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caroline.

*Jelly_Tots* wrote: »

How do I find the free film codes thread ? Thanks a lot, love from annoying Newbie!

The thread is here Jelly Tots: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=606589

sparky61

*Jelly_Tots* wrote: »

How do I find the free film codes thread ? Thanks a lot, love from annoying Newbie!

You're not annoying at all. Welcome to the discussion thread
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sparky61

Maria, hope you're feeling a bit calmer now, it must have been awful.

I've PM'd you too.
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Beate

Marialionza, thanks for the tip with the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Monday in a week in Canary Wharf! That's my neck of the woods so I should have known all about it! Must read The Wharf paper more closely...

quoia

RE Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Saw it when it first came out and compared to the TV series (6 x 30min episodes) it's GARBAGE !

NEVER EVER was I so disappointed with a film. I'd read the book and listened to the radio shows, and having seen the TV version I really expected a bigger look to it - a big movie with lots of special effects and graphics etc. and a fantastic cast ! TRASH.
What with miscast actors, very poor interpretation and visualisation of characters, especially Marvin & Zaphod, and the locations and the situations.
Loads of bits missed out, several bits "invented" that wern't in the book.
Just about everything was poor in comparison - think it was the American influence.
Don't know how many millions were wasted on it but the BBC TV series was absolutely brilliant and it cost a pittance to make in comparison.
BBC TV series 10/10 ! The film?...... I'd struggle to award it 1/10.

I fact thinking about it, I also saw it as a stage play about 25 years ago at the Derby Playhouse and IT was far better than the film. Very different to the TV series (it had to be) but Marvin & Zaphod and the others were still "perfect" interpretations - just as you might imagine them reading the book. The entire thing was done with only 7 or 8 actors on a small stage, sets made out of plywood & cardboard, hand painted scenery etc. etc. ... It was brilliant. 10/10 also.
The film came nowhere near to providing the entertainment and enjoyment I was hoping for.

Having said that you might enjoy it. If you don't know the story etc then you have nothing to expect.

Beate

And the BAFTA for best film goes to Atonement. Wrong decision in my opinion, as Lives of Others was so much better. Having somehow managed to miss the first hour of the BAFTAs, did that film get ANY awards at all?

sparky61

Beate wrote: »

And the BAFTA for best film goes to Atonement. Wrong decision in my opinion, as Lives of Others was so much better. Having somehow managed to miss the first hour of the BAFTAs, did that film get ANY awards at all?

Here you go Beate

In a touching gesture, the Best Actor category had included the late Ulrich Muhe, the German actor who died of stomach cancer last July aged 54, just as he had become an international film star for his mesmerising performance as a Stasi officer in The Lives Of Others. The film won the Foreign Film prize.
And the winners are . . .
The Academy Fellowship Anthony Hopkins
Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Barry Wilkinson
Best Film Atonement
Best British Film This is England
Carl Foreman Award for special achievement by a British director, writer or Producer for their first feature film Matt Greenhalgh (writer) for Control
Director No Country for Old Men – Joel Coen/Ethan Coen
Original Screenplay Juno
Adapted screenplay The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Film not in the English Language The Lives of Others
Animated Film Ratatouille
Leading Actor Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood
Leading Actress Marion Cotillard – La Vie en Rose
Supporting Actor Javier Bardem – No Country for Old Men
Supporting Actress Tilda Swinton – Michael Clayton
Music La Vie en Rose
Cinematography No Country for Old Men
Editing The Bourne Ultimatum
Production Design Atonement
Costume Design La Vie en Rose
Sound The Bourne Ultimatum
Special Visual Effects The Golden Compass
Make Up & Hair La Vie en Rose
Short Animation The Pearce Sisters
Short Film Dog Altogether
The Orange Rising Star Award (voted for by the public) Shia LaBeouf
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Beate

sparky61 wrote: »

Film not in the English Language The Lives of Others

Fantastic and wholly deserved! Thank you for that, sparky.

sparky61

Beate wrote: »

Fantastic and wholly deserved! Thank you for that, sparky.

It's very sad that the actor died though :-(

Wolverine

Yeah I was expecting them to give his the posthumous best actor award for his amazing performance.
I don't know what to think on the Baftas really - I haven't seen La Vie or Atonement, but I was glad to see This is England get Best British (although Control was a little bit better IMO). But its weird that Best Film went to an English film that didn't get Best British Film? They did the same last year with the Queen! It just makes the award look trivial. I didn't have any doubt about Lives of Others getting Best Foreign Film - i couldn't see it any other way

oh as to Hitchhiker's I disagree, but then again I hadn't even seen the BBC in its entirety and never read the books...
but it wasn't the Americans who invented stuff for the film - they wanted to keep it as close as possible - it was the late Douglas Adams - so I never really got why his fans were so angry with the film