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Desert Orchid said:
There's a somewhat obscure Christmas film I try to find every year. A bit schmaltzy maybe but I enjoy it every time.

The/A Christmas Visitor

William Devane carries it along very nicely.
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A beautiful but rather sad* Christmassy rite of passage film ( *as those sort of films usually are) that I loved years ago was The Last Winter. It was on tv several times but then they stopped showing it. However, I recently found out that I wasn’t the only person enthralled by it and have been told that it’s available to watch on utube. Problem is I assume I’ll have to watch an advert every few minutes. But I coped with that when I watched A Dog of Flanders on utube recently. I haven’t seen that since I was about 10.
 
I’m a quarter of the way through the first Dune film. Can’t say I’ve enjoyed it thus far( I started watching it ages ago). I loved the books, though, when I was going through a sci fi phase. Mind you, that was about fifty years ago.
 
simmo said:
I do enjoy Herman's hermits - I recall a documentary where Peter noone is apologising for being a pop band and I'm just thinking we can't all be the Beatles mate.
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I’m trying to declutter at home. But was so tempted to buy a Herman’s Hermits Best of LP that was outside a local antique/bric a brac shop. I resisted. It’s still calling to me though…
 
moehat said:
I’m trying to declutter at home. But was so tempted to buy a Herman’s Hermits Best of LP that was outside a local antique/bric a brac shop. I resisted. It’s still calling to me though…
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At least if it's vinyl from back in the day you don't run the risk of it being a re-recording which I fell foul of a few weeks ago with a Billy j Kramer cd. 😠
 
simmo said:
I do enjoy Herman's hermits - I recall a documentary where Peter noone is apologising for being a pop band and I'm just thinking we can't all be the Beatles mate.
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They were from Burnage about a mile and 30 years away from Oasis. I was in the same primary school class as Colin Leckenby, brother of guitarist, the late Lek.
 
simmo said:
At least if it's vinyl from back in the day you don't run the risk of it being a re-recording which I fell foul of a few weeks ago with a Billy j Kramer cd. 😠
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It was next to a DaveDee, Dozy Beaky Mick and Titch LP. I believe they were bigger than The Beatles in America at one time…
 
I'm a huge fan of the book and the original film - loved the fact that the rifle they used was a working one and the special effects supervisor had to travel through several European airports with it in his luggage!

Haven't seen the new one but it'll need to go some to live up to the legacy.
 
simmo said:
I'm a huge fan of the book and the original film
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simmo said:
Haven't seen the new one but it'll need to go some to live up to the legacy.
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I picked up the book at WH Smith's in Glasgow Central Station when I was starting out on my journey to Bordeaux for my year there in September 1977, thinking I could pick it up and read a few pages at a time during the course of the journey.

I remember very little of that journey other than that I could not put the book down. No book before or since has ever had that effect on me.

When the film came out I went to see it with a degree of trepidation because so often films can be totally different from the book on which they're based but this one was entirely true to the book and a brilliant watch. I have the DVD and watch it every now and again.

What I didn't know until relatively recently is that it was Forsyth's first novel. What a debut, eh?

There's been a few attempted Americanised versions of the basic premise of an assassination and an assassin called Jackal but they are miles off the original in every way.

I would genuinely fear being disappointed by the new one but if someone whose judgment I trust encourages me to give it a go then I could see me watching it.

Edit - I've now read the synopsis of the new film at the Sky website and it has put me off watching it.
 
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I've watched it all. Slickly made + entertaining. Overall I enjoyed it.
However the character assigned to get on his trail + capture him, is very dislikable. A black woman actress has filled this role. No bother to me ( sign of the times ), but it certainly made me root for the Jackal himself.
 
I just watched Red One - Christmas movie with Chris Evans ( the Captain America one, not the DJ) J K Simmons and The Rock - it’s surprisingly fun and not my usual Christmas film 😁 def recommend for if you don’t want to think very hard !!!
 
Robicheaux said:
I've watched it all. Slickly made + entertaining. Overall I enjoyed it.
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I can say that about a couple of the Daniel Craig Bond films.

I just can't take to him as 'Bond'. He's not good-looking enough for the typical part but I have watched Casino Royale and Skyfall many times and love them as spylarks.

Most of the other ones are total garbage.
 
Daniel Craig TOTALLY floats my boat as Bond! Definitely good-looking in my books with none of the smarm of Brosnan or Moore.
 
The character needs a balance of smarm and arrogance and was always meant to be be a comic-book type of hero which the Moore films played to. Brosnan brought back the more serious stuff but managed to hold on to the charm and smarm. He will always be the best Bond for me.

Craig is pug ugly (eye of the beholder and all that) - even uglier than Connery - but did take the ruggedness to new levels.
 
Well as a female I find him very attractive and far more sex appeal than any of the others. And I didn’t find the films boring either....sobbed long and hard at the end of the last one.
 
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