Off Topic Friday Film Thread

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This Sporting Life was the last I remember him in, but it was a bit earlier, think I saw it at the Empire one Sunday night, they used to have a film season at that time, very enjoyable night out it used to be. Saw Doctor Zhivago, Whats New Pusscat, Alfie lots of the old stuff, the place had a great atmosphere.
 
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Not a patch on the 70s version where Richard Harris took the main role. Unbelievable that it was a true story.

Funny that, I watched a programme on him earlier today and they showed a couple of scenes from Man in the Wilderness, which is the film you're referring to, and I remarked that the only good bit in The Revenant was pinched from it. I didn't realise that it was a remake of sorts until you mentioned it.
 
Watched Shooter with Mark Wahlberg yesterday, really enjoyed it, easy watching, not very believable but loads of good scenes the last half an hour was brilliant.

There'll always be folk who think films are **** unless they're oscar-worthy but I reckon this one has been made just for the fun of it.
really enjoyed that one tel watched it about 2 months ago , downloaded it in blue ray from RARBG. so downloaded the series very good dont know if its in England yet but you can download from the site ive shown, in to episode 8 of series one.
 
really enjoyed that one tel watched it about 2 months ago , downloaded it in blue ray from RARBG. so downloaded the series very good dont know if its in England yet but you can download from the site ive shown, in to episode 8 of series one.

Is the series owt to do with the film mate?

It's got Ryan Phillipe so could prob persuade the Mrs to watch that one cos she loves him.
 
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Is the series owt to do with the film mate?

It's got Ryan Phillipe so could prob persuade the Mrs to watch that one cos she loves him.
go to RARBG and have a look pick tv series and download the whole lot

oops that .eu after
 
Funny that, I watched a programme on him earlier today and they showed a couple of scenes from Man in the Wilderness, which is the film you're referring to, and I remarked that the only good bit in The Revenant was pinched from it. I didn't realise that it was a remake of sorts until you mentioned it.
I think the filming techniques since then made the current one more spectacular on the eye but different eras approach to life values meant the original version was about revenge for being left to die.

Interesting thing as well was one of the people who left him behind was Jim Bridger who became a mighty frontier scout in later life.
 
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I think the filming techniques since then made the current one more spectacular on the eye but different eras approach to life values meant the original version was about revenge for being left to die.

Interesting thing as well was one of the people who left him behind was Jim Bridger who became a mighty frontier scout in later life.

More spectacular visually maybe but superficially so, it didn't really grab me. The bear attack was intense and I enjoyed seeing him build himself back up afterwards but I didn't get much else from it. I love a good revenge film and it was almost completely flat in that respect, didn't help that I could barely hear a word Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) said.

I might look for the original then as it's definitely a genre I like and I thought Richard Harris seemed a top bloke. Think I've only seen him as Dumbledore and as Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator (now there's a good revenge epic) I'm slightly embarrassed to say.
 
Revenant is a fantastic film.

Still don't think it's Leo's best film, I liked Shutter Island and Gangs Of New York more, and his role in Django was brilliant.

Never liked Inception, the most hyped film of all time outside of the Star Wars slop bucket, and I just didn't care at any point about it.
 
Revenant is a fantastic film.

Still don't think it's Leo's best film, I liked Shutter Island and Gangs Of New York more, and his role in Django was brilliant.

Never liked Inception, the most hyped film of all time outside of the Star Wars slop bucket, and I just didn't care at any point about it.

Inception was all style no substance. Nolan is very capable of that.

Thought shutter island was decent, GNY he was great but overshadowed, struggle a bit with django but he was very good in it. He was great in the aviator/the departed.

Think his best role to date is blood diamond.
 
Agree on Inception, it got so caught up in its own cleverness it forgot to actually be a good film.

I thought Leo was very good in The Revenant I just didn't rate the film that highly. He was great in Django too.
 
Inception was all style no substance. Nolan is very capable of that.

Thought shutter island was decent, GNY he was great but overshadowed, struggle a bit with django but he was very good in it. He was great in the aviator/the departed.

Think his best role to date is blood diamond.

Yeah, he was outclassed in Gangs of NY to be fair.
 
That Nolan is directing the Dunkirk film due out this year, should be a great film, they've put that kid from One Direction in the film, controversial perhaps, but it could end up a masterstroke getting young kids to watch a film that depicts such as significant and important piece of history.
 
That Nolan is directing the Dunkirk film due out this year, should be a great film, they've put that kid from One Direction in the film, controversial perhaps, but it could end up a masterstroke getting young kids to watch a film that depicts such as significant and important piece of history.

Cheapens the **** out of it for me. Needs to be a ****ing good film to overcome it.