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Devon Malcolm

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  1. Not over here it's not. And that's all very well if you don't have kids hogging the TV at all hours. I don't think I've watched the TV for about a year. Hence, Netflix would be nice.
  2. Pretty much all the Trailer Park Boys episodes are on YouTube. I really hope they get Seinfeld on there one day.
  3. I was at THAT Champions League match when David Beckham broke his metatarsal in 2002, the injury that sent the entire country into panic ahead of another hilariously failed World Cup campaign. It was an amazing night, though, simply because of the quality of the match and the drama that unfolded with his injury.
  4. Killer Joe was pretty good. A bit overrated by some, I think, and a certain scene that everyone talks about in that film is actually really stupid, but I enjoyed it. The ending is brilliant as well.
  5. Alan Arkin's such a great actor. He made Catch 22 watchable to me. Loved his performance in Glengarry Glen Ross as well.
  6. Indeed. Of course, it would have been ideal if directors had been able to make whatever the hell they wanted, but look at just how many truly great films were made from the early 1930s to the early 1960s, and it really is remarkable that they were able to do so considering the shackles that were on them. In some ways you have to ask whether the great directors like Hitchcock and Lang would have been quite so great if they had been allowed total creative freedom.
  7. It's the logical move. I wouldn't be surprised to see Liverpool make a move for him, though.
  8. I think they quickly rushed that out and tagged it with something like "COME WATCH LOIS LANE GET HER LA-LAS OUT!" as a quick cash-in. Gillian Anderson got the same treatment with some film when The X Files went big. That Mitchell film sounds pretty good. I've seen a fair bit of Joe Don Baker recently. He was great in Charley Varrick and The Outfit, the latter of which is a fantastic film. Wasn't so keen on the former. Baker was pretty good when he could be bothered.
  9. There was plenty of moral ambiguity in films in that era, though, if you look at the true classics, the directors just had to be cleverer in how they did it. Look at Double Indemnity, for instance. Also, modern technology does not necessarily make for a more beautiful film. I'm not being deliberately argumentative, I'm just saying that I think these reasons for remaking the classics are flimsy. I would much prefer to see the potentially great but imperfect remade rather than trying to improve on films that can't be improved on in any way like The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three or Psycho.
  10. The ending was just added by the studio, though. That's still not a reason to remake it. For the record, I'm not against remakes either - one of my favourite films, The Thing, is a remake. I just massively disagree with "It was made during the Hays Code era so let's remake it with added sex and violence" theory.
  11. Because they were fine the way they were. I'm not sure what a modern remake of Freaks would bring to the table that the original didn't possess. Also, what shitty directors are you referring to? Isn't this also a problem in this day and age? I don't really understand what point you're making.
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