Watched last night

[faginsgirl]

Watched last night - Avatar on Channel 4.

I suppose that after spending all that money on the CGI they couldn't afford anything for a story

So the Americans (yes, you know they are) go to another strange land to rob it of its mineral wealth and they first have to get the natives to move out of the way. The natives use bows and arrows, paint their faces and have great respect for the forces of nature. It's another modern "Western" straight out of the "Dances With Wolves" school.

The hero is straight out of "John Carter of Mars" (the books, not the terrible film), the heroine is Pocahontas, but with more flesh exposed - even if it is blue - to keep the adult males happy. The baddies are all super-evil psychotics without a single redeeming feature.

What a waste of time and talent

Steve

The most boring film I ever saw.

[CaptainWaggett]

The most boring film I ever saw.

Oh, I think you're being too generous there . I was lured into seeing it after reading a thread here praising it and I did discover that the best thing about 3d glasses is that nobody can tell when you fall asleep

[torinfan]

The most boring film I ever saw.

Over here, "Avatar" is commonly called, "Smurfs from Outer Space."

[dpgmel]

Another Buthcers film for me : Peter Maxwell's 1958 effort Blind Spot, Robert Mackenzie plays a blinded American serviceman in England who stumbles upon a murder and a smuggling racket.

It nefer ceases to amaze me at the number of blind people in films who can regainb their sight this is pretty poor and poverty row even by Butcvers standards, Mr MacKenzie shows why according to IMDB he only made three films- he can't act for toffee and his leading lady is little better, saving graces partially come from Gordon Jackson and in an early role Michael Caine.

Another for the b movie completists here.

[CaptainWaggett]

Another Buthcers film for me : Peter Maxwell's 1958 effort Blind Spot, Robert Mackenzie plays a blinded American serviceman in England who stumbles upon a murder and a smuggling racket.

It nefer ceases to amaze me at the number of blind people in films who can regainb their sight this is pretty poor and poverty row even by Butcvers standards, Mr MacKenzie shows why according to IMDB he only made three films- he can't act for toffee and his leading lady is little better, saving graces partially come from Gordon Jackson and in an early role Michael Caine.

Another for the b movie completists here.

The leading man did go on to better things though...

[dpgmel]

The leading man did go on to better things though...

Really are they one and the same man ?????

[CaptainWaggett]

Really are they one and the same man ?????

Sadly not Though the 1979 election was one of the few things even less entertaining than Blind Spot

[dpgmel]

Sadly not Though the 1979 election was one of the few things even less entertaining than Blind Spot

You're a tinker aren't you ! * scurries away to plot revenge *

[Harbottle]

Gaolbreak (1962). Tobacconist by day and criminal mastermind by night Peter Reynolds has a big job planned but his safe-breaker is inside. A middling Butchers B effort where naturally the plot becomes unnecessarily convoluted, but also manages to be quite dull.

[Steve Crook]

The most boring film I ever saw.

Over here, "Avatar" is commonly called, "Smurfs from Outer Space."

And for those who didn't get enough of it this week - Channel 4 are showing it again next week

Maybe some people liked the blue boobies - and I don't mean the heroine's exposed flesh

Steve

[dpgmel]

Gaolbreak (1962). Tobacconist by day and criminal mastermind by night Peter Reynolds has a big job planned but his safe-breaker is inside. A middling Butchers B effort where naturally the plot becomes unnecessarily convoluted, but also manages to be quite dull.

But at least it features Carol White which IMHO is never a bad thing.

[dpgmel]

A modern film for me last night : Roland Emerich's Anonymous in which the director seeks to convince us that Shakespeare didn't write the 37 plays etc after all and it was really the Earl of Oxford in the shape of Rhys Ifans , a premise I wasn't convinced by- the film is a bit of a curate's egg fine in parts but overall disappointing and too long

Praise though for Mr Ifans who was easily the best thing about the film

[moonfleet]

A modern film for me last night : Roland Emerich's Anonymous ...

For now, I can not watch any film with the word anonymous in ...it's just, heu ...nervous

[Mr Sloane]

A modern film for me last night : Roland Emerich's Anonymous in which the director seeks to convince us that Shakespeare didn't write the 37 plays etc after all and it was really the Earl of Oxford in the shape of Rhys Ifans , a premise I wasn't convinced by- the film is a bit of a curate's egg fine in parts but overall disappointing and too long

Praise though for Mr Ifans who was easily the best thing about the film

I watched Pimpernel Smith (which propounded the same theory about Shakespeare!).An enjoyable propaganda piece with a very good Leslie Howard ably supported by a cast full of FF's.

[CaptainWaggett]

A modern film for me last night : Roland Emerich's Anonymous in which the director seeks to convince us that Shakespeare didn't write the 37 plays etc after all and it was really the Earl of Oxford in the shape of Rhys Ifans , a premise I wasn't convinced by- the film is a bit of a curate's egg fine in parts but overall disappointing and too long

Praise though for Mr Ifans who was easily the best thing about the film

The whole thing about the Globe audiences being too stupid to tell fact from fiction was rather jaw-dropping when you consider that Henry V was being played by...the former director of the Globe Also jaw-dropping was quite how unvirginal the Virgin Queen was

[dpgmel]

The whole thing about the Globe audiences being too stupid to tell fact from fiction was rather jaw-dropping when you consider that Henry V was being played by...the former director of the Globe Also jaw-dropping was quite how unvirginal the Virgin Queen was

Yes she obviously had a good PR consultant working for her and was Robert Cecil really a hunchback ?

[Sgt Sunshine]

Wendy Hiller & Roger Livesey in Powell & Pressburger's "I Know Where I'm Going"....



Very good scenery and especially enjoyed the whirlpool scene. Instantly recognised Finlay Currie and John Laurie.
Was overall quite impressed by only my second P&P.....
7.5/10
Cheers
Sgt S

[dremble wedge]

Re Anonymous it could only have been more bonkers if it revealed the ghost of Martin Luther was responsible for the Bard's work

It does look absolutely fantastic though, the best recreation of Shakesperean London I've seen. And we all know the Queen was naughtier than she let on, especially after she met the Doctor...

[CaptainWaggett]

Yes she obviously had a good PR consultant working for her and was Robert Cecil really a hunchback ?

Actually that bit is true - it's rather a surprise they didn't give Henry Daniell a hump in Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex. An opportunity missed there.

[Mr Sloane]

Actually that bit is true - it's rather a surprise they didn't give Henry Daniell a hump in Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex. An opportunity missed there.

Bette gave everyone the hump in that.