Film Thread

[Vim]

Should get this started.

I've been re-watching for the first time in years Lord of the Rings. Thing is Popcorn Time has the extended director's cut on or whatever it's called, so they're about four hours each. I've been taking them like TV-shows and watching one hour at a time basically. Just started Return of the King.

Age of Ultron is on Popcorn so I reckon I'll give that a re-watch at some point as well.

[leedsrevolution]

Anyone seen Legend or Straight Outta Compton yet?

[SvN]

I saw it while actually in LA :cool:

It was great. It helped that I was a fan of the music, but my friend's wife, who had no idea about them, loved it (probably more than me). It's a solid 7/10 I reckon.

I saw The Visit last night. Crap, but not as crap as I expected. 5/10

[Savi]

Finally saw Sicario last night after months of anticipation. Thought it was very good. In a lot of ways it reminded me of
No Country For Old Men
which is one of my favourite films. But I've been a big fan of Villeneuve for a while now and once again he demonstrates his talent for suspense imo.

Also saw a UK movie called Bridgend which was based on 70+ unexplained teen suicides in Wales some years ago. I liked it even though it was a bit weird, but had a great soundtrack and the girl playing the main character (Hannah Murray) was rather good.

[Mike]

Anyone seen Legend or Straight Outta Compton yet?

Watched Straight Outta Compton with Baz on the opening weekend and we both loved it.

[Giggles]

Just rented and stuck on F&F7, didn't know it was out already.

[Vim]

I really didn't like it.

[Giggles]

I'm as far as the Kurt Russell bit and it's been slightly disappointing so far.

[Giggles]

The end was :cry:

[Luke Emia]

Went to see Legend on Wednesday night. Thought it was good but I think they made Reggie a bit nice. Yeah he wasn't as mad as his brother but he was still a massive mentalist and I don't think that was portrayed enough.

[CJay]

Went to see Everest tonight. It's harrowing, but quite excellent.

[Adamski]

Looking forward to Everest and would like to see The Martian.

Watched Southpaw this week, I really enjoyed it during the film despite it going a bit Rocky and unbelievable. Now, I'm not sure I actually liked it or not. What did everyone else think?

[CJay]

One thing I found annoying about Everest was that, other than a couple of main characters, it was difficult to keep track of who was who and what was happening to the different groups on the climb.

[Reg]

If somebody could PM me a good quality Straight Outta Compton link, that'd be awesome, cheers!

[Mazuuurk]

I'm hoping I've come over a good copy of Jurassic World, and if so will be watching that tonight :drool:

[SvN]

best-movies.info is pretty decent

[five time]

Looking forward to Everest and would like to see The Martian.

Watched Southpaw this week, I really enjoyed it during the film despite it going a bit Rocky and unbelievable. Now, I'm not sure I actually liked it or not. What did everyone else think?

Turns out 50 Cent is perfect as the 'dickhead you want to punch' character. I'm like you though, I enjoyed it during and then I left feeling a bit unsatisfied, Gyllenhaal's performance aside.

[Yevrah]

I'm hoping I've come over a good copy of Jurassic World, and if so will be watching that tonight :drool:

It's disappointingly bang average, maybe not even that.

[Yevrah]

I've stuck Spy on for some lazy Sunday night shit. It's only been on for 15 minutes and I'm so close to turning it off already.

It's not funny or interesting, but worst of all, Miranda fucking Hart is in it.

[Mazuuurk]

It's disappointingly bang average, maybe not even that.

It was pretty cool I thought. I mean, it's Dinosaurs chasing people, you can only do that in so many ways. I thought it was going to be so stupid with trained raptors. It kind of was, but not as bad as I thought it would be.

A few nice little nods to the old films, took a page out of Skyfalls book there.

Chris Pratt wore the Goldblum mantle pretty well I thought.

[Yevrah]

So Spy is absolutely all over the place.

A shit script, a nothing plot and only two laughs (nay smiles) in its ludicrous 130 minute running time.

I feel violated.

[SvN]

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

[Yevrah]

Yeah, never before have so many critics been so wrong.

It's absolute shite.

EDIT: Well I say never before, not since Mad Max is probably more true.

[SvN]

I cannot stand Melissa McCarthy. Her entire shtick seems to be "Look, it's a fat woman doing stuff normal women do, but because she's fat, it looks funny".

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I cannot stand Melissa McCarthy. Her entire shtick seems to be "Look, it's a fat woman doing stuff normal women do, but because she's fat, it looks funny".

Yes.

I tell people I hate her and they think I'm absolutely mental.

[Giggles]

Had to Google her. Yep, she's shit.

[Yevrah]

She is absolutely rubbish, so much so that Miranda Hart (who I thought was about as low as popular comedy gets at the moment) almost looks good next to her. Almost.

That said, she's given nothing at all to work with here, in what must be one of the worst scripts I've seen for a long time.

If it wasn't for Jason Statham (and he's hardly great) it would be The Other Woman levels of bad.

[Pepe]

Just Googled it. Apparently this is the poster:

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSK6NDqbBO9rCNb4t5Q5Nfzr6OlpQX1r VksnPXh5Nu2elYA0y7h

Why would anyone expect that to be anything other than absolute shit?

[Yevrah]

That's somehow better than the film...

[Pen]

Any suggestions for romantic comedies/dramas? Suggested to the missus that we'd watch a movie tonight, but I'm out of ideas as I don't usually watch that kind of stuff and I really can't be dealing with the inevitable costume drama she's going to suggest.

[Spammer]

Philomena was a good watch and went down well in my house. It's a bit sad sometimes but there's comedy and stuff too to balance it out.

[Josh]

Stuck in love
Short Term 12

[Pen]

I actually quite enjoyed Stuck in love when I saw it.

Short term 12 is now battling it out with Pitch perfect 2.

Thanks for the suggestions.

[Spammer]

Short Term 12 is a fucking good film but it isn't really a comedy.

[Pen]

Romantic drama is alright too. Our taste in movies is really different and there's very little common ground so she can't be too picky. We're already on her turf with these.

[Henry]

That new Macbeth involving Fassbender looks like it might be good.

[Boydy]

I watched Mad Max tonight. Seriously underwhelming after all the hype.

[AE]

Another one, why didn't you like it?

[Boydy]

It's not that I didn't like it. It's okay. It's just not as good as it was hyped up to be.

[Sam]

Watched American Ultra and Ted 2 last night. The first was entertaining enough, bizarre storyline to follow but had a few laughs, wouldn't say it was worth a watch in the cinema that being said. The latter was as to be expected, if you enjoyed the first then you will enjoy this one, the improv comedy scene did have me the girlfriend laughing our heads off though.

6/10 for both respectively.

[Toby]

Any suggestions for romantic comedies/dramas? Suggested to the missus that we'd watch a movie tonight, but I'm out of ideas as I don't usually watch that kind of stuff and I really can't be dealing with the inevitable costume drama she's going to suggest.

:sick:

For future reference, stick on Eternal Sunshine and chuck her if she doesn't like it.

[Magic]

Philomena was a good watch and went down well in my house. It's a bit sad sometimes but there's comedy and stuff too to balance it out.

I too thought it was rather excellent.

[Magic]

So Spy is absolutely all over the place.

A shit script, a nothing plot and only two laughs (nay smiles) in its ludicrous 130 minute running time.

I feel violated.

You're talking shit. It was a pleasant watch.

[SvN]

Everest last night. Beautifully shot, a bill dull in places, but I got exactly what I was expecting. A solid 7/10.

[Josh]

You're talking shit. It was a pleasant watch.

Would have to agree with Yev. Almost all jokes fell flat probably due to 2 of the most unpleasant women in comedy being the main characters. I would have turned it off if it wasn't for the gf who was moderately enjoying it.

[Magic]

The only part I didn't like was the bit where McCarthy predictably failed to jump over a car. Was that a parody of a parody? Not sure.

Maybe it's because I was in the cinema and a bunch of other people were having a good time it caught me. I think in the house it isn't something I would have remotely considered watching.

[Josh]

I fucking hate the cinema so I'm the opposite really. Will only go the cinema for a real blockbuster event that deserves the big screen. I'm a complete snob too so will only venture to the picturehouse which has sofa's etc. The normal cinema is full of scum eating the whole way through and talking to eachother.

I do plan on making an effort for The Martian as it's one of my favourite books.

[Magic]

Hipster cunt.

[Josh]

It's your type that ruin the cinema for everyone. I bet you sit there rattling through bags of all sorts of rubbish whilst talking and playing on your phone.

[Josh]

The other thing that fucking pisses me off about the cinema is the trailers beforehand ruining every film I could possibly want to see. I don't like seeing any trailers whatsoever.

I went to see the last James Bond and there was an 'on the red carpet' segment beforehand which included scenes from the film I was just about to watch. Then there was an advert for the computer game which included scenes from the film I was just about to watch and then there was an advert for the watch or phone or something which also included scenes from the film. That's when I decided the cinema was truly shit.

[Toby]

lol at anybody who sits through more than two or three trailers.

If ever I see a Pearl & Dean number I know I've failed.

[Josh]

I remember being young and getting there whilst the lights were still on and seeing the curtains move :drool:

[Magic]

It's your type that ruin the cinema for everyone. I bet you sit there rattling through bags of all sorts of rubbish whilst talking and playing on your phone.

Butterkist Sweet Popcorn and some orange squash in a sports drink cup. :drool:

But no, the phone out is the worst sin you can commit. Well that and talking.

[Josh]

the sweet and salted mix is the king of popcorn

[SvN]

Salted popcorn is fucking rank.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I remember being young and getting there whilst the lights were still on and seeing the curtains move :drool:
I still do that.

Salted popcorn is fucking rank.
You fucking bellend.

[Demerit]

Salted popcorn is fucking rank.

Get to fuck

[Josh]

I still do that.

You fucking bellend.

Do you enjoy wasting 45 minutes of your life?

[Magic]

He has plenty of time to waste.

Also I agree salt and sweet mix is awesome. Purely salty is the stuff of hell. Only paedophiles get that shit.

[Spammer]

I enjoy the movie trailers. Adverts can shit off though.

I enjoy the 'BABA BABA BABA, BABABABA, BABA BABA BABAAAA...BA!' bit too. Me and my brother used to jump up and dance around to it when we were young kids. My mum knew it was coming every time but couldn't do anything about it.

[Magic]

Little bastards.

I'm quick to judge and say they're exactly the sort of deviant, liberal parented cunts that will visit gay swinging sex clubs when they're older. And now I feel vindicated.

[Spammer]

My brother's gay, so between us I'd say you're bang on.

[Magic]

Apart from all these massive mental issues you actually all seem quite nice. I bet you'd be very decent people until you stumble across the horse dildo and rack equipment in the basement.

[Nick]

I'm watching Avengers: Age of Ultron tonight. Is it worth my time?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Do you enjoy wasting 45 minutes of your life?

30 minutes actually.

I like watching the trailers and it's also partly because when I was a child my Mum would always take us late to films. I still remember how angry I was at missing the first 5 minutes of Jumanji.

[Pen]

:sick:

For future reference, stick on Eternal Sunshine and chuck her if she doesn't like it.

Pretty sure we've watched that and she didn't like it (or that she didn't want to watch it in the first place). Ended up watching Pitch perfect 2, which was about as predictable as a movie can be. Didn't hate it, but it really wasn't very good.

[Pen]

I'm watching Avengers: Age of Ultron tonight. Is it worth my time?

If you enjoy superhero stuff, it's alright. Entertaining, but not on par with the best of the genre.

[Yevrah]

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/feature/a669706/se7en-6-alternative-endings-that-almost-ruined-david-finchers-chilling-thriller.html#~pp8GB55JXG5x3D

Alternative endings for Se7en, all if not most of which would have made the film a lot shitter.

[Spammer]

Watched Equilibrium tonight with flatmates. Was alright, i remember being a lot more impressed with the fighting last time. I thought it was funny how at the end he just merked the black guy without even trying. I thought Shaun Bean was in it for longer too, before his inevitable death. Anyway yeah, was an alright way to spend a couple of hours. Nowt special though IMO.

[Magic]

Went to see Legend this afternoon. Very good I thought. Just the right amount of funny and violence.

[Vim]

Re-watched Hercules for the first time in years. That soundtrack. :drool:

[leedsrevolution]

I'm currently re watching fear and loathing in las vegas. Forgot how fucking funny it is.

This is bat country.

[Ian]

So Ridley Scott is at least giving up the 'No it's got nothing to do with Alien!' bullshit and is calling the Prometheus film 'Alien: Paradise Lost.' Which is a shit name but there we are. Why he didn't just go for Prometheus 2 and admit that it's just an Alien film I don't know.

[Magic]

Relatos Salvajes. :drool:

[Spoonsky]

Ridley Scott ruining Milton. Great.

[Adamski]

As a fan of most of Judd Apatow's films as think-free decent comedy fun, I was really disappointed in Trainwreck. I know it's hardly going to be groundbreaking but I expected a lot more. All just a bit How to Lose a guy in 10 days flimsy.

[Pepe]

Relatos Salvajes. :drool:

:nod:

[Lewis]

Ridley Scott ruining Milton. Great.

Improving it.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

2 more years until Prometheus 2, it better not get pushed back any more.

[Jeet]

Prometheus was one of the worst films I have seen, but I prob watch the others just to try and make sense of the first film.


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

[Ian]

Ridley Scott ruining Milton. Great.

Yes, it's going to be really difficult for Milton fans to enjoy re-reading Paradise Lost knowing a film has borrowed the title.

[TG09]

Re-watched Salt last night, pretty good. Got the potential to do a squeal

Story line is good, sleeper Russian agents, trained to keep high profile people.
7/10 i think, kept the missus and me entertained through out, some good action scenes.

[Yevrah]

I thought Salt was alright, not 7/10 good, but alright.

As for Prometheus, I get the impression Ridley Scott still hasn't got a clue what he's doing with it and has changed his mind numerous times to even get there.

[The Merse]

So The Equalizer is a bit shit. Identikit post-Taken stuff. The home alone style shite at the end is kinda fun, but very silly for a film that lacks the knowing qualities of the aforementioned Neeson vehicles.

[Pepe]

Watched The New Girlfriend yesterday. It was ok.

[Toby]

Irrational Man isn't one of Woody Allen's ever rarer hits (obviously, since he just had one a couple of years ago), but it's far from his worst as well.

The dialogue is far too clunky and unnatural to really rank all that highly, and while the story is pretty good most of the credit there probably has to go to Dostoevsky since it's basically lifted from Crime & Punishment.

[Spoonsky]

The trailer made it look pretty awful. What was the hit, Midnight in Paris?

[Magic]

Lost In Translation = boring shite.

[Giggles]

Lost In Translation = boring shite.

Horrendously so.

[Toby]

The trailer made it look pretty awful. What was the hit, Midnight in Paris?

That and Blue Jasmine. I actually thought Midnight in Paris was older, I didn't realise there was so little time between those two.

Lost in Translation is outstanding.

[SvN]

The Intern last night. Decent enough, if a bit cliche and mindless. A solid 6/10, worth the watch if you've got nothing better to do.

[Pepe]

Blue Jasmine. :sick:

[Toby]

Tell us about The Social Network while you're here too.

[Magic]

I knew someone would masturbate over it. I also knew it would be Toby.

[Toby]

Yeah but you enjoy things like Spy and take your own mix up juice into the cinema, so you're basically still a child.

[Magic]

M8 if the cinema sold Robinsons concentrate and 50p bags of popcorn there would be no need for me to be self-sufficient.

[Toby]

If you didn't live in such a low class area you'd have more choice.

I had a 5AM Saint at that film the other night. :drool:

[Magic]

Lol @ purchasing ale at a cinema outlet. Such desperate stuff.

[SvN]

Nothing wrong with taking your own drinks into the cinema. I take a bottle of water in every time I go.

[Toby]

Nothing wrong with taking your own drinks into the cinema. I take a bottle of water in every time I go.

I'm mostly taking the piss because it's the wannabe snob that is Magic, although I'll still lol at it being squash.

[Magic]

Sorry mate, surely spending about £6 on a small bag of popcorn is pure commoner idiocy?

[Toby]

Of course it is, only plebs buy overpriced cinema snacks.

[Magic]

I'll accept that as an apology. The lolling at the squash still stands.

[Toby]

I'm lolling at buying pre-popped popcorn too, just in case there was any doubt. You should get some Dairylea Lunchables to go with it.

[Magic]

Smuggling a microwave in to the pictures would be quite hard, not least finding an outlet to plug it in to.

[Toby]

It'd be tough to curdle the cheese for homemade Lunchables as well - definitely the only option to buy from Asda.

[Magic]

So you never eat whilst watching a film at the movies?

[Josh]

Cracking banter lads.

[Toby]

So you never eat whilst watching a film at the movies?

Pretty rarely, I'd rather not be the arsehole rustling around in a foil packet. It's not hard to go two hours without stuffing your hole.

[Magic]

My God. It's part of the enjoyment for me even though I'm normally finished by the end of the trailers.

[Henry]

Everest was okay-ish. Not quite as visually impressive as I'd hoped but tense nonetheless.

[Foe]

Cinema food is shite. They don't even sell lettuce.

[Magic]

:lol: :thbup:

[Spoonsky]

That and Blue Jasmine. I actually thought Midnight in Paris was older, I didn't realise there was so little time between those two.

Lost in Translation is outstanding.

I think I'm in the small minority in having thought that Midnight in Paris was pretentious shit on the whole.

Lost in Translation is outstanding.

[Toby]

I guess I can see why but Owen Wilson was a very good choice of lead to keep it on the right side of lightness for me.

[Yevrah]

Depending on how quickly they download, it'll be one of:

Inside Out
San Andreas
Tomorrowland
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Tonight.

[phonics]

I'm watching He Got Game in honor of Spike Lee's wretchedly awful video-game attempt


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyf7cpJd1U8

[Reg]

That Public Enemy song. :cool:

[Pepe]

I'm watching He Got Game in honor of Spike Lee's wretchedly awful video-game attempt

Quality film.

[phonics]

Jesus Shuttlesworth? Really?

[Pepe]

Watch the bloody film ffs.

[SvN]

Effortlessly? Did we watch the same film? He was all over the place.

[phonics]

HOLY SHIT.

HE GOT GAME IS A PREQUEL TO NBA 2K16. It's the same agent. He even makes the same speech.

[John Arne]

Effortlessly? Did we watch the same film? He was all over the place.

Effortlessly given the magnitude of what he was doing. It was an impossible thing to do, yet he manages to just bundle and throw himself in the right direction.

[Lewis]

Odeon are binning 'Bargain Monday' (formerly 'Bargain Tuesday') due to a 'big increase in the number of guests enjoying our flexible promotions'; that is to say that fucking meerkat wheeze and Groupon. What? I don't want 'flexibility' if it means titting about on insurance sites and buying thirty tickets at once (I've never used Groupon obviously). You wankers.

[phonics]

The moment you realise Kanye's entire fashion line is based off Denzel in 'He Got Game'

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

[Boydy]

Odeon are binning 'Bargain Monday' (formerly 'Bargain Tuesday') due to a 'big increase in the number of guests enjoying our flexible promotions'; that is to say that fucking meerkat wheeze and Groupon. What? I don't want 'flexibility' if it means titting about on insurance sites and buying thirty tickets at once (I've never used Groupon obviously). You wankers.

You can buy one day travel insurance for two quid that gets you a year's worth of 2 for 1 tickets on either a wednesday or tuesday. You only have to 'tit about' once. Quit moaning.

[Boydy]

Can't you keep the live-tweeting of films to Twitter, phonics?

[Lewis]

So it's arseholes like that that have ruined it.

[phonics]

Can't you keep the live-tweeting of films to Twitter, @phonics (http://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/member.php?u=1)?

http://redmaryland.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/hottakesdangerj.jpg

Great film though. Do love me a sports movie.

[Toby]

Depending on how quickly they download, it'll be one of:

Inside Out
San Andreas
Tomorrowland
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Tonight.

Nice to know that Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is online now, it wasn't when I looked the other week. Sadly Mistress America still hasn't appeared...

What did you end up watching?

[Henry]

I watched The Eagle, which is a few years old and concerns the disappearance of the ninth Roman legion in 2nd century Britain.
It's pretty boring, although it does get points for an effort at historical authenticity.

[Boydy]

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl was in the cinema here only a week or two ago. Is that proper dvd quality out already? Is the US that far ahead?

[Toby]

It premiered at Sundance in January, it's probably a leaked awards copy. Maybe. I don't really know how these things work but there are Bluray versions on TPB.

[Yevrah]

It's a 1080p job, or at least I think it is/it claims to be, I haven't watched it yet.

Was knackered, so went for San Andreas and fell asleep during it. From what I saw, which admittedly wasn't much, it looked bobbins.

[John]

San Andreas is bobbins, but it's bobbins with numerous shots of Alexandra Daddario running so there's plenty of market for it.

There's also a thoroughly bizarre, isolated use of 'fuck' about halfway through, without which it woulf probably have been a '12'.

[Yevrah]

Was it 15 then?

I'm sure I've heard 'fuck' used in 12A's before.

[John]

I thought 'fuck' meant an automatic 15 rating, but apparently it was a 12A so either I'm mistaken or that's changed. It's still bizarre that they chose to use the word where they did though, since there are numerous situations involving that particular character where she should be saying it once it's established that it's in her vocabulary. As it is, it fits into the film about as nicely as the sex joke in Battle: LA.

The 'Me and Earl' copy that's around online is excellent DVD quality, and the film itself is lovely. Not 'fucking beautiful', as Spoon put it, and it threatens to smother itself with twee rubbish early on, but once it gets going it's charming and sweet and quite funny in places.

[Yevrah]

IIRC Made in Dagenham got a 15 because it used the F word too many times (to the point of normalising it, not that that bothers me), so there must be a limit that you can stick in a 12A and get away with.

[Baz]

I recently watched both Maze Runner films. I liked that they're were almost two completely different genres, and the cast do a really good job. Worth a watch if you're fancying a film but not sure what, I'd say.

[Baz]

Toss up between Southpaw and Dope later, I think. The latter will probably get the nod. Anyone seen either of them?

[Luke Emia]

I watched The Interview last night won't get that time back.

[leedsrevolution]

I watched The Visit. Extremely average.

[Yevrah]

Just heard Kermode's impression of Nick Nolte from the podcast a couple of weeks back. :lol:

[John]

Just heard Kermode's impression of Nick Nolte from the podcast a couple of weeks back. :lol:

It was particularly good because it seemed so improbable but was immediately followed by a clip from the film in which Nolte sounded exactly like the impression.

He sounds like he's spent however long it was since his last film gargling sand.

[Yevrah]

Yeah, that was what made it for me too.

You're listening thinking there's no chance this is on point and then it so was. :D

[John Arne]

I just accidentally switched over to That's My Boy.
Adam Sandler plays the exact same shit character in every film. Every shit film.
He is either trolling the whole world with this shit, or has genuinely given up having any sort of credibility.

[Yevrah]

This is shaping up to possibly be quite good.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a671877/jeremy-irons-and-brendan-gleeson-join-the-cast-of-the-assassins-creed-movie.html#~pqbxQBt4c9E2th

[Dark Soldier]

Black Mass is a great watch. Depp is a fucking revelation as Bulger, its a bit generic and by the numbers but its a typical crime film arc.

I'd recommend Sicario too but I watched a TS copy as my hype for it is too much. Its fucking brilliant but gonna get to the cinema and watch it again. Villeneuve really is God tier.

[Yevrah]

Downloaded Black Mass today. I've got a shit load of stuff backed up now to watch.

[Reg]

I saw The Intern tonight. It was quite enjoyable and I like de Niro and Hathaway. There wasn't any particularly impressive or remarkable about it, it was very much just a "well this is quite nice" film. The writing was quite good, it flowed well; the no action, all dialogue plot could have been a mess in the wrong hands.

[AE]

Downloaded Black Mass today. I've got a shit load of stuff backed up now to watch.

Black Mass is :drool:

[Boydy]

Tried to watch Guardians of the Galaxy tonight as I thought it was meant to be good and a bit different from the usual comic book stuff. Couldn't hack it. Load of bollocks.

[Spoonsky]

Meru is a great documentary about mountain climbing. Almost perfect as far as documentaries on such a subject can go, I'd say.

[The Merse]

This is shaping up to possibly be quite good.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a671877/jeremy-irons-and-brendan-gleeson-join-the-cast-of-the-assassins-creed-movie.html#~pqbxQBt4c9E2th

It's one hell of cast, but Gyllenhaal is also normally a good sign and look at that Prince of Persia farce. Probably wrong to go into any movie with preconceptions based on the medium of the source material, but... Yeah, they're there.

[QE Harold Flair]

I watched the first half of Jurassic World last night. Dear oh dear. The same shit, recycled, with a worse plot, worse characters and worse dinosaurs. Why yet again have the 2 kids, person who doesn't like kids and dinosaur expert hero, none of whom you could possibly root for? It's so formulaic, and don't even get me started on the shit CGI. The first one was great because there was an actual dilemma about what was happening, and the characters were spot on.

[Yevrah]

Yeah, I'd agree with that Harold. Massively disappointing and that it was quite well received shows how far standards have fallen.

In other news, Gwyneth Paltrow doesn't seem to be aware of why Robert Downey Junior gets paid so much for Iron Man.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a672488/robert-downey-jr-doesnt-deserve-his-huge-pay-cheque-says-gwyneth-paltrow.html#~pqsTKwc8cYrXC5

[Magic]

Anyone seen Macbeth yet? Going to see it tonight.

[phonics]

Who's in it?

[Toby]

Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.

[Magic]

Fassbender and Cotillard :drool:

Anyway bottled it and going to see Sicario instead.

[phonics]

Interesting. I'd probably watch Fassbender in most things and I managed to sit through (and enjoy) Coriolanus so it seems that high school hasn't completely destroyed Shakespeare for me.

Proper text or made up shit?

[Foe]

Well paris, texas was a whole bunch of nothingness.

[Yevrah]

Is Martin still about?

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/feature/a671519/which-bond-movie-is-best-the-definitive-007-film-ranking-from-awful-to-awesome.html#~pqIw16IuFwKtm4

Wonder whether he agrees.

[Lewis]

You forget how many of them are crap when you see them listed like that. They should really have taken the seventies off.

[John]

Cary Joji Fukunaga, the bloke who done the first load of True Detective, has done a thing about child soldiers with Idris Elba in it. It's going on Netflix next week, and having just noticed the advert for it a couple of minutes ago I now can't fucking wait.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xb9Ty-1frw

[Magic]

Thin Blue Line for me tonight.

[Magic]

Fucking hell. Shocked to the core. That was an astonishing documentary and Errol Morris is a life saver.

[QE Harold Flair]

One of the best documentaries ever. It's very similar to the Paradise Lost ones, which I think are a bit better and there's about 6 hours worth of those.

[Magic]

I'll check them out. :thbup:

Also Bowling for C was good, but Moore's narrative of everything is the white man's fault and excusing crime was a bit tiresome.

[Kikó]

I'm going to give the Thin Blue Line a watch now. :thumb:

[Giggles]

Heading to see a documentary called Older Than Ireland soon as the Mrs wanted to see it and I bought tickets. I think it's just interviews with 100 year olds.

[Giggles]

If they hadn't stuck surgery somewhere in it I'd have seen it by now. Trailer looks class.

[Giggles]

Heading to see a documentary called Older Than Ireland soon as the Mrs wanted to see it and I bought tickets. I think it's just interviews with 100 year olds.

That was quite excellent.

[Magic]

Watching Hotel Transylvania and all I can think about is fucking Dracula's sexy 118 year old daughter, Mavis.

[Mazuuurk]

Cary Joji Fukunaga, the bloke who done the first load of True Detective, has done a thing about child soldiers with Idris Elba in it. It's going on Netflix next week, and having just noticed the advert for it a couple of minutes ago I now can't fucking wait.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xb9Ty-1frw

That looks completely fucking horrible

[SvN]

Why would you want to be spoiled?

[Yevrah]

It'll be a load of old predictable flannel.

EDIT: About that child soldiers thing.

[John]

It absolutely does. It looks challenging, and harrowing, and I can't fucking wait.

[Mazuuurk]

Why would you want to be spoiled?

I'm not a big fan of unhappy endings, I want films to make me feel good, so if something ends unhappily and I'm well invested in the characters, as I imagine I'd be with Matt Damons, I don't really want to watch it.

I don't want to know exactly what happens, just if it's a happy ending or not.

[SvN]

Another one to add to the TTH weirdo list. A shame, I had really high hopes for you, Maz.

[John]

Maz has been on the weirdo list for ages. He shat on a magazine, lest we forget.

[simon]

I think I often prefer films with sad/dark endings rather than happy ones.

[Magic]

*emo.gif*

[Yevrah]

I'm a fan of both, it really depends on the tone of the film up to that point as to which way it should end.

[Boydy]

Just go and watch fucking Disney films if you don't want sad endings.

[Magic]

They might not have sad endings but fuck me they have sad beginnings or middle bits. :cry:

[Mazuuurk]

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with unhappy endings, I appreciate it sometimes can make the storytelling a lot better and that it has it's place. A few films I love have had some sad or at least ambiguous endings. Bladerunner is one of my favourite films and I can't say the ending (final cut) is too happy really, for instance. I also don't mind unhappy endings if they don't really make me feel sad. Like most horror films - I don't giva a fuck about who dies in them, expect most people to die, so it doesn't matter much. Then again I generally only like a select few horror films.

But most of the time, I just want to watch sort of not so brainy stuff that puts my mind off work and other stuff for 2 hours, and I like to get out of the experience feeling good about it. Not sad, not thoughtful, I don't want to lay awake thinking about the film after - even if I can see how a good film in many peoples eyes makes you contemplate it a lot afterwards - I want it to be a 2 hour experience and no more, no less.

That's why I love films like Jurassic Park or Super hero franchises - you know what to expect, you get that, it's nice to look at mostly, and then it's over. I tend to get very invested in characters I like in films, and if they end up dying or getting miserable I end up feeling a bit bad afterwards, and I don't like feeling bad.

Is that strange? I'm not sure how that makes me a weirdo to be honest. It's just my preference.

[Mazuuurk]

Just go and watch fucking Disney films if you don't want sad endings.

I do, a lot, I love almost all Disney films.
The Lion King is one of my favourite all time films probably, but seeing Mufasa die still makes me well up a little every time.

[Yevrah]

How old are you Maz?

[SvN]

Honestly, yes, it is strange and it does make you a weirdo.

[Magic]

Its subjective so how could you be a weirdo buddy. The Disney films are a joy to behold and I love watching them with the kid. Fuck the others.

[The Merse]

Things I've found today and am excited about...

1. Bill and Ted 3 is apparently scripted http://www.metalinjection.net/at-the-movies/alex-winter-says-bill-ted-3-is-really-close
2. The Deep Web is an interesting documentary I found via the trailer in the above link on the subject of Silk Road/DPR.
3. The trailer for Batman v Superman from a couple of months back does nothing to make me any more positive about combining one of my favourite characters from the world of comics with his ultimate antithesis (at least mainstream DC-wise) that I find deeply uninteresting

[simon]

Thin Blue Line for me tonight.

Decided to watch this.

What the fuck were the Police/prosecution playing at? Absolutely lunacy all round and it's scary how easily they managed to stitch that bloke up.

[MartinSAFC]

Is Martin still about?

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/feature/a671519/which-bond-movie-is-best-the-definitive-007-film-ranking-from-awful-to-awesome.html#~pqIw16IuFwKtm4

Wonder whether he agrees.

The ranking of Bond films there isn't too bad. I would go with something along the lines of:

1) Skyfall
2) From Russia With Love
3) Licence To Kill
4) Dr No
5) On Her Majesty's Secret Service
6) The Living Daylights
7) Live and Let Die
8) Goldfinger
9) Casino Royale
10) GoldenEye
11) The Spy Who Loved Me
12) Die Another Day
13) A View to a Kill
14) For Your Eyes Only
15) You Only Live Twice
16) Octopussy
17) Tomorrow Never Dies
18) Thunderball
19) The World is Not Enough
20) Quantum of Solace
21) The Man With The Golden Gun
22) Moonraker
23) Diamonds Are Forever

Rushed this post last night and missed a couple out. Will give reasons for choices shortly.

[Reg]

Goldeneye would be higher on mine. The opening scene is so fucking cool.

[John]

When you see them written out like that you realise just how many of them have absolutely terrible titles.

[ItalAussie]

1. The Living Daylights
2. Licence to Kill
3. From Russia With Love
4. Goldeneye
5-15ish. The decent ones
15ish-21. The terrible ones

[Clunge]

GoldenEye > the rest.

Anyhoo, I finally watched Inception last night and now I'm having to reassess every opinion I've ever had about film. It was that good.

[Mazuuurk]

How old are you Maz?

29.


Honestly, yes, it is strange and it does make you a weirdo.

That's the most ridiculous thing I've heard. I don't go around telling you what sort of films to like and dislike, do I?


Its subjective so how could you be a weirdo buddy. The Disney films are a joy to behold and I love watching them with the kid. Fuck the others.

Thanks, dude :)

[Toby]

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl was okay.

It has that, "OK, I know what you're thinking, but..." style voiceover and slightly unnatural smack-talking dialogue that seems so popular after Juno (and possibly before). I don't think it pulls it off as well as others, and you're just left with the classic super cool but somehow isn't popular kid, the one friend he's had all his life but obviously falls out with, and the girl that comes between them. It makes itself seem fresh with its quirkiness and modern pop culture references but ultimately it's just a stereotypical high school movie.

[Yevrah]

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a673073/mad-max-fury-road-sequel-wont-star-charlize-therons-imperator-furiosa.html#~pqWPnrHWKLHRNm

Good luck with that, she was the only decent thing in it.

[phonics]

That movie was proper 6/10 stuff. What got everyone so hype for it?

[Magic]

Ok so Sicario wasn't as 'stunning' as the reviews made out. Some really tense scenes but slow in places.

Del Toro though. :cool:

[Yevrah]

That movie was proper 6/10 stuff. What got everyone so hype for it?

I've genuinely no idea.

The clearest case of The Emperor's New Clothes as I can ever remember in film.

[Magic]

I forgot to mention the Ebola-ridden coughing and spluttering West African couple that sat ONE SEAT AWAY from us in a virtually empty cinema. There were only three other couples including us! The ignorant fuckers talked at normal volume as well during the film and constantly rustled their fucking food packets. After ten minutes of absolute seethe building up inside me we decided to move, but I didn't want to cause a scene or be branded racist so I just did the most British thing I could think of and got out a tissue, covered my nose and mouth and we both moved right to the back corner of the cinema.

[Giggles]

I forgot to mention the Ebola-ridden coughing and spluttering West African couple that sat ONE SEAT AWAY from us in a virtually empty cinema. There were only three other couples including us! The ignorant fuckers talked at normal volume as well during the film and constantly rustled their fucking food packets. After ten minutes of absolute seethe building up inside me we decided to move, but I didn't want to cause a scene or be branded racist so I just did the most British thing I could think of and got out a tissue, covered my nose and mouth and we both moved right to the back corner of the cinema.

Had the same shit on Sunday when 5 cretins did pretty much the same thing and caused us to move. Bag rustling, constant chatter, and couldn't put the iPhones down.

[Toby]

It's little doubt down to me being an uncouth dullard who's never understood theatre, but I thought Macbeth was a load of boring old wank.

[SvN]

Finally got round to watching In the name of the father.

Daniel Day Lewis is, as usual, a revelation. In terms of the story itself, I've no idea how accurate it was, but fucking hell - it really was a total travesty.

A fantastic film all round.

[Sam]

It's little doubt down to me being an uncouth dullard who's never understood theatre, but I thought Macbeth was a load of boring old wank.

I fell asleep, gives you an indication of my thoughts about it.

Sicario on the other hand, Del Toro smashes it, fantastic movie.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The Disappearance of Alice Creed is on BBC One tonight at 11:50pm.

Get it watched if you haven't.

[Henry]

Finally got round to watching In the name of the father.

Daniel Day Lewis is, as usual, a revelation. In terms of the story itself, I've no idea how accurate it was, but fucking hell - it really was a total travesty.

A fantastic film all round.

It was reasonably accurate apart from some artistic license. E.g the two Conlons never shared a cell.

[John]

Beasts Of No Nation is now up on Netflix. That's tomorrow night's viewing sorted.

[Pepe]

Beasts Of No Nation is now up on Netflix. That's tomorrow night's viewing sorted.

Think I'll give it a go this weekend.

[phonics]

I watched the first half an hour or so of Southpaw. Up to the point; his wife gets shot and it's great.

[simon]

I think Southpaw is a bit overrated. It's good, but I was expecting something groundbreaking the way people had been banging on about it. It was a lot like American Sniper in that sense.

I enjoyed Magic Mike XXL more than both. Yeah, come at me.

[Baz]

I didn't enjoy Southpaw at all.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'll be seeing Spectre on Saturday morning.

[Yevrah]

How do you manage that Mahow?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

An Auntie of mine works as a cleaner for Michael Wilson and his family, as such she is able to get cast and crew screening tickets.

We've been there since Quantum.

They confiscate all electronics so no recording or dickheads turning on phones happens and you get an intro about the film from someone. For Quantum it was Michael Wilson with Skyfall being from Sam Mendes.

[Yevrah]

Yeah, I vaguely recalled that from Quantum.

Can I come along?

[Giggles]

When is it out? Might do cinema for that one.

[Lewis]

It's THE LONGEST BOND EVER, so watch them have blown it getting carried away after Skyfall.

[Yevrah]

How long is it? I'd look on IMDB but I don't even want to Google it for fear of spoilers.

[Spoonsky]

The trailer did make it seem a bit, I don't know, cookie-cutter - "What happened in Mexico City?" - so that could be true. But I eat that shit up so at worst it ends up being another Mission Impossible.

@ Lewis

[Lewis]

How long is it? I'd look on IMDB but I don't even want to Google it for fear of spoilers.

148 minutes. That's actually only five minutes longer than Skyfall, but that had half an hour of origin story in.

[Spoonsky]

My film nerd friend saw Bridge of Spies in New York with a panel discussion by Spielberg and Tom Hanks afterwards, lucky bastard. I feel like it has all the makings of a classic, though obviously that doesn't mean anything unless it's actually a film of that level. But he said that it was.

[Yevrah]

He discussed it with Spielberg and Hanks afterwards - there's no chance he didn't factor that into his opinion of the film.

[phonics]

This is a bad poster

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRnZCmWUwAAoyKt.jpg

[Giggles]

Is that December 18th? It better not be fucking December '18.

[Yevrah]

Why is it a bad poster Phonics? Looks like every other Star Wars poster to me.

[phonics]

It's the 18th. It's a weird time to release it really. That close to Christmas?

[phonics]

Why is it a bad poster Phonics? Looks like every other Star Wars poster to me.

Maybe I just don't like Star Wars but there's about 8000 characters in there to the point where one of them (I have no idea what their names are) looks like she's actively trying to get around Harrison Fords far larger head despite it looking like they're inches from each other. Is that supposed to be Darth Vader at the bottom? The black guys body disappears into a rocket ship. etc.

[Yevrah]

You generally have to whisper this, but you're right, the original Star Wars movies aren't that good, with the prequels being mostly garbage.

[phonics]

I'm really, really, REALLY hoping for it to be bad. The amount of people getting their hopes up and getting burned twice over a bunch of movies that weren't good the first time round is just the type of thing I like.

[Magic]

You generally have to whisper this, but you're right, the original Star Wars movies aren't that good, with the prequels being mostly garbage.

Why not? I thought they were perfect.

[Yevrah]

Why not? I thought they were perfect.

Don't get me wrong, they're not awful, but like the Lord of the Rings trilogy I'm simply not having the 8.5's and 9's that get chucked around on iMDB.

[Magic]

Also a set of outstanding films.

[phonics]

On LOTR; First one's ok, second one's great, third is absolute horse shit.

[Yevrah]

I found them all to be massively bland, and despite lasting longer than the 100 years war, severely lacking an insight into, or development of, the characters portrayed within.

They looked nice at the time, but Jackson even managed to shit on that with the bang average set of Blu Ray releases.

[Baz]

This is a bad posterhttp://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r129/JohnCarberry/66aa.jpg

[Mazuuurk]

The only thing that pisses me off about the LOTR trilogy is the omission of Tom Bombadills story, the Barrow Wight and the Old Forrest (they gave some remnants of those things to Treebeard in the second film) with the motivation that "it didn't add to the story enough and the films were long enough as they are". Which was sort of fair enough, but then why add a bunch of other random shite (like half of what Arwen does) and more importantly - subsequently go on to make 3 (!) fucking films that all are like 3 (!) fucking hours from a book that was 100 pages.

[Lewis]

The first two (as in the old ones) Star Wars films are brilliant, but Return of the Jedi doesn't get going for the best part of two hours. The Endor stuff in particular is complete shit. The prequels meh I don't care.

[Henry]

I'm looking forward to Star Wars, though I agree that only The Empire Strikes Back is that outstanding. The original was quite good and Return of the Jedi had it's moments (despite being as Lewis says full of Ewok-related shite). The prequels are awful in almost all respects.

In other news, I had never watched Gone with the Wind, so decided to do that this weekend.
It's technically very impressive and you can see how influential it's been even though the story isn't up to much. More notable than the story is the setting in the civil war US south. How this is depicted is completely anachronistic by now - and all the more interesting for it.
The American civil war is portrayed as Yankee aggression and nothing to do with slavery. We've got the slaves, referred to throughout as "darkies", shown as blissfully happy, supportive of the Confederacy and unsuited for rights that are eventually granted them. We've got anything to do with the north - Shermans army, the carpetbaggers and the reconstruction shown as vile and intrusive (though in the case of the March to the Sea there may be a legitimate point). We've got marital rape being portrayed in a positive light. We've even got the KKK, though not mentioned by name (the political meeting) being lionised.
Obviously it'd all be a complete disgrace if released now, but it's fascinating to see how mainstream attitudes, even those in the US south, have developed.

[Yevrah]

It's about 4 hours long no, Henners?

Did you sit there patiently through it all with no break or distraction?

[Spoonsky]

I should probably watch the original three Star Wars, it's been ages since I have. I've always assumed that they must be pretty good for how iconic they became. Does that generally work as a rule?

[Henry]

It's about 4 hours long no, Henners?

Did you sit there patiently through it all with no break or distraction?

It's a bit less than 4 hours. I actually watched most of it yesterday and the final hour today.

[Yevrah]

We should have reinstated TTH Film Club and watched it together - it's been sat on my shelf for months.

[Henry]

Yeah, that would have been an idea. Feel free to pick something else for during the week...

[Yevrah]

Have you seen Doctor Zhivago?