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I've just watched Layer Cake for the first time in about 15 years, Argylle director, Matthew Vaughn's directorial debut. Still very enjoyable! I always love a good British gangster film. British gangster are proper gentleman gangsters, always seem a bit more sophisticated than American gangsters. 

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I don't think they did a bad job, tbh. The army of wide eyed kids who watched the original film in 1977 couldn't go online on forums and twitter and whatnot to pull the plot to bits within minute

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7 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

I've also just watched Grosse Pointe Blank, another film I haven't seen in years. Absolutely love it! Always puts a massive smile on my face! 😁

You can't go home. But I guess you can shop there.

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20 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

I've also just watched Grosse Pointe Blank, another film I haven't seen in years. Absolutely love it! Always puts a massive smile on my face! 😁

I can see the DVD from where I'm sitting right now, and also haven't watched it in ages.

As well as the story and the humour, John Cusack's fight scene with Benny Urquidez is actually pretty good, as the star did a lot of martial arts training before the movie.

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2 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

I can see the DVD from where I'm sitting right now, and also haven't watched it in ages.

As well as the story and the humour, John Cusack's fight scene with Benny Urquidez is actually pretty good, as the star did a lot of martial arts training before the movie.

It appears to be the screenwriter's (now deceased) only real credit. Remarkable given how true, real and funny, it manages to make the story of a professional killer going back for a high school reunion feel.

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11 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

I can see the DVD from where I'm sitting right now, and also haven't watched it in ages.

As well as the story and the humour, John Cusack's fight scene with Benny Urquidez is actually pretty good, as the star did a lot of martial arts training before the movie.

Well instead of just looking at the dvd, get it in the machine! 😁

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3 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Well instead of just looking at the dvd, get it in the machine! 😁

Ripping it to the hard drive as we speak.

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Here's a bit more of Benny "The Jet" Urquidez, this time facing off against Jackie Chan.

The man has screen presence, even in middle age.

 

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21 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

I've also just watched Grosse Pointe Blank, another film I haven't seen in years. Absolutely love it! Always puts a massive smile on my face! 😁

One of my all time favourite films

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On 27/01/2024 at 18:43, The Hallucinating Goose said:

I've also just watched Grosse Pointe Blank, another film I haven't seen in years. Absolutely love it! Always puts a massive smile on my face! 😁

Never seen it.... guessing I should.

Another on the list of films I really should have seen....

With the best, thats a good bit of PR, though I would say the Bedford team, theres, like, you know, 13 blokes who can get together at the weekend to have a game together, which doesnt point to expansion of the game. Point, yeah go on!

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9 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Have you watched it again yet? 

Probably this evening, but whenever I think of John Cusack, the urge tom watch "Better off dead" instead is strong...

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5 minutes ago, Bedford Roughyed said:

Never seen it.... guessing I should.

Another on the list of films I really should have seen....

It is a rare example of that kind of 90s 'too cool for anything but sarcasm and meta textual scripts' that was great at the time and has aged beautifully.

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8 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

You've got yourself a great double bill there! 

It could possibly be part of the same cinematic continuum, if Lane never met Monique and had become an embittered loner instead.

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It could possibly be part of the same cinematic continuum, if Lane never met Monique and had become an embittered loner instead.

I believe this is basically what they tried with the film, War Inc. 

I've not seen it but I know it's done in the same vein as a black comedy and it stars John Cusack as a loner hitman again and I believe Joan Cusack once again plays his secretary, with Dan Ackroyd also turning up in some capacity. 

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The Fall (2006)
Starring Lee “Tolkien’s grumpiest elf” Pace, child actor Catinca Untaru and acres of cinematographic and location porn.

Whatever else, this is a beautiful movie!

 

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I think I said that my new year's resolution was to watch more films, especially in the cinema. This is January's return of films watched that I hadn't seen before:

Next Goal Wins (2023)
Leave the World Behind
Theater Camp
Wonka
Saltburn
Black Bear
Living
Rams (2020)
White Noise
Poor Things
One Life
The Favourite
Chevalier
A Haunting in Venice
Nyad
The Creator

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Tonight at 9:05pm, John Carpenter's dystopian classic They live (1988) will be on Talking Pictures TV.

"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."

 

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Well after the relentless forum peer pressure, I gave Grosse Point Blank a go.

Loved it.  Why has no one told me about this before.  

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With the best, thats a good bit of PR, though I would say the Bedford team, theres, like, you know, 13 blokes who can get together at the weekend to have a game together, which doesnt point to expansion of the game. Point, yeah go on!

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1 hour ago, Bedford Roughyed said:

Well after the relentless forum peer pressure, I gave Grosse Point Blank a go.

Loved it.  Why has no one told me about this before.  

It's a treat.

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