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Nov 2023
1:42pm, 9 Nov 2023
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GregP
Went to see Breakfast Club at Everyman on the Thowback earlier this year. I don't think I'm the target age, but it was affable enough for the most part.
Pretty In Pink is on this week I think? This or next - the other one before the Christmas batch is The Truman Show which I've never seen.
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Nov 2023
1:42pm, 9 Nov 2023
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GregP
Almost word for word re FBDO, JB.
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Nov 2023
2:37pm, 9 Nov 2023
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Johnny Blaze
I liked The Truman Show a lot but didn't love it. I preferred that other one. Eternal Sunshine of the something something. Spotless Mind?
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Nov 2023
2:46pm, 9 Nov 2023
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GregP
Spotless Mind yes - never seen it' it's just one of those films Kermode constantly references.
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Nov 2023
3:10pm, 9 Nov 2023
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McGoohan
I think they're both great films. Jim Carry is so much better when he's not gurning at the camera for supposed comic effect.
I just looked at who directed Truman Show. It was Aussie director Peter Weir who appears to have retired now. Just look at this for a filmography:
1971 Homesdale
1974 The Cars That Ate Paris
1975 Picnic at Hanging Rock
1977 The Last Wave
1981 Gallipoli
1982 The Year of Living Dangerously
1985 Witness
1986 The Mosquito Coast
1989 Dead Poets Society
1990 Green Card
1993 Fearless
1998 The Truman Show
2003 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2010 The Way Back
I've not seen 'Homesdale' so I can't speak of the quality of that, but that leaves 12 great films... and Green Card (and even that is only a bit poor and not terrible)
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Nov 2023
3:11pm, 9 Nov 2023
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Johnny Blaze
Master and Commander is a classic. Love it.
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Nov 2023
3:20pm, 9 Nov 2023
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HappyG(rrr)
Truman Show is great - poignant, moving satire with a feel good ending.  G
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Nov 2023
3:21pm, 9 Nov 2023
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HappyG(rrr)
But then I like Ferris Buellers Day Off too, so whadda I know! G
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Nov 2023
3:38pm, 9 Nov 2023
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GregP
M&C: TFSOTW is an absolute favourite.
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Nov 2023
5:51pm, 9 Nov 2023
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LindsD
I also really like THe Truman Show
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