DuracellEnergizer said:
This tyco.
Ooo nice!!
(Sort of...?) obscure ambient music ftw. ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6ih1aKeETk
I've been doing volunteer work at a historic house for a couple of weeks now and have been doing part time paid work here and there for the past couple of months.
Great news is that I've recently been given a commission to animate an adaptation of an author's short story, and am also currently in production working on a documentary. After I've worked on those I'll be pulling together funding to start work on my first feature length film. Fun stuff! :D
TV's Frink said:
We're disappointed you didn't mention rhat typo.
Team Olie
qhat typo??
John Wick
Somewhat clichéd... but I dug every minute of it.
'71
This movie was damn good. A really gripping historical thriller/drama. Even though it's a period piece it doesn't feel like a period piece (if you get what I mean)
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
Rather excellent. Young Terrence Stamp is handsome.
Sunrise: A tale of two humans
Somewhat eclectic (there seem to be three different films in this one) but a wonderfully charming film nonetheless. There's a certain quality to a lot of silent pictures (even though this isn't technically a silent movie) that aren't present in 'talkies'
DuracellEnergizer said:
greenpenguino said:
Shablams!!
Guess who's back!? If you answered Richard Nixon, you're only partially correct!!
Like, the O in nixOn
...
as in greenpenguinO
...
get it?
Anyways, I'm not dead!! What did I miss?
You missed the injustice which was the banning of Ric Olie.
Ric Olie was banned!?? WHAT!?
TV's Frink said:
*spit-take*
We're glad to see you back.
-Team Olie
Ah! Don't spit at me! My mouth was open and everything!
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs... it's a little odd.
I dig it.
Replace every line of dialogue Darth Vader says with "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"
Shablams!!
Guess who's back!? If you answered Richard Nixon, you're only partially correct!!
Like, the O in nixOn
...
as in greenpenguinO
...
get it?
Anyways, I'm not dead!! What did I miss?
"Strings" (2004)
A very unique and mesmerising film. Fantastic.
Tyrphanax said:
Bingo, you are a beautiful man.
Bingowings said:
Bollocks.
Life is much more than death.
It's novelty, it's weirdness, it's cheese footballs.
They don't look like footballs, they don't taste like cheese and are revolting and yet they are party food.
The whole spark of existence trapped in a conceptual art piece disguised as an ugly edible celebratory snack.
You are a bubble of chemicals caught in an explosion and yet you can feel despair. You are a miracle of probability mathematics, you've done the despair thing quite well (to be honest I find it a bit boring and gloomy after the first three decades) BUT!!
Try one of the other channels like curiosity... not too good for cats but you aren't a cat...I assume... (2014 cat's don't use the internet yet they just occupy the bits that aren't porn).
Or Cookery...! love a bit of short crust me!
The meaning of life *whispers* is there is no meaning so you can either get very cross or do what I do... MAKE MEANING!, invent rituals, make bread, plant vegetables, get fat and go on a diet, talk to beetles.
You have a blank sheet called your life, so you can write sonnets, do origami or are you just going to sit there giving yourself paper cuts?
A simple challenge, reinvent yourself, live and report back what you find.
This is an important post and it describes my way of life very simply.
Bingo you have no idea how much I needed this. Thank you ever so much, you lovely person.
Bingowings said:
The better half is still freaked out by this even though he can't see the whole story again.
I remember seeing screecaps of the two guys releasing the gas attack when I was younger. That image scared the crap out of me. (I think it was around the time in the late nineties when they rebroadcast a lot of stories. The ones I remember the most are Genesis of the Daleks, Spearhead from Space, The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Moonbase and Doctor Who and the Silurians. All of them made me cower behind the sofa in terror.)
In the cinema:
Godzilla (2014)
meh.
Noah (2014)
I rather liked it.
On home video (or whatever it's called by the bright young things nowadays):
All the Wes Anderson movies (in preparation to seeing Grand Budapest hotel) I love his films.
Blood for Dracula (1974)
Campy, and a lot of fun.
Bamboozled (2000)
Very thought provoking, if a little hamfisted (especially towards the ending, where it takes a turn for the ridiculous)
A Good Year (2006)
Watched this with my girlfriend. We both loved it.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
Strangely enough, I've never seen nor read A Midsummer Night's Dream so it was nice to see a Shakespeare play with fresh eyes. I liked it a lot (though I do feel bad for Bottom at the end)
Somewhere in Time (1980)
Charming and utterly heartbreaking. There are goofy moments but the rest of the love story makes up for it. John Barry's score is absolutely gorgeous.
Singin in the Rain (1952)
A classic. What else can be said about it?
I'm Still Here (2010)
Joaquin Phoenix pretends to be Andy Kaufman, falls flat on his ass. UGH.
I just noticed your avatar too Bingo. That was on the box of the board game "Mastermind" wasn't it? I remember my little sister getting confused at the fact that the man was so much shorter than the lady (she wouldn't believe us when we told her that he was sitting down)
ray middleton superman
Irregardless.
Wener Herzog once dragged a Podracer up a mountain.
Warbler-temp said:
apparently, you have not read the whole thread : /
tl;dr
;)
My old computer used to continually do that while it was on it's last legs... then it died. :/
If I were you, I'd back everything up as soon as possible.
I'm pretty sure I mentioned having a ladyfriend before disappearing for ages... I dunno, I think I did.
But we've been going out for a while though. :D
Warbler said:
greenpenguino said:
Then again I refuse to believe that the character depicted in Man of Steel is Superman so.. :/
I thought it took place in the alternate universe of Earth_weird, where everything is f___ed up.
That's pretty much how I see it... or taking place in a reality somewhere between the Bizarro universe and the normal universe.
Hey. I've been away from this site for a quite a while, due to work, being in a relationship and general life stuff. But I'm back now! Though probably not as much as I used to be.
Anybody miss me?
But... Superman isn't an example of an Übermensch. If anything Lex Luthor is more of an example of a Nietzschean Übermensch...
Then again I refuse to believe that the character depicted in Man of Steel is Superman so.. :/
Sherlock... meh. It's kind of worn off it's appeal now. Now I just find it vacuous and silly (and not in a good way)
Tack said:
For the record, a few of my favorite films...
The Third Man (1949)
Solaris (1972)
Metropolis (1927)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Theatrical Cut) (1977)
Blade Runner (Workprint) (1982)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Jaws (1975)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
… and I'm thirteen.
It's a question of taste, not age.
*high fives Tack a billion times*
Good list. I remember first seeing 2001 when I was about 8. Instantly fell in love with it.
Yes.