Braindead. Peter Jackson’s masterpiece but me and my two mates were the only people there when we saw it.
Films that were hugely overlooked/underrated on release
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Fred Army
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Where did you see it?
I went with a couple of mates to see it at the Metro Centre and I think there was only a handful in. Didn't get a wide release mind you.
A multiplex attached to a shopping centre in York.
Fred Army
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Was that the Warner Bros one up on Clifton Moor?
Quite possibly. It's 30 years ago and I've forgotten the details. Outside the city anyway.
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Aye, sounds like it. Used to go through there quite a bit when I lived in York late 90's.
FootballFan
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- Citizen Kane
- Once Upon a Time in America
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Blade Runner
- The Big Lebowski
- Donnie Darko
- Fight Club
- The Thing
Obviously Shawshank will have been mentioned. But I still think it’s just alright.
Vertigo has Kim Novak in it, twice.
Spoilers FFS
I wouldn't blame anyone for abusing solvents while watching Blade Runner. How can a film about hunting renegade robots* be so effing boring? I'd rather spend the time proving I'm not a robot by identifying bridges, buses and bicycles.
* I know they aren't robots.
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That’s me too. I wish I could get away with Android (they are cheaper).I have an iPhone 7+ (I know, peasant with ancient phone) and I'm typing this on a 2015 Macbook Air (peasant, etc.)
I also have 3 iPads!
I have an lovely old Macbook Pro, around 2010 IIRC, that had the NVidia GFX chip fail. It affected all of them in time, though apparently it was NVidia's fault. I did the wired bypass mod (difficult, even with my almost 50 years of electronics experience!) so it uses the Intel GFX, but there's something not right as it slows down and becomes unusable after playing videos for a while. A real pity...
Android is OK, IMO, but I just got into iPhones when I got one given years ago (a 3) and like the interface.
What I don't understand is when discussions about platforms descend into absolute hatefests with personql abuse and even death threats. Yeah, I like my Apple gear, but I'm not an advocate, and I don't give a shit what other people use. There's a poster on here, who shall remain nameless, who wouldn't be seen dead with an Android and thinks his iPhone makes him 'cool'. He won't accept that anything Apple could ever have a bug or design flaw.
A grown man...
I can't see me ever buying from Apple, I get secondhand stuff because I don't care about 'new'. Their prices are extortionate and the quality has gone right down since Steve Jobs passed away.
Sorry for the OT ramble.
Good article on Watwrworld and the misconception it bombed
Kevin Costner’s ‘Waterworld’ Was The Biggest Box Office Bomb That Wasn’t
Kevin Costner’s post-apocalyptic adventure was less a water-logged commercial disaster and more a disappointment in relation to cost.www.forbes.com
A lot of films are like that, but people tend to count whether a film made or lost money based solely on box office versus budget+ marketing. In reality films have a long life on various forms of home viewing. Mel Brooks tells a brilliant tale of how his production company's biggest box office flop eventually made money decades later thanks to Eastern European cable TV
Harry Gates
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pinewaves1868
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Hang on while I fire up the google.
zinedine
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And the follow up. Dallas does Debbie. Who is this Dallas fella?
Andy_Roker1983
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The Trueman Show
This maybe just in my own head, can’t remember it getting much credit at the time and thinking it would be the usual Jim Carey shtick but it’s not.
great film imo.
This maybe just in my own head, can’t remember it getting much credit at the time and thinking it would be the usual Jim Carey shtick but it’s not.
great film imo.
