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Die Another Day & To Live & Die In L.A. Die Another Day Pierce Brosnan's last outing as Bond sees him held prisoner in Korea before being released in a prisoner exchange, he then goes after a terrorist and a diamond dealer. Halle Berry and Rosamond Pike Co-Star. I liked this better than others and it was nice to see Bond in more peril than usual, however the CGI scene where he's skiing on ice near the end looks so rubbish. Also when you have a opening credit scene which is more important because of the torture scenes, have a better song because it didn't really fit in. To Live And Die In L.A. William Peterson is a Secret Service Agent that is on the hunt for Willem Dafoe who murdered is partner. This was a film that I was interested in but never got round to getting due to there always being something else. I finally got this in Arrow's 2 for 15 offer and it's a decent slow burner of a movie with a thrilling car chase, not your typical 80's Action/Thriller. Could have sworn that they refer to Defoe's character as Rick not Eric as it's listed on the credits and cover. In the Arrow Blu-Ray, there was a postcard for Inglorious B*st*rds |
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It's on the list in this lair also G, cannae wait. Maleficia (1998, Antoine Pellessier) A recommendation. A period romp where some nobs fall foul of Satanists. VERY gory (old school practical FX) Was described as "Rollin meets Ittenbach" AYE RIGHT MIN FFS 100 minutes later and I'll be hunting down the silly person whom besmirched JR's good name. LAWDY. Tried for a photo, but no luck. SORRY
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(JamieF-DE)__AStitchInTime(1).jpg A STITCH IN TIME (1963) When Mr Gimsdale is admitted to hospital, Norman Pitkin befriends a young orphaned girl Lindy in the children's ward. After being banned from the hospital after several events, Pitkin tries all ways to fulfil his promise to visit Lindy. My favourite of Norman's films. Very funny with some nice sentimental moments. blow-out-cinema-quad-movie-poster-(1).jpg BLOW OUT (1981) Sound effects technician John Travolta sees and records the audio of an accident late at night. He discovers a cover up when a gun shot appears on the sound tape but it is reported as a tyre blow out. Had not seen this movie in a good long while so good to revisit. A good, sometimes tense movie which I think is often overlooked. |
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2001: A Space Odyssey. 1968. After the discovery of a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a team are set out to find its origins with the help of a Artificial Intelligence computer named H.A.L. 9000. Aside from Planet of the apes coming out in the same year, this is one of the best Science-Fiction films from the 60s and seems to have a hate/confused following while others (like myself) enjoyed it. It has stunning cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth who seems to capture everything in a slow motionless way. The start does tend to drag on a bit then becomes more of a battle of survival with a computer than can control everything that you are only second guessing to what the computer and astronaut will do as if they are playing a game of chess. The set designs that were created by Kubrick are amazing from the Pan-Am Space Shuttle to the spinning space station and to the interior and exterior of the space ship Discovery, Kier Dullea, Gary Lockwood play the doctors/scientists who are bound for the Lunar surface, and Douglas Rain who provides the voice of H.A.L. the interaction is well built up as they see him as part of the team then the enemy. The only thing that does confuse me is the ending with the Artifact. stock-video-2001-a-space-odyssey-intro-style-template-11077.jpg
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I've seen it at least 10 times and haven't yet decided what the ending means to me!
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I remember BBC2 or something showing 2001 in the afternoon and i missed it because nobody else in my family wanted to watch it. When i finally saw it it always struck me as a dark film that transcends the old U certificate it had at the time, nothing is really disturbing if you take the film on face value alone but once you sit and watch the film it is truly unnerving. I love it and i have my own idea of what it all means but having said that it should have been tightened up to the last half of the film, the first hour or so is pretty dull.
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I think i thought of it as a more universal knowledge / zeitgeist thing that is getting reborn but passing on it's knowledge like the Monolith sparking advancement, it doesn't pass on everything but there is a universal awareness and genetic progression. He see's himself as an old man then we see the embryo in space. It's like seeing your life before you and getting some kind of satisfaction and sense of accomplishment, without regret. Completion. If there is a god being i can see it being more of a force, like Gaia that holds the universe together, a basic force that doesn't judge or control in any form, but expands consciousness and holds the universe together, so an embryo sums that up i feel, an entity that is just being, a basic force of nature, not male or female just pure. I mean if there is a omnipresent god why is he such a piece of shit to make children suffer or even pass judgement, everybody has their own problems and a helluva lot of it is self contained and due to upbringing or environment, if there is a conscious god he is a prick and i don't want anything to do with the ****er.(sorry, just venting) The space gate to me was the primordial soup of being, you can't comprehend it but it kind of was like a god like pure state, if you stare into the abyss for too long it sends you mad. Wasn't that a Nietzsche quote? This is my interpretation of the final section of 2001, i love the Daisy daisy section but that is a straightforward man against machine face off, if you look at it this way, the first section with the bone spaceship leap is humanity in a basic primitive sense progressing beyond it's capabilities. The computer against the man is progression of technology, overcoming it's progenitor or at least attempting to, it is where AI is heading, even if it doesn't succeed it will happen. But i think the real message is that man knows nothing, AI will not win because there is always a universal force that is far more advanced than we can comprehend. Man, if you wan't to look at it in a basic sense, we cut the grass, plant the seeds but nature and the universe does the rest. I may have been high though.
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