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Flop of Ages?

There's a mole, right at the top of the Circus. And he's been there for years. I'm a huge Le Carre fan and I feel unless you read the book this movie version might be rather confusing. Having said that I think the movie was faithful to the book.Le Carre of course in another lifetime was David Cornwall one of the British spies who was betrayed by Kim Philby, so he knows the game here. In his mind spy game is as much bureaucratic s it is field work, thus in the movie as in the book you have a lot of British public school educated middle aged men sitting around in hushed conversations sipping tea and trying to ferret information, or get a few extra pounds to get the next phase rolling..... dealing with annoying under secretaries at the foreign office and such. Don't expect Jason Bourne , instead you get some fine acting headed by Goldman and several British veterans. Control is convinced that a mole is in place and sends Jim to Budapest to meet a man that knows, it goes wrong and in the aftermath Control and Smiley get ousted......yet Smiley gets called back out of retirement by Lacon the government undersecretary with Circus oversight after he gets a call from an agent wanting to trade..... The movie like the book is a series of flashbacks piecing the story together, I guess this is where it is hard to fit all those layers from the book into a movie.....still , I liked it a lot, I thought the characters in my mind were perfectly cast , Percy was especially well cast .....great atmosphere ,dreary cold war stuff.....

SteveJRogers wrote: Hoboken International Film Festival 2012 Yes I realize it's in Jersey City, despite it being called Hoboken. Last year it was in Teaneck, so I guess they figure "close enough." . well , at least they didn't put it in say NYC and claim it was a NJ festival.

Samuel Jackson not happy that A.O. Scott wrote a negative review.....I mean really! http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/may/04/avenger-showdown-samuel-l-jackson-scott?INTCMP=SRCH as often the comments section is the best part.

This isn't suitable for a four year old is it?

22 years since the original....Christ. [youtube:1xp70tdt]sWMhADqlPYg&feature=player_embedded[/youtube:1xp70tdt]

Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four forecast for Hollywood remake An American consortium that includes director Ron Howard is set to make a new film of George Orwell's highly influential novel Ben Child guardian.co.uk, Thursday 22 March 2012 11.35 GMT Hollywood is planning a new version of Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell's classic dystopian science-fiction novel which warned of the dangers of totalitarian government and spawned the term Big Brother. Set in a world where three warring superstates battle each other eternally without any hope of victory, Orwell's 1949 novel has already had two big-screen adaptations. The 1956 version, starring Edmond O'Brien, Michael Redgrave and Jan Sterling, changed the storyline radically from the source material and is these days hard to find, as it was withdrawn from circulation by Orwell's estate following the expiry of a distribution agreement. The best-known version is Michael Radford's critically acclaimed 1984 retelling, starring John Hurt as everyman Winston Smith, the restless party worker who dares to dream of independent thought and possible romance. Richard Burton, in his final role, played the perfidious O'Brien, with Suzanna Hamilton as Julia, the object of Smith's doomed affections. The new version is being put together by a consortium of Hollywood production companies including Imagine Entertainment, which is partly owned by Oscar-winning film-maker Ron Howard. Shepard Fairey, the street artist who produced the iconic Barack Obama "Hope" poster, was instrumental in bringing the project to the attention of the producers. The consortium has secured rights from Orwell's estate and is currently searching for screenwriters, so the project is at an early stage. It's not known whether Howard himself is considering a director's role. Nineteen Eighty-Four takes place entirely in the Oceania province of Airstrip One, formerly the United Kingdom, and while the new producers are firmly US-based there is nothing at this stage to suggest that they plan to relocate the action. The blockbuster success of films such as the Harry Potter series has proved beyond doubt that American audiences are no longer � if they ever were � put off by British accents. As well as the two theatrical versions, Nineteen Eighty-Four has been a huge influence on cinema over the past half-century. Among the most notable are Terry Gilliam's flawed 1985 masterpiece Brazil, which takes many of its cues from Orwell's vision of a society governed by state-licensed mind control, and the 2006 comic-book adaptation V for Vendetta (based on Alan Moore's cult graphic novel), which also posits a British future under a fascist dictatorship. The latter has picked up something of a cult status in recent years after hackers' groups such as Anonymous adopted the iconic Guy Fawkes mask worn by vigilante V as a symbol of rebellion against tyranny. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/mar/22/orwells-nineteen-eighty-four-new-film

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AIP/Corman ? Great list ...

Billy Ctystal in black-face and then Octavia Spencer winning was inspired....... awful show made tolerable by having a laugh on twitter....the sound was awful too, what was up with that ABC?

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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: When I saw the preview for this, I thought of irish. Ha, potentially inflammatory right there , I thought of Seawolf, surprised he hasn't been in here already.

Really looking forward to this , 80's hair metal with some big hitters.....it could be awfully bad/great just like the 80's were USxhXb5VC5E http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1336608/

Disturbing but brilliant , watch the first two minutes Hunger [youtube:2joh4adx]yfU8-1DfI0M&feature=fvst[/youtube:2joh4adx]

Love Shameless [youtube:2bzqjefl]ciFzoaZS7T8[/youtube:2bzqjefl] true Blood is great too

Finally had time to myself to watch this tonight, pretty much agree with Vic,Seo and Bucket. I really liked the start with the scouts , the old guy with the hearing aid really set it up for me.All of those guys were great , "ugly girlfriend " was classic, these guys believe in that stuff and it was a great setup for the "moneyball" thinking. The scene when the head scout Grady quit or was fired was brilliant .It might have seemed a bit slow but i liked that it was deliberate in its pacing. I liked all the stuff with his daughter and the fact that as much as he wanted to win he wanted to win in Oakland , not move from her, it seemed real. Regarding Jeremy Brown Peter Brant did say his name when he brought Beane down to the video room , I loved that scene , thought the performances of Pitt and Hill were excellent , Pitt especially with his facial expressions and such really portrayed the agony Beane seems to carry, Overall an excellent movie.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: What does "putting on the mac" mean? fairly sure he means putting on a mackintosh coat, perhaps to hide under at the cinema?, to shield himself for the pervs that might frequent such movies, as they jerk off?

As told by Donald Clarke in the Times http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2012/0120/1224310497230.html?via=mr There�s no denying cinematic sex has become worryingly unsexy of late. But there have always been screen clinches that made audiences wince. DONALD CLARKE donned his mac to pick out the 10 worst DOES ANYBODY still go to the cinema to become sexually aroused? Apparently you can now buy some sort of household device that beams erotica directly into the owner�s home. Why would anybody bother putting on their mac and walking all the way to the Ritzy when they could just turn on their Mac (ho ho) and enjoy degrading filth in guilty solitude? No reason. This may help explain why cinematic sex has suddenly become so, well, unsexy. Last week we were presented with the gruesome sight of Michael Fassbender shagging his miserable way around New York in the powerful Shame . Next week we encounter all kinds of horrid brothel action in the ridiculous House of Tolerance . This set us thinking. What are the most unsexy (consensual) sex scenes in movie history? 10. WATCHMEN (2009) If you weren�t already sick to the bleeding teeth of Leonard Cohen�s Hallelujah then its appearance over the super-soft rumpy pumpy sequence in Zack Snyder�s largely ghastly adaptation of Alan Moore�s fine graphic novel ought to have done the trick.Patrick Wilson (dressed as an owl) and Malin �kerman (the saucy Silk Spectre) couple while drifting in a pod above a computer-generated city. They�d better watch themselves. Nobody wants to give birth to something that�s half-owl and half-ghost. 9. JAP�N (2002) A tricky one this. There is, of course, no reason why we should object to a sequence in which a young man has sex with an older lady. But, though he may deny it, Carlos Reygadas is clearly asking us to squirm when the disturbed hero of his troubling arthouse epic engages in full congress with an ancient, battered peasant woman. Ever at home to bad sex, the Mexican director decorated his next film , Battle in Heaven , with lubricious encounters between a pretty young girl and an ugly, obese middle-aged bloke. 8. MOONRAKER (1979) Ah, James Bond. He�s a card, isn�t he? He�s always pressing his flabby jowls against blameless women with gynaecological nicknames. What do you mean �sleazy�? There are so many scenes to choose from, but it has to be Roger Moore and it has to involve an awful pun. Bond, the old devil, is on a space vessel, and has just been observed rolling around in zero gravity with (wait for it) one Holly Goodhead. Q drily remarks: �I think he�s attempting re-entry.� Eugh! 7. CONFESSIONS OF A WINDOW CLEANER (1974) It co-starred Tony Blair�s father-in-law, you know. Was there ever a less sexy sex symbol than Robin Askwith? During the darkest days of the British film industry, this snaggle-toothed rickets victim drew millions to the cinema with a series of supposedly erotic films that seemed positively frightened of the act itself. We nominate the scene in which Robin and some poor housewife roll around the floor while the washing machine spews foam over their pale, sweat-free bodies. 6. HOUSE OF TOLERANCE (2010) Bertrand Bonello�s fantastically vulgar film � set in a Paris brothel at the turn of the last century � generated hoots and boos at last year�s Cannes Film Festival. The scene involving facial mutilation doesn�t quite meet our �consensual� criterion. But the sequence in which one character cries tears of pure white semen has to be seen to be believed. The most jaw-dropping adventure in metaphorical lunacy to have appeared in any recent film. 5. SHAME (2010) It should, of course, be clarified that the sex scenes in Steve McQueen�s study of sexual addiction are meant to be repellently unsexy. By those standards, the horrific threesome towards the film�s close must be regarded as a triumph of self-disgust. Check out that shot of Michael Fassbender�s tortured face during his unsatisfactory orgasm. You don�t get that sort of existential angst from Robin Askwith. 4. LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1972) The film that convinced a million cinemagoers to switch to margarine. In retrospect, it seems astonishing that Bernardo Bertolucci�s self-important epic of spiritual flagellation was ever regarded as an erotic film. Just listen (if you can make out the words) to Marlon Brando as he threatens to introduce Maria Schneider to a willing pig. Watch as he puts Kerrygold where Kerrygold should never go. Good Lord, the early 1970s was a miserable time. 3. 9 SONGS (2004) You know how it goes. Whenever a film becomes renowned for its sexual explicitness, pundits such as your current correspondent appear on the broadcast media to brag about how �bored� they were during the relevant sequences. But Michael Winterbottom�s stupid film � interspersing actual sex with shots of white-boy indie bands � really was stupefying dull and rather horrid. I suppose we have to pick the scene in which Margo Stilley manipulates Kieran O�Brien�s organ to, erm, completion. 2. EYES WIDE SHUT (1999) If only Stanley Kubrick had retired after shooting the first half of Full Metal Jacket. Somebody once suggested that Vanity Fair magazine was aimed at waiters in Pittsburgh who wanted to seem urbane. You could say the same of the hysterical orgy sequence in the great man�s ghastly last film. It�s got people in scary masks. It takes place in a big house with creaking gates. It asks us to view Tom Cruise as an object of desire. The sort of teenager who still regularly gets his head stuck in park railings would feel himself too sophisticated to indulge in this class of saucy costume party. 1. TOP GUN (1986) It�s Tom Cruise again! The sequence in which the Cruiser and Kelly McGillis hump to the strains of Take My Breath Away by Berlin stands in for every terrible, soft-core sex scene from the 1980s. All the elements are in place. Sheets are clenched. The lovers are seen in blank silhouette. The background is illuminated by the same blue shade that coloured contemporaneous teenagers� eye shadow. It all ends with a cut to the following morning. Look, a single yellow flower sits romantically on Kelly�s pillow. For the following decade, all mainstream sex scenes followed this unlovely template.

Nymr83 wrote: Subtitles? are they speaking Gaelic or is their English so bad as to require subtitles? Ha!, we speak fine English in fact, but yes, some of the reviews over here have stated it was hard to grasp all the humor with the thick accents.

Don Cheadle plays a straitlaced FBI agent who is in Ireland to bust a major international drug ring, he ends up teamed with small town cop who's crass to say the least and a bit of the wall. Brendan Gleason and Don Cheadle are in fine form in this caper that has brilliant dialogue and a satisfying ending. Not sure if non Irish types with get the piss taking that goes on here with race and all that, and subtitles won't help as they leave out words, listen carefully and enjoy.

just saw it, what a load of bollox, I want to delete my account, between the fucking "timeline" bullshit and the movie I am tempted.

enjoy, going on what I have seen on the telly I'll never watch this movie.

Got excited when I saw this was on cable the other night, I remember watching this on video with a bunch of friends back in Ireland and enjoying it very much. A buddy movie, a cops and robbers caper with great chemistry between Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez. I always liked Dreyfuss and thought he was great in roles like this.The plot is simple enough , cops on a night stakeout of an escaped convicts woman and predictably Dreyfuss falls for her. It's predictable but some good acting ,laughs and chemistry keep it together.

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It could be awful but it could be like Toy Story, same people ?