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Anyone stuck at home today? Channel 4 is showing a classic SF film, The Day The Earth Stood Still, at 12:20 PM. The poster isn't quite representative of the movie: there's also an anti-war message, quite a controversial thing to do at the height of McCarthyism. The Bernard Herrman score is also remarkable.
Klaatu Barada Nikto!From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.
— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut
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Early heads up for The Boys from Brazil (1978) All star cast in adaption of Ira Levin pulp classic about the plot to breed a generation of Hitler clones.
Monday, May 2nd, 2011 11:05pm to 1:05am
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RTE Two, 11:40: Il Divo. A slightly dramatised biography of Giulio Andreotti, former Italian Prime Minister. The film won a load of awards; and if even a fraction of the events portrayed really happened, the guy was a monster with ties to the Mafia, and Berlusconi is a circus clown by comparison. The portrayal of Andreotti by Toni Servillo is scary - like a cross between Nosferatu and a hyena, in a tailored suit and big glasses. :eek:
The real Andreotti a.k.a. Beelzebub:
From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.
— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut
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If you're stuck at home today, you can watch Robin and Marian (1976), about Robin Hood's later years: he's been to the Crusades and back, but he still has to deal with the Sheriff of Nottingham. With Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn ... and Ronnie Barker.
Ch. 4, 1PM
PS: There's some Royal Wedding stuff on TV3, but RTE Two are showing The Patriot at 9PM tonight. If there's a more anti-British film to come out of Hollywood, I don't think I want to know. Stars Mel Gibson as a retired Australian American soldier, during the War of Independence, whose son is murdered by a British officer and decides to get revenge. I'm not recommending it, but if you've had it up to here with the Royal Wedding, this could be the antidote. :rolleyes:From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.
— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut
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I'm not following you. The film is not really about the American War of Independence. That's the setting, but the story is Mel and his vendetta against some particularly nasty Brits. The main baddie (Tavington) is supposedly based on a real British colonel (Tarleton), but the character's nastiness is exaggerated far beyond the original colonel's. He's like something out of a SAW film, in a red coat.Imagine a movie about The American War of Independence which might be considered anti-British, that's just mad!
From IMDB: "Harrison Ford declined the lead role, feeling the script had boiled the Revolutionary War down to a "one-man's-revenge" melodrama." That's saying something, considering Ford's film CV includes e.g. Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger.
From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.
— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut
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Saturday nite Sky 2. Brilliant movie about one mans struggle to avenge the death of his step brother at the hands of the chinese. Meanwhile he's been hunted by two relentless US Army agents, who have sworn to take him back for court martial, as he is also a Navy supersoldier.
Bloodsport!! starring Jean claude van damme!!!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN2iB747aMo
