Book of Eli - Denzel Washington - took two attempts to watch it all the way through - a bit of a duff Mad Max type film. Watchable. 4/10

 

Green Zone - Matt Damon - enjoyed it, always like films based out in Middle East, etc. 7/10

 

Planet 51 - was enjoying it til I nodded off, kids liked it - must be good. 6/10

 

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - see above - 6/10

 

Good Will Hunting - Matt Damon/Robin Williams - look, there was fook all else on this Saturday just gone, never seen it before - quite enjoyed - the scene were Robin Williams was going on about his late wife farting in bed had me in tears - half decent. Oh, and Minnie Driver looked far better than I can ever remember. 7/10

 

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - its Swedish so no famous actors/actresses - great thriller - didn't bother me that it was in subtitles great revenge scene on the pervy Probation Officer- looking forward to the 2nd in the trilogy in the next week or so - well worth the watch and highly recommended. 9/10

 

That's me, Jonathan Woss, over and out.

3 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said:

You're missing out...

There's a cracking film from about twenty years ago that you'd enjoy.

Sort of an update on 'The Invisible Man' starring Kevin Bacon in the title role.

Can't remember the name of it though.

Saw it at the time. Shite.

15 hours ago, Zico said:

Just done The Many Saints of Newark 

Quite disappointing 

It's an average gangster film that just happens to have a young Tony Soprano in it, turns out it's not about him at all

Interesting enough seeing younger versions of Junior and Paulie, though the young Silvio pretending to be old Silvio is a bit noncey 

Him indoors watched it the other night and said it wasn't the best. 

2 hours ago, little whitt said:

THIS

 

1 hour ago, bolton_blondie said:

Him indoors watched it the other night and said it wasn't the best. 

aye

it's a "Sopranos Story" and there's probably not much point in watching it if you've never seen the Sopranos

there's a couple of nice "nods" to the TV show, in the show it was mentioned that Tony's dad shot his mum through the bun in her hair when she wouldn't stop going on, that's included in it

but the trailer suggested it was going to be like "The Rise Of Tony Soprano", when it's not, it's mostly about Chris Moltesanti's dad who was in the same gang as Tony's dad and uncle

meh

Saw Wrath of Man today starring Jason Statham and directed by Guy Ritchie. Pretty standard Statham shoot em up stuff also featuring Jeffrey Donovan and Scott Eastwood who is a spit of his dad in the Spaghetti Westerns. Enjoyable enough, if a bit long.

One day I will crack the wire, I always fall asleep 40 mins into the first episode without fail.

The Sopranos was good, got me through part of lockdown.

Finished the last kingdom, giving Vikings a go but its not taking, on episode 3 of series 2.

 

58 minutes ago, Mannyroader said:

Saw Wrath of Man today starring Jason Statham and directed by Guy Ritchie. Pretty standard Statham shoot em up stuff also featuring Jeffrey Donovan and Scott Eastwood who is a spit of his dad in the Spaghetti Westerns. Enjoyable enough, if a bit long.

Thought that said Jason Donovan. Now that would be a film

Last Man Standing 

Documentary about Death Row Records, LA gangs, corrupt cops and the deaths of Tupac and Biggie. 

Interesting to see how it all went down

Brassic.

Still mental. Great telly.

27 minutes ago, Zico said:

Last Man Standing 

Documentary about Death Row Records, LA gangs, corrupt cops and the deaths of Tupac and Biggie. 

Interesting to see how it all went down

Dramatisation of it on Netflix called unsolved about it all. It’s decent 

2 hours ago, Rudy said:

Dramatisation of it on Netflix called unsolved about it all. It’s decent 

might give it a whirl

this one is good because it's all real footage and interviews etc

basically it was all down to Suge Knight being a massive cunt, and now he's been locked up and lost all his power, people aren't scared to come out and talk about it

whenever i hear about bloods and crips, I am reminded of this

 

10 minutes ago, Zico said:

might give it a whirl

this one is good because it's all real footage and interviews etc

basically it was all down to Suge Knight being a massive cunt, and now he's been locked up and lost all his power, people aren't scared to come out and talk about it

whenever i hear about bloods and crips, I am reminded of this

 

Suge was just a bodyguard and gang member, he ran death row like a gang, wanted to be the head of it but had no talent not that it stopped him. 
There’s a picture in the history of hip hop book inside the studio, where All the biggest death row albums were made about a month after Dr Dre left.

It’s just full of bloods, drugs, guns and a few cops. 

I've got a hour left of carlitos way. Thanks for the suggestion @Rudy👏👏

43 minutes ago, Rudy said:

Suge was just a bodyguard and gang member, he ran death row like a gang, wanted to be the head of it but had no talent not that it stopped him. 
There’s a picture in the history of hip hop book inside the studio, where All the biggest death row albums were made about a month after Dr Dre left.

It’s just full of bloods, drugs, guns and a few cops. 

reading on wiki that Knight managed to extract all royalties for Ice Ice Baby from Vanilla Ice by, allegedly, dangling him by his ankles from a hotel balcony

1 minute ago, bolton_blondie said:

I've got a hour left of carlitos way. Thanks for the suggestion @Rudy👏👏

Stick with me kiddo 

Just now, Zico said:

reading on wiki that Knight managed to extract all royalties for Ice Ice Baby from Vanilla Ice by, allegedly, dangling him by his ankles from a hotel balcony

Think he invested the money he made from ice ice baby in death row records. 
Thing is Vanilla Ice didn’t own the royalties, nor did he get permission to use the sample, so death row got sued by Queen, and his own record label so death row paid them off  by using Vanilla ices money.

 

On 05/10/2021 at 14:07, Youri McAnespie said:

You're missing out...

There's a cracking film from about twenty years ago that you'd enjoy.

Sort of an update on 'The Invisible Man' starring Kevin Bacon in the title role.

Can't remember the name of it though.

Hollow Man, watched it last week.

 

Can now add Carlitos Way, Fight Club, The Prestige, Primal Fear and Wild Things to the shit I missed list. WFH has its advantages

I suggested it 'humourously' pretending the film's title has escaped me, as Cheese said fiction left him feeling 'hollow'.

He 'whooshed' though, said he watched it way back then and it was crap - I agree.

Very forgettable, I think there was a slightly 'sex case-y' scene iirc, the only bit I even slightly recall.

 

The Digitally remastered 'Paris, Texas' is a good 'un, especially if you've got a chavtastic super-duper wide resolution surround curved screen telly, to be watched in darkness only...

1 hour ago, Rudy said:

Stick with me kiddo 

Think he invested the money he made from ice ice baby in death row records. 
Thing is Vanilla Ice didn’t own the royalties, nor did he get permission to use the sample, so death row got sued by Queen, and his own record label so death row paid them off  by using Vanilla ices money.

 

the LOL-iest thing about suge knight is that he were a replacement player in the NFL in one of the strike seasons. 

like when lonzo amd lamelo ball's dad played in nfl europe. 

funny

On 01/10/2021 at 20:41, MancWanderer said:

Gone 60’s retro

Guns of Navarone popped up on my Netflix. Not seen since I was a kid and had to watch stupidly due to the musical reference

This is a proper British film. Tally ho. What, what, what. David Niven. Pesky Germans. Stiff upper lip

They don’t make em like this anymore…..

Probably for a reason

Its ace though

the sequel with harrison ford and [s]billy dee william[/s] carl weathers has recently been on normal telly. 

so thats a star wars link. 

quint from jaws is in it , too . so theres a slight bolton link. 

Just watched the new Dune film at an English cinema in Vienna.

Absolute epic if that your thing; Lawrence of Arabia, meets Gladiator, meets Star Wars.

Pretty long but worth it, and only half way through the story of the 1984 film version too, so must be a sequel if it makes money.

Not a film I’ve watch recently, but some quite interesting things I’ve learned this morning.   The film Zulu has stolen quite a bit of glory off us English, the Battle of Rooks Drift was fought by the 2nd Battalion of Warwickshire and they didn’t sing ‘Men Of Harlick’, they sang a song called ‘Lancashire Lad’,  such was the disgust of some of Capt Hooks family who went to the premier that they left half way through.    I demand a remake.

Edited October 9, 20214 yr by Breightmet Boy

1 hour ago, Breightmet Boy said:

 ...such was the disgust of some of Capt Hooks family who went to the premier that they left half way through.    I demand a remake.

'When You're in Love (with a beautiful woman...)' is a cracking song.

Written by the above ^ (pictured below).

I presume Michael Caine was a Lancashire lad transplanted to Lahndan fackin' Tern?

Colonial wars were like 'hooligans' habitually pasting pockets of 'scarfers' (armed with dry grass), then shitting their britches when a real mob (armed with spears mind, still spears vs. rifles) - The Redcoats shit out then, went and formed Butlins instead.

That's where the phrase 'Fuck this for a game of soldiers' originated, the 'Battle of Rourke's Drift.

The Card Counter. Not bad if you fancy a bit of casino card play mixed in with some Guantanamo gore. 7/10.

On 07/10/2021 at 14:31, Youri McAnespie said:

I suggested it 'humourously' pretending the film's title has escaped me, as Cheese said fiction left him feeling 'hollow'.

He 'whooshed' though, said he watched it way back then and it was crap - I agree.

Very forgettable, I think there was a slightly 'sex case-y' scene iirc, the only bit I even slightly recall.

 

No 'whoosh' here.

Guilty on Netflix. Meh