That's some change of direction on the shite you've been watching recently mate!
Hey now, they both have their merits!
It is a change of pace though, I admit...
That's some change of direction on the shite you've been watching recently mate!
Nothing the matter with watching shite films now and again for a laugh, but wasn't that about a dozen you've been devouring over the last week or two!?!Hey now, they both have their merits!
It is a change of pace though, I admit...
Nothing the matter with watching shite films now and again for a laugh, but wasn't that about a dozen you've been devouring over the last week or two!?!
Seen that one when it came out and saw the new one a couple of weeks ago....was okay. You read the books at all ? Far better. One reason I just couldn't get into the films is that Cruise is a midget and the character he plays (Reacher) is 6' 5" & 250lbs.Jack Reacher (2012)
Okay film i suppose with Tom Cruise, i did like Robert Duvall for the last 30 minutes though he made me smile with a few quips. 6/10.
Not read the books mate. Won't be watching the 2nd film but might be tempted to read the book.Seen that one when it came out and saw the new one a couple of weeks ago....was okay. You read the books at all ? Far better. One reason I just couldn't get into the films is that Cruise is a midget and the character he plays (Reacher) is 6' 5" & 250lbs.
Yeah I know what you mean tbh. I did all the Carry On films last year and they started off great (ok the very early ones weren't hilarious, but they had their moments), hit a peak in the mid-Sixties, but by the time of Carry On At Your Convenience, they were falling away badly. I got through ten mins of Carry On Emmanuelle before I called it quits and that was that!Honestly I loved the earlier ones but the last few were a chore to get through.
Seen that one when it came out and saw the new one a couple of weeks ago....was okay. You read the books at all ? Far better. One reason I just couldn't get into the films is that Cruise is a midget and the character he plays (Reacher) is 6' 5" & 250lbs.
Does it make a difference though if you like both and see they are two versions of the same stories?
As an example, I love the film Master & Commander and saw that the film was based upon a 21-book series about a naval Captain and his surgeon-cum-spy friend. I am halfway through the books, and love the series, but I now cannot picture Paul Bettany as an Irish spy agent with the way the film was made. Does it make a difference though if you like both and see they are two versions of the same stories?
LeoPS....going back to the Jack Reacher/Tom Cruise conundrum....Perhaps the fact that I have read all of the Jack Reacher novels and his character is ingrained in my mind has something to do with my thinking.
SALTIRE What a coincidence
I've begun with Patrick O'Brian's - Aubrey and Maturin Series on my e-reader a few weeks ago
I am really a fan of seafarer novels (and Pirate movies of the 40s and 50s). Especially from the napoleonic era. I don't know why I like them so much because I am going seasick in a rowing boat on a quiet lake
Years ago I saw the movie with Russell Crowe as Capt Jack Aubrey and Paul Bettany as Dr.Stephen Maturin and was fascinated. Later I tried to read the books in English but I was "beaten to death" by the huge amount of nautical terms in English.
But now I've decided to give it another try and this time I am reading the books in German, it's easier for me. I've already finished the first Band "Master and Commander" (in German it is called "Kurs auf Spaniens Küste (approx: Route to Spain's Coast) and I am now in the middle of the 2nd "Post Captain (in German: Feindliche Segel (Enemy Sails).
Brilliant stuff. I like it very much. Because I saw the movies first I've always Russell Crowe as Jack Aubry and Paul Bethany as Stephen Maturin in my Head. I can't do anything against it (although Jack Aubry is more of a Goldielocks in the books and Russell Crowe isn't)
I'm a big fan of that period of history during the Napoleonic Wars, and indeed one of my great idols is a countryman of yours in Beethoven
from Moby Dick, Hornblower, HMS Defiant, all the different Mutiny on the Bounty films, and loads of pirate films as well (ok, they were a bit earlier in history).
I actually listen to the Aubrey-Maturin books on audiobooks as I go on my walks or workouts to pass the time, and you are right that to start with, the heavily techincal lingo can be difficult to distinguish, and it took me a few weeks of listening, or reading articles online about the different parts of a ship, and working out what part of a ship a mizzenmast was on, what was a topgallant sail, a royal, what the difference between a bosun and a master was etc; but once I got passed that I began to feel a bit more a part of it when listening to the books.
Diana gets on my nerves, if you've gotten to her yet! Preserved Killick is always funny though); and I look forward as I progress to see what they get upto in later novels.
I have CS Forester's Hornblower series to go through once I've done with the Aubrey-Maturin saga as well btw!
Yeah I saw the excellent Hornblower TV series as well, pity it was too expensive to continue as I'd like to have seen the story reach its conclusion. I'll get with that one day though after the Aubrey-Maturin saga is done.SALTIRE Thanks for the detailed answer to my post. Enjoyed reading it
We Germans love our Beethoven, too!
Moby Dick with Gregory Peck. Great movie and I know how much I feared Quequec with the shrunken head as a kid in the 70's when I first watched the movie on tv. It was the first time that I saw a man tattooed in the face and I feared the scene with Ahab bounded at Moby Dick when he dived. Gave me goosebumps.
The other ones I've seen too (I've seen most movies of this kind, even the s/w or silent ones with Douglas Fairbanks jr). The Hornblower movie with Gregory Peck (again him) is one of my favourites. Did you see the TV series with Ioan Gruffudd as Hornblower?
I know most of the terms in German now, too. But I prefer reading instead of hearing an audio book. Normally when I hear an audiobook I can't remember what I had heard because I am asleep after minutes. Can't do anything against it.
Diana Villiers? She's already appeared in book two. But it's nice to hear that she appears later too. I like that
Never read the Hornblower series (but I have the complete series on my e-reader). But I am pretty sure it's Gregory Peck I would image when I read the book
Went and saw that Fantastic Beasts the other day. I was dragged, but I actually really enjoyed it. It was easy to watch, a good bit of fun and escapism and your man there does a great job of playing a low-key likable good guy . It doesn't lean too much on the Harry Potter thing too much, other than a few nods here and there, and stands up really well on it's own. I'd recommend going to watch it definitely
Always liked her, Grace Kelly, Louise Brooks and Rita Hayworth (though she had a hell of a lot of work done to stop her looking latino); all before the Sixties bombshells started out.I watched For Whom the Bell Tolls today. Ingrid Bergman has to be the most beautiful woman - ever.
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