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I have just acquired a 5 piece set of cast iron cookware.
This weekend will be spent seasoning and testing said cookware.
Does anybody have any tips for this process or any dishes which are noticably better when cooked in cast iron?

Alt q: What is your favourite foreign language film? I'm torn between Jeux d'enfants and Oldboy.
(TheColonel, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:21, 174 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Bacon fat is supposed to be great for the seasoning process
there's loads of info on the interweb on how to do it.

Steak is awesome on cast iron griddle pans.
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Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:23, Reply)

steak IS awesome in cast iron
my ex bff used to make the most amazing steaks in her cast iron pan
the bitch
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Lisette von Falcon, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:26, Reply)

Yeah I've been reading about it all do.
Seems to stir up quite a bit of debate. Some say wash with warm water and soap, some say never go near it with water (except for stews, etc), use only kitchen paper and salt to clean, some say never clean it.
Unfortunately a griddle was not included in the set :(, although I already have a decent griddle pan.
(TheColonel, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:28, Reply)

The occasional wash in warm water should be ok
but don't use washing up liquid
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Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:38, Reply)

not more food :(
Alt Q: Oldboy was bizarre. I do like Sympathy for Lady Vengeance though. I watch a lot of foreign films however
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:24, Reply)

Not food, metal. :)

(TheColonel, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:25, Reply)

Can't cook.
Alt Q: Intacto.
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SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:25, Reply)

Won't cook?

(TheColonel, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:26, Reply)

bacon is what I've been told
but I've never cooked in anything cast iron

alt: A Very Long Engagement.
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Lisette von Falcon, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:25, Reply)

Very Long Engagement was a superb film
Sadly seemed to sink almost without trace in Blighty...
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:23, Reply)

Alt: Oldboy is brilliant, but so is La Haine
Irreversible is good, but you have to be in the mood for it.
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Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:26, Reply)

Irreversible has received the best reaction from those I've recommended it to.
The low frequenct sound at the beginning really sets the tone.
(TheColonel, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:30, Reply)

I saw it in the cinema
10 or so people walked out halfway through. Not sure if it's because of the sound/camera movements making them ill, or the extreme violence.
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Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:33, Reply)

Pussies
can't handle 10 minute rape scenes.
(TheColonel, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:36, Reply)

I was finished after 2 minutes
Took me 8 minutes to clean up, mind.
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:39, Reply)

I agree it's very shocking and I can understand the cinematographic aspects of it,
but it goes on too long and is so repetitive you become a little desensitised by the end of it.
(TheColonel, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:44, Reply)

It's in a film?
Shit, I thought you were talking about last night
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:46, Reply)

Between Nikita and Cinema Paradiso

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Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:28, Reply)

Alt: Triumph of the Will

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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:28, Reply)

Arf.

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:29, Reply)

I can't recall what it was called,
but I caught a late-night showing of a spectacularly brutal French horror movie about two girls on a road trip, usual fat sweaty trucker kidnap ensues, but I seem to recall it culminating in a scrawny teenage girl taking a massive angle-grinder to the villain.

I also have massive nostalgia for Betty Blue, that was in forrin right? I can't really recall as during my teenage years I'm pretty sure I mostly watched it with the sound off.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:28, Reply)

Ah, Betty

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Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:29, Reply)

Frank?

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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:30, Reply)

Curse work for letting you get that in first.

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:36, Reply)

The cat's done a woopsie

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Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:40, Reply)

I read this in his voice!
And now can't stop giggling, fucking hell
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:42, Reply)

Hnnnnnmmmm

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Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:43, Reply)

Has Mike Yarwood walked in?

(Cave Duck, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:44, Reply)

Stanley Baxter!

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Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:01, Reply)

I have a massive rod-on for Betty Boo, if that helps?
It's been raging since she was in She-Rockers in c.88/89. I haven't been able to lie on my front for over 20 years.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:30, Reply)

Doing the do should get rid of that.

(Cave Duck, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:32, Reply)

If only she'd let me
*sighs*
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:33, Reply)

Ah, the old 'motorcycle kickstand' effect.

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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:39, Reply)

I am ideally suited to a career in photography.

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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:42, Reply)

it's bad for your back anyway
/DD
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:42, Reply)

cast iron frying pans
my old dad used to swear by rock salt vegetable oil and a rag for cleaning.

Seasoning is just another name for " to lazy to clean it so i burned some grease into it instead "

Over time your fried eggs become all salty with brown bottoms

Pancakes are harder to toss with a heavy as a planet cast iron pan and can lead to injury. Awesome for spanging tho
(a girl called harry, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:29, Reply)

Delcatessen, City of God, Jean de Florette/Manon De Sources or A Short Film About Killing
Plus what Roota said.
(Cave Duck, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:30, Reply)

Oh and Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown or High Heels by Pedro Almodovar.

(Cave Duck, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:33, Reply)

Ooh I like Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
and also All About my Mother
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:47, Reply)

I took my girlfriend to see an Almodovar film (The Flower Of My Success, I think) on an early date.
She nodded off at one point but I didn't notice. The conversation afterwards (you know how it is when you're first seeing each other and you feel obliged to explain why you like things) was a bit odd.
(Cave Duck, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:56, Reply)

City Of God is superb, but I found it very difficult to watch first time round
Very very intense
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:38, Reply)

Alt: Howl's Moving Castle

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Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:34, Reply)

Superb

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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:36, Reply)

At the risk of feeling the wrath of several people,
I've never been particularly impressed by Studio Ghibli stuff.
Yes, I understand it's quite pretty, and charming, but I tried watching one and I found it was horrendously dull.
(TheColonel, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:41, Reply)

The Cat Returns is pretty good
and 'Grave of the Fireflies' is heartbreaking
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:48, Reply)

Which one?

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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:48, Reply)

I think it was Howl's Moving Castle.
All I can remember was a talking fire, and possibly talking eggs
(TheColonel, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:51, Reply)

if you feel like it
try watching Princess Mononoke. You may find it a better watch.
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:54, Reply)

no he won't
it's a bit sacriligious I know, but that wasn't very good
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:55, Reply)

Considering I'm not massively keen on the others, and nor was he
he might share my view of Princess Mononoke
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:11, Reply)

Have you seen Grave of the Fireflies?'

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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:32, Reply)

Aye, that's Howls with the talking fire
I thoroughly enjoyed it tbh
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:59, Reply)

El Mariachi.
actually I don't know.
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:35, Reply)

Not a clue I'm afraid Old Fellow!
Alt Q: Versus, Låt den rätte komma in, Ichi The Killer, City Of God, Y Tu Mama Tambien, & Ju-on: The Grudge.

EDIT: If redubbing of Japanese anime is allowed, then include Akira, Final Fantasy: Advent Children, Spirited Away, & Howl's Moving Castle.
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:35, Reply)

I'd almost forgotten about Ichi The Killer.
That shall be revisited in the near future, thank you.
(TheColonel, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:38, Reply)

My pleasure

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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:38, Reply)

I was thinking Akira myself, but wasn't sure if that was allowed.

(Kip, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:40, Reply)

I saw Maxi had put Howl's, so I went a bit further
I fucking love Akira. Have you heard about the remake though? *rages*
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:41, Reply)

nope and don't really want to..

(Kip, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:08, Reply)

Sorry
But if I had to, so do you!
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:11, Reply)

I got to Zac Efron and closed the tab!
FFS!
(Kip, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:17, Reply)

Yep
It's just horrible.
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:18, Reply)

Jamon Jamon to both questions

(Cave Duck, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:36, Reply)

I remember that film.
Late-night Channel 4 at its finest.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:37, Reply)

It is madly melodramatic.
And Bigas Lunas is one of my favourite ever film director names.
(Cave Duck, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:39, Reply)

I was properly delighted, when watching a dodgy porn version of Macbeth,
to discover that it had been directed by Ivor Biggun.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:44, Reply)

High brow, cultured porn - excellent.
I wonder if it was the same Ivor Biggun who did the "I'm A Wanker" song and then changed his name to Doc something when he later was on That's Life with Esther Rantzen.
(Cave Duck, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:50, Reply)

He was one of the least funny people of all time.

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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:56, Reply)

He was no Cyril Fletcher, that's for sure.

(Cave Duck, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:07, Reply)

Doc Cox.

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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:01, Reply)

Cox? He was still edgy then.

(Cave Duck, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:08, Reply)

Jamon Jamon, Jamon Jamon, Jamon Jamon Jamon, I SAY!
D'you wanna be in my gang....
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:37, Reply)

Heh

(Cave Duck, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:40, Reply)

Real alt: El Topo

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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:37, Reply)

Lint free cloth and some olive oil to clean, in my experience.

Alt Q: Forrin film: Maîtresse
(Kip, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:39, Reply)

oh, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was brill

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Lisette von Falcon, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:43, Reply)

Apparently theres a Hollywood version being made
Because it's not possible to read subtitles at the same time as watching a film, and remakes of foreign films have always done well.
(TheColonel, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:46, Reply)

There's one just released which seems like it might be OK - Let Me In
I still won't watch it, because it's being advertised as a horror, when the original wasn't even slightly.
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:48, Reply)

I've never seen the original, although I noticed you mentioned it up there ^
and it was mentioned in an article about Hollywood re-makes, although the article named The Ring as a successful one, which I find hard to agree with.
(TheColonel, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:54, Reply)

It's fantastic, get your hands on it if poss

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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:00, Reply)

to be fair, you miss a lot of fine details when you're focusing on reading subtitles
but I think it shouldn't be remade, not sure anyone could pull the performance that Noomi Rapace did
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Lisette von Falcon, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:56, Reply)

there's some shit possibilities being
tossed about. Emma Watson and Kristen Stewart included
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:58, Reply)

Emma Watson cannot fucking act

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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:01, Reply)

Don't care.
Would.
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:02, Reply)

yeah, but I'd hurt her while I was doing it

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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:03, Reply)

Too fat, I know.

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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:04, Reply)

well there is that
but on purpose as well
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:06, Reply)

Ditto Kristen Stewert

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Kroney, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:05, Reply)

I could make her act scared.

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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:03, Reply)

Rooney Mara apparently.
www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/nov/09/girl-dragon-tattoo-american-remake
(TheColonel, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:02, Reply)

Alt Q:
In The Mood For Love, A Prophet, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Spirited Away, Twilight Samurai, can't decide really.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:50, Reply)

Ninja Vampires?

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Lisette von Falcon, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:57, Reply)

lolwhut?

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:00, Reply)

Twilight Samurai = Ninja Vampires
shirley?
(TheColonel, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:03, Reply)

Ninja weren't Samurai.

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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:05, Reply)

Twilight(Vampires) vs Samurai(Ninjas) is the joke she's going for
I'm just pissed off because I was going to write the same!
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:03, Reply)

Aha!
Gotcha.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:13, Reply)

I quite liked the Three Colours series
but really, my favourite foreign films are all from Hong Kong.
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Kroney, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:56, Reply)

I went to see them all together in one night at the local independent film club
The cinematography is great. You get so much from looking around the full screen.

A Short Film About Killing & A Short Film about Love by the same ddifrector are both really good too.
(Cave Duck, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:03, Reply)

I don't think my DVD copies
are even in 16:9. I need to update them.
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Kroney, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:06, Reply)

The Babycart films are fucking incredible.
Also The Seven Samurai gets an honourable mention.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:57, Reply)

The Seven Samurai was ace
in fact Akira Kurosawa is brilliant altogether
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:59, Reply)

Toshiro Mifune might actually be my favourite actor.

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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:02, Reply)

On foreign films
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Zatoichi, Battle Royale, All About My Mother, and quite a few more. Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence sort of counts (English/Japanese mix)

I also like shit foreign films like Azumi
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:58, Reply)

Battle Royale
excellent film. Good choice :-)

it's a good read as well. The book makes some sense of some bits of it.
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:58, Reply)

yeah the book gave
some more reasons as to the whole reason why the state had evolved in such a way
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:59, Reply)

Zatoichi is su-fucking-perb.

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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:59, Reply)

snap
I absolutely love the little scene where the music is comprised of the motions that the villagers make as they're carrying out their day to day lives.

And what problem with Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence? The Bowie thing?
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:00, Reply)

Of course it is.

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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:02, Reply)

I thought he was actually quite good
and Tom Conte was amazing
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:04, Reply)

not a phrase often uttered apart from '+ly shit'

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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:05, Reply)

this is true
but there's something about the film I really like. It has massive flaws in it, but I don't notice them when I'm watching it
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:11, Reply)

~~flaws~~ cunts
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:38, Reply)

nah all gay weren't they?
Does the scene where Celliers embraces Yonoi in a gesture of understanding not move you at all :( ?
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:43, Reply)

Only my bowels.

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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:57, Reply)

~~bowels~~ cock
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:59, Reply)

I have a MASSIVE PROBLEM with Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence.

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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:00, Reply)

~~PROBLEM with~~ hard-on for
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:02, Reply)

Dunno about all-time favourites
But currently Arn: Knight Templar (swedish) and La Horde (French) are amusing one.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:59, Reply)

Alt:
Any Godzilla flick.
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:00, Reply)

Godzilla vs Megalon is the best - or the Mothra one.

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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:01, Reply)

I was going to say Mothra
I haven't seen an old school Godzilla film for years.
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:04, Reply)

I remember the Channel 4 late Friday night season in the late 80's.
Excellent post-pub fodder.
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:29, Reply)

Iron Monkey
and The Shaolin Temple.

excellent Kung Fu.

Drunken Master is also good.
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:06, Reply)

I favour Police Story
over Drunken Master, so far as Chan films go.
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Kroney, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:09, Reply)

I've seen so many kung fu films
many in a period of a few months, that they have all blurred together

is Snake in the Eagle's Shadow a Jackie Chan film?
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:10, Reply)

I believe so
but it's not one I've seen, so I can't be sure.
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Kroney, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:11, Reply)

yes
I love that film, and it is quoted in my facebook profile :(
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:11, Reply)

Jackie Chan's best are, IMHO
The Killer Meteors
Karate Ghostbuster
Half a Loaf of Kung Fu
I have a massive soft spot for Project A and Police Story too
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:14, Reply)

I don't believe I have seen any of those
except Project A and Police Story
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:17, Reply)

The first one
is, to my knowledge, the only time Jackie Chan's played a villain (apart from as an extra - ever spotted him in Enter The Dragon?). He claims never to have done so as he's conscious of his role model status.

So LYING is OK though, eh Jackie?
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:20, Reply)

Worra cunt!

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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:29, Reply)

Police Story is ace
the opening sequence in the village and the one in the shopping centre are some of my favourite kung fu cinema sequences.
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Kroney, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:18, Reply)

Between my brother and me
I reckon we've got over 500 kung fu films.

My favourites are probably:

Shaolin vs Lama
One Armed Boxer II
Two Crippled Heroes (one has no arms, the other no legs and rides around on a little trolley: ace)
Fatal Flying Guillotines
Five Deadly Venoms

God I could go on for hours...
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:12, Reply)

I can never get hold of decent ones
mostly because I don't know their names. But they're a good way to spend an evening
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:13, Reply)

if you haven't seen them
get Twin Warriors (with Jet Li) and The Shaolin Temple

also, watch the Sex and Zen films. Hilarious kung fu style porn.
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:15, Reply)

nice
my old dealer used to have a house cluttered with homemade bongs, weapons, homemade weapons, homemade weapons that were also bongs and many floor to ceiling stacks of kung fu films.

it was great.
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:14, Reply)

Sounds like my brother.

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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:17, Reply)

Kung-fu Hustle was brilliant.

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:13, Reply)

Kung Fu Hustle is fucking superb

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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:15, Reply)

I gave it a high 7/10

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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:18, Reply)

Raise The Red Lantern
I love Gong Li

I wonder if I tell her my Andrew Lincoln/Big Country/Clive Bunker from Jethro Tull story she would marry me.
(Cave Duck, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:11, Reply)

"Downfall" is excellent
The actor who plays Hitler is brilliant. It would have been all too easy to slip into a silly caricature.
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Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:19, Reply)

It was a real 'box of tissues' film, I agree.
Poor old Uncle Adi.

:(
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:21, Reply)

You jest
but I did feel empathy for the man...until I remembered the whole holocaust/war thing.
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Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:23, Reply)

"the boy in the striped pyjamas"
made me go cold all over. the book had the same effect. like you've swallowed an entire tub of b&j in one mouthful.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:25, Reply)

I read "The Pianist" and almost blubbed
because I had read the book, I was prepared for the film and I was a brave boy...
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Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:27, Reply)

not read that yet
but the book is ALWAYS better than the film!
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:29, Reply)

Sometimes they are just as shit as each other.
I give you Fight Club, a crap read and a bollocks movie.
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SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:33, Reply)

I liked both the book and the film
and as far as commercially successful directors go, I reckon David Fincher is A1 at what he does
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:42, Reply)

He is pretty good usually but that movie was crap from start to finish.
I read the book before after seeing the film and found it excruciatingly dull.
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SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:44, Reply)

nah they're both good
a little bit of hokum never did anyone any harm. I prefer the book ending, but found both of them rather interesting
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:47, Reply)

Reminds me of
www.youtube.com/watch?v=buElOjx2T7w
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:39, Reply)

Great tune.

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SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:44, Reply)

It is.
I mean, it's no 'November Rain' but they're trying their best, eh?
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:47, Reply)

November Rain was shit.
Now it's no Back Off Bitch but they had a good go.
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SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:49, Reply)

November Rain was shit.
Live and Let Die was shit.
Sweet Child O'Mine was shit.

Hmmmmmm.....
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:53, Reply)

Those three songs happen to be shit
But so many more were amazing. Mr Brownstone for one, You Could be Mine, Civil War, You Aint the First etc etc
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SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:54, Reply)

Rose: cock
Slash: overrated
The rest of them: Ringo
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:56, Reply)

FRONTMAN IN BELLEND SHOCKER.
So what the bloke was a cunt he had a great voice. Slash isn't overrated, he is bloody good. The never ending conveyor belt of others had some talent but G N R were more than the sum of their parts.
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SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:58, Reply)

Unless it's Jaws.
The film is infinitely better than the book and benefits from having the Hooper/Mrs Brody affair and all the mafia bollocks stripped out of it. Which, frankly, just got in the way of all the shark chomping action.
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:45, Reply)

I agree DG. I nearly wrote the same but got all sidetracked by my hate for Fight Club.

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SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:48, Reply)

The internet
turned that character into a silly caricature, so no harm done.
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Kroney, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:22, Reply)

We can all do silly goose-stepping walks
Monty walks to work that way
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Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:24, Reply)

Did you see the You Tube clips
where people re-subtitled the sequence towards the end when his advisors break the bad news to Hitler that the Russians have broken through?

Some of them are very funny.
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Kroney, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:29, Reply)

I'm pretty sure that only two, maybe three people ever watched those.
They weren't very popular at all.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:31, Reply)

Doesn't hurt to ask.

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Kroney, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:32, Reply)

Hahahahahaha

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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:37, Reply)

Top notch sarcasm old bean

(TheColonel, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:54, Reply)

Alt: Did anyone else see 36?
(Original title was 36 Quai des Orfèvres, I think)
Bleak throughout, and incomparably tragic, but really compelling and beautifully executed.

Or for a less bleak but slightly creepier one, there was a film with Audrey Tautou called He Love Me, He Loves Me Not in English. Very clever, that one. And possibly the creepiest ending I've seen outside of a horror film.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:26, Reply)

I know they are silly but
The Taxi series are great fun. Although the Sylvester Stallone cameo at the start of Taxi 3 is a bit of a head fuck.
(bill, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:57, Reply)

I love Taxi and Taxi 2
haven't seen Taxi 3 though. The American remake looks like the most ghastly film ever
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:58, Reply)

Skip the American monstrosity
it is absolutely horrendous!
(bill, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 18:00, Reply)

wouldn't touch it with a bargepole
it's got Whoopi Goldberg in it hasn't it? Or some bizarre person taking Samy Naceri's place
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 18:02, Reply)

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