Gommorah Oscar Dismay

[myabruzzohome]

If you like blood and gore what about 'Man bites Dog' no crashing helicopters but theres a serial killer followed by a fim crew who record every murder.

Yes and its French!Watch it after Gomorrah and you'll feel like your life is a bed of roses!!!

What about Spanish films then? To my mind they seem to combine all that's good in Italian and French cinema. Anyone watched any?

[Sally Donaldson]

Definitely Gala!!!

[Gala Placidia]

There are all sorts of Spanish films, some excellent, some good, some mediocre and some awful. Very good directors like Almodóvar, Amenabar, Garcí just to name a few.
The latest one I've seen which may interest overseas public (another good movie depicting the times of the Civil War may not be for everyone) is "El Escorial Conspiracy" starring quite a few international artists with a Spanish director. I think that the critics did not like it that much, but for those interested in history it is a good movie, based on real events. And visually it is superb.
Conjura de El Escorial, La (2008)

[Ghianda]

Originally Posted by Charles Phillips

On Ghianda, I'm really missing your after dinner post!

Sorry Charles Phillips, but I lost my nerve after I'd posted even though the post had been given the green light by my in house team of reviewers!

[Nielo]

I have just come across this thread and would like to ask a question of those ‘in the know’ about Hollywood films.

Why is it considered acceptable for actors with English accents to almost always be the bad guy?

It doesn’t matter what structure or profundity or whatever when, if I am watching an American film (or TV programme), as soon as I hear an English accent I know that character is either the bad guy or is portrayed as a fool.

Personally I don’t think it does much for Anglo American relations.

And while we are at it in 101 Dalmatians, supposedly set in England how on earth did they make such a glaring and fundamental error as to have raccoons…yes racoons!!! As part of the English countryside wild life!


Rant over

[English teacher]

Maybe whoever it was who decided Gomorrah wouldn't make it had the same problem I did: I couldn't follow all the stories at the same time as reading the subtitles. I could understand about 1/4 of the dialogue, - enough to want to watch, but not enough to understand. So I was busy trying to understand, then reading the subtitles, then losing the plot - literally. A headbang.

[juliancoll]

That's easy to sort out ET - just watch it again.

[Ghianda]

Originally Posted by Nielo

I have just come across this thread and would like to ask a question of those ‘in the know’ about Hollywood films.

Why is it considered acceptable for actors with English accents to almost always be the bad guy?

It doesn’t matter what structure or profundity or whatever when, if I am watching an American film (or TV programme), as soon as I hear an English accent I know that character is either the bad guy or is portrayed as a fool.

Personally I don’t think it does much for Anglo American relations.

And while we are at it in 101 Dalmatians, supposedly set in England how on earth did they make such a glaring and fundamental error as to have raccoons…yes racoons!!! As part of the English countryside wild life!


Rant over

Nielo - welcome and thank you for getting us to 101 Dalmations. To answer your last question first - the production team originally cast skunks, but frankly their acting stank!

[sueflauto]

Originally Posted by English teacher

Maybe whoever it was who decided Gomorrah wouldn't make it had the same problem I did: I couldn't follow all the stories at the same time as reading the subtitles. I could understand about 1/4 of the dialogue, - enough to want to watch, but not enough to understand. So I was busy trying to understand, then reading the subtitles, then losing the plot - literally. A headbang.

Yesterday I was wandering home after an apperitivo and a buying a few bits from Standa when I passed the local theatre which had a free showing of the film. So I popped in and although I "enjoyed" the film, depressing as I found it, I had the same problem. In the interval I discussed this with the people in the adjacent seats, and they'd had similar problems, which made me feel slightly better.

A film to see, but it won't lift the spirits, and really it shows the antithesis of the love of life with with we often associate Italians.