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Post by twentytwenty on Nov 29, 2020 12:35:17 GMT
Watched Rocketman last night and didn't like it at all, quite disappointed really. It wasn't that it was bad, it was really(!) bad.
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gerh
Grizzled Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,963
Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
Favourite other bands.: Zappa, Kansas, Rush, Deep Purple, Yes, Richard Thompson, Horslips, Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest etc etc. [ANYONE but Kiss!]
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Post by gerh on Dec 3, 2020 19:56:45 GMT
Watched this today - FZ is the pinnacle for me so I was sold before I'd seen it. Very sad in the final 15-ish minutes... dammit it cast a pall over my day!
A totally BRILLIANT film and highly recommended if you're any way interested in broadening your musical tastes - if you're not [and many aren't] then it's probably not for you so steer clear.
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Post by charles on Dec 3, 2020 22:52:31 GMT
Watched this today - FZ is the pinnacle for me so I was sold before I'd seen it. Very sad in the final 15-ish minutes... dammit it cast a pall over my day!
A totally BRILLIANT film and highly recommended if you're any way interested in broadening your musical tastes - if you're not [and many aren't] then it's probably not for you so steer clear.
I've never been into jazz, so it's not for me, but I liked his humour (Yellow Snow). My absolute favourite will always be Dynamo Humm: it's got a great rhythm and the lyrics are hilarious
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gerh
Grizzled Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,963
Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
Favourite other bands.: Zappa, Kansas, Rush, Deep Purple, Yes, Richard Thompson, Horslips, Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest etc etc. [ANYONE but Kiss!]
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Post by gerh on Dec 3, 2020 23:29:43 GMT
Gee I wouldn't have thought of FZ as Jazz! Though I s'pose there is some Jazz-ish stuff among all his work! I love pretty much everything he's done - even his 'Contemporary Classical' stuff. I feel there's something in there for everyone- but you have to want to dive in! G
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Post by rockonquo on Dec 20, 2020 22:07:57 GMT
Great flick to end the franchise.
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DieHard
Rocker Rollin'
Come over to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs
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Post by DieHard on Dec 21, 2020 10:27:05 GMT
2001 - A Space Odyssey . I have, for reasons unknown, watched this twice now, and i am still confused by the last 20 minutes. Is it Dave being transported back to the birth of Adam ?
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gerh
Grizzled Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,963
Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
Favourite other bands.: Zappa, Kansas, Rush, Deep Purple, Yes, Richard Thompson, Horslips, Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest etc etc. [ANYONE but Kiss!]
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Post by gerh on Dec 21, 2020 19:15:01 GMT
Hmmmm... not so sure about this one - it's not 'essential' but not shite either. [Maybe if you can't find anything else on telly, it'll do!!]
C.Boseman is really excellent in it tho' [and no, I'm not a fan 'just because' he was in some super-hero thing (that right?) - actually I hadn't a clue who he was 🙄]
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Post by railroad007 on Dec 21, 2020 22:33:47 GMT
2001 - A Space Odyssey . I have, for reasons unknown, watched this twice now, and i am still confused by the last 20 minutes. Is it Dave being transported back to the birth of Adam ? Here goes. Dave is being re-born as the Star Child, the next phase of human evolution that has been influenced by the monolith, remember the ape scene at the start, or the creators of the monolith.
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Post by Gaz on Dec 22, 2020 0:07:52 GMT
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Post by rockonquo on Dec 27, 2020 9:54:02 GMT
Gaz and @bluehighway this doco has just come out on dvd, great film.
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Post by Gaz on Dec 28, 2020 10:04:28 GMT
Gaz and @bluehighway this doco has just come out on dvd, great film. Yes I’ve noted this and am looking forward to seeing this.
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gerh
Grizzled Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,963
Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
Favourite other bands.: Zappa, Kansas, Rush, Deep Purple, Yes, Richard Thompson, Horslips, Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest etc etc. [ANYONE but Kiss!]
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Post by gerh on Dec 28, 2020 15:35:14 GMT
Very disappointed with this... [maybe I shuda known better tho?]
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Dec 28, 2020 17:08:24 GMT
The first half of a film about the Justice League (Marvel) and the second half of Dunkirk. (Not in that order.) Dunkirk was really good, I had heard it was good and I agree. The action runs fairly slowly so you get a sense of "real time", but meanwhile the bullets keep coming ...
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Dec 28, 2020 17:17:33 GMT
After we saw it, my sister and I debated the meaning for a long long time, in fact my Dad had to come and break it up (quite politely) at 5am, which was not normal hours for us. (Or him.) Oddly, we were debating the black thingy, not the ending. The ending did seem like "he's been taken somewhere and now that is possibly him being a sent back to start again and he will probably go somewhere eventually. No doubt this is the aliens doing this" and left it at that. I wasn't an SF reader at the time, except for a few accidents, but it seemed pretty science fictiony to me. We did watch a lot of Star Trek, so maybe it rubbed off ... I know it's a vast field, but my experience of world mythology is not so much that people come back as gods, but that they have mysterious experiences and come back very battered and rather quiet. Mr Kubrick seems to be thinking more of a "chariot of the gods" type experience, which is very modern.
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Post by rockonquo on Jan 1, 2021 4:44:51 GMT
First movie of the year.
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