Film Thread

[Ian]

Watched Gone Girl last night. It's a decent enough story and Pike's character is a proper piece of work but it does have the problem of having no main character to root for so I'm not really invested in how it ends for them. Though even given that it has a fairly bleak ending so well done on that, I guess.

Also one of these days characters in a David Fincher film are going to have to buy some proper lights so they're not sitting in the dark all the time.

[Lofty]

That is the same issue with Pike vehicle I Care A Lot. In fact the last thing she was likeable in was Doom, where she was clearly told not to wear a bra.

[Shindig]

Doom just reminds me what a weird career Dexter Fletcher has had.

[Manc]

Rosamund Peaks.

Get fucked, Shinners.

[Cord]

The Green Knight has a lovely close up of some spunk in it.

I assume that's all the information you need.

[Lofty]

I am going to watch it tomorrow, though I doubt it trumps the money shot in series one of American Gods.

[Lewis]

The Many Saints of Newark is worth a watch, but I'm not sure it was worth making. There were a couple of nice references for the fans, but otherwise it was just an average sort of film. The woman who played Livia was probably the best thing about it, but the lad doing young Silvio should never work again (then again actual Silvio was fucking terrible).

[Lofty]

Not surprised about that.

The Green Knight was a bit of a snorefest, had heard as much. May aswell have just called it Gawain the Twat.

[Yevrah]

Bond tonight. The run time is obscene so it had better be good.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I was given the chance for a cast and crew screening but I rejected this time. Starts at 9 which is a bit too early for me to get to Leicester Square.

And that runtime is off putting that early on a Saturday or Sunday.

[Yevrah]

Well, that was pretty good. Pretty pretty good.

[phonics]

The Many Saints of Newark is worth a watch, but I'm not sure it was worth making. There were a couple of nice references for the fans, but otherwise it was just an average sort of film. The woman who played Livia was probably the best thing about it, but the lad doing young Silvio should never work again (then again actual Silvio was fucking terrible).

Called it from the beginning. It’s not a sopranos movie. It’s a mediocre mafia movie.

[Alex]

The Many Saints of Newark is worth a watch, but I'm not sure it was worth making. There were a couple of nice references for the fans, but otherwise it was just an average sort of film. The woman who played Livia was probably the best thing about it, but the lad doing young Silvio should never work again (then again actual Silvio was fucking terrible).

You're right about the lad who plays Silvio, he's fucking terrible. Way over the top. What is going on with the timeline there too? Silvio and Pussy are not that much older than Tony. It's specifically mentioned in the show a few times that they all came up together. Especially Pussy, they're like childhood best friends or something.

But here they're full initiated in the mafia when Tony is still a little kid, even before the time jump. It's like they just shoehorned that in to have an excuse to get some young actors to do Silvio and Pussy impressions. Stuff like that annoys me. Paulie, fair enough. He was good too.

Livia was fantastic. I would watch an entire spin-off series of Vera Farmiga just playing Livia. She nailed it and was by far the best thing about it.

I didn't like the revelation of:

Junior having Dickie killed. I don't think Junior would do that. It changes the basis of the Tony and Junior relationship too much too. That's one of the central and most important relationships of the entire show, you can't just retcon it with all that new subtext. I know Tony doesn't know, but still. It was just an unnecessary twist I think. Corey Stohl as Junior was quite good though.

I sound like I'm just having a massive go at it, but it was fine overall I suppose, just nothing spectacular. It seems to be heavily leaning into the idea of a sequel at the end. At least that was my take on it. I would be really surprised if they do nothing else with Gandolfini's son as a younger Tony. Apparently David Chase has just signed some new deal with HBO too, which would also point towards that.

[Lewis]

Silvio and Pussy were slightly older, just old enough to have been properly involved and separate from the Tony/Tony B/Ralph/Jackie group, but yeah not in the earlier scenes. They're made out to be the same age as Paulie, which obviously isn't the case in the series. I didn't really clock that at the time.

[Baz]

There’s a character called Pussy?

[Raoul Duke]

Watched Free Guy yesterday. Enjoyed it a lot - I'm exactly the target audience - but thought it did the game references well, jokes were solid and pacing was good. It didn't need as much of the YouTube/Twitch dickheads in it, but I guess that's just what things are like now.

[Lofty]

There’s a character called Pussy?

Big Pussy.

[Lofty]

The best post Sopranos thing to happen was Vito aka Joe Gannascoli joining a facebook fan group to try and sell his merch (his sole occupation these days it seems) and getting mercilessly trolled until he left within 24 hours.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

No need to call Baz names.

[Lewis]

The best post Sopranos thing to happen was Vito aka Joe Gannascoli joining a facebook fan group to try and sell his merch (his sole occupation these days it seems) and getting mercilessly trolled until he left within 24 hours.

Whether it's wrestlers, Boycie, Mark Crossley telling the same three Brian Clough stories to anybody who will listen, that sort of thing really is the saddest shit imaginable. Him and Bobby Bacala having a long-running feud over the precise ethics of cashing in on it all is funny as well.

'He's a fa-aaag!'

[Ian]

Lonely Virgil another good example.

[Lofty]

The straw that seemed to break the camel's back for Vito was when someone asked him 'did they really put that pool cue up your ass or was that movie magic?' :D

[Gray Fox]

Watched Free Guy yesterday. Enjoyed it a lot - I'm exactly the target audience - but thought it did the game references well, jokes were solid and pacing was good. It didn't need as much of the YouTube/Twitch dickheads in it, but I guess that's just what things are like now.

Also watched it over the weekend and would agree. I enjoyed it, but the Mrs didn't so much. The fact that I knew all but one of the Twitch guys that popped up and she knew none of them, probably explains the difference in opinion.

[randomlegend]

Also watched Free Guy last night. When I saw the trailer I thought it looked absolute wank, but decided to give it a go off the back of the good reviews and was pleasantly surprised.

I didn't know who any of the youtubers were other than Pokimane from when she was a LoL groupie. Don't think it made any difference.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

If anything knowing who the Twitch people were made it worse for me.

I was constantly thinking "Not this fucking twat" whenever one of them popped up onto the screen.

[Yevrah]

Which Twitch people are in it?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Ninja (ugh), Pokimane, Jacksepticeye, DanTDM, Lazarbeam and I'm sure there are a couple of others.

[Yevrah]

I've only heard of one of those, thankfully.

[Shindig]

Jack annoys me greatly. Screaming Irish manlet.

[Dave.]

No Time To Die for me on Thursday. I can't wait. I don't even care if it's any good, I just can't wait to see a Bond film in the cinema, it's been far too long.

[Yevrah]

I have to admit, if we ignore Candyman (which was bilge) being back in a cinema is great.

I don't know whether it's a thing to entice people back too, but it seems to be half the price it used to be as well.

[Bernanke]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEYVA0YqYV0

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What the hell is this.

[Shindig]

Diana is a gay icon. It's a logical choice to have her and Freddie Mercury diffusing landmines in heaven.

[mo]

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Aisling Bea's English accent is unsettling.

[Yevrah]

For fuck's sake. Make something new for the love of God.

[phonics]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEYVA0YqYV0

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What the hell is this.

I hear the endings an absolute car crash.

[Shindig]

At the very least, make it Home Alone in a crack house.

[Spikey M]

Prince Phillips Obscenian Rhapsody was a rare bight moment.

[Lewis]

I see a white Fiat Uno and a flash
Henri Paul, are you drunk, have you got your seat belt on?

[Lofty]

At the very least, make it Home Alone in a crack house.

Remake the original with adult Macauley Culkin but everyone not acknowledging it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Remake the original with adult Macauley Culkin but everyone not acknowledging it.

Speaking of, he's going to make a cameo in the film as Kevin.

So is his brother "Buzz" too.

[Lofty]

Buzz peaked in those films and spent the rest of his time at an all you can eat buffet by the looks of his IMDB.

[SincereTheRebel]

Ive just watched the latest Candyman and it was good. I was expecting the killings to be way more brutal. 4/5

[Manc]

I enjoyed his cameo in Blue Ruin.

[Lofty]

Ive just watched the latest Candyman and it was good. I was expecting the killings to be way more brutal. 4/5

I have heard it is a bit weak on that front. Halloween Kills on the other hand has caused a petition about the brutal murder of several firefighters so that sounds promising on the gore front.

[Baz]

Buzz peaked in those films and spent the rest of his time at an all you can eat buffet by the looks of his IMDB.

He peaked well before Home Alone when he was Ronnie Coleman in Little Monsters.

[Lofty]

Last Night In Soho's reviews are mixed, to say the least.

[Ian]

Oh really? That's a shame, I loved the trailer.

[Lofty]

I loved the original trailer when it was mentioned here, have you seen the new one that's on tv? It's a very different style, if I hadn't seen the original I wouldn't be bothered by it.

[Spikey M]

The only thing worse than a great trailer for a shit film is when there's a Smart Car or a Fiat 500 hiding in a parking space that you thought was free, just out of sight. Bastards.

[Ian]

I loved the original trailer when it was mentioned here, have you seen the new one that's on tv? It's a very different style, if I hadn't seen the original I wouldn't be bothered by it.

No I only saw the original trailer, might've been me who posted it here. I MIGHT go see it anyway but sounds like it might be a "wait for it to be on Netflix."

[Baz]

The only thing worse than a great trailer for a shit film is when there's a Smart Car or a Fiat 500 hiding in a parking space that you thought was free, just out of sight. Bastards.i nearly drove into a motorbike/moped scooter thing yesterday. Styled it out by reversing into the opposite space.

[phonics]

Batman trailer looks good.

I don’t like comic movies. However, Not sure what it is about them but I will watch and enjoy all Batman and Spider-Man properties.

[Ian]

It is a good trailer. Though if they're introducing this main big name characters this early (Penguin, Riddler, Catwoman) I'm a bit concerned it'll be too busy (you don't want to start a reboot with Spider-Man 3 after all) but fingers crossed.

I also keep looking for even one shot of the Penguin where I'd think "Ah yes, I'd have recognised Colin Farrell there."

[Bernanke]

It feels like a trailer demanded by the studio to get people into seats, because nothing about that suggested "3 hour noir detective story" that seems to be the rumour of overall style and plot.


I also keep looking for even one shot of the Penguin where I'd think "Ah yes, I'd have recognised Colin Farrell there."

Only one is the eyes when he looks back in the car.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/688892549397872692/899034432114143272/image0.png?width=2160&height=998

[Dquincy]

Watched Home Alone 4 with my eldest son. It was shit and good in equal measure.

Looking forward to watching Home Alone 5 (think there is a 5).

[phonics]

I’m watching La Haine. This is the perfect movie. It never ages. People are even wearing Fila and Champion again.

[Lofty]

New Batman trailer is a bit meh for me, I still worry they are overcooking it a bit. The initial trailer where they ask who he is and he punches someone 4 billion times before saying 'I'm Batman' just seemed a bit much. Hopefully I am proved wrong.

Much more hyped for The Flash featuring Keaton's Batman which is mad because Ezra Miller is annoying as fuck.

Watcher There's Someone In My House or whatever it was called on Netflix last night and it was piss poor, the critcal drinker would have a field day with it put it that way.

[Manc]

A bit late to the party, but Judas and the Black Messiah is a top, top film. Incredible performance from Kaluuya.

A Quiet Place P2 is a nonsense.

[Dark Soldier]

Dune has leaked, btw. 1080p.

[randomlegend]

Dinner In America was strangely wholesome, DS.

[Dark Soldier]

Dinner In America was strangely wholesome, DS.

Its so, so good innit.

[Dark Soldier]

Titane has now pipped Dinner in America as my film of the year, though. Absolute masterpiece of a thing. Brutal, confident, stylish, French. All the best things.

[Lofty]

Recently I have watched:

Slaxx: a horror comedy about a pair of killer jeans. It was ok, I went in with low expectations.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: feel like I had never watched it in it's entirety, worthy of it's cult classic status.

Night of the Demons: everything I want in a trashy 80s horror, good effects, decent kills and plenty of skin.

Slumber Party Massacre: despite what I said above, this actually leaned too far into the skin and not enough into the horror for me. Maybe this was the absolute tops when the alternative was going into a newasgent and asking for a copy of Razzle, but these days the overly long random nude scenes are boring and the violence doesn't redeem it. Not sure why it is held up as a classic to be honest.

The Fog: somehow a John Carpenter classic that I had managed not to see until now. It's good fun, the intro especially, but doesn't reach the heights of The Thing.

[Adramelch]

Titane has now pipped Dinner in America as my film of the year, though. Absolute masterpiece of a thing. Brutal, confident, stylish, French. All the best things.

Been meaning to watch that. Her previous one, Raw, was also great and pretty unique.

[Boydy]

Titane has now pipped Dinner in America as my film of the year, though. Absolute masterpiece of a thing. Brutal, confident, stylish, French. All the best things.
Can you give us a list of your best films of the year?

Could do with something other than the shite on Netflix and Prime to watch.

[Serj]

Saw Dune yesterday. It's been a while since I've read the books, but I think it keeps a nice balance between staying faithful to the book and moving the plot forward.

The visuals are great, as expected. So much so that I sometimes would have liked the film to linger on some shots a bit more instead of cutting to the next scene. In the same vein, I feel the Hans Zimmer droning is sometimes a bit much; some of the scenes I think would have been enhanced by just using the "natural" soundscape.

Those are minor nitpicks though, for two and a half hours it really flew by.

Watch it on a big screen if you can.

[Dark Soldier]

Can you give us a list of your best films of the year?

Could do with something other than the shite on Netflix and Prime to watch.

Sure. Tried to stay away from the more Hollywood and gore horror fare, of which has been a decent year.

Titane: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10944760/

Sweat: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12443946/

History of the Occult: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11310884/

My Son: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13234058/

Another Round: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10288566/

Riders of Justice: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11655202/

Teddy: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10469804/

Dinner in America: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9058654/

Spree: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11394332/

Summer of Soul: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11422728/

Saint Maud: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7557108/

Censor: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10329614/

Collective: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10706602/

Apples: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10110614/

Wildfire: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9180460/

[Manc]

I've been meaning to watch Saint Maud for some time now. The trailer had the mrs shook so it'll have to be a solo venture.

[Lofty]

Saint Maud is excellent but not exactly terrifying.

I watched Sator today, can't decide if I liked it or not. Definitely in the more unique end of horror, especially with the production stuff.

[Lewis]

No Time to Die was really good...

Right up until the end, which has ruined my week. How does that work? You can't do that.

Mind you, lol at making 007 a BLACK WOMAN and then making her really thin-skinned and uppity under the radar. Couldn't have done it better myself.

[Dave.]

No Time To Die was really good and the ending was really good. A massive improvement on Spectre.

[Dave.]

No Time to Die was really good...

Right up until the end, which has ruined my week. How does that work? You can't do that.

Mind you, lol at making 007 a BLACK WOMAN and then making her really thin-skinned and uppity under the radar. Couldn't have done it better myself.

The ending can work in a number of different ways. It depends what route they want to take the franchise next.

1)They can do a full reboot (which admittedly would involve removing most of the current cast).

2) Bond actually survives. It seems spectacularly unlikely but the franchise has form for characters surviving in improbable circumstances. See Bond in Skyfall, Colonel Moon in Die Another Day, 006 in GoldenEye and Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me. They could come up with an implausible explanation for him surviving and go from there.

I must admit the outrage in fan groups on Facebook has been beautiful.

[Shindig]

I sort of like the Uncharted trailer. It's got the tone right of being a brainless action adventure where the hero survives improbable bullshit. Because that's all the games are.

[Lewis]

The ending can work in a number of different ways. It depends what route they want to take the franchise next.

1)They can do a full reboot (which admittedly would involve removing most of the current cast).

2) Bond actually survives. It seems spectacularly unlikely but the franchise has form for characters surviving in improbable circumstances. See Bond in Skyfall, Colonel Moon in Die Another Day, 006 in GoldenEye and Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me. They could come up with an implausible explanation for him surviving and go from there.

I must admit the outrage in fan groups on Facebook has been beautiful.

It has to be the second one. New actors are the same character, as the Daniel Craig film so definitely proved (as opposed to 'James Bond' being a persona), just in different times (which was why him having that tricked out Aston Martin DB5 never sat right with me). You can suspend your disbelief to a point, but this series of films has effectively trashed it by rooting in him in time and place and then killing him. There is nothing to reboot. He died.

[Dave.]

It has to be the second one. New actors are the same character, as the Daniel Craig film so definitely proved (as opposed to 'James Bond' being a persona), just in different times (which was why him having that tricked out Aston Martin DB5 never sat right with me). You can suspend your disbelief to a point, but this series of films has effectively trashed it by rooting in him in time and place and then killing him. There is nothing to reboot. He died.

I agree with you about the Aston Martin. I think it's fine to pay tribute to the other films (such as what NTTD did with OHMSS) but the usage of it in the Craig films didn't sit right with me.

[Yevrah]

On No Time To Die.


I don't understand what's wrong with the ending and I loved it. If you're going to be that anal about what happened, then the whole thing makes no sense anyway. How is Judi Dench in Casino Royale, older than she was when Brosnan hung up his boots? etc.

[Dave.]

On No Time To Die.


I don't understand what's wrong with the ending and I loved it. If you're going to be that anal about what happened, then the whole thing makes no sense anyway. How is Judi Dench in Casino Royale, older than she was when Brosnan hung up his boots? etc.


I think I side with you on this one. I avoided the spoilers before seeing the film but, of course, I couldn't avoid hearing the rumours. I view the whole thing quite differently to other Bond fans. Bond has cheated death many a time and it hardly takes much suspension of belief for him die in the line of duty.

I watched the film for a second time yesterday and while it's not my favourite Bond film, it's definitely up there. I loved Hans Zimmer's score. The villain was a bit underwritten but the film made up for that in other ways. Blofeld was so much better in this film than in Spectre. Paloma was an amazing character and I wish she was in the film more.

For me, there is no doubt that Daniel Craig is the best Bond. Quantum of Solace was fairly rubbish and seemed like a series of barely connected action sequences in different countries. Spectre was middle of the road and would have been even better but for the ridiculous brother angle. Skyfall and Casino Royale are brilliant films. But the one constant throughout them all has been Craig and (even when some of the films have been a bit off) he has performed to the highest standard.

[Giggles]

From reading these I think I’ll be giving this and any future films in the series a miss.

[Don]

Was damn good to be back in a cinema tonight. Was for The French Dispatch which isn't one of Wes Anderson's finest but it had its moments.

[Lofty]

Where do you rate it amongst his films?

I saw the rest of Kingsman: The Golden Circle tonight on tv having turned it off early doors on first viewing: that decision was correct. Is it the worst film ever made to star 5 oscar winners?

[Lewis]

Wes Anderson looks like somebody who only isn't a sex offender because his cock is deformed.

[Don]

I wasn't prepped for the pace of it at all but it's not up to Moonrise Kingdom/Grand Budapest Hotel/Royal Tenenbaums level. Darjeeling Limited I can't remember much of so probably at that mediocrity.

[Dave.]

From reading these I think I’ll be giving this and any future films thein the series a miss.

The greatest strength of the Bond franchise is that there is something for everyone. I prefer the films with closer links to the Ian Fleming novels (the first two Connery films, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the two Dalton films and some of the Daniel Craig films) while some people prefer the comedy and escapism of the Roger Moore films. Some people say Connery is the original and best. There is no right or wrong answer here just different opinions.

I would still give NTTD a viewing. There is comedy, horror, action. So much happens over the admittedly long running time. I would also watch any future films as the series could go in a different direction (it has done in the past depending on the strengths and weaknesses of the actor playing Bond).

[Dave.]

I saw the rest of Kingsman: The Golden Circle tonight on tv having turned it off early doors on first viewing: that decision was correct. Is it the worst film ever made to star 5 oscar winners?

I actually enjoyed it. It's not as good as the first one but it brings a whole new meaning to John Denver's Country Roads song.

[Lofty]

I can't put my finger on what makes it inferior to the original but it feels like all the stuff that worked in the original is turned up to 11 but somehow misses. Maybe too much CGI for my taste?

[Dave.]

I can't put my finger on what makes it inferior to the original but it feels like all the stuff that worked in the original is turned up to 11 but somehow misses. Maybe too much CGI for my taste?

I'd say you're pretty much spot on there. :thbup:

[Ian]

It's definitely not as good or even close but I don't think it's a bad film.

Didn't like the stuff with Harry really but it does have Pedro Pascal who's very watchable.

[phonics]

Dune was so boring. A 2.5 hour first act.

[Gray Fox]

Just back from seeing No Time to Die:

First, great to see something back at the cinema again.

The film itself was very good I thought.

They did well to give him a human side towards the end of his tenure. If you ignore QoS it's a very good 4 film arc for him, with some iffy spots in Spectre. The ending will have some torn. I thought it was a bit of a shame he didn't get his happy ending. Yes he got his closure, but this Bond hasn't been allowed to be happy for much of any time at all.

They could have maybe left a hint in there that he could possibly have survived somehow, but even in James Bond universe there's no way he's breathing after that.

I thought Female-007 was largely pointless. Did she actually do anything at all? He could likely have done what he did in the base at the end without her too.
Paloma was great, but her not reappearing after the death of Felix, to help Bond out seems a little off.

Blofeld was much better in this kind of showing. Pulling the strings from afar and staying in the shadows until it was the right time.

That we got another group that is seemingly much bigger/better than Spectre, handed to us with no backstory or much build, was also odd. Ultimately, though I like Rami Malek, he was kind of reduced to a kind of generic supervillain with a revenge story against our hero. He came across great on-screen, but give your good actors more time.

The way they've killed all of the main characters off suggests a hard reboot is coming or nothing at all. In an ideal world that would be the last Bond film. But there is money to be made.
But where do you go next? You either start another multiple film journey like the one we've just had, getting a guy in his late 20's to early 30's who will stay for 15+ years again. Or you have to go back to the shooty shooty bang bang style films, where it doesn't really matter if you've got a guy for the long haul.

[-james-]

The Green Knight is excellent. Quite fancy rewatching after reading the wikipedia article on the source material.

[Mike]

Watched Pig last night, I enjoyed it for the most but it’s hardly a classic.

[Ian]

I enjoyed No Time To Die.

Really don't care one way or the other about him dying at the end and anybody who's spent all this time pretending Daniel Craig is the same man as Sean Connery played (as in the same continuity) wants to behave themselves.

It's always had recurring characters but that's just part of the Bond thing, surely nobody was suspending their disbelief hard enough to pretend it was all the exact same fella? It's been a series of reboots. I'm a little surprised, mind, they didn't go with the James Bond is part of the 007 codename thing.

Though I suppose if people are already moaning about this that'd offer even more future plot holes.

In short: good film, if the future films are also good with the new Bond then who cares if it's a reboot or what?

[Yevrah]

Completely agree with all of that Ian.

[Giggles]

Thor Ragnarok is probably the best marvel film I’ve watched.

[Cord]

I feel like the line you always seem to see when a new Wes Anderson is out is that if you like his previous stuff you'll still like this one, but if you've already taken against him then there's nothing in *film* that'll change your mind. Which I think is particularly true of The French Dispatch, as there really isn't anything by way of plot or meaning in it even by his standards. It's just a vehicle for how many interesting and inventive ways he can find of presenting a shot. Which I think he does really rather well in it and kept my attention throughout, but I can definitely see people really not liking it at all.

[Don]

Giggles' movie of the year, surprisingly.

[Giggles]

Giggles' movie of the year, surprisingly.

The French Dispatch? Never seen it.

[Lofty]

Willy's Wonderland. Can't tell if that was so bad it was good.

[Cord]

I found the Bond film a bit dour. Competently made, nice scenery and all that, but I don't think I had much fun watching it.

[randomlegend]

Willy's Wonderland. Can't tell if that was so bad it was good.

I know they're making a prequel to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory so I assumed you were talking about that. Was a bit taken aback when I thought they'd cast Nic Cage as Willy Wonka.

[Ian]

Nic Cage as Willy Wonka.

This is the film I want now.

[Shindig]

"Mr. Wonka has so far dodged questions about his use of migrant midget workers."

[Ian]

That and the fact that poor Charlie is now the owner of a factory that's going to be getting fuuuuuucked with legal issues for all the mutilated children.

[Bernanke]

My local kino place is screening Heat a couple of times in two weeks. :drool: Can't think of many other movies I'd rather re-watch on a big screen.

[Lewis]

'Heard he's got a b-INFECTED ASS...'

[Don]

Dune is so so dull and meaningless. Should have seen it coming but I was restless so decided to give it a shot. Muggy.

[phonics]

Seen Dune a second time now. Understood what was going on this time round.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I watched Shang-Chi earlier today. Enjoyed it a lot but I feel that the ending let it down a bit. It's probably low tier 2/high tier 3 in the rankings of Marvel films for me.

Tony Leung was top quality in his role.

[Ian]

Could've done with not spending so much of it doing more interesting settings and colourful wire-fu fight scenes just to end in a load of beige CGI but it's decent before that.

I've just watched The Predator. It's a load of dumb nonsense which is fine for a predator film but what isn't fine is that it's just no fun. Makes the predator boring and uncool and has an overcomplicated story that doesn't make an ounce of sense. If you've seen / liked other Shane Black films you wouldn't guess he was involved in this without reading it.

Avoid, if you haven't already done so.

[Lofty]

Fucking Predator dogs :nono:

[Ian]

The bit I lolled at with them was that it wasn't even just the weird alien "dogs" they had in Predators. They've got the fucking dreadlocks.

[Lofty]

Thankfully I saw it on some dodgy streaming stick not long after release, so didn't pay for the privilege. They are doing some weird sequel/prequel called Prey now with a female lead.

[Ian]

Yeah I'd forgotten all about that. Ye Olde Predator(e) filling in Native Americans. It will probably be rubbish but I do think just sticking the predator in new, different situations is a better idea than trying to build up this deep lore around it.

[Lofty]

It is a tough one because Predator has the same problems as Terminator, it is easy to fuck it up and the films that made the franchises are hard to top.

[Bernanke]

I kinda enjoyed the Adrien Brody one actually.

[Ian]

Yeah I feel we're in a bit of a minority but I didn't mind Predators. It's a bit of fun.

[Baz]

Clifford the Big Red Dog.

Bizarrely the main characters mum is English. While that’s not bizarre in itself, the confusion comes when you also discover Englishman Jack Whitehall is in it, playing said English mums brother, with an American accent. And on more than one occasion he puts on a very bad English accent.

The CGI is also laughably bad.

[Lofty]

Predators is the most acceptable offering after the first 2, I have the 4K three film box set of those on order. I even thing AvP wasn't absolutely terrible but after that...

Watched Goodbye Christopher Robin on TV last night, was better than expected.

[Ian]

AvP is shit but has the novelty of a daft Arctic alien pyramid and the first on screen alien / predator barney. AvP 2 doesn't have a redeeming feature.

[Lofty]

I liked the concept of the sacrificial chamber in AVP. I remember seeing AVP2 and the kid getting chest burstered early doors like 'wow' due to the shock factor but shock alone does not make a good film.

[Raoul Duke]

Watched Red Notice earlier and it's decent but very by-the-numbers heist stuff. Ryan Reynolds is basically himself and Gal Gadot is fit and The Rock is good at being a unit.

[Lofty]

I am currently watching Love Hard, another Netflix original film like Red Notice and one reviewer has deemed it 'too well cast for the Hallmark channel, too half-assed for the movie theatres' which seems to be a fair assessment of all Netflix original films.

[Dquincy]

Watched Free Guy last night. Really good and decent concept.

[Lofty]

It was surprisingly good, I agree.

[Dquincy]

Going to give Mr Reynolds other new film (on Netflix) a go next weekend.

[Lofty]

I watched it last night. As RD said it's decent, by the numbers stuff. Was surprised to discover it was written by the guy who wrote Dodgeball and We're the Millers.

[phonics]

Is last night in soho any good? I’m being dragged to it tonight.

[Mike]

Watched Red Notice earlier and it's decent but very by-the-numbers heist stuff. Ryan Reynolds is basically himself and Gal Gadot is fit and The Rock is good at being a unit.
Whoever made it is a Metal Gear Solid fan for sure.

[Lofty]

Is last night in soho any good? I’m being dragged to it tonight.

Critical reviews had it as more style over substance and a homage to giallo horror films. Most people seem to think it is the best thing ever and will win an oscar though.

Mike: the globetrotting definitely had an Uncharted vibe too.

[Clunge]

Well Dune was shit. And to cap it off, I'm going to see that new Wes Anderson one on Weds, which I hear is also pants.

[phonics]

Last night in Soho.

Music: great
Visuals: incredible
Plot: complete arse.

[Gray Fox]

Whoever made it is a Metal Gear Solid fan for sure.

I'm developing a sudden interest.

[Giggles]

Watch some new Rock thing called Red Notice yesterday. It was very by the numbers but I think it's a made for Netflix thing so yeah grand job, it was good enough.

[SvN]

How does a film like that cost $200million to make?

[Don]

Anyone seen a film called Red Notice. Would the description 'by the numbers' be a fair summation of it?

[Lofty]

Netflix will have paid over the odds to land three A listers, then all the location shooting won't be cheap.

[Giggles]

Yeah it was polished enough that you can see where the money is gone.

[Baz]

Could you envisage The Rock reprising the role, albeit slightly differently where he goes to a corner shop and is aghast at the price of vape liquid?

[Don]

Netflix will have paid over the odds to land three A listers, then all the location shooting won't be cheap.

The money-laundering and creative accounting in search of tax breaks doesn't come cheap, either.

[Lofty]

Oh yeah, one review I saw even noted 'the real heist was at Netflix's expense' :D

[Ian]

Could you envisage The Rock reprising the role, albeit slightly differently where he goes to a corner shop and is aghast at the price of vape liquid?

Have you tweaked your avatar or is it just the dementia playing tricks on me again?

[Baz]

Have you tweaked your avatar or is it just the dementia playing tricks on me again?

Changed it yeah.

[Ian]

Well at least it was more obvious than when Benny was just zooming in on Ainsley by a pixel a week or whatever it was.

[Lofty]

Just seen the new Ghostbusters. It was a mixed bag for me personally, some good stuff, some stuff that could have been done better and a few dud scenes but it was definitely better than the 2016 one.

[Baz]

Anyone watched King Richard yet?

[Manc]

Last night in Soho is a riot. Thomasin McKenzie is utter shit though.

[Giggles]

Watched Bond after. I dunno.

[Ian]

Red Notice is fine for what it is. The Rock and Reynolds and Gadot are all good value. Story's as dumb as a bag of rocks but it has some fun action bits and some laughs and whatnot. A reasonably diverting hour and a half or whatever it was.

[Smjffy]

Most films with The Rock in it are worth the watch, not because they are all good but because it's The Rock. I'd probably watch any with Stone Cold in too although I think the only one that springs to mind is The Condemned which was probably shit but because it was the two biggest Attitude stars, probably made them better than they were.

Less freds > more freds or I can create if there is scope. I mentioned in a recent thread about being petrified of the sea, along with spiders and the two films that sprung to mind are Jaws and Arachnophobia which I am convinced created said fears having watched both at an impressionable age.

What film, if any, created a real life fear that you either conquered or remain iffy about even today?

[phonics]

Truman Show.

[Smjffy]

Are you Truman or the supporting act? I can see how that film could provoke a few internal thoughts (we're in a simulation!) but having watched it a few times, I'd say you could look at it different. He lived in a bubble unaware that he was being watched by the masses and that his life was basically one big lie, an act (at least that was my take on it) made worse by those he cared for or who cared for him were all actors, a giant theatrical show for the real show, Truman but twisting it around into real life, we do sort of live in a bubble now, we are watched even if we think we aren't and there are so many actors on this planet, we call them two faced today that it is difficult to find a real Sylvia(?) someone who cares enough to want to set you free from the bubble you've come to be inside, incapable of seeing that you are in fact being played whilst others get paid but if you do find one, or he/she finds you, its possibly the best feeling in the world.

Not quite in love nor in need of the relationship thread but in the last 18 months or so I really realised that two people in particular are my Sylvia. Just wanting to set one free instead of getting paid.

Inspired post, I'm sure you'll agree.

[Lofty]

I feel you on Jaws and Arachnophobia, Smiff. I also accidentally saw Alien far too young which also traumatised me.

[Baz]

I also accidentally saw Alien far too young which also traumatised me.Sleepers for me.

[Smjffy]

I feel you on Jaws and Arachnophobia, Smiff. I also accidentally saw Alien far too young which also traumatised me.

See now Alien I imagine would/was alright because I was fascinated with space as a young kid but although I can't prove it, there has to be some correlation between arachnophobia and my fear of spiders. I remember once my elder brother stopped over and crashed on the floor in my room, I gave him my duvet but then felt something crawl across me late at night, jumped right on top of my bro, turns out it was a feather from the pillow that blew across my chest.

I also once encountered what I deemed an intelligent spider, I spotted it late, grabbed my trainer and tried to get it but it kept dodging me. Not even joking with the word dodge. The only way to get to it would have been to move the unit that I was using as my shield. Spider knew what it was doing.


Sleepers for me.

Which part sets you off? Quality film too, that.

[Ian]

I don't think a film has ever done this for me. If anything I was a bit iffy with spiders as a kid but watched Arachnophobia no bother.

[Manc]

On the topic of watching films too young, Scarface had me shook.

[Shindig]

Robocop put years on me but this might by my only dumb film fear.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4j8_oMlelE

[Kikó]

RoboCop is a great shout. Seeing Murphy being beaten to death was pretty horrible. There was a film about shop mannequins coming to life which shit up for ages.

[Ian]

Robocop put years on me but this might by my only dumb film fear.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4j8_oMlelE

Never seen that before but as soon as I saw the title I realised it was one of those where I was recognising the reference in reverse. I remember the Treehouse of Horror episode that was parodying that but never new it was referencing something until right now.

[Lofty]

RoboCop is a great shout. Seeing Murphy being beaten to death was pretty horrible. There was a film about shop mannequins coming to life which shit up for ages.

Horror film or Mannequin with Kim Catrall?

The invisible bogeyman episode of The Outer Limits was pretty hardcore at the time.

[Kikó]

The horror film... I hope.

[Baz]

I watched 2 films recently.

King Richard was very good. I wonder if Big Willy will win an Oscar.

Free Guy was very bad and dreadfully boring.

[Baz]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/nicolas-cage-dracula-movie-universal-renfield-1235055003/#recipient_hashed=4099e28fd37d67ae86c8ecfc73a6b7b6 52abdcdb75a184f8cf1f8015afde10e9


Nicolas Cage has made a career of biting into his roles with seemingly reckless abandon, even as he strayed further and further from studio movie making and sunk his teeth into indie cinema.

Now, in a deal sealed with a vampire's kiss, Cage is returning to a big-studio movie and will play the meaty role of Dracula in Universal Pictures' monster movie Renfield.

https://i.imgur.com/PmLJY.gif

[Baz]

With the new Matrix coming soon I'm contemplating rewatching the trilogy.

But then I thought I should rewatch the Godfather trilogy instead.

First films aside, I can't remember much at all.

[Yevrah]

First films aside, I can't remember much at all.

That's probably because and I know one should whisper this, they're not actually very good.

[SvN]

Are you on about The Matrix there? Because you can't be saying The Godfather Part II is no good, surely.

[Yevrah]

I wasn't. Was saying that as a whole they're not very good.

On The Matrix, 2 and 3 are absolute turd.

[phonics]

Matrix 2 was so bad, I didn't even see 3. What happens?

[Yevrah]

Even more pontificating, but slightly fewer endlessly boring action scenes.

[Manc]

Morpheus turns heel.

[Pepe]

Matrix 1 is alright. 2 and 3 are complete turds.

Godfather 1 and 2 are good. The third one is meh.

[Shindig]

Godfather 3 felt like a clip show without the clips.

"Remember this from the first one? Ah, y'do. Anyway, he's Sophia Coppolla reading lines poorly."

[Lofty]

It was ahead of it's time by today's standards. Like the RLM review of Ghostbusters Afterlife 'remember this? Remember that?'

[Ian]

I watched The Shape of Water over the weekend. It's pretty good though I didn't quite love it as much as the hype it got at the time.

Michael Shannon plays a good bastard though, as ever.

[Baz]

Turns out Godfather I is one of the most overrated films of all time.

Part II seems better (stuff happens) but man it’s long. Went to bed when it reached “intermission.”

[Dark Soldier]

We're all going to the world's fair is absolutely fantastic. Slow burn coming of age web creepypasta nosleep horror drama. Incredible central performance by Anna Cobb. I'd say its the most effective 'horror' of the year.

[Spikey M]

We got Disney+ for the kids today. Is there anything on there worthwhile for adults?

No Superhero or Starwars shite, I said for adults.

[Don]

Can I borrow the account for Nomadland bro?

[Boydy]

We got Disney+ for the kids today. Is there anything on there worthwhile for adults?

No Superhero or Starwars shite, I said for adults.

Y: The Last Man looks interesting.

[Spikey M]

Y: The Last Man looks interesting.


Based on DC Comics' acclaimed series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, the drama "Y: The Last Man" traverses a post-apocalyptic world in which a cataclysmic event decimates every mammal with a Y chromosome but for one cisgender man and his pet monkey.

You're not allowed an opinion anymore.

[Ian]

Just watch it, in six months you'll have no idea whether you liked it or not anyway.

[Boydy]

You're not allowed an opinion anymore.

I know it's based on a comic book but it's not magical superhero shit (I don't think, anyway).

[Lofty]

They have a decent back catalogue of stuff via Star.

[Giggles]

I have no idea what a cisgender is but I’m guessing it’s a fairly new comic.

[Giggles]

I’ve only ever watched the Mandalorian on it and a quick skim through the catalog would suggest that won’t change for the time being.

[Yevrah]

I have no idea what a cisgender is but I’m guessing it’s a fairly new comic.

You're a cisgender Giggles. Might be news to you, but there we are.

[Ian]

I have no idea what a cisgender is but I’m guessing it’s a fairly new comic.

The comic isn't new, the show is just using that term in the synopsis to make it clear they mean an au naturale willy is involved.

[Giggles]

So a male then.

[Yevrah]

Promising Young Woman is alright, Godzilla vs Kong is not.

[Baz]

So a male then.
Cisgender means they still identify as the gender they were born as. Prior to 2020, I believe the correct term was “not a tranny.”

[Giggles]

So normal then.

[Spikey M]

My pronouns are it / that.

[Manc]

Freak*

[Ian]

I watched Terminator: Dark Fate last night having seen it's available on Disney+.

It is not very good.

Given they're clearly determined to keep making films under the banner the obsession with sticking to the Connor story doesn't do them any favours and the dumb reason they came up with to justify Arnie's presence in this one was pretty lol.

[Kikó]

The unforgivable with Sandra Bullock is actually pretty decent.

[Kikó]

I watched Terminator: Dark Fate last night having seen it's available on Disney+.

It is not very good.

Given they're clearly determined to keep making films under the banner the obsession with sticking to the Connor story doesn't do them any favours and the dumb reason they came up with to justify Arnie's presence in this one was pretty lol.

I liked it but then I'm just happy with any of the terminator films.

[Ian]

It's basically a Force Awakens-style "here are the franchise's greatest hits please like it" and one of those "this sequel picks up from the best film in the series please disregard everything you saw after that."

I was deeply bored but both RT scores suggest I may be in a minority.

[Lofty]

Dark Fate is crap and suffers from the same problem all sequels since T2 have had: they can't top the T1000. They keep trying, but they can't. They could take it it a different direction and be more interesting, maybe not Salvation levels (it gets kudos for trying).

[Baz]

Raya and the Last Dragon is actually pretty good.

[randomlegend]

Facht.

[Spikey M]

You don't even have a kid you powernonce.

[randomlegend]

If it's good it's good, who cares if it's aimed at kids.

[randomlegend]

The Death of Stalin gets the PATENTED and HIGHLY COVETED stamp of GOOD from RL.

[Yevrah]

It's been a while.

I have been drilling holes in the earth for thirty years. And I have never, never missed a depth that I have aimed for. And by God, I am not gonna miss this one. I will make 800 feet.

You swear on your daughter's life, on my family's, that you can hit that mark?

I will make 800 feet. I swear to God I will.

:cool:

[Lewis]

The second Armadillo turning up is the greatest pop in cinema.

[Lofty]

https://youtu.be/-ahtp0sjA5U

[Yevrah]

It's sad when actors get ideas above their station.

[Lewis]

'How hard can it be? Aim the drill at the ground and turn it on...' Watch the film you silly cunt.

[Yevrah]

Likewise with Independence Day

"Goldblum brings down an incredibly advanced alien civilisation with his laptop, lol, rofl, snaffle, lol, rofl, queb"

Fuck off.

[phonics]

You can tell how Yevrah would react to actors questioning his script.

‘Yeah but mate doesn’t this seem a bit out of character?’

‘You sound like the fuckers before we set up the private forum. You’re sacked.’

[Shindig]

"You're actors. Sell it."

[Yevrah]

"You're actors. Sell it."

I mean, that is what they're there to do - I wonder how good Affleck's idea of watching drillers training astronauts on earth would have been...

[Yevrah]

United States Air Force, ma'am. Requesting permission to shake the hand of the daughter of the bravest man I've ever met.

And with that, Disney+ is now recommending I watch Independence Day, don't mind if I do.

[Lofty]

It's sad when actors get ideas above their station.

Ben Affleck won an Oscar with Matt Damon for best screenplay the year before Armageddon :D

[Baz]

Ben Affleck won an Oscar with Matt Damon for best screenplay the year before Armageddon :D


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeqiGg7hMAQ

[Yevrah]

Ben Affleck won an Oscar with Matt Damon for best screenplay the year before Armageddon :D

I'm well aware of that, but crucially, he didn't make Armageddon and his complaints about the film were those from a man who sounded like he hadn't really understood what he'd signed up for.

[Lofty]

I think it was more the case he just enjoyed winding Bay up about things, secure in his multi-million dollar contract. I always preferred The Rock over Armageddon out of the Bay films, personally.

Anyone seen the new Spider-Man yet?

[Limoutsonik]

Spidey is out today here in Greece,i think the worldwide release is tomorrow.

[Browning]

My brother saw it last night and reckons it’s the best marvel movie yet.

[Boydy]

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article11766830.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/PROD-Brenda-from-Bristol.jpg

[Baz]

1470864723382087684

[Spikey M]

Now there's a plane that deserved to crash.

[Mike]

Really enjoyed Ron’s Gone Wrong, made me laugh a few times.

[Kikó]

Started Finch. Stopped, the robot sounds like Borat.

[Shindig]

I've decided not to bother with The Vault after reviewing the piss-poor game they put out to tie in with the film's release. I assume they're linked by Sony or something.

[Baz]

The Matrix. Ehhh s’okay I guess. Not looking forward to II and III now though.

[Ian]

Is that the first Matrix, Baz? And is that somehow the first time you've seen it....????

[Baz]

Is that the first Matrix, Baz? And is that somehow the first time you've seen it....????

…first time I’ve seen it since circa 2001.

Forgot he flies off at the end. :D

[Gray Fox]

He showed you what they didn't want you to see.

[Lofty]

2 and 3 are shite, there are some alright ideas and set pieces but the first one is comfortably the best. I remember listening to the soundtrack, I think the thing that dates it more than anything is despite being sci fi it is very 'of it's time'.

[Gray Fox]

The main problem in sci-fi films is when they try to explain everything.

It's always best to keep it kind of vague and to have some action in there. Everyone understands the concept and what's going on. It appears "deep" enough but actually isn't really.

2 and 3 go full on trying to explain everything, whilst disappearing up its own ass with the themes. There's some great fight scenes in it though and it also gave us the madness that is John Wick later down the line.

[Ian]

And they have it explained by Colonel Sanders which doesn't help.

[Baz]

Just watched 2. I actually didn’t mind it.

I mean it’s mostly a brainless action film and my god some of the fight scenes are boring as hell, like so mind-numbingly wanted to turn it off shite, but it wasn’t as bad I was expecting.

Also fairly sure I’ve never seen 2 before, despite definitely watching 3 in the cinema with my mates. :cab: Presumably I didn’t wanna miss out on a waaaay cinema trip after sixth form lads lads lads day out.

[Lofty]

The Unforgivable on Netflix is decent.

[Spikey M]

The Unforgivable on Netflix is decent.

I've noticed a pattern with Netflix films. They're mostly decent efforts, but with one glaring shortfall that saw none of the traditional studios pick them up. In this case, a very underwhelming ending.

I don't know what they would do with a sequel, but it almost needs one because there's no closure.

[Giggles]

Knives Out - aye/nay?

[Boydy]

Knives Out - aye/nay?

Big aye. It's great.

[Lofty]

If you can stand Craig's accent.

[SvN]

One of my favourite films in the last few years.

[Yevrah]

I'm half an hour into Don't Look Up and it's absolutely horrible.

[Manc]

The reviews said as much.

[Yevrah]

I've started so I'll finish, but if it keeps up (and there's no sign that it won't) there'll be a proper rant coming.

[Kikó]

I'm really not sure about this new matrix. It's fucking bizarre.

[Manc]

The reviews said as much.

[randomlegend]

I downloaded Carol as something vaguely Christmassy to watch the other day. We turned it off after half an hour, it was sooooo fucking boring.

[Lofty]

The reviews said as much.

They changed something.

[Kikó]

I think the second half of the matrix is much stronger (or enjoyable) than the first. They play loads of the Matrix classics throughout.

I'd say it's worth the watch even if it's just the nostalgia.

[Gray Fox]

It's very Star Wars: The Force Awakens in that, it introduces a lot of new characters, with some old faces, but they replay a lot of the hits of the previous film(A new hope) and they come off somehow worse.

I said to a mate when the trailer came out I really didn't want it to end a certain way and it did exactly that unfortunately. Not even Keanu can get me to like this one.

[Lofty]

As Red Letter Media admitted in their Ghostbusters Afterlife review, despite their positive reaction to TFA it has basically made nostalgia bait a better option than original creativity.