My Friend Dahmer looks a bit good
https://youtu.be/55_pHI3cafY
My Friend Dahmer looks a bit good
https://youtu.be/55_pHI3cafY
It's a dreadful film.
Foxcatcher that is.
The true story behind it is cracking, however.
I've just stuck on the 1995 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers movie. Seeing the new one out made me nostalgic for the times I watched it as a kid.
Fuck me it's awful
I watched that a couple of years ago for nostalgia. The best part was the ranger (Black ranger I think) who just did forward rolls in every fight.
The CGI, my god.
Nowhere in the promotional materials is it described as a comedy.
Yeah, that film is meant to be pretty out there. I like Flying Lotus and I love George Clinton so I'll watch it at some point.
Shot Caller is decent entertainment. It's been a while since I've seen a gang film focused on WHITE POWER types.
Dunkirk was very good - though not really a top, top film.
I actually found Harry Styles to be a bit wooden and he delivered his lines a little trembley - I'm surprised he has received such good reviews. Hardy was great.
He'd have got good reviews even if he'd stood drooling with his prick out. Even having him in it is a gimmick and lessens the film's credibility.Originally Posted by John Arne
It's an odd bit of casting really. He isn't bad, but his character doesn't actually do that much, so why bother when they could have just got any young actor for a fiver a day? It's not as if the film needed the attention.
My dad was watching the 2002 version of The Time Machine earlier. That whole book (and thusly, film) would've been miles better if it was just the science man Groundhog Day-ing his wife-to-be's death in various ways. 2002's version of 2030 seems out of date even by those standards.
Just thinking about Dunkirk some more, and I think the film really missed the opportunity to grasp the massiveness of what had happened... 350,000 soldiers managed to make it back to England, yet the film only really shows about 20 small boats (versus 900 that actually contributed) at any one time. I understand that the film wants to focus on the emotional stuff, but it just seems to have been a massive undertaking, that the film really underplays.
That would be boring.
Agreed, the film really didn't come close to showing how incredible it was. It felt like there was about 50 blokes on a beach and about 5 of them were bombed before the rest were rescued by 3 boats turning up.
Isn't that like saying Enemy at the Gates was two random guys shooting each other from towers?
We know what happened in the historical context, I don't think a full recap of the war is required?
You might've got something close in the age of Hollywood epics. Not today.
Like Ian Brown in Harry Potter, which I still don't understand.
I'm a twit
Casting decisions like that are awful and only serve to take you out of the movie.
Damn I forgot how good Gran Torino is.
I really liked Spider-Man: Homecoming.
I also enjoyed the trailer for The Dark Tower, even though I'm keeping my expectations low.
Is that Spiderman another restart? How many is that since the Maguire ones now?
Yes.
Since Maguire? The second.
Tom Holland has had it for two films (Captain America Civil War and this standalone) and I feel that he's the best version thus far. He's the closest in style to the comics version with Maguire being absolute shit and Garfield playing the role too seriously.
Maguire was indeed crap but those films were quite fun.
Garfield's films had a strange mix of him being ultra serious and there still being comic "Yeeeehaah!" , "Got ya!", "Wooopdeebop!" dialogue during the action scenes.
Is the new one funny, @Ian? It seemed to be aiming at more comedy from the look of a clip or two I saw.
They also didn't re-tell the origin story, other than him being young again and not being full-powered Spider-Man yet because he's mostly been dealing with muggers and such to this point. Even if some of that seems weirdly out-of-sync with his action in Civil War where he handled himself pretty much perfectly.
His origin is basically done in about two sentences at the point when his mate finds out which was a huge relief.
And I'd agree that Holland is the best one so far, although Spider-Man 2 is still the best to date, I'd say. Though I dunno how much of that is bias because of how much I fucking love the train fight.
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Yeah, I thought so. It's less so as it goes on when it stops being high-school-movie-with-super-powers and has to settle into being more of a standard superhero movie in terms of tone but it still has some good stuff throughout.
It's difficult to capture character development and stuff if all you have is 2 hours of guts and shit. Take SPR, for example.
Life is decent if you can avoid getting too uppity about it having been done before.
The Eddie Murphy one? I love that.
EDIT: Ah I see now.
Baby Driver goes to shit at the end, but the first half an hour, especially the car chases, is wonderful.
Saw Wonder Woman today and really liked it a lot but it's not as good as it's been proclaimed. Huge upgrade over the tragic BVS though.
It's the fourth best Superhero film (after GOTG 2, Logan and Spiderman) of the year, I'd also imagine that Thor Ragnarok will be better too.
Dunkirk.
Shit.
Tomorrow Never Dies didn't improve with age. Muck.
The Dark Tower is getting some properly smelly reviews. Supposedly they've got elements from all eight books squashed into a ninety minute film.
It does look a bit bollocks.
The Big Sick is really great.
Reaons why Dunkirk was shit:
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Basically when something like SPR comes along, we should absolutely cherish it and see it multiple times on the best screen we can.
What Spitfire bits were out of sequence? You know there were 3 parts played out over different lengths of time?
ORLY NO I DID NOT GET THAT LOL!
Anyway it was fucking stupid.
The Lego Batman Movie
Fucking great, I loved it.
Have a look at this, Lewis, and see if your theory about old people donning twats being bulletproof cinema holds up.
Baby Driver is a bit good.
Looking to catch Dunkirk and Mother in the next few weeks.
Watched Arrival yesterday and thought it was pretty damned good.
Amy Adams has come a long way since her little stint in the Office.
For anyone that's seen it I found this to be a quite interesting take on Passengers if they'd done it in a slightly different order.
Yeah that would have been better.
I'm a twit
The Hippopotamus is good fun, but only because it features a lot of Roger Allam swearing in it. It's basically a Jonathan Creek episode with the parental filters turned off.
I watched The Wild Bunch, which seems to me like some sort of proto-Tarantino, or at least something that Tarantino would have liked. And I've gone cold on that sort of thing. Far too misanthropic for me. Though you can certainly see technical ability at work, the opening sequence in particular is excellent.
I've just clocked Demolition Man on my Sky Planner, apparently recorded over two years ago.
Early nineties Sandra Bullock was quite lovely.
Now I'm on my own I can watch some films without interruption that the wife won't watch as she's already seen them.
Prestige
Se7en
Which one?
You can't go wrong with either.
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