15-02-2014, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Patsy
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Mark - can you 'only' watch the docu on computer - shame if so, i'd love to see it .....
.Like I have mentioned in a number of posts - rig your laptop, or computer, to the TV as it opens up a whole new world of entertainment.
15-02-2014, 05:46 PM
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Originally Posted by daisymay
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Was furkling up and down the channels the other night and came across District 9. Saw this a few years back but worth a second go. Anyone else seen this film? Another little known product of the Blomkamp/Jackson team but still one of the best sci-fi movies ever. This is despite the fact that it starts out feeling like one of those cheapo amateur films made with a hand held video cam, because suddenly you are into the story and it no longer matters.A few odd facts I discovered when looking this film up. District 9 was actually filmed on a real settlement which was being cleared and the people rehoused, quite literally the 'prawns' were being moved into shacks as the inhabitants were moved out. In those early scenes the conversations between the prawns and Wikus were ad libbed, and 'all' those initial 'prawns' were acted by the one actor.
For all you sci-fi fans who have not seen this film I recommend you do so asap.
15-02-2014, 07:52 PM
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I love to watch the old British films on utube, I like the pre war ones best, the ones made during the war years always had some kind of message in them and I never liked war pictures to begin with, and then you had Arthur Askey, I could never stand that man. When my late brother and me were kids we used to laugh at the names in the film credits to pass the time until we got to the actual film itself, which felt like years at the time. Anyway I copped something in the opening credits that made me chuckle, the film was "The Browning Version" and it was produced by a chap called "Teddy Baird", seems he did a lot of producing before the war notably "Pygmalion" in 1938. Visions went through my head of him and his family going off on a sunny Sunday afternoon and one neighbour remarking to another "Today's the day the Teddy Bairds have their picnic", don't mind me, silly things go through my head.
02-03-2014, 03:06 AM
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Just watched "Paul" which I boxed a while back. Really enjoyed it, there are some really funny digs at American culture, and several references, both visual and verbal to some iconic sci-fi films (made me wonder how much such things had cost). In my humble opinion well worth a couple of hours.
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