Motion Pictures (that anuse me)

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Excellent!

[vom]

Today I have a tale of two Draculas to share

https://www.the-solute.com/im-seeing-do ... d-dracula/

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hooray. how wonderful

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I've never even heard of spanish dracula before

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actually except for some of the 1970s spanish draculas where they just got english dracula in and hoped no one would notice everyone else was spanish (european)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Dracula_(1970_film)

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which i've not seen but i did watch this once

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuadecuc,_vampir

which is edited together weirdly from scraps of it, and is kind of amazing

[blombluss]

Today I have a tale of two Draculas to share

https://www.the-solute.com/im-seeing-do ... d-dracula/

A lovely article, this!

Also: "...leading to skirmishes in the streets, divided families and the infamous Dracula Wars of the late 20th Century (or at least that’s how I remember it)."

That tickled me!

[dng]

nope - this was pretty good but also definitely jordan peele's worst film (or least good film i suppose)

[vom]

yeah I agree, it didn't quite live up to the first two

[vom]

there's a new Aki Kaurismaki film. I just went to see it and it was impossibly wonderful

[dng]

hooray. with that new ghibli film out at christmas too this must be the best month ever for new films by totally retired forever directors

[vom]

haha good point

Very excited for that one

[blombluss]

There's a new 90 minute episode of The Famous Five, on at the end of this week on CBBC, which I'm planning to watch. However, the character of Aunt Fanny isn't white anymore, so that is the worst thing that has ever happened since the universe exploded into existence!

[richschnauzer]

James Lance being Uncle Quentin has made me feel about 102

[blombluss]

Ha!

The opening titles are atrocious, and using modern music as the soundtrack to a 30s period drama should be a hanging offence!

[blombluss]

There's a new 90 minute episode of The Famous Five, on at the end of this week on CBBC, which I'm planning to watch. However, the character of Aunt Fanny isn't white anymore, so that is the worst thing that has ever happened since the universe exploded into existence!

It was okay / 6.5 out of 10. I didn't care for the baddie, the age difference between Dick and Julian was 'off', and the story was a bit too fantastical for my tastes, especially as an establishing episode.

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hooray. with that new ghibli film out at christmas too this must be the best month ever for new films by totally retired forever directors

they're seem to only be showing this at 2 (two) cinemas in the whole of essex. basildon cineworld (£13 a ticket) and the everyman in chelsmford (18 fucking poounds a ticket)

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so presumably i will not be going to see this new ghibli film at the cinema

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unless ticket prices are cheaper after new year and/or also they show it elsewhere

[endar]

18 pouns a ticket can fuck right off

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ves

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so presumably i will not be going to see this new ghibli film at the cinema

I did go and see it (£10)

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It was pretty great. Basically Spirited Away, but as some sort of anxiety nightmare

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Also I read Shunas Journey the other day, a Miyazaki comic from the 80s (before ghibli, at the time he was writing the nuassicca comics and presumably making castle in the sky). This was excellent too, like a cross between nausicca (post apolyptic end of the world setting), princess mononoke (that prince boy and his elk or whatever it is he rides around on) and also weirdly bits of the earthsea one (that whole sequence with the slave traders in the city).

Plus lots of other weirdness, excellence

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I would like to read the nuasicca comic but it costs like £70 for the complete set these days

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Should have bought it in Waterstones that one time I saw it, for £40, in 2010

[vom]

I need to see the Boy and the Heron again because I messed up and saw it dubbed and I never like the dubs as much

[vom]

I saw Poor Things today and thought it was pretty incredible, extremely strange

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I would like to see that also

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next goal wins - a taika waititi comedy about the american samoan team that lost 31-0 to australia that time. this might possibly be the most formulaic film ever, but it's just about nice and sweet and funny enough that that doesn't really matter too much.

[vom]

I liked the documentary very much indeed. I'm not sure whether I want to see this version or not

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I've never seen the documentary, although I do remember reading some articles about the team/their players a few years ago.

Anyway this was fine but I'll probably never think about it again

[vom]

wrote about a couple of 1945 vilms

https://www.the-solute.com/112166-2/

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hooray

[blombluss]

That be a good article, Sir! And I'd forgotten all about that awesome dance routine with Jerry (off of Vom & Jerry fame) until you mentioned it, so hurrah for that! *thumbs up*

[vom]

Thanks! Yeah it rules, that mouse has some moves!

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I saw Poor Things today and thought it was pretty incredible, extremely strange

I just watched this and liked it a lot.

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Maybe because it was basically those vic and bob elephant man sketches, interspersed occasionally with lots and lots of sex

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Also I think this was the first yorgos lanthimos film I liked the whole way through, rather than just liking the first half or so and then getting slowly less enthused as they meander on towards some slightly tepid ending

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Definitely my favourite also although I think I liked nearly all of The Lobster (memory may have melted)

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I found the first section of the lobster so overwhelming I couldn’t really concentrate on the second half (a bit like full metal jacket I suppose)

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Also there seems to be three of his films I’ve never seen or even heard of (his first two from the early 2000s, plus one called alps from more recent times)

[vom]

I haven't seen Alps, I've heard Kinetta isn't very good, I didn't know there was an even earlier one

I haven't seen Killing of a Sacred Deer yet either

[Pual]

I’ve only seen dogtooth and the duchess.

I’m not very good at films

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Hello vom (and/or anyne else)

My dad bought a dvd box set for £10 the other day which includes 50 (fifty) different "dark crimes" films (presumably they couldn't afford to use the term film noir or something)

Anyway, apart from gaslight (the first version), i have heard of none of them. but maybe you have!

Flims:

Baby Face Morgan (1942)
The Capture (1950)
Cause For Alarm (1951)
The Chase (1946)
DOA (1949)
The Devil's Party (1939)
Fear In The Night (1947)
Flowers From A Stranger (1949)
Gaslight (1940)
The Great Flamarion (1945)
Guest In The House (1944)
Half A Sinner (1940)
The Hoodlum (1951)
The Inner Circle (1946)
Inner Sanctum (1948)
The Last Mile (1932)
A Life At Stake (1954)
The Limping Man (1953)
Love From A Stranger (1937)
The Man Who CHeated Himself (1950)
The Man Who Had Influence (1950)
The Mandarin Mystery (1937)
The Mystery Of Mr Wong (1939)
The Naked Kiss (1964)
Parole Inc (1948)
The Payoff (1930)
The Phantom Fiend (1932)
Plan For Escpe (1952)
Please Murder Me (1956)
Prison Shadows (1936)
The Red House (1947)
The Scar/Hollow Triumph (1948)
Shoot To Kill (1947)
Sinners In Paradise (1938)
The Sleeping Tiger (1954)
Slightly Honorable (1940)
Strange Illusion (1945)
The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers (1946)
The Strange Woman (1946)
Sucker Money (1933)
Ten Minutes To Live (1932)
There Was A Crooked Man (1950)
Things Happen At Night (1948)
Trapped (1949)
Two Sharp Knives (1949)
Whistle Stop (1946)
The Woman Condemnd (1934)
Woman In The Shadows (1934)
Woman On The Run (1950)
The Wrong Road (1937)

Any recoomendations gratefully received

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Woman on the Run absolutely rules

that's the only one I've actually seen but The Naked Kiss was directed by Samuel Fuller and I have it sat on my shelf needing to get watched, I've heard good things about The Strange Love of Martha Ivers and DOA is a "poisoned guy must solve his own murder" plot (I think?) which means it basically inspired Crank

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I bet most of these are at least pretty good. Although from past experience of these box sets I bet at least a few of them will look / sound absolutely terrible

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hooray thank you

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also as long as they work without making the dvd player explode it should be okay. better than some of the absolute shit on amazon prime at any rate. one my parents were watching on ther e had hard coded portugeuese subtitles over the top, as if it'd been taped off tv on a vhs in the 80s or something

[endar]

are you sure they're not philip k dick novels