General Chat

Afternoon folks

It's like winter here in north Norfolk! Not going far today.

I'm going to watch a film this afternoon on Channel 4, The Gentle Sex. It's about seven women from different backgrounds who are brought together as volunteers in the Auxiliary Territorial service during WW2. They all become good pals during training and on assignment driving military transports and operating anti aircraft guns. I've seen it before on telly and it was one of my dad's favourites too. Real good old fashioned British drama. the lovely Lilli palmer is in it too.

They speak in that lovely old fashion posh way too. "Heppy Darling?"

Hello all,

No I haven't seen I am Legend - not read the book either (there you go Nicky - one you beat me on!) The ball is out for me on Will Smith - personally, I can take him or leave him; liked him in I, Robot (excellent collection of short stories by Isaac Asimov), but tend to shy away from his comedy films.

Yes, Pam, I agree Ray was a deserving winner last night - but unlike your OH, I think he just seems to be a nice young man who is confident in his abilities. If anyone on that show has a face you want to smack then it's Jason Gardiner!

Shocking about Natasha Richardson - I always said skiing was a dangerous pastime (can't see the appeal of strapping a couple of fence posts to your feet and hurling yourself down a snow-covered mountain myself, but there you go). Also sad about Jade Goody; like you Nicky I wasn't a fan either but I feel for her kids more than anything.

Studying like nobody's business at the moment - still on track for sitting exam 1.

Need to start thinking about films again Pam; we're starting to go off-thread!

Hi all, yes remember the name No Hiding Place but don't recall watching it.

Not really in to Will Smith, another one I can't take to...oh I am a fickle old bird!! I had a nice Mother's Day thanks Nicky, my son popped round with his girlfriend for a while and my daughter is still at home so it was like a usual Sunday. Hope you had a good day with your girls.

a deserving winner in Dancing on Ice, but as my hubby says he has got the sort of face you want to smack...such aggression! Shame Jessica didn't get to do The bolero.

Sad about Jade goody, wasn't a big fan but any death of a young woman is sad and very unfair.

Been painting a fair bit, really enjoying it too. Must start to think of some more good films though!

Yes David, know what you mean, Michael Caine always plays the same sort of charecter in the same way.....he making a new film at the moment for release later in the year, I saw it on film 2009 the other day, as usuual he was wearing a beige mac......... do you think its his? rather than part of the costumes departments for all his films?

sorry David don`t recall No hiding Place...was it a British production?

Yes Pam, very sad about Natasha Richardson.......and a bit of a freak accident by all accounts.

Watched the Will Smith film I am Legend on Sky last night, not for the squeamish, but was quite good, Will Smith was very good in it, and as I always say.... Pleasing on the eye......... Just loved the German Sheperd dog in it, he stole the show. Have any of you seen it?......i think its adapted from a book, sure you`ll know all about that Ed......

Its the Dancing On Ice final tonight, think Ray Quinn is bound to win, he`s very good but just SO smug, that I can`t take to him .....he seems to make a lot of people feel like that, I didn`t like him on the Xfactor either, and couldn`t beleive he made the final 2!!.

Nicky

and a Happy Mothers Day Pam........from one mum to another, have a good one xx


Nicky
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Humphrey Bogart as a tank commander in a film called SAHARH

I recommend it, certainly worth viewing

Evening folks, yes an exellent film Get Carter.


Watched Kind Hearts and Coronets on telly this week, think we've mentioned it before on this thread. alec Guinness is so good in that film.

Didn't really waych Callen on telly, think I was out gallavanting as my dad used to say...going out with my friends and chatting to boys !!

Very sad about the beautiful Natasha Richardson.

Michael Caine has made many films but to me he always seems to be Michael Caine not the character in the film, if you understand me.

But in Get Carter he excelled

Anyone remember an early TV detective series called No Hiding Place ?

Was it Raymond Francis played Chief Inspector Lockheart ?

And Edward Woodward was a talented singer

Evening all,

I just had to google Callan to find out who played "Lonely" - 'twas Russell Hunter.

Really enjoyed "Flesh and Blood" last Saturday - well worth the £8! I don't remember there being quite so much brazen debauchery when I first saw it though.

I think they should make more films set in what I would call "unpopular" periods of history- there was a lot of good yarns in history during the late 15th/early 16th centuries - I'd love to see someone make a film about the old Zurich War, especially the battle of St Jakob an der Birs where 1500 Swiss pikemen fought a French army of over 20000. Needless to say the Swiss lost - they fought to the last man (very rare in those days), but they caused so many French casualties that the French withdrew.

RIght bunch of nutters the Swiss were - when facing the enemy, the first man to panic would be hung by his comrades!

Hi All....... Yes i remember Callan vaguely like you Ed, but never watched it, I remember him better in the 80s in The Equalizer..... he was a sort of Private eye/do gooder who ended most episodes telling the people he had helped they didn`t have to pay him................. may have been a good actor, but certainly was no businessman lol....

Pam , Your very lucky to have such a gift if you can paint, Iv`e always wished I could draw or paint........ but i`m just not artisitic.

Ed..........Sounds like you need a break....know the end result will be worth it, but sounds such a long hard slog at the moment.


Nicky

Hi all,

Edward Woodward - The WIcker Man - excellent film portraying a well-known Celtic ritual sacrifice.

I (vaguely) remember Edward Woodward as "Callan" on TV. Another excellent series of the 60s/70s. Who was the actor who played "Lonely"? (one to get you going!)

Also, have you ever seen the film with Edward Woodward called Breaker Morant? It's set in the Boer War and is another court-room drama.

I haven't been watching too many films or TV lately either - still studying furiously for my Microsoft exams! (I'm slowly turning into a PC - spend all day at work in front of one, then spend a good deal of the evening studying in front of one, then late at night relaxing in front of one ... I really must get a life!)

Hi Nicky, yes we are a bit unique us Geminis!! We're wired up a bit differently so my husband says, but who want's to be the same as everyone else eh?!

No haven't seen the Billy Conolly programme, think my hubby watches a car programme on sky telly or a war programme at about that time.

Actually i've not been watching much telly lately, I've rekindled an old passion of mine which I've not done for years (sounds dodgey!) it's actually painting. I prefere oils to water colour and also acrylics. I have to say they aren't bad...as my hubby says "You've still got it Pam". I think he means the painting!

Snap Pam... I`m exactly the same, see someone in something, and spend till the end of the programme/film wonderingwhat else they`ve been in, if you can catch their name in the credits it sometimes helps...... must be a Gemini thing!!

Saw Wicker Man many years ago, isn`t that the ritual/tribal/chanting one? a bit creepy as i remember

Have any of you been following the Billy Connely series Voyage to the end of the world on ITV? It finished last Thursday, he went from Nova Scotia up through the North West Passage on the Arctic circle and down to Vancouver Island, it was really intresting, Canada looks an amazing
Country, with breathtaking scenery.....

Nicky

You've a keen eye David!

I''m like that when I see an actor in a film and i don't know his name i ramble on and on saying "Oh he was in that film starring thingamebob and it was called wotsit and he played a character named ...oh what's his name!" and generally get on everyone's wick!!

Edit: Saw the final twenty minutes or so of The Wicker Man last week, oh what an awful ending...poor Edward Woodward.

Did anyone notice in the film The Desert Fox the the senior officer who persuaded Rommell to join the plot to kill Hitler was the actor who played Waverly in the hit TV series Man From Uncle

Hi Ed, if you like Lee Evans you'd love the film The Martins with him and Cathy Burke in it, it's very funny. Ray Winstone has a small part in it too...and as usual he's a right git! Maybe you've seen it, think I've mentioned it before on here.

Hi Pam,

Yes, I'm feeling good at the mo - I think they call it "gallows humour".

I also like the Bridge at Remagen - wasn't Robert Vaughan the German Officer in charge of holding the bridge? Also, was it George Segal who played Mikey's father in "Look Who's Talking?"

Ed

Lol ED...alwalooking!! You seem in good spirits Ed !

Thought of you the other evening, that film that we spoke about with Tommy Lee Jones, The Eyes of Laura Marr's I think wasn't it? Well it was on the othewr night, bit too late for me though.

EDIT: There you are you've got me at now...otherwr...??? ☺

Yes David a very good film Bridge at Remagen, a good old winter's Sunday afternoon film.

Just Googled George Segal...he's 75!! apparantly he did something in 2005 entitled My Wife's a Retard!! Honest! ... Not very PC is it.

My favourite war film is Bridge at Remagen
A true story well acted with strong cast


What became of George Segal the film's star ?