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     Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.173.198 |
The rather good FROZEN:- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376606/ ...is on on BBC2 in the early hours on monday (summat like 00.30). I saw this at the London Film Festival a few years back and at the time thought it was a good film. Give it a go. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
Cheers, Mick - this sounds decent. I'll set the machine to record it. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.173.198 |
Tony met the director (Juliet McKoen) - he came down to London a few years back to discuss his script with her! Blimey! I hope you like it, Zed - it's pretty grim so chances are you will. :-) | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.173.198 |
A propos of nothing, I believe it was shot in and around Morecambe Bay. Plus, it stars the wonderful Shirley Henderson, so plus points all around. | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.20.22 |
Just settling down to watch this movie with a nice chinese takeaway. Taping Romero's 'Diary Of The Dead' on Film4 at the same time. Have to say I'm sceptical about it having been underwhelmed by 'Land Of The Dead'. The original trilogy is all I'll have in my DVD collection. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.173.198 |
So what did you think of FROZEN, Stephen? I have it on the box but haven't yet watched it. | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.20.22 |
Thought the film was a good first effort for the writer/director with some intriguing ideas but perhaps a tad too slow moving and abstract to be wholly successful. The actress carrying the film did a good job; feisty, flakey and vulnerable all at the same time. Didn't get the point of her relationship with the counsellor though who seemed completely superfluous to the plot. But otherwise a decent intelligent little ghost story with a technological slant reminiscent of Asian horror but without the in-your-face scares. Especially liked the ending! Not bad and certainly thought provoking... | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.209.108.231 |
I recorded this, based on Mick's recommendation. Will probably watch later in the week. I saw the first few minutes and it looked intruiging. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
I watched about 40 minutes of this last night after i taped it at the weekend. I wasn't massively impressed. It took till about 35 minutes in before the lead girl did any acting as opposed to reciting her lines methodically IMHO. Very slow and quite tedious. Why did the police not check both cameras in the alley 2 years ago? I'm not sure if I've got the energy to watch the second half. I might do what I did last night and watch some more Alfred Hitchcock presents episodes. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.233.160 |
Bought today for next to nothing (5 Euros each): Evil Dead/The Brood (two films on one dvd!) and Tarantula. I've never seen the latter from beginning to end, just fragments. | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.20.22 |
You've never seen 'Tarantula'!! It is the BEST giant monster on the rampage movie ever made... and I mean EVER MADE!! Jack Arnold rules OK!!!! | ||
| Seanmcd (Seanmcd) Username: Seanmcd Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 86.170.29.115 |
Disagree Stephen. That would be "Them!" | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.182.173 |
King Kong and the original Gojira for me, although I do like Them and Tarantula. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.152.191.247 |
Yes Mick - I did! Last thing she said to me was to keep sending her stuff, whatever it was, that I was very good. It was a pretty exhilarating time, I can tell you; gave me loads of confidence. She has a lovely house. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.233.167 |
Yes, Tarantula turned out to be entirely enjoyable. Great special effects, I can't see any seams. Most of the science/biology has got it right, too, apart from those two glaring eyes through that window: a spider has eight eyes, little beads located in a little hump on top of its head. Also, spiders don't drool. And how is it possible that dynamite and rockets cannot hurt it? But whenever it shows itself, the film gets full marks for impact. I can imagine what the experience must have been like on a big screen in the fifties. Them! never worked for me. The effects are slightly cheesy imho. | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.18.104 |
Actually I meant of the 1950s boom in giant monster movies 'Tarantula' is for me the best (it's so well structured) very closely followed by 'Them' (ditto) and the original B&W 'Godzilla' which I saw in the cinema recently and was truly great. Of all time it's still the original 'King Kong' and always will be for me... |