What are you watching tonight?

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 12:37 pm

William the White wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:
William the White wrote: Did you find any dwarves with drugs?
On the subject of which - managed to get a couple of free hours in Bruges last Thursday and visited a few of the locations. Wonderful place.
Damned right! Though maybe the most expensive beer I've ever drunk... Did you go to the art gallery? Small but some v gd stuff there...

To be honest, William, I didn't have the time to do it much justice - just wandered around taking in the architecture really, as well as grabbing a spot of lunch. Managed to find one or two places that I remembered from when I first visited, aged nine.

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 1:27 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:I really liked A Prophet, but still not as good as Mesrine!

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slightly off topic but... Has anyone walked up Dale Street in Manchester the last couple of days? Hell fire i thought i was in Godfather 2, just needed to find the Genco Olive Oil Company! Seriously the whole street has been turned into a film set to look like 1940’s New York, its for the new Captain America film! Filming has started and will be on site there for a good few weeks, they are filming a 4 minute car chase scene round the Northern Quarter apparently too. I was like a fat kid in a sweet shop - all the camera equipment, lighting rigs, actors trailers etc etc, and the detail of the set is unbelievable!

I was around when they were filming the Guy Ritchie Sherlock flick but it was nothing like the scale of this. Quality!

http://www.superrobotmayhem.com/comic-b ... erica-set/

It begs the question though - why are they going to the time, the trouble and the expense of filming one tiny bit of it in Manchester?

Lofthouse Lower · Post by **Lofthouse Lower** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 1:31 pm

http://www.manchesterconfidential.co.uk ... sp?eid=783

Dale Street with its canyon of Lower East Side, NYC, look-alike warehouses (although remember the Americans were following our models of warehouse architecture) is getting dressed as a 3344 mile distant US counterpart. This is for the film set of Captain America, the First Avenger, starring, we think, Chris Evans, Samuel L Jackson, Tommy Lee Jones and Natalie Dormer.

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 1:55 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
General Mannerheim wrote:I really liked A Prophet, but still not as good as Mesrine!

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slightly off topic but... Has anyone walked up Dale Street in Manchester the last couple of days? Hell fire i thought i was in Godfather 2, just needed to find the Genco Olive Oil Company! Seriously the whole street has been turned into a film set to look like 1940’s New York, its for the new Captain America film! Filming has started and will be on site there for a good few weeks, they are filming a 4 minute car chase scene round the Northern Quarter apparently too. I was like a fat kid in a sweet shop - all the camera equipment, lighting rigs, actors trailers etc etc, and the detail of the set is unbelievable!

I was around when they were filming the Guy Ritchie Sherlock flick but it was nothing like the scale of this. Quality!

http://www.superrobotmayhem.com/comic-b ... erica-set/
It begs the question though - why are they going to the time, the trouble and the expense of filming one tiny bit of it in Manchester?

honestly, if you come and check out the size and scale and detail of the operation, you'd think they were filming the whole thing here, they have got to be doing a bit more than a car chase. even the items in the shop window are real labled period props, surely pointless if all its used for is to show a car whizzing past!?

happen its miles cheaper than closing a main street in New York for a week?

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 2:02 pm

General Mannerheim wrote: honestly, if you come and check out the size and scale and detail of the operation, you'd think they were filming the whole thing here, they have got to be doing a bit more than a car chase. even the items in the shop window are real labled period props, surely pointless if all its used for is to show a car whizzing past!?

happen its miles cheaper than closing a main street in New York for a week?

I'll have a nip down, probably Thursday evening. I'd have thought though that the studios would have an absolute shiteload of appropriate scenery. Either that or use GCI.
I'm not moanin' or out - just a little puzzled.

Lofthouse Lower · Post by **Lofthouse Lower** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 2:04 pm

They're doing something about a massive explosion too - probably as a result of yon car case

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 2:16 pm

Anyway, on La Haine, despite it being shown to the French Cabinet, I can't help thinking its a little piece of Americanised meh-ness.

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 10:23 pm

Just watched A Room for Romeo Brass. My word, Considine plays the social misfit scarily well. Some cracking lines in it, a good story, well acted and some worryingly dark moments. Well worth watching - those that haven't.

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 10:54 pm

Told ya. Watch it again, it just gets better. I love that film so much. Considine is unbelievably good!

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 11:10 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:Told ya. Watch it again, it just gets better. I love that film so much. Considine is unbelievably good!

Yeah I can imagine that it does as you start off with this where-the-feck-is-this-going? kind of feel. Will deffo watch it again (probably a few times).

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 2:32 am

kin ell, TIE 86 took a bleak turn.

CrazyHorse · Post by **CrazyHorse** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 1:28 pm

CAPSLOCK wrote:
CAPSLOCK wrote:Anyway, a little quiz

Its only a couple of weeks away now....you know you'll be watching it

What is it

ps my downloading fingers are twitching
Well, the big day has come and gone

It's a cracker

Is is Dating in the Dark USA?
C'mon CAPS, give us a clue. The suspense is killing me.

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 1:30 pm

CrazyHorse wrote:
CAPSLOCK wrote:
CAPSLOCK wrote:Anyway, a little quiz

Its only a couple of weeks away now....you know you'll be watching it

What is it

ps my downloading fingers are twitching
Well, the big day has come and gone

It's a cracker
Is is Dating the Dark USA?
C'mon CAPS, give us a clue. The suspense is killing me.

http://www.hbo.com/boardwalk-empire/index.html

watching it myself tonight!

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 1:49 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:
CrazyHorse wrote:
CAPSLOCK wrote:
CAPSLOCK wrote:Anyway, a little quiz

Its only a couple of weeks away now....you know you'll be watching it

What is it

ps my downloading fingers are twitching
Well, the big day has come and gone

It's a cracker
Is is Dating the Dark USA?
C'mon CAPS, give us a clue. The suspense is killing me.
http://www.hbo.com/boardwalk-empire/index.html

watching it myself tonight!

I'm still none the wiser.

superjohnmcginlay · Post by **superjohnmcginlay** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 2:03 pm

Verbal wrote:kin ell, TIE 86 took a bleak turn.

Fooking did. Grim. Hope that fella gets his in the next one.

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 2:45 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
General Mannerheim wrote:
CrazyHorse wrote:
CAPSLOCK wrote:
CAPSLOCK wrote:Anyway, a little quiz

Its only a couple of weeks away now....you know you'll be watching it

What is it

ps my downloading fingers are twitching
Well, the big day has come and gone

It's a cracker
Is is Dating the Dark USA?
C'mon CAPS, give us a clue. The suspense is killing me.
http://www.hbo.com/boardwalk-empire/index.html

watching it myself tonight!
I'm still none the wiser.

BOARDWALK EMPIRE
its HBO's latest mega bucks prime time epic TV series. From the folk who brought us The Sopranos.

Premiered in the US on Sunday night.

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 3:18 pm

Ah right. Cheers. Never saw Sopranos either, though I believe that it's excellent.

seanworth · Post by **seanworth** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 3:38 pm

Boardwalk: is that the one set during the prohibition or is that another upcoming HBO series?

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 3:40 pm

seanworth wrote:Boardwalk: is that the one set during the prohibition or is that another upcoming HBO series?

the very same...

seanworth · Post by **seanworth** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 3:51 pm

thebish wrote:
seanworth wrote:Boardwalk: is that the one set during the prohibition or is that another upcoming HBO series?
the very same...

Looking forward to seeing that. Also want to see Simon's (The Wire) one on New Orleans post Katrina.

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