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@Mioaionios @Rambler yeah I saw the Centre Parcs thing, it’s okay though as you can leave your luggage there but it’s just the people that can’t stay. Also food banks and NHS treatment appointments are canceled too, I hope they tell cancer and starvation it’s a bank holiday. I would protest it but protests are also cancelled too.

It’s the can only show the Queens funeral bit I find nutty, that’s the kind of thing I’d expect to hear in North Korea.

So any suggestions for anti-royal/colonial films? I was thinking RRR but I saw it not too long ago, I don’t think Prince Andrew or King Edward documentaries count, maybe Gandhi but he was a sick one in real life. I imagine it’s gonna an Irish or Indian film as the best choice.

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It'll be similar to lockdown, except for a single day.

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jump

@Rambler it’s the opposite to lockdown though, they want everyone to mingle but outside the funeral so they can say it was the best attended event ever like when WWE lie about how many people are at Wrestlemania.

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I would protest it but protests are also cancelled too.

Okay, let's get our keyboards and yell via meaningless pixels.

dysgraphia awareness human

Rambler

@jump
Oh, I mean in the medical sense, GP appts cancelled so diagnosing cancer pushed back by a fortnight, etc.

Some film about the French Revolution? Or maybe Cromwell?

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@Kermit1

No, they really are getting arrested. "Loud" protests are soon to become illegal.

It's proper scary.

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jump

@Kermit1 it’s as @Rambler said, you aren’t allowed to protest right now. The weirdest story is a man holding a blank sign was warned by the police not to write anything on it as he’d be arrested, NOT JOKING.

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@Kermit1
Ha! That's ace!

@Pikki - not heard of those films before. They look pretty good, I'll keep a look out for them

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Snatcher

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Also operations are being cancelled, so people will die because of this.

What...the...flippin'...f*?!

Oh... Dear.... That's not good

Please tell me this is a joke, please?

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@Kermit1 Dude I’m just as sad and it’s a big deal, it’s the queen, but why the hell would you do something like that? So other people can die because of a dead persoN?, just wow. Why couldn’t you me joking for once internet!

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watched the old Sam Elliot movie Frogs that i recorded from the Svengoolie show couple of weeks ago.

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Rambler

Snatcher wrote:

Kermit1 wrote:

Mioaionios wrote:

Rambler wrote:

@jump
Also operations are being cancelled, so people will die because of this.

What...the...flippin'...f*?!

Oh... Dear.... That's not good

Please tell me this is a joke, please?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/13/hospital-appo...

Essential operations will still go ahead, but if you are seriously ill, or suspect you are seriously ill, any sort of delay could have a serious effect - it can be seen in the excess deaths data during the pandemic.

So, tbh - I think I am being emotive, but doing this will not contribute to a better outcome for patients, only a poorer one. Therefore it will contribute towards people dying.

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Snatcher

@Rambler That’s going a little to far.

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@Rambler That’s going a little to far.

Yeah, sorry I used the wrong terminology.

If you need a hip operation, for example, and that is cancelled, you could have a fall and break you femur. Depending on how you currently are it could kill you (fracture of neck of femur - it's a big bone, so very difficult to heal)

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Pizzamorg

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I don't agree. I think Flanagan is the best horror director out there right now.
He knows how to build tension and doesn't rely on jump scares.

Oooo, interesting topic. In terms of modern filmmakers, I really like Colin Minihan. I've seen all but one of his films and the three I have seen have all been bangers. He has a real knack for taking the most tired horror tropes and spinning them in fantastic, imaginative, ways that really create a case study for why each trope became one in the first place.

I'd argue Hereditary is one of the best horror films we've had in decades, but I actually really didn't like Midsommar so jury is out for me on Ari Aster.

Life to the living, death to the dead.

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... I feel like I've taken this a bit off-topic...

I am watched La Belle Epoque with Daniel Auteuil the other night. It's a bit like a French Spike Jonze film, but one that is unashamedly romantic.

Auteuil plays a cartoonist who is helplessly (cliched-ly?) out of touch with the modern world. His wife of 40+ years chuck him out.
In consolation, his son arranges a free go at his son' friend's company which created tailored immersive experiences. These recreate a time and event in miniscule detail, with huge sets and lots of actors. Instead of hang out at some time important historical event, Auteuil recreates the days in which he first met his wife.
Cue lots of beige, forgotten radicalism, smoking (have the filmmakers actually been to France recently??), youthful idealism, and general wonderment.

It's not as radical as Spike Jone, but it is quite lovely, with great performances and rattles along really well.

It does have an incongruously shocking opening scene, which is totally different to the rest of the film, and in the context of the rest of the film, trivialises historical abuses. Dead strange!

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