Films

Incidentally, Bane's voice was inspired by this fella:

YouTube - King of the travellers Bartley Gorman

Gorman reminds me of Considine in A Room for Romeo Brass:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVe3qH45-Jk

Focken' tuck into that!

Just watched Wings of Desire at an open-air cinema.

Forgot how strange and brilliant it was, didn't realise how much better the strange swooping panning cameras would look on a big screen.

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Isnt Bruno Ganz one of the angels in this?Also played Hitler in Downfall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9WUTSWarEE

Looking forward to seeing this when it eventually gets here...

Isn't that the perfume launched in the late eighties that actually resembles the smell of the liquid that drips from refuse lorries?

I watched Ted yesterday. I am disappoint. Family guy is great but he cannot direct real people for shit. Maybe 3 really funny laughs and loads of duds.

I watched it at the weekend... like you say; a few good laughs but mostly a bit meh

Just watched Wings of Desire at an open-air cinema.

Forgot how strange and brilliant it was, didn't realise how much better the strange swooping panning cameras would look on a big screen.

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Isnt Bruno Ganz one of the angels in this?Also played Hitler in Downfall

He is.

I like "Der Himmel über Berlin" (its proper title, and I'm sure tommmmmmm saw it in German), but I actually prefer the sequel, "In weiter Ferne, so nah" ('Faraway, So Close') even though it's a strangely disjointed film with a pretty crap script (which makes very little sense and has sections that they really should have binned), as well as some dreadful 'acting', particularly from Horst Buchholz. It has a lot of simple moments that I love and that to me are more iconic than most of "Der Himmel über Berlin", which has a pretty simple story told straight. I love Otto Sander in 'Faraway, So Close' and prefer Cassiel (whose role in "Der Himmel über Berlin" is quite weak.

Focken' tuck into that!

Great flim, must watch it again soon.

not a huge fan of Wim Wenders, always suspicious of friends of Bono too. However, the intro to In weiter Ferne, so nah is stunning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcGoPXoBlPA

Beautiful film.But could easily have been ruined by Bono wanting to play God...

I watched battleship, it made my hurt it was so naff. The bad science alone was enough to make me twitch with despair

He is.

I like "Der Himmel über Berlin" (its proper title, and I'm sure tommmmmmm saw it in German), but I actually prefer the sequel, "In weiter Ferne, so nah" ('Faraway, So Close') even though it's a strangely disjointed film with a pretty crap script (which makes very little sense and has sections that they really should have binned), as well as some dreadful 'acting', particularly from Horst Buchholz. It has a lot of simple moments that I love and that to me are more iconic than most of "Der Himmel über Berlin", which has a pretty simple story told straight. I love Otto Sander in 'Faraway, So Close' and prefer Cassiel (whose role in "Der Himmel über Berlin" is quite weak.

I still haven't seen it, I was afraid of disappointment so I've stayed away until now, but I might act on that recommendation. I really like Otto Sander's face, he has a fantastic mournful look in Wings of Desire (which I think is a very poor title, incidentally).

Strange that the script to Faraway, So Close should be so bad, as I think that's definitely one of the stand-out features of Der Himmel über Berlin. When I first saw it, with subtitles, a lot of it was really familiar, and I realised it was because of Stillness is the Move by Dirty Projectors, which uses a lot of the lines as lyrics.

Is Wenders really a friend of Bono? I assume this is meant in the literal sense and is not some slang term for being a sanctimonious prick that I haven't heard yet. Strange that someone who would feature Crime and the City Solution and Nick Cave so prominently in a film could then have such a lapse in taste.

Yes, I believe Wenders and Bono are good friends and have collaborated a lot.

However, maybe 'A Friend of Bono' could become a euphemism for sanctimonious twat, in the way 'A Friend of Judy' was for being homosexual.

I love Wenders' films. Particularly Kings of the Road. It's a film I remember most of from a single viewing. Maybe it's because there's an arbitrary shot of a guy shitting in a field, that and the cracking soundtrack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-px60iPueEk

Yes, I believe Wenders and Bono are good friends and have collaborated a lot.

However, maybe 'A Friend of Bono' could become a euphemism for sanctimonious twat, in the way 'A Friend of Judy' was for being homosexual.

I thought it was "friend of Dorothy".

That or "mate of danny"

Last night I watched "The Bourne Legacy".

As a fan of the original trilogy (I even read Ludlum's books!), I was impressed with the only book not by the original author.

I particularly liked the way that the plot of this film neatly overlapped with The Bourne Ultimatum and the consistent references to Jason Bourne and inclusion of former characters into the plot further cemented an already established film franchise.

Jeremy Renner is very good as the lead, and Rachel Wiesz puts in a decent shift as the female lead.

I liked it.

What's that 80's film with Rutger Hauer? Quite a nice looking girl in it? He plays like this, almost machine?

Wings of Desire (which I think is a very poor title, incidentally)

I agree. I suspect that they shied away from calling it 'The Sky Above Berlin' because of the immediate association with the Allied bombing campaign. That is also there in German (and no doubt intentional), but it doesn't evoke the same immediate thought that one gets in English. (Or is that just me?)

Strange that the script to Faraway, So Close should be so bad, as I think that's definitely one of the stand-out features of Der Himmel über Berlin.

I don't know; apart from the excellent basic idea (angels, much (and badly) imitated since) I found the script fairly conventional and unremarkable. 'Faraway, So Close' has a lot of moments of brilliance and then some pretty bad ones; it's very mixed. "Der Himmel über Berlin" is much more consistent and, in a sense, is more a proper film than a series of vignettes (and there is more than a hint of artistic indulgence about certain sections of 'Faraway, So Close', which, from memory, is quite absent from "Der Himmel über Berlin"). Anyway, both are good films, in their own ways.

What's that 80's film with Rutger Hauer? Quite a nice looking girl in it? He plays like this, almost machine?

Tron?

hmmmm

What's that 80's film with Rutger Hauer? Quite a nice looking girl in it? He plays like this, almost machine?

Total Recall?
Hmm where is *m.f when you need him?

he would def know - it's really bugging me

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