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LindsD 22 Oct 6:50pm, 22 Oct 2024 70,522 posts	0 LindsD I had to turn it off (the original SL). I was watching it on a tiny B&W set in my bedroom aged about 17.
LindsD 22 Oct 6:50pm, 22 Oct 2024 70,523 posts	0 LindsD Never tried again
JamieKai chameleon 22 Oct 7:05pm, 22 Oct 2024 19,382 posts	0 JamieKai chameleon GregP wrote:I was going to go and see a lot of Salems this afternoon, but, well, I couldn’t be bothered. Wild Robert tomorrow. Worth seeing if only to find out if the review I just read actually turns out to make sense. SPOILER When I saw the first trailer for The Wild Robot, I was very excited for it - it seemed to be very light on dialogue and heavy on visuals - but it felt like bait and switch as it's seemingly simply not the case. Interested to hear thoughts on it.
Red Squirrel 22 Oct 9:12pm, 22 Oct 2024 24,562 posts	0 Red Squirrel I watched Salem’s Lot with my parents. There was some hiding behind the couch. Bloody scary!
Derby Tup 23 Oct 7:05am, 23 Oct 2024 68,513 posts	0 Derby Tup The Whale is on this Friday at our local cinema in the Baptist Church. Has anyone watched it please? My concern is I’ve seen the trailer a couple of times and struggled to hear what’s going on
GregP 23 Oct 9:43pm, 23 Oct 2024 153,909 posts	0 GregP Well I enjoyed Wild Robert. It wasn’t quite as emotionally manipulative as I’d feared. Not film of the year material. Not even my animated film of the year. But it was plenty good enough to justify schlepping down to Everyman.
Son of a Pronator Man 28 Oct 8:37am, 28 Oct 2024 9,216 posts	0 Son of a Pronator Man So I went to see The Room Next Door I'm a big fan of Almodovar and expected a lot, it's been a while since his last film (Parallel Mothers in 2021) The film is set in New York in the present day. Tilda Swinton plays Martha, a war correspondent, who has advanced cervical cancer. Julianne Moore plays Ingrid, a successful author. The two women have been close friends in the past, and their lives have overlapped in many ways, even having a relationship with the same man (at different times), but they have drifted apart. Ingrid learns about Martha's cancer from a mutual friend and goes to visit her hospital. Over time, and multiple visits in hospital, the women renew their friendship. At one visit, Martha tells Ingrid that her experimental treatment has failed and her cancer has progressed. Instead of taking more treatment with an uncertain outcome, Martha has decided to end her life by taking a suicide pill she has bought on the internet . She has booked a remote house in the country where she will spend some time before taking the pill and wants Ingrid to accompany her for these last few days. After thinking it over for a short while, Ingrid agrees and off they go. The two women spend some days in the house, reminiscing, until one day, coming back from spending time in the nearby town, Ingrid finds that Martha has dressed up, put on her makeup, taken the pill and died on a lounger on a terrace outside the house, overlooking the woods. Ingrid is bereft but calls the emergency services. The Police are hostile to her, treating her more as a suspect than a witness, but Ingrid and Martha have carefully ensured there is no evidence that Ingrid knew of Martha's suicide plan and that Ingrid can deny any knowledge, saying only that she believed this was a convalescent holiday. The film is not as good (IMHO) as Parallel Mothers, I'd score it as 4/5 and not the 5/5 I hoped for. In the first half hour, the dialogue between the two women is not realistic. It has a simple story and not the multi-layered story of PM, or even Pain and Glory These women have history and we need to know it but the dialogue does not sound like friends going over old times. The film is touching and deeply poignant, touching on a very topical issue - assisted dying. Also it raised two issues which related directly to my personal experience - firstly the meaninglessness of "fighting cancer"... and the belief that if you fight hard enough that you will win that fight and that if you lose, you did not fight hard enough, and also the emotional cost of medical treatments that offer the possibility of recovery but do not deliver it, and how patients can become exhausted by that.
Son of a Pronator Man 28 Oct 8:42am, 28 Oct 2024 9,217 posts	0 Son of a Pronator Man This afternoon I'm going to see Since Yesterday - the untold story of Scotland's punk and pop girl bands of the '80's I'm expecting nostalgic fun.
HappyG(rrr) 28 Oct 9:34am, 28 Oct 2024 51,253 posts	0 HappyG(rrr) Ooh, that sounds like a Strawberry Switchblade reference. I have 80s envy! G
Derby Tup 28 Oct 10:39am, 28 Oct 2024 68,616 posts	0 Derby Tup That sounds good 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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