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Re: Mayhem TV Club
« Reply #250 on: July 16, 2020, 11:17:33 am »


I saw a end of a venerable  British ITV comedy the other day,   'Bless this House', with Sid James & Diana Coupland....

Sid says to his son:
" Here's a pound, take him to the pictures. And don't forget the change.'


... £1 ????? Was the Odeon ever that cheap... for Two?!

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7f0n2i


The local fleepit where I lived was, I seem to remember, 1 shilling and 6 old pence for a half price child (7.5p)
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« Reply #251 on: July 16, 2020, 11:24:27 am »


I saw a end of a venerable  British ITV comedy the other day,   'Bless this House', with Sid James & Diana Coupland....

Sid says to his son:
" Here's a pound, take him to the pictures. And don't forget the change.'


... £1 ????? Was the Odeon ever that cheap... for Two?!

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7f0n2i

Google reckons £1 in 1971 (TV series) was worth about £15 in todays value, so I reckon it would have been quite possible as there was probably not the rip-off priced food available.

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« Reply #252 on: July 16, 2020, 12:23:25 pm »

Don't lose sight of the fact that that pound was to cover the price of TWO seats (Sid's son and whoever 'him' was) and, yes, there would still be change (about 6 shillings, or 30p). This is quite fascinating https://www.terramedia.co.uk/reference/statistics/cinema/cinema_ticket_prices_1.htm
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« Reply #253 on: July 16, 2020, 01:33:40 pm »

1971 a a long time after I was talking about! (unfortunately)  {:-{ :(( {:-{ .
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« Reply #254 on: July 16, 2020, 03:21:36 pm »

yep I remember the 1/6d's and 1/9's   if you were flush or wanted to impress a girl the 2/3d's in the circle.  %)


geez I feel old {:-{


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« Reply #255 on: July 16, 2020, 04:47:29 pm »

My cultural upbringing in the '50's was the New Ritz opposite the Central Pier of a Saturday evening.  Continuous showing cartoons, get in early with your 1/6d and stay until closing. 
Anybody remember "Orange Maid" lollys at the interval?  A tanner for the flush.  Probably loaded with what would now be illegal additives, but they were very orange.
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« Reply #256 on: July 16, 2020, 06:33:04 pm »

Yep Orange Maid lollies and we had an orange drink "Kia ora" at what was know locally as the Bug Hutch. O0


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Re: Mayhem Film Club
« Reply #257 on: July 17, 2020, 05:53:15 pm »


Describe your favourite Film as boring as possible, we'll try to guess the Title!


E.g:  Spaceship crew stops to collect eggs. The new pet ruins dinner and proves to be poorly socialized.

        Whiny kid learns hokey old religion and saves the galaxy.

        A homeless teenage draws a nude of spoiled rich woman but drowns in the end.

        A TV reporter wake up and it's the same day as yesterday.
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« Reply #258 on: July 17, 2020, 07:42:45 pm »

A mans Christmas is completely ruined picking the wife up from the airport.
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« Reply #259 on: July 17, 2020, 07:56:39 pm »



Africa 1879: 2 British army officers argue about seniority
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« Reply #260 on: July 17, 2020, 08:05:56 pm »

An elderly man takes his grand-daughter and her teachers in to a blue box and fights some dustbins with serious inferiority complexions.
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« Reply #261 on: July 17, 2020, 09:01:45 pm »

A mans Christmas is completely ruined picking the wife up from the airport.

  Die Hard?
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« Reply #262 on: July 17, 2020, 09:03:44 pm »


An elderly man takes his grand-daughter and her teachers in to a blue box and fights some dustbins with serious inferiority complexions.

Dr Who... the film with the great Bernard Cribbins!
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« Reply #263 on: July 17, 2020, 09:35:19 pm »


Africa 1879: 2 British army officers argue about seniority


Zulu??
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« Reply #264 on: July 17, 2020, 10:07:55 pm »


  Die Hard?



No, that's "A mans Christmas is completely ruined after he makes fists with his toes."
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« Reply #265 on: July 18, 2020, 10:42:35 am »

Star wars - Die hard (yep got that one) - Alien - Titanic - groundhog day
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« Reply #266 on: July 18, 2020, 10:51:24 am »

Over protective father with scary friends, objects to a backpacker getting involved with his daughter
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« Reply #267 on: July 18, 2020, 06:56:48 pm »

Over protective father with scary friends, objects to a backpacker getting involved with his daughter

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Re: Mayhem Film Club
« Reply #268 on: July 29, 2020, 05:55:33 am »

Anyone seen 'Greyhound" yet?   Typical 'America saves the world'    %%
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« Reply #269 on: July 29, 2020, 09:09:20 am »

Hi BrianB6
Watched Greyhound which was OK, but I wish my destroyer turns that good !!!
Some of weapons were not around at the timing which it was set in !!!

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« Reply #270 on: July 29, 2020, 09:23:35 am »

Yes watched Greyhound,  Just like the Americans Film makers to change history, thought it was rubbish, Just like the U 571 film.
typical supper hero captain that can avoid Multiple torpedo attacks, collision with cargo ships and still survive to Win the war single handed.
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« Reply #271 on: July 29, 2020, 09:26:03 am »

I've not seen the whole movie but I've watched lots of chunks - and it has that standard annoying feature of all American action films - everything happens at just arms length -  the ships and the subs can almost touch each other during the action.    No standing off a few thousand yards and firing, it's all close up - and yes, the turning circle of the destroyer is impressive!.         I guess a 5-minute torpedo run would sort of kill the intensity, but it's just like Godzilla, where Apache helicopters are in so close for no reason that the monster can swat them.   


I also don't like the cgi - there's something really fake about it - almost like an oil painting - can't quite put my finger on it - I guess the whole film is a cgi technology demonstrator - just like the Polar Express.   
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« Reply #272 on: July 29, 2020, 09:30:52 am »

  Taken?


Nope - more of an animated series than Liam's performances
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« Reply #273 on: July 29, 2020, 09:36:32 am »

From the adverts for the film Greyhound, it has all the hallmarks of being in the same genre as pearl harbour and midway, completely improbable charateristics of the vehicles (planes etc) and explosions that are fireballs and not masses of smoke as in actual life
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« Reply #274 on: July 29, 2020, 10:14:38 am »

Hi Plastic, when I watched B.O. midway I felt the same.  I think that what is wrong is that there are distance shots in which there is too much detail, there are some things you do not see from a distance.
Another thing that makes me smile is when the look-out calls down to the bridge and points out something that must have been in view for at least 5 minutes.
I shall look out for Greyhound but might wait a while before going back to the cinema.
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