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| m | Posted: 07.10.2002, 23:32 | |
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I'm not a geek!!! I just watched a film that reminded me of Jacob's Ladder - it's a not great teen flick but the idea had a lot of potential: "Soul Survivors". And it had Faith from Buffy in it. |
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| Midge | Posted: 08.10.2002, 00:16 | |
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Yeah it does look cool - I'd never 've made that grandmother connection. But I've got a well-seasoned friend who can always spot the villain in anything. Admittedly it's usually obviously the unobvious person. I showed him "Nightwatch" and he got it straight away. Fortunately that doesn't really spoil the excitement of the film (recommended - especially if films with subtitles make you feel intellectual.)  |
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| m | Posted: 09.10.2002, 22:14 | |
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Nightwatch? Is that the thing with Ewan McGregor? I can't actually remember it very well but I do remember knowing who the villain was ages before the supposed shock revelation. Quite liked it as a film but there were some daft bits in it. I think. Really can't remember a lot! |
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| andy | Posted: 10.10.2002, 13:22 | |
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Watched Soul Survivors - it was rubbish but I really enjoyed it because of the blatant Jacob's Ladder rip off. I even knew the ending (which I never do) because it was so blatant. BTW I watched the ghosty thing with whats-her-name in the other day and guessed (some of) the ending which was quite impressive I thought. |
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| m | Posted: 10.10.2002, 20:14 | |
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>>Watched Soul Survivors - it was rubbish but I really enjoyed it because of the blatant Jacob's Ladder rip off. I even knew the ending (which I never do) because it was so blatant. >> >>BTW I watched the ghosty thing with whats-her-name in the other day and guessed (some of) the ending which was quite impressive I thought. I didn't think you would think much of Soul Survivors! Couldn't remember Jacob's Ladder very well but it did seem to be very reminiscent of what I could remember. I knew what was coming but would have liked a different ending. And do you mean "The Others"? If not, which ghosty thing? I quite liked that even though it was predictable. Except I saw it in Stratford Picture House while Harry Potter was showing in the next door screen and could hear it through the walls! Spoiled the atmosphere a little... |
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| Midge | Posted: 11.10.2002, 00:37 | |
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No no no - Nightwatch is a Danish film about a night watchman in a hospital morgue.  I don't think Ewan McGregor appeared in it at any point (does he ever have subtitles?) - but some daft bits certainly did! |
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| darkly | Posted: 11.10.2002, 11:58 | |
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He was subtitlrd in Trainspotting for its release in America... |
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| m | Posted: 12.10.2002, 00:07 | |
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>>No no no - Nightwatch is a Danish film about a night watchman in a hospital morgue. I don't think Ewan McGregor appeared in it at any point (does he ever have subtitles?) - but some daft bits certainly did! >> Ewan M one must be a remake. Cos he's a nightwatchman in hospital morgue. And it was the subtitles which confused me before cos I didn't think it had them! Ok now I want to see the original cos it was probably better. |
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| Midge | Posted: 13.10.2002, 22:15 | |
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Oh yes - that does ring a bell now, that I think I might've heard about Ewan M being in a film called that. And on the video box it says "There's talk of a remake already". I wonder why they bother with these remakes - is it just to make money? Like Insomnia, which is supposed to be not as good as the original. I'll have to see the Ewan McGregor version just for the surrealness of seeing the whole film redone. (I don't suppose Hans Andersen appeared in the remake?? Who would they replace him with? William McGonagall?  ) |
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| andy | Posted: 22.10.2002, 09:33 | |
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Hi All, I'm back! I do mean The Others, and I liked it. Generally remakes are to try to fool the public into watching classic films they would never watch. I am the only person on this planet that _loved_ the Psycho remake, but I did. I thought Insomnia was good but a disappointing followup to the all-time classic Memento. |
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| m | Posted: 23.10.2002, 00:18 | |
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Not the only person on the planet. Cos I liked it too. And I agree about insomnia and memento. One thing - if you lived somewhere where it was light 24 hours a day, wouldn't you have curtains that actually shut out the light properly????? |
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| Midge | Posted: 26.10.2002, 00:10 | |
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You'd've thought so, but when I wake up in the middle of the night, the lights from the multi-storey carpark across the road are always blazing into my room. (Having read the reviews of Nightwatch on the web, it sounds like they probably cut out the best bits, and put in some other odd bits. And if Ewan McGregor had to put on an American accent, I don't think William McGonagall would've been the replacement for Hans Andersen anyway.) Must watch the Psycho remake sometime then. |
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| andy | Posted: 30.10.2002, 01:19 | |
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Yeah but they just like terrorising strangers with it. Psycho remake is the most obsessive thing I've ever encountered. It is a work of pure worship, and thus is of great interest to me. |
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| Midge | Posted: 13.11.2002, 00:27 | |
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My purchase of the week: Found in Oxfam for �3: hardback edition of The Hobbit, with colour plates, the Icelandic translation! (Of course, lots of the names like Gandalf come from Old Icelandic anyway, and so does a lot of the style, so it's quite strange to see it in Icelandic...) |
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| m | Posted: 13.11.2002, 17:03 | |
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Sounds interesting! I am now reading about half a dozen books including one about social issues for Christians today, one about listening, Murray Walker's autobiography and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. One day I might finish one of them... |
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| Midge | Posted: 13.11.2002, 22:32 | |
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Listening to people? God? music? everything? It never took me long to finish the Harry Potter books - I couldn't put them down till about 3am. I found them very moreish - particularly when you get to the climax of the plot that it's all been building up to each time. |
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| Anonymous | Posted: 14.11.2002, 18:55 | |
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Oh! Listening to people! Sorry - forgot to put that. As I've forgotten to sign in... it's M. It's a book about how all Christians have a responsibility to listen to people - not to be counsellors but to listen. It's ok so far. Not read a lot of it though. And you're right - HP never takes long... |
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| darkly | Posted: 16.11.2002, 14:55 | |
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I've just finished 'The Firemaker' which was really good until the end when it turned into some kind of cut and paste from a mills and boon romance/temptation. Nevermind eh? Excluding Harry Potter, any suggestions as to what I should read next? |
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| andy | Posted: 18.11.2002, 13:26 | |
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I'm reading The Trial by Kafka - wicked and very accessible. Love Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevski - not at all boring, in fact gripping and very readable. I think you Dx would particularly like it. |
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| davidb | Posted: 19.11.2002, 15:02 | |
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The Trial's fantastic, isn't it? I love Kafka - always shocking, and haunts you for ages. I'm reading a very good book, 'Woman in the Bible' by Mary J Evans - heartening to remember that the Bible is more pro-women than is sometimes thought. I'm also about to start 'Angels and Insects' by AS Byatt - I enjoyed 'Possession', so I'm hoping this will be similar. |
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| Midge | Posted: 20.11.2002, 23:53 | |
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I don't seem to get round to reading much at the moment - and when I do, it's only once I'm in bed and prevents me waking up the next day. I started reading The Plague by Camus twice but it wasn't gripping* enough for me to have the momentum to carry on. (I saw the film before that too.) Interesting you should mention Dostoyevsky, as a friend of mine keeps telling me how good he is, and told me I should read something good like that "instead of rubbish like" what I was reading - Popcorn by Ben Elton - which is a very funny book, and can always be excused as studying contemporary culture. Kafka's great, innee? (You'll remember my quote from the Metamorphosis on another discussion thread.) I suppose I could mention what books are by my bed (whether I'm managing to read them or not) - there's Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton - v wittily written defence of Christianity, In the Beginning by Henri Blocher - a v wide-ranging discussion of how we should understand Genesis, Popcorn - I seem to have wandered off from reading it, Enjoying God by John Piper - which people either love or hate (or if you're like me, just not get into). Can't remember what else. Sometimes I dip into a big compendium of poetry - it doesn't take too long to read a poem, and there's even some great Christian poems in there - take this for example. --- *No pun intended. |
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| m | Posted: 21.11.2002, 00:45 | |
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We did Metamorphosis at university. Sorry if I said that before... I am now reading about a dozen books. But not getting through any of them very fast! Finished Harry Potter. And bought a book called "The Gospel according to HP" or something like that... interested to see what's in it. Must. stop. buying. books. |
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| andy | Posted: 21.11.2002, 15:21 | |
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OK I've not finished The Trial and need a recommendation for everyone. ONE book each please, the best book you've ever read. |
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| andy | Posted: 21.11.2002, 15:22 | |
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OK I've not finished The Trial and need a recommendation from everyone. ONE book each please, the best book you've ever read. |
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| m | Posted: 21.11.2002, 19:11 | |
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I don't think I can pick THE best book I've ever read. Sorry... I don't think I could even do a top 3. I like too many books! |
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