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Post by Carl LaFong on May 14, 2020 14:50:55 GMT
In the Realm of the Senses - infamous Japanese film feature scenes of unsimulated sex.
Booooooooooooooooooring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only bit I liked was when the guy stuck a boiled egg (peeled) up the nympho's fanny and she had to get it out by imitating a chicken laying an egg!
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Post by Carl LaFong on May 14, 2020 14:52:13 GMT
Just binge watched the first season of Fargo. Absolutely brilliant. Without doubt the best series I've watched since Breaking Bad. Anyone else seen it? Yup, fantastic stuff. S2 is just as good if not better (though slightly let down by an unconvincing finale.) S3 is OK but nowhere near the quality of the first two. S4 must be arriving soon.
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Post by Carl LaFong on May 14, 2020 14:53:15 GMT
Just finished The Spiral Staircase (1946). Really good horror-thriller with a solid cast - Ethel Barrymore , Elsa Lanchester, Dorothy McGuire, Rhonda Fleming and George Brent. I did have 100% confidence in who the murderer was right from the beginning but it sill was a great watch. Great acting and some really good dark photography made it a perfect thriller. Directed by: Robert Siodmak Yeah, I own that one. Great stuff. I love Ethel Barrymore in anything.
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Post by tristramshandy on May 14, 2020 14:59:07 GMT
Just binge watched the first season of Fargo. Absolutely brilliant. Without doubt the best series I've watched since Breaking Bad. Anyone else seen it? Yup, fantastic stuff. S2 is just as good if not better (though slightly let down by an unconvincing finale.) S3 is OK but nowhere near the quality of the first two. S4 must be arriving soon. Yeah, it's close, but I'm slightly more of a fan of season 2. Both the first two are fantastic.
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Post by Midi-Chlorian_Count on May 14, 2020 15:16:58 GMT
Thanks guys - Will definitely give Season 2 a watch next. Was just reading elsewhere that 3 might not be worth it but we'll see...
As a standalone bit of television though, I thought that season 1 was fantastic.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on May 14, 2020 15:35:49 GMT
In the Realm of the Senses - infamous Japanese film feature scenes of unsimulated sex. I remember watching it a LOOOONG time ago.
It wasn't for an interest in Japanese cinema, I can tell you that...
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Post by WullieFort on May 14, 2020 16:18:30 GMT
Just binge watched the first season of Fargo. Absolutely brilliant. Without doubt the best series I've watched since Breaking Bad. Anyone else seen it? The cast was sensational. Billy Bob and Martin Freeman were made for one another. The former can be disturbingly scary without making a lot of noise while the latter can be noisy when a bit of quiet is called for. Reminiscent of William H Macy in the film version. IMO Season 2 just about matches it where Zahn McClarnon just about steals the show.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 14, 2020 21:24:27 GMT
Just finished Episode 2 of Creepshow
Definitely recommend for Tales From the Crypt, Tales From the Darkside (reminds me more of this), Twilight Zone, etc fans....
Better than I expected.
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Post by Midi-Chlorian_Count on May 14, 2020 22:21:37 GMT
Just binge watched the first season of Fargo. Absolutely brilliant. Without doubt the best series I've watched since Breaking Bad. Anyone else seen it? The cast was sensational. Billy Bob and Martin Freeman were made for one another. The former can be disturbingly scary without making a lot of noise while the latter can be noisy when a bit of quiet is called for. Reminiscent of William H Macy in the film version. IMO Season 2 just about matches it where Zahn McClarnon just about steals the show. Yes, Billy Bob Thornton especially was absolutely fantastic. Looking forward to watching the second series now. It's weird, completely overlooked this for so long simply based upon thinking it was just a spun out version of the film and not wanting to waste my time on it. Couldn't have been more wrong...
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Post by sdm3 on May 14, 2020 22:52:27 GMT
Just binge watched the first season of Fargo. Absolutely brilliant. Without doubt the best series I've watched since Breaking Bad. Anyone else seen it? Yup, fantastic stuff. S2 is just as good if not better (though slightly let down by an unconvincing finale.) S3 is OK but nowhere near the quality of the first two. S4 must be arriving soon. Agreed. S1 and S2 were superb, especially S2. Some of the best TV I've seen. S3 is fine, but certainly a step down. I liked David Thewlis' character but I don't know that I could remember anything else about that season.
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Post by sdm3 on May 14, 2020 23:11:31 GMT
It's the weird way that personal experience affects our sense of time. I was born in 1970, so even though I know the following is not true, the gap in time between classic rock and punk rock feels to me like is much longer than it logically is. 1967 is Sgt. Pepper, The Doors debut, Are You Experienced?, Disraeli Gears, Their Satanic Majesties Request, etc. 1977 is Never Mind the Bollocks, The Clash debut, Damned Damned Damned, Pink Flag, Marquee Moon, etc. That gap seemed enormous to me - - still does. And yet, what is the difference between 2010 and 2020 in music? I think of The Strokes debut as being recent - - it was released in 2001. Nineteen years before the '77 punk albums would have been 1958. The major artists of 1958 are Bobby Darin, Paul Anka, and Lloyd Price - - and yet that's the difference in time between 2001 and now. Agreed. If I show my 5 year old son a movie from 1984 -- 30 years before he was born, it would be the equivalent of me at 5 watching a movie from 1947-- which makes my head hurt. Time before and after you're born feels incomprehensible that way. I remember collecting comic books as a kid in the late 80s, I had a comic book from 1964 which seemed impossibly old. Any current comic book I bought off the shelf as a kid is older now than that comic book was then. You also have to consider how we view contemporary life in our heads compared to history. Meaning you think about events or people in any given time period, but you don't understand the subtle nuances in how language or fashion may have changed decade by decade. Of course the farther you go back, the slower change is going to be; it's not like the 20th century and on where globalism, mass media and truly expendable income make it possible for so many people to consume culture, forcing it to evolve at a faster rate. That and of course modern technology, which builds on itself at such a rate as to make life even 20 years ago feel impossible to return to. As an aside, I like to imagine the life of a person born in 1875 who lived to their late 90s. They would've been 6 years old when the gunfight at the OK Corral happened; old enough to remember hearing about it in real time. That person lived to see man walk on the moon. Bringing it back to music, I've mentioned before my difficulty in judging modern music. To me, it feels like the 1990s (and really only the first half) were the last decade to have a distinct sound. Maybe it's because I'm too old; but I do think a lot of it has to do with how much music emulates past eras these days. There's a ton of faux 80s synth pop out there, as well as retro rock with a 60s or 70s sound. One difference in pop music I can think of is the inclusion of little rap riffs in the middle of songs, though it's really because pop has been infused with hip hop for 30+ years now. Rock branched out into 'alt rock' (which again is really code for 'this sounds like a combination of things you've heard before') while pop mutated into a kind of 'hip pop' (yes I just made that term up and I want copyrights now!). I don't listen to hip hop anymore so I can't really comment on how or if it's evolved over the last 20 years. Seems like a lot of talking without much effort put into lyricism, unlike the rap of my youth-- but again, that's probably just an old guy's opinion. Another musical shift I find noticeable is how all 'country' music now is just slightly twangy pop crossover stuff. I was never a country fan, but my mother used to listen to it when I was a kid, so I can hear how it's changed. The kind of stuff Garth Brooks was getting criticized for 'selling out' for back in the 90s is like 100% of modern 'country' as far as I can tell. What the change in music in the late 60s through the 70s and beyond shows you is how enormous the cultural shifts really were, not just in music. I'll bring up comic books for the second time in this post because I'm a nerd. Stuff from the early 60s was incredibly sexist; female characters always questioning their own value in thought bubbles, etc. Fast forward to the 80s when I was a kid reading comics, women were leading superhero teams and nobody thought twice about it. The characters didn't discuss it, it wasn't relevant. The women's movement had drastically altered the landscape for the better. Likewise the continued questioning of the status quo and the blending of musical ideas from across different nations as well as ethnicities brought about stuff in the 1970s that you simply could not have imagined in 1958. And it only took off from there. One of the fun things I do is flip through the presets in my car (XM) and see how all of the different types of music connect. Some are farther apart than others, but almost all of them are cousins at the very least. We've come a long way from the 1950s, but if you listen hard enough, you can trace the audio DNA back for decades. The passage of time is bewildering. I joined the original IMDb boards in 2005. I was 13 years old. Films released just 13 years before then (1992, if anyone was trying to figure that out), at that time, seemed like a fairly long time ago. Yet the timespan between 2005 and 2020 is even greater than the period of time I considered to be so long back then. Put it another way. I have spent more than half my life as a poster on IMDb or IMDB2. I hope they don't put that on my tombstone. I remember considering The Godfather to be an ancient film. Let's say I had that thought in 2005 also. The Godfather was 33 years old at that time. It will turn 50, two years from now, but it feels to me like nary the blink of an eye has passed between 2005 and now. What films are 33 years old now? RoboCop, Lethal Weapon, Predator. That means a 13-year-old kid now would consider those films similarly ancient. Ancient. RoboCop! Your son will probably think GoldenEye belongs in an antiques museum. That film came out in 1995! Dr. No (1962), the first James Bond film, will be 60 years old in 2022. 60 years before 1962 was 1902. 1902! That seems a fucking eternity before 1962, let alone 2020. Two World Wars occurred within that timeframe. Yet it's the same amount of time as 1962-2022. It's just incomprehensible to me.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 15, 2020 6:57:48 GMT
Snapped - Mary Winkler
'A preacher's wife finds a sinful solution to a financial crisis and a troubled marriage'
I'm thinking she killed her husband folks. Let's see what happens.
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Post by Carl LaFong on May 15, 2020 17:15:26 GMT
Saw a nice little Hungarian movie today, On Body and Soul. It’s about two loners who work in an abattoir who discover that they share the same dream when they’re asleep at night. The two central performances are terrific. Also the dream sequences of two dear in a forest are beautifully filmed. Horrible scene of an abattoir in action so avoid if you can’t bear to watch animals suffering. I ffwded through that bit. There was a caption in the post film credits that really did read “Animals were harmed in the making of this film”. Also a very brief but explicit shot of anal sex. I didn’t ffwd through that bit! www.imdb.com/title/tt5607714/reference
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Post by Carl LaFong on May 15, 2020 17:32:49 GMT
More recent watches: The Tin Drum (director’s cut): really well made film. Looks amazing. Haven’t read the book. Terrific performance by the 11 year old playing the drummer. I had previously thought that it was David Hemings acting while on his knees!
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Post by Carl LaFong on May 15, 2020 17:36:29 GMT
Love in the Afternoon - watchable but typical Eric Rohmer film. Not top drawer Rohmer.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on May 15, 2020 17:40:17 GMT
Love in the Afternoon - watchable but typical Eric Rohmer film. Not top drawer Rohmer. I like Éric Rohmer a lot. I don't think I've seen that one though.
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Post by Carl LaFong on May 15, 2020 17:42:10 GMT
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis.
Vittorio di Sica film about an aristocratic Jewish family living in Ferrara in the lead up to WW2.
Fantastic cinematography. Touchingly sad film about a time long gone.
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Post by Carl LaFong on May 15, 2020 17:43:58 GMT
Love in the Afternoon - watchable but typical Eric Rohmer film. Not top drawer Rohmer. I like Éric Rohmer a lot. I don't think I've seen that one though.
Worth a watch. The lead actress was apparently a famous model/ pop groupie named Zouzou.
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Post by Aj_June on May 16, 2020 8:54:27 GMT
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 16, 2020 14:14:04 GMT
Young Guns 1 & 2
A shame there's not more great modern westerns out there.
Think I'll watch The Proposition after them.
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