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Film Club or Goggle box? - votes please!

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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?"

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  • 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.

  • 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!

  • 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.

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  • 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.

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