Movie/film thread: resurrected

Just saw the Aussie movie "Charlie and Boots" starring Paul Hogan and Shane Jacobson(Kenny) Boots decides to take his Dad Charlie on a road trip(in the Kingswood) from Victoria to go fishing at Cape York.Virtually from one end of Australia to the other on the East coast. This should appeal to Aussies from the bush,who will understand what is going on and what is being said.I really loved the great scenery. I got a nice surprise, when they drove past the home I grew up in. They even stopped in the main street to have a bite to eat and I saw the shop my Dad worked in and many other familiar sites. This would be a good movie to show students about country folk and their humour. 

Been downloading movies for my Drama class. Just watched Laurence Olivier in "Richard III"...that man was a genius.

Been downloading movies for my Drama class. Just watched Laurence Olivier in "Richard III"...that man was a genius.

Which man? Olivier, Richard III, or Shakespeare?

Olivier - and pretty yummy with it - although Richard Burton.....

All three were brilliant! Ahhh...I now have "The Merchant of Venice", "Much Ado About Nothing", "Henry V" (both the Branagh and Olivier version), "Taming of the shrew" and " A Midsommer Nights Dream"....

Just watched District Nine (there's a high quality torrent and, probably, a DVD in China too)..

Absolutely brilliant.  See it now, especially if you're a Verhoeven fan.

Big Bang Theory.  Silly as but with one good line per episode.  Also vaguely reminiscent of people I know!!

ETR: Branagh's version (H5) is brilliant, imho. Even people who don't like Shakespeare can get into it. Do you have the TS with John Cleese? I think he was in that about 8 or 10 years after Monty Python broke up. I never expected him to do Shakespeare, but then no one expects... the Shakespearean Post-Python Mission.

but then no one expects... the Shakespearean Post-Python Mission.

 

Quote from: latefordinner on September 23, 2009, 07:30:07 PM

but then no one expects... the Shakespearean Post-Python Mission.

 

Their three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency (I wonder where Ruth is)...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Bard.

(Oops, mixed my comedy troupe metaphors.)

Pretty good French movie I just saw called "The Class".  Thought it might be appealling to teachers since it's set in a classroom.  It's in Paris' inner city with a very multi-cultural class.

A really good BBC doco "The genius of Photography'.  We done, well narrated - excellent all round.  With some of the all time most famous photos and their stories.

Observe and Report

I haven't seen an actually blackly comical black comedy in a while.  Observe and Report rides a thin line between "there's a joke, you may laugh now" and homespun scary.  It doesn't go into the safely bizarre like Fight Club, and it doesn't settle into Clerks style mockery.  Instead it seems to be freakishly real.  Taxi Driver meets Mall Rats.


Transformers - Revenge of The Fallen

My first BluRay experience.  Otherwise mostly forgettable.

Oh, and..


District 9

 

Check it out.  Just as much CGI jiggery pokery as Transformers but with a whole other "alien" experience.

the terminal.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362227/

Tom Hanks doing his stuff.

a great movie. i dont know how it escaped me its now 5 years old.
family and student appropriate.

the first three episodes of series 7 of Curb Your Enthusiasm.  Larry up to his usual impressive standards.

Funniest American of all time, in my view.