The Movie Thread

[Bada-Bing!]

Rewatched Titanic after the whole Titan implosion.

LA Confidential - Rollo Tomasi.

Both came out in 1997 only one of them won 11 Oscars and best picture but only the other one was a far superior film.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Empire Cinemas collapses into administration

Six cinemas close in the chain immediately, with the loss of 150 jobs, say administrators.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Umaga's Witness]

Can't remember which actor, but a famous one who's knighted said he wouldn't be hired these days as he would be considered too difficult to work with. Does seem to be focus on making money rather than a good film. Problem is it's a bit like music. Creativity isn't actually rewarded and many people, particularly in America want something familiar and comfortable.

Difference with music is it doesn't cost so much to produce music so at least you can get to hear creativity from part time musicians. Just a pity that good and creative musicians can't get enough money these days to do it full time.

 

[stus768]

Can't remember which actor, but a famous one who's knighted said he wouldn't be hired these days as he would be considered too difficult to work with. Does seem to be focus on making money rather than a good film. Problem is it's a bit like music. Creativity isn't actually rewarded and many people, particularly in America want something familiar and comfortable.

Mark Rylance I think?

 

[Reiser99]

Mark Rylance I think?

Yep that was it.

 

[OldSchoolRugga]

Guardians 3 was good fun.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

This looks very good

 

[BrokenWing]

It's no Sharpe...

 

[Yulia]

Oooh, I'm a huge fan of Napoleon Bonaparte. Although, can't imagine anyone in this role except Armand Assante...will watch it anyway though.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Oooh, I'm a huge fan of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Big fan of short authoritarians?

 

[Yulia]

@Bada-Bing! can't understand how someone can compare incredible,talented, intelligent Napoleon to...Putin.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

@Bada-Bing! can't understand how someone can compare incredible,talented, intelligent Napoleon to...Putin.

Well as above and trying to invade a country they shouldn't do.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Napoleon wasn't even short

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Napoleon wasn't even short

He was 5 foot 6.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

He was 5 foot 6.

Which was average height at the time,
The short thing was started by British newspaper cartoonists depicting him as an angry child

 

[Yulia]

His real precise height is still under discussion. Generally, for his time he was rather "average". I remember my surprise of his and his commanders/officers uniform sizes when I've been to the Musée de l'Armée in Paris. They were all rather of my parameters (and my height is 165 cm and size is modern xs/s). So, average male heights/sizes during those times were almost equal to average female heights/sizes nowadays.

 

[Saintjay]

From a history site.

Explains why every number 9 has a Napolean Complex....Here's looking at you Faf.

So if Napoleon was of average height, where does the legend of his small stature come from? It was, in fact, largely the work of one man: the British cartoonist James Gillray (1756-1815). Gillray's caricatural depictions of the French general were so popular and influential that at the end of his life Napoleon said that Gillray "did more than all the armies of Europe to bring me down."

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Not sold on Timothee Chalamet as a young Wonka (seems too serious to be whimsical/eccentric), but Hugh Grant as an Oompa Loompa is going to be A+

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Yeh I’ll watch that. Gene Wilder will always be the original and best Willy W for me. Didn’t like Depp’s version too weird with the teeth thing. Wish though they’d make the Movie adaptations of Ronald Dahl with a more British cast like they did with the Harry Potter franchise though. They are never quite like how I imagine them from the books.

 

[ncurd]

Yeh I’ll watch that. Gene Wilder will always be the original and best Willy W for me. Didn’t like Depp’s version too weird with the teeth thing. Wish though they’d make the Movie adaptations of Ronald Dahl with a more British cast like they did with the Harry Potter franchise though. They are never quite like how I imagine them from the books.

Matilda - The Musical is very British centric and I enjoyed it.