UKRM: Film Club

Yeah: a bit of fun, no more.

For a comics fan it suffers the twin misfortunes of being a not very good
film and a shit interpretation of the original comic.

X-Men and Spiderman kept much closer to the comics and were quite decent
films. Even my youngest neice quite liked the X-Men films, even though
she was only there because her boyfriend dragged her along. She loathed
The Hullk, though.

I was very impressed with Spiderman 2. A really good action film.

Really good film. Not a *lot* of action, because it's about snipers (in
Stalingrad, in case you didn't know), so a certain amount of people
waiting for other people to poke their heads up, and no big fight scenes
as such. (Well: some battles.)

 

Bear wrote:

[Enemy at the Gates]

Understated. All the more horrific for it.

It comes over as a well played ensemble piece. Good casting - Jude Law,
Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz and Ed Harris.

Bob Hoskins does a good turn as Nikita Khrushchev, albeit with a London
accent...

 

You'd be hard pushed to find more low brow than the utter pile of
shite that was the film version of CCM. Completely fucked up the
story. And Nicholas Cage was wrong, wrong, wrong for the role.

<goes off to stroke the book lovingly and pretend the film never
happened>

 

Pah! Ignorant fool. Did you never read the Alan Moore and Alan Davis
"Captain Britain"? Splendid stuff. Serialised in... uh, I can't
remember: it was a Marvel UK monthly anthology, with reprints of some US
strips and some original material. It eventually got reprinted as a TPB.

It's a good idea in theory, but much easier said than done. I managed it
with Batman, (the first two, anyway) which departed very significantly
from the character of The Batman. But Daredevil was just so far from the
"real" character and the acting was so crap...

I thought it stuck pretty close to the films. The main characters were
all present, and behaving much as they should have done. Rogue was
probably the biggest difference.

I was pleased that they didn't bottle it with Magneto: managing to portray
some of the ambiguity of his position. I think that comes over better in
the second film. I'm really looking forward to number 3.

 

<g>

They're crap as well though thankfully daughter seems to have grown
out of them.

It was BJM wasn't it.

Thought so.

Zoolander was a riot but I think the company and the alcohol may have
added to the enjoyment.

While you're here

1. Where can I get spicy biltong?
2. What was the other film, with the images and Philip Glass music?

She's far too good to you.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

****, haven't seen that for years. Bloody good.

Different emphathis, but yes, just as good in it's own way.

**** them, bunch of cunts.

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I've left an offline message. Ta.

And a quick search shows play.com has it for £8.99. Excellent - now
where did I put that credit card? Oh look it remembers so I don't have
to find it. I'm getting less luddite like by the day.

You mean you're only trifling with her?

 

HT*F* do you manage that? I'm 15st dead these days, and can still only get
into 38".

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You're over egging the pudding now.

 

Well I can still *just* get into 40", and I'm a **** of a sight
heavier than that.

If I want to move, or sit down, then a 42" is a better option, by far.

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As always, you are right. I didn't dislike the film, but then when I
read the book I realised how bad a job the film had been. The book
broke my heart.

 

Despise? That's a strong word. I loved it, and a couple of other
films by the writer Charlie Kaufman - "Human Nature" is very strange
and very funny at the same time, and "Adaptation" is the most original
look at Hollywood ever.

Still, you stick to your comic book films, eh?

 

Pff! Bobby Drake still a nipper by the time the new X Men arrived? Collossus
with an American accent? Don't get me started...

 

Bear wrote:

I really quite liked Captain Britain, except when he was in American comics
(although I do have his first American appearance).

The Britsh Captain Britains were much more surreal than most Marvel stuff
and quite a lot darker as well.

If you're a Daredevil fan I should dig through my pile of old comics for
next time you're here; I've got the complete series where Frank Miller
returned to script, which tells the story of Kingpin discovering DD's secret
identity and ruining his life.

It's a marvellous little story ...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0871352974/102-9291409-2594524?v=glance

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I rewatched X-Men 2 on Sky movies the other night and noticed something I
missed the first time around.

In one scene there is a TV in the background and a guy being interviewed
about the mutant menace. The guy is called Hank McCoy and I spent _ages_
wondering why I knew that name.

He didn't look very hairy.

Anyway, for the next one are they going to have the CGI budget to do The
Angel and are the sentinals going to make an appearance?

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**** that. Bring in Longshot.

 

What's this, "obscure characters R us"?

How about Cypher ... there would be an exciting character to have in X-Men
3.


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Yes, it does that. I read it twice a long time before the film was
out, and only watched it out of general interest. As you say, it
wasn't a bad film per se, but didn't even come close to the emotional
impact of the book.

But then they never do, which is why I seldom choose to watch films,
especially book adaptations.

 

Heh, "We're making this one a bit more cerebral after the public complained
of too much action"

 

From the makers of "X-Men", "X-Men 2" and "Room with a view" comes "X-Men 3:
The curse of Merchant Ivory"

Thrill as young Master Drake uses his awsome mutant powers to make an
ice-scuplture in order to woo Rogue!

Gasp as Wolverine's unbreakable claws make him New England topiary champion!

Marvel as Professor X's unmatchable mind tackles The Times crossword!

Talk amongst yourselves as Magneto and Nightcrawler go head-to-head in a 3
hour discussion on the nature of free-will in any religion with an
omnipotent deity!

"The must-see film of 1953" said The Daily Mail, "Outstanding!" said the
Don't-get-out-much Gazette. The Sun called it, "a film".

If you only see one film about super-human mutants in period costumes this
summer then see this one!

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