What film should you watch tonight

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Re: What film should you watch tonight

Postby Dr. V » Fri Nov 06, 2009 10:45 pm

Someone was recently trying to persuade me to watch Apocalypse Now (apparently essential viewing which I have somehow missed out on) - however I'm still trying to summon up the energy for blood and guts in Vietnam.
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Re: What film should you watch tonight

Postby coldharvest » Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:02 pm

vlindsay wrote:Someone was recently trying to persuade me to watch Apocalypse Now (apparently essential viewing which I have somehow missed out on) - however I'm still trying to summon up the energy for blood and guts in Vietnam.

It is a stunning adaptation of Conrad's Heart of Darkness...if you do watch it get the re-dux version with the French plantation scene.
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Re: What film should you watch tonight

Postby z911hyper » Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:49 pm

coldharvest wrote:
vlindsay wrote:Someone was recently trying to persuade me to watch Apocalypse Now (apparently essential viewing which I have somehow missed out on) - however I'm still trying to summon up the energy for blood and guts in Vietnam.

It is a stunning adaptation of Conrad's Heart of Darkness...if you do watch it get the re-dux version with the French plantation scene.

I had an English class where we compared Apocalypse Now and heart of darkness, it was one of my favorite projects i've done in Uni. I had never read Heart of Darkness before that and i would rank it among my all time favorites now
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Re: What film should you watch tonight

Postby Kurt » Sat Nov 07, 2009 2:26 am

Conrad writes in a style that is tough for this era to read for some reason. But he is worth reading. Heart of Darkness will always, always take you much longer to read than you think it will. It is a long , big book disguised as a short book.
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Re: What film should you watch tonight

Postby coldharvest » Sat Nov 07, 2009 8:14 am

Kurt wrote:It is a long , big book disguised as a short book.

what an excellent observation....1984 is like that as well.
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Re: What film should you watch tonight

Postby Atrax » Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:49 am

About halfway through Heart of Darkness right now. Just about to get good.
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Re: What film should you watch tonight

Postby Dr. V » Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:08 am

coldharvest wrote:
vlindsay wrote:Someone was recently trying to persuade me to watch Apocalypse Now (apparently essential viewing which I have somehow missed out on) - however I'm still trying to summon up the energy for blood and guts in Vietnam.


It is a stunning adaptation of Conrad's Heart of Darkness...if you do watch it get the re-dux version with the French plantation scene.


Yes - I heard all about the re-dux version - however it just sounds like a way to prolong the agony by an additional 45 minutes. I'm not really into war films unless the involve Sean Bean :-)
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Re: What film should you watch tonight

Postby Penta » Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:24 am

One of my sons did a key A-level English project on Apocalyse Now (back in the days when we had one television and VCR). So it was on in our sitting room over and over and over again for weeks. Never again. ;)

(But it is good, as war films go, V.)
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Postby el3so » Sat Nov 07, 2009 2:46 pm

Royal wrote: Kill your TV
I gave mine away.

vlindsay wrote: additional 45 minutes
Smoke opium and boink a French woman: time well spent IMO.
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Postby Dr. V » Sat Nov 07, 2009 8:02 pm

el3so wrote:
vlindsay wrote: additional 45 minutes
Smoke opium and boink a French woman: time well spent IMO.


I'm not into French women or opium...............
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Re: What film should you watch tonight

Postby vagabond » Sun Nov 08, 2009 7:17 pm

I'm not into French women or opium...............


Disappointing... :-(

But if you like French films, Army of Shadows and Children of Paradise are worth your time.

Apoc Now I had never seen til a year or two past. It seems to be one of those movies referenced constantly so at least you'll know what ppl are alluding to. It's good though, as Vietnam War movies go. I had not watched The Deer Hunter either which, though three hours long, is quite a movie.
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Re: What film should you watch tonight

Postby Penta » Sun Nov 08, 2009 8:45 pm

I've seen two films (in the cinema) this weekend, both wonderful. Jane Campion's Bright Star, about Keats's love for Fanny Brawne, is as gorgeous and romantic as anyone could wish; and An Education, fine and at times very funny (at least to those of us in the audience who remembered) coming-of-age film set in London in the early 1960s. Almost perfect script, perfectly acted, conveyed exactly the atmosphere just before the 60s as we know it burst out.

Not to the taste of many here, I guess. Svizz, seeks and possibly Vlindsay would probably like them.
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Re: Re:

Postby Ultra Swain » Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:45 pm

vlindsay wrote:
el3so wrote:
vlindsay wrote: additional 45 minutes
Smoke opium and boink a French woman: time well spent IMO.


I'm not into French women or opium...............


Try boinking anything after smoking opium.
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