Film Thread

Same here. I keep thinking I should try it again. It has some really good bits and it's clearly well done but as a whole I didn't really care.

Its a film of its time. The score is phenomenal, the style of the film, when taken within the era is spectacular but I found the much lauded depth to be student level at times. If I'd watched it when I was around 11/12 I'd probably have adored it, but my first viewing was a year ago and I hated every second. Attempted it twice.

It'd be like watching Tremors, or Maximum Overdrive (the real OG) now.

I followed up the shit come and see with hidden figures which was perfectly entertaining and quite a 'nice' story.

Got Manchester by the sea for later but suspect it'll be a bit of a depressing film.

That's ya Star Wars telecine out, very good quality.

Sweet Virginia is a very good slow burn drama.

Downsizing is pretty uneven tonally but has a lot going for it too.

I'm so ridiculously hype for Black Panther. :drool:

Tommy Wiseau plans to do The Room 3D. :lol:

Darkest Hour is really good. I liked that they filmed some of it in the real war rooms. It leaves open the suggestion that Churchill was basically an "actor", albeit one needed to represent the nation and stiffen it's resolve. Probably exaggerated just how close Britain came to seeking peace, and gave Chamberlain a rough deal.

Downsizing got dreadful reviews.

Anyone seen Manchester by the Sea?

I think so - it was good.

Wow. Very good. What a dark and sad tale.

Only The Brave is a fucking good movie. Real fucking good. Would've been top five for me last year.

Apparently there's a cinema in Sydney that screens The Room once a month, every month. It sells out a 700-person cinema every time, almost immediately.

Nuts.

Went to see Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri last night.

Bang average for me, which was a bit disappointing.

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Seemed to be pretty heavily focused on symbolism and closure with splatterings of completely pointless events (death of the captain), rather than actually developing the plot I was hoping for.

But maybe that's just my bias in the types of films I really enjoy, rather than a fair reflection of the film. Who knows.

The Post is alright, but it is too desperate to draw contemporary parallels. Especially when:

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The implication through all of it - and particularly at the end when it all comes together with Spielberg's usual level of subtlety ('We don't always get it right, but...') - is that Richard Nixon equals Donald Trump equals threat to the free press. Okay. But the actual pivotal scene is the one where Tom Hanks explains why he is so desperate to publish the papers by coming clean about how he realised that he was a stooge for JFK who he had always thought was his friend. You could quite easily draw parallels between that level of cosiness, which enabled them to lie about Vietnam for twenty years, and what Trump perceives when he attacks the press.

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Went to see Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri last night.

Bang average for me, which was a bit disappointing.

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Seemed to be pretty heavily focused on symbolism and closure with splatterings of completely pointless events (death of the captain), rather than actually developing the plot I was hoping for.

But maybe that's just my bias in the types of films I really enjoy, rather than a fair reflection of the film. Who knows.

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Went to see it tonight. Thought it was great. Two films in two nights starring Casey Affleck.

Is he anything to Ben?

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Is he anything to Ben?

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He's Ben's younger brother.

And he's really good in sort of morbid, mopey roles.

Watched Manchester by the Sea tonight and it was excellent.

Saw Darkest Hour tonight (breaking my 9 year dry run without a cinema visit).

It's very good. You just need to treat it as a play and not a docudrama. I haven't scrolled back to check, but I bet Lewis hated it.

FFS. Not him Lucas Hedges.

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He's Ben's younger brother.

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And a far, far better actor. Gone Baby Gone is a classic.

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And a far, far better actor. Gone Baby Gone is a classic.

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Yep. I've never been overly keen on Ben.

Remains of the Day is good. Anthony Hopkins is an extraordinary actor.

Boyz N the Hood has a big reputation and I thought it was fairly boring.

Anyone watched The Red Turtle?

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I'm pretty sure the general tone is the delusion the man fades into on the island. I think the wife/child is all a figment of his imagination as he ages on the island to his death. That being said though - I can't explain the 'storms'.

Enlighten me.

I didn't realise Emlia Clarke was in Solo. I'd best not go to a midnight showing for that then, I'll be needing a kip enough as it is.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/black_panther_2018

51 reviews, 100%. Insane MC-score as well.

100% makes it the greatest movie ever lads, clearly it is. Nothing to do with an almost all black cast in a generic superhero movie no sir :happycry:

I wasn't expecting some sort of superhero film with that title.

Seems like the IMDB rating is reversed with Rotten Tomatoes etc.

Usually its score is disproportionately high.

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My Friend Dahmer looks a bit good :drool:

https://youtu.be/55_pHI3cafY

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This is now out there.

12 Monkeys

Was alright. Quite clever but didn't really give a shit about it. Wasn't bored, wasn't thrilled, just meh.

The Solo trailer is a bit meh.

Also, the producers of Game of Thrones are apparently getting to make their own Star wars trilogy. That's separate both from Rian Johnson's trilogy and from the main series.

It appears that Disney wants to turn Star Wars into Marvel, and milk the fuck out of it.

I saw my biggest absolute nerd friend, the type that has been lapping up these comic book movies the day they come out and total Star Wars nerd, say, 'I think that's officially too much Star Wars' which means they must have really fucked it.

It's those people's own fault for wanking themselves into a frenzy every time one comes out.

People who use 'officially' in that way are a bigger blight on society than any overdone film series.

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It's those people's own fault for wanking themselves into a frenzy every time one comes out.

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That's what I said. If every fucking trailer that's exactly the same as the last trailer but with a different 6 seconds wasn't getting 80 million hits in an hour, they wouldn't be doing it. People are shite.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42992914

Now I'm a fan of better and more complex/nuanced understandings of Africa than are traditionally held by the West, as long-term readers will know. However reading this article sums up the knots that Hollywood has tied itself in during the last two or three years. Rather than making a film about African superheroes in an existing universe, this reads like a hundred-mile tiptoe through the nightmarish labyrinth of identity politics, with another faux pas lurking around every corner, and the resulting product sounds less like a film than like a checklist of ways in which the producers are not racist/sexist. Horrid stuff.

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Only The Brave is a fucking good movie. Real fucking good. Would've been top five for me last year.

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Watched it. Bit of a slow burner (lol) but it was such a catastrophy when it picks up. Amazing role these guys play in real life, incredible bravery.

Lone Survivor was pretty good but is a bit of a strange one in that

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it's effectively a film about a military operation fuck up that resulted in the death of a number of US navy seals.

Moonlight is very good. You can see why it won the acclaim it did.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42992914

Now I'm a fan of better and more complex/nuanced understandings of Africa than are traditionally held by the West, as long-term readers will know. However reading this article sums up the knots that Hollywood has tied itself in during the last two or three years. Rather than making a film about African superheroes in an existing universe, this reads like a hundred-mile tiptoe through the nightmarish labyrinth of identity politics, with another faux pas lurking around every corner, and the resulting product sounds less like a film than like a checklist of ways in which the producers are not racist/sexist. Horrid stuff.

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At least it'll appease all those black comic book nerds.

Three Billboards is good, but too much of a mess to surpass In Brugge.

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Three Billboards is good, but too much of a mess to surpass In Brugge.

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Surpass it as what? Is there a link there or something?

Same director/screenwriter.

Go fuck yourself, Magic.

In Brugge is shit so no idea what he means.

Ah right. It wasn't shit but I wasn't all that mad about it myself. Probably need to give it a second watch some time, though I do remember it was needlessly gory.

I love Brendaaa Gleeson but I really fucking hate Colin Farrel.

Pretty much that, yeah.

It's Bruges you inanimate fucking objects.

I generally didn't like Colin Farrell before seeing it but even he was good in it.