Movies

[spook]

I love the Astor. Art Deco is such a beautiful style.

 

[tigersnake]

Re-watched TT: Closer to the Edge. One fine doco, especially if you like motorbiking. Wouldn't mind going one year. Has anyone been?

I get scared just watching.

 

[RFC not KFC]

The Fear of Thirteen (Netflix) Documentary about Nick Yarris, 21 years on death row. Watch it and be grateful for everything you have.

 

[scottyturnerscurse]

This is Spinal Tap. Have seen it more than a dozen times and know it by heart. Occasionally I someone who doesn't know it and demand we watch this "documentary". Love the reactions I get when the credits roll.

It remains, for me, the funniest movie ever made except for Woody's Love and Death.

 

[tigertim]

This is Spinal Tap. Have seen it more than a dozen times and know it by heart. Occasionally I someone who doesn't know it and demand we watch this "documentary". Love the reactions I get when the credits roll.

It remains, for me, the funniest movie ever made except for Woody's Love and Death.

Come on, mime is money

 

[Giardiasis]

The new Independence Day is pretty bad. Good action, but the story is flat and characters are empty.

 

[tigersnake]

The Fear of Thirteen (Netflix) Documentary about Nick Yarris, 21 years on death row. Watch it and be grateful for everything you have.

watched it on your rec RF, amazing story, thanks. And yes, very grateful. There is another you'd like, academy award winning doco about a kid who got framed for murder in Florida, I'll dig up the name. Incredible public lawyers kept plugging away and got him off and got the cops jailed.

Gotit: 'Murder on a Sunday Morning'.

 

[spook]

OJ: Made In America, the 5-part x2hr ESPN doco. Incredible. Gobsmacking. Enlightening. Enraging.

 

[Scoop]

OJ: Made In America, the 5-part x2hr ESPN doco. Incredible. Gobsmacking. Enlightening. Enraging.

It's unbelievable. Puts the entire event in it's true historical context. It was just a slow build. For OJ & the city.

It might be the finest documentary series I've ever seen.

 

[tigersnake]

It's unbelievable. Puts the entire event in it's true historical context. It was just a slow build. For OJ & the city.

It might be the finest documentary series I've ever seen.

I'll have to watch it. I love LA, I'm a bit of an LA freak, love visiting, studied the political and race history, its an amazing story.

 

[spook]

It's unbelievable. Puts the entire event in it's true historical context. It was just a slow build. For OJ & the city.

It might be the finest documentary series I've ever seen.

Yeah, compelling. And so instructive of the racial politics of the city and country, as well as the power of celebrity and the psychology of horrendous crimes. Simpson had a Raskolnikov-like need to confess by the end, hence the book. He almost looked relieved when sentenced for the robbery etc.

I'll have to watch it. I love LA, I'm a bit of an LA freak, love visiting, studied the political and race history, its an amazing story.

You'll love it, snake.

 

[tigersnake]

Yeah, compelling. And so instructive of the racial politics of the city and country, as well as the power of celebrity and the psychology of horrendous crimes. Simpson had a Raskolnikov-like need to confess by the end, hence the book. He almost looked relieved when sentenced for the robbery etc.
You'll love it, snake.

Chinatown, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, LA Confidential, The Long Goodbye, The Big Sleep, all Raymond Chandler and James Elroys books, Straight Outa Compton blew my 17yo apprentice mind, film was good too, The books by Mike Davis, City of Quartz and The Ecology of Fear, brilliant histories of political corruption in LA. Can't get enough. Look forward to it!

 

[AngryAnt]

Chinatown, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, LA Confidential, The Long Goodbye, The Big Sleep, all Raymond Chandler and James Elroys books, Straight Outa Compton blew my 17yo apprentice mind, film was good too, The books by Mike Davis, City of Quartz and The Ecology of Fear, brilliant histories of political corruption in LA. Can't get enough. Look forward to it!

Bosch is a good LA Noir detective show currently on SBS... I think season two is nearly finished, check it out. Good cast and twists the police stuff up with politics.

 

[tigersnake]

Bosch is a good LA Noir detective show currently on SBS... I think season two is nearly finished, check it out. Good cast and twists the police stuff up with politics.

You're the second person who has said that to me ant, will do!

 

[Chiang Mai Tiger]

Scottish mate over here raves about Bosch. Look forward to watching it and Titus Welliver, he was great in Sons of Anarchy.

 

[IanG]

1st season of Bosch was great haven't seen any of the second season yet.

 

[tigertim]

Finding Dory. Good but with most sequels to classics doesn't compare to the original. Not as much fun as Nemo.

 

[spook]

Watched "Eye in the sky". Didn't really know what it was about prior. A movie about the decisions/process/ethics etc on whether to "bomb" a house where they know terrorists are planning a suicide bombing.

Most of the film focuses on this decision which you'd think would be boring. But it wasn't. Twas excellent.

Watched it last night. Very suspenseful. Good film.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, starring Tina Fey as a war correspondent in Afghanistan, is very good. Margo Robbie's English accent is inconsistent but you could look at her all day.

 

[jb03]

Watched it last night. Very suspenseful. Good film.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, starring Tina Fey as a war correspondent in Afghanistan, is very good. Margo Robbie's English accent is inconsistent but you could look at her all day.

Robbie plays an Aussie in that film.

 

[spook]

Robbie plays an Aussie in that film.

If she does, her Aussie accent is horrible, which would be unusual for an Australian. She sounds like a Pom, except when she sounds like an Aussie trying to sound like a Pom.