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Post by JohnV on Mar 22, 2020 20:15:38 GMT
You missed Shaun of the Dead... and "The Worlds End"
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Post by metanoia on Mar 22, 2020 20:17:37 GMT
I thought that was a pub?!
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Post by JohnV on Mar 22, 2020 20:20:41 GMT
I thought that was a pub?! It is ..... in the film as well
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2020 20:21:51 GMT
I thought that was a pub?! It is ..... in the film as well But the film is a massive turkey
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Post by metanoia on Mar 22, 2020 20:22:00 GMT
Doh!!!
Sorry - don't do much cinema!
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Post by JohnV on Mar 22, 2020 20:25:08 GMT
It is ..... in the film as well But the film is a massive turkey not the best by a long way (Hot Fuzz is my favourite) but Turkey ? Nah !!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2020 20:27:24 GMT
But the film is a massive turkey not the best by a long way (Hot Fuzz is my favourite) but Turkey ? Nah !!! Ok there were a few funny gags (like all the pubs being the same). But it largely sucked.
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Post by lollygagger on Mar 22, 2020 20:36:57 GMT
Books? I don't watch films, they send me to sleep.... Bit of a Stephen King fan here and I recommend The Stand. Or as we have so long, his Dark Tower series of books is great - read them in the right order...if you like Stephen King. I don't read fantasy novels anymore. Just read too many I guess. I have read all of SK's 'classics' and loved them all. Its amusing to note how some of his short stories have been made into massively successful films ('The Green Mile', 'The Shawshank Redemption'). Also there is a recent remake of 'Pet Semetary' which I like more than the original (haven't read the book)! Pet Semetary is one of his best, it's just tooooo creepy. I didn't even know it was a film. I haven't seen any films of his books apart from the Green mile. My problem with films is they represent about 5% of the books and you never get any of what the characters are thinking. I have never seen a film after reading a book and been anything but disappointed and it's part of why I don't watch films. Also the imagination thing, I like to use mine and films I find insulting somehow because they require a more dumb attention. TBH I only started reading recently. Too bombed earlier in life, too busy running with the rats in the middle, but now I have loads of time and I read, read and read. Terry Pratchet? Got them all.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 22, 2020 20:39:23 GMT
imho, SOME of those films are WHY the idiots have been stripping the shelves and behaving like selfish twats... I'm totally aghast at how "society" is so crumbly - it sucks. I respectfully disagree. If people are being asked to observe social isolation and to self-quarantine then it makes perfect sense to purchase the items required to do this in one go. What is the point in making multiple trips to the supermarket when one would suffice, particularly if the predictions that the virus will worsen prove to be true?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2020 20:41:40 GMT
I thought that was a pub?! Ecton, Northamptonshire. www.theworldsend.org/25 years ago the words Luxury, boutique and World's End Ecton would never have graced the same page! Last time I was near that pub was to collect my brothers car - it had been rear ended by a myopic old gentleman π€
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2020 21:57:14 GMT
I don't read fantasy novels anymore. Just read too many I guess. I have read all of SK's 'classics' and loved them all. Its amusing to note how some of his short stories have been made into massively successful films ('The Green Mile', 'The Shawshank Redemption'). Also there is a recent remake of 'Pet Semetary' which I like more than the original (haven't read the book)! Pet Semetary is one of his best, it's just tooooo creepy. I didn't even know it was a film. I haven't seen any films of his books apart from the Green mile. My problem with films is they represent about 5% of the books and you never get any of what the characters are thinking. I have never seen a film after reading a book and been anything but disappointed and it's part of why I don't watch films. Also the imagination thing, I like to use mine and films I find insulting somehow because they require a more dumb attention. TBH I only started reading recently. Too bombed earlier in life, too busy running with the rats in the middle, but now I have loads of time and I read, read and read. Terry Pratchet? Got them all. Films based on a book rarely surpass the source material - but it does happen. Read 'The Godfather' and tell me the book was better. The problem is that the film industry is 'for profit' and not 'art' - it has to produce the kind of brainless shite that shies away from challenging its audience in order to continue to exist. But every now and then something amazing happens. On the whole, though, your comment about films made from a novel is sadly true (a favourite writer, Alan Moore, who is another barking-mad citizen of Northamptonshire spits blood at this very subject). One or two of Angela Carter's novels have been made into films, which only serves to emphasise how art is generally degraded by enterprise. This is why films which do not depend on anything except the imagination of the script-writer are almost always the best, and have the greatest pretension to art, because they are not attempting to adapt anything. Take Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' for an example, or perhaps Terry Gilliams's 'Brazil' - although arguably the latter depends on at least one novel for inspiration. Still, almost all of Shakespeare's plays depend on earlier narratives as well. Its not all bad though. There is a short sci-fi story by Brian Aldiss called 'Supertoys Last All Summer Long' which was the basis of the film 'Artificial Intelligence'. The story of its beginnings and the final result are fascinating (to me anyway). If that fails to tickle your imagination, try 'All You Zombies' by Robert Heinlein and then watch 'Predestination', which was based upon it. Its good that you read a lot but it isn't quantity that counts. 'Pet Semetary' is only creepy if you actually believe in ghosties.
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Post by lollygagger on Mar 22, 2020 22:08:48 GMT
Another plus for books over films is that if I nod off reading a book I don't miss anything.
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Post by NigelMoore on Mar 22, 2020 22:19:30 GMT
The most thoughtful, well-mannered and inspiring of end-of-the-world books I have read was Nevil Shute's "On the Beach". It was made into a somewhat altered movie in 1959 (a couple of years after publication of the book).
One of the enduring scenes I remember from the book concerned a query by one of the characters of a girl, as to why her father was ploughing fields in preparation for a crop that might never get sown, let alone reaped - she shrugged that it was what good farmers did, her father was a good farmer, and intended to carry on living what remained of his life as he always had. It gives rise to conflicting responses in me, and of course other characters responded to immminent demise in different ways - but that is what made it a thought-provoking book. Not sure whether I would like the film (and the author ceased co-operation when the Yank producer insisted on his own creative changes). It did have a 'stellar' cast.
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Post by JohnV on Mar 23, 2020 5:36:56 GMT
The most thoughtful, well-mannered and inspiring of end-of-the-world books I have read was Nevil Shute's "On the Beach". It was made into a somewhat altered movie in 1959 (a couple of years after publication of the book). A superb book and the film was, I thought good. As you say a stellar cast with Fred Astaire turning in what I thought was a great performance ..... Another of his books that made a great impression on me was the posthumous "Trustee from the Toolroom" but as far as I know it was never made into a film. A much neglected author nowadays
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