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Watched The Cooler (2003)
Its a decent watch
William H. Macy plays a man who works at a casino whos an 'unlucky bloke' :pac: So unlucky that its his actual job. If a person is winning big at the casino its his duty to make sure they start loosing. Just by being near them :pac:
But of course he meets a girl Could say more but don't wanna spoil the story.
Have to say, I'm amazed to hear of anyone liking this movie. It's on my all-time biggest going-to-the-cinema mistakes list...
People were leaving the theatre in their droves 25 minutes in, I remember just laughing my way through it with my then GF at the sheer ridiculousness of it...
But, that's the beauty of movies... one man's trash, another man's treasure...0 -
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For the night that was in it I made myself watch "Titanic" (1943) a German WWII propaganda version of the tragedy. I picked up the VHS tape on eBay and it was of surprisingly good quality but could have benefited from subtitles - tricky foreigners! Apart from the language barriers the movie bumps along as expected until the fateful sinking scenes which aren't quite in the same league as James Cameron's movie. Typically, the Germans aren't satisfied with a string quartet playing as the ship goes down and instead opt for a full orchestra belting it out on deck. As the ship disappears beneath the waves - rapidly - and you wait for some reaction on the lifeboats but instead The End comes up and that's it!
The movie bombed at the few remaining cinemas in wartime Germany and was banned by the authorities who had been behind its production in the first place. The director was arrested and later took his own life in prison. The ship used in the making of the film, the SS "Cap Arcona", came to a bad end itself just two years later when it was sunk by the RAF. More than 5,000 inmates from concentration camps were being transported on the ship and most drowned - a far greater and less well known tragedy than that of the "Titanic". Incidentally, the captain of the "Cap Arcona" didn't go down with his ship!
As a movie I wouldn't recommend it except to serious "Titanic" collectors. 5/100 -
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Judgement Day wrote: »For the night that was in it I made myself watch "Titanic" (1943) a German WWII propaganda version of the tragedy. I picked up the VHS tape on eBay and it was of surprisingly good quality but could have benefited from subtitles - tricky foreigners! Apart from the language barriers the movie bumps along as expected until the fateful sinking scenes which aren't quite in the same league as James Cameron's movie. Typically, the Germans aren't satisfied with a string quartet playing as the ship goes down and instead opt for a full orchestra belting it out on deck. As the ship disappears beneath the waves - rapidly - and you wait for some reaction on the lifeboats but instead The End comes up and that's it!
The movie bombed at the few remaining cinemas in wartime Germany and was banned by the authorities who had been behind its production in the first place. The director was arrested and later took his own life in prison. The ship used in the making of the film, the SS "Cap Arcona", came to a bad end itself just two years later when it was sunk by the RAF. More than 5,000 inmates from concentration camps were being transported on the ship and most drowned - a far greater and less well known tragedy than that of the "Titanic". Incidentally, the captain of the "Cap Arcona" didn't go down with his ship!
As a movie I wouldn't recommend it except to serious "Titanic" collectors. 5/10
The VHS version was supposed to be heavily cut. But there is a fully restored DVD version floating about. I'd say the abrupt ending would still be the same though, more a result of a tricky production than arbitrary cutting.
Contrary to popular opinion, the film was never actually "banned" by Gobbels, just withdrawn from circulation, which I spose amounts to the same thing. It was however officially banned by Germany and many other European countries after the war, with only limited runs on Germany TV.
Strangely enough, there were several shots from 'Titanic' used in 'A Night to Remember', made in the 50's.0 -
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