Good film double bill on tonight...

[adycav]

...that you might want to record, unless you can tear yourselves away from TG or that celebrity boolocks.

C4: Flags of our Fathers at 9:00pm, followed immediately by Letters from Iwo Jima at 11:35pm.

Clint Eastwood-directed war film duo - one from the US perpective, the other from the Japanese.

Enjoy

Edited by adycav on Sunday 15th November 20:03

[wiffmaster]

'Letters From Iwo Jima' is an absolutely fantastic film. I know some people see a film is subtitled and give up, but this one's well worth the watch.

Haven't seen 'Flags Of Our Fathers' yet, and doesn't look as if I'm going to as Top Gear is on and I've currently got no way of recording.

[adycav]

wiffmaster said:

'Letters From Iwo Jima' is an absolutely fantastic film. I know some people see a film is subtitled and give up, but this one's well worth the watch.

Haven't seen 'Flags Of Our Fathers' yet, and doesn't look as if I'm going to as Top Gear is on and I've currently got no way of recording.

If you've got freeview etc. you've got Ch4+1 and your prayers are answered!

[wiffmaster]

adycav said:

If you've got freeview etc. you've got Ch4+1 and your prayers are answered!

Ah yes, forgot C4 had a +1 service. Jolly good, ta!

[mitzy]

Just watching Flag at the moment , very upseting, like saving private ryan

Brings home what what soldiers went through.

[T89 Callan]

I was thouroughly dissapointed with Flags of our Fathers, Clint Eastwood is an average director at best.

Might watch Letters from Iwo Jima on C4+1 after Hard Candy, now theres an awesome film.

[varsas]

Flags of our fathers was a bit boring, letters is v. good though. I disagree about Eastwoods directing though, I think he's superb. Unforgiven? Million Doller Baby? Perfect World? At the very least lots of people disagree with you, he has a few films in the IMDB top 250 list and has won 3 oscars for best direction. Unforgiven is just superb, some of the shots (like the opening one) are just beautiful and million doller baby is handled very well indeed.

He's maybe my favourite director (it's him or Andrew Niccol...probably. Or Alex Proyas...definitely one of those)

Edited by varsas on Monday 16th November 11:00

[adycav]

Mystic River = Eastwood Classic.

[AndyWoodall]

Both films are strong but like most in this thread I preferred Letters From Iwo Jima personally.

[Halb]

T89 Callan said:

I was thouroughly dissapointed with Flags of our Fathers, Clint Eastwood is an average director at best.

Might watch Letters from Iwo Jima on C4+1 after Hard Candy, now theres an awesome film.

Just watched Hard Candy...st there was a harsh film.