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Post by Lollipop on Jun 25, 2007 14:03:01 GMT -1
I watched Green Mile for the first time last night on Film 4, really moving I watched it last night too. Hadn't seen it for a while. I cried like a girl.
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Jun 25, 2007 14:03:55 GMT -1
I watched Green Mile for the first time last night on Film 4, really moving blimey m8 you took your time, great film though eh?
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Post by Neko Bazu on Jun 25, 2007 14:04:10 GMT -1
Green MileWhen Stephen King visited the set he asked to be strapped into Old Sparky to see how it felt. He didn't like it and asked to be released. Not surprised - prop or not, I don't think it'd quite sit comfy with me either! Saw it a couple of years ago, absolutely fantastic film
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Post by gt on Jun 25, 2007 14:04:36 GMT -1
I filled up 'a bit' too. I knew it was meant to be a bit of a tearjerker, but it still got me! I watched Green Mile for the first time last night on Film 4, really moving I watched it last night too. Hadn't seen it for a while. I cried like a girl.
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Post by Lollipop on Jun 25, 2007 14:07:04 GMT -1
I filled up 'a bit' too. I knew it was meant to be a bit of a tearjerker, but it still got me! I watched it last night too. Hadn't seen it for a while. I cried like a girl. Lol, aaah. I start when he has to say goodbye to Mr Jingles. Then cry pretty much straight from there! Especially when you see the really old Mr Jingles near the end.
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Post by gt on Jun 25, 2007 14:07:10 GMT -1
Just one I'd never got round to, but yes, cracking film I watched Green Mile for the first time last night on Film 4, really moving blimey m8 you took your time, great film though eh?
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Post by gt on Jun 25, 2007 14:09:02 GMT -1
I had a few bits When he cured Melinda's tumour, and when he said 'Don't put me in the dark' at the end and he shook his hand before he could do it I'll stop there I filled up 'a bit' too. I knew it was meant to be a bit of a tearjerker, but it still got me! Lol, aaah. I start when he has to say goodbye to Mr Jingles. Then cry pretty much straight from there! Especially when you see the really old Mr Jingles near the end.
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Jun 25, 2007 14:24:01 GMT -1
stop it GT..........everyone will be off
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Post by gt on Jun 25, 2007 14:25:47 GMT -1
Some rotten swine on youtube has put up a video montage from the film set to 'Nothing Else Matters' by Metallica...
Hope no one catches me after that or my excuse will be I've er been chopping onions!
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Post by gt on Jun 25, 2007 15:08:30 GMT -1
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Jun 25, 2007 15:14:05 GMT -1
gr8 movie/gr8 song emotional
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Post by Travis on Jun 26, 2007 12:23:26 GMT -1
Back on topic......
SID JAMES.
In six of his last ten 'Carry On' films, Sid James' on screen character was also called Sid. On the four occasions he did not a play a 'Sid', two were due to him portraying historical figures (Dick Turpin, Henry VIII), while for the other two films he adopted the inspired monikers of Gladstone Screwer and Vic Flange. ;D
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Post by Neko Bazu on Jun 26, 2007 12:35:08 GMT -1
Scream
When the killer smashes his head through a window and Casey hits him in the face with the phone, Wes Craven is actually wearing the costume and was really hit in the face.
The use of caller ID increased more than threefold after the release of this film.
Originally titled "Scary Movie" which was later used for a parody of Scream and other pop culture horror films like it.
The killer was based on a Florida serial killer, the "Gainesville Ripper".
All the killer's phone calls were really done by Roger Jackson on set with a cell phone. At one point, the crew were contacted by the police demanding to know who they were because they thought there was a real killer making the phone calls.
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Post by gt on Jun 26, 2007 14:45:33 GMT -1
It was. The interesting trivia was that I watched The Green Mile
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Post by Neko Bazu on Jun 27, 2007 13:09:53 GMT -1
Total Recall
Johnnycab whistles the Norwegian national anthem.
References to "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy " include the annoyingly polite robot (Johnnycab), wrapping a towel around your head to avoid being found, and the triple-breasted whore.
Marshall Bell had a full-body make-up for the Kuato scenes. The head of Kuato was fully animatronic.
During filming, Sharon Stone complained to director Paul Verhoeven that she wasn't sure whether her character really was married to Doug.
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Post by Neko Bazu on Jun 27, 2007 15:06:46 GMT -1
PredatorAn attempt was made to get shots of the Predator swinging from tree to tree using a monkey in a red special-effects suit. However, the monkey kept removing the suit and the idea was abandoned. Sonny Landham was hired to work on this film, but on one condition: the insurance company insisted on a round-the-clock bodyguard for Landham, not to protect the actor, but to protect everyone else from the actor (who was prone to bar fights, etc.) Jesse Ventura was delighted to find out from the wardrobe department that his arms were 1" bigger than Arnold Schwarzenegger's. He suggested to Schwarzenegger that they measure arms, with the winner getting a bottle of champagne. Ventura lost because Schwarzenegger had told the wardrobe department to tell Ventura that his arms were bigger. (I love that last one! ) Predator 2This was the first film to be given the newly instituted NC-17 rating in the US for its graphic violence before it was re-cut to its final theatrical length. At one point Arnold Schwarzenegger was going to co-star in the film, but chose to do Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) instead. When the Predator gets shot in the slaughterhouse sequence by Danny Glover, Kevin Peter Hall had blood packets filled with the luminescent fluid from a "glow stick" mixed with K-Y jelly attached to his body to create the glowing, green blood.
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Post by Ninja Squirrel on Jun 27, 2007 15:09:29 GMT -1
Short Circuit
This film was originally conceived as a dark high-tech thriller. Number 5 was originally intended to be the villain of the picture: an out-of-control, heavily-armed military robot that had escaped from the lab that had developed him. After several script revisions, the darker elements were toned down and the film became a high-tech comedy.
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Post by Travis on Jun 28, 2007 17:09:58 GMT -1
Easy Rider
When Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson go on their drug-fuelled trip to the Mardi Gras, they pick up some prostiutes as company for the evening. One of those prostitutes was played by a 16-year old Toni Basil, who 13 years later went on to have an international chart smash, dressed up as a cheerleader, singing 'Mickey'!!!
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Post by Neko Bazu on Jul 4, 2007 13:18:29 GMT -1
Trainspotting
The writing on the wall of the Volcano Nightclub is the same as that in the Moloko bar in A Clockwork Orange (1971).
Ewen Bremner (Spud) had previously played Renton in a stage adaptation of the novel.
Jonny Lee Miller's character, Sick Boy, is obsessed with James Bond trivia. Miller is the grandson of Bernard Lee, who played "M" in the Bond series until 1979.
Cameo: Irvine Welsh (author of the original book) as Mikey Forrester, Renton's heroin dealer.
The football team pictured in the opening credits is the Calton Athletic Club, who are actually drug addiction counselors and were the primary consultants for the film.
Created much controversy when it was released in the USA for its content. Senator Bob Dole charged the film with glorifying drug use, but later admitted he hadn't seen the film.
The whole film was shot in just seven and a half weeks.
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Post by Neko Bazu on Jul 8, 2007 20:50:38 GMT -1
Full Metal Jacket
Former US Marine Corps Drill Instructor R. Lee Ermey was not originally hired to play Gunnery Sgt. Hartman but as a consultant for the Marine Corps boot camp portion of the film. He performed a demonstration on videotape in which he yelled obscene insults and abuse for 15 minutes without stopping, repeating himself or even flinching - despite being continuously pelted with tennis balls and oranges. Stanley Kubrick was so impressed that he cast Ermey as Gunnery Sgt. Hartmann.
The videotape demonstration was not the only factor which got R. Lee Ermey the role as the drill instructor. Ermey went to Stanley Kubrick and asked for the part, as the actors on the set were, in his opinion, not up to snuff. When Kubrick declined, Ermey barked an order for Kubrick to stand up when he was spoken to, and the director instinctively obeyed. That sealed the matter, and Ermey won the part as Gunnery Sgt. Hartmann.
To make Gunnery Sgt. Hartmann's performance and the recruits' reactions as convincing as possible, Matthew Modine, 'Vincent D'Onofrio (I)' , and the other actors playing recruits never met R. Lee Ermey prior to filming. Stanley Kubrick also saw to it that Ermey didn't fraternize with the actors between takes.
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