Film Thread

[Foe]

Finally got round to watching spotlight. What a great film. Pretty glad I bought it too becuase I can imagine I'll happily watch it again.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

This looks pretty good:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFMo3UJ4B4g

Same director from Sicario and Prisoners, count me in.

[Yevrah]

Talking of Sicario I saw it the other night, quite liked it.

[Boydy]

So did I. Sunday night, to be precise.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

The scene at the border :drool:

[Yevrah]

I thought there were 3 or 4 cracking set pieces in it like that, but it was missing something to string it all together to make it brilliant.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I went to see Swallows and Amazons today. I've never read the book or watched any of the previous adaptations, I thought it was quite good. Some parts were a bit disjointed and it couldn't quite capture the essence of a great kids adventure film like The Goonies/Stand by Me but it was a decent way to spend just over 90 minutes.

[Baz]

Started watching Inherent Vice after wanting to watch it for ages. Dog shit. Turning it off. :thbdn:

[Dark Soldier]

Inherent Vice is astonishing when stoned as fuck.

[Mike]

Watched 'The Rock' tonight, enjoyed it a lot!
I'm unsure if I'd see it before as a kid.

[Spammer]

The Lobster

Utter fucking bilge.

[Foe]

Watched a really nice Iranian film called Children of Heaven on Netflix.

Taz's nose must've been a late bloomer.

[Baz]

Finally got around to watching Generation P after reading the book years ago (on Challengers recommendation, funnily enough) and am please to say it lived up to expectation. Took a trippy turn [very] late on, but how could it not if it wanted to stay true to the source! Top stuff.

[Bernanke]

Rams was bloody good. If you want a film about sheep, that's the one.

[John Arne]

I've just re-watched The Martian. Donald Glover's character really is a bit silly and out of place. Also Sean Bean goes from being crew manager for the initial launch, to suddenly being completely in charge of the rescue launch.
Still a cracking film.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've just finished the book, it's great.

Also your qualms are in the book, well not as pronounced especially with Sean Bean's character but they're from the source.

[John Arne]

Is Glover's character as neurotic (not sure how to describe him - like flaky and unaware of anyone else) in the book?

[Magic]

The Nice Guys was a proper decent comedy. 7.5 all day long which is saying something. Though in saying that I enjoyed Spy so you'll all probably hate it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Is Glover's character as neurotic (not sure how to describe him - like flaky and unaware of anyone else) in the book?
Yeah, he's got absolutely no social skills.

[Bernanke]

I'm going to a back-to-back showing of The Room and The Disaster Artist in October, with Greg Sestero hosting it. :drool:

[John]

Hateful Eight is fucking interminable. An absolute car crash of a film.

[Yevrah]

I really liked it. :D

Appreciate I'm in a minority on that one though.

[Lewis]

How close were you to bailing when he popped up as the narrator?

[John]

I've turned it off for now at precisely that point, and said 'fuck off' out loud.

I'd like to know the names of everyone involved in approving Tim Roth's performance, so I can be sure never to watch a film involving any of them ever again.

[SvN]

I thought it was excellent. It's over the top, a bit long winded during the first act, but I was thoroughly entertained throughout.

[Manc]

My faith in John has been restored. I can't find the post, but I'm pretty sure I went in.

[Manc]

Whilst I'm here, Fury was slightly disappointing. War, tanks, blood, tanks, tanks, Shia LaBeouf, more fucking tanks, predictable ending.

[Dark Soldier]

I thought it was excellent. It's over the top, a bit long winded during the first act, but I was thoroughly entertained throughout.

Yep, its a cracking film, same as Django. Also I'll knock a list of some films up as I saw your post the other day SvN.

[John]

I liked Django. It was half an hour too long and Tarantino's cameo was the worst thing ever committed to film until Tim Roth in H8, but it was at least entertaining throughout and the interplay between Django and Schultz was great.

Most of the dialogue in Hateful Eight, the first half of it at least, feels artificially lengthened for no real dramatic or artistic purpose, as though Tarantino has decided that he can no longer make a film shorter than a hundred and fifty minutes.

[Dark Soldier]

I like Tarantino's dialogue to be honest (bar Death Proof), so it felt fine to me. The film fully takes off when the cabin properly comes into play, and yeah the film could've started at that point. Its not his strongest work though.

[SvN]

Yep, its a cracking film, same as Django. Also I'll knock a list of some films up as I saw your post the other day SvN.

Great stuff, cheers. Been struggling with stuff to watch just lately.

[Boydy]

Where are they?!

I love DS' recommendations as well.

[Dark Soldier]

Gimme time I'm a working man ffs. I have just watched a horror I've been putting off for a while because I'd convinced myself it was about werewolves for some reason.

Starry Eyes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2793490/)

An aspiring young actress gets an audition for a well respected known director, and shit completely and utterly hits the fan. Its got an uneasy, odd vibe after the fairly simple opening, lets it all build gradually and just goes haywire at a certain point. Some lovely cinematography in there at times too, albeit being lower budget a few of the actors in the lesser roles are quite bad (The 'Taters' Manager as one example).

Liking it will depend on wha you want from horror, really, but it gets a solid 7 bordering on 8 for me.

[SvN]

Nice one, got it downloading. Will watch it at some point over the next week or so, depending on whether the wife is interested.

[Dark Soldier]

Tonight's viewing is this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84cSaJqtyD4

[John]

Saw that on PtP but my download queue is full. Get a review up so I know whether it's skipping to the front or not.

[Dark Soldier]

Will watch it tomorrow, as ended up watching Transpecos tonight:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4687464/

A solid, tight, short drama. Good leads, its an enjoyable tale. 7/10

Not much more to add really but worth a watch.

[Bernanke]

First time re-watching it since it released, and Inception really is a complete mess of a movie.

[Dark Soldier]

First time re-watching it since it released, and Inception really is a complete mess of a movie.

I absolutely adore it :D

[Giggles]

Seen ads so far tonight for Ben Hur and The Magnificent Seven. What happens when all these dry up? Second remakes?

[Spammer]

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

I really loved it. Great film.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They made a film based on Foe's life?

[Spammer]

I hope it is. I've got some questions to ask him about it.

[Shindig]

They made a film based on Foe's life?

"Dear Diary,

He showed up at the airport. Didn't think he'd do it. Thought it best we should see other people."

[leedsrevolution]

The Lobster

Utter fucking bilge.

Think it's the worst film I've ever seen. No idea how people could like this.

[Mazuuurk]

Watched Straigh outta Compton on Saturday. It was really fucking good :drool:

[Spammer]

Might watch that tonight.

[Smiffy]

.....

[Spammer]

I watched Creed in the end. Loved that shit :drool:

[Ian]

I watched The Purge: Anarchy last night. I'm a bit of a sucker for a slightly crap horror film though so I quite enjoyed it and Frank Grillo was pretty decent. It doesn't actually go for that many scares, mind. More constant unease.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I watched A Serious Man on the tellybox last night. The first Coens effort I've seen. Are they all like that? Completely other-worldly, every shot treated like an oil painting, unsubtle motifs that don't seem to link into the rest of the film but probably do if you think about it. I quite liked it, I guess.

[Adamski]

I think that's the only one I've not seen actually. I think it's one of the poorer ones from what I gather.

Your summation isn't far off though, although things like Fargo, Big Lebowski and Burn After Reading are a bit lighter.

[Adamski]

Has anyone seen the Michael Crichton Westworld film? Wondering if it's worth watching before the TV series.

[John]

It's a good film so it's worth watching for that reason, but from everything I've seen and heard of the TV show it's taking the basic premise in a different direction, so it's probably irrelevant to your enjoyment of that.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Anyone seen Hunt for the Wilderpeople yet?

[Foe]

Was really disappointed by creed. It really was quite slow.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1835852/war-veterans-fury-as-filmmakers-stage-nazi-invasion-at-sir-winston-churchills

Fucking lol.

Excellent choice for filming.

[Lewis]

Michael Bay knows. Historical accuracy.

[John]

Michael Bay is a colossal walloper, but the outrage over this stuff eludes me. Think of it as Jim Bowen offering any watching German a look at what they could have won and lol it away.

I wonder what backwards plot nonsense they'll be using to get the Nazis into a Transformers film though. Iron Sky crossover, hopefully.

[Yevrah]

I wasn't expecting much from Independence Day 2 and nor do I normally post mid-film, but fuck me it's shit.

Almost nothing of any interest has happened, the new characters are rubbish, but perhaps the worst thing is it just looks so cheap - worse than cookie cutter CGI, terrible acting, shocking racial stereotypes and a veneer about the whole thing that makes it seem straight to Channel 5.

I was quite critical of Will Smith for not bothering (supposedly due to the cash), but maybe he saw the script and CGI plans.

[Yevrah]

Thank God that's over. I can only echo what John said in that it's the worst blockbuster I've seen for a very long time.

[Yevrah]

In better news, Blood Father, Mel Gibson's latest straight to video, no doubt multiply titled offering was alright.

[Spammer]

Straight Outta Compton - Yes :cool:

Cinema Paradiso - Lovely ^_^

[Magic]

Wife and child went to see Kubo and said it was awesome. Must admit it looks pretty cool. Anyone seen it?

[SvN]

Gimme time I'm a working man ffs. I have just watched a horror I've been putting off for a while because I'd convinced myself it was about werewolves for some reason.

Starry Eyes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2793490/)

An aspiring young actress gets an audition for a well respected known director, and shit completely and utterly hits the fan. Its got an uneasy, odd vibe after the fairly simple opening, lets it all build gradually and just goes haywire at a certain point. Some lovely cinematography in there at times too, albeit being lower budget a few of the actors in the lesser roles are quite bad (The 'Taters' Manager as one example).

Liking it will depend on wha you want from horror, really, but it gets a solid 7 bordering on 8 for me.

I was sure I posted about this a few days ago, but it's not in the thread.

Anyway, I watched this and thought it was great. I thought I knew where it was going, but it took me completely by surprise.

I thought it was fairly obvious that she was going to end up being the "star" of a snuff film, so I was pleasantly surprised when I was utterly wrong.

Definitely a unique watch, although I do agree with some of the acting - it was pretty piss poor outside the main few characters, I thought. Didn't ruin it though. I think somewhere around 7.5/10 is where I'd have it.

I then watched The House of the Devil, although I was pissed when I watched it. I thought it did an UNBELIEVABLE job of making it feel like the 80s. My wife, who was also watching it, was 100% sure this was an 80s film and I'd got the release date wrong. It did a brilliant job of building suspense, but I do think they probably left it slightly too long before stuff starting happening. A few odd twists, including the finale (that I wasn't overly keen on), but overall an enjoyable film. Not as good as Starry Eyes, but a 7/10 nonetheless.

[Magic]

The Witch is just quite simply incredible.

Horrifically scary with so many layers. What seems to be a fairly obvious film to make even the genre (New England horror British early settlers) hasn't really been touched on, that I can remember anyway. Superb stuff.

[Spoonsky]

I loved the VVitch as well. \o

Saw Eight Days a Week, Ron Howard's documentary on the Beatles' touring years. I thought it was great, just as pleasurable as it should've been but also insightful at times. Can't beat the fucking Beatles can you.

[Giggles]

I loved the VVitch as well. \o

Saw Eight Days a Week, Ron Howard's documentary on the Beatles' touring years. I thought it was great, just as pleasurable as it should've been but also insightful at times. Can't beat the fucking Beatles can you.

Why did you spell Witch with two V's?

[Spoonsky]

http://i.imgur.com/qjVPAe6.png

Ask the producers.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They're probably hipsters, Giggles.

[Magic]

http://i.imgur.com/qjVPAe6.png

Ask the producers.

That poster is a spoiler. If you're thick like me and can't see things coming.

[Giggles]

http://i.imgur.com/qjVPAe6.png

Ask the producers.

Ah right, I'd heard talk about it but hadn't seen any of the posters or ads.

[Magic]

It's really great. Spoon probably loved it because he can relate to that way of life.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

The Witch made me feel properly uneasy, in a good way.

Was looking for a film on Churchill and found Into The Storm. If I hadn't have known beforehand that it was Brendan Gleeson playing him I'm not sure I'd have clocked it was him. Top stuff.

[John]

I wasn't expecting much from Independence Day 2 and nor do I normally post mid-film, but fuck me it's shit.

Almost nothing of any interest has happened, the new characters are rubbish, but perhaps the worst thing is it just looks so cheap - worse than cookie cutter CGI, terrible acting, shocking racial stereotypes and a veneer about the whole thing that makes it seem straight to Channel 5.

I was quite critical of Will Smith for not bothering (supposedly due to the cash), but maybe he saw the script and CGI plans.

:nodd:

Will Smith knocked it back about five years ago though, so he can't have seen the script. I don't see how that script could have been knocking around for five years without everyone realising what a complete shambles it was.


The Witch is just quite simply incredible.

Horrifically scary with so many layers. What seems to be a fairly obvious film to make even the genre (New England horror British early settlers) hasn't really been touched on, that I can remember anyway. Superb stuff.

There's probably a brilliant horror film in the Roanoke story, but other than that any film set in that period would likely be a generic 'stranger in a strange land' tale.

[Baz]

My mum keeps raving about Swiss Army Man. Is it any good?

[John]

There's a new Korean horror film out today from the geezer behind The Chaser and The Yellow Sea, called The Wailing (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5215952/). It's sitting on a perfect score on RottenTomatoes and it's almost three hours long. :drool:

[leedsrevolution]

The Witch is fucking brilliant.

[Lewis]

I watched The Truman Show earlier. I have seen it before, but it was years and years ago, and I never appreciated the attention to detail in making his world mental but not so mental that you wouldn't notice it unless you were already onto them (everyone getting off the bus without moaning being the obvious example).

[Giggles]

I need to watch that again. I used to love it but it's been years so it would be interesting to see it that still holds true.

[wullie]

The Girl On The Train was alright, but the outcome was a little telegraphed by Justin Theroux spending the first half of the film just being handsome and bland, they would have just got some jobber for that role if that's all it was

[leedsrevolution]

I watched Another Earth last night. Some of the shots in it were lovely but overall the film was pretty bland.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Thank God that's over. I can only echo what John said in that it's the worst blockbuster I've seen for a very long time.

I keep coming back to thinking about giving it a go, it must surely be worth a watch for Goldblum alone, right? Then I see comments like this from someone who liked the first and had low expectations going in to this.

[Giggles]

I keep coming back to thinking about giving it a go, it must surely be worth a watch for Goldblum alone, right? Then I see comments like this from someone who liked the first and had low expectations going in to this.

I normally base mine on if it's hated here then I'm going to like it, but a no from Yev is worrying.

[SvN]

My wife was super excited about seeing it, and was so depressed at how shit it was. She almost gave up after 30 minutes.

[Yevrah]

With Goldblum in it it should have at least been decent and even though I've seen it I struggle to understand how they muffed it so hard. But, and I can't overstate this, it's fucking terrible. It makes Jurassic World look like a masterpiece.

That said, I encourage people to watch it, just to see for themselves.

[Yevrah]

Such attention to detail by Pixar.

http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a810594/this-toy-story-fan-theory-about-andys-mums-true-identity-will-blow-your-mind/

[John]

I keep coming back to thinking about giving it a go, it must surely be worth a watch for Goldblum alone, right? Then I see comments like this from someone who liked the first and had low expectations going in to this.

Jeff Goldblum could have saved it if he was given a single line of decent dialogue, but I'll offer up an example of the quality of spoken word in that film.

Girl - 'There's a tall, lanky man over there waving at us.'
Julius Levinson - 'Tall? Lanky? That must be my David.'

And the world wept.

It's impossible to overstate just how terrible it is.

[John]

Such attention to detail by Pixar.

http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a810594/this-toy-story-fan-theory-about-andys-mums-true-identity-will-blow-your-mind/

I'm sure I read that about ten years ago, along with the theory that they're moving in the first film because Andy's parents are getting divorced.

[Henry]

I've yet to see anything really good released this year (War Dogs was the best of the bunch and Life on the Road was fucking awful). I've mostly been watching older movies.

The Last Temptation of Christ. :drool:
Se7en :drool:

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Jeff Goldblum could have saved it if he was given a single line of decent dialogue, but I'll offer up an example of the quality of spoken word in that film.

Girl - 'There's a tall, lanky man over there waving at us.'
Julius Levinson - 'Tall? Lanky? That must be my David.'

And the world wept.

It's impossible to overstate just how terrible it is.

Looks like I'll be forgetting it then.

Did you get round to The Wailing? Very good if not great, keeps you guessing towards the end. Looking to see a few other Korean films- Mother, The Chaser and The Man From Nowhere.

I've seen the latter mentioned on here but not the first two. First up is Dark City though.

[John]

I've grabbed The Wailing but I haven't yet been in the mood for it. The Man From Nowhere is an action masterpiece. There was a bit of a back and forth about The Chaser on the old board but in sum, it's absolutely mental, absolutely brutal, and very good.

[Dark Soldier]

I thought Don't Breathe was superb. Tense, dark and nasty. Stephen Lang puts in a great performance as the blind military vet.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1137405665/bruno-the-movie

The adrenaline of Rocky, mixed with the heart of The Theory of Everything... 'Bruno' is a biopic to rival all others....

Lol.

[Dquincy]

Airplane vs Volcano is on the Syfy channel right now. It's brilliant. :D

[Dquincy]

Airplane vs Volcano is on the Syfy channel right now. It's brilliant. :D

Rescue helicopter is firing missiles at one of the volcanoes now.

[Dquincy]

Helicopter down. And a nearby beach just suffered what looked like a tsunami. :(

[Bernanke]

Totally missed that Neon Demon has been out for a while. That'll do for tonight.

[Giggles]

Seen an ad the other day for a showing of JJ Abrams first Star Trek in the National Concert Hall with the Concert Orchestra doing the score live. Picked up tickets, should be interesting if nothing else and I quite like the film.

[phonics]

That Trainspotting 2 ad looks dogshit. "Choose, Twitter, Choose Facebook..." Fuck off.

Reeks of the new generation being written by the old.


Choose life Choose Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and hope that someone, somewhere cares Choose looking up old flames, wishing you’d done it all differently And choose watching history repeat itself Choose your future Choose reality TV, slut shaming, revenge porn Choose a zero hour contract, a two hour journey to work And choose the same for your kids, only worse, and smother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody’s kitchen And then… take a deep breath You’re an addict, so be addicted Just be addicted to something else Choose the ones you love Choose your future Choose life

http://i.imgur.com/5xqrAvY.gif

[Adamski]

Yeah, I was hoping it would more closely follow Porno's plot. Maybe it still will, but it looks to be way too many head nods to the old one.

Did they really need to put in a scene where Renton is running through Leith and rolls over the bonnet of the car and smiles like the original?

[Baz]

Trainspotting 2:sick: Really?!

[John Arne]

My missus made me watch Army of One.

Fucking hell. Who pays to make this shit. 2/10

Some others I've seen recently;

Notes on Blindness - fucking lovely

Captain Fantastic - brilliant

Sing Street - very nostalgic, and pretty good, too.

[Spoonsky]

I saw the latest Korean zombie sensation tonight, Train to Busan. It was fairly overwrought at times and in the second half it fell into the boring horror/disaster film formula of killing the characters one-by-one, but it was still very enjoyable and there were some memorable shots and scenes. I'd recommend it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just watched Star Trek: Beyond and I thought that despite not being as good as the previous two it was still very enjoyable.

Visually stunning as well.

[John]

Idris Elba's accent in that did my head in. It reminded me of nothing more than that guest bint in Buffy the Vampire Slayer who appeared to be attempting a Jamaican accent but kept finding herself in Ireland or Russia.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Couldn't agree more.

It was all a bit Sharlto Copley for me. I loved the character as well so it was especially annoying.

[leedsrevolution]

I watched Slow West it's a nice film and it's refreshingly short, 1hr20.

[Baz]

Just watched Star Trek: Beyond and I thought that despite not being as good as the previous two it was still very enjoyable.

Visually stunning as well.Have you seen Wrath Of Khan? If the answer is yes and you actually think the second of the new films is enjoyable, there's something wrong with you.

(Fwiw the first one is boss and the third one was enjoyable, if not a bit too wannabe-action-y)

[Spammer]

Did they really need to put in a scene where Renton is running through Leith and rolls over the bonnet of the car and smiles like the original?

Yeah I sighed at that. Seems pretty daft tbh.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Have you seen Wrath Of Khan? If the answer is yes and you actually think the second of the new films is enjoyable, there's something wrong with you.

(Fwiw the first one is boss and the third one was enjoyable, if not a bit too wannabe-action-y)

I have not.

I've been thinking about watching all the TV shows and films but keep deciding not to do so due to the sheer number of them.

[Giggles]

I have not.

I've been thinking about watching all the TV shows and films but keep deciding not to do so due to the sheer number of them.

The TV shows are horrendously old and shit now anyway. The old films are well worth a watch though.

[John]

Suicide Squad is a fucking mess. It's no Independence Day: Resurgence, but it's not far off. The CGI is shite, the acting is shite, and the storyline makes less sense than these things normally do.

I'd moan some more but I'll not think about it any more than the screenwriter did.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Arrival is getting high praise thankfully, not wanted to watch a new film so much in quite a while.

[John Arne]

Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. Unfortunately, it's not showing here for some reason.

[SvN]

I'm going to see it next week, really looking forward to it. Can't remember the last time there was a good film on at the cinema, must be over 6 months ago.

[John Arne]

I watched Dr. Strange earlier this week. Fucking bilge. Annoying yank accent by Cumberbatch, too.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

He reminds me a bit of Hugh Laurie in House.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I watched Dr. Strange earlier this week. Fucking bilge. Annoying yank accent by Cumberbatch, too.
I will cut your balls and eyes out and swap them round.

I want to see it in iMax 3D so I went to my opticians to get some contact lenses. After checking out my eyes they basically called them shit and said they'd have to order in some special ones. Next Friday at the earliest is when I can see Strange :(

[Dark Soldier]

Guy I know who writes film reviews for some Glasgow Student paper got to see Arrival the other week. Said its Villeneuve's best work, which is some feat, and is proper, grown up sci fi. His film of the year so far.

[Yevrah]

Kermode loved it as well if that's any barometer.

[John Arne]

Has Kermode reviewed it yet? I heard Mayo said that he (as in Mayo) had seen it, and loved it - but I've been waiting for Kermode's review...

[John Arne]

Ah, this weeks show apparently. It's not in my podcatcher yet....

[Dark Soldier]

I thought War Dogs was cracking fun, and holy shit Ana de Armas is one of the most beautiful women I've seen.

[Spammer]

Extended version of Suicide Squad is coming out tomorrow. I've heard the original is bilge but that there was a lot cut out of it, so I figure it'll be worth a gander.

[Vim]

Don't these ULTIMATE CUTS usually end up being just the same film but it takes longer for it to end?

[John]

The 'Ultimate Cut' of BvS was incomprehensible nonsense with half drawn motivations and the most stupid 'we're not enemies after all' realisation I've ever seen, and the original cut of Suicide Squad was a fucking travesty, so I doubt the Ultimate Cut of that will be worth bothering with.

It'll be an extra twenty minutes of the worst ever Joker, maybe another five of Margot Robbie grinning at things, and a few extra bits of that appalling CGI stuff at the end.

[Vim]

I only ever saw BvS in the cinema but there's no way that adding more to it would make it any better. The line that pissed me off the most was Clark Kent asking "Who is that?" about Bruce Wayne. It's a tiny line, but for me it kind of symbolises just how stupid this movie was. The Martha thing is just insane, how could anyone think this is a good idea? Snyder and his blatant attempts to HUMANISE these superheroes, I suppose, when most people just wanted them to hit each other for 2 hours with a followable, maybe even unoriginal plot behind that.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I only ever saw BvS in the cinema but there's no way that adding more to it would make it any better. The line that pissed me off the most was Clark Kent asking "Who is that?" about Bruce Wayne. It's a tiny line, but for me it kind of symbolises just how stupid this movie was. The Martha thing is just insane, how could anyone think this is a good idea? Snyder and his blatant attempts to HUMANISE these superheroes, I suppose, when most people just wanted them to hit each other for 2 hours with a followable, maybe even unoriginal plot behind that.

I only watched the longer cut, it was bollocks.

I wish I had watched the normal one so it was over quicker.

[Spammer]

Yeah I didn't like the longer cut of that one either. Curiosity's getting the better of me though, so i'm gonna at least give this new one a chance.

[Magic]

Captain Fantastic or Hunt for the Wilderpeople?

EDIT: The Guardian has shat on both these films so they are guaranteed to be fantastic. :drool:

[Dark Soldier]

Captain Fantastic or Hunt for the Wilderpeople?

EDIT: The Guardian has shat on both these films so they are guaranteed to be fantastic. :drool:

Wilderpeople is a cracker, get on it.

[Kikó]

Good shout ds. Enjoyed it.

[Henry]

My Scientology Movie is bizarre, and ultimately fairly shit since they weren't able to get any info on the subject other than that it's all weird and oppressive.

Arrival this week. :drool:

[Kikó]

Perks of being a wallflower was also watched last night. Very good and really well done.

[phonics]

Ghost in the Shell looks poor.

[Magic]

Wilderpeople is a cracker, get on it.

It certainly was. Highly recommended. Sam Neil with another role that requires him to terribly attempt an accent. Still, he donned it. Also I found it interesting he narrated that New Zealand nature documentary program that was on the BBC a few weeks ago.

[Foe]

Perks of being a wallflower was also watched last night. Very good and really well done.

Love that film. Hermoine looking FIT During the hogwarts summer holidays.

[leedsrevolution]

Just been to see Arrival. Really enjoyed it, but it is a bit boring at some points. Couple of people walked out the cinema but they were probably expecting more action or whatever. I'm giving it a solid 7/10.

[Kikó]

It certainly was. Highly recommended. Sam Neil with another role that requires him to terribly attempt an accent. Still, he donned it. Also I found it interesting he narrated that New Zealand nature documentary program that was on the BBC a few weeks ago.

He is a New Zealander to be fair...

[Magic]

:D

Why is my life.

[Yevrah]

I watched Catfish tonight. What a load of balls.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Watched Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom last night on the telly. Utter shite, I thought. Elba was good as he always is, but the film was just a load of crap vignettes of things Mandela claims happened to him, with no discernible connection or continuity between any of them, and no actual storyline other than the historical one about whaats being bastards. The pacing was a complete mess.

[Dark Soldier]

I watched Catfish tonight. What a load of balls.

Watch An Open Secret, Yev. Freely available on Youtube.

[Shindig]

And hotyoungblond or whatever that one's called. That's .... something else.

[Yevrah]

Watch An Open Secret, Yev. Freely available on Youtube.

I've tried that a couple of times now and really struggle to get into it.

[Bernanke]

Arrival is held up for wide release in Sweden because of a fucking film festival going on right now, so since I'm so desperate to see it I'm paying double the usual cost to see it now instead of mid-December. Will report back on Thursday.

Still though, so excited. :drool:

[Dark Soldier]

I've tried that a couple of times now and really struggle to get into it.

Due to subject matter or the slow nature of it?

Anyway I've a chest infection so the next couple of days is gonna be all film. First up, Chan-Wook Park's new one, The Handmaiden.

[Dark Soldier]

Holy shit what a film.

[SvN]

Reviews look amazing, but I often struggle with subtitled films.

[Dark Soldier]

Give it a crack, there's a hell of a lot of dialogue but its stunning to look at, as ever with Park.

Watching The Monster next, by the geezer who did The Strangers.

[Dark Soldier]

The Monster was bang fecking average. Troubled mother and daughter end up stranded on spooky bit of forest road, and get stalked by a monster. Nothing great, not horrific. Brainless.

Diving into the Unknown - Documentary about a group of Finnish cave divers who, on their last dive, had two of their members get trapped and die. Its the story of them doing that dive again to bring their now stranded bodies back to the surface. Very, very good, and as a sport, it gets a big fuck no from me. Genuinely terrifying.

[Spikey M]

Cave diving and caving in general is absolutely fucking mental. Every possible fucking death is possible, although I would probably snuff it by shitting out my entrails at the entrance.

[Dark Soldier]

Cave diving and caving in general is absolutely fucking mental. Every possible fucking death is possible, although I would probably snuff it by shitting out my entrails at the entrance.

One of them died because some of the gear he had with him got caught on a rock. He began to panic, dead within about four minutes. There's a bit later on (I'll spoiler in case):

Where they're retrieving the second, deeper body, by cutting off the straps on his gear. As he's doing so, the cave is falling in on itself. Guy doing it made a fucking joke about it, I'd have shit meself.

[Lewis]

Arrival is seriously good.

[SvN]

I watched Blue Ruin this morning and thought it was excellent. I'm not articulate enough to explain why, but it all just felt so real and genuine. It reminded me of No Country For Old Men in some ways.

Jeremy Saulnier is on track to being the next big thing I reckon.

[John]

Have you seen Green Room?

Dark Soldier, have you checked the new thing from the 'Cure' bloke?

[SvN]

Yeah I saw that one first and loved it, which is why I gave Blue Ruin a go.

[Dark Soldier]

Have you seen Green Room?

Dark Soldier, have you checked the new thing from the 'Cure' bloke?

No English subs :(

[Dark Soldier]

I have got this to watch though John, dunno if you've seen it:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1662557/

[John]

I have got this to watch though John, dunno if you've seen it:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1662557/

I'll wait for your review. I've downloaded this (www.imdb.com/title/tt2043616) to watch tonight and tomorrow then I'm off to Berlin for the weekend so I'm going to set a shitload of things downloading while I'm away.

[Manc]

Nocturnal Animals was a strange one. Opening credits were fucking haunting.

[Bernanke]

First reaction to Arrival is that it reminded me so much of Tree of Life. I fucking hated Tree of Life. think I love this one.

Will give it a day or two before a write-up. Not sure there's enough there to discuss for a spoiler thread, but I can see this sweeping the AAs next year.

[Lewis]

It didn't strike me as being an obvious Oscar candidate, since all the effects and performances were pretty understated (although the sound and lighting was impressive).

[Boydy]

I saw it tonight. Absolutely loved it.

Although, on the sound,

I couldn't hear what she said about the other academic at that point with the helicopter.

Probably not really a spoiler but just to be sure.

[Bernanke]

At the beginning?

She asked Forest to ask the other linguist what "war" is in Sanskrit. The linguist said some word which he claimed meant "conflict" but really meant something about collecting cows, which then showed that he really wasn't all that he made himself out to be. The sequencing was weird though.

[Boydy]

At the beginning?

She asked Forest to ask the other linguist what "war" is in Sanskrit. The linguist said some word which he claimed meant "conflict" but really meant something about collecting cows, which then showed that he really wasn't all that he made himself out to be. The sequencing was weird though.

Yeah, the bit where he came back in the helicopter with the answer. I heard the bit about a 'desire for more cows' but didn't catch the start of it.

[Lewis]

I took it to mean that she had a more nuanced approach to possible points of conflict, which came in handy with the 'weapon/tool' stuff; but didn't she only provide her translation once they picked her up? Why did they come back for her when, presumably, they had nobody else on board to contradict the other translation?

[Boydy]

I took it to mean that she had a more nuanced approach to possible points of conflict, which came in handy with the 'weapon/tool' stuff; but didn't she only provide her translation once they picked her up? Why did they come back for her when, presumably, they had nobody else on board to contradict the other translation?

Yeah, I took that from just hearing the cows bit and assumed that his translation had been something more aggressive. But yeah, she did only provide it then. I dunno why they came back.

[John Arne]

You cunts. Why the fuck isn't this being released here. Seriously, are there any anti-communist/pro-anysortofdemo tones in the movie?

[Dark Soldier]

You cunts. Why the fuck isn't this being released here. Seriously, are there any anti-communist/pro-anysortofdemo tones in the movie?

There's a cam out :face:

I'd have gone to see it but early winter chest infection makes that a cunting fuck no.

[John Arne]

Isn't the cam Russian? Either way, I'm gonna wait for a decent copy - I want to enjoy it.

[Dark Soldier]

Isn't the cam Russian? Either way, I'm gonna wait for a decent copy - I want to enjoy it.

Nah there's an English one now, but yeah I'm waiting for BR.

[Henry]

Arrival is really good, but not without flaws. I'm less dreading Villenueve being in charge of Blade Runner 2 now.

[Dark Soldier]

I've always found Blade Runner to be one of the most over-hyped films in the history of film.

[Henry]

Get the fuck out.

[Dark Soldier]

Quite happily, but then full on sci fi has never been a genre I've enjoyed, so its understandable. The same way a non-horror fanatic will declare Martyrs a gory mess.

[Spikey M]

If Henry liked that, he'll love this. Blade Runner can suck The Matrix('s?) throbbing cock.

[Adamski]

Even Magic wouldn't suck the Matrix 2 & 3's cock.

[Spikey M]

We haven't seen how shit Blade Runner 2 will be yet.

[Dark Soldier]

The new Jeff Nichols work is out, Loving. So fucking stoked.

[Adamski]

Anyone got a decent thriller they could recommend? Struggling to find anything half decent with any semblance of a plot that I've not seen. Something like Enemy of the State would be ideal.

[Dark Soldier]

Nothing like Enemy of the State, but The Treatment is a cracker:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3089778/

Or Transpecos.

[SvN]

Just got back from Arrival. It lived up to the hype. Film of the year (in what has been a pretty shit year, I think).

[Adamski]

Ended up watching The Talented Mr Ripley instead :cool:

[Kikó]

I watched a hologram for the king. Pointless.

[Bernanke]

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

This is pretty good. Especially when he goes over some of the shit ones.

[John Arne]

Has anyone seen Snowden? There is a scene early one when Snowden first meets journos in his hotel room, and the senior journo asks him "do you mind if I go look in the microwave"?
I don't get it? Was that just prearranged code for 'let me go for a walk for 10 minutes' (which he then did).

[phonics]

The trailer for that was so bad I refused to watch it. As soon as they had him solving a rubik's cube to show how smart he is, I'm out.

[John Arne]

I'm almost an hour in. Its pretty shit.

[Spammer]

Watching The Mummy on ITV 2. Rachel Weisz is so fucking hot :drool:

[Magic]

Arrival is like the Tree of Life? One of the worst films ever made?

[Raoul Duke]

I watched The Big Short yesterday. Liked it a lot and made fairly light work of some heavy subject matter.

Margot Robbie :drool:

[Vim]

Just saw Doctor Strange. Good movie, although most of it is extremely by-the-book, I was expecting something a bit ... stranger. The first half is extremely unoriginal, but it's good fun and the ending is quite good. Tilda Swinton is definitely the MVP of the movie for me, great performance. Cumberbatch's accent was also quite good, I thought it would bother me but actually it was fine, he was great in the movie in general.

The villain was forgettable, as usual for Marvel unfortunately, which is kind of a waste of Mads Mikkelsen. At least next year Loki should come back, he's the best villain from the Marvel universe.

[Baz]

Might go the pictures this week, to watch either:
Arrival
Allied
Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them

Help me out TTH. Which one? Allied looks best from the trailer.

[SvN]

Arrival was superb, haven't seen the others.

[Boydy]

Arrival is brilliant.

[Giggles]

What's it about? Wiki only gives the full plot which I don't want to read in case I want to see it.

[Boydy]

Aliens arrive on earth. People need to work out how to communicate with them. Amy Adams is a professor of linguistics and ends up being in charge of that effort. That's all I knew going in, besides that it was getting very good reviews. I wouldn't want to know any more.

[SvN]

I knew nothing other than the cast and the RT score.

[Giggles]

Is there guts and shit in it?

[Dark Soldier]

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

:drool:

[John]

That looks shit hot, but those accents can do one.

[Spoonsky]

Going to see North by Northwest in a cinema today. :cool:

[SvN]

Going to try and avoid all material to do with Silence before I watch it, much like I did with Arrival and Interstellar. Films are so much better when you don't know anything about them.

[Boydy]

Is there guts and shit in it?



Actually, spoilered, just in case other people don't want to know:

No.

[Giggles]

Actually, spoilered, just in case other people don't want to know:

No.

:thbup: I'll await it's Kodi arrival so.

[Yevrah]

Just watched Arrival.What a lot of bollocks.

[Boydy]

:nono:

[Magic]

Captain Fantastic. :cool:

[Baz]

Just watched Arrival.What a lot of bollocks.I feel like I've seen it all just from the trailer.

I'm gonna go watch Allied instead.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Watched Dr. Strange today, it lived up to my hype and then some. I fucking loved it.

Fucking amazing visually.

[Giggles]

Definitely need to see Arrival as of all the views I've heard, around half are 1/10 and half are 10/10 with nothing in between. Intriguing.

[Yevrah]

Definitely need to see Arrival as of all the views I've heard, around half are 1/10 and half are 10/10 with nothing in between. Intriguing.

I'd probably give it a 6. Cracking start/first hour, but as with almost all of these 'thinky' space/sci-fi things it doesn't end particularly well.

[Giggles]

I'd probably give it a 6. Cracking start/first hour, but as with almost all of these 'thinky' space/sci-fi things it doesn't end particularly well.

Interstellar bad?

[Yevrah]

Interstellar bad?

Depends how bad you thought that was.

The thing with this, Contact, Interstellar etc. for me is that they all have a brilliant idea/very intriguing premise that more or less shits itself in the run in (the Arsenal of the film world if you will). They're also not nearly as clever as they think they are/are portrayed as being to anyone who's watched as many films as we do.

[Magic]

Tottenham, you mean.

[Henry]

I'd probably give it a 6. Cracking start/first hour, but as with almost all of these 'thinky' space/sci-fi things it doesn't end particularly well.

What are the exceptions, do you think?

The ending wasn't amazing, but it was adequate. Certainly not as shit as Interstellar's.

[Yevrah]

What are the exceptions, do you think?

The ending wasn't amazing, but it was adequate. Certainly not as shit as Interstellar's.

2001 is the obvious answer and I haven't really seen anything in the sub-genre that comes close.

[John]

It's no 2001, but Moon certainly didn't shit itself.

[Boydy]

Why didn't you like the ending, Yev?

[Yevrah]

Why didn't you like the ending, Yev?

Multi-quote shit-off ahoy!

Few reasons:



I thought the relationship between Adams and Renner, which was basically the crux of the film was thoroughly unbelievable, I was more convinced by Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in Speed.
His line to her, which was something along the lines of "the most remarkable thing wasn't meeting them, but meeting you" was horrific.
The aliens uniting humankind so that one day they we can save them was just as sickly sweet.
The way we were united left me thinking "oh, fuck off..."
How were we actually united? Wouldn't Sudan and Russia just have continued to blow the shit out of their pods and presumably China and the US would have been deeply distrusting of each other 5 minutes after the hippopods fucked off.
The telegraphed nature of the 'twist', was the sort of thing that you couldn't fail to see from pretty early on if you were remotely paying attention and ruined any dramatic heft the supposed reveal for it should have had.



Some of the above shouldn't matter, and I can fairly be accused of over-thinking it, but I'm sure as shit I wouldn't have been doing that had the film been up to scratch and kept me in the room. Sadly, it didn't.

[Henry]

For thinky sci-fi, have you watched Primer, Yev? Or Dark City? Or Solaris?

I'm assuming you've seen Blade Runner.

[Raoul Duke]

I watched Guardians Of The Galaxy at the weekend. Didn't know anything about it, but it turned out to be quite fun. Worth a watch

[John]

Dark City is hardly 'thinky'. It's a less paranoid Matrix without the budget for shootouts.

[Dark Soldier]

The Eyes of My Mother.

Holy shit. This is what horror should be imo, hit all the right notes, primarily dread. Had a feel of a more nonchalant Angst/Martyrs, albeit nowhere near as graphic. Many will hate it :D

Fucking loved it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5225338/

[ItalAussie]

I liked Arrival a lot. It didn't try to do too much, which is the place many sci-fi films fall down (Interstellar).

I agree with Yev that the romantic dialogue was cringey, but aside from that I thought it was straightforward enough and had an internal logic that made sense. The "twist" was pretty telegraphed, but I think it was meant to be. It wasn't a Shamayalayayan movie with a twist out of nowhere so much as one where the meaning dawned on you over the whole last half to third of the film.

Like all sci-fi, you can pick it to pieces if you want. But it held together well enough that the suspension of disbelief could finish the job, I think. Also, the ending really worked for me.

[Giggles]

What's the twist? Spoilered, naturally.

[Henry]

The twist is that the "flashback" sequences you've been seeing throughout the film of what you assumed were her dead child, are actually premonitions.

[ItalAussie]

In the end, the thoughtful message of the film was that all relationships end sadly eventually - through death or separation - and we know this going in, but we still enter them anyway, because they develop their value as they are experienced. I thought it was quite well done. It even subtly made you root for a relationship that you knew with certainty was doomed, which is kind of the opposite of most films. I liked the way it pulled that off.

The best sci-fi is about more than sci-fi.

Arrival was basically the movie Contact should have been if it was less crap. :D

[Spoonsky]

The Handmaiden is a 2 hour 40 minute Korean film. My expectations were really high and it didn't quite meet them - it could've been an hour shorter and a lot simpler - but it was still really beautiful and had some memorable scenes. Some massive lesbian scenes too.

Allied was quite enjoyable, not truly a great film and it got too sentimental but it was a fine diversion for the afternoon.

Moonlight... damn. This is one that will stick with you after you leave the theater. Best movie of the year so far.

[Dquincy]

Bad Education Movie is quite shit. I've never seen an episode.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I watched Dear Zachary today but the editing just didn't sit very well with me. It did get better after the beginning but then started going a bit mental again during the ANGRY bits. I thought it distracted from the story and emotions that it was trying to evoke at times. Did choke me up but I expected to be barely holding on considering the actual story.

[Henry]

In the end, the thoughtful message of the film was that all relationships end sadly eventually - through death or separation - and we know this going in, but we still enter them anyway, because they develop their value as they are experienced. I thought it was quite well done. It even subtly made you root for a relationship that you knew with certainty was doomed, which is kind of the opposite of most films. I liked the way it pulled that off.

The best sci-fi is about more than sci-fi.

Arrival was basically the movie Contact should have been if it was less crap. :D

:nono:

Contact is not crap.

[Dark Soldier]

I watched Dear Zachary today but the editing just didn't sit very well with me. It did get better after the beginning but then started going a bit mental again during the ANGRY bits. I thought it distracted from the story and emotions that it was trying to evoke at times. Did choke me up but I expected to be barely holding on considering the actual story.

EDIT: I'll just chuck a ffs instead.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

EDIT: I'll just chuck a ffs instead.

I understood why he was doing it and I did think that it worked in places but when it didn't work it was really jarring.

[John]

While watching it I assumed it was conceived as a pure tribute and developed into a sort of narrative piece when the shit went down, but the timeline doesn't really fit that so the editing seems off to me in retrospect. I will not be watching it again to confirm.

[Dark Soldier]

I've seen it three times. The editing is a bit shonky but when it was designed as a tribute on a nothing budget, and with what came during the filming, I can easily forgive it.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Just back from Arrival and while good, I honestly feel a bit disappointed after some of the praise it had been getting on here.

[Baz]

Got half an hour into I Am Bolt but had to turn it off because I need subtitles.

[Baz]

Got half an hour into I Am Bolt but had to turn it off because I need subtitles.Watched it. It's awesome. Everyone should watch it. The man's hilarious. His rivarly with Gatlin and [faux] competition with Blake is really funny.

Also Serena Williams is in it quite a bit. :drool: Makes Denise Lewis look like nothing, which is crazy.

[John Arne]

I might give it a go.

When I first watched the trailer it just looked like a Puma promo video, which put me off.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6BEcoM0zik

Didn't realise there was a teaser out a while ago now. That and Alien: Covenant being brought forward to May. :eyemouth:

[Manc]

None recent, but Steve Jobs, Hail Cesar and The Big Short are all crackers.

[Spoonsky]

I really liked Arrival. I think they just about pulled the ending off (certainly compared to Interstellar), and the previous three quarters were top-notch; the pacing, the style, everything seemed a step better than the recent films in the same vein.

The twist actually got me, when the alien said "Louise see the future" and I realized that all of those flashbacks were actually in the future, and that Renner was the father. Best twist I've seen in a movie for a while, not that I go to a lot of twist-y films, and maybe I'm dumb for not having seen it coming sooner.

[Adamski]

None recent, but Steve Jobs, Hail Cesar and The Big Short are all crackers.

I thought Hail Ceasar was the biggest lot of wank I've seen all year, I'm a massive Coen Brothers fan and I've seen them all but I had to put that off half way through.

[Bernanke]

I really liked Arrival. I think they just about pulled the ending off (certainly compared to Interstellar), and the previous three quarters were top-notch; the pacing, the style, everything seemed a step better than the recent films in the same vein.

The twist actually got me, when the alien said "Louise see the future" and I realized that all of those flashbacks were actually in the future, and that Renner was the father. Best twist I've seen in a movie for a while, not that I go to a lot of twist-y films, and maybe I'm dumb for not having seen it coming sooner.

It clicked for me when:

She said "who is this girl you keep showing me?". Going from there to the "actual" reveal was great, because it didn't feel like the movie wanted to beat you over the head with the twist like something from Shyamalan.

And the style part, that's Villeneuve for you.

[Bernanke]

On the topic of Shyamalan, Split looks really interesting.

[John]

It does but the the immediate reaction to James McAvoy doing a lispy child's voice was laughter, which I'm almost certain isn't the desired effect.

Tower (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5116410/) tonight. :drool:

[Giggles]

First review I've came across, and not exactly glowing. I'm still downloading the shit out of it when it arrives though :drool:

http://www.rte.ie/entertainment/movie-reviews/2016/1213/838585-rogue-one-is-utter-spaceballs/