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Budget Classic Car Night.
by SkyeDave- 2 replies
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Come join us this Wednesday 2nd March where we pit the cheapest Classic cars against each other for a night of fun, low stakes racing. Eligible cars are: Dynasty Manana Peyote Tornado Tornado Cabrio Tornado Custom Mariachi Tornado You can race the same car all night or chop and change and try other peoples. Sign up below: 1. SkyeDave 2. Mulder
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Mystery Car February 2022
by Mark Verstappen- 3 replies
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Come and join us for Mystery Car on Wednesday 23th of February at 20:00 GMT. We will start out in free roam at the parking lot west of the Vespucci Beach Houses from where we will have to follow the clues to find the Mystery Car. Once the car is revealed we will all buy it if needed, modify it, then spend the night racing it. The price of the car will be less than $100k so don't worry about having to spend millions to join in. The usual rules will apply, don't bring the emergency services along with you in free roam, don't kill other players, race clean and respect the other racers.... Basically don't be a bellend. Post your best mystery GIF below to get in…
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The Return of 'What's Under The Hood?'
by SkyeDave- 4 replies
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Is it Stock or Sleeper? Racer or Ricer? Join us this Wednesday 16th February 20:00GMT for a muscle car series with a difference. As well as trying to beat each other on the track we'll be trying to trick each other into being in slower cars as we wonder, what's under the hood? It's like a game of poker at 100mph. The 11 Cars allowed on the night: Blade, Dukes (not of Death), Ruiner, Sabre Turbo(not custom), Burger Shot Stallion, Phoenix, Redwood Gauntlet, Stallion, Buccaneer, Gauntlet and the Vigero You can pick a different car each race or stay in the same one. The cars can be fully modded, they can be stock or if you're feeling particularl…
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ABC 2
by Mark Verstappen- 5 replies
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ABC 2 Come and join us on Wednesday 9th of February at 20:00 UK Time for ABC! Just turn up to the parking lot of the Church in Strawberry in any of the 8 ABC 2 cars. We will determine who knows their ABC best before we start a playlist to determine who gets an A+! For all races we will all race one car of the ABC per race from 1 to Z starting with F to M this Wednesday. ABC will be hosted sporadically. We wont do all of the nights in succession. Don't worry if you don't own all/any of the cars, we can spawn them in for you. For this week the list of cars is: Fränken Stange Gauntlet Hellfire Hellion I-Wagen Jac…
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Survive the Hunt 3
by Mark Verstappen- 6 replies
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Survive the Hunt 3 Come and join us in Survive the Hunt, where the aim is to... Well... survive the hunt! Wednesday 2nd of February 20:00 UK time starting from Vespucci Helipad. What is Survive The Hunt? Essentially, Survive The Hunt is a freeroam game mode where one player is "hunted" by 8+ other players. There is no radar, HUD or name-tags in order to make this a bit more interesting. While there is no set tactic, the most popular and effective one is for the hunted player to "blend in" with the game AI - either on foot or in a car. This means obeying traffic laws, following the road at an AI-ish pace, stopping at traffic lights etc. The hunters can employ a…
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Hello Vans! Sorry, I should dhav ebput the sup much sooner. We've been Kindly invited to join XDBX this Wednesday night as part of their 8 year anniversary. They're starting a little earlier then they normally do to accommodate us. It'll be a mixed playlist which has always been good fun in the past, not least because they're a really good bunch of guys. Please click the link and RSVP on the left hand side to give them an idea of numbers. Apologies for not putting this up sooner. @mulder @Mark Verstappen @Warriors-Ten @CatManDoza @JuniorChubb @Paulie @badingaaa
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Sports C Class Wednesday 19th January
by SkyeDave- 4 replies
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Come join us at short notice this Wednesday while we race cars from the Sports C class. (Thanks to Broughy1322 for the tiers making everyones life easier) There's a mix of new and old school cars in the group and you can race as many different cars on the night as you like. 9F 9F Cabrio Bestia GTS Cypher Flash GT Jester RR Komoda Penumbra FF Raiden Revolter Sentinel Classic Specter Specter Custom Surano V-STR
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1979 Rallye De Paleto, Wed 12th January 8PM
by SkyeDave- 14 replies
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The Annual Rallye De Paleto will be held this Wednesday 12th 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, Cassidy Creek, the Alamo Sea, Mount Josiah and the Grand…
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Cont(r)act Racing!
by Mark Verstappen- 4 replies
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Cont(r)act Racing! Come and join us on Wednesday the 5th of January at 20:00 UK Time for Cont(r)act Racing! Just turn up to the parking lot of the Golf Club in your favorite released 'The Contract' car. We will determine who has the best car before we start a playlist to determine the best Contract Racer! We will race the currently released cars from the Contact Update with the cars listed below. Each race will feature only one of the cars so we can all try them out equally. The Cars: Astron Buffalo STX Champion Cinquemila Deity Ignus Jubilee Baller ST Zeno …
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The Return of the Cat! 1 2
by JuniorChubb- 34 replies
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To celebrate the return of Catman (who probably wont even turn up) we have a night of RoofRacks & Saftness! Post below if you are coming out to play and suggest a job that reminds you of our bearded Mexican friend to add to the playlist... We will also tie in some stuff from the new update, especially if it involves Alfa Romeo's and roof racks. Wed 15th Dec 8pm, be there or.... don't be there!
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Helmut's American Autos D Muscle
by Mark Verstappen- 3 replies
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Helmut's American Autos D Muscle Come and join us on Wednesday the 8st of December at 20:00 UK Time for Helmut's American Autos D Muscle! Just turn up to the parking lot of Helmut's European Autos in Paleto Bay just of U.S. Route 1 in your favorite eligible Muscle Car. We will determine who has the best car before we start a playlist to determine the winner of Helmut's American Autos B Sports! We will race the Burger Shot Stallion, Deviant, Hermes, Phoenix, Redwood Gauntlet, Slamvan Custom, Stallion & Tampa against each other. You can switch the whole night with the cars you want but each car can only be used twice. These cars should be all about the sa…
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Daves Motorsport Masterpiece
by JuniorChubb- 13 replies
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Sorry guys... not been the best of weeks, got nothing planned right now but hey... that’s no reason to not sign up! I should be online and have something sorted, if not I’ll let you know ASAP!
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Mystery Car November 2021
by Mark Verstappen- 5 replies
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Come and join us for Mystery Car on Wednesday 17th of November at 20:00 GMT. We will start out in free roam on the soccer field of the track-and-field complex at the University of San Andreas, Los Santos location from where we will have to follow the clues to find the Mystery Car. Once the car is revealed we will all buy it if needed, modify it, then spend the night racing it. The price of the car will be less than $100k so don't worry about having to spend millions to join in. The usual rules will apply, don't bring the emergency services along with you in free roam, don't kill other players, race clean and respect the other racers.... Basically don't be a bell…
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Go Kart Race Night
by JuniorChubb- 14 replies
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Apparently Go-Karts are here... Come and join us for a night of Go Kart Racing this Wednesday!! Not sure what to expect but I'm sure we will find out, Go Kart Gifs below please...
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ABC 1
by Mark Verstappen- 8 replies
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ABC 1 Come and join us on Wednesday 3rd of October at 20:00 UK Time for ABC! Just turn up to the parking lot of the Church in Strawberry in any of the 8 ABC 1 cars. We will determine who knows their ABC best before we start a playlist to determine who gets an A+! For all races we will all race one car of the ABC per race from 1 to Z starting with 1 to E this Wednesday. ABC will be hosted sporadically. We wont do all of the nights in succession. Don't worry if you don't own all/any of the cars, we can spawn them in for you. For this week the list of cars is: 190z 8F Drafter 9F (Either one) Adder Bison Cyp…
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Night of the Bogey Car!!!
by JuniorChubb- 17 replies
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Come and join us for some last minute planned Halloween fun this Wednesday... This Halloween themed night will feature a new racing system called the Bogey Car! We will all pick a different car on the grid, we will elect chose the worse car and elect this to be the bogey car, we will select a few other choices to be known as the 'popular cars'. Whoever won the last race and/or whoever is top of the Playlist will have to race in the bogey car. To rid yourself of the Bogey Car curse all you need to do is not finish last in a race and you can go back to the popular selection again. Best Halloween gif below get pole in the first race!
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Rigged Random Car Extravaganza Pt6
by Mark Verstappen- 9 replies
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Come and join us on Wednesday 20th of October at 8 PM British time for Part 6 of the Rigged Random Car Extravaganza! After doing the Rigged Random Tier Extravaganza recently I thought it was only fitting (and time) to see what wacky, fast, slow, stupid cars it would give us. After a meet up in free roam east across the water from Bristols (The big t*ts looking buildings 💦) we will launch into a playlist of races where you will only know what car we will be racing each race when we get to the race lobby. Each car is determined by a random generator with a few exclusions like not more than 3 cars from the same class, used recently in an event or often used cars in…
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Gamblers Anonymous
by JuniorChubb- 19 replies
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Come and join us this Wednesday for a night of racing!! Race points will go out the window as the only thing we will keep track of is the money... Every race will see every racer bet on the outcome, make sure you bring a pencils and some paper to keep track of your gains and losses as the player with the highest cash sum at the end of the night wins, so its go big or go home. Bet as little or as much as you like on each race (every missed bet will cost you cash and grid positioning). You cannot bet on yourself to win. The races will be locked to one car (sorry all my jobs to make things easy) so we don't waste tie picking cars, we can just bet! …
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Pfister Tonight!
by Mark Verstappen- 12 replies
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Pfister Tonight! Come and join us on Wednesday 6th of October at 20:00 UK Time for Paulie's Night! Just turn up to the front door of the Von Crastenburg Hotel in Morningwood in any Pfister. We will determine who has the best taste in Pfister before we start a playlist to determine who is the Master of Pfisters! For this night we will do all 8 Pfisters once. These are in order... Comet 811 Comet Retro Custom Comet Safari Neon Comet SR Growler Comet S2 Don't worry if you don't own all/any of the Pfisters, we can spawn them in for you. If you own an 811, please let me know with your sign…
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Planes Trains and Automobiles
by JuniorChubb- 11 replies
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Come and join us this Wednesday night for something involving vehicles of the travelling variety! If it can be raced we will race it... and do other things with it, hopefully things that might stop Mulder from winning because they require more luck than skill. Planes, Trains & Automobiles my dudes. Post a suitable gif below to sign up, best gif gets a prize!
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Rigged Random Tier Extravaganza
by Mark Verstappen- 14 replies
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Come and join us on Wednesday 22nd August at 20:00 UK Time for the Rigged Random Tier Extravaganza. After a meet up behind 'Bishop's WTF?!' we will launch into a playlist of races where you will only know what class and tier of car you can choose before each race when we get to the race lobbies. A tier is a group of cars in a class all about on the same pace. For example in SUV's one of these is the Granger, Landstalker XL, Rocoto, Seminole Frontier, Serrano, Squaddie & XLS. This should give us a diverse grid of cars maybe not often used while still competitive among eachother. Each tier is determined by a random generator with a few exclusions like skipping…
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Night of the Pantoloons Pt2
by JuniorChubb- 7 replies
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Come and join us for this nonsense!!! I know I promised you a Top Gear but I am rubbish so have this instead, a night of debauchery in the the official car of the Van Society! Meet at the Vans Clubhouse in your Panto... be there or be a four sided polygon with sides of equal length. Post below to show some kind of interest.
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Mystery Car September 2021
by Mark Verstappen- 16 replies
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Come and join us for Mystery Car on Wednesday 8th of September at 20:00 GMT. We will start out in free roam at the parking lot in eastern Cypress Flats from where we will have to follow the clues to find the Mystery Car. Once the car is revealed we will all buy it if needed, modify it, then spend the night racing it. The price of the car will be less than $100k so don't worry about having to spend millions to join in. The usual rules will apply, don't bring the emergency services along with you in free roam, don't kill other players, race clean and respect the other racers.... Basically don't be a bellend. Post below to get involved! Verstappen …
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Drift Kings 1 2
by JuniorChubb- 30 replies
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Come and join us this Wednesday for our Drift Kings night!!! Come along in any car that you are able to fit Drift Tyres to, and make sure you have fitted those drift tyres. We will be running a night of drifting and racing in a low grip environment. Post below to get involved. Photo by serjan midili on Unsplash
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Survive the Hunt 2
by Mark Verstappen- 7 replies
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Survive the Hunt 2 Come and join us in Survive the Hunt, where the aim is to... Well... survive the hunt! Wednesday 24th of august 20:00 UK time starting from the parking lot of the Maze Bank Arena. What is Survive The Hunt? Essentially, Survive The Hunt is a freeroam game mode where one player is "hunted" by 8+ other players. There is no radar, HUD or name-tags in order to make this a bit more interesting. While there is no set tactic, the most popular and effective one is for the hunted player to "blend in" with the game AI - either on foot or in a car. This means obeying traffic laws, following the road at an AI-ish pace, stopping at traffic lights etc. The…
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249Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
Operation Mincemeat (2021) dir John Madden A WWII film focussing the efforts of British intelligence to trick Germany into thinking an upcoming major operation was going to happen somewhere else, so that they diverted defending forces away from the actual location. The basics are a true story. The characters are mainly the real people who were involved. It has a great ensemble cast. The main characters are two officers working for MI5, one from the navy and one from the air force, played by Colin Firth and Matthew McFadden, with Kelly MacDonald and Penelope Wilton playing their civilian assistants. It also features Johnny Flynn as the young Lt. Ian Fleming who narrates some scenes in a style that could well have been passages from his James Bond novels. You could, at a big stretch, almost class this as Bond film since it features characters referred to as M (head of MI5, Jason Issacs) and Q-branch (the gadget inventor, James Fleet). Simon Russel Beale also puts in a great performance as Winston Churchill. I have heard of Operation Mincemeat, knew the basics of it, that Ian Fleming was involved and what the outcome was. I don't think it's a spoiler to say the plan worked, as various characters in the film say that if it doesn't the allies won't win the war. The plan was to take the body of recently deceased man, a Welshman living rough in London called Glyndwr Michael, dress him in an officer's uniform, attach a brief case containing fake, but apparently top-secret documents, and then release it from a submarine such that it would wash up on a Spanish beach. Spain was neutral in WWII but under the regime of the Fascist, pro-n*zi, General Franco. So British intelligence knew that the contents of the brief case should find their way into the hands of German agents, before being returned to Britain, and thus the fake information would find it's way to Berlin. The operation they were planning for was the allied invasion of Italy, then Germany's ally. The fake information was one part of bigger plan to convince the Germans it was occupied Greece that was going to be invaded. The subsequent invasion of Italy is one of the lesser known parts of the war. Much is made, quite rightly, of the D-day landings, but that was not the first invasion of German controlled Europe, it was this invasion of Italy, nearly a year earlier. So it's nice to see a film about this aspect of the war, because there aren't very many of them. The film shows the meticulous level of detail the agents went to, creating a whole fake identity, Major William Martin, along with personal letters, a photo of a fiancé, etc. The plot does come across somewhat unbelievable at times and includes a completely unnecessary romantic sub-plot. Even if some of that is what actually happened, the way the films portrays this comes across as if the producers wanted to “s*x it up” and add these elements in because they thought the story of the planning and execution of the operation was not interesting enough. I was all set to give this a lower score than I did, but the last 30 mins or so redeemed it a little. What I found really interesting was, after the the plan had been put into action, the role British diplomats in Spain then had to play to make sure that the brief case of fake documents did indeed end up in German hands. Because after all the detailed and careful planning, it could have easily been undone by a Spanish official simply handing the brief case straight back to Britain, as was technically the correct thing for a neutral country to do, but not what they were supposed to do according to the pro-German Fascist regime in charge. There's almost none of the action you usually get in war films, until right at the end when we see an American infantry sergeant, a minor character introduced earlier, on board a landing craft, storming a Sicilian beach which was taken and held with relatively light causalities. All due to the success of Operation Mincemeat diverting German forces hundreds of miles away. 6 / 10- 2
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249Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #179 (June 2-8) Escape from Alcatraz dir. Don Siegel/1979/1h53m Clint Eastwood stars in this prison break drama based on the true story of the only man to escape from the famous prison island off the San Francisco coast, Frank Morris. This film takes its time, much like Eastwood's performance style it's understated, deliberate and measured, with none of the melodrama of something like The Shawshank Redemption. The plot is simple, Eastwood arrives at the prison, spends some time scoping it out, then enacts his plan. It's the little things that give weight to this film, particularly the character of Doc (Roberts Blossom), who quietly represents the unshakeable human yearning for freedom with his portraits and the symbolic use of chrysanthemums. At times the pace of the film does undercut some of the urgency of the escape attempt, but I did like the ambiguous ending that doesn't tell you what happened to Frank after he got past the prison walls. 7.5/10 Rhinestone dir. Bob Clark/1984/1h51m I was scrolling through Sylvester Stallone's filmography and came across this, and knew that I had to watch it just to make sure that it's real. Rhinestone stars Dolly Parton as aspiring singer Jake who needs to get out of her crummy contract at the titular New York country music club. To do this she makes a bet with the manager, Freddie (Ron Leibman), that she can turn anyone into a country singer. The person chosen is tone deaf cab driver Nick, played by Stallone. To do this she takes him back home to Tennessee for some real country experience. Stallone also co-wrote this based on the song Rhinestone Cowboy. Really, it even says so in the opening credits. This whole thing is like a fever dream, especially the scenes where Stallone sings by howling like a demented gibbon. He plays his role like an overactive child with attention issues. Parton is just as sweet and charming as she always is, and the moments when she gets to sing are obviously excellent. I also liked Richard Farnsworth as Parton's father. This is not a good film, but it is a bizarre film, and it has its charms. 6/10 The Hustler dir. Robert Rossen/1961/2h14m Paul Newman stars in his iconic role of pool hustler Fast Eddie Felson who is on the fast track to self destruction as he becomes obsessed with beating the best pool player in the world, Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason). This is a film in three distinct acts. The first and third are Felson's showdowns with Fats which bookend a tragic romance between Felson and Sarah (Piper Laurie), a depressed alcoholic. This is a bleak film about addicts and losers, yet there is beauty in the direction that makes this world of smoky pool halls cool and alluring. It also helps that Newman is incredibly handsome. The two pool games between Eddie and Fats are the showpieces here and are given the attention they deserve, with Eddie losing even when he wins, that's just the kind of man he is. Gleason is great as Eddie's opposite, someone totally calm and in control of their emotions. Laurie is heart breaking as Sarah, with only one inevitable outcome for her. Rounding out the main cast is George C. Scott as Bert, the sleazy and manipulative pool hall owner. As a standalone film this is excellent, but wouldn't it be good if we caught up with Eddie let's say twenty five years later? 9/10 Lime's Co-Film of the Week! The Color of Money dir. Martin Scorsese/1986/1h59m Martin Scorsese's The Color of Money catches up with Fast Eddie Felson (a returning Paul Newman) twenty five years after the events of The Hustler. He's now making a decent living off of whiskey, but when a hotshot young pool player, Vince (Tom Cruise), catches his eye he wants back in the hustling game. Without the context of The Hustler this is still a fantastic film full of Scorsese's trademark moves, but with the added history of the character a whole new tragic dimension is added. Eddie is a man full of regrets, so when he sees a chance to recapture his glory days he'll do anything he can to grab it, his old instincts kicking in almost instantly. He's there to use Vince, and he's open about it. But Vince is no d*mmy, even though he may act like it, and with his more emotionally mature girlfriend Carmen (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) he may end up teaching Eddie a thing or two. This has a much different vibe to the previous film, very fitting for the time it was made, and the pool scenes are edited violently by Scorsese's long time editor Thelma Schoonmaker, almost like they're fight scenes. This is a Scorsese film I've not seen before, and didn't really have any interest in before watching The Hustler, but I think this is one of his best works of the decade, only The King of Comedy is better in my opinion. Combined with The Hustler this is an epic, four hour rise and fall and rise and fall and maybe rise again story that spans decades. And it all ends on a high note with a brilliant one liner and a classic Scorsese freeze frame. 9/10 Lime's Co-Film of the Week! Bottom: Exposed dir. Adrian Edmondson/2024/1h30m This made for TV documentary covers the creation, production, reception and legacy of one of my all time favourite shows, Bottom. Written and performed by the late, great (he said so himself) Rik Mayall (seriously, his autobiography is called Bigger Than Hitler, Better Than Christ) and Adrian Edmondson (director of this documentary), Bottom was a BBC comedy that ran for three series in the 90's and was violently crude, obscene, anarchic, absurd and offensive, and one of the funniest things I've ever seen, with slapstick fight scenes that would make Chaplin blush and a sound effects guy straight out of the Looney Tunes. The documentary itself is fine if very standard, featuring interviews with cast, crew and fans, but the real gold is when Edmondson is talking about Mayall, the two being lifelong friends since university. It gets quite emotional at points, which Mayall would have f*cking hated. One of my favourite memories is going to see the Bottom live show with my dad in 2003, their last of five live tours, and even though it's the worst of the five (my favourite is split between 2 and 3), it was amazing being so close to such raw, unfiltered energy. If you've never seen Bottom before, watch it, because the main thing I took from this documentary and seeing all the clips from the show, is that it's been too long since I've seen it. 7/10 La Cage aux Folles dir. Edouard Molinaro/1978/1h32m This French comedy stars Ugo Tognazzi as Renato Baldi, owner of drag club La Cage aux Folles, with Michel Serrault playing Albin, aka Zaza, his partner and star performer. When Renato's son Laurent (Remi Laurent), who the couple have raised since he was a baby, comes home he has some big news. He's getting married. But unfortunately the parents of his girlfriend are in politics, on the conservative side. The very conservative side. So he asks his father and Albin to tone things down a bit while they are visiting. I think this film has aged pretty well considering it was made in the 70's, and while it does rely heavily on stereotypes it never comes across as mean spirited. Tognazzi is good in the lead role, being pulled between his partner, his son and his own identity, with Serrault stealing every scene he's in as a flighty drag queen. The highlight of the film is the climactic dinner party between the two sets of parents with Albin showing some real depth and character here. A little dated but still with a pure heart, I can't wait to compare it with the American remake (see next review). 8/10 The Birdcage dir. Mike Nichols/1996/1h59m Robin Williams and Nathan Lane star as drag club owner Armand Goldman and his partner and star performer Albert in this American remake of La Cage aux Folles. The plot remains basically unchanged from the French original, just with some extra time to let Williams and Lane shine. Considering he's playing a gay drag club owner Williams gives a fairly understated performance, with really only one instance of that classic over the top exuberance. All of that is left to Lane, who is hilarious here. My only real problem with this film, same as the original though I didn't mention it in my review, is that their son, Val (Dan Futterman), is an unappreciative *sshole. Thankfully that doesn't take too much away from this, and the presence of Gene Hackman as republican senator Kevin Keeley, his future father in law, really alleviates this, with him getting to exercise his comedy muscles (and he looks great in drag). This is a slice of fabulous fun and, thanks to the lead duo of Williams and Lane, is better than the original. 9/10- 2
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