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<blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 410114" data-attributes="member: 23"><p>Well, you planted the seed for me to watch <em>Get Carter</em> while it was still on iPlayer. And it was my first time.</p><p></p><p>I can see why these two films were grouped together since they both have that disorientating thing where stuff is going on but the viewer needs to resort to empirical evidence to work out what the actual <em>story</em> is. In fact iPlayer even tried to force me to auto-watch <em>The French Connection</em> immediately afterwards.</p><p></p><p>Lots of good stuff here: the locations look good (I especially loved the shot of the two hearses pulling away from the back of the house, down that steep lane overlooking industrial Newcastle); the score is a classic, and the only part of the film with which I was familiar before watching; there are some familiar faces (including Alf Roberts himself) and that Sunbeam Alpine is (or was) gorgeous.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Oh - the video cuts off at the funniest part: the knicker-flashing catfight between the singer and the jealous wife while all the blokes watch in amused, world-weary approval.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You summed it up with the word "oddball", I think. It's hard to describe why I found the weirdness enjoyable. I had this to say about it when I watched it for the first (and probably only) time:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spells & Karma, post: 410114, member: 23"] Well, you planted the seed for me to watch [I]Get Carter[/I] while it was still on iPlayer. And it was my first time. I can see why these two films were grouped together since they both have that disorientating thing where stuff is going on but the viewer needs to resort to empirical evidence to work out what the actual [I]story[/I] is. In fact iPlayer even tried to force me to auto-watch [I]The French Connection[/I] immediately afterwards. Lots of good stuff here: the locations look good (I especially loved the shot of the two hearses pulling away from the back of the house, down that steep lane overlooking industrial Newcastle); the score is a classic, and the only part of the film with which I was familiar before watching; there are some familiar faces (including Alf Roberts himself) and that Sunbeam Alpine is (or was) gorgeous. Oh - the video cuts off at the funniest part: the knicker-flashing catfight between the singer and the jealous wife while all the blokes watch in amused, world-weary approval. You summed it up with the word "oddball", I think. It's hard to describe why I found the weirdness enjoyable. I had this to say about it when I watched it for the first (and probably only) time: [/QUOTE]
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