| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| Ali |
Posted - 03/15/2007 : 06:25:09
FOUR YOUR CONSIDERATION - TREASURE HUNT
Sean says: If you copy this incorrectly, you won't know that there's a bit that's supposed to be coloured beige! Aha! Gotcha!
Put any five reviews you like in your F.Y.C. list.
Do not use reviews from the previous round - you must change them every round.
Post here to declare that you've done it. Sooner is better than later.
Provide a spoiler warning in your post when appropriate.
You must read the F.Y.C.s of all participants.
The next round starts on Monday or Thursday at 6:00 a.m. FWFR time, whichever comes next.
I want something's flesh.
Don't threaten ChocolateLady with a dead fish.
wildhartlivie's gone on holiday by mistake.
An expert on bulls turrell is not.
Here. Mr Stupid. Here.
I will say one thing for Josh the cat, he keeps a sensational cellar!
BaftaBabe demands to have some booze.
As a youth, Whippersnapper used to weep in butcher's shops.
Why can't Shiv drink coffee out of a cup like a normal human being?
What's your name, MacredPen?
tortoise is like a dozen transatlantic flights without ever getting off the plane.
Half an hour? Don't be ridiculous. Conan The Westy needs at least an hour for lunch.
Alas, bife has little more than vintage wine and memories.
Those are the kind of windows Randall looks in at.
Beanmimo wants the finest wines available to humanity. He wants them here, and he wants them now!
Nothing to eat, freezing cold and now a BiggerBoat on the prowl outside with eels.
If damalc ever sees that silage-heap hanging about up here, he'll take the bastard axe to him. Bastards!
Yukon's preparing himself to forgive you.
And if R o � k G o 7 f spikes you, you'll know you've been spoken to.
Imagine getting into a fight with MisterBadIdea.
M0rkeleb is feeling better and is now prepared to step back into society and start tossing his orb about.
Why can't rabid kazook have an audition?
Salopian's not from London, you know.
Sludge's obsessed with its guts.
demonic loathes those Russian plays. Always full of women staring out of windows, whining about ducks going to Moscow.
lemmycaution thinks the carrot infinitely more fascinating than the geranium.
I think we better release chazbo from the legumes and transfer his talents to the meat.
koli's getting the fear.
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| 15 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 03/19/2007 : 17:33:11
quote:
Originally posted by demonic
Best way round that is not to actually detail the spoiler in the post of course...
I thought that my explanation might be useful, but I suppose it was obvious enough from the review. Sorry. |
| Shiv |
Posted - 03/19/2007 : 08:17:39
quote:
Originally posted by Sludge
I too am wondering "what was I thinking". I'm thankful to those who defended the review. It could be seen as a close one, but by the same standards I hope to see from all of us here, I am dumping it. It's nice to see that in my virtual absence I can fuel the forum like this.
I do have 20 more to choose from
(edit) ...ummm, one or two that don't suck for Live Nude Shakespeare. :-)
I'd already voted on several of these.... |
| Ali |
Posted - 03/19/2007 : 07:33:56
quote:
By the way - regarding your Spiderman review - I get the reference, but I don't get the relevance - what gates?
I mean it metaphorically, as in "Venom is coming." Having said that, it also works literally, too, if one thinks back to Eddie Brock's first encounter with the symbiote in the comics, which, apparently, has been replicated in the film.
Glad you liked the list.
Beanmimo - I usually include spoiler warnings, but I seem to have missed them this time out. Sorry.
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| lemmycaution |
Posted - 03/19/2007 : 02:29:28
V&V after consulting Tiresias. |
| demonic |
Posted - 03/19/2007 : 00:29:46
That's good of you Sludge. Some recompensory votes coming your way.
edit: some good new reviews! |
| Whippersnapper. |
Posted - 03/19/2007 : 00:24:47
That Mr Sludge, 'es a real gentleman he is, an' no mistake, Gowd bless 'im.
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| Sludge |
Posted - 03/19/2007 : 00:17:44
Having V&V'd now...
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I too am wondering "what was I thinking". I'm thankful to those who defended the review. It could be seen as a close one, but by the same standards I hope to see from all of us here, I am dumping it. It's nice to see that in my virtual absence I can fuel the forum like this.
I do have 20 more to choose from
(edit) ...ummm, one or two that don't suck for Live Nude Shakespeare. :-)
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| rabid kazook |
Posted - 03/19/2007 : 00:09:18
quote:
Originally posted by george_kaplan
quote:
Originally posted by rabid kazook
Exactly, there for this was my only vote for the whole movie, I mean you can never go wrong with a parallel ... 
Huh?
reviews with parallels that don't make sludge... i mean sense > dirty reviews
my posts, not to be taken seriously :)
voted as always...
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| Yukon |
Posted - 03/18/2007 : 23:57:15
V&V to here.
Thanks Bean and Shiv. (
(And an extra thanks to Bean for the explanation. I forgot to provide a hint because I know almost everyone in England knows a German is a 'Hun.' But I don't think that is as well known in other parts of the world.) |
| Beanmimo |
Posted - 03/18/2007 : 23:36:23
You cannot, fwiffrs, take from me any thing that I will willingly part withal: except my votes, except my votes, except my votes |
| Whippersnapper. |
Posted - 03/18/2007 : 23:22:44
V.
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| chazbo |
Posted - 03/18/2007 : 22:54:20
Chose to V rather than not to V.
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| Josh the cat |
Posted - 03/18/2007 : 22:35:29
VR&VA
to be fair not a great round.
Josh the cat |
| tortoise |
Posted - 03/18/2007 : 22:19:35
V + V = |
| Shiv |
Posted - 03/18/2007 : 21:53:17
quote:
Originally posted by Koli
quote:
Originally posted by ChocolateLady
quote:
Originally posted by damalc
oedipus inspired king lear, not hamlet.
Huh? Oedipus is about a son killing his father and marrying his mother. Hamlet's father is killed by his brother Claudius and Hamlet is instructed by his father's ghost to get rid of Claudius - which would put Hamlet on the throne next to his mother the Queen - which is pretty close to the Oedipus story. King Lear is about the King and the loyalty of his three daughters. I don't see where that could be inspired from the Oedipus story.
But, hey, whatever! I've finished voting on this round, see you all tomorrow!
It's interesting to see so much space devoted to the question of a link between Oedipus and Shakespeare's plays. I can't add to what's been said about that one, but I'd like to know why no one has questioned the assumption that a film with 'Nude' in the title must be about sex. Lots of the reviews of Live Nude Shakespeare refer to sexual acts of one sort or another, but so far as I know there's no sex in the film.
The IMDb summary refers to striptease, interviews and exerpts from plays. The summary on AllMovie.com describes it as a mock documentary along the lines of This Is Spinal Tap, adding that it focuses on director Lionel Backslide and his daring new production, entitled "Live Nude Shakespeare." AllMovie says a funny British documentarian interviews the cast and polls audiences viewing the play. Then it says that "the real point of the film is to offer extended scenes from the alleged production involving various attractive women doing striptease routines as other women read suggestive passages from the works of William Shakespeare".
So my point is that if we're going to scrutinise literary allusion in such a painstaking way we really ought to be challenging the notion that nudity equals sex.
In the IMDB keywords it does say Sex/Hardcore - so I assumed there was some sex in it. However, I only voted on a couple that explicitly refer to sex acts because, well, most of them aren't that clever or funny. I liked The Prof's 'From Bard to perverse' for example.
But you are right, nudity doesn't = sex, so can anyone confirm it is a porn movie? The summary does indeed only mention women - so are there actually any naked men in it? (There are lots of references in the reviews to men's 'bits'.) |
