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Book & Movie recommendations


After my movie taste being so rudely criticised by my husband, I thought I'd start a little recommendation club!!
I recommend that everyone watches The Princess Diaries, Clue and The Wedding Dress. 
Persuasion by Jane Austin is well worth a read as is The Chrysalids by John Wyndham!
Any suggestions of good stuff to read/watch?

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ohh let me think...


well anything i like i know y'all will have seen (i'm a forrest gump/notting hill/finding nemo/charlie's angels - silly feel good movie type person)


but seeing i can be controversial.. i'm quite looking forward to seeing the 'passion of JC' movie they're all raving and shouting about in the usa..


anything to spark a riot



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I really want to see the Passion of JC too!!


Finding Nemo was a classic - I love Nemo.  He's on my bookshelf (the cuddly version) every now and then I move him and Darren has to find him - he he he. 



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School of rock - better than it looks surprisingly


Looking forward to the new Starsky and hutch movie though - the Team that brought us Zoolander - which is another great movie as well.


Books - tom holt is a writer ive recently found - funny books but humour you have to think about -


Terry pratchett - the discworld stuff, especially the earlier stuff, or Nightwatch but dont read it unless you have read therest of the City Watch books.


Thats all at the minute but no doubt something will pop into my head later on



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Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman was terrific as was American Gods.


& I don't mind owning up to reading 'children's' books when they're as good as Philip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy.


I have been reading Terry Pratchett's discworld series in order, but got bogged down in Moving Pictures which I didn't enjoy nearly so much as the Guards! Guards! Pyramids is my favourite so far as it's a bit more 'intelligent' than some of the others.


I constantly get laughed at for my choice of bedtime reading by hubby Simon who just doesn't get it when it comes to fiction. <what's the point?>



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I quite like Tom Holt (Paint your Dragon, Flying Dutch), but he's just not as reliably excellent as Mr Pratchett (Monstrous Regiment is fantastic).


I notice that Susan has given a thumbs up to every single book that I've recommended to her in the last 18 months.  Just proves that my taste is impeccable and that everyone just wants to be me!


I've recently discovered an author called Wil McCarthy (Bloom) who kicks arse, as does Julian May (Perseus Spur).


Movies: Anything by Kevin Smith, Blade Runner, Memento and the 4 hour Kenneth Brannagh version of Hamlet.  I quite like all these comic book movies that have been coming out recently - Xmen 2 (or X-Men United as they called it in the States - Haw!) and Spiderman were great.  League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was not - considereing the comic it was based on was exellent!


Looking forward to Troy (um - men in skirts), Hellboy (yay, mutant Nazis), Spiderdude 2 (man in tights) and loads of other silly, trashy movies! Doesn't look like there's much intelligent fayre out there this year!



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Yay movies and books!


If y'all like Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, then read Good Omens. A fabulous experience, wonderfully entertaining, two thumbs up... and all that jazz.


I started getting into the Jhereg series by Steven Brust when I realized Douglas Adams was not going to put anything else out (pre-mortem) and it so far it's quite fabulous for sci-fi. I'm really not a sci-fi girl when it comes to the "and then the aliens landed... and then they started a war.. and then they took over..." stuff, but this has a lot of fantasy mixed in and Brust created a whole other world where this takes place. Quite fabulous.


As for movies, my first recommendation is always (and forever will be) "The Great Race" because it's just fantastic! Wonderfully goofy, slapstick stereotypical (i.e. good guy always wears white, bad guy always wears black and has a sidekick, there's a pie fight at some point...) and, for my money, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis's best work.... "Some Like It Hot" a close second. For recent movies, I have to go with "Down With Love" because it was surprisingly funny.. and uhhh... I'm stuck. Guess I haven't watched as many new movies as I thought. hmm..


 


 



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Oooh! I just thought of another movie...


Office Space


A must see! clap



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i actually quite liked 'down with love' too - altho i was on a plane and drugged up with some sleeping tablets.. so maybe that memory isnt one to go on..


saw 'along came polly' last week - it's good for a piece of escapism predict-it humour - althooooou the jokes are funny and it was free.. altho it might not be free for you.. sorry


and id just like to add tv shows to this ..


ally mcbeal all the way man



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Eeewwww.  Katie's made this thread all sticky!  Too much jam!!!


Yup - Good Omens is one of the best!  Anyone read The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams, yet?


TV, hmmmm....   The A-Team has to be the best thing on at the moment (which doesn't really say a lot for TV at the moment), although FX have been showing NYPD Blue from the beginning which is cool.


Blackadder...  Blackadder... Backadder...



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I see Darren has been posting in my name again!!  I haven't read Good Omens!!


I have to agree re Blackadder though!  I also love The Good Life. 


I have a signed copy of Gaiman's new kids book The Wolves in the Walls - he drew me a wolf too (cool!!).


My favourite movie team are Hamlet (the Kenneth Branagh 4 hour version) closely followed by Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (a Tom Stoppard play based on Hamlet).  The version of R & G are dead that I have stars Tim Roth & Gary Oldman (two of my favourite actors - though not as good looking as Scott Cohen or Alan Rickman).


2001 is well worth a watch for an excellent example of Kubrik's work! 


 


 



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The Salmon of Doubt was great! I was one of those dorks running to the store to get it the day it came out The love letter he wrote to his favorite magazine was one of the funniest things I have ever read. It's good to see he was always a nut and didn't do it just for publicity's sake.



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How could i have forgotten ghost dog?!? Great movie, as is the Great escape, kellys Heros is worth a watch as well as As Good As It Gets.  The first two batman movies with Michael Keaton are also pretty good.


Just to be weird im gonna say Ghost In The Shell as well cuz its one of my favorite Manga Films - its not as far out there as akira, which can be just plain weird at times.



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Oooh.  Ghost in the Shell.  That was cool!  Good call, Joe!

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if you liked that then i will try and dig out the link to the trailer of Ghost in the Shell 2 that i seen at the weekend - it looks excellent!

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Woo hoo!  2010 is on Sci Fi tonight - haven't seen it for ages!!

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