Films you've watched recently.

[Tangled up in Blue]

We see this last night and really enjoyed it.Film offered more than I thought it would and I agree was moving in places.I noticed Tom Hanks son was in it too playing young Otto

Yeah my wife picked up on that.Maybe there's a future for him playing the young Tom Hanks in flashbacks.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

David Lean made quite a few wonderful films in the 1940's
Of course the British New Wave Films (AKA kitchen sink dramas) were a great genre of films.

Michael Caine has appeared in a number of excellent films.
The wonderful Leslie Manville (Mrs Harris Goes To Paris) is a great talent.

Going back in time there was the legend that is Alfred Hitchcock who made films in England and then moved to America.

"Peeping Tom" came out in 1960 and was pulled at the cinema due to it's severe content and is now very highly rated.
This one of my favourite films along with Hitchcock's classic "Psycho"
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Peeping Tom is a wonderful film Michael Powell IIRC .It probably wouldn't get made today ,unfortunately though.

 

[BALDY]

Peeping Tom is a wonderful film Micael Powell IIRC .It probably wouldn't get made today ,unfortunately though.

It would be far too dangerous.

 

[Napster]

Peeping Tom is a wonderful film Micael Powell IIRC .It probably wouldn't get made today ,unfortunately though.

What a load of nonsense. Loads of films are made today which are ten times worse

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

It would be far too dangerous.

To whom though?

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

What a load of nonsense. Loads of films are made today which are ten times worse

You're obviously talking about so called "terror " films which almost by definition are far less realistic than PT was.I agree they're "worse" btw.

 

[BALDY]

Napster you obviously have never seen it.
The murderer has a spike in a tripod.

He murders women whilst filming it!!!!

The P C brigade would be pulling out their hair if they got a whiff of an attempted remake!

See the film you can buy/rent the DVD online.
Please watch it as I would like your view of it.

Peeping Tom movie review & film summary (1960) | Roger Ebert

The movies make us into voyeurs. We sit in the dark, watching other people's lives. It is the bargain the cinema strikes with us, although most films are too well-behaved to mention it.

www.rogerebert.com

 

[GNH]

Napster you obviously have never seen it.
The murderer has a spike in a tripod.

He murders women whilst filming it!!!!

The P C brigade would be pulling out their hair if they got a whiff of an attempted remake!

See the film you can buy/rent the DVD online.
Please watch it as I would like your view of it.

Peeping Tom movie review & film summary (1960) | Roger Ebert

The movies make us into voyeurs. We sit in the dark, watching other people's lives. It is the bargain the cinema strikes with us, although most films are too well-behaved to mention it.

www.rogerebert.com

You do know it's a film and not real life right?

Plently of films made that are horrifically violent

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

You do know it's a film and not real life right?

Plently of films made that are horrifically violent

Surely the issue is how realistic it was? Totally IMO.Make you on the money with your last point though.

 

[GNH]

Surely the issue is how realistic it was? Totally IMO.Make you on the money with your last point though.

Isn't the whole point to make something look realistic in a film otherwise it just looks looks terrible?

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Isn't the whole point to make something look realistic in a film otherwise it just looks looks terrible?

A lot of violent films have been wrongly criticised IMO for just this reason .Think of The Straw Dogs or The Wild Bunch for example.

 

[BALDY]

"The Clockwork Orange" to my knowledge has never been made.

 

[The Big Dady]

"The Clockwork Orange" to my knowledge has never been made.

Do you mean Stanley Kubrick's brilliant 1971 film "A Clockwork Orange"?

Saw that (uncut) in Leicester Square when it first came out, as it was banned in Southend by the council who refused to give it a licence or rating,

 

[BALDY]

Yup,,,Stanley Kubrick even banned the dvd.

 

[The Big Dady]

Trailer

 

[The Big Dady]

Yup,,,Stanley Kubrick even banned the dvd.

It is available now on DVD and Blu-Ray

 

[Napster]

Napster you obviously have never seen it.
The murderer has a spike in a tripod.

He murders women whilst filming it!!!!

The P C brigade would be pulling out their hair if they got a whiff of an attempted remake!

See the film you can buy/rent the DVD online.
Please watch it as I would like your view of it.

Peeping Tom movie review & film summary (1960) | Roger Ebert

The movies make us into voyeurs. We sit in the dark, watching other people's lives. It is the bargain the cinema strikes with us, although most films are too well-behaved to mention it.

www.rogerebert.com

I’ve seen it - it’s OK I suppose.

 

[Napster]

You're obviously talking about so called "terror " films which almost by definition are far less realistic than PT was.I agree they're "worse" btw.

No such thing as terror films - horror is the right term. Peeping Tom is a psychological horror. Realism in horror is interesting- and there’s plenty of horror films based on that. Texas Chainsaw Massacre for one. That was remade recently as well. The horror genre gets less credit than it should.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

No such thing as terror films - horror is the right term. Peeping Tom is a psychological horror. Realism in horror is interesting- and there’s plenty of horror films based on that. Texas Chainsaw Massacre for one. That was remade recently as well. The horror genre gets less credit than it should.

TCM is one of the worst recent films I've ever seen.You'll excuse me for not wanting to see the remake I hope.While I like the John Whale classic Frankenstein films,Nosferatu and even some of the early Hammer horror films it's not a genre that I care overmuch for.

Edit.Have you actually seen Peeping Tom?

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Trailer

Indeed.Great film.