Film Fanatics Society - Chat Thread

I haven't actually watched Tron yet. Haven't really had time, and don't want to watch it if it's not in the IMAX. I think I'm going to see it next week.

I guess it's always a possibility that it could be rebooted, but I'd struggle to see how they'd drastically improve on the first film (compared to Potter, which could easily be improved in 20 years with better child actors and being able to take more liberties with the story).

Discworld books are pretty much make up the majority of fiction I read now and I've read a fair few. I don't really like the first two that much, so I probably wouldn't recommend starting at the beginning. My favourite characters are a journalist (The Truth, which would be a pretty good starting point) and a reformed conman turned postman/minter (Going Postal, Making Money).

This is a pretty good reading order guide, pick a topic you like a look of and dive in. The Industrial Revolution is my favourite, so you'd start at Moving Pictures (which is about films, so would be a good starting point for a fanatic ) and then move onto The Truth, Monstrous Regiment (which is probably my favourite book, it's a fantastic story) before Going Postal and Making Money. Pretty good introduction to some of the very best he has to offer.

http://www.lspace.org/books/reading-order-guides/the-discworld-reading-order-guide-20.jpg

I've always toyed with the idea of DDL as Aragorn, ever since there was an article in Empire a few years back about how Viggo seemed to be born for the role. I frigging love Viggo as Aragorn, I do I do.

But DDL as Hawkeye...GOSH. Forget Orlando, DDL is where it's at:

Sorry for the spam, but he's my man crush.

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I was not a fan of Avatar at all.
I thought the story line was a cliché (typical James Cameron) and very predictable. The visual effects were outstanding of course but that did not make the film enjoyable.
Does anyone else agree ?

Avatar sucked balls. Didn't help I saw it after the massive hype machine, caught it on BluRay. It looked great but it had no substantive story really and was about an hour too long.

On a slight tangent, have you watched The Road or A History Of Violence?

I'm trying to catch up on films I missed over the year. I seem to have completely ignored Catherine Keener's recent career - Please Give looks really good, and I have no idea how I missed this:

Also, this has been such a strong year for documentaries, and not even a Michael Moore in sight. Food Inc., Collapse, Countdown to Zero, Inside Job, Waiting for Superman, Restrepo, Catfish... so much good stuff.

Ah! That's why you've been relatively quiet on the Tron front. Thought you were mourning. Was there not talk of a Harry Potter TV series/special episodes? I remember reading that somewhere. It was going to be a darker take on the story itself.

Restrepo is without a doubt the best documentary I've ever seen. Speaking of documentaries, have you seen Last Train Home?

I was a bit underwhelmed by Restrepo, was expecting a lot more. Seen far better documentaries this year, I preferred most of the ones I listed above to it to be honest.

Yeah, I have - that's another which was really powerful.

And speaking of documentaries, how could I forget:

Really good.

I guess it's because I'm biased towards the military. On both sides of my family there is a history of the armed forces and my brother is a Royal Marine medic who will no doubt see front line action in his career, so seeing such a personal account of life in war was extremely powerful and moving for me and I haven't seen any other documentary that's affected me as much.

Prince Caspian anyone?

I was not a fan of Avatar at all.
I thought the story line was a cliché (typical James Cameron) and very predictable. The visual effects were outstanding of course but that did not make the film enjoyable.
Does anyone else agree ?

Titanic was a good James Cameron film (I know many disagree) but mostly because he had the back story of an actual event to keep the overly used Romeo and Juliet story from becoming dull.

They opened the hatch.



Ah! That's why you've been relatively quiet on the Tron front. Thought you were mourning. Was there not talk of a Harry Potter TV series/special episodes? I remember reading that somewhere. It was going to be a darker take on the story itself.

Fanks very much. I've heard a lot of people discuss and recommend Discworld. Haven't had time for books with films but I like delving deep into fantasy and science fiction. From reading around, many of the books are parodies of various elements of our society? That sounds good. Fantasy mixed with a bit of satire/parody. Saved the link. I think I'll go on your recommendation and start reading Moving Pictures and make my way to Making Money.



Not bad. Though, that said, Viggo has a certain weathered and rough look about him.

On a slight tangent, have you watched The Road or A History Of Violence?

Haven't seen many DDL films, which would you recommend?

Lol, you read that when me and unknownking were discussing how good it would be purely hypothetically.



Yeah, they started off as parody mixed with fantasy but they've evolved into much more. Monstrous Regiment is probably the best example of this, it's not really parody at all but pure social commentary.

Moving Pictures is great, particularly if you're interested in film. It's set in Holy Wood.

You didn't recommend any Vimes books! How could you? I mean, sure, he shows up briefly in Monstrous Regiment, but what about Night Watch, or Jingo?