Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[gatso]

That's OK so long as they don't fire off a 60 round continuous burst from a 30 round magazine though, or fire 8 shots from a 6-shooter.

yeah, true, though tbf I just wanna see shit get shot. don't really care how many shots a gun holds

[Rod Paradise]

That's OK so long as they don't fire off a 60 round continuous burst from a 30 round magazine though, or fire 8 shots from a 6-shooter.

yeah, true, though tbf I just wanna see shit get shot. don't really care how many shots a gun holds

I'm one of those pedantic buggers who gets annoyed by such things.....

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I do like reading but at the minute with doing long grinding sessions I'm just too tired to pick a book up so just watch some TV stuff instead.

Ray. Have you thought about books on tape? Well actually it's books on CD or download them on am mp3 now, but I think they're great.

You get the proper story, just as the author intended, but someone reads it to you. All you have to do is chill and listen.

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I'm a book reader, wins for me hands down over a film: having said that, when I do watch films, jack Nicholson is definitely my favourite actor of all time (second fave Christopher Eccleston)

The Shining still scares the sh*t out of me now but another one I could watch again and again by him is "As good as it gets". That's one of my top ten, others include Reign Over Me, Point Break and Philadelphia, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and *coughs* 10 things I hate about you. Sorry, I'm a girl and Heath Ledger dancing across the bleachers singing "You're just to good to be true" is to me a defining moment of what romance should be.

Caroline my sweetheart, I just knew you were a romantic a heart.

Mmmmmmmmwwwwwwwwah!!!!  XX

 

[Rod Paradise]

I do like reading but at the minute with doing long grinding sessions I'm just too tired to pick a book up so just watch some TV stuff instead.

Ray. Have you thought about books on tape? Well actually it's books on CD or download them on am mp3 now, but I think they're great.

You get the proper story, just as the author intended, but someone reads it to you. All you have to do is chill and listen.

+ 1 They can be great, when I was regularly driving from Glasgow to and from my work in Wakefield I had them on in the car a lot.

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I have my grandaughter over for the day so a quick post in between jigsaws and scooby doo games and vids.

Great pics. Pacino and DeNiro just a class above. Another good oldie full of proper film stars is the Sting from 76 I think. Lolling at the cougar and Gracie asks what I'm laughing at, good job I can think on my feet. Could talk all day about the pictures, I used to go several times a week, sometimes to see the same films. Then you got value for money with two films on the bill. I use to take milk and pop bottles back to the shop to help with the film funding. In those days you got a deposit back on the bottles. I was watching X films from the age of 14 too, my first ever was Straw Dogs with Dustin Hoffman and Susan George. The cinemas were more relaxed then, one week I would go in and see an X rated film and pay adult prices then the week after I would see a U film at the same cinema and pay half under 18's price.

Anyway got to go and teach Gracie how to check raise.

Straw Dogs! I was 13 or 14. It was one of the most disturbing films I had ever seen. (In more ways than one)

Susan George! Say no more.

Click to see full-size image.

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Speaking of Hoffman, does anyone remember 'Marathon Man'.


"Is it safe?"

[Jon MW]

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I tend to find whichever I read/watch first sets the scene in my head and so gets 'prime billing' and I usually prefer it. Thing is usually the books are out first & I read them first. I still think your own imagination paints the pictures better than the best of directors can though, which gets me preferring the books if I've the choice of book or film.

Exceptions for Star Wars (Original Trilogy) and Lord of the Rings. There the films win hands down. All IMO obv.

I agree whatever you come across first has the potential to 'spoil' to a certain extent the second place format.

For me the book will always be better than the film so because of that I'll make sure I read the book first - even if it means I have to buy and read a trilogy the week before the film of the first book comes out (like what just happened with The Hunger Games).

Your exceptions are interesting as they're opposite ends of the scale. The Lord of the Rings are probably some of the most literary books ever written whereas Star Wars were obviously just film novelisations to cash in on the film - you couldn't get any more of a contrast.

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I tend to find whichever I read/watch first sets the scene in my head and so gets 'prime billing' and I usually prefer it. Thing is usually the books are out first & I read them first. I still think your own imagination paints the pictures better than the best of directors can though, which gets me preferring the books if I've the choice of book or film.

Exceptions for Star Wars (Original Trilogy) and Lord of the Rings. There the films win hands down. All IMO obv.

I agree whatever you come across first has the potential to 'spoil' to a certain extent the second place format.

For me the book will always be better than the film so because of that I'll make sure I read the book first - even if it means I have to buy and read a trilogy the week before the film of the first book comes out (like what just happened with The Hunger Games).

Your exceptions are interesting as they're opposite ends of the scale. The Lord of the Rings are probably some of the most literary books ever written whereas Star Wars were obviously just film novelisations to cash in on the film - you couldn't get any more of a contrast.

I always do book first if I can.

I read this and loved it.






Then I saw this and loved it too, but for different reasons.

[Rod Paradise]

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I tend to find whichever I read/watch first sets the scene in my head and so gets 'prime billing' and I usually prefer it. Thing is usually the books are out first & I read them first. I still think your own imagination paints the pictures better than the best of directors can though, which gets me preferring the books if I've the choice of book or film.

Exceptions for Star Wars (Original Trilogy) and Lord of the Rings. There the films win hands down. All IMO obv.

I agree whatever you come across first has the potential to 'spoil' to a certain extent the second place format.

For me the book will always be better than the film so because of that I'll make sure I read the book first - even if it means I have to buy and read a trilogy the week before the film of the first book comes out (like what just happened with The Hunger Games).

Your exceptions are interesting as they're opposite ends of the scale. The Lord of the Rings are probably some of the most literary books ever written whereas Star Wars were obviously just film novelisations to cash in on the film - you couldn't get any more of a contrast.

Just about 1/2 way through the Hunger Games trilogy for the same reason.

The films of LOTR was so spectacular that it surpassed the books in my mind - although it's a long time since I read them - I loved the story & some of the writing, but how many words did Tolkien need to describe a long walk in dark dark woods??? (I know that's sacrilegious, but I can't help but feel it).

Star Wars you're bang on about the spinoff books - they sucked, but I'm a big fan of the extended universe in the books - I love the way the authors have to collaborate & avoid contradicting each other, or find plausible explanations.

[iangascoigne]

Well I am very new to this blogging game but as I  am on holiday and Tom has asked  about  movies I cannot resist.
Two very early classics have to be The Apartment with Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine followed by 12 Angry Men with Henry Fonda.Both classics from the 1960 and 1957.Obviously I didnt see them when they came out but they are a must see.

The early seventies movies that I recall for various reasons where Straw Dogs,Clockwork Orange and The Excorcist and Jaws.
The 80s where about Apocalypse Now,The Godfather trilogy,Raging Bull,The Deer Hunter,Scar Face.In fact it was just De Niro and Al Pacino basically.
The 90s well it started with The Silence of the Lambs,Shindlers List,Pulp Fiction,Goodfellas and ended with Good Will Hunting and Saving Private Ryan.
Time then starts to accelerate and blur but favourites for different reasons include American Beauty,The Usual Suspects,Gladiator,
The English Patient,The Departed,Toy Story,The Lives of Others,Rain Man,Mrs Doubtfire
and most recently I like Drive.
Oh and  dont  forget  The Elephant Man.

so I dont really type but I hope someone  may find this  brings back some memories.

[taximan007]

Just about my all time favourite

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Well I am very new to this blogging game but as I  am on holiday and Tom has asked  about  movies I cannot resist.
Two very early classics have to be The Apartment with Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine followed by 12 Angry Men with Henry Fonda.Both classics from the 1960 and 1957.Obviously I didnt see them when they came out but they are a must see.

The early seventies movies that I recall for various reasons where Straw Dogs,Clockwork Orange and The Excorcist and Jaws.
The 80s where about Apocalypse Now,The Godfather trilogy,Raging Bull,The Deer Hunter,Scar Face.In fact it was just De Niro and Al Pacino basically.
The 90s well it started with The Silence of the Lambs,Shindlers List,Pulp Fiction,Goodfellas and ended with Good Will Hunting and Saving Private Ryan.
Time then starts to accelerate and blur but favourites for different reasons include American Beauty,The Usual Suspects,Gladiator,
The English Patient,The Departed,Toy Story,The Lives of Others,Rain Man,Mrs Doubtfire
and most recently I like Drive.
Oh and  dont  forget  The Elephant Man.

so I dont really type but I hope someone  may find this  brings back some memories.

What an excellent contribution. Thank you Ian.

So many great films there. So many memories.

Twelve Angry Men. (Original version) probably my number one all time favourite.

Please post more.

[Geo the Sarge]

Well I am very new to this blogging game but as I  am on holiday and Tom has asked  about  movies I cannot resist.
Two very early classics have to be The Apartment with Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine followed by 12 Angry Men with Henry Fonda.Both classics from the 1960 and 1957.Obviously I didnt see them when they came out but they are a must see.

The early seventies movies that I recall for various reasons where Straw Dogs,Clockwork Orange and The Excorcist and Jaws.
The 80s where about Apocalypse Now,The Godfather trilogy,Raging Bull,The Deer Hunter,Scar Face.In fact it was just De Niro and Al Pacino basically.
The 90s well it started with The Silence of the Lambs,Shindlers List,Pulp Fiction,Goodfellas and ended with Good Will Hunting and Saving Private Ryan.
Time then starts to accelerate and blur but favourites for different reasons include American Beauty,The Usual Suspects,Gladiator,
The English Patient,The Departed,Toy Story,The Lives of Others,Rain Man,Mrs Doubtfire
and most recently I like Drive.
Oh and  dont  forget  The Elephant Man.

so I dont really type but I hope someone  may find this  brings back some memories.

Great post and so many memories of so many great movies.

regards books/films, a friend told me to read Silence of the Lambs before seeing the film, which I did and I found it enhanced my watching of the film as the book gave a more in-depth idea of the character of Buffalo Bill which I thought was lost in the movie with the focus on Hannibal


Edit: Wot Tom said (sigh)
Geo

[Karabiner]

A few fairly modern movies that I've not seen mentioned are:

"The Usual Suspects" "Goodfellas" and "LA Confidential", all of which I must have lost count of the times I've watched.

I absolutely adore most of the "Film Noir" genre and the old classic Westerns too.