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Street Fighter (1994) - it really is awful. Mrs Dalty is enjoying it.
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Is that how you know it's awful?
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It's usually a pretty good guide.
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Ah, the Hiddlesbum. I've heard it's epic. Eagerly awaiting its revelation.
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Oh, saw "La La Land" the other day. I loved it; the spousal unit said it wasn't really his cup of tea. While reminiscent of and a tribute to old-time Hollywood musicals, it has more of a modern sensibility, both in the the less frequent musical numbers (which serve to punctuate emotional peaks/valleys) and in the romance, which is more realistic in its development. I also felt it really stressed the nature of the creative persona and the kind of sacrifices it requires--another reason I really liked it and TSU was not as enthusiastic.

Beautiful design, enjoyable musical numbers--Gosling and Stone are passable singers/dancers, but their acting more than compensates--and nostalgic without being sappy. I consider it a feel-good musical: nothing super deep or painful--although at one point I was struggling to suppress some audible sobs--just a lovely romance between two artists.
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So...... genuine question. Gosling, a good actor? All I ever see of him is strange, unblinking puppy-dog eyes and slightly stoned delivery?
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I really liked him in "The Nice Guys"
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Dalty wrote:So...... genuine question. Gosling, a good actor? All I ever see of him is strange, unblinking puppy-dog eyes and slightly stoned delivery?
He certainly has the charisma to be a star, and I think he has a subtlety you find in good actors. I'm not sure this was the most challenging role, but he was really believable in it, and appealing, which is what you want in this kind of role.
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Dalty wrote:So...... genuine question. Gosling, a good actor? All I ever see of him is strange, unblinking puppy-dog eyes and slightly stoned delivery?
Funny you bring this up. I was on the phone with the buddy the other night and we started talking about Gosling and couldn't think of an actor with a higher batting average in terms of taking roles in critically acclaimed movies. His performances in them aside, has anyone in the past decade or two had more luck picking critical successes than him?
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Also, I'm quite eager to see La La Land.
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Patriot Games - still bloody great.
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BBC sketch show "Revolting" seems to be giving Guardian readers attacks of the vapours.

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We watched Sing Street last night and loved it. Such a fun, heartwarming movie.
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Dalty wrote:BBC sketch show "Revolting" seems to be giving Guardian readers attacks of the vapours.
Ah, it's the Mad TV brand of comedy: trying way too hard and failing.
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Superman III is on TV and it's much better than I remembered.
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The 1985 Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone "King Soloman's Mines"

Did the tag line on the poster for this read "From Somebody at Canon Who Saw Indiana Jones and Wanted To Make a Quick Buck" ???
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It follows two major trends followed by most of (maybe all of) the adaptations before and since: (1) it makes Quatermain much younger than he was in the source material, and (2) it drops a young, wholly-absent-from-the-source-material female into the narrative.
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And has Salah from Raiders and Crusade moonlighting!
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Adam54 wrote:We watched Sing Street last night and loved it. Such a fun, heartwarming movie.

i thought it was super beautiful and had really fun music.

i'm watching steven universe right now. it's great
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Watching "We Were Soldiers" with Mrs Dalty who is Vietnamese. Woah! Coming from Saigon / HCMC as she does I was unprepared for the sheer level of hatred they still harbour for the North Vietnamese!
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Next make her watch Platoon and see how that works out!
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"A Series of Unfortunate Events"--really nails the tone of the books, and it's really well cast. Plus the design is terrific. Fun little show.
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I finally got around to watching Deadpool. Seriously, I think I've had the DVD from NetFlix for like a year. it was pretty good, had some laughs, but since I stopped reading comics in the 80s/90s, I never got into the whole Deadpool thing so I didn't have much emotional investment into it.
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The Fourth Protocol

Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan. It's pretty cool.
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Kingdom Of Heaven.

It's been years so thought I would give it a go.
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