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🎄CHRISTMAS TV FILM WATCH 2020 🎅

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  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,779
    carly burn said:
    Revanent is a great film.
    Agreed . A lot of people are sniffy about it but I loved it .
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,067
    Bedsaddick said:
    carly burn said:
    Revanent is a great film.
    Agreed . A lot of people are sniffy about it but I loved it .
    Me too 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,837
    WHAddick said:
    You cant beat Predator...one of my favourites
    Arnie did!

    It's a Loony Tunes ending - they had no idea how to finish of the Predator and someone came up with the idea of doing like Wiley Coyote, etc.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,837
    RodneyCharltonTrotta said:
    JiMMy 85 said:
    Rocky IV is simultaneously the worst and the greatest Rocky movie of all time. I love it. Went and saw at the cinema a few weeks back. 

    It's the worst because it's directly out of the MTV generation. It's like 5 pop videos stitched together. During the No Easy Way Out montage (a song that Robert Tepper pretended he had written for the movie, but had in fact completed a few months earlier, and it's about his divorce, not a boxer who lost a friend), Rocky has a series of flashbacks, going back about ten years, and he even reminisces about the scene before he got in the car and started reminiscing. Also, Paulie's robot. He manages to reprogram AI in a way no human has before or since. Interestingly, there's some guy who was making these robots to help autistic children. Stallone found out about them and felt compelled to write them into his movie. 

    Stallone is, as I type, creating a new version of Rocky IV so he can remove the robot and add some unseen footage. It could very well make Rocky IV the greatest movie of all time. 

    Anyway, out of that list, I am voting for Drive. 

    He's an interesting character Stallone.  Think he was living on the breadline and sold his dog to make ends meet for another week or two. Then his script for Rocky was picked up and he was paid fortunes and he bought his dog back (for way over the odds) who appears as his dog Butkus in the film.

    Won an oscar didn't it?  Amazing bunch of films although not a huge fan of the the last one and the first Creed one.
    A friend of mine had a stall at an antiques fair, around 20 years ago now.  This bloke came up and said he'd take a particular piece (£20,000 worth) and could it be delivered to his hotel?  Then he left the hotel name and room number and walked off.  My friend was a bit nonplussed until someone pointed out the customer was Stallone.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,993
    Bedsaddick said:
    carly burn said:
    Revanent is a great film.
    Agreed . A lot of people are sniffy about it but I loved it .
    I really liked it - classic slow burning Western.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,837
    Bedsaddick said:


    SUNDAY 20th of DECEMBER 


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    2.30PM            -              CHANNEL 4        -          WHITE CHRISTMAS  



    5.50PM            -               BBC 2                  -           CATCH ME IF YOU CAN 



    7.00PM             -               ITV 2                  -            UNCLE BUCK 







    On Demand      -               NETFLIX          -           MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM



    5.45PM              -              SKY DOCUMENTARIES           -          SENNA       ( Recommended film of the day)



    9.00PM             -               SKY CINEMA THRILLER          -         AMERICAN GANGSTER 


    Senna is one of the great documentaries.  Ms AA has no interest in cars (hers is blue, that's about all she could tell you about it) but was engrossed in Senna from start to finish.  Like Jaws isn't about a shark [(c) Mark Kermode], Senna isn't about racing cars.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,837
    Athletico Charlton said:
    I watched My Uncle Frank last night on Prime.  It was a really good watch.  Chosen at random with no research and definitely lucked out.
    If you mean Uncle Frank (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11327514/), yes, that's well worth a watch.  The young woman in it, Sophia Lillis, is in I Am Not Okay with This, a good sci-fi mini-series on Netflix.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,837
    Thanks for the thread, @Bedsaddick, I've enjoyed it every Christmas you've done it, even if I don't agree with all your choices.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,779


    TUESDAY 22nd of DECEMBER 



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    2.15PM           -           BBC 2             -                 THE SEARCHERS



    10.00PM           -           ITV 4               -              THE WOLF OF WALL STREET




    10.40PM            -              BBC1              -             COLLATERAL      ( Recommended film of the day)







    On Demand        -             NETFLIX                 -                     THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME



    8.00PM               -             SKY MOVIES CHRISTMAS            -          TRADING PLACES 



    10.00PM             -             SKY MOVIES THRILLER              -            SCARFACE



  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,271
    Another set of big hitters and a great shout fir film of the day when the easy thing to do would be to chuck out the red meat of scarface or wolf of Wall Street 

    Collateral is a very cool film 

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  • orpingtonRED
    orpingtonRED Posts: 3,474
    Trading Places for me, think its brilliant. Not seen it for about 10yrs so am looking forward to that. Learning to appreciate simple pleasures during lockdown.
    Collateral is a great film so will watch that too if I can stay awake.

  • The_Organiser
    The_Organiser Posts: 3,999
    Unbroken was a good shout too Beds.

    Not that I’ll get a chance to watch any with a 4 month old at the moment.
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,376
    I’ve never seen Scarface, tonight I will.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,067
    charltonkeston said:
    I’ve never seen Scarface, tonight I will.
    Great film 
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,889
    charltonkeston said:
    I’ve never seen Scarface, tonight I will.
    Must be the mafia impact, but that even reads as quite threatening:-) 
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,773
    Does anybody know when or if National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is on this year? My mum likes it and i'd like to let her know when she can watch it.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,779
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    Does anybody know when or if National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is on this year? My mum likes it and i'd like to let her know when she can watch it.
    ITV 4 - Christmas Day - 9 o’clock 
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,773
    Bedsaddick said:
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    Does anybody know when or if National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is on this year? My mum likes it and i'd like to let her know when she can watch it.
    ITV 4 - Christmas Day - 9 o’clock 
    Thanks
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,837
    edited December 2020
    The Searchers is not only John Wayne's finest film, it's one of the greatest Westerns.  Actually, scratch that, it's one of the greatest films - it being Western is just the hook on which to hang the story.  I remember watching it at about 12, 13 years of age and being profoundly moved.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,993
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    Does anybody know when or if National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is on this year? My mum likes it and i'd like to let her know when she can watch it.
    It's on Prime apart from that I think.

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  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,837
    Trading Places is probably Eddie Murphy's best bit of acting.  It's a shame he then just turned out mostly dross after that, with the notable exception of Dolemite is My Name.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,779


    WEDNESDAY 23RD of DECEMBER  


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    2.15PM              -             BBC 2         -           CASABLANCA 



    10.00PM            -             BBC 2         -           PHANTOM THREAD



    11.00PM             -            PARAMOUNT NETWORK        -          THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS 








    4.20PM               -            SKY MOVIES ACTION              -             BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID 



    9.45PM               -            SKY MOVIES PREMIERE          -             CLEMENCY



    10.15PM             -            SKY MOVIES ACTION              -             INGLORIOUS BASTERDS     ( Recommended film of the day)


  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,065
    A fair amount of these films are on Sky Movies/Premiere/Action/Cinema etc.
    I'm hazarding a guess that that the majority of CL don't have these channels, even if it's a 51% majority.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,067
    Love Inglorious Basterds, such a good film 
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,779
    edited December 2020
    Covered End said:
    A fair amount of these films are on Sky Movies/Premiere/Action/Cinema etc.
    I'm hazarding a guess that that the majority of CL don't have these channels, even if it's a 51% majority.
    As I did with the Lockdown film thread in March  I said I would do the first three on freeview and the next three on Satellite/Cable or Streaming services so there is always at least three film recommendations that anyone can see. 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,993
    Casablanca is a great choice, exact type of non-Christmas film I still love watching at Christmas, up there with The Great Escape, The Italian Job etc.
  • Blucher
    Blucher Posts: 4,146
    edited December 2020
    Some excellent films in Beds’ list, including Phantom Thread which, for me, was by some distance, the best film of 2017. Tremendous depth and outstanding performances from Daniel Day-Lewis and the great Lesley Manville.
  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,345
    Is phantom thread anything to do with @bertpalmer missing survey 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,837
    Bedsaddick said:
    Covered End said:
    A fair amount of these films are on Sky Movies/Premiere/Action/Cinema etc.
    I'm hazarding a guess that that the majority of CL don't have these channels, even if it's a 51% majority.
    As I did with the Lockdown film thread in March  I said I would do the first three on freeview and the next three on Satellite/Cable or Streaming services so there is always at least three film recommendations that anyone can see. 
    Unless they haven't got a telly.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,837
    I will be in Guy's having an ultrasound scan otherwise I'd be all over Casablanca.

    The Marx Brothers did a film called A Night in Casablanca.  Warner Bros, who made Bogart's film, tried to stop them using the name Casablanca in their film title, claiming some kind of ownership of the name.  Groucho sent them a letter pointing out, with very heavy sarcasm, how stupid they were being and no more was heard from WB.  Sadly, A Night... is a low point of the Marx Brothers oeuvre, the joke at the start with Harpo leaning on a wall is funny and it goes down hill rapidly from there.  If you haven't seen it, don't bother.

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