Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[RED-DOG]

Talking of bank robberys, have you seen The Bank Job Tom ? excellent film. It's based on the 1971 Baker Street robbery, it's a must watch. Obv not in the league of the above which gets a 10/10 but it's definitely a 9.

Yes, I've seen it Ray. Great Film, but not iconic IMO.

Pachino / De Nero films are like, entwined with my life. when I see one now, it reminds me of where I was and what was happening for me at that time.

For instance, I was 14 when Francis Ford Coppola's The God Father game out. We were stopping on a camp at High Hazels Park called Sheffield Top.

I walked about 2 miles and then took two buses (The 72 to Attercliffe and the 54 to town) to get into Sheffield to watch it at the ABC. Buses = 6 pence for both. Cinema ticket 45p.   

Where were you when you first saw it?

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[RED-DOG]

1978. I was 20 when I saw The Deer Hunter with Robert De Niro & Christopher Walken.

Married with a new baby, Mrs Red & I didn't have much time or money to spare, but we somehow wangled a night at the pictures.

What A film!

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[millidonk]

Those "flying" photos are sensational, Tom.

Do you get this sort of range of bird everyday? Can't wait until I am snapping action shots like this. vwp.

Don't get me started on films as i will do less work than i am doing already. (if at all possible)

[RED-DOG]

Those "flying" photos are sensational, Tom.

Do you get this sort of range of bird everyday? Can't wait until I am snapping action shots like this. vwp.

Don't get me started on films as i will do less work than i am doing already. (if at all possible)

Yes. The birds in the pics are here constantly, along with goldfinches, chaffinches and dunnocks. I've become quite familiar with them as individuals.


Please do get started on your 'iconic' or 'milestone' films, and more importantly, the memories of the times when you saw them.

How old were you, where were you living, was your life different then etc?

[mondatoo]

Talking of bank robberys, have you seen The Bank Job Tom ? excellent film. It's based on the 1971 Baker Street robbery, it's a must watch. Obv not in the league of the above which gets a 10/10 but it's definitely a 9.

Yes, I've seen it Ray. Great Film, but not iconic IMO.

Pachino / De Nero films are like, entwined with my life. when I see one now, it reminds me of where I was and what was happening for me at that time.

For instance, I was 14 when Francis Ford Coppola's The God Father game out. We were stopping on a camp at High Hazels Park called Sheffield Top.

I walked about 2 miles and then took two buses (The 72 to Attercliffe and the 54 to town) to get into Sheffield to watch it at the ABC. Buses = 6 pence for both. Cinema ticket 45p.   

Where were you when you first saw it?

Click to see full-size image.

Certainly not iconic no, when I said the film industry was in a state I meant because they rarely even produce a good film nevermind an iconic film. They are so obsessed with true stories at the minute but most of them are just zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, another film I did like from more recently was The Blind Side.

[Kev B]

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.

[Rod Paradise]

'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

That's another film I didn't see until 30 years after it's release. When I did finally get to watch it, I was blown away.


Film 4 on Sky are doing a season of these iconic movies at the moment. 'Films for life' I think it's called. I'm deffo going to try to catch the ones I haven't seen before.


BTW- Have you ever seen anyone with as much presence as Jack Nicholson? (Cept Caroline Cougar perhaps).

Totally agree, it's an amazing film and he's an abs boss.

I enjoyed the book more than the film TBH. Another of Ken Kesey's that I think you'd love Red is 'The Last Go Round' - one of my favourite books.

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Go-Round-Real-Western/dp/0140176675

Edit - somehow I managed to get an Amazon US link.

£2.83 used paperback from Amazon UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0140176675/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller= - at that price Red I guarantee you'll like it - I'll refund the price if you don't.

[mondatoo]

'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

That's another film I didn't see until 30 years after it's release. When I did finally get to watch it, I was blown away.


Film 4 on Sky are doing a season of these iconic movies at the moment. 'Films for life' I think it's called. I'm deffo going to try to catch the ones I haven't seen before.


BTW- Have you ever seen anyone with as much presence as Jack Nicholson? (Cept Caroline Cougar perhaps).

Totally agree, it's an amazing film and he's an abs boss.

I enjoyed the book more than the film TBH. Another of Ken Kesey's that I think you'd love Red is 'The Last Go Round' - one of my favourite books.

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Go-Round-Real-Western/dp/0140176675

I'm not an avid book reader to start with so it's never really appealed to me to read a book after I've seen a film based on it. Tried to read the Shawshank book but just couldn't get motivated to read it. I'm sure it is a great book though.

[Rod Paradise]

'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

That's another film I didn't see until 30 years after it's release. When I did finally get to watch it, I was blown away.


Film 4 on Sky are doing a season of these iconic movies at the moment. 'Films for life' I think it's called. I'm deffo going to try to catch the ones I haven't seen before.


BTW- Have you ever seen anyone with as much presence as Jack Nicholson? (Cept Caroline Cougar perhaps).

Totally agree, it's an amazing film and he's an abs boss.

I enjoyed the book more than the film TBH. Another of Ken Kesey's that I think you'd love Red is 'The Last Go Round' - one of my favourite books.

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Go-Round-Real-Western/dp/0140176675

I'm not an avid book reader to start with so it's never really appealed to me to read a book after I've seen a film based on it. Tried to read the Shawshank book but just couldn't get motivated to read it. I'm sure it is a great book though.

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.

[mouth]

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.

[gatso]

2) those m16 (?) guns empty a clip in less Than 3 seconds yet rarely do u ever see them reload

maybe for the same reason that you don't see everytime a character goes to the toilet. it's not very interesting and wouldn't add anything to the movie

best bank robbery movie ever for me would be dog day afternoon. pacino on the other side of the law and putting in a much better performance

[mondatoo]

'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

That's another film I didn't see until 30 years after it's release. When I did finally get to watch it, I was blown away.


Film 4 on Sky are doing a season of these iconic movies at the moment. 'Films for life' I think it's called. I'm deffo going to try to catch the ones I haven't seen before.


BTW- Have you ever seen anyone with as much presence as Jack Nicholson? (Cept Caroline Cougar perhaps).

Totally agree, it's an amazing film and he's an abs boss.

I enjoyed the book more than the film TBH. Another of Ken Kesey's that I think you'd love Red is 'The Last Go Round' - one of my favourite books.

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Go-Round-Real-Western/dp/0140176675

I'm not an avid book reader to start with so it's never really appealed to me to read a book after I've seen a film based on it. Tried to read the Shawshank book but just couldn't get motivated to read it. I'm sure it is a great book though.

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'd always want to watch a film that I'd read the book of if I liked it to see what they do with it and because it's only 1 1/2 - 2 hours of my life. I just don't like the idea of spending 10+ hours reading a book when I know all the main things that happen.

[Rod Paradise]

'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

That's another film I didn't see until 30 years after it's release. When I did finally get to watch it, I was blown away.


Film 4 on Sky are doing a season of these iconic movies at the moment. 'Films for life' I think it's called. I'm deffo going to try to catch the ones I haven't seen before.


BTW- Have you ever seen anyone with as much presence as Jack Nicholson? (Cept Caroline Cougar perhaps).

Totally agree, it's an amazing film and he's an abs boss.

I enjoyed the book more than the film TBH. Another of Ken Kesey's that I think you'd love Red is 'The Last Go Round' - one of my favourite books.

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Go-Round-Real-Western/dp/0140176675

I'm not an avid book reader to start with so it's never really appealed to me to read a book after I've seen a film based on it. Tried to read the Shawshank book but just couldn't get motivated to read it. I'm sure it is a great book though.

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'd always want to watch a film that I'd read the book of if I liked it to see what they do with it and because it's only 1 1/2 - 2 hours of my life. I just don't like the idea of spending 10+ hours reading a book when I know all the main things that happen.

Been too disappointed with films of books I've really liked I'm afraid.

Power of One (probably my favourite book ever) was absolutely mangled as a film, I had to walk out. To be fair a lot of the main parts of the book was the thoughts/feelings of the main character - hard to capture on film.

Thought the Swedish version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was well done though - matched what I expected from the book brilliantly.

Anyway - different strokes for different folks. I'm a bookworm, and would rather read than watch TV/Film most of the time. Obv I'm generally more a fan of the books.

[Rod Paradise]

2) those m16 (?) guns empty a clip in less Than 3 seconds yet rarely do u ever see them reload

maybe for the same reason that you don't see everytime a character goes to the toilet. it's not very interesting and wouldn't add anything to the movie

best bank robbery movie ever for me would be dog day afternoon. pacino on the other side of the law and putting in a much better performance

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.

Guns and bullets are generally terribly dealt with in films though, no-one wants the nasty reality I suppose.

[mondatoo]

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.

As I no longer have a laptop I will have sometime to kill on the train to DTD on Friday so I've got Chris Evans' bio off me Mam, memoirs of a fruitcake. From the little I know about him I love his attitude to life so I'm expecting a good read.