Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted August 3, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 (edited) It's a bit like Gladders and Loki's Film Club except the BAFTA Award© winning Loki only posts these days when he's run out of Bella Thorne pictures to wank over, so it's just me. Plus nobody probably cares so I'll get bored of this after a week obviously. Anyway, the emergence of Talking Pictures TV has put more great old films on the TV every day, some of which have never been shown on TV before, but there's also always some good stuff on Film4 and TCM plus a scattering across some other channels that are free-to-air too. Today:- * Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) (Sony Movies - 15:35) - Not as good as The 7th Voyage of Sinbad but still pretty bloody good and not just for Jane Seymour. * PICK OF THE DAY - Dead Of Night (1945) (Talking Pictures TV - 18:30) - The godfather of horror anthologies and also probably still the greatest of all time. All 5 stories, including the link story, are fantastic - especially the golf one, bizarrely enough. * Cliffhanger (1993) (ITV4 - 00:40) - Technique from London's Burning plays football with Michael Rooker and loads of other great stuff happens. Edited October 13, 2019 by Devon Malcolm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members John Matrix Posted August 3, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 Cracking idea. Although sadly, i'll be permalinking to ITV4 most evenings, they've carved out a cracking little niche as the go to for a 9/10pm action movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members mim731 Posted August 3, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 (edited) Cracking idea for a thread Devon. I was just looking at stuff to record over the weekend, and noticed tomorrow night, FIlm4 have a cracking line-up from later afternoon/early evening onwards: 4.50pm - Home Alone 6.55pm - I, Robot 9pm - The Green Mile 12.40am - Red State 2.20am - Safety Not Guaranteed That's me sorted. Edited August 3, 2017 by mim731 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted August 3, 2017 Author Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 Red State is absolutely terrible though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted August 3, 2017 Moderators Share Posted August 3, 2017 Didn't know who Bella Thorne was so I googled her. I think she's a bit old for Loki... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted August 3, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 Green Mile and Red State are shit. I'll be taping Cliffhanger though. Now, that's a movie. That, followed by Surviving the Game would be a great Sunday afternoon in for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted August 3, 2017 Author Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 4 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said: Didn't know who Bella Thorne was so I googled her. I think she's a bit old for Loki... He Googles 'bella thorne shake it up'. @Scott Malbranque - Surviving The Game is absolutely marvellous. Only caught it a couple of years ago. Bloody loved it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members mim731 Posted August 3, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 7 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said: Red State is absolutely terrible though. I didn't hate it, it's not great, but I've seen worse. @Scott Malbranque I loved The Green Mile the first time I saw it, although admittedly that was at least 7 or 8 years, so maybe it might not live up to my memories on a re-watch. Had never heard of Surviving the Game, but based on a quick google that looks deadly, will have to record that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted August 3, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 I used to have a long play VHS that had Surviving the Game, Street Fighter – The Animated Movie, Cliffhanger and Fortress. Surviving the Game looks much better on pirate VHS than it does on DVD transfer for some reason. Absolutely fucking loved that cassette and would watch Surviving the Game on rinse and repeat. But I’ve touched on this before, in that I ruined the tracking on Street Fighter due to incessant pausing and slo-mo forward pausing of Chun Li’s shower scene which left my mickey looking like something you’d see hanging out the side of Jaws’ mouth. It ruined the whole VHS in the end as it got tangled up and no intricate surgical sellotaping of the tape was working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted August 3, 2017 Author Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 Fortress is great. Vernon Wells' third finest moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 The Green Mile is a great film that I'm glad I watched, but the nasty little shit of a villain made me so uncomfortably angry that the thought of rewatching it holds no appeal at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted August 3, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 Green Mile, Forrest Gump, Goodfellas and those Lord of the Rings movies...I really don’t get it or see why people shite themselves about how good they are. And it wasn’t that I didn’t try like them because I did. I really did and because I didn't/don't, I think there's something wrong with me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted August 3, 2017 Author Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 No, there's not. I really liked Goodfellas and the couple of LOTR films I could be bothered watching but, by and large, I'm not a fan of that sort of epic, Oscar-aware filmmaking. I never even entertained the idea of watching Forrest Gump as I know I would utterly detest it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Kaz Hayashi Posted August 3, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 Werewolves on Wheels Horror channel - Saturday 5th at 2.30am. Early 70's movie about a motorbike gang, with Satan worshiping and werewolf curses. Came out on the back of easy rider fame and it's a bit crackers. So shit it's good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted August 3, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 Talking Pictures TV is an awesome channel. I'm really enjoying black and white films recently. Look forward to Gladders' recommendations. I watched The Apartment recently. An absolutely brilliant Jack Lemmon picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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