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Been watching the Johnny Cash / Folsom Prison thing on BBC4. I never realised Folsom Prison Blues was half-inched from someone else.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3M3Igjnbhs
The original sounds just as good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3M3Igjnbhs
The original sounds just as good.
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Am I the only person who hates it and finds it really irritating?General Mannerheim wrote:New episode of Gavin & Stacey was better than i expected. Really hope its another good series, just got a feeling it might be a bit shit this time - them two milked it for all they could with that dreadful film and the tragic sketch show - and were slated for them quite rightly. then all of a sudden they pop up with a brand new series of G&S!? just hope its not a bit rushed?
The wee blonde is nice though

General Mannerheim wrote:Watched Frost/Nixon myself last night, wasn’t a ‘wow, would watch that again’ type of film but still very good, and interesting.Lord Kangana wrote:Watched Frost/Nixon the other night for the first time. Cracking stuff, the seeds of the modern failure in politics is all right there.Verbal wrote:why did i choose this night to be stuck in the library? "Need" to see this film, and read the book.Lord Kangana wrote:Anyway, All The Presidents Men is on at 9 on some funny cable channel near film4.
I am almost 30 years old, but I had never heard about the Frost/Nixon interviews before until this film came out and was nominated for all those Oscars. To me David Frost was the geezer off ‘Through the Keyhole’!
I had read a little on Watergate after that bit in Forest Gump when he see’s the torch lights flickering round some government office, and wondered once what suffix ‘gate’ meant. I had also read a little about Nixon, though mainly through Hunter S Thompson’s demonised characterisations – which to be honest is where my interest in the film probably stemmed.
Disappointingly, Nixon dosent seem as bad and evil as I’d hoped!?
The whole point of Nixon in the film is him trying to publicly exonerate himself from his misgivings.
Not the greatest film, and one in which I think Sheen is completely swamped by Langella's performance.
"Young people, nowadays, imagine money is everything."
"Yes, and when they grow older they know it."
"Yes, and when they grow older they know it."
Nope. It's terrible. James Cordon is about as funny as AuschwitzRaven wrote:Am I the only person who hates it and finds it really irritating?General Mannerheim wrote:New episode of Gavin & Stacey was better than i expected. Really hope its another good series, just got a feeling it might be a bit shit this time - them two milked it for all they could with that dreadful film and the tragic sketch show - and were slated for them quite rightly. then all of a sudden they pop up with a brand new series of G&S!? just hope its not a bit rushed?
The wee blonde is nice though
In a world that has decided
That it's going to lose its mind
Be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind.
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Be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind.
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and the English speaking German & Russian characters, which dents its authenticity slightly.Lord Kangana wrote:Spoiled a little by the schmaltzy "love interest". Stretching it a bit in history's biggest battle. Still, good film, and they had to sell it to the yanks.
summat Inglourious didnt let itself down with.
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Watched 'Shooting Dogs' in prep for my presentation on filmic representations of the Rwandan genocide.
Very good, though I'm not sure it does a good enough job at looking into the reasons for non involvement 'outside' Rwanda. Very good though, as I say.
Though I still maintain '100 Days' is the best film to represent what happened. By a long way.
Very good, though I'm not sure it does a good enough job at looking into the reasons for non involvement 'outside' Rwanda. Very good though, as I say.
Though I still maintain '100 Days' is the best film to represent what happened. By a long way.
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"Yes, and when they grow older they know it."
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that totally spoilt that film for me, at least EATG they try and use a bit of accent.Bruce Rioja wrote:Ah, see, The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, that's the bit that I struggled with at first. All spoke in RP, did they?General Mannerheim wrote:and the English speaking German & Russian characters, which dents its authenticity slightly.
Have you read the book, brucie? Absolutely brilliant, proper tear jerker toward the end. Horrendously guilty actions seen through the eyes of innocence.Bruce Rioja wrote:Ah, see, The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, that's the bit that I struggled with at first. All spoke in RP, did they?General Mannerheim wrote:and the English speaking German & Russian characters, which dents its authenticity slightly.
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I haven't/didn't, Verbal. I really wish that I had though.Verbal wrote:Have you read the book, brucie? Absolutely brilliant, proper tear jerker toward the end. Horrendously guilty actions seen through the eyes of innocence.Bruce Rioja wrote:Ah, see, The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, that's the bit that I struggled with at first. All spoke in RP, did they?General Mannerheim wrote:and the English speaking German & Russian characters, which dents its authenticity slightly.
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The film was the stuff of nightmares. Deeply disturbing, but a film everybody should watch.Verbal wrote:Have you read the book, brucie? Absolutely brilliant, proper tear jerker toward the end. Horrendously guilty actions seen through the eyes of innocence.Bruce Rioja wrote:Ah, see, The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, that's the bit that I struggled with at first. All spoke in RP, did they?General Mannerheim wrote:and the English speaking German & Russian characters, which dents its authenticity slightly.
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Well, I watched it and thought it well made, well cast and well acted. Didn't find the language thing too much of a problem. Very good film . Thanks for the heads up.General Mannerheim wrote:that totally spoilt that film for me, at least EATG they try and use a bit of accent.Bruce Rioja wrote:Ah, see, The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, that's the bit that I struggled with at first. All spoke in RP, did they?General Mannerheim wrote:and the English speaking German & Russian characters, which dents its authenticity slightly.
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