The All New Book & DVD Review Thread (And Gift Hints)

[Barman]

I shall wear a hat and pretend to be a food critic from the Sunday Telegraph. 

A hay made out of the Sunday Torygraph perhaps...? 

[Snoopy]

I shall wear a hat and pretend to be a food critic from the Sunday Telegraph. 

A hay made out of the Sunday Torygraph perhaps...? 

No ~ one made of Straw! Hay does not make a good hat.

[Nick]

Watched Where Eagles Dare last night. What an idiotic film 

[Barman]

I shall wear a hat and pretend to be a food critic from the Sunday Telegraph. 

A hay made out of the Sunday Torygraph perhaps...? 

No ~ one made of Straw! Hay does not make a good hat.

[Snoopy]

Watched Where Eagles Dare last night. What an idiotic film 

Broadsword calling Danny Boy .... Broadsword calling Danny Boy ........ 

You're right Nick ~ absolute crap movie.

I watched one on TV the other night that I had never bothered with before.
"Force Ten from Navarone" ..... what a load of bollox!

We used to like these things so I suppose the older we get the more discerning we become.

[Nick]

Even the fake blood looked like ketchup 

[Snoopy]

We have grown used to modern special effects and CGI.

Much older films used to use pigs blood but the Actors Unions put a stop to that, so I am told. Not that we noticed as they were mainly in Black and White.

What is it about B&W movies that makes them more exciting I wonder .... I much prefer them.

[Barman]

Watched Where Eagles Dare last night. What an idiotic film 

Broadsword calling Danny Boy .... Broadsword calling Danny Boy ........ 

You're right Nick ~ absolute crap movie.

I watched one on TV the other night that I had never bothered with before.
"Force Ten from Navarone" ..... what a load of bollox!

We used to like these things so I suppose the older we get the more discerning we become.

Was a good book if I remember rightly... just didn't transfer to the screen... see also: Ice Station Zebra. 

[Grumpmeister]

Film version of books are always a risky proposition unless you can get a director who absolutely loved the original work. The only ones that seemed to have worked that I can think of are the Bourne series, the Lord of the Rings series, The Colour Purple (as far as I can remember, its been a while since I read it) and if you really want to stretch it 300 and The Watchmen (yes I know they were graphic novels but the principle still stands).

[Snoopy]

Much depends on the actors.
Force Ten from Navarone had Robert Shaw (who I have never rated ... See Jaws) who was too old and too over the top trying hard to be a British Officer a very young Harrison Ford as an American Officer who was so far above the rank of anyone taking part in such an operation and Edward Fox looking far too old to have serving in the war and with an old Etonian accent that certainly would not have been used by anyone of the rank of sergeant in the British Army. They just got the whole thing wrong.

[Nick]

I bought a job lot yesterday. Next on the list: The DIrty Dozen

My expectations are very low 

[Barman]

I bought a job lot yesterday. Next on the list: The DIrty Dozen

My expectations are very low 

 

Perhaps you should pay more than 2p for your films in future...?

[Pastis]

Watched Le Boucher the other night, a Chabrol tribute I guess.  A film that Hitchcock said he wish he'd made, fine praise indeed 

[Nick]

Ever read the Truffaut-Hitchcock interviews book? Fascinating!

[Pastis]

I have it on my book shelves