put The War Zone up their for mood and subject matter, also Mike Leigh's Naked.

Kes contains one of the funniest scenes in Brian Glovers 'George Best'.
That has got to be the most accurate football scene in any film. Man Utd getting dodgy penalty in last minute

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Old 18-08-2007, 03:52 PM
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Brazil?? Bearing in mind it's a comedy, that's a very bleak ending....from Hollywood, has anyone (apart from Mr Crook) seen Val Lewton's The Seventh Victim, from the 1940's? The final sequence is the tubercular woman leaving the house, for the one last night on the tiles that will kill her, as the chair in the next room topples on the floor, from where the occupant has just hung himself from the lightfitting....
The Seventh Victim certainly isn't the cheeriest of films

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KES, though not without lighter bits, boils down to: a character with only one thing to care about, loses that thing. And not through any personal flaw or mistake, through his wretched circumstances. Film seems to suggest that the bastards WILL grind us down, whatever we do. That's pretty depressing.
I haven't even bothered to watch RATCATCHER...
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Couldn't agree more, although the football match has to be up there with my favourite scenes of all time.
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I agree Aarky what a stupid film dont get me started about that pain in the backside Hugh Grant i hate the man and his films.
Yeps... I feel exactly the same about Hugh Grant... what a waste of space he is. And to think he was once referred to as 'the new Cary Grant' .
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Old 18-08-2007, 05:17 PM
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Yeps... I feel exactly the same about Hugh Grant... what a waste of space he is. And to think he was once referred to as 'the new Cary Grant' .
It's easy to dislike Four Weddings as it was the catalyst for so many cliched rom-coms but snobbery aside, it is a good film and well written. And whilst defending the derided, I'll say Hugh Grant improves significantly when allowed to be roguish as in Bridget Jones and About a Boy.
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Old 18-08-2007, 05:21 PM
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The kitchen sink dramas we brought out in the late fifties and sixties.
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I thought 4 weddings was funny when it first came out and I enjoyed seeing it at the cinema. But it wasn't Hugh Grant that spoilt it for me, it was Andie Macdowell who IMHO wasn't very good.
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"Woman In A Dressing Gown". Wonderful acting.......but not a barrel of laffs!
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I agree Aarky what a stupid film dont get me started about that pain in the backside Hugh Grant i hate the man and his films.
I agree: anything by Richard Curtis that isn't Blackadder.
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Great thread. Personally i like bleak films more often than not but rarely find them depressing so much as say with Threads, i find it frightening but i admire it Damage is my favourite film but it is relentlessly bleak.
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Anything by Ken Loach.
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I think the ending of Land and Freedom is quite inspiring and uplifting, when Kim puts the handful of Spanish earth in her grandfather's grave, and stands with his comrades. And there's some room for optimism at the end of Bread and Roses.
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'Ferry Across the Mersey' once referred to as 'a small peep into hell'
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...I'll say Hugh Grant improves significantly when allowed to be roguish as in Bridget Jones and About a Boy.
I have seen a movie, I think, where Hugh Grant was an utter scoundrel... and thought his performance rather good... Its the only movie I've been able to stand him in... but I cannot for the life of me remember the title
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...But it wasn't Hugh Grant that spoilt it for me, it was Andie Macdowell who IMHO wasn't very good.
Ugh, yuck, spoooo, Andie MacDowell... Another reason to despise the movie.
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Waterloo Bridge, because it's so sad and Orphans because it is just so downbeat.
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