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Post by lamarrkx on Sept 30, 2010 18:21:35 GMT
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Post by bet welching prick on Sept 30, 2010 18:21:54 GMT
amelie is a very good film, and chocolat is as film of an english book directed by a swede, mostly in english. I think its getting increasingly possible to classify byrams post into 3 or 4 different types, this one follows the "foreign thing you are talking about is actually rubbish. english things are better. you are all fools but unrelated thing from that foreign country is ok, I'm not a xenophobe you see" pattern. in future why not just type BYRAM POST TYPE C and we'll all know what it is you meant to say, saves us all time. also: BYRAM POST TYPE A: ISLAM BYRAM POST TYPE B: ANTI WHITE RACISM BYRAM POST TYPE D: LIVERPOOL ARE SHIT  Spot on. |
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Post by leanne on Sept 30, 2010 18:24:02 GMT
amelie is a very good film, and chocolat is as film of an english book directed by a swede, mostly in english. I think its getting increasingly possible to classify byrams post into 3 or 4 different types, this one follows the "foreign thing you are talking about is actually rubbish. english things are better. you are all fools but unrelated thing from that foreign country is ok, I'm not a xenophobe you see" pattern. in future why not just type BYRAM POST TYPE C and we'll all know what it is you meant to say, saves us all time. also: BYRAM POST TYPE A: ISLAM BYRAM POST TYPE B: ANTI WHITE RACISM BYRAM POST TYPE D: LIVERPOOL ARE SHIT  Thank you and good night. |
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Post by fungia on Sept 30, 2010 18:36:15 GMT
amelie is a very good film, and chocolat is as film of an english book directed by a swede, mostly in english. I think its getting increasingly possible to classify byrams post into 3 or 4 different types, this one follows the "foreign thing you are talking about is actually rubbish. english things are better. you are all fools but unrelated thing from that foreign country is ok, I'm not a xenophobe you see" pattern. in future why not just type BYRAM POST TYPE C and we'll all know what it is you meant to say, saves us all time. also: BYRAM POST TYPE A: ISLAM BYRAM POST TYPE B: ANTI WHITE RACISM BYRAM POST TYPE D: LIVERPOOL ARE SHIT  chuze, have you seen a movie that is about a guy that is applying for a job and kills all the other applicants? that is basically the plot... it's very funny. I posted about it on some soapboxes ago, but the title have slipped my mind. It's probably from the 2000s... |
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Post by chuzeville on Sept 30, 2010 18:54:49 GMT
French comedy = Skip to 0.55 This looked more like a modern day Benny Hill, tbpf. |
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Post by chuzeville on Sept 30, 2010 18:58:02 GMT
I'd be curious to know what french comedies you've seen, if you remember titles. Amelie = dreadful Chocolat - even worse Science of Sleep - Is this supposed to be a comedy? it's hard to tell.... Whatever, it's as funny as toothache. Amélie isn't in any way representative of French cinema. Chocolat : if IMDb is to be trusted, an it is, this was a danish-greek-spanish production, directed by a danish director Science of sleep: dreadful indeed. Easily Gondry's worse. But he's also made some brilliant films, didn't he? |
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Post by chuzeville on Sept 30, 2010 19:01:59 GMT
chuze, have you seen a movie that is about a guy that is applying for a job and kills all the other applicants? that is basically the plot... it's very funny. I posted about it on some soapboxes ago, but the title have slipped my mind. It's probably from the 2000s... Yep, that was good!  Reminded me of one with the same guy:  I remember laughing. |
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Post by fungia on Sept 30, 2010 19:04:57 GMT
Amelie = dreadful Chocolat - even worse Science of Sleep - Is this supposed to be a comedy? it's hard to tell.... Whatever, it's as funny as toothache. Amélie isn't in any way representative of French cinema. Chocolat : if IMDb is to be trusted, an it is, this was a danish-greek-spanish production, directed by a danish director Science of sleep: dreadful indeed. Easily Gondry's worse. But he's also made some brilliant films, didn't he? swedish director, as rubbers pointed out. where there som danes involved too? yup, nice one chuze! |
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Post by chuzeville on Sept 30, 2010 19:38:28 GMT
Not sure, apparently it was a danish production.
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Post by ana on Sept 30, 2010 21:14:32 GMT
I liked Amélie and The Science of Sleep  |
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Post by erica on Oct 1, 2010 4:22:54 GMT
also in line to watch:
la fille seule (a single girl)
après lui (after him)
les egares (strayed)
le battement d’ailes du papillon (happenstance)
l’auberge espagnole (the spanish apartment)
les poupees russes (russian dolls)
venus beaute (venus beauty institute)
good, bad, or unwatchable?
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Post by chuzeville on Oct 1, 2010 6:05:56 GMT
I don't think I've seen any except the last three.
L'Auberge espagnole is nice but its sequel Poupées Russes is very good, from what I recall.
Venus Beauté institut: I mostly remember that I liked it back in the days. And had a crush on AUdrey Tautou.
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Post by erica on Oct 1, 2010 14:54:55 GMT
i totally have a crush on audrey tautou. not in a lesbian way of course, but in a i wish i was her, looked like her, dressed like her, and had her life kind of way. pure and simple admiration for a french class act. |
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Post by chuzeville on Oct 1, 2010 17:29:44 GMT
Yeah, more in a Single White Female kinda way!
Anyway, speaking of Tautou, Coco avant Chanel was a very beautiful movie, a period piece with costumes and all but mostly an amazing atmosphere.
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Post by erica on Oct 1, 2010 17:59:54 GMT
nah. but i'd gladly take her clothes when she was sick of them. my mom wears chanel no.5 perfume and has subsequently read about coco a bit. i got her that dvd as part of a present. upon your review, i think i need to borrow it and get watching.
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Post by chuzeville on Oct 2, 2010 15:38:55 GMT
I didn't know you had such a taste for french movies. Do you watch them with subtitles or dubbed?
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Post by rbbrslmn on Oct 2, 2010 15:42:42 GMT
I didn't know you had such a taste for french movies. Do you watch them with subtitles or dubbed? civilised countries generally don't dub foreign films. other than some 70s asian stuff you'd struggle to find many non-english films with anything other than subtitles. |
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Post by chuzeville on Oct 2, 2010 15:45:48 GMT
Really? That's cool. Outside of Paris and Lyon in some cases, it's still assumed that the general audience only wants dubbed movie, which I hate. I'm not speaking of art house stuff but blockbusters.
BTW, do you get a lot of not-english-speaking movies in your civilized country?
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Post by rbbrslmn on Oct 2, 2010 15:58:47 GMT
Really? That's cool. Outside of Paris and Lyon in some cases, it's still assumed that the general audience only wants dubbed movie, which I hate. I'm not speaking of art house stuff but blockbusters. BTW, do you get a lot of not-english-speaking movies in your civilized country? not a lot at all. one of the cinemas in liverpool will generally have a new foreign film as one of the 4 screens but the big chains will only have things from big directors, and even then only in the larger cities. |
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Post by leanne on Oct 2, 2010 16:03:39 GMT
Emmanuelle was awesome, the follows up never managed to capture the originals level of perfection.
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