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Quote: chipolata @ December 21 2011, 8:47 PM GMT

The Tailor of Panama. Nobody does smarmy self-satisfaction better than Pierce Brosnan, and it serves him well in this underrated spy film.

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That is a top notch film. Brosnan is lovely as a sort of antiBond (working so much better cos you know he was Bond). Paired perfectly with a barnstorming performance by Rush.

And of course the whole thing based on a top drawer novel by the ever estimable John Le Carre.

Reckoned by many to be his last truly great novel.

Spartan. Slight but effective David Mamet conspiracy thriller about the kidnapping of the presidents daughter. It stars Val Kilmer and his increasingly wide face.

Quote: sootyj @ December 27 2011, 10:59 PM GMT

That is a top notch film. Brosnan is lovely as a sort of antiBond (working so much better cos you know he was Bond). Paired perfectly with a barnstorming performance by Rush.

And of course the whole thing based on a top drawer novel by the ever estimable John Le Carre.

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It is a very good film that deserves far more recognition than it gets. And always nice to see Harold Pinter on screen too.

It manages to capture the rather mordant wit of Le Carre very sweetly. Alternating between the out dated duffers in the Foreign office and the shiny eyed enthuseasts of the US.

A rarety a film that is funny and yet genuinely satirical.

Sorry absolutely love this film.

And it's got Jamie Lee Curtis when she was still milfalicious.

nb tried to rewatch "The Spy WHo Came in from the cold" but was just to miserablist.

High School Musical 2. A hard-hitting political thriller with a gritty surface storyline concealing a brutally incisive polemic on society's ills.

Quote: Rob H @ December 28 2011, 12:25 PM GMT

High School Musical 2. A hard-hitting political thriller with a gritty surface storyline concealing a brutally incisive polemic on society's ills.

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I think you're getting it confused with High School Musical 3: Senior Year.

Quote: chipolata @ December 28 2011, 12:41 PM GMT

I think you're getting it confused with High School Musical 3: Senior Year.

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I'm always making that mistake. How embarrassing..

When you both finished watching these films, did you braid each others' hair and read Sugar magazine?

Chip's more of a Sugar Ape reader.

Quote: Rob H @ December 28 2011, 12:25 PM GMT

High School Musical 2. A hard-hitting political thriller with a gritty surface storyline concealing a brutally incisive polemic on society's ills.

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I'm more of a Glee chap myself.

'Get Him To The Greek'. Not much of a film, felt more like a collection of bits and pieces, but it was very funny at points, and I thought Russel Brand was very good.

Just watched that Eric and Ernie film on BBC2. Quite enjoyed it. Nothing we haven't seen before but was fun to hear some classic lines of theirs.

Prompted by the thread about it, finally got around to watching 'Paul'; and it was a fun, warm watch with plenty of laughs. It wasn't as funny as Shaun, no, and sure it lacked the more inventive, kinetic direction and invention of Edgar Wright behind the camera, but it was a purposefully more mainstream attempt from Pegg and I think it worked. Probably judged more harshly by some because of Pegg's past work; judged on it's own merits, it's a fun movie. Always nice to see Jason Bateman, too.

Judging it on both merits I still didn't enjoy it very much.

Quote: Leevil @ December 31 2011, 10:40 PM GMT

Judging it on both merits I still didn't enjoy it very much.

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What?! Me saying I liked it didn't change your own perfectly valid opinion?! I can only assume you're a mental!

I quite liked Paul. But I think it suffers from taking Pegg and thingies comedic energy and making it second to the alien dude.

Where as in there other 2 films they were at the centre. So it felt abit I dunno a bit less centred. And the jokes were a bit soft.

But yeh good fun I enjoyed it.

Just not as much as Fuzz