Reel to Reel

I’m going to see THE DARK KNIGHT for the THIRD time tonight people :P …
I’m telling ya’ll, go see it NOW!!!

…or I’ll inflict an even LONGER review of it on you this time!!

I kid you not :twisted:

:lol:

Beatrix potter…… just watched it not seen it before but a must for the romantics in this world. The inimitable Renee Zellwegar played Miss Potter beautifully. I couldn’t help wondering however, as the animals came alive if Beatrix was indeed bi polar or schizophrenic as peter rabbit and jemima puddleduck spoke to her.
She lived at home with her mother and father, she was a daddys girl, that was obvious, but her father just wanted to please everyone and bowed down to his wife’s demands. Beatrix’s mother had slipped into the land of the wealthy and affluence, taking on airs and graces in an effort one can only assume to prove she was indeed a lady. Chastising Beatrix on several occasions for carrying her own tray and doing things considered by her mother as menial.
creaky Miss Wiggin, played by Matyelok Gibbs was Beatrix’s chaperone and although she was very often disapproving of things Beatrix did you couldn’t help getting the feeling she was on her side.
Beatrix fell in love with Norman, a junior brother in the publishing firm where Beatrix published her books. He was set up to fail by 2 older brothers senior to him in the company business. Beatrix’s mother persuaded her father to inflict a forced summer of separation between Norman and Beatrix with a promise that if the couple still loved each other and wanted to marry after that then both her mother and her father would agree. The moments at the train station as Beatrix and her parents were about to leave for the summer house in the lake district were every romantics dream, Beatrix scanned the crowds on the platform looking for Norman to come and say goodbye. She sees someone she thinks is Norman and runs off the train to greet him only to find it wasn’t him, as she turns around to board the train again Norman appears they kiss and she only manages to get back on the train as it is pulling out of the station.
Throughout the summer she receives letters from him, but one day the letters stop, not knowing the story you wonder for a while if her parents haven’t managed to put something in place where the letters stop, indeed Beatrix’s mother is triumphant and hardly able to contain her ‘I knew it was a whim’ attitude. Beatrix receives a letter from Norman’s sister Millie, telling her Norman is very ill, Beatrix only arrives back in London the day after Normans funeral and is devastated. The moment in her room as she tries to rekindle her friends, Peter Rabbit and co, and they all disappear one by one only serves to confirm her heartbreak, everything slipping from her grasp in her grief.
Beatrix buys a working farm in the beautiful Lake district , and this is her saving grace, she becomes close friends with a local solicitor who helps her buy other properties in an attempt to save the area from the property developers, she bids a massive £3,000 for another farm to help preserve the area.
The film ends with the words, ‘There is something delicious about writing the first few words of a story, you can never tell where they might take you, mine took me here’ and as she sat on a hillside in the wonderful part of England that is the lake district the film ended, leaving the romantics amongst us wishing we were also there.

@sharongooner wrote:

Last night we watched Oceans 13 and The Exorcist.

Oceans 13 was a bit slow, but the last 40 minutes or so was good. Lots of eye candy for the ladies.

The Exorcist just made me laugh, a lot.

Bernie Mac from Ocean’s 13 died yesterday, coincidentally.
He was only 50.

@toybulldog wrote:

@cath 55 wrote:

Beatrix scanned the crowds on the platform looking for Norman to come and say goodbye. She sees someone she thinks is Norman and runs off the train to greet him only to find it wasn’t him, as she turns around to board the train again Norman appears they kiss and she only manages to get back on the train as it is pulling out of the station.

the amount of times I done that too cath, jumped off a moving bus only to find I’m snogging the wrong person again . . . . .

anyway, I believe there’s a Norman out there for all of us

Would that be as in Bates or Conqueror..should one best scan the Domesday Book to find a motel with cheap rates and a good working shower?

@toybulldog wrote:

going back some…………’Heat’……the long awaited De niro / Pacino scene…..

Now it could be just me, I’ve seen many say how “electric” it was but somehow I remain dissapointed ? I believe that this momentous dialogue was somewhat lacking in the writing department and the actors involved did the best they could with what they were given. When you consider the quality of the godfather films and that. The directors miami voice vibe seemed to permeate the film anyway at the expense of something unique.

Maybe I ‘m too picky but does anybody know what I’m getting at ?

Curiously enough, the pairing of the diminutive cinematic giants rekindles this week with the release of Righteous Kill.. a film that’s receiving less than favourable reviews :?.

On the subject of This outstanding scene from HEAT, well, as I’m sure you’ve guessed, I’m a major fan.
If the new film points towards what many see as the nadir of the De-cino/Pa-niro coupling, then the famous cafe scene above is certainly it’s zenith.
For me, it sums up in many ways the acting revolution that these guys exemplified. A brave new world pioneered by the likes of Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift – brought forward by dear old Al and Bobby – and masterfully maintained by the uber talents of Daniel Day Lewis and the late great Heath Ledger.

Much is made of the whole Method Acting gig with it’s apparent emphasis on complete metamorphosis and character immersion, but for me the great reward this particular school grants us is the brilliant gift present in all great art.. ie the notion of the epic in the commonplace. The noble in the everyday.
One need only look towards Joyce’s Ulysses to see this very much in motion, where the simplest of themes is advanced in the most elaborate fashions.
Heat – with all it’s style, urban musings and backdrops takes two seemingly disparate protagonists and curiously connects them with regard to the morally grey area of.. well.. cops n robbers. Their very dysfunction defines them, and ultimately binds them, albeit in the flip side way that Bobby DeNiro alludes to. Their dream descriptions are also utterly significant and similar – weaved into a superbly understated conversation that flows seamlessly towards a recognition of mutual respect.
Exceptional, vibrant cinema 8)