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Film Club or Goggle box? - votes please!

Lotus

The second week of my new film club was Enigma (2001 film) and it got more interest than the first week but still no reviews of the film yet - I think only one person apart from me watched it?

A suggestion has been put forward that maybe we should have a vote on what to watch. If you want to vote on a movie, I have 3 to choose from which are all available for free on the channel 4 app. They are:

Team America - World Police (2004) - A South Park style homage to Thunderbirds (Warning - bad language)

Dr Who and the Daleks (1965) - Nostalgic Dr Who in black & white

The Land That Time Forgot (1974) - Dinosaurs!

If you are interested in watching and discussing one of the films above, please let me have your vote. But if people aren't interested in a Film Club like this, the other option is to have a "Goggle Box" thread where people post  a review of what they watched each week. So if you prefer that, let me know.

 In the words of Janine when answering the Ghostbusters reception phone: "Whad'a'ya want?"

  • in reply to Lotus

    Thank you, no problem, loved watching it!

    Yes lol!!! Laughing It's like the early Doctor Whos, I've slowly been collecting them on DVD and they are really funny sometimes, like in one I saw this 'Cyberman' but you could see the man behind the eye pieces. I love it though, so unique for the time. And shows how far such effects have come now.

  • in reply to Piper

    Thanks for the review   - very good picture too!

    It is interesting to see how movie effects started, and some of the scenes were actually quite funny, like when someone was carried off by a pteradactyl and as it flew away you could see it was a puppet man in the jaws of a rubber dinosaur figure - ha ha!

  • I really enjoyed this movie!!! Smiley

    It is slow to get going... I guess they had to set the scene/build character relationships. Once the characters get to the action though it's pretty fast paced if you can see past the fakeness. The dinosaurs are what they are - don't expect Jurassic Park dinosaurs as they aren't even close. Lol. Laughing It's an old movie and very low-budget, you have to bear that in mind with this movie.

    I do love Doug McClure in this. Overall the cast is pretty basic with the wooden acting you’d expect in a low budget, having said that I think they all did pretty good considering. Doug McClure is my favourite actor in this movie, he’s also in At The Earth’s Core – another low budget by the same director, Kevin Connor.

    Possible future movie suggestion?  

    I give it a solid and well deserved 8/10 - mostly because I love nearly every film I've ever seen but I'm a fan of dinosaurs and movies/movie effects. I find everything about movies fun and interesting.

  • My review of the land that time forgot:

    This was very slow to start (they didn't get to the land until nearly half way through!) and there was a lot of fighting between the English and the Germans on the U boat that blew up their ship. The dinosaurs were a bit of a disappointment - just shows how far animation improved between then and Jurassic Park. To be fair they didn't have CGI then, but the models looked like kids toys and movement wasn't realistic. I didn't really understand the "scientific explanation" that was given for why there was life at all stages of evolution living in one undiscovered place. To sum up: wooden acting and rubber dinosaurs made for a poor film. 5 /10.

    Going forward, I will start a new "Goggle Box" thread each weekend and post my "film of the week" on it. Then anyone can post about what they watch that week (anything, not just films)

  • (As I couldn't find anything on Goggle Box this week which I wanted to watch).

    BBC Radio 4

    Language City by Ross Perlin

    www.bbc.co.uk/.../m0029zfl

    Book of the Week.

    Linguist Ross Perlin is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history - contemporary New York.

    Ross Perlin is a linguist who teaches at Columbia University in New York and co-director of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance.

    Each episode is broadcast twice on BBC Radio 4 and available on iPlayer after broadcast.

    Episodes (each episode is of duration: 14 minutes):

    1) Rasmina - From highland Nepal, who speaks Seke.

    Rasmina, a nurse who is one of the youngest people in the world who can speak Seke - a language from five villages in highland Nepal, near Tibet. It has 700 speakers, and over 100 of them have moved to a single building in Brooklyn.

    2) Husniya - From Tajikstan, who speaks Wakhi.

    Husniya, who comes from a remote high-mountain region of Tajikistan. Her language is Wakhi, and at times she’s been the only person in New York who can speak it. She keeps her language alive by talking to her mother on the phone.

    3) Boris - Yiddish writer Boris Sandler.

    Boris grew up in Soviet Moldova and made a living as a professional violinist before coming to New York in 1991.

    4) Irwin - Mexican chef Irwin, who speaks Nahuatl.

    Nahautl was spoken by the Aztecs, and it remains the most widely-spoken of Mexico’s 282 indigenous languages.

    5) Karen - One of the last speakers of Lenape.

    Karen, who grew up on the Munsee Reserve in Canada and moved to New York, where she became one of the last speakers of Lenape.

    Background:

    29/08/2024 - Languages are disappearing. SOAS alum Ross Perlin is part of the fight to preserve them - SOAS Blog / Interview (plus a photograph of the book front cover):

    www.soas.ac.uk/.../languages-are-disappearing-soas-alum-ross-perlin-part-fight-preserve-them

  • in reply to Lotus

    Title: The Land That Time Forgot.

    Year: 1974.

    Duration: 1 Hour 27 Minutes.

    Director: Kevin Connor.

    Filming Locations: Shepperton Studios, Surrey, UK and some of the "landscapes of Caprona" were filmed in a disused claypit in Reading, Berkshire, UK.

    Genre: Dinosaur Adventure / Adventure. / Fantasy / Sci-Fi.

    Certificate: PG.

    Actors Include: Doug McClure, John McEnery, Keith Barron, Susan Penhaligon, Anthony Ainley and Declan Mulholland.

    Summary: Survivors from a torpedoed First World War ship get marooned on a legendary land in the Atlantic where dinosaurs roam.

    Based upon the 1918 novel;

    "The Land That Time Forgot"

    by: Edgar Rice Burroughs.

    Streaming: via Channel 4 On Demand:

    www.channel4.com/.../18850-001

  • So, by popular demand The Land That Time Forgot is the "Film of the week", so if you watch it please post a review.

    If you're not interested in that film, please tell us what you've watched recently (Film or TV programme) as it seems a "Goggle Box" type thread will get more responses.

    Look forward to hearing from you!

  • Please please please the land that time forgot! :)

    I've got a big interest in dinosaurs... and extinct things in general. I love the idea of things that haven't been around for billions of years, it's interesting, makes me wonder what it would have been like back then, like with dinosaurs and during Egyptian times, Vikings etc. That's why I love things like archaeology, looking deeply in to the past can tell us so much.

    Sorry I'm derailing your thread!

    I look forward to what you choose, all the films are amazing so I'm happy either way!

  • I’m overly fussy and I don’t watch many films, partly because I don’t like many films but also because I can get distracted. I would be more open to the Goggle Box idea, but I don’t always watch much TV except some dramas and documentaries. 

  • The goggle box thing would suit me better but happy with either. I quite like the land that time forgotGrinning