What are you watching tonight?

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 12:42 am

An unreserved recommendation for A Serious Man that I saw tonight at Cineworld in the Valley - and might well go to see tomorrow... This is the other side (the more common side actually) of the Coen bros after No Country for Old Men... this is laugh out loud funny, and very, very dark, and very truthful. So good... Fargo, Lebowski, No Country and this - a decade of seriously fantastic film making...

Do not miss, under any circs, this is very, very good...

Wow...

Oh - i haven't the slightest idea what the little Dybukk prelude is about - I await illumination from you guys...

(No more spoilers, despite all the temptation...)

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 9:08 am

William the White wrote:An unreserved recommendation for A Serious Man that I saw tonight at Cineworld in the Valley - and might well go to see tomorrow... This is the other side (the more common side actually) of the Coen bros after No Country for Old Men... this is laugh out loud funny, and very, very dark, and very truthful. So good... Fargo, Lebowski, No Country and this - a decade of seriously fantastic film making...

Do not miss, under any circs, this is very, very good...

Wow...

Oh - i haven't the slightest idea what the little Dybukk prelude is about - I await illumination from you guys...

(No more spoilers, despite all the temptation...)

yes, have been seriously anticipating that! looks great!

not unfortunately, but my cinema going days are on hold for a while! will see what my man with the mpegs can do...

oh and to be a total nob, fargo & lebowski were not the same decade as no country

i know what you mean though, they have made some belters!

Jakerbeef · Post by **Jakerbeef** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 1:05 pm

Watched Harry Brown. Got into a conversation last night with a mate who likes these sort of films. Y'know Scum, Nil By Mouth sort of films. Needless to say he enjoyed it.

Films have toughened up since Get Carter. Or maybe they haven't and this one was just seedy and not really enjoyable.

Micklewhite's still got it though.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 1:23 pm

Jakerbeef wrote:Watched Harry Brown. Got into a conversation last night with a mate who likes these sort of films. Y'know Scum, Nil By Mouth sort of films. Needless to say he enjoyed it.

Films have toughened up since Get Carter. Or maybe they haven't and this one was just seedy and not really enjoyable.

Micklewhite's still got it though.

'Get Carter' (The Caine version) was ominous in its believability. Not like some today where everybody in town has a gun and blokes fire two thousand rounds of ammo in a room without hitting anybody.

jimbo · Post by **jimbo** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 9:42 pm

For the 7th week in a row The Thick of It wins the battle of the 10.30 Saturday slot with me having no interest in MOTD. Apparently a Malcom Tucker classic. Can't wait!

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 9:46 pm

I’ve just watched Alan Bennett's Talking Heads - Waiting for the Telegram. Thora Hird plays the character of Violet disturbingly well. All the memories of my later conversations with my own Nana, who passed away at the age of 98, were brought juddering and starkly back to me.
The most moving monologue that I've ever seen on television, seriously!

officer_dibble · Post by **officer_dibble** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 10:01 pm

Just watched the Hangover on DVD

Anyone who hasn't seen it - do it! God bless play.com for sending out early

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 10:08 pm

officer_dibble wrote:Just watched the Hangover on DVD

Anyone who hasn't seen it - do it! God bless play.com for sending out early

Is that the one about the stag night in Vegas? If it is then I watched it recently on a plane. To be honest, I thought it was shite!

officer_dibble · Post by **officer_dibble** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 11:47 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
officer_dibble wrote:Just watched the Hangover on DVD

Anyone who hasn't seen it - do it! God bless play.com for sending out early
Is that the one about the stag night in Vegas? If it is then I watched it recently on a plane. To be honest, I thought it was shite!

Yeah it is - each to his own - but that's the first negative response to it I have seen/heard.

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 12:04 am

jimbo wrote:For the 7th week in a row The Thick of It wins the battle of the 10.30 Saturday slot with me having no interest in MOTD. Apparently a Malcom Tucker classic. Can't wait!

you WILL see me again!

cracking episode.

Jakerbeef · Post by **Jakerbeef** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 12:58 am

TANGODANCER wrote:
Jakerbeef wrote:Watched Harry Brown. Got into a conversation last night with a mate who likes these sort of films. Y'know Scum, Nil By Mouth sort of films. Needless to say he enjoyed it.

Films have toughened up since Get Carter. Or maybe they haven't and this one was just seedy and not really enjoyable.

Micklewhite's still got it though.
'Get Carter' (The Caine version) was ominous in its believability. Not like some today where everybody in town has a gun and blokes fire two thousand rounds of ammo in a room without hitting anybody.

You're absolutely right. I should clean up what I typed. I meant that films are getting away with more graphic stuff now and are getting lower and lower certifications too. But for its time there were few 'arder films than Get Carter. There's still not much better.

*goes off to listen to the theme*

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 2:25 pm

officer_dibble wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:
officer_dibble wrote:Just watched the Hangover on DVD Anyone who hasn't seen it - do it! God bless play.com for sending out early
Is that the one about the stag night in Vegas? If it is then I watched it recently on a plane. To be honest, I thought it was shite!
Yeah it is - each to his own - but that's the first negative response to it I have seen/heard.

yeah me too. Everyone i know loved it, as did i! I watched it at the flicks the day before flying out to vegas on my mates stag do, was giddy as fook! Never laughed so much

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 4:00 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:
officer_dibble wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:
officer_dibble wrote:Just watched the Hangover on DVD Anyone who hasn't seen it - do it! God bless play.com for sending out early
Is that the one about the stag night in Vegas? If it is then I watched it recently on a plane. To be honest, I thought it was shite!
Yeah it is - each to his own - but that's the first negative response to it I have seen/heard.
yeah me too. Everyone i know loved it, as did i! I watched it at the flicks the day before flying out to vegas on my mates stag do, was giddy as fook! Never laughed so much

Each to their own and whatnot, but it just seemed to me to be nothing more than a variant of a film that I've seen a thousand times before in one guise or another. Interesting that you say that you watched it whilst giddy prior to visiting Vegas, General, as I've been to Vegas and hated it. Maybe that's something to do with it too, I'm not sure.

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 5:01 pm

After a few beers at my mates, TheHangover had me crying with laughter.

jimbo · Post by **jimbo** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 3:19 pm

Verbal wrote:
jimbo wrote:For the 7th week in a row The Thick of It wins the battle of the 10.30 Saturday slot with me having no interest in MOTD. Apparently a Malcom Tucker classic. Can't wait!
you WILL see me again!

cracking episode.

We will see him again, as the new Wanderers manager. It needs some of his discipline in there.

Thought the episode was brilliant. Sharp comedy in the first half, and then the moving and fairly sad demise of Tucker in the second. Well done to Armando Iannucci again and I'm eagerly awaiting the last episode next week.

Dr Hotdog · Post by **Dr Hotdog** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 9:55 pm

Oh man.
I'm watching The Thick of It on Iplayer. Up to Episode 5 at Radio5Live so far and it's probably the best thing I've ever seen.

jimbo · Post by **jimbo** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 10:23 pm

Dr Hotdog wrote:Oh man.
I'm watching The Thick of It on Iplayer. Up to Episode 5 at Radio5Live so far and it's probably the best thing I've ever seen.

Fantastic isn't it? Like you, the first time I saw it was this series, but have since bought the first series and the specials and caught up. I'm yet to see In the Loop though, and am nervous about doing so. Anyone able to tell me whether it lives up to the high standards of the series?

Hoboh · Post by **Hoboh** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 10:38 pm

William the White wrote:An unreserved recommendation for A Serious Man that I saw tonight at Cineworld in the Valley - and might well go to see tomorrow... This is the other side (the more common side actually) of the Coen bros after No Country for Old Men... this is laugh out loud funny, and very, very dark, and very truthful. So good... Fargo, Lebowski, No Country and this - a decade of seriously fantastic film making...

Do not miss, under any circs, this is very, very good...

Wow...

Oh - i haven't the slightest idea what the little Dybukk prelude is about - I await illumination from you guys...

(No more spoilers, despite all the temptation...)

How poetic is that? Kinda makes the "flicks down by the Irwell" sound really rudimentary and coarse!!

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:14 pm

watched a very long and quite strange film called The Curious Case of Benjamin Button where Brad pit is born as an old man and "grows" to be a baby - living his life backwards... hmmmmmmm... still not sure what I think!

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:33 pm

Hobinho wrote:
William the White wrote:An unreserved recommendation for A Serious Man that I saw tonight at Cineworld in the Valley - and might well go to see tomorrow... This is the other side (the more common side actually) of the Coen bros after No Country for Old Men... this is laugh out loud funny, and very, very dark, and very truthful. So good... Fargo, Lebowski, No Country and this - a decade of seriously fantastic film making...

Do not miss, under any circs, this is very, very good...

Wow...

Oh - i haven't the slightest idea what the little Dybukk prelude is about - I await illumination from you guys...

(No more spoilers, despite all the temptation...)
How poetic is that? Kinda makes the "flicks down by the Irwell" sound really rudimentary and coarse!!

This from a man who whiles away summer nights punting on the Cam...

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