London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

I need a kevlar vest and a black beret.

I want a black ferret.

The apart from 30 minutes of non-stop explosions ... the expendibles really impressed me as it explored the values of redemption, kinship, the inner humanity and whether the soul transcends existence (Mickey Rourke monolouge while painting a guitar really went explored this subject).

Stallones performance was gripping from the start to climatic finale, he was a gun for hire that needed to "save" his soul by risking his life for a woman that he barely knew, she represented the redemption that stallone was looking for.

They also explored the themes of art, how it was influenced by war. They even explored the subject cultural warrior makeup aka war paint and how it represented the wearer.

There was also biblical slant, as Terry Crews reminded us about the importance of Christmas.

All in all it delivered on many levels.

very good review there Lucas.
If I may be bold enough to add, the theme of Americas place in world politics and history was also dealt with deftly. True to Stallones life long mission to liberate the underdog, the island and its inhabitants in this film are portrayed as the innocents, harking back to a time before the crass materialism of Americana arrives, the purity and innocence of the islander existence can be seen as a metaphor for what the mercenaries have lost. I would be surprised if there arent multiple Oscars earnt from the acting performances too.

Rourke Cried ... so he is definetely going to get an Oscar.

Couture might not get an oscar though... he did kick ass most impressivly (As you'd expect) Loved the film it didn't dissapoint at all.

A friend is so excited about this film, he was talking about hiring out the whole place and watching it, lifting weights, wanking and crying at the same time... Things are conspiring against him seeing it, he's starting to get a little mad heh heh

The Couture fight at the end was immense! I missed the Mickey Rourke dialogue though which I'm quite pissed off about.

The only thing it needed were a few more one liners.

yeah that was pretty sweet, nice seeing nearly everyone getting their asses handed to them at some point to.

loved those bullets near the end too...quality

watched the experiment
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0997152/
pretty good movie

couple of good lead actors there^^ yeah.
should start to pick up again now after summer,
looking forward to this soon, and another one next year Northern Soul'
http://bricksandmortar79.blogspot.co.../soul-boy.html

looking forward to that.
at the vintage festival, there was a soul casino, played northern 80% of the time, great!!!

Hmmm......Soul Boy.........will reserve judgement until I've seen it, trailer is fucking awful......stick the tunes on and watch the Wigan footage instead?

lets see if they remove the tax breaks that keep the uk film industry afloat by incentivising US and other film makers to do their pre-pro, shoots and post here.
i'll be queuing for a job in mcdonalds if they fuck it.

Couture fight scene was pretty immense.

Stallone Vs Austin was pretty good.

No wonder the Tory axed it without much consideration.

saw Gomorrah the other night. great film, interesting to find the location on google streetview looking as dodgy as in the film.
evidently it's the busiest drug supermarket in europe

I liked Gomorrah a lot. Will have to watch it again soon.

Anyone seen Inland Empire? I fancy checking it out even though I know it'll be infuriating, exhausting and pretentious. Plus I might just OD on Lynch.

I think I seen that film before, was it about a bloke on those 50cc pizza delivery scooter in the north of england?

Try it out, but don't punish yourself if your not feeling it. I found it too self indulgent and didn't see it all.

inland empire- about an hour too long indulgence with digital film wise, but still lynch manages the whole transition between 'real'/dream storylines (a la Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive) better than any other time he's done it. that doesn't make it a better film, but just still found that particular aspect of his films stronger at least. anyone seen any of the interview projects he's doing at the moment?

This looks pretty good. Big fan of Gavras.

Fuck me just heard Julliette Binoche being interviewed by Mark Lawson,
Interestingly she used the word freedom in connection with her work about four times
God she is a legendary Goddess of an actress.
getting stoked about the autumn season coming on--

That Gavras film looks really good. The clip at 1:16 looks like a reference to his video for M.I.A., 'Born Free'.

hard hitting grit,
recognise the main actor but cant remember where from at mo.
hopefully get that in my area too.

Everything I have ever heard about David Lynch and his films is a load of pretentious bollox, remember this man gave us Dune.



Lets do everyone a favour and lets do away with poncy arthouse crap.

Back on topic,

Watched Happiness Last night and it was neither funny nor enlightening or tragic or any of that even though the IMDB crowd gave it an 8.0 or something.

Tomorrow I am watching "Rear Window" by alfred hitch cock .. back when films didn't have to be poncy to be good.

Yeah, a bit average, great idea, some funny bits, but a bit 'meh' really, I didn't even think the end 'they were all getting popped off' was particularly good.

Religulose - interesting take on religion.

'Pretentious' - certainly, ambitiously so, I have never understood what the problem people have with pretence ?

Anyone moderately interested in seeing that Shane Meadows/Tom Harper/1986 thing soon to be appearing on C4?

A lack of a tellybox means I haven't seen a trailer but have read a fair bit and am interested enough to watch it on 40D if it appears there.

Reading a summary of his films, specifically 24/7 and Romeo Brass and how he came to make them and why today on the Empire website made me really think: "What the fuck am I doing with my life?"

Bought Lebanon the other day. Piss simple idea, beautifully executed.

Also bough Inglourious Basterds which I saw on release and was a bit non-plussed by but was hugely impressed watching it the second time around.

Each of the chapters/episodes is so well paced, I didn't get bored once even though it's 2 and a half hours of bad accents. Fantastic, self contained shorts all working together to provide an excellent whole.

That said I bet the next time I watch it I'll think it's shit.

What's wrong with Dune?

No 'is' on review.

: (

Dune is one of my favourite films, it's proper insane.

I might get myself a big fish tank in the week.

i like all the shane meadows films, watched some shite on film4 this evening and noticed they are doing a shane meadows thing, i will be watching.

I have a stunning poster/print of Sting on my wall. I love it. In fairness, not to detract from Lynch but much of the absolute downright lunacy of the film comes from Frank Herbert.

Love DuneCat :)

His first television work. Effectively a four part dramatised sequel to This Is England.
Written by Meadows with two of the four directed by him. The other two are by Tom Harper, the bloke wot directed The Scouting Book For Boys which features the lad from TiE, Thomas Turgoose.

look forward to it

It is shit.

Your face is shit.

No it isn't. I have been told I have very pretty eyes.

Really, Is that the best you can do?

The film had Sting in a codpiece ... comon. And the film went on forever and ever.

You've just said some of the best things about it!!!
"Sting in a codpiece."
"Forever and ever."

Different strokes for different folks I guess :)

Like Brooks saddle isn't it?

The codpiece?

Like a B67 Ed, a B67.

I don't want to watch some overpaid Pop star, in a dated film for 2 hours plus.

No a brooks saddle is actually a bit shitter overall, because Dune costs about £1.50 in the DVD bargain bin, and the Brooks costs about £50+

Seen one of his first films, "smalltime"? It's great

I like Shane Meadows but didn't like This is England - weirdly the 4 parts series looks like it might be ok though

Mulholland Drive by Lynch is fucking ace, anyone remotely into films has to watch it