RugbyRebels

Was that not what you assumed it would be going in to it? You have only yourself to blame.

It wasn't even vaguely entertaining. There are dozens of these stupid comic book things being churned out.

Never again.

Have seen shape of water and 3 billboards and not been very impressed with either - lot of dross picking up Oscars this year

Hollywood

paddy no 11 wrote:Das boot- oh to have seen this one in the cinema, classic

Only with subtitles. Otherwise it's balls.
'La Cage aux Folles' is another that must be watched with subtitles....and that French classic about the inappropriate guest. He's like a Columbo....??

kk67 wrote:

paddy no 11 wrote:Das boot- oh to have seen this one in the cinema, classic

Only with subtitles. Otherwise it's balls.
'La Cage aux Folles' is another that must be watched with subtitles....and that French classic about the inappropriate guest. He's like a Columbo....??

I prefer Das Boot without subtitles, I find them a distraction and don't always convey the meaning of the dialogue very well.

Have you ever watched Apocalypto with the sub-titles turned off. Its amazing!

Amazing that even without a single understandable syllable of dialogue Mel Gibson is capable of producing utter shyte.

SerjeantWildgoose wrote:Have you ever watched Apocalypto with the sub-titles turned off. Its amazing!

Amazing that even without a single understandable syllable of dialogue Mel Gibson is capable of producing utter shyte.

It’s the kind of shite I would only watch while being incarcerated in economy on a transatlantic flight.

I first saw it playing in the background of the Java Coffee House in departures at Jomo Kenyata Airport. It was around 7 o'clock in the morning and while all the Happy Valley mammies and daddies were getting their first fix of the day, their unattended kids were all glued to a muted movie showing Mayans having their living hearts ripped out and scoffed in front of their not yet dead eyes. Nice.

It struck me at the time that I may have missed something due to the lack of dialogue. Turns out I hadn't.

Going to say this only once,....Das Boot and La Cage Aux Folles must be seen with subs.
That's just a fact of life. Same as original Producers is definitive.

Stones of granite wrote: I prefer Das Boot without subtitles,

You lie. No one prefers Das Boot without subtitles. They made the ginger fella sound like a twat.

kk67 wrote:

Stones of granite wrote: I prefer Das Boot without subtitles,

You lie. No one prefers Das Boot without subtitles. They made the ginger fella sound like a twat.

He was a twat!

morepork wrote:It wasn't even vaguely entertaining. There are dozens of these stupid comic book things being churned out.

Never again.

Nah it's fine.

SerjeantWildgoose wrote:Have you ever watched Apocalypto with the sub-titles turned off. Its amazing!

Amazing that even without a single understandable syllable of dialogue Mel Gibson is capable of producing utter shyte.

Nah, it's fine.

kk67 wrote:

Stones of granite wrote: I prefer Das Boot without subtitles,

You lie. No one prefers Das Boot without subtitles. They made the ginger fella sound like a twat.

Ahem - somepeople are bilingual you know. Hell, some speak a dozen different languages - but we mosty ignore the Swisss

OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies and OSS 117: Lost in Rio

Has to be subtitled versions, both had me in tears of laughter.

J Dory wrote:OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies and OSS 117: Lost in Rio

Has to be subtitled versions, both had me in tears of laughter.

Good call. Cheers.

The Cloverfield Paradox

Ahahaha, what a load of shit. It's The Drifting Classroom, but far less interesting or horrific, and far more confusing and stupid.

Interesting bit of movie trivia. Alan Parker was a big fan of Andy Ripley. Which is why sigourney's character is also called Ripley.

kk67 wrote:Interesting bit of movie trivia. Alan Parker was a big fan of Andy Ripley. Which is why sigourney's character is also called Ripley.

what is Alan Parkers connection with the Alien films??

I read the paperback because I was too young to see the movie . I was thinking Parker had written the screenplay but it was Ridley Scott. Maybe it was him that was a Ripley fan. I saw someone say it.
Many years ago, probably when the 2nd movie was being released.

kk67 wrote:I read the paperback because I was too young to see the movie . I was thinking Parker had written the screenplay but it was Ridley Scott. Maybe it was him that was a Ripley fan. I saw someone say it.
Many years ago, probably when the 2nd movie was being released.

Well...



this is awkward....

Seems apt:

cashead wrote:

kk67 wrote:I read the paperback because I was too young to see the movie . I was thinking Parker had written the screenplay but it was Ridley Scott. Maybe it was him that was a Ripley fan. I saw someone say it.
Many years ago, probably when the 2nd movie was being released.

Well...



this is awkward....

zooms over my head!

Banquo wrote: zooms over my head!

mine too - even google image search didn't help
I guess it's because we're normal people who don't tend to know what the people behind the camera looks like.
Hell, personally, I struggle to know what the people the camera points at look like.

Banquo wrote:

cashead wrote:

kk67 wrote:I read the paperback because I was too young to see the movie . I was thinking Parker had written the screenplay but it was Ridley Scott. Maybe it was him that was a Ripley fan. I saw someone say it.
Many years ago, probably when the 2nd movie was being released.

Well...



this is awkward....

zooms over my head!

The two guys in the first photo are Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett, who wrote the original script. O’Bannon did the majority of the writing, while Shusett’s major contribution was coming up with a way to get the creature on the Nostromo (“What if it screwed one of them?”). While O’Bannon had written the character who would become Ripley as a man, he added a note under the character list (which was also lacking any first names), that all characters in the film are unisex, which led to Ridley Scott agreeing to looking for an actress to fill the lead role.

The second photo is Walter Hill and David Giler, who are 2/3 of the producers that make up Brandywine Productions (the other is Gordon Carroll, who passed away in 2005). They rewrote the script over 8 drafts, renamed all the characters and introduced the Ash subplot.