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You say tomato......I say tomoto.....you say potato.....i say pototo.....
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so "lets call the whole thing off" la la la la

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now there was a REAL woman! sparky fiery fun-good dancer-NO silicone or plastic face fillers on HER!
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Jessica-Red wrote:so "lets call the whole thing off" la la la la

skips off dancing round room in style of Ginger Rogers

now there was a REAL woman! sparky fiery fun-good dancer-NO silicone or plastic face fillers on HER!
Agreed, the old school ladies were always at the top of the list, with the curves and all. As far as I'm concerned, curves are good! :oops:
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Tom Barrick wrote: And noted on the spelling of humourous...I'm lazy and forget to add the 'u' while I'm talking on this board. Please forgive me. :)
It's hard in FS sometimes... the Meter Board is JL's invention, so we Brits have to grit our teeth and acquiesce and call it that, but deep down we're longing to call it Metre Board (well, I am, at any rate) :roll:

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It's funny, when I chat with Nigel(you know who) over email, he always calls them "meters" and I always refer to them as "metres." We're both constantly trying to accommodate one another, when one day he suggests that this one guy was merely "taking the piss," in a story he was telling me. While he tried, he couldn't resist. I laughed, not because of what he had said, but, because he erred in his attempts with his American-English. :lol: I love the way the language is spoken, this way or that, so many interpretations. I will talk a bit differently on this board, but don't anyone call me. I have a fairly hard east coast US accent but I don't drop my R's. :wink:

For what it's worth, I agree about it being called The Metre Board.
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Didn't Ginger Rogers say something like,

"I did all the same dance steps as Fred Astaire, only backwards and in high heels!"

Love it. :P

Nobody here has mentioned the Lord of the Rings films yet.

I'm a Tolkien snob and consequently would give them 6/10 being a good attempt but not quite there. Too many plot changes and pandering to the "action" and getting in CGI scenes.

I do though like "Heat". Really gritty cop/robber film with a couple of great actors.

I'd also recommend Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Mr Depp. He played that part with just enough menace.

If you read Dahl his characters are really just children in adult bodies but with their child like qualities equally grown up. A lot of kids are really quite ruthless little people when it coems to getting their own way and sometimes cruel. (Not in the budding sociopath way). Willy WOnka is a great exampel and I thought Depp captured that very well.
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webberg wrote:Didn't Ginger Rogers say something like,

"I did all the same dance steps as Fred Astaire, only backwards and in high heels!"

Love it. :P

Nobody here has mentioned the Lord of the Rings films yet.

I'm a Tolkien snob and consequently would give them 6/10 being a good attempt but not quite there. Too many plot changes and pandering to the "action" and getting in CGI scenes.

I do though like "Heat". Really gritty cop/robber film with a couple of great actors.

I'd also recommend Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Mr Depp. He played that part with just enough menace.

If you read Dahl his characters are really just children in adult bodies but with their child like qualities equally grown up. A lot of kids are really quite ruthless little people when it coems to getting their own way and sometimes cruel. (Not in the budding sociopath way). Willy WOnka is a great exampel and I thought Depp captured that very well.
Rings was great, and fascinating, even though it was all one good long walk to chuck a ring away. :wink: Heat was also very good. I actually met DeNiro while he was filming Great Expectations in NYC. Me: <stuttering fool who didn't say a word> Him: <raises an eyebrow like in Goodfellas while he sat at the bar> Short man with a lot of personality in the face. Good moment, either way. His eyes were on me, and that's gruesome enough.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory wasn't what I was expecting. It was a remake of the original, not the sequel that I wanted. I read the books, so was highly disappointed that it wasn't the actual thing. :evil: The original movie was exceptional in its time and will remain that way for me, now. Gene Wilder rules!
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Gene Wilder or Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp or Gene Wilder


well thers a contest! NOT!

oh SORRY :oops: you meant acting ability-I didnt think of that i was thinking of something else! :oops:
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MaxDev wrote:the Meter Board is JL's invention, so we Brits have to grit our teeth and acquiesce and call it that, but deep down we're longing to call it Metre Board
No.

For the Americans it is a board that measures metres. The meterboard.

For the UK it is a board that meters metres. The meter board. ie the board that meters, like an ammeter or a speedometer.

So it is a perfect name really in my view.
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I blame the French for all this metres malarky. What's wrong with a good honest twelve inches? :o

And while we're on this subject, can someone explain why the Americans took a good old imperial measure like the gallon, and then changed it so it is smaller???? :? Why???? :roll: I thought everything was supposed to be bigger over there? :wink: A _real_ gallon is 8 pints, or 160 fluid ounces. Or 4.546 litres (liters??). Think I'd better give up now... :oops:
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UUUHH...A gallon is still 8 pints or 4 quarts here.....I think! I say blame the French for everything....leave us Americnas out if it!
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Mike-you should be in bed at 1.30 in the morning!!!!
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Whilst it's true your gallons are still 8 pints, your pints are smaller than ours!
Never could work that out.
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I'll check.......

2 cups in a pint....

3.8 leters....is that right?

You know......there are no ounces on the carton any more....sad really.
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Don't get me started on that 'cup' business!

"How big is a cup?"

about as much use as

"How long is a piece of string?"

Isn't this thread supposed to be about films, anyway??
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Lets talk abt Mr OOOHHHH OOOOHHH SEVEN again then LOL

or come in the chat room and talk to the hysterically funny autobot
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Jessica-Red wrote:Lets talk abt Mr OOOHHHH OOOOHHH SEVEN again then LOL

or come in the chat room and talk to the hysterically funny autobot
Enough about double O seven, for ****'s sake! 8)

Let's go with something simple: Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels!

Now there was a solid movie with excellent characters and some very good music(ok, The Castaways, for one.) Whenever I see 'Little Chris' on the CTC board, I'm reminded of this one. I'm forever wondering when they'll break out 'Big Chris.' :twisted:
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ptruz wrote:I'll check.......

2 cups in a pint....

3.8 leters....is that right?

You know......there are no ounces on the carton any more....sad really.
I have 8 original Guinness pint glasses sitting in my cupboard. This weekend, after the flu, they're coming out, and friends over. A pint is a *pint.* You've got yourself a handle and then they curve up... a bit like a woman. :oops: :roll:
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Tom Barrick wrote:
ptruz wrote:I'll check.......

2 cups in a pint....

3.8 leters....is that right?

You know......there are no ounces on the carton any more....sad really.
I have 8 original Guinness pint glasses sitting in my cupboard. This weekend, after the flu, they're coming out, and friends over. A pint is a *pint.* You've got yourself a handle and then they curve up... a bit like a woman. :oops: :roll:
Reets got the curves, not sure about the handle, asuming I don't get carried away with the B&C / lemon & lime experiment I shall investigate tonight :shock: - just don't expect feedback on this one :wink:
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jainser wrote:
Tom Barrick wrote:
ptruz wrote:I'll check.......

2 cups in a pint....

3.8 leters....is that right?

You know......there are no ounces on the carton any more....sad really.
I have 8 original Guinness pint glasses sitting in my cupboard. This weekend, after the flu, they're coming out, and friends over. A pint is a *pint.* You've got yourself a handle and then they curve up... a bit like a woman. :oops: :roll:
Reets got the curves, not sure about the handle, asuming I don't get carried away with the B&C / lemon & lime experiment I shall investigate tonight :shock: - just don't expect feedback on this one :wink:
:shock: <politely excuses himself from the conversation> :wink:
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Er, back to films, er, ish.

Watching "Batman Begins" on DVD tonight.

I think I am winning with Tamsin since she looks at Christian Bale getting out of bed and says:

"I wonder what his 2k time is?" :D =D> \:D/
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I like Bale.......American Psycho is a good one.... not for the kids....and what was the film about China in WWII......he is a kid.....can't remember.

Saw two films in the past two days....The Queen was great! Children of Men.....did not really like to 30-40 minutes I saw of it when I was not sleeping.....Although I like Clive.....The Croupier
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ptruz wrote:I like Bale.......American Psycho is a good one.... not for the kids....and what was the film about China in WWII......he is a kid.....can't remember.

Saw two films in the past two days....The Queen was great! Children of Men.....did not really like to 30-40 minutes I saw of it when I was not sleeping.....Although I like Clive.....The Croupier
Children of Men was outstanding, I thought. Another good Bale movie was Equilibrium. It was like Fahrenheit 451, but with Matrix-type effects and fight scenes. Odd, but cool.
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Thomas W-P wrote:Er, back to films, er, ish.

Watching "Batman Begins" on DVD tonight.
I enjoyed the combination of Christian Bale and Michael Caine, and then how it sewed in with the original Batman movie. It was certainly different but I think I liked it more than not.


How did you like it?
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I love that film



and I love Mr Bale


my son has a lifesize movie promo poster on his wall of it and he WONT let ME have it!!!! :(
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