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Hosting an event in any type game? Perhaps a GTAO car meet or RDRO mission run? If you post it perhaps others will join in.
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We would like to send out a invitation. Each Sunday at 20:00 UTC will determine the RSC Champion for a specific class/tier, we use in game scores. It is obvious just for fun, and you will likely race a different car in each race. Slipstream and catch-up might be used, depending the track and the host's preference. Preparing Each week we will race a specific class + tier. Each week you will pick and bring one of the listed cars. You will bring that specific car to every race. You will be the only one who brings that specific car.* When you sign up (in this thread) you will claim what car you will bring. If you have…
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IGNORE THE FORTNITE STUFF BELOW, CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE NEWEST POST. Every Friday at 8pm UK time Come and joins us for some fun with *Fortnite Fridays with Friends... This weekly event will see a few of us get together on Fortnite for some fun and games whatever your level of ability. This will be a casual event that players can drop in and out of, just post below if you are interested so I can make sure you are on my friends list. If you are reading this and considering joining in, just sign up and come along. If you are a noob, great, so am I. If you are a pro, great, I could use some advice! Due to Fortnite being cross platfo…
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Hot off the heels of the very successful Red Pig Cup, I bring you... The Subaru Tourist Trophy! 🙂 Every other Monday at 20:00 BST (19:00 UTC) from 4th May 2020. Car Subaru WRX STI Isle of Man Time Attack Car 2016 (Gr.X) All cars to be 'maxed out' (max power, min weight) Tuning allowed Weight A weight handicap system will be used throughout the series, and will change after each round based on championship position. Spoiler For the first round only, everyone on base weight (93%) then for every round thereafter: 1st = 110% 1,254kg 2nd = 107% 1…
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Hosting GTA Crew Playlists: A Guideline.
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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With so many in the crew and the need for us to keep things as fresh and interesting as possible it does require some new playlist and event hosts to keep new ideas coming in. This is a guide to help get the members who have not hosted a playlist a chance to know the details of getting one going and being a success at it. Within this crew everyone has a chance to host something should they choose to, on occasion we may seek out a person to take over hosting duties for a playlist. However if you want to host, don't wait for the events staff or myself to ask. Everyone in this crew has been in a crew playlist, if you haven't then you for sure were a member before the ve…
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Event Host: Omarcomin71 & Pete_95973 Game: GTA Online Event Start Date: September 3rd 2016 Event Start Time: Saturday, 8:00pm GMT/UTC (Saturday, 4:00pm EDT / Saturday, 9:00pm BDT / Sunday, 6:00am AEST) Reoccurring: Weekly Special Rules for Event/s: No BPH, No Lester, Have Fun Description of Event/s: A mix of every type of job out there, Both R* & Crew created along with random jobs from RSC.
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Event Title: Whacked Out Wednesdays (GTA & RDR) Calendar: Public Events Calendar Event Host: @djw180 Game: GTA & RDR2 Platform: PS4 Event Start Time: Wednesday, 9:00pm GMT/UTC (Wednesday, 4:00pm EDT / Wednesday, 9:00pm BDT / Thursday, 6:00am AEST) Reoccurring: Weekly - The 2nd post will be kept updated with the schedule for the next few weeks. This playlist is open for any crew member to host a one off playlist or event in GTA, RDR2 or any other game enough crew members may be playing, at the scheduled time. If you would like to try hosting or have done it before but can't commit to a regular playlist, simply let DJ know what your wo…
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Event Title: Monday Motor Mayhem, Mischief, and Merriment (M5) Event Author: Lann Calendar: Crew Events Calender Monday Motor Mayhem, Mischief, and Merriment (M5) 21:00 UTC (9PM UTC) A racing and driving focused weekly playlist that is in the evening EU time. May have the occasional combat or adversary job, but again vehicle focused. While it may bear some striking similarities to TNT, and may even feature some of the same events, it most decidedly isn't TNT. It doesn't happen on Thursday. A chance to enjoy the whole range of vehicles in the game, not just the best 5% of them.
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Creators event - IRL
by Lann- 4 followers
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Simple setup. We pick something from our real life and create a job from it, then we play the jobs. Your daily commute, your bicycle, co-workers, your home or paint-ball ranch ( @JustHatched) or where ever you want to get your inspiration. Hopefully we can get some great and some really crappy jobs, its all for fun so join in! Time.. a few weeks? At least 16 players, preferably 30?
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Domestic Battery is celebrating it's 8th Anniversary at the end of January. There are GTA online events throughout the week open to all our friends here at Rockstar Social Club .net. Please RSVP on the links provide so that host know how many people to plan for All times are GMT (UK time) unless stated otherwise Sun 23rd TNT Contact Racing hosted by @Dodge 18:00 (12:00 US Central) calendar entry for RSVPs https://www.rockstarsocialclub.net/calendar/event/99-thursday-night-thunder/ Sun 23rd Hatch's 8th Anniversay PL hosted by @JustHatched 21:00 (15:…
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Transform this - a creators event 1 2
by Lann- 2 followers
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This is a event where you get to use the creator in GTA. If you have never done that before, its time to try it out! What do we do? 1. You pick a combination of one sponsor and either a manufacturer, class or area. For exampel; Sprunk Karin, Fukaru Supers, or Atomic Grapeseed. 2. You create a transform race using the combination. (A race sponsored by Sprunk in all Karin vehicles, or a race in Grapeseed sponsored by Atomic, you get the idea.) 3. Leave a note in the description what vehicles one might need if its intended for customs on. 4. We try and help eachother testing the races to get feedback/improve. 5. Once we have our jobs ready (lets…
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Biker
by DemongurlSaint- 1 follower
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Please do a biker week for month long event please or even for two weeks
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Sunday Evening Endurance Racing 1 2
by TheFox2000unit- 6 followers
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Gooooood day good peoples of RSC. Whilst Big Z's SRL is off for the summer why not try popping in for a night of endurance racing (not too endurancey, though) this Sunday 13th June at 9pm UK. 3 races. 3 classes. This week will be Coupes, Muscles, and finishing off with Sports Classics. Tier drop. The top third will drop 1 tier, the middle will stay as is, and the bottom tier will go up 1. So please try and have at least one car from the top 3 tiers according to the god of GTA cars Broughy. The races will take approx. 30 minutes each and 1 pit stop must be made in each race. No pits for the first 3 laps and no pitting on the last lap. …
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Tuner Racing (One off event)
by Skorpion- 2 followers
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If people are interested I'll be hosting some of the new tuner races this weekend. Friday at usual EU event time (I believe that's 8pm GMT). I'll be picking the tracks pretty much at random, but if anyone has a request I'm happy to include it. Obviously there's a limit of 8 people in these new races, but depending on how many join I might open it to randoms. Edit: It'll be a mix of stock and custom as well as contact and non-contact. RSVP here.
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A creators event. To participate you will spinn 3 wheels (links below). Each spinn will assign you a features of your creation: First wheel will give you the job type. Second wheel will give you the location. Third wheel will give you a weapons and car, to use either or both exclusively in your job. Spinn each wheel once and post your selection in the thread. (Only spinn once, as your selection is automatically removed after your spinn, if you spinn more than once you will start removing more options and there wont be enough for 16 jobs) Location - wheel link Job type - wheel link What to use - wheel link The site t…
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Endurance racing
by Lann- 3 followers
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This is a thread to discuss, plan and get going on a Endurance racing night, possibly Sunday evenings (EU time). Known interest: @TheFox2000unit@DavidCore89@Fido_le_muet@zmurko(i know, but experience), @RammsteinDUDE, how about @SkyeDave@mulder?
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S U N D A Y R A C I N G L E A G U E Every Sunday at 20:00 UTC, hosted by zmurko. Look for event details for each week in next post. Racing calendar: 2020 Spoiler October 25th: Sports Classics Duels November 1st: No SRL because of a H2H already scheduled. 8th: "Mega Multicrew Multiclass Endurance Extravaganza Event" 15th: Open Mixed PL 22nd: MMSC 1/6 29th: MMSC 2/6 December 6th: MMSC 3/6 13th: MMSC 4/6 20th: MMSC 5/6 27th: reserved for a potential snow event …
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This is a racing only event. We have racers in the active crews here on RSC. This will likely be very competitive, and fun. I cant help thinking of all the racers from SRL and the possibility to get a ”RSC” team with a cross crew RSC-team. Do you guys think there would be any interest? @SkyeDave@TheFox2000unit @zmurko(trying to tag different crews to see about interest)
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JDM Non-Contact Championship (SRL) 1 2
by zmurko- 4 followers
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JDM Tiered Non-Contact Championship 4 weeks championship starting on 7th of March at 21:00 UTC, hosted by @zmurko Part of Sunday Racing League, but with a separate thread just for this championship WHAT IS IT 3 tiered non-contact racing championship using Japanese cars. A Super tier, a fast Sports tier and a slow Sports tier. 6 races every week, all set to non-contact, 8-10mins long, 2 for each tier. We'll be mostly racing on tracks we normally don't use for contact racing, due to them not offering much overtaking opportunities (too fast). WHAT YOU NEED 3 cars: - a Japanese Super car, S80RR recommended (RE-7B also eligible) - a…
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Rallycross - Creators challenge
by zmurko- 3 followers
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During last Sunday Racing League, a desire to do more rallycross racing has come up, so I call for our creators and offer them a great opportunity to come up with a rallycross track of their own. What is Rallycross you ask? Rallycross is a combination of rallying and circuit racing. It is head-to-head short, sharping racing on mixed surfaces (dirt and asphalt) contained within amphitheatre venues. High profile drivers are equipped with RX Supercars with over 600bhp and the ability to accelerate from 0-60mph in less than two seconds – faster than an F1 car. (more on https://www.fiaworldrallycross.com/education) Spoiler …
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Domestic Battery 7th Anniversary
by djw180- 1 follower
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Domestic Battery 7th Anniversary It's the XDBX's 7th anniversary on 28th Jan and we'd like to invite our friends here at rockstarsocialclub.net to join us in our week long celebrations. We are hosting our usual weekly events, with one two extra ones. They are all open to site members here, other crews we're friends with, ex XDBX etc. The playlists will be based around classic XDBX creations. The scheduled events (times in UTC/GMT - unless stated otherwise) and hosts are below. Links to the events thread where you can RSVP will be added later. Mon 25th 21:00 - M5 hosted by Ally and LadyA A racing and dri…
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Event Host: DodgeService Game: GTA Online Event Start Date: July 9th 2015 Event Start Time: Friday, 2:30am UTC Reoccurring: Weekly Thursday Night Thunder Thursday Night Thunder (TNT) is a NA time zoned PL on Thursday Nights. Join your host DodgeService every Thursday at 10:30 PM EST / 2:30 AM GMT on Friday. The theme for this PL will change weekly. Visit this forum every week to see what's in store for you. It will always be a Racing PL using a specific class, or car, or style of track, or something to keep it fresh. Sometimes we may include other racing games like Wreckfest. Check this forum often for details and updates for …
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Car No. 4 Air Herler Tropos Rallye driven by @mulder The Inaugural Rallye De Paleto will be held this Wednesday 6th January. Where is it? Paleto Bay is a quaint little town in the North of Blaine County, San Andreas. It's Northwest of Paleto Forest and at the foot of Mount Chiliad. It's mixture of great shops and amusements as well as the Procopio Beach making it a great place to visit for the whole family. What is it? Set over 3 gruelling stages totalling more than 35miles the Rallye De Paleto promises to break cars as well as spirits as it winds through the Paleto Forest, Chiliad Mountain State Wilderness, Raton Canyon, Cass…
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MMSC - Multi MotorSport Championship 6 weeks championship starting on 22nd of November at 21:00 UTC, hosted by @zmurko Part of Sunday Racing League, but with a separate thread just for this championship Find your inner Jamie Whincup, Dale Earnhardt (Jr.), Timo/Tommy Makinen or Giancarlo Fisichella if you need to and join us for a 6 week Multi Motorsport Championship, consisting of 5 different categories with various race settings. Whatever your preffered race settings, you'll find something to enjoy in 5 different racing categories, but you'll have to endure it all in 30 races held over 6 weeks. 15 contact and 15 non-contact. 5 racing categ…
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XDBX vs VANS Car Football (Jan 1st) 1 2
by Protocawl- 7 followers
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XDBX vs VANS Issi Classic Rocket League/Car Football Match (up to) 8 v 8 21:00 UTC Friday, January 1st 2021 Hosted by: @Protocawl Job used: Rocket League - Weeny Time limit: 1 hour Winning condition: First team to score 6 goals / The team with the most goals scored when the time limit is reached (in the case of a tie, first team to score a goal after the time limit is reached wins) Rules: No getting out of your car or moving around on foot on the pitch, UNLESS your car dies on you and you need to get a new one. (reserved for rules regarding possible substitutions)* * - Depending on the number of players signin…
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XDBX & VANS Rolling Around In Snow 1 2 3
by Protocawl- 13 followers
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We're looking at having a fun night of silly contact racing in the snow together with VANS on Wednesday, December 30th (fingers crossed for there to actually be snow in LS that day). Time: 20:30 UTC Host: me Races: 10 jobs that have either the actual in-game snow present or modded snow/ice surface, each crew picks 5 races for the event (any classes, any vehicles) Rules: It's going to be more-or-less M5-dirty, but no deliberate ploughing (unless we agree otherwise during the event) Is it OK with you if the Wednesday evening of the 30th is used for this, @djw180? (Anyone interested in joining can start thinking whether they want t…
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991Two Brothers Playlist (GTA & RDR)
LMAO. Here is my angle. I really need to make all our videos public again. lol.- 1
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What I Watched This Week #47 (Nov 19 – 25) Hit The Road dir. Panah Panahi/2021/1h33m Hit The Road is an Iranian road movie and the directorial debut of Panah Panahi, son of filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who is currently in prison for speaking out against the regime there. The film follows a family as they drive to the Turkish border, the reasons for which aren't made clear until late on. In the backseat, the father (Hassan Madjooni) is struggling with a broken leg whilst trying to keep the younger son (Rayan Sarlak) under control. In the front, the mother (Pantea Panahiha) is trying not to cry while the older son (Amin Simiar) quietly drives. This is a brilliantly observed family drama with each character so fully fleshed out by both script and performance that we can discern their individual relationships with each other almost instantly. Panahi manages a fine balance in tone here masterfully, as even though the family are joking and squabbling with each other in a very funny, naturalistic way, there is always an edge of danger in the background. They are never quite safe and you can always feel that. This is also expressed through the performances of Madjooni and Panahiha as the parents. The scenes with just the two of them are some of the best in the film because they perfectly convey that particular brand of parental angst and worry. But the real star of the film is the young Sarlak who steals every scene with his excellent performance – which doesn't feel like a performance at all - as the youngest son. He is a force of nature bursting into song and injecting the film with a lot of energy, which it needs as a lot of it is set in a car. I also love him in the totally unexpected fourth-wall breaking ending. 8.5/10 Carry On Screaming dir. Gerald Thomas/1966/1h27m The Carry On team spoof the classic Hammer horror films in what many consider the best in the series. Harry H. Corbett plays Detective Bung, investigating a series of kidnappings of beautiful young women. The women are being taken by the crazed Dr. Watt (Kenneth Williams) and turned into mannequins, which he's selling to shops. Bung is also hampered in his case by Watt's sister, the vampish Valeria (Fenella Fielding), who uses her considerable charms to distract him. I'm with the general consensus here as I think this is the high point for the series. Corbett, in his only Carry On appearance, is great as the bumbling detective, and he shows a great range swinging from incompetent nincompoop to dedicated professional to slavering beast. Williams is having a lot of fun as the mad scientist with another iconic line - “frying tonight”. Again, the production and costume design are a step above what you would expect from one of these films, and I thing the design of the monster – a kind of hybrid Wolfman and Frankenstein's Monster – is genuinely scary. We're a dozen films into this series now, and I'm still surprised at how good they are. 8/10 Casino Royale dir. Martin Campbell/2006/2h24m Daniel Craig takes on the mantle of the world's most famous spy in what is the first true reboot in the series' history. We go back to the beginning from the beginning as the fantastic pre-title sequence shows him earning his double-0 license. His main mission is to take on Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) in a high stakes poker game. Le Chiffre is the money man for the world's biggest terrorist organisations, but he lost it all – thanks to Bond – and needs to make back a few hundred million pretty sharpish, hence the poker game. This is a real stripped back effort that maintains the familiar traits of a classic Bond film with a modern simplicity. This is from the same director as Goldeneye and is again the best film in that actor's run. The producers of the series would be foolish to not have him direct the next one. Campbell is great at giving action scenes the time and space they need so you can appreciate what's going on, and there are some spectacular set pieces in this film, the standout being the early parkour chase through a building site. The theme song – You Know My Name – by the late, great Chris Cornell, is like the film itself, a simple, stripped back song that still has the classic elements, this is complimented by David Arnold's excellent score. Arguably the best film in the series, and depending on what day it is I may just agree with that. 9/10 Enola Holmes 2 dir. Harry Bradbeer/2022/2h9m Millie Bobby Brown returns as the titular Enola, who has started her own private investigation business hoping to step out of her older brother Sherlock's (Henry Cavill) shadow. She is about to shut up shop – because no one wants to hire a young woman – when she gets a case to find a missing match factory girl, a case which seems to be connected to something big Sherlock is working on. I'm a big fan of the Sherlock Holmes universe, and this series is a fun addition to the mythology. The best parts of the first were when she was working together with Sherlock, and we get a lot more of that here. The actual mystery itself is decent and had me guessing up to the big reveal, and there is another big character from the mythology introduced here which I did not see coming, and I hope we get more of them in the inevitable third part. MBB is a good actor, but there's a lot of fourth-wall breaking here – like the first film – and she just doesn't pull it off very well, but other than that she's great. Cavill is brilliant as Sherlock, and I would love to see him get a film of his own, doing a slick Netflix take on one of the classic stories. It is overlong, but if I were a 12 year old girl this would be my favourite film. 7/10 Life After Flash dir. Lisa Downs/2017/1h34m Life After Flash is a documentary that explores the life of Sam J. Jones, who played Flash Gordon in the 1980 film, after his one big role. It also acts as a behind the scene documentary with interviews with other cast members like Brian Blessed and Topol. This is a very shallow documentary that never really digs into anything. It brings up topics, like Jones's legal battles with producer Dino de Laurentiis, but there's no follow through or resolution. Most of the Jones half of the film is made up of talking heads interviews with his friends who all think he's a great guy and deserves his happiness. It's all very Hallmark channel. The other half of the film is nothing more than a DVD extra. The Blessed interviews are great because he's such a character, we get to see Brian May play the theme on the piano, and there are some fun interviews with Flash super-fans who show off their memorabilia collections, but this is an otherwise insignificant film. I only watched this because this month's film club film is Flash Gordon, and I wouldn't watch this otherwise. 4/10 Invention for Destruction dir. Karel Zeman/1958/1h23m Based on several Jules Verne stories, Invention for Destruction is a breath-takingly brilliant combination of live action and stop motion that looks like illustrations come to life. The plot sees a professor (Arnost Navratil) kidnapped by a dictator (Miroslav Holub) in order to produce a super weapon. But all of that is secondary to the incredible pre-steampunk style of the film. Every single shot is full of creativity and invention and are just gorgeous to look at. This bought to mind the films of George Melies with his beautifully intricate backgrounds, and is a clear influence on the likes of Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson. This is the second Zeman film I've seen now, after The Fabulous Baron Munchausen, but I can already tell he's a filmmaker with a unique vision that is a testament to his imagination. Absolutely beautiful. 9/10 Triangle of Sadness dir. Ruben Ostlund/2022/2h27m The winner of the Palme D'Or at this years Cannes Film Festival, the director's second, Triangle of Sadness is a dark comedy that takes a super-yacht full of the super-rich and gives them the worst vacation ever. The film is split into three acts. The first introduces two of the passengers before they get on the yacht, the male model Carl (Harris Dickinson) and his more successful model girlfriend Yaya (Charlbi Dean, who sadly passed away earlier this year at just 32). The second act, The Yacht, is set on the yacht, with the final act set on a deserted island. This is a blunt force satire that wears its message on its sleeve, but, like the greatest writer of all time, Garth Marenghi, once said, subtext is for cowards. I don't want to say much more here because I loved this and think you should all watch it without knowing much about it. The performances are all superb, with my favourites being Woody Harrelson as the alcoholic, communist captain of the yacht, Dolly de Leon as the toilet cleaner turned island leader and Zlatko Buric as a Russian billionaire who sells sh*t. If seeing people vomit makes you queasy then maybe have a bucket on hand because there's a twenty minute sequence that you may have trouble with, and the ending is kind of ambiguous which can be quite divisive. But I always enjoy seeing rich people realise how f*cking worthless they actually are, and this delivers that in spades. 9.5/10 Lime's Film of the Week! Quantum of Solace dir. Marc Forster/2008/1h46m Daniel Craig returns for his second Bond outing, which picks up just moments after the end of Casino Royale. Bond is out for blood after the betrayal and death of Vespa, which leads him to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), who has connections to the shadowy organisation behind everything. Right from the opening scene this is a huge let down. That scene, a car chase, is one of the worst edited scenes in any big budget film ever. It's totally incomprehensible with no regard to making it clear who is who and what is happening. The villain is totally bland, maybe the worst in the series, and I actually can't remember what his big evil plan is despite watching it only yesterday. He doesn't even have an interesting henchman. Even the guy in Die Another Day had a cool looking henchman. There are good things, like Craig, who gives a great performance as a blunt force instrument bent on revenge. Casino Royale was always gonna be a hard act to follow, but they really fumbled the ball here. 4.5/10 Decision to Leave dir. Park Chan-wook/2022/2h18m The latest film from the director of Oldboy is a slow-burn noir thriller with a strong debt to Hitchcock. The plot follows detective Hae-joon (Park Hae-il) who is investigating the suspicious death of a man, with the man's wife Seo-rae (Tang Wei) soon becoming the prime suspect. The two soon form something of a relationship, but is she an innocent widow or a manipulative femme fatale? This is a comparatively understated film compared to Chan-wook's other works, with a focus more on the characters and their motivations. This is a film all about communication and things lost in translation. There are times when Seo-rae, who is Chinese, has to use a translator on her phone to talk to Hae-joon, which seems to symbolise their whole relationship. The performances are solid all round, and the direction is always crisp with some inventive framing and editing. A fantastic film with a haunting ending. 8.5/10 The Witches dir. Nicolas Roeg/1990/1h31m From the director of Walkabout and The Man Who Fell to Earth comes this Roald Dahl adaptation which stars Anjelica Huston as the Grand High Witch, who has a cunning plan to kill every child in England. She is holding a convention at a hotel run by Mr. Stringer (Rowan Atkinson) where she has gathered every witch in the country, but a young boy, Luke (Jasen Fisher), and his grandmother (Mai Zetterling) plan to stop her once and for all. This was a favourite of mine as a child, but watching it now I was actually shocked by how disturbing this film is. Just the make up of the Grand High Witch, a grotesquely twisted, rotten looking, slimy design would be enough, but the performance of Huston really sells it. She is brilliant here as the embodiment of pure evil, and she steals every scene she's in. Fisher isn't the greatest child actor, but he's a mouse for most of the film, so it never really becomes a problem. I'm a huge fan of Roald Dahl, and I really think this is up there with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory when it comes to screen adaptations of his work. 8/10 Ulysse dir. Agnes Varda/1983/22m In 1954 Agnes Varda took a photograph. A dead goat lies bloated on a stony beach. A naked man looks out to sea while a child, sat on the ground, looks back over his shoulder. Nearly thirty years later she uses this photograph as a starting point for an exploration on the nature of memory. She talks about her memory of taking the photo, and also interviews the two subjects about what they can recall. She shows the photo to some children for their opinion on it. Varda is a filmmaker who can make anything interesting, and that is evident here. That she can take an old photo and make something so thoughtful and fascinating is incredible. This isn't my favourite of her documentaries, and the subtitles on Amazon were out of sync, but this film is still a testament to her singular way of looking at the world and finding stories everywhere. 7.5/10- 1
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991Two Brothers Playlist (GTA & RDR)
When there wasn’t a train involved after promising there would be when playing the job Don’t Stand By Me by @Squirrel I felt I should show some proof. This was from a few years ago. It was me @Con @Skorpionand @revbouncer- 2
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3Flash Gordon [RSC Film Club 50]
It is ages since I have seen this and to be honest I do not remember much of the opening with Flash and Dale on the plane crashing into Zarkov's lab. I would say it is not quite in the so-bad-it's-good category, because it isn't actually that bad. The lead actor, Sam J. Jones, rightly won a Worst Actor Razzie and some of the support aren't great. But most are OK for the sort of film it is, and Max Von Sydow is brilliant as Ming the Merciless, as is Brian Blessed as Prince Vultan. It is, of course, all very silly, and I am sure it is meant to be. It's based on a 30s series that would have been shown in cinemas, as no one had TVs then. I remember seeing these on the TV when they got endlessly repeated in school holidays on the BBC in the 70s and 80s. This film still keeps the feel of the original, the actual style of the space ships and the costumes of the various peoples of Ming's empire. But made decades later it obviously has better effects and sets. Some of the script is hilariously bad, “Flash, Flash, I love you – but we only have 14 hours to save the Earth!” and distances are measured in “Mongo-Miles” - but again I think that was deliberate. They were clearly not trying to make serious sci-fi. Take the Football Fight scene where Ming's guards attempt to arrest Flash (“Quarter back, New York Jets”), and he fights them off using a handily available American Football shaped weapon which he just throws at the heads of each guard in turn knocking them out, until Dr Hans Zarkov (Topol) tries to help and ends up hitting Flash instead. My favourite scene has to be the wedding ceremony, all set to Brian May playing Mendelssohn's wedding march on his electric guitar. When the priest, referring to Ming's intended bride Dale Arden, asks him if he “promises not to blast her off into space”, there is a pause as Ming considers if he wants to make such a promise, so the priest quickly adds “until such time as you grow weary of her”, Ming replies “I do”, Dale exclaims “ I do not!”, cue the music changing as Flash and the Hawk Men come to the rescue. For me the music is brilliant, the best rock-score for a film ever. But I am biased as a huge Queen fan (all four band members wrote the music). I do know not everyone agrees. Someone once told me they thought it was quite a good film but the music spoilt it or them. For me, 8/10.- 1
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