Film Thread

[Don]

MUBI has been fucking up with showing subtitles on Chromecast for the last week and they haven't fixed it yet, the useless cunts. Took me 20 minutes to find something half-decent on Prime and Netflix so I think I'm close to the dregs but Blue Ruin on the latter was very decent.

[John]

MUBI has been fucking up with showing subtitles on Chromecast for the last week and they haven't fixed it yet, the useless cunts. Took me 20 minutes to find something half-decent on Prime and Netflix so I think I'm close to the dregs but Blue Ruin on the latter was very decent.

Green Room from that same director is also very good.

[Ian]

I watched Chef last night and quite liked it. Gets a little saccharine at the end but it didn't ruin it and y'know, if now's not the time for that then there won't be one.

[Foe]

Finished the handmaiden and it’s a relatively decent story/plot with a whole lot of sexual shit thrown in for added nothing. Great if you want to see some Asian tits. But it’s actually a decent enough story without the exposure.

Weird in all honesty.

[Don]

I watched Chef last night and quite liked it. Gets a little saccharine at the end but it didn't ruin it and y'know, if now's not the time for that then there won't be one.

Top soundtrack.

[Foe]

pk got a lot better the longer it Went on. It did make me discover Anushka Sharma though who is an absolute babe.

:wub:

Probably done for the weekend film wise. 15 to go.

[igor_balis]

Trying to get through the IMDB 250 is the most autistic and wrong-headed way to approach cinema, and I say that with sympathy cus I was doing the same thing for a bit until I realised I was wasting my time watching shit films for no fucking reason.

[igor_balis]

I'm gonna keep an eye on it, and take sadistic pleasure whenever some 4 hour turkish shit creeps into the 250 Foe. :drool:

[Don]

Turkish cinema is very good, you gremlin.

[Foe]

Trying to get through the IMDB 250 is the most autistic and wrong-headed way to approach cinema, and I say that with sympathy cus I was doing the same thing for a bit until I realised I was wasting my time watching shit films for no fucking reason.

There was a shift about 3 or 4 years ago where suddenly Bollywood and Turkish films just sort of appeared.

I just want to smash these ones out in the next month or so. I want to take a screenshot of a date and be like “it’s done”. As it changes I’ll be a bit more picky of what I actually watch.

The only two I’m dreading are andrei rublev and gangs of wasseypur out of my 15. Even high and low might be good.

It’s not a great list though. It’s obviously made up of lots of different opinions into a mis mash. You could probably clump then into clusters of “if you liked shutter island, you’d probably like these...” and you’d end up watching the invisible guest and be like - shit. That was good.

I know 8 times out of 10 I will dislike a Japanese or Indian film before I watch it. Once you’ve got a flavour for the genre they’re too similar.

Ran, yojimbo, throne of blood for example. I may as well have watched a 30 second YouTube clip of a Samurai riding towards a castle for a fight and I’d have not missed much.

[Don]

A Monster Calls really wasn't what the fucking country needed right now. Jesus, in bits here.

[Foe]

spiderman into the spiderverse was an interesting spin on an already told story.

Not bad but superhero films really aren’t my favourite.

Starting drishyam on Netflix now which has promise.

And fuck you to igor for tempting fate. A new number 250 and it’s a Turkish film. All 190 minutes of. For. Fuck. Sake.

[Foe]

spiderman into the spiderverse was an interesting spin on an already told story.

Not bad but superhero films really aren’t my favourite.

Starting drishyam on Netflix now which has promise.

And fuck you to igor for tempting fate. A new number 250 and it’s a Turkish film. All 190 minutes of. For. Fuck. Sake.

drishyam was good. To be honest a lot of these Indian films weren’t that bad. They’re just far too long.

[Yevrah]

Any Pass the Popcorn members still here?

If so, can you get in? I'm getting a "Your popcorn quota has been reached, come back later!" message.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Check Reddit/Google.

It's your fault.

[Yevrah]

I did that and no idea how it's my fault. I haven't done any of the things that would lead to it.

Still, just checked and back in now.

[Don]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/apr/09/superhero-movies-coronavirus-marvel-cinematic-universe-dc-comics

I mean deaths aside, this is fast becoming my favourite virus. Top 5, at least.

[Kikó]

I think I liked Motherless Brooklyn. 7/10 job. Ed Norton plays his role well.

[randomlegend]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/apr/09/superhero-movies-coronavirus-marvel-cinematic-universe-dc-comics

I mean deaths aside, this is fast becoming my favourite virus. Top 5, at least.

That article is retarded.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've seen a lot of 'This pandemic will spell the end for...' and apart from regional newspapers, I'm really not sure any of them are going to be correct.

People like good things.

[Pepe]

Agreed. As if restaurants will stop being a thing. Many might close, but then others will open in the same spot.

[Yevrah]

I've seen a lot of 'This pandemic will spell the end for...' and apart from regional newspapers, I'm really not sure any of them are going to be correct.

People like good things.

Yeah, it's all absolute bollocks.

[bruhnaldo]

After Toby Maguire I gave up on them. Fuck remaking films about 10 years after the original. It’s it three times now?

I did the same which apparently was a shame cause everyone raves about the new ones

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Hope he didn't snap his boner off prematurely.

[Yevrah]

Some films I saw today:

Terminator Dark Fate is bilge, The Gentlemen was pretty good and Knives Out was very enjoyable.

[Ian]

Light night I watched Toy Story 4, which I had assumed was a pointless "better churn out another sequel", and maybe that was the motivation but the story made sense. I dunno if I'd have it up there with 3 but I will say that those puppets are nightmare fuel. Also didn't really think the villain had earned a face turn but whatever.

I then watched the Khal Aquaman remake of Conan the Barbarian which was so boring I had to just go check what the ending was while typing this because it had immediately escaped my mind. I knew it hadn't reviewed especially well but I think it would at least have some fun action scenes in it but nope.

[Giggles]

I was going to watch those Toy Story’s after I seen them on Disney+ but 4 full length films is a bit of an undertaking for me. I still haven’t got my head around finishing the last few episodes of that Sunderland thing.

[Foe]

Le Mans 66 was pretty good.

Going to try and trudge through andrei rublev next. Going to be tough. It looks extremely Shit.

[Pepe]

Watched four episodes of the Sunderland thing, found it really boring so far. Episode four picked up the pace a little bit, so I will give it a chance.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Onward is really good.

The Guinevere sacrifice scene was so well done.

[Ian]

I watched Atomic Blonde last night. It was fine but a bit meh.

[Foe]

Le Mans 66 was pretty good.

Going to try and trudge through andrei rublev next. Going to be tough. It looks extremely Shit.

Confirmed complete shit. Just not my film at all.

Seemingly portrait of a lady on fire is available on mubi so that’s up next.

[John Arne]

Just watched Look Who's Back, the story of Hitler waking up in the 21st century. Thought it was pretty enjoyable.

[Foe]

As if to make matters worse, that 3 hour Turkish film is hanging around and has been joined by a 2.5 hour bollywood film.

Fuck off.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Just watched Look Who's Back, the story of Hitler waking up in the 21st century. Thought it was pretty enjoyable.

I enjoyed that as well, and the book.

[Foe]

Portrait of a lady on fire I would never have chosen to watch normally. However, despite the general plot being blindly obvious throughout its quite an interesting film to watch develop.

8 to go.

6 if I discount the two shiters sneaking in the bottom.

[Foe]

Joker was absolutely great. Definitely prefer heath but Joaquin did a decent job. He clearly relishes these roles as he’s gone through some shit himself with river.

This leaves me with:
Parasite - having to wait for release
Avengers end game - Disney plus
1917 - having to wait for release
High and low - ordered the dvd, awaiting delivery. Suspect I’ve already seen.
Gangs of wasseypur - sounds shit, is incredibly long and near impossible to find. Going to end up spunking £40 on this unless someone can help me source it otherwise.

And then there’s 2 at the +- at the bottom of the list
White night - some 3 hour Turkish thing
Japanese anime film about a deaf girl

Hoping to knock them out over the next few weeks and leave myself with 1917 to finish it off nicely.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I watched the rebooted Hellboy last night and fuck me was it bad. David Harbour was alright as Hellboy but I struggled to find any other redeeming feature, at least the Del Toro ones were enjoyable.

[Baz]

The Indian In The Cupboard holds up. :nod:

[Lofty]

Jumanji 2 was massively by the numbers, feel like they skipped over the issues they set up in the first film so the audience werent bothered by the dynamics as much this time. It was alright but don't remember being on my phone as much during the first one.

Spider-man Far From Home was excellent however, solid sequel and excited to see what happens next on the back of it. Really benefited from speeding through/ignoring some overdone story elements I think.

[Foe]

Joker was absolutely great. Definitely prefer heath but Joaquin did a decent job. He clearly relishes these roles as he’s gone through some shit himself with river.

This leaves me with:
Parasite - having to wait for release
Avengers end game - Disney plus
1917 - having to wait for release
High and low - ordered the dvd, awaiting delivery. Suspect I’ve already seen.
Gangs of wasseypur - sounds shit, is incredibly long and near impossible to find. Going to end up spunking £40 on this unless someone can help me source it otherwise.

And then there’s 2 at the +- at the bottom of the list
White night - some 3 hour Turkish thing
Japanese anime film about a deaf girl

Hoping to knock them out over the next few weeks and leave myself with 1917 to finish it off nicely.

Avengers end game was average. Some funny bits but so bloody long.

Started watching winter sleep and quite enjoying it. About an hour in. So still another two to go.

Did end up spunking £35 on wasseypur and it’s en route now also.

[Smjffy]

I watched Extraction last night as it was trending but I just don't get what's supposed to be good about it. It was mostly just shooting, blood and unrealistically fighting off about 50 Bangladeshi's. The ending wasn't too bad but would have been much better if


we knew more about his child and why his wife left other than the kids illness. Also the lass in the final scene putting an end to the drug lord, what was her thing with Tyler?


4 out of 10 for me.

[Baz]

Oh wow there's gonna be a fourth Jackass movie.

[Browning]

When is the last Star Wars going to be available for rent?

May 4th on Disney plus apparently.

[Foe]

Toy Story 4 is by far the weakest of the bunch.

Winter Sleep was about as good as a 3 hour long Turkish film with shit loads of philosophical dialogue could be.

Still at 4 to go as another shitty Bollywood film has sneaked in at #250.

Going to try and bash through gangs of wasseypur over the weekend then it’s a waiting game for 1917 and parasite to be released.

[Ian]

I was flicking through Sky last night and saw Film4 showing something called "Chaos", so I had a look at their synopsis.


Violent action thriller: Jason Statham is the cop who's seen it all, Ryan Phillippe is the rookie and they must deal with hostage taker and hat-wearer Wesley Snipes.

Sounds like a pretty deep character Snipes is portraying if that's his second most prominent trait.

[Kikó]

:D

Just shows he's got more to his personality than hostage taking.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I was flicking through Sky last night and saw Film4 showing something called "Chaos", so I had a look at their synopsis.



Sounds like a pretty deep character Snipes is portraying if that's his second most prominent trait.

Cord would love that.

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjE2NTQzMTYyNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTgwMzY4NA@@._ V1_SY1000_CR0,0,666,1000_AL_.jpg

There he is, doing both things at once and convincingly so. A truly versatile screen presence.

[Ian]

I just feel like he's really wearing that hat, y'know?

[Shindig]

Like a black Johnny Depp.

[Raoul Duke]

I've started on a rewatch of all the Marvel movies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Marvel_Cinematic_Universe_films). Currently up to Thor: Dark World.

Iron Man 3 is absolute bollocks, which I'd forgotten. Like if a 7 year old with ADHD was asked to write a James Bond movie after drinking 11 pints of Sunny Delight.

[Manc]

The Gentleman misses the mark by some margin.

[Foe]

Gangs of wasseypur part 1 started quite well but then concentrated on older stuff which was way more boring.

Part 2 hopefully a bit better, but Christ alive 2hrs 40 each.

2.5 to go.

1917 released on Monday, but I have to wait until 1st June for parasite. Odds on to have to watch 1 or 2 other crap Bollywood. Turkish or anime films in the interim.

Jim - how you getting on with your best picture films?

[Foe]

Part 2 of gangs of wasseypur was better but I’m not so keen on the film as a whole.

It was just five hours of “I hate him, kill him”.

Avoid.

Two films to go now though, and neither are available to me. Hopefully two good ones left too..

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm not. I have been completely unable to watch any kind of dramatised fiction since mid-March. Mildly tempted by Normal People but haven't even done that yet.

[Manc]

Captain Fantastic is a must.

[Giggles]

I see SW9 is on Disney+ now. I can’t remember from the time, was it well received or slated?

[Ian]

Set your expectations very low and you may have an alright time with it.

[Giggles]

It is bollocks.

[Browning]

I liked it. I mean it’s not great but anything is a masterpiece compared to 1-3.

[Ian]

I'd probably not put Rise of Skywalker any higher than Revenge of the Sith if I was ranking them.

[Mellberg]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5g2LaMuS0mk

Pingu's The Thing (Thingu). Fucking genius.

[Manc]

First Reformed is a must. Shot brilliantly throughout and Hawke is on top form.

The Conversation next.

[Foe]

Moana was great. Made great use of Disney plus.

Tangled was a tad disappointing. Didn’t feel up to the usual standard.

Home alone is also still great and always will be.

[Baz]

Is Home Alone on Disney+?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It is.

[Ian]

I see that THE SNYDER CUT of Justice League has been announced.

Finally, after all the waiting we get to see a shit, boring film turn into a slightly different shit, boring film.

[Ian]

I watched Homeward Bound on Disney+ last night, expecting to enjoy it on nostalgia value and not much else but it actually holds up really well. The three main voices are all really good and that fucking ending, man. Even knowing what happens it still got me.

[Lofty]

Been on a real shark attack film kick recently, watched The Reef on Thursday and Open Water last night. Any recommendations? Seen Jaws obviously, Deep Blue Sea and The Shallows. Prefer the more realistic takes rather than 'the mega shark of doom' films.

[Manc]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3f/2b/85/3f2b85904fe56b309533648edfe3d512.gif

[Lofty]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3f/2b/85/3f2b85904fe56b309533648edfe3d512.gif

Ironically I am a massive fanny about swimming in the sea so this just fuels my anxiety. Though usually guaranteed at least one pair of baps on show in this genre :D

[Manc]

I have no interest in such films but The Meg looks a winner. Jason Staham beating up a Shark, ideal.

[Foe]

1917 was very tense. Not sure enjoyed is the right word for it, but I certainly appreciated it.

A lot of similarities with Dunkirk.

[SincereTheRebel]

American Made was decent. Searched it by accident but turned out to be interesting.

[igor_balis]

Fuckin loved moneyball.

[Lofty]

I have no interest in such films but The Meg looks a winner. Jason Staham beating up a Shark, ideal.

Watched it earlier, it was alright actually. I can see why it was panned but it also wasn't garbage if you accept that all these films are B movies anyway. I always liked them enough without watching loads of them but the wife is on board which is rare when picking films so thought we may aswell watch a load at once.

[Manc]

Fuckin loved moneyball.

Peak Pitt imo.

I finally got round to watching Joker. Iconic.

[Foe]

the rookie was great. Kevin Costner is a guilty pleasure since the guardian. Must be a decent baseball player or fan with that and field of dreams.

Currently watching turner and hooch... interesting old school hanks.

[Ian]

Turner and Hooch is a tremendous film.

Hooch. :(

[Manc]

Had to give up on Citizen Kane. Highly overrated.

[Lofty]

Hellboy 2019, how did they make such a mess knowing how the Perlman films worked so well?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Hellboy 2019, how did they make such a mess knowing how the Perlman films worked so well?

I thought Harbour was alright as Hellboy but the film was shocking.

[Ian]

Hellboy 2019, how did they make such a mess knowing how the Perlman films worked so well?

I've not seen it, I probably will at some point, but I was reading a thing the other day that said Harbour and somebody else were rewriting scenes between shoots which Neil Marshall was against. Obviously I have no idea how much better or worse it might've been in its original form but that sort of thing never helps.

I just wish Del Toro had got to do another one.

[P_3]

Watched Interstellar tonight. Mind-bendingly good watch. :happycry:

[Lofty]

I thought Harbour was alright as Hellboy but the film was shocking.

I saw a review describing him as Bart Simpson which is on the money. Soundtrack all over the shop too. It feels like a tv series more than a film.

[Giggles]

Black Panther was disappointing enough. It wasn’t terrible, just meh. Maybe if I hadn’t read anything about it and expectations were lower.

[Don]

I saw some serious reviews for Da 5 Bloods but do me a favour, it's a very average yet watchable affair.

[Foe]

Parasite is absolutely weird as fuck.

Would I watch it again? Probably not. Do I regret watching it? No.

Still got that fucking tangerine film to watch :(

[Manc]

Parasite is a must.

[Manc]

Calm With Horses - Compelling and erratic in equal measure. Cosmo Jarvis will go far.

[Ian]

I watched, at very different ends of the spectrum, Coco and The First Purge over the weekend.

Coco isn't especially funny compared to Pixar's best but I still enjoyed it. Loved the design and look of the thing and it's properly melancholy in places and has a lovely ending.

The First Purge.... well, if you like The Purge films you'll probably like this. Not as good as the ones with Frank Grillo in though.

I also rewatched Dredd which is still ace.

[SincereTheRebel]

Watching spectre with my mom as she is a James Bond dickrider. No new characters or anything yet, 005, a women, etc.

[CJay]

I’ve been on a Marvel binge recently. Fairly entertaining stuff, although I’m just picking and choosing what to watch, regardless of release date / where it fits in the ‘universe’. I’d only watched the Iron Mans and the first Avengers, so it’s been fun delving a bit deeper.

With that said, that Captain America Civil War is just straight up nonsense. The flimsiest of flimsy plots, with no clear explanation why anyone takes the side they do. Clearly just an excuse to get all of the Avengers together for some banterific fight scenes, without having a proper story to put them in, conveniently happening in the lull between the releases of Ultron and Infinity War.

[Ian]

I watched Get Out tonight.

It's about two-thirds excellent with horrible, anxious tension pretty much non-stop and then as soon as the reveal happens fairly standard horror stuff. Which is a shame. I mean the last bit isn't BAD but the film definitely peaks early.

[Yevrah]

Thought exactly the same. It's not dreadful, and if you're more connected with the subject matter it might add a bit, but a lot of it was bang average to me.

[Boydy]

Thought exactly the same. It's not dreadful, and if you're more connected with the subject matter it might add a bit, but a lot of it was bang average to me.
More connected with the subject matter?

[Yevrah]

More connected with the subject matter?

Had experienced being a black person while white people behave weirdly around you.

[Boydy]

Had experienced being a black person while white people behave weirdly around you.

Isn't that partly the point of the film though?

It makes you realise your white privilege.

[Ian]

I see both your points. The difference between what you're saying is whether you find any of it directly relatable I guess.

I think from your post I probably liked more of it that you did, Yev. I thought it was ace right up until the 'why' was spelled out and then it because just another film. Before that I thought it was excellent.

[Kikó]

We watched 'I see you' . Pretty good thriller actually with a decent plot twist. Worth the watch.

[Giggles]

I’ll always quite like him, being a local and all, but the Brosnan Bond films have aged very badly.

[Ian]

Brosnan is a very good Bond in some very, very bad films.

I still love Goldeneye though.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I loved Tomorrow Never Dies. Probably just because it was the Bond that was out when I was a certain age, rather than it actually being any good. Also, I was a PlayStation man and the (far inferior) game of that was on PS1 whereas the Goldeneye game was on N64.

Jonathan Pryce does don anything he's in, though.

[Ian]

I think they all have good things about them, even that first 15 minutes or so of Die Another Day is actually pretty good, but Goldeneye is the bestest.

I like the line in The World Is Not Enough when whatserface says something about Bond not offing her because he'd miss her.

"I never miss." *bang*

'Ave it.

[Giggles]

Is tomorrow never dies the one where the bad guy is basically Rupert Murdoch? That’s my worst of the whole lot if so, though The World is not Enough was wooden enough last night to be close enough too. The fucking accent on Carlisle as well (were there no Eastern European actors back then that they needed Coltrane and Goldie too?)

I do like Goldeneye though.

[Giggles]

That said, the talent levels in The World... are top notch. Richards had fabulous tits.

[Jimmy Floyd]

TND was just packed full of amazing dialogue and pure script magic such as this:

Elliot Carver: Don't you realise how absurd your position is?!
James Bond: No more absurd than starting a war for ratings!
Carver: Great men have always manipulated the media to save the world. Look at William Randolph Hearst, who told his photographers "You provide the pictures, I'll provide the war". I've just taken it one step further.
Bond: [kills a henchman sneaking up on him] Sorry, I tuned out for a moment, Elliot.
Carver: Touché.

[Giggles]

That Eurovision film is really fucking weird but Rachel McAdams is still adorable.

[Lofty]

I liked it but see why people don't.

Read a theory today that Kubrick made Eyes Wide Shut as a subtle exposé of the elite debauchery rings that are all being brought up now (Epstein) but he died before it released so was heavily edited. Might rewatch.

[Don]

Yeah that's from the same source as moon landings were staged and shot by him, Bill Gates is evil and the Earth is hollow.

[Lofty]

Billionaires are inherently evil though.

Watched Zombeavers on Netflix, not even a B movie, a C movie so shit it's actually alright.

[Dark Soldier]

Its well known Peele shit the original ending. It was far too on the nose so they went with that cop out.

Edit: fucking hell there was another page. This post is about Get Out.

[Ian]

Its well known Peele shit the original ending. It was far too on the nose so they went with that cop out.

Edit: fucking hell there was another page. This post is about Get Out.

What was the original ending?

[Dark Soldier]

What was the original ending?

the cops arrest him and his life is ruined as he's blamed for all of it

[Ian]

the cops arrest him and his life is ruined as he's blamed for all of it

Hah. I can imagine execs genuinely being like, "Wait, but doesn't that ending suggest racism of some sort? Seems a bit unrealistic."

[Don]

Two Days, One Night is on iPlayer :drool:

[Manc]

Two Days, One Night is on iPlayer :drool:

Just watched this. Incredibly clever.

[Yevrah]

the cops arrest him and his life is ruined as he's blamed for all of it

That would have been so much better. What a cop out.

[Lofty]

Same as the studio execs shitting the bed on the World War Z ending.

IT Chapter 2: honestly felt more like a fucking Harry Potter film half the time. Shockingly shit.

[phonics]

Watched robocop for the first time. First 40 minutes or so are great. Everything post him breaking into OCP and finding his killers is ass.

[Lofty]

Now watch the musical (https://youtu.be/d0yuaUCKFII)

[Don]

Just watched this. Incredibly clever.

Just rewatched it, it really is some piece of work. Could probably be a stage production without losing anything.

[Mellberg]

Villa > Bambi

:rave:

[Shindig]

Straight Outta Compton's pretty good. Shame they didn't include a scene where Dre tries to boot Dee Barnes down a flight of stairs, though. And I could've done without the Hollywood reunion shit they pull as soon as Eazy gets AIDS.

[Bernanke]

It's a fantastic movie. Cube recording No Vaseline is so hype.

[Shindig]

I loved that shit. If the rest of the film was them throwing diss tacks at each other, I'd have been very happy. :D Jerry being the most offended was the best part.

[Baz]

It’s been ages since I watched Superbad so I’ve just put it in. :)

[Baz]

So funny :D

[Lewis]

The police stuff doesn't hold up but the rest of it is still ace.

[Baz]

The police stuff doesn't hold up but the rest of it is still ace.Yeah I’d probably agree with this, but I guess they had to do something with McLovin while Jonah Hill and Michael Cera were busy being the one of the funniest duos ever.

It’s basically a showcase for how funny Jonah Hill can be for the majority but goddamn, Cera cracks me up too.

[Ian]

I watched Mission Impossible: Fallout. It's one of the less good ones. I don't expect much from my guns and explosions but it was a bit dull and they seem to now be obsessed with each film's Tom Cruise Stunt and the helicopter thing here was really dull.

[Ian]

Important film news:

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[Lewis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHSTWepkp_M

Could they not have done that?

[Giggles]

Hadn't watched a film in ages but I, Tonya was on telly the other night and was decent.

[Foe]

Watched mulan for the first time today.

Pretty standard Disney fair. Middle of the pack, probably.

[Ian]

Yeah it's good but it's not a favourite. I'll give the remake one a bash on Disney+ when it comes out.

Those live-action ones have been really hit and miss though.

[Kikó]

Some anti CCP / Pro Hong Kong boycotting going on with the lead actress a Chinese fully fledged backer of the street violence. (MULAN)

[Don]

What a crock of shite Tenet is, geezer really needs to broaden his horizons.

[Dan]

Did you find the background music & sound was so loud at times that you couldn't actually hear the dialogue? Had that a few times which pretty much just pissed me off for half the movie, but maybe I'm just deaf.

It was okay, but definitely not a classic, although maybe the extra dialogue I couldn't make out contained huge extra details that would've made it more than a 6 or 7 out of 10.

[Don]

Absolutely. I like watching with subtitles usually anyway but this was actually in need of them.

[Dan]

That's reassuring :D

[Bernanke]

Nolan's sound-mixing has been garbage forever, it has to be intentional.

[Lofty]

I watched Warwick Davis's magnum opus of Leprechaun films (including 'In Space' & 'In the Hood') in a single sitting the other day, thanks to Amazon Prime, and it was hard to reconcile the day time tv quiz host with a murderous fiend rhyming about tapping ass. Still would recommend if you enjoy horror films that are more comedy than horror.

[Ian]

Leprechaun In The Hood is one of the worst films I've ever seen, and I used to drunkenly watch a lot of crap horror films post-pub.

Dunno if I ever saw In Space though.

[Mike]

The new Bill and Ted isn’t great. :(

[Ian]

Surely that's not a surprise?

[Don]

Was not exposed to them at all previously (and not sure how badly that damages my citizenship/assimiliation credentials) but the trailer was one hell of a monstrosity.

The other trailers were for James Bond, Wonder Woman and Black Widow though so safe to say it was just a continuation of the death of cinema rather than something noteworthy.

[Ian]

I have watched / rewatched some Jurassic Park films over the last week or so.

Jurassic World 2 - A load of absolute shite. The trope-iest nonsense imaginable and the dinosaur bits aren't even fun.

Jurassic Park - Still holds up. The mix of practical and CGI effects is what saves it I think. Enjoyed it a lot though Ian Malcolm, glorious though Goldblum is, is a really weird choice to be the protagonist of Jurassic Park 2 when you look back at it. Did Sam Neill (:cool:) just not want to come back?

Jurassic Park 2 - I really enjoyed this. Pete Postlethwaite was a don and I think it's a genuinely decent film until the nonsense in the city at the end and the unseen boat slaughter that makes zero sense, presumably due to cut scenes.

[Baz]

I watched Joker. Good film.

[Mike]

Jurassic Park - Still holds up. The mix of practical and CGI effects is what saves it I think. Enjoyed it a lot though Ian Malcolm, glorious though Goldblum is, is a really weird choice to be the protagonist of Jurassic Park 2 when you look back at it. Did Sam Neill (:cool:) just not want to come back?

I watched it recently at a drive in cinema and loved it all over again. Such a good film. :cool2:

[Ian]

Obviously the demonstration of HACKING is still mind-blowing too.

[Mike]

https://i.makeagif.com/media/9-24-2017/rdNgYf.gif

[Giggles]

As pointless as they were becoming, that's the Oscars well and truly fucked now anyway. Did anyone ever start that woke bullshit thread after?

[Yevrah]

Two of the criteria are so wooly and you only need to meet two, it won't change anything.

[Lewis]

It will be interesting (in the most meaningless sense of the word) to see whether anyone actively games the system with a load of no-mark producer credits to take their white male war film above the threshold. There would be a real dilemma there for the voters. Is it for its own sake or not?

That said, I'm not sure why women and gays get to ride the 'under-represented' train on this one. Is showbiz really locking them out?

[Yevrah]

As I’ve said for ages now, it’s Mexicans that get the toughest deal.

[Pepe]

Iñárritu, Cuarón, and del Toro beg to differ.

Edit: and Lubezki, Bichir, Aparicio, Salma 'Salma Hayek' Hayek, etc. Even Lupita Nyong'o is Mexican apparently, lol.

[Baz]

Even Lupita Nyong'o is Mexican apparently, lol.:drool:

[Dquincy]

Watching The Meg .

Good film, quite deep isn't it. HA! See what i did there. F me I'm funny.

[randomlegend]

Peanut Butter Falcon is excellent

[Ian]

I watched Knives Out and quite enjoyed it, but some of the gushing about Chris Evans in it just because he's playing against Captain America type was a bit OTT.

[Baz]

I love how easy it is to spoil.

[Ian]

There's not a spoiler in my post unless the main thing you'd be watching for is "Does Chris Evans have the exact same personality as Steve Rogers?"

[Yevrah]

Went to the cinema last night for the first time since the bang average Parasite. Saw Queen and Slim. It was good.

[Manc]

The Dawn Wall is well worth a watch.

[Baz]

Can’t wait for Borat 2. :D

[Baz]

Watched Contagion. Considering it was made in 2011, it was pretty accurate for now. Fairly star-studded too, which was suprising considering how many corny montages it had that made it look like a low-budget straight to VHS fare.

[Don]

The Handmaiden is on Netflix for anyone like me that appreciates a heads up when there's a non-shit film available on there.

[Foe]

That is up there with one of the creepiest films I’ve ever watched.

Director definitely needs a background check.

[Ian]

I watched Upgrade last night and quite enjoyed it. A bunch of reviews I'd read described it as being a spiritual successor to Robocop without being as boring/shit as the reboot and I'd say that's a pretty fair assessment.

[Manc]

Dick Johnson is dead. A must.

[Lofty]

Watched Onward last night, better than I expected. Then revisited a modern classic horror, The Conjuring. Such a shame they decided to try and make a 'cinematic universe' on the back of it. It's just so well balanced between threatening atmosphere without anything too overt happening in the first act, a lot of horror films either blow their load early or make it drag.

[phonics]

The Netflix algorithm is very good.

https://i.imgur.com/IyDzje8.png

[SvN]

Such a reddit-wanker turn of phrase.

[Jimmy Floyd]

These days anything that isn't to do with superheroes is basically a 'hidden gem'.

[Baz]

The Netflix algorithm is very good.

https://i.imgur.com/IyDzje8.png

It's a good film. You should give it a try.

[Don]

Also check out Daft Punk's new single "Get Lucky" if you get the chance. Sound of the summer.

[Clunge]

Tenet became 100x more enjoyable when I gave up with the plot and trying to understand the dialogue and instead just mindlessly drank it all in.

[Ian]

I watched Onward last night and quite enjoyed it. It's not up there with the best Pixars but I wasn't expecting it would be. Pratt and Holland are pretty much perfect casting in it though.

[Baz]

That Spies In Disguise film is actually not bad too.

[phonics]

I saw a trailer for that hilariously bad looking Nick Cage Jiu Jitsiu meets Mortal KomBat meets Predator movie and it said ‘From the Director of Kickboxing: Retaliation’ which sounded so dumb I had to check it out.

It appears to be a film set in a prison where Mike Tyson and Ronaldinho train Jean Claude Van Damme to beat a fat combination of John Moxley and Brock Lesnar for their freedom. Incredible stuff.


https://youtu.be/18yT09uykrY

[Dark Soldier]

His House on Netflix is a fantastic horror. As is The Mortuary Collection on Shudder if you like anthologies.

[Spikey M]

His House on Netflix is a fantastic horror. As is The Mortuary Collection on Shudder if you like anthologies.

I was looking at His House last night. Will give it a go tonight.:hat:

[Kikó]

Started on Borat then aborted. Too much.

[Foe]

Started on Borat then aborted. Too much.

It’s a pretty tough watch. It’s just more of the same really, some mildly amusing bits but just cringe.

[Yevrah]

It runs out of steam a bit, but I really enjoyed it.

[Yevrah]

Oh and the Giuliani bit felt like a borderline stitch up.

[Baz]

I recently rewatched the first, in anticipation for this new one, and it wasn’t as good as I remembered. Will still watch this new one though.

[Lofty]

Pleasantly surprised by Doctor Sleep, to the point I'm already rewatching it.

[Ian]

I watched Edge of Tomorrow / Live. Die. Repeat / whatever the correct name for it is. Quite enjoyed it. It peaks early as it's obvious the broad arc the story is going to take but I enjoyed it. I didn't know Emily Blunt in power armour was what I wanted in my life but there we are.

I've also rewatched the first three Bourne films in the last week or so and they still hold up too. I think I've possibly underrated Supremacy over the years.

[Manc]

I've been planning to revisit the Bourne films at some stage. Netflix seems the ticket. Didn't realise thier was a fourth Damon effort.

[Ian]

Yeah they're all on Netflix and Prime.

Jason Bourne is really, really dull. The Jeremy Renner one (Legacy) is possibly marginally better than it, even.

Ultimatum is still the peak of the series.

[Lofty]

I watched Edge of Tomorrow / Live. Die. Repeat / whatever the correct name for it is. Quite enjoyed it. It peaks early as it's obvious the broad arc the story is going to take but I enjoyed it. I didn't know Emily Blunt in power armour was what I wanted in my life but there we are.


Edge of Tomorrow is excellent, think it went under the radar when it came out.

[Gray Fox]

I didn't know Emily Blunt in power armour was what I wanted in my life but there we are.

:nodd: :wub:

[Giggles]

Fucking. Hell.


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[Ian]

Blunt needs more power armour.

[Shindig]

"He had a RAHK ... tied .... to his neck ... fuh fawh yeahs."

[Ian]

Not a film but related to crap accents and it just came up on my Twitter feed so it seems fitting:

https://youtu.be/Ei1DnFdJrww

Amazing.

[Shindig]

I'm offended. Like, beyond the fucking pale.

[Ian]

At that excellent and accurate skewering of your accent?

[Shindig]

Why aye Manslaughtered.

[Lewis]

Them Irish accents don't sound that bad in a generic sense. I would have thought showing Ireland as Alan Partridge imagined it would raise more complaints.

[Shindig]

The cynic in me says Blunt being a ginger was to really show the audience she's playing someone Irish.

[randomlegend]

Started a rewatch of the Pirates of the Caribbean films the other week. I'm up to the most recent one which I never watched as it got dogshit reviews.

Christ it's bad.

[Ian]

Is the last one the Javier Bardem one? It was indeed pretty shit.

They just got worse as they went along. I think I liked Dead Man's Chest a lot more than reviews at the time but At World's End was a state and it got worse from there.

[randomlegend]

Yes it is.

The last two feel like dodgy parodies, especially this one. It's hard to put your finger on exactly what it is but the tone is just so weirdly off.

[randomlegend]

Depp completely losing the ability to sound like Sparrow doesn't help.

[Ian]

Yeah with each film Sparrow feels more and more like a parody of what he was in the first film. Both in writing and performance.

[Giggles]

Them Irish accents don't sound that bad in a generic sense. I would have thought showing Ireland as Alan Partridge imagined it would raise more complaints.

There’s no accent here that sounds like any of them. Plus, like all yank Irish films, it’s set in that generic time period between the 1800’s and now.

[Jimmy Floyd]

What Americans imagine Ireland to be is one of the cutest things in the world. I suppose they need to cling onto some aspect of their origin story that isn't to do with ethnic genocide.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Is the last one the Javier Bardem one? It was indeed pretty shit.

They just got worse as they went along. I think I liked Dead Man's Chest a lot more than reviews at the time but At World's End was a state and it got worse from there.

The only good thing about that film was Kaya Scodelario and her corset.

[Ian]

I watched The Meg. I wasn't expecting anything good per se, but I thought Statham vs. enormoshark would at least be fun and yet it was super, super dull.

[Baz]

Ey Dark Soldier (and anyone else) have you seen any of the Marian Dora (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2112806/?ref_=tt_ov_dr) films? I've got Cannibal and Melancholie der Engel lined up, after struggling to find Carcinoma anywhere.

Sounds like August Underground's Mordum on steroids; I'm excited.

EDIT: wow, randomly it seems https://tetrovideo.com/ have 100 copies of Carcinoma to sell, as of tomorrow. YES.

[Don]

What the fuck was I thinking buying into the Small Axe hype? Mangrove was at least an hour too long and bitterly dull. The next one seems to be about a relationship and music so might actually not be a waste of my time.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP9TfCWaQT4

What?

[Shindig]

Everyone derserves better than that.

[Ian]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP9TfCWaQT4

What?

That's got a very good cast and looks absolutely terrible. I also remember a number of the jokes from being in the original cartoons.

[Baz]

I also remember a number of the jokes from being in the original cartoons.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/colorslive/png/417226-f2Gpxnn_GzgfgNJi.png

[Lofty]

The Snyder Cut looks like it could be gloriously worse than the original Justice League :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Obviously.

Adding 2 hours to a horseshit film isn't going to magically make it good.

[Ian]

Yeah Justice League wasn't a promising film that just got mangled in the edit or something or rushed at the end. It was a boring premise badly executed.

[Dark Soldier]

If you're all looking for summat new to watch, Tenet just leaked.

[Don]

Alternatively, have a good stare before you next flush.

[Dark Soldier]

I wish I had. It is utter fucking shit and drivel.

[Bernanke]

Yeah, same, that was an absolute mess of a movie. Competing with DKR for worst Nolan I've seen.

[Lofty]

Are 4K UHD Blu Rays worth the hype? I have seen stuff claiming so but are the margins just AV freaks wanking each other dry? I have a 4K player with my PS5 and an OLED tv so am intrigued about the notion they are superior to streaming 4k media but it's a fair whack to shell out per film.

[Kikó]

Ok nearly at the end of Tenet. What a fucking headache this film is.

[Dark Soldier]

It has no redeeming qualities bar Branagh

[Lofty]

It has no redeeming qualities bar Branagh

Have you seen the are releasing an unseen cut of A Serbian Film? You're the first person I remember ever mentioning it.

[Dark Soldier]

Have you seen the are releasing an unseen cut of A Serbian Film? You're the first person I remember ever mentioning it.


There was already an uncut Nordic release, unless they're adding actual new stuff.

[igor_balis]

Seen a few recently, of varying qualities. Got something out of all of them though. In order of how not shit I thought they were:

50/50 (2011)

It was...alright. Cancer buddy movie. Joseph Gordon-Levitt gets cancer, and his mate who works for the same Radio station, Seth Rogen, tries to cheer him up and shag birds and stuff. J G-L was pretty good, mostly looking sad, pensive, and rolling his eyes at S R's antics. I almost liked it, but Rogen really is a total irritant. Female characters were pretty awful misogynistic caricatures as well.

I feel like the (based on a real story, appaz) premise would have worked with a better director. If they gave it to Tom McCarthy or Alexander Payne, and replaced Rogen with literally anyone, I think it would have been great. Paradoxically, I think it would have actually been funnier if they hadn't actively tried to make it a bantzy buddie movie. Tone was all over the place.

5/10


Dead Poets Society (1989)

Hmmm. Very mixed feelings about this. Roger Ebert REALLY hated it, and reading his review afterwards was a bit like "ah yeah, that's why I didn't love it, good point" after each of his reasons for disliking it. I like it a lot more than he did though. I'm deffo a lot more forgiving of mawkish, transparently heart-string-pulling films like this (I am an unrepentant Shawshank apologist), but it was a bit much even for me. Again, leaning on Deadbert, the crux of his hatred for the film was that the big emotional setpieces were totally unearned in the rest of the film. I'd say...yes and no. I did actually really like characters and acting - the younguns playing the students were all really good, and I thought Robin Williams was brilliant. Ebert criticised him for falling into doing his schtick at times (his wacky impressions were like they'd come verbatim from his stand-up), but I didn't mind. Comic relief, ennit. And I did mostly care about them, and I felt sufficiently :') at the times I was supposed to.

HOWEVER, the bit where the lad shoots himself was clearly meant to be the emotional climax of the film, and I was just a bit like u wot m8?

6.5/10


Sedmikrásky (1966)

Ah yes, another arty film that makes me feel like an uncultured div for not understanding what's going on. The opening scene made me want to throw my television out of the window. The two main characters were bending their limbs and it kept playing the sound effect of a creaking door. At this point I googled the film's name and read "this 1966 neo-dada..." and I was proper thinking OH FUCKING HELL. After that it was really fun though, and REALLY SHORT which is always a good thing. Sure, arty films are indulgent, but it's more indulgent to think some CGI exploding robot fest needs to be more than...well, about 90 minutes tbfh. Anywayz, I digress.

Yeah, really beautifully shot, the two main actresses are fucking AWESOME . I mean, it probably helps that they woz speaking in foreign...sometimes I think bad acting is lost in translation, similar to how i've noticed a disproportionate amount of the weirdos I knew from school ended up with non-native partners and I really unfairly assume that it's because their strangeness is probably less obvious to someone who isn't a native English speaker. There isn't really any plot, which is also something I like in a film. They just sorta dick around annoying people, like a female Czech live action Beavis and Butthead. Would recommend.

7/10


Broken Flowers (2005)

Moody Bill Murray gets a letter from someone claiming he's the father of her son. His weirdo mate Jeffrey Wright convinces him to go on a tour of hi ex-lovers to figure out who it is. It's pretty great, mostly cus of Bill Murray. Like Lost in Translation, he doesn't really do much, but considering he's most famous for being a comedy actor/anecdotes of him turning up at random barbeques and nicking all the burgers and shit, he's fucking AMAZING in these kinda roles. I don't think anyone is better at doing the pensive, moody thing. Really well directed and written, and the actresses playing his ex-partners are really great (though it is a bit of a superstar cast, at least by the standards of the poncey shit I usually watch). I didn't absolutely love it, which is weird cus it's exactly the kind of shit I love. I spose I didn't really care for the premise that much, and didn't really give a shit about him finding his baby momma or whatever, though the journey itself was really well done.

Also the soundtrack is fucking class, especially the Ethiopian jazz shit.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXdVpT_aSJU

7/10


Adventureland (2009)

Jesse Eisenberg wants to go travelling around Europe after he finishes uni, but he can't cus his parents are skint or something, so he gets a summer job working at some fairground. I mean, I thought this was fucking class. It was funny, the acting was great, and the plot was the right level of goofy to be fun without being annoying (though I do have a high tolerance for that kind of thing, obviously). A proper good coming-of-age film, although the romantic sub-plot did get a bit boring at times. Not quite as realistically bleak as Bo Burnham's unfeasibly good Eight Grade, but not as ridiculous as like, I dunno, a John Hughes movie. The best part is the very accurate skewering of the cool older guy with a guitar type bloke. Another great soundtrack too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl9KQ1Mub6Q

8/10


Stranger than Paradise (1984)

Fucking amazing, this. It's just like loads of the kind of plotless, glacially slow indie movies I love, except probably the best of the bunch and it was made fucking ages before anyone else was making them.

9/10

[Manc]

Stop watching films and help the village you cunt.

[Spikey M]

Even I'm tempted to change from Mahow now. What a liberty.

[igor_balis]

Wtf am I actually in this werewolf game? I never fucking signed up :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

When I watched Dead Poets Society I just couldn't buy into any of the people, or the setting, being real (I went to a private school so would know). Then the turn of events at the end was way too jarring for the film it was.

[Don]

Dead Poets Society is fucking class. And Jim Jarmusch is one of the best.

[Ian]

I've got some days off so I decided to watch The Irishman today. I could've lived without the 17 and a half hour runtime but beyond that it was.... good? I guess? I loved Joe Pesci in it but almost everything else felt pretty unmemorable to me.

[Manc]

I loved it. A second watch is on the cards.

[Spikey M]

It's good, but there are some terrible bits. There are some things no amount on anti-ageing software can hide.


https://youtu.be/AB8Hb2NwEis

[Manc]

I think my fondness lies with it being an epic.

[Lofty]

I started it but never finished it, I do love those type of films so maybe I just need to put my phone out of reach and settle in one day.

[Kikó]

It's too long and isn't as good as it thinks it is.

[Giggles]

Once I seen how bad the ageing thing was I was never watching it.

[Spikey M]

It's one of those films where Manc, Kiko and Giggles all manage to be right. I enjoyed it for the nostalgia and the updates on the characters lives. There hasn't been a gangster film in this style for pretty much as long as I've been alive. But in isolation it wouldn't get a second glance. The anti-ageing really is bad and it does feel like it's long for the sake of being long.

[igor_balis]

I have to really be in the mood to watch anything longer than...well, shit, two hours to be honest.

Yet i won't think twice about binging through about 8 hours of something like bcs or the sopranos. Eh.

[Baz]

How long is it?

I heard on a podcast that a load of stuff was purposely left in where the actors thought the scene had ended/hadn't started. How much of that is noticeable?

[Manc]

Over 200 minutes. :drool:

[Ian]

I watched Extraction last night and as a straight forward action thing it was pretty enjoyable. That's a ludicrous bodycount Thor racks up though.

[Lofty]

The reviews are so mixed for Tenet, I enjoy a Nolan film but concerned there could be a bit of bias in the word of mouth I'm hearing. One of my friends is pretty excited after watching it but he also loved Interstellar which I think was a good film but nothing amazing.