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Old 23-08-2007, 09:38 AM
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I didn't see it, but from what I read about it, my main thoughts were: This character has a job, her own flat, lots of friends… What the hell is she whining about? 'She hasn't got a boyfriend'? Big deal! They're only optional extras.
My thoughts exactly Who needs a boyfriend when you have lots of friends to enjoy life with.

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Old 23-08-2007, 09:50 AM
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Old 23-08-2007, 11:23 AM
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My thoughts exactly Who needs a boyfriend when you have lots of friends to enjoy life with.
I certainly don't

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Old 23-08-2007, 11:29 AM
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Old 24-08-2007, 07:34 AM
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I read a review yesterday of the film This Filthy Earth( with Dudley Sutton ). I've not seen it but based on the extract included below I think I would nominate as 'most depressing British movie' sight unseen :-)

This Filthy Earth Review
111 minutes, UK (2001), 15
A downright mucky, low-budget film, with desperation and prejudice festering in an isolated rural community. Partly based on Émile Zola's classic, 'La Terre'

This Filthy Earth establishes its tone immediately: with mud, farmyard muck, piss, pus, and, notably, bull semen, which ends up all over the hand of heroine Francine (Palmer) as she helps a bull service her cow. Andrew Kötting's first fictional feature, (he previously made the award-winning documentary Gallivant), is set in an isolated rural community, a filthy netherworld where an ancient tractor represents the height of technology.
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Old 24-08-2007, 07:12 PM
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Old 25-08-2007, 01:28 AM
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Yes, TRAINSPOTTING is pretty depressing.

Others - LETTER TO BRESHNEV and WISH YOU WERE HERE. Although both of these are interesting period pieces...the first by accident (who could've foreseen the imminent demise of the Soviet Union!), and the second by design.
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Old 25-08-2007, 08:52 AM
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The 1984 version of '1984' is pretty grim.

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I found Chicago Joe and the Showgirl a depressing experience.
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I found Chicago Joe and the Showgirl a depressing experience.
I actually went to the cinema to see that. It sounded great but was really awful.

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The film, "Jude" which was recently aired again. I went to see it at the flicks when it was released and came out of the theatre in a thoroughly miserable frame of mind.

Apart from the general storyline, the ending is just so awful.

Not helped by the awful "acting" of Kate Winslett.

Worth seeing for the bit where two future Dr. Whos square up to each other.
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Anything with Yvonne Mitchell in - God she was miserable!
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I know it's not a British film but it has many Brits acting, supposedly, namely Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, John Alderton, Sally Anne Newton, Reginald Jarman though you don't see him, he is just a voice, Sara Kestelman and many others......its Zardoz. What a load of old toffee, could not make head or tail of it. Complete rubbish and so boring.

I got this from the IMDB website: In the distant future Earth is divided into two camps, the barely civilized group and the overly civilized one with mental powers. A plague is attacking the second group after which it's members cease to have any interest in life and become nearly catatonic. When Sean Connery one of the barbarians, crosses over, the tenuous balance in their world is threatened.

Yes my mental powers were truly tested that night and I think I had been attacked by the plague that causes its members to cease to have any interest in life and become nearly
catatonic, just twenty minutes of this and you would think you were in another level of conciousness or as I found unconsciousness. I think a movie for the British government to watch so they can see which side they are on.

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I know it's not a British film but it has many Brits acting, supposedly, namely Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, John Alderton, Sally Anne Newton, Reginald Jarman though you don't see him, he is just a voice, Sara Kestelman and many others......its Zardoz. What a load of old toffee, could not make head or tail of it. Complete rubbish and so boring.

I got this from the IMDB website: In the distant future Earth is divided into two camps, the barely civilized group and the overly civilized one with mental powers. A plague is attacking the second group after which it's members cease to have any interest in life and become nearly catatonic. When Sean Connery one of the barbarians, crosses over, the tenuous balance in their world is threatened.

Yes my mental powers were truly tested that night and I think I had been attacked by the plague that causes its members to cease to have any interest in life and become nearly
catatonic, just twenty minutes of this and you would think you were in another level of conciousness or as I found unconsciousness. I think a movie for the British government to watch so they can see which side they are on.

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Love that review! You've got me really interested in seeing it now!

I recently watched Stretford Wives and that was quite a depressing experience.
A miserable story about miserable people living miserable lives. But a good movie nonetheless! Well casted and good acting by all. Rita Tushingham had what amounted to not much more than a cameo role but she shone as always.
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Angela's Ashes.

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