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| SixFourian |
Posted - 16/03/2020 : 23:51:29
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| 13 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| SixFourian |
Posted - 30/03/2020 : 11:32:11
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Originally posted by dem20nic
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by dem20nic
Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight.
Well, no, Elton John is his real (i.e. legal) name, but that was his birth name, yes.
Yes, that's what I meant.
Yeah, I know. It's just that there is this weird fixation with people's 'real' names, as though any name is fundamentally real, and the strange phenomenon people thinking they have the right to know what they classify as someone else's 'real' name. It's one thing when someone just uses a stage name, but when they've legally changed it by deed poll, that's their name. I generally use my initials nowadays and people can be really insistent on trying to find out what they stand for.
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Originally posted by dem20nic
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by dem20nic
No [Rec]3? 
I haven't seen 2 or 3, though I guess I will have by the end of all this if they're not banned.
Why would they be banned? Two isn't very good - it gives the whole situation an unnecessary religious angle, and three is absolute shite, barely connected at all.
I was being flippant, though one never knows these days: like disaster films not being allowed on 'planes.
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Originally posted by dem20nic
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by dem20nic
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
The Warners 1930 version of Melville's opus bears little resemblance to the novel with Barrymore's Ahab surviving and coming home to marry the preacher's daughter. Very weird, shipmates. Think I'll have a tankard at the Spouter-Inn.
Weird. Bit like Disney deciding to let Quasimodo and Esmerelda live... not quite what Victor Hugo had in mind.
I've actually never read, or seen any adaptation of, either, but I guess it's a bit late to avoid spoilers for those. 
Yeah... probably. I can get you not knowing the plot of "Notre Dame de Paris", it's not that widely read I suppose, but surprised you hadn't even heard of Ahab's fate in "Moby Dick" - it's the text book definition of a fatal obsession.
I knew that it didn't go well. I might add it to this series that I'm organizing. |
| lemmycaution |
Posted - 24/03/2020 : 20:16:43
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
Lemmy in for #1352.
5/5
Much appreciated.
Good Health. |
| demonic |
Posted - 23/03/2020 : 05:04:50
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by dem20nic
Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight.
Well, no, Elton John is his real (i.e. legal) name, but that was his birth name, yes.
Yes, that's what I meant.
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by dem20nic
No [Rec]3?
I haven't seen 2 or 3, though I guess I will have by the end of all this if they're not banned.
Why would they be banned? Two isn't very good - it gives the whole situation an unnecessary religious angle, and three is absolute shite, barely connected at all.
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by dem20nic
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
The Warners 1930 version of Melville's opus bears little resemblance to the novel with Barrymore's Ahab surviving and coming home to marry the preacher's daughter. Very weird, shipmates. Think I'll have a tankard at the Spouter-Inn.
Weird. Bit like Disney deciding to let Quasimodo and Esmerelda live... not quite what Victor Hugo had in mind.
I've actually never read, or seen any adaptation of, either, but I guess it's a bit late to avoid spoilers for those.
Yeah... probably. I can get you not knowing the plot of "Notre Dame de Paris", it's not that widely read I suppose, but surprised you hadn't even heard of Ahab's fate in "Moby Dick" - it's the text book definition of a fatal obsession. |
| SixFourian |
Posted - 22/03/2020 : 23:06:44
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Originally posted by dem20nic
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
The Warners 1930 version of Melville's opus bears little resemblance to the novel with Barrymore's Ahab surviving and coming home to marry the preacher's daughter. Very weird, shipmates. Think I'll have a tankard at the Spouter-Inn.
Weird. Bit like Disney deciding to let Quasimodo and Esmerelda live... not quite what Victor Hugo had in mind.
I've actually never read, or seen any adaptation of, either, but I guess it's a bit late to avoid spoilers for those. |
| SixFourian |
Posted - 22/03/2020 : 23:02:40
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Originally posted by dem20nic
No [Rec]3?
I haven't seen 2 or 3, though I guess I will have by the end of all this if they're not banned. |
| SixFourian |
Posted - 22/03/2020 : 23:00:49
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Originally posted by dem20nic
Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight.
Well, no, Elton John is his real (i.e. legal) name, but that was his birth name, yes. |
| SixFourian |
Posted - 22/03/2020 : 22:55:59
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
Lemmy in for #1352.
5/5 |
| lemmycaution |
Posted - 22/03/2020 : 19:32:00
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Originally posted by dem20nic
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
Lemmy in for #1352.
[size=1][b] The Warners 1930 version of Melville's opus bears little resemblance to the novel with Barrymore's Ahab surviving and coming home to marry the preacher's daughter. Very weird, shipmates. Think I'll have a tankard at the Spouter-Inn.
Weird. Bit like Disney deciding to let Quasimodo and Esmerelda live... not quite what Victor Hugo had in mind.
Walt Disney reportedly said, when previewing Fantasia, "Gee, this will make Beethoven!" |
| demonic |
Posted - 22/03/2020 : 16:12:45
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
Lemmy in for #1352.
[size=1][b] The Warners 1930 version of Melville's opus bears little resemblance to the novel with Barrymore's Ahab surviving and coming home to marry the preacher's daughter. Very weird, shipmates. Think I'll have a tankard at the Spouter-Inn.
Weird. Bit like Disney deciding to let Quasimodo and Esmerelda live... not quite what Victor Hugo had in mind. |
| demonic |
Posted - 22/03/2020 : 16:10:58
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Originally posted by Salopian
Getting ready for a [Rec]koning.
It's interesting that the original and the remake have adjacent numbers on this site, so someone must have become aware of them simultaneously. It's strange, as I saw each of them when it was released at least a fair few months apart and had no idea what the latter was -- until a few minutes in, that is, by which time the shot-for-shot identicality was undeniable.
Here are my five reviews.
No [Rec]3? |
| demonic |
Posted - 22/03/2020 : 16:08:44
Five music movies
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Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight.
Before "Whiplash" and "La La Land" made him famous Damian Chazelle wrote the thriller "Grand Piano". It's not good.
Richard Gere plays a jazz trumpeter who falls in love with Diane Lane in "The Cotton Club"
"Mystify: Michael Hutchence" documents the life and tragic death of the INXS frontman.
"Amazing Grace" is a documentary on the making of Aretha Franklin's iconic 1972 gospel album. |
| lemmycaution |
Posted - 17/03/2020 : 22:00:02
Lemmy in for #1352.
The Warners 1930 version of Melville's opus bears little resemblance to the novel with Barrymore's Ahab surviving and coming home to marry the preacher's daughter. Very weird, shipmates. Think I'll have a tankard at the Spouter-Inn.
Late in her career, Gina Lollobrigida, along with Jean-Louis Trintignant and Ewa Aulin, starred in Giulio Questi's very strange giallo Death Laid an Egg. |
| SixFourian |
Posted - 17/03/2020 : 18:41:25
Getting ready for a [Rec]koning.
It's interesting that the original and the remake have adjacent numbers on this site, so someone must have become aware of them simultaneously. It's strange, as I saw each of them when it was released at least a fair few months apart and had no idea what the latter was -- until a few minutes in, that is, by which time the shot-for-shot identicality was undeniable.
Here are my five reviews. |
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