IMPORTANT - Is your Christmas Day routine acceptable?

[Burney]

Christ, I would run a mile from trying to converse with the kind of pompous, smug, pretentious prig who would describe himself as cine-literate!

You voluntarily listen to Mark Kermode.

Here he is using the phrase.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...ing-adaptation

[barrybueno]

The Godfather. Any of them. There are others, I'm sure.

I've never seen any of The Godfather's either, no point now as they couldn't possibly live up to the hype imo

My list of classic movies I haven't seen is amazing/shocking, shame I can't remember any atm

[Sir C]

You voluntarily listen to Mark Kermode.

Here he is using the phrase.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...ing-adaptation

The reasons I wouldn’t converse with him may run into the hundreds.

[Viva Prat Vegas]

Sir C, your reminiscence of a Christmas childhood in which the smell of your Mumsy's mince pies wafted up your fully-functioning nasal passages really touched me
(sniff)

[Burney]

The reasons I wouldn’t converse with him may run into the hundreds.

Well you converse with me and I clearly use it.

It simply means you know yer fillums and that for someone who knows their fillums not to have watched the Godfathers I & II is a fairly massive gap.

[Viva Prat Vegas]

Burney "When Harry Met Sally and Pretty Woman to name but two (actually, most romantic comedies)

And I only saw Die Hard for the first time last Christmas."

Those films are all a bit too modern for me

[Viva Prat Vegas]

Burney, 'fillums' I can just about accept but can you please relent from using the term 'Mammy'?
It reminds me too much of that bloke in drag

[Viva Prat Vegas]

Sorry, I menat 'refrain'

Bloody blocked nose

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

The last romcom I loved (if you can call it that) was The Apartment (partly because it's impossible to watch it without falling passionately in love with Shirley Maclaine).

I'm genuinely shocked that you've never seen The Godfather, btw. How can you conduct normal conversations with other cine-literate adults without having seen The Godfather?

barrister mentions The Rolling Stones in court and His Lordship looks quizzical and says "The Rolling who?"

(I miss Rumpole)

[Sir C]

Well you converse with me and I clearly use it.

It simply means you know yer fillums and that for someone who knows their fillums not to have watched the Godfathers I & II is a fairly massive gap.

It's only a film, old boy. Two films.

You've never seen When Harry Met Sally. Billy Crystal at his wisecracking best? 'Surrey with the fringe on top' on the karaoke machine? That's a massive gap.