What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[keirarts]

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Fantastic bbc ghost story I missed first time around (on account of being 10 years old and not allowed to watch it. ) Doing a bit of tidying around the house and found it in the stacks, decided to stick it on and give it a go.

Albert Finney plays a druncan womanising landlord of an old cambridgshire inn called the Green man, run as a high class (and priced) restaurant. Finney's character enjoys regaling the guests with tales of the ghosts that haunt the inn.

After his father passes away, he begins to realise that there may be more truth to the stories than he first imagined, pretty soon he's communicating with a 17th century cambridge proffessor who may have discovered a way to continue on after death...

The benefit of a 3 episode, 50 minutes an episode series like this is that it gives the story time to devlop properly, add to this the stella cast and Green man is a ghost story well worth checking out.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

I can name at least 6 people on here, who, oddly enough, rub themselves with Vaseline before watching a film.

Go on then.

Name them!

[James Morton]

Originally Posted by Justin101

Watched Cigarette Burns last night, I really enjoyed it, it was quite a kick when the lead happened to be Darryl from The Walking Dead!
The only thing it was lacking was a proper John Carpenter score, the music was too 'American TV' - which obviously fits the fact it was a TV show.

the music was by Carpenter's son Cody

[Rik]

Originally Posted by keirarts

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Fantastic bbc ghost story I missed first time around (on account of being 10 years old and not allowed to watch it. ) Doing a bit of tidying around the house and found it in the stacks, decided to stick it on and give it a go.

Albert Finney plays a druncan womanising landlord of an old cambridgshire inn called the Green man, run as a high class (and priced) restaurant. Finney's character enjoys regaling the guests with tales of the ghosts that haunt the inn.

After his father passes away, he begins to realise that there may be more truth to the stories than he first imagined, pretty soon he's communicating with a 17th century cambridge proffessor who may have discovered a way to continue on after death...

The benefit of a 3 episode, 50 minutes an episode series like this is that it gives the story time to devlop properly, add to this the stella cast and Green man is a ghost story well worth checking out.

I remember watching this at the time, I guess my parents were used to me watching Horrors and reading Stephen King books at this point seeing as I was 11 when this aired and they let me watch it. Can't remember a damn thing about it now though!

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by James Morton

the music was by Carpenter's son Cody

Yes I know, but Cody doesn't make music like his dad so it didn't work for me.

[Demoncrat]

Prometheus. Is it the sci fi equivalent of Dinosaur Jr's "Don't"? Or a horrible mish mash of varied cliches from the last 60 years of fantastic cinema? Regardless, I liked it. The Cthulhu-y facehugger a highlight imo.

[Justin101]

I also watched Prometheus, it started off ace, really quite exciting, then just went a bit meh by the end, it got to a point where I really didn't care about what was happening on screen. It 'looked' really nice though.

[VicDakin]

not watched this for ages,so watching at the mo.............

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Who Dares Wins (1982)

An absolutely terrific final twenty minutes brilliantly enhanced by an excellent theme. The film shows the SAS at work in a very realistic way, there are no gun battles as such, just quick fire single shots as each terrorist is despatched with perfect clinical precision.

Its just a shame that the opening hundred minutes feel a bit laboured, especially the two musical performances which go on for far too long.

[VicDakin]

Originally Posted by Demdike

Who Dares Wins (1982)

An absolutely terrific final twenty minutes brilliantly enhanced by an excellent theme. The film shows the SAS at work in a very realistic way, there are no gun battles as such, just quick fire single shots as each terrorist is despatched with perfect clinical precision.

Its just a shame that the opening hundred minutes feel a bit laboured, especially the two musical performances which go on for far too long.

yeah well not if they'd used Mud or Slade,then it would of been the perfect film