What are you watching tonight?

[Bruce Rioja]

Taxi Driver. How have I got to 25 without seeing this film?!

What an ending (sliiiightly dated shooty-scene notwithstanding)!

I've never seen it and I have, ahem, a year or two on you. Should I put it on the list then?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Taxi Driver. How have I got to 25 without seeing this film?!

What an ending (sliiiightly dated shooty-scene notwithstanding)!

I've never seen it and I have, ahem, a year or two on you. Should I put it on the list then?

You've never seen Taxi Driver Put. It. On. The. List. At the top.

[General Mannerheim]

You should definitely put it on your list, but its often spotted in bargain bins at supermarkets tbh.

I find it odd you haven’t seen it tho, it its one of the most iconic films ever, referenced and parodied on so many other things you must have seen and not got the joke?
Its also one of my earliest memories of watching films, sat there cross legged gawping at the tv! That and American Werewolf, Gremlins & Superman II.

[Bruce Rioja]

referenced and parodied on so many other things you must have seen and not got the joke?

Strangely enough, I do actually recognise when Taxi Driver's being referenced or parodied as they all have this self-same familiarity, and have come to learn what the jokes actually are, but without having the actual reference points to be able to find them particularly funny.

I will stick it on the list. In fact, I just have.

[Beefheart]

Love Taxi Driver, but I'd say King of Comedy is an even better De Niro/Scorcese collaboration for those who haven't seen it.

[Bruce Rioja]

Further to Kinto, Bish and HG's recco's, Let The Right One In is now en route to mine.

[Beefheart]

Does anyone else read the Metro on their morning commute? Avoid Page 3 if you don't want GoT spoilers (I haven't watched any of it yet, but saw the headline though 'blarrgh!', and turned over quickly just in case I ever do want to watch it). How is that even news?!

[Annoyed Grunt]

Taxi Driver. How have I got to 25 without seeing this film?!

What an ending (sliiiightly dated shooty-scene notwithstanding)!

I've never seen it and I have, ahem, a year or two on you. Should I put it on the list then?

One I've not got round to watching....even though I've got it on DVD.....I think...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Taxi Driver. How have I got to 25 without seeing this film?!

What an ending (sliiiightly dated shooty-scene notwithstanding)!

I've never seen it and I have, ahem, a year or two on you. Should I put it on the list then?

One I've not got round to watching....even though I've got it on DVD.....I think...

There must be a prize somewhere to do with sheer cannot be added laziness, and you must be a leading contender for the Lifetime Achievement Award in that category. Let's do a summation: you've got it on DVD. You think. You haven't been arsed to watch it. You think.

[Annoyed Grunt]

Taxi Driver. How have I got to 25 without seeing this film?!

What an ending (sliiiightly dated shooty-scene notwithstanding)!

I've never seen it and I have, ahem, a year or two on you. Should I put it on the list then?

One I've not got round to watching....even though I've got it on DVD.....I think...

There must be a prize somewhere to do with sheer cannot be added laziness, and you must be a leading contender for the Lifetime Achievement Award in that category. Let's do a summation: you've got it on DVD. You think. You haven't been arsed to watch it. You think.

Cannot be added laziness?

I think I have it on DVD.....I know I haven't watched it. There's quite a few at home I haven't seen, but bought.....

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Taxi Driver. How have I got to 25 without seeing this film?!

What an ending (sliiiightly dated shooty-scene notwithstanding)!

I've never seen it and I have, ahem, a year or two on you. Should I put it on the list then?

One I've not got round to watching....even though I've got it on DVD.....I think...

There must be a prize somewhere to do with sheer cannot be added laziness, and you must be a leading contender for the Lifetime Achievement Award in that category. Let's do a summation: you've got it on DVD. You think. You haven't been arsed to watch it. You think.

Cannot be added laziness?

I think I have it on DVD.....I know I haven't watched it. There's quite a few at home I haven't seen, but bought.....

TW swear filter curse... I'll let you guess what it should have said.
However, the point stands that I have no unwatched DVDs - they are cannon fodder within hours of being bought. Just me though obviously, each to their own and all.

[LeverEnd]

Further to Kinto, Bish and HG's recco's, Let The Right One In is now en route to mine.

Brilliant film. Up there with Pan's Labyrinth as my favourite foreign language film of the last 10 years.

[General Mannerheim]

Whaaat? its good, very good, but never Pans Labyrinth good. or as good as about a million other 'foreigners' knocking about.

[LeverEnd]

Whaaat? its good, very good, but never Pans Labyrinth good. or as good as about a million other 'foreigners' knocking about.

I thought it was superb, what are your other top foreign films?

[William the White]

Tonight partner and I watched El Alma de Las Moscas (The Soul of Flies) - a Spanish film made on a micro-budget with fantastic use of the plains of Castile, and, i gather, the director's family as actors...

As it started I said to my wife 'this is like the beginning of A Garcia Marquez novel...' And it continued in that way, like a magic realist movie, where few things are secure, and dreams and reality are mixed...

Two brothers meet for the first time on the road to their father's funeral (neither knew of the other's existence, the father was a sailor who has been round the world 35 times and fathered two children that, on the edge of death, he writes to - he gave them nothing as a father but leaves them with the gift of a brother)...

They, of course, are chalk and cheese... and have a journey to make - physically to the funeral, emotionally with each other...

It's a comedy, by the way...

Slow as a run-down clock...

Beautifully acted and shot...

We loved it. We may be in a minority on this...

I recommend wholeheartedly if you are into puzzling but funny films in a foreign language that include things like a gang of robbers serenading you as they start to rob you blind... And dreams of beautiful women dancing amongst sunflowers... And lots of shots of two men in corn fields...

[General Mannerheim]

Whaaat? its good, very good, but never Pans Labyrinth good. or as good as about a million other 'foreigners' knocking about.

I thought it was superb, what are your other top foreign films?

Ill stick to recent ones; See a few pages back re Untouchable. Also Rust & Bone, the Mesrine pair (ok not that recent), a Royal Affair, the hunt, the raid, headhunters, kid with a bike... Tbh, Let the right one in is still brilliant tho.

[mrkint]

Just noticed that Joss Whedon, yon maker of Firefly, has an adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing coming out next week. Might give that a spin.

[Raven]

Although I too think Let the Right One in is excellent, still think they got the end bit slightly wrong, will tell you once you seen it.

Like the US version too but its not as good as the original and they too got that bit wrong.

Book is even better

[Bijou Bob]

You should definitely put it on your list, but its often spotted in bargain bins at supermarkets tbh.

I find it odd you haven’t seen it tho, it its one of the most iconic films ever, referenced and parodied on so many other things you must have seen and not got the joke?
Its also one of my earliest memories of watching films, sat there cross legged gawping at the tv! That and American Werewolf, Gremlins & Superman II.

Ah, American Werewolf, a pint in The Slaughtered Lamb followed by going south on Jenny Agutter. Yup, ticked every box for me as a 15 year old that did.

[General Mannerheim]

Ah, American Werewolf, a pint in The Slaughtered Lamb followed by going south on Jenny Agutter. Yup, ticked every box for me as a 15 year old that did.