Dummies. If they had any sense they would have made it into a tourist attraction. I know it's a piece of concrete brutalism, but it has a bit of glamour to it.
One of my favourite lines in the film is when Carter has just thrown "Alf" from the top deck, landing on a car below. One of the architects turns to the other and says "I think we might have a problem with our fees on this one."
One of the best films ever, I was so surprised that Sly Stallone was unable to improve upon it!
Get Carter Landmark Bites The Dust
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Re: Get Carter Landmark Bites The Dust
A longtime favourite film of mine, with great music by the very underated Roy Budd. There was a compilation CD of Budd's music for Get Carter and other, it has to be said, lesser films he scored, called Vigilante. Well worth finding.
As for GC, it is a very amoral film in that we are rooting for a sadistic killer, whatever his motives, and the film has a very of its time view of porn. Quite quaint really. Mona Lisa is another film where you wonder where the bloke has been all these years ( I know, in prison) to have such an uninformed view of the sleazier side.
As for GC, it is a very amoral film in that we are rooting for a sadistic killer, whatever his motives, and the film has a very of its time view of porn. Quite quaint really. Mona Lisa is another film where you wonder where the bloke has been all these years ( I know, in prison) to have such an uninformed view of the sleazier side.
Re: Get Carter Landmark Bites The Dust
magoo wrote:
>
> If anyone cares I actually used to work in the building on the
> right foreground of the first picture!
Yes Magoo, I can JUST see McDonalds......or is it a Starbucks?
You slaaaaaaaaaaag!
>
> If anyone cares I actually used to work in the building on the
> right foreground of the first picture!
Yes Magoo, I can JUST see McDonalds......or is it a Starbucks?
You slaaaaaaaaaaag!
The West London of my youth is now on dvd
I've met the man on the street............and he's a cunt
I've met the man on the street............and he's a cunt
Re: Get Carter Landmark Bites The Dust
in 1981 Human League recorded it on the Dare LP.andy at handiwork wrote:
> A longtime favourite film of mine, with great music by the very
> underated Roy Budd. There was a compilation CD of Budd's music
> for Get Carter and other, it has to be said, lesser films he
> scored, called Vigilante. Well worth finding.
> As for GC, it is a very amoral film in that we are rooting for
> a sadistic killer, whatever his motives, and the film has a
> very of its time view of porn. Quite quaint really. Mona Lisa
> is another film where you wonder where the bloke has been all
> these years ( I know, in prison) to have such an uninformed
> view of the sleazier side.
> A longtime favourite film of mine, with great music by the very
> underated Roy Budd. There was a compilation CD of Budd's music
> for Get Carter and other, it has to be said, lesser films he
> scored, called Vigilante. Well worth finding.
> As for GC, it is a very amoral film in that we are rooting for
> a sadistic killer, whatever his motives, and the film has a
> very of its time view of porn. Quite quaint really. Mona Lisa
> is another film where you wonder where the bloke has been all
> these years ( I know, in prison) to have such an uninformed
> view of the sleazier side.
Re: Get Carter Landmark Bites The Dust
magoo wrote:
> I was actually only in The Long Bar just a wee while back and
> had no idea it would be featured on a website. they gave me a
> pint in a dirty glass so I will not be going back in there.
Did you say 'in a thin glass'?
See the usual dregs at the bar in that scene and see the scruffy shabby geordie drinking, he has 6 fingers!!! True!!
> I was actually only in The Long Bar just a wee while back and
> had no idea it would be featured on a website. they gave me a
> pint in a dirty glass so I will not be going back in there.
Did you say 'in a thin glass'?
See the usual dregs at the bar in that scene and see the scruffy shabby geordie drinking, he has 6 fingers!!! True!!
The West London of my youth is now on dvd
I've met the man on the street............and he's a cunt
I've met the man on the street............and he's a cunt