TV/Movies Megathread

[Josquius]

I remember Lady Snowblood. I think it was in a "Cool foreign films that influenced Kill Bill" box set, in Game of Death tracksuit colours, that I got cheap back when DVDs were a thing.

[Eddie Teach]

The Samurai + western formula had already been perfected by Kurosawa.

[celedhring]

The Samurai + western formula had already been perfected by Kurosawa.

I made a samurai film marathon this summer. And while I agree, there are other films from less known directors that are absolute gems. The stuff from Gosha, for example (Three Outlaw Samurai, Sword of the Beast, Goyokin).

[mongers]

The Samurai + western formula had already been perfected by Kurosawa.

He also did Samurai + Shakespeare, well at least that's my take having watched 'Kagemusha' last night?

[mongers]

Also is the 'Handmaiden's Tale' with Duvall, Dunaway and Richardson a good substitute for the TV series?

[crazy canuck]

The movie is more faithful to the book, the TV series riffs off the book.

You could watch both and see different stories.

[mongers]

The movie is more faithful to the book, the TV series riffs off the book.

You could watch both and see different stories.

Thanks CC I'll consider the CV series, just need to find some more viewing time. 

[celedhring]

Also, only the first season adapts the book (and it's by far the best season). The rest is new material.

[mongers]

Also, only the first season adapts the book (and it's by far the best season). The rest is new material.

Thanks, I'll watch it over the hols. 

[mongers]

Watched 'The Nice Guys' last night, thoroughly good entertainment and the teenage kid was especially well acted.

[Syt]

German Tank Museum does an analysis of the tank war story from Battlefield 1. Been a while since I played it, but watching it, I was like, "Wait, that tank driver main character looks like the guy who played Picard's son in Picard S3 ..."

Turns out - same guy, Ed Speleers.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1968873/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t19

Speaks for the graphical quality of the game, I guess (it's from 2016).

[Oexmelin]

I have watched Dryer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) for the first time. It was presented by our medieval historian at our historical cine-club.

I have been deeply moved and shaken by that movie. A masterpiece. You forget at times most of these actors - stage-trained, or starring in silent movies - had never been filmed so close. The guy playing Bishop Cauchon was born during the Second Republic, and served during the Franco-Prussian war...   

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Watched 'the wild robot' with the kid yesterday.
That was an unexpected enjoyable experience. Quite wholesome, and visually stunning.
A nice dreamworks product.

[mongers]

The pub scene just before the end of the Earth in the H2G2 tv series, Ford Prefect take the 6 pints of beer and hands over a fiver (duke of wellington design),saying:
"Keep the change"
Publican "What from a fiver, Sir?" "Huh, thank you Sir"
Ford "You've got ten minutes to spend it"
Publican looks confused, goes to till, before putting it in checks the bank note thoroughly up against the light.


My point .....  I think nowadays in the local here a fiver probably wouldn't stretch to  1 1/2 pints.

So I guess beer was about 50p in 1978?
A little before my time, when I started buying beer in 1982 it was still well under 100p, despite the Thatcherite inflation boom of the time.
 

[garbon]

Many/most places here you could maybe get a half pint for that much?