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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.154.169.2
Posted on Saturday, April 07, 2012 - 01:15 pm:   

This one was great. We were watching a double bill of Severance and Body Snatchers and in the first they poor people find a gold tooth in a pie they are eating. It sort of starts the ball rolling, alerts them to the fact that something is up. In Body Snatchers the girl is walking round the perimeter fence of the army stockade and finds, in the earth, a top set of some dentures. It sort of alerts her to the fact that something funny is going on.
I know most people don't hold stock with these things, but it's great when it does.
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Tony (Tony)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.154.169.2
Posted on Saturday, April 07, 2012 - 02:20 pm:   

BTW I can hardly start new threads here because my pc strains to load it all.
Severance was a vary warm film, lifted by the humour and yet also darkened by it - we felt genuinely sad when the characters died. And yet, it was not massively intelligently crafted (or maybe this was deceptive). But Body Snatchers seemed very well made, beautiful and intriguing scene for scene, but a bit cold - like the film were made by the Snatchers themselves, not the humans. But craft is appreciated, even when it's hard to love.
Watching double bills is a great way to evaluate things.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
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Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 82.18.174.156
Posted on Saturday, April 07, 2012 - 03:02 pm:   

'Severance' was a fairly entertaining attempt to cash-in on the horror/comedy boom started by 'Shaun Of The Dead'. Having re-evaluated 'Triangle' recently (something of a grower that one) I'd say it's probably Christopher Smith's least impressive film to date, while still being fun.

I didn't like Abel Ferrara's version of 'Body Snatchers' at all. A horrendous mis-step for him, imo. I've rewatched it a couple of times since first release and it refuses to get any better. How he managed to turn the most gripping horror/sci-fi narrative in existence into such a bland non-entity of a B-picture is beyond me!
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John Forth (John)
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Registered: 05-2008
Posted From: 82.24.1.217
Posted on Saturday, April 07, 2012 - 05:08 pm:   

I disliked SEVERENCE quite vehemently when I watched it, but that probably had more to do with the presence of Danny Dyer in the cast than anything else. I did think the director's TRIANGLE was a great little movie, though. The sequence where one of the female characters discovers dozens upon dozens of corpses of her previous selves was especially effective.

I can barely remember Ferrara's BODY SNATCHERS. I don't think I've seen it since it came out. The first two versions remain definitive for me.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.129.61.55
Posted on Sunday, April 08, 2012 - 01:38 am:   

There is one scene in Ferreara's Bodysnatchers which is worth the price of admission by itself - the one where Meg Tily (I think that's the actress) does the monologue telling them "There's .... no one ....like ...you... left" As scary as anything in either of the other two versions (I've not watched the newest version with Daniel Craig but I've heard nothing good about it ever so I'm not counting it).

I actually rate it quite highly. It could be improved. I've always thought that when she shoots her dad he should have bled out painfully on the floor nistead of melting into a pool of pod juice. That would have cranked the paranoia levels right up.

But let's face it, in how many films can you watch a six year old get dropped out of a helicopter in flight and for that to be a good thing...
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Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 202.156.11.239
Posted on Sunday, April 08, 2012 - 09:46 am:   

I saw Body Snatchers when it came out and back then I thought that it was quite elegantly made.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.42.53.100
Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2012 - 07:54 pm:   

Last night we watched an old episode of Merlin. In it Merlin and Arthur discover a cave of crystals and an old man who seems to be able to know everything. Later in the night i watch an old episode of Fringe in which they discover a boy in an underground chamber who seems able to know everything. Also, in both, we see a person who might or might not be bumping into future/past versions of themselves. I've never seen these episodes before, and knew nothing about their content on the way in.
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Tony (Tony)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.42.53.100
Posted on Sunday, November 18, 2012 - 08:41 pm:   

Last night we watched Eyes without a Face - in it a man was killing girls for their faces to help his daughter. He had dogs in cages to experiment on. After this we watch the next episode of Fringe we're up to, only to find a man experimenting on caged dogs to try and find a cure for his wife's spinal fluid addiction.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 82.145.211.136
Posted on Monday, November 19, 2012 - 11:07 am:   

This could just mean that fringe is a more derivative show than people admit... :-)
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.42.53.100
Posted on Monday, November 19, 2012 - 11:43 am:   

Ha! Yes, rather than it is the show at the centre of the universe...
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.42.53.100
Posted on Friday, November 30, 2012 - 01:17 am:   

Last week I bought the film We Need To Talk About Kevin. The other day I make a rather bad joke that someone will dress as an elf and shoot people with a bow and arrow at The Hobbit premiere. Tonight I half plan to watch Russel Crowe in Robin Hood on the projector but at the last minute change my mind and put on the Kevin film only to witness one or two things that connect the others.
Good Lord.
I've never seen or read the Kevin film or book, or know anything about it.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.42.53.100
Posted on Friday, November 30, 2012 - 09:37 am:   

Spoiler - basically, I had no idea the Kevin kid went on a bow and arrow killing spree, or would have a Robin Hood book in his bedroom.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.158.252.15
Posted on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 08:22 pm:   

I've been pondering dreams and reality (again) and found out about a man named JW Dunne who sort of said there was no 'real' time, but that we can travel back and forth through it mentally at will. Today I hear on the radio a thing about Wagner saying he was into a philosopher called Schopenhauer, who more or less said the same as Dunne, that what goes on in the mind is more real than reality, even all the fantasies and dreams. The programme played some of Wagner's music. Later in the day I have to ring the council about recycling wheely bins (even that feels appropriate) and when I do the music they play while they put me on hold is... Wagner.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
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Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 86.24.62.55
Posted on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 09:49 pm:   

Time is an illusion, Tony. So is matter. There is only consciousness in the whole of eternity.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.212.230.122
Posted on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 11:33 pm:   

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
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Joel (Joel)
Username: Joel

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 2.30.205.139
Posted on Wednesday, May 01, 2013 - 01:12 am:   

Stevie, you clearly don't live in the West Midlands, or you would realise that matter and time are non-negotiable realities whereas consciousness is a momentary flicker every now and then, every here and there, a will o' the wisp on the surface of a black and fathomless swamp of mindless shit.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.31.166.230
Posted on Wednesday, May 01, 2013 - 08:59 am:   

Thyme is an allusion, said the sage.

Sorry. It's early. It just popped into my head.

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