Quote: chipolata @ January 29 2012, 11:38 PM GMTHow is Chernobyl Charlie coming along? Or has it gone the way of Leper Fight?
It's resting. 
While I do another thing. Then I'm going back and kicking its arse.
I've just seen... Page 249
Quote: chipolata @ January 29 2012, 11:31 PM GMTOh yeah, I definitely agree that the ending is problematic, and that it's not a particularly in depth study of alcoholism, but as a story I like that they never really explain why he's like he is. And that we just see a snapshot of him at the end and have to fill in the blanks ourselves.
Agree. What makes the movie is a) it's occasional flashes of humour and b) Nic Cage's performance-of-a-lifetime. It's a pity Cage doesn't/can't find films these days which stretch him to the limits of his acting ability, which is clearly substantial.
Quote: AJGO @ January 29 2012, 11:39 PM GMTOf course my dear; I'll sort accommodation and flights, you get the boiler suits with gas masks in pastel colours with a cinched waist
Oh I've already got two of those.
Quote: zooo @ January 29 2012, 11:38 PM GMTOh no!
Figgis #Fail.
Quote: zooo @ January 29 2012, 11:40 PM GMTOh I've already got two of those.
Do they have re-attachable high heels in case we want to dine out?
Quote: sootyj @ January 29 2012, 11:39 PM GMTGood for you Tim
I suppose like Trainspotting made heroin addiction look cool
I've no doubt there will be recovering addicts who hate that film. Personally, I still think it's fairly great. Recovering alcoholics/addicts, though, shouldn't have the final ruling on what's a "good" or "bad" movie about addiction issues. And I don't think 'Trainspotting' was trying to glamorise heroin addiction, though it may have inadvertently done so in the minds of some. For me, the point of the character of Renton is that he's not a true heroin addict. He's a heroin user trying to escape being condemned to the lifestyle of an addict (and, hence, escape his friends). But that's just my opinion, of course...
(Cheers, btw.)
Quote: Tim Walker @ January 29 2012, 11:40 PM GMTAgree. What makes the movie is a) it's occasional flashes of humour and b) Nic Cage's performance-of-a-lifetime. It's a pity Cage doesn't/can't find films these days which stretch him to the limits of his acting ability, which is clearly substantial.
Wild at Heart is pretty good
awaits ITV animal boreathon jokes.
Quote: AJGO @ January 29 2012, 11:43 PM GMT
Of course!
And all the necessary flaps.
Quote: zooo @ January 29 2012, 11:50 PM GMTAnd all the necessary flaps.
Resisting obvious joke
BY SHEER FORCE OF WILL!
*Thought zooo was talking about being able to eat food but now bit worried she'll sell me to Eastern European sex trafficking gang*
Don't knock it, they'll probably set you up in a London flat.
Quote: AJGO @ January 30 2012, 12:00 AM GMT*Thought zooo was talking about being able to eat food but now bit worried she'll sell me to Eastern European sex trafficking gang*
Ha! I knew the BCG was a front for something sinister.
Quote: keewik @ January 30 2012, 12:51 AM GMTHa! I knew the BCG was a font for something sinister.
Sending rude emails with stylish lettering
wbat of it?