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#611976
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Random Thoughts
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Bingowings said:

Could you be mixing this and this in your head?

This put a smile on all of my faces.

I don't think so, I definitely remember it being separate to "The Plank" (which I watched religiously as a child. I used to say 'Oh! And the Cat! Quite a lot, much to my parents annoyance) It might not have had Peter Sellers in.

 

I remember the last scene of the film quite well. A man and his wife pull up to their recently built house in their car, but because the builders took such a long time to build the house they now have loads of children. They go into the house, realise that the house has been wired incorrectly and the film ends. I think the last shot is that of a light-bulb with water pouring out of it.

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#610495
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Random Thoughts
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I remember seeing a Short Black and White british film quite a while ago. I only vagely remember seeing it, but I believe it involved a building a group of houses.

 

I remember Peter Sellers starred in it for a brief time... at least I think it was him. At the very end he discovers that the taps turn on the lights and the light switch turns on the taps. I have no idea what the film is called... or if it's even real or not.

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#608917
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Last movie seen
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skyjedi2005 said:

You would rate Blue Brothers higher had you seen the  sequel, Blues Brothers 2000.

One of the worst movies i have ever seen.  I am surprised it even got theatrically released and not just straight to tv and video.

 

Come on, it wasn't THAT bad. It had some catchy tunes and some fun dialogue.

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#608483
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Last movie seen
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DominicCobb said:

 

After watching that for do its thing at least a hundred times, I've decided I like Dalton's the best.

 

 

Easy A

Was actually really good. Really smart, and thoroughly enjoyable Emma Stone is fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiineeee.

 

The film contains loads of references to The Scarlet Letter, the book (which I've read) and two screen adaptations (The 1926 version, which I saw at uni, It's Awesome, and the 1995 version starring Gary Oldman and Demi Moore , which sucks balls,... and not in a good way... as a Brit it was physically painful to hear Demi Moore's "English accent")  

Easy A also has references to 80s John Hughes films, of which I have never seen before (I've seen things like Baby's Day out *shudder* and Home Alone) so this movie made me want to seek them out. Needless to say, I was thoroughly entertained by them. I watched them with my lady friend who hasn't seen any John Hughes movies, period.

I could only rent out two DVDs from my uni library because I have a bunch of books that I already have out and I only have a limited amount of stuff to take out.

 

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

A real good sweet, warm-hearted comedy. Maybe it's because I didn't grow up with it, but I sympathised a lot more with the adult characters than maybe I should've done. I also didn't particularly like the Ferris Bueller character very much, I know he was supposed to be cool and 'rad' for skipping school, but having gone through that phase myself in my life it really bothered me.

 

The Breakfast Club

Damn. Now this is a really really good movie, I can't believe I've never seen this film before (which is odd considering how much I dig 80s movies.). And now I'm all depressed because although I know the ending is uplifting or whatever, I will never be able to write something as good as this.

:(

 

Spoilers

How come Brian didn't get a girl in the end? The other two guys did. Doesn't seem particularly fair. If the point of the story was to break down stereotypes, then perhaps it would have been better for the geek to hook up with one of the girls, most likely Allison, and for the jock to stay single. And why did Allison need a makeover at the end anyway? I thought she looked better before the makeover.

End of 27 year old spoilers

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#608435
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Let's all say something nice about George Lucas. No insults allowed.
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#606970
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Another random thread to turn into a politics thread.
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Bingowings said:

Mrebo said:

This CGI technique, for the time, was a great leap into the future compared to contemporary films such as the previous year's Return of the Jedi, which still used static physical models shot by moving film cameras.

Unconscionable.

Riiiiiight... cos The last starfighter's cgi was WAAAAYYY more realistic than ROTJ model and puppet work.

 

-_-

Purh-leeease.