Do you think MI6 still have lamplighters, ferrets, inquisitors, scalphunters and wranglers?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Or do they use businessspeak these days? I bet they do. I bet all the romance has been stripped away from it.

Everything gets ruined :-(

[Brentwood]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3144066/Not-secret-s ignal-Rainbow-flag-pictured-flying-outside-MI6-headquarters- support-LGBT-community.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3144066/Not-secret-signal-Rainbow-flag-pictured-flying-outside-MI6-headquarters-support-LGBT-community.html)

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

bumming a choirboy if you're down with the bending?

As I may have said before, everything gets ruined.

[Berni]

if you can't glam it up a bit? You might as well work for the council.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

One forgets just how f**king good they are.

I'm into Tinker Tailor now. :cloud9:

[Berni]

blackmailed. Just coming out with it like that's a bit off.

[Berni]

Guinness isn't in it. Although Tom Hardy's wig when he's being Ricky Tarr is a disgrace

http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq7plfR19J1qe5f96o1_500.jpg

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

was that Peter Guillam was claimed to be a bumder, when we know the exact opposite was true!

[Classic Jorge]

And *everyone* who writes any sort of code is out of their gourd on the finest dark web cannabis.

I tell you, espionage is not what it used to be

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Long-haired bloody layabouts. National service, that's what they need.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

You couldn't have had Michael Jayston as a bumder. There would have been rioting.

Also, Gerry Westerby was all wrong being played by thon little scouse fella.

I always liked Fawn. Fawn was a good, honest-to-goodness psychopath who liked breaking people's arms.

[Luis Anaconda]

Can. Thought that showed a bit of imagination.


Also the security services are now hiring these people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMb-RrhTxIE


Not sure about Leto as the Joker but the crazy girl :love:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

His relationship with Bill Roach was extremely wrong.

[Berni]

I've assume Prideaux was loosely based on that Nicholas whatshisface who was best mates with Philby and somehow refused to believe old Kim was a traitor.

[Supermac1976]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Quite excellent and, at times, quite hilariously funny; SIS certainly employed some characters back in the day.

I like McIntyre.

[Berni]

The thing that really strikes you about the intelligence services in the old days was how ferociously pissed they were the whole time.

Philby seems to have been permanently wasted.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

And yes, Margot Robbie is extremely attractive. Also very naked in The Wolf of Wall Street :titsup:

[Luis Anaconda]

though strangely I did like him in the aforementioned film. I'm basically still scarred from Titanic WHICH IS **** :furious:

[Classic Jorge]

https://45.media.tumblr.com/82a98ba71d60495ae0789aa876429f7f/tumblr_n0cpp9fflP1sia4voo1_400.gif

[Luis Anaconda]

[Classic Jorge]

Really, really f**king good filum.

[Classic Jorge]

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1vShteIpmDk/hqdefault.jpg

[Luis Anaconda]

[Berni]

psychopaths.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

8/10.

Also recently watched The Martian 8.5/10 and The Big Short 8/10.

Next week i shall be grading The Hateful Eight and Legend.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

He just wanders around looking cold and pissed off, basically. And Tom Hardy is virtually incomprehensible.

The bear stole that film if you ask me.

[Classic Jorge]

Scorsese is basically all morally broken phycho/sociopaths though.

Rewatched Mean Streets and the first couple of series of Boardwalk Empire recently :cloud9:

[Berni]

It goes on for days and takes half an hour to even get started.

And Samuel L Jackson plays Samuel L Jackson again. And Tim Roth still can't really act.

[Classic Jorge]

Also, Legerned?

http://i.imgur.com/YdBTcNw.gif

[Berni]

[Berni]

http://www.movie-vault.com/ckeditor/images/userfiles/images/bear.jpg

[Classic Jorge]

Even when he tries they always end up like Nelson van Alden in Boardwalk.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

understand a word, his Russian accent in Child 44 forced me to use subtitles, and i've read some reviews that say he's hard to understand in Legend.

[Classic Jorge]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Berni]

people and actually give some idea of how awful they are.

A good example would be Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant, in which the protagonist's awfulness is not played for thrills and laughs.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Berni]

[Supermac1976]

[Classic Jorge]

I always find that with Scorsese films it's rarely that sympathetic. Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Casino, Mean Streets and all the other scorsese-up-to-11 films always end up with comeuppance/imasculation for the main guy, which leaves you feeling slightly guilty for being seduced by the whole business in the first place.

In that sense they're all morality tales.

[Brentwood]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9eY-kKXBnQ#t=0m30s

[Berni]

the nasty **** these people do to the absolute maximum and then cops out by putting some sort of nemesis on at the end. It's dishonest film-making.

Tarantino just makes live-action cartoons. I don't regard his characters as inhabiting a moral universe at all.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

been nominated for an acting award and lost out to Danny Dyer :hehe:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3409402/Danny-D yer-pays-tribute-parents-conceiving-NTA-acceptance-speech.ht ml#comments (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3409402/Danny-Dyer-pays-tribute-parents-conceiving-NTA-acceptance-speech.html#comments)

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

Ever since I moved up north people have been comparing me to him, I makes me pwopah angwee.

[Brentwood]

https://twitter.com/MrDDyer/status/658768537671049216

[Berni]

By 'moral', I obviously mean 'Catholic', :hehe:

[Classic Jorge]

I'm so flabbergasted I cant even bring myself to take you up on Coppola here. Though I do think his Dracula is one of the most underrated films ever, like a lost Hammer film it is.

Did you see the Rich Hall documentary on westerns? Made me rewatch a few, then I could stomach no more. It's very much the lining of the moral fabric of the US though, which explains a lot.

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

Cinematically, yeah, pretty good but morally ambiguous isnt the bloody word.

I watched Shane too, and I tried to watch Paint Your Wagon but, quite frankly, f**k that ****.

[Ashberto]

had a Queen soundtrack. :-( Some of us are quite sensitive about being exposed to that sort of content.

[Berni]

John.

The Left-Handed Gun, Ulzana's Raid, Red River, Day of The Outlaw - these, my friend, are great westerns.