Film Thread

I decided to have the day off today, and watched three films.

First up was Eighth Grade. I had high hopes for this, and while I did enjoy it, it didn't live up the the hype in my opinion. Probably my fault for expecting more. I thought Lady Bird was much better, even though I get they're very different films. It was a solid 7/10 I thought.

Secondly, I watched Three Identical Strangers. This was another one I had high hopes for, and I thought it was great. I didn't have a clue what it was about going in, which is the right way to watch it. I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but it's definitely worth a watch.

Finally, I just watched Halloween 5 - The Revenge of Michael Myers. I think "lol" would be sufficient as a review, but I'll expand a bit. Probably down there with the worst few films I've ever seen. The entire series is obviously absurd, but this takes the piss. There's so many parts of the film that are laughable. There's the entire premise that Myers was in a coma for an entire year just lying in some guy's cabin(?!?) who he then kills, the comedy cop duo who serve no purpose at all, but seem to have their own theme tune, the telepathic link bullshit - I could go on for a long time.

But with that said, my favourite moment has to be near the end where Myers is battering a police officer, while his colleague can hear it all over the radio. So what does his colleague do? Rush to his aid? Call for backup? Nope, he just looks confused and repeats "Come in, <officer name>" over and over into the radio. Then eventually gives up.

1/10 would be generous. I hope 6 isn't this bad.

I watched first man on Saturday. I thought it was alright. 7/10

Upgrade was banging.

I enjoyed 10 Cloverfield Lane right up until it went off the deep end.

Lee Chang Dong's new film, Burning, is getting some stonking reviews. His previous film is one of the best of the last decade.

The official trailer for PokeMon: Detective Pikachu dropped and now suddenly I'm a five year old kid again :drool: :cool:

Right?That looked sensational!I am not going to flock to the cinemas to watch it but it sure looks intriguing.

I have an Unlimited card so of course I'll be seeing that if it comes my way. Ryan Reynolds as the voice of Pikachu feels weird though - I keep getting Deadpool vibes :D

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The official trailer for PokeMon: Detective Pikachu dropped and now suddenly I'm a five year old kid again :drool: :cool:

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I probably laughed about four times at the trailer alone. :D

The Ryan Reynolds circle jerk these days pisses me off. I proper hate the guy.

wonder was a bit of an odd one. I really should've loved it, the way it was structured is great. Just felt like it was missing something though to make it really great. Good film no doubt.

The Pokemon movie looks very good. I hadn't thought that Jigglypuff is furry and it looks creepy.

Of course it's furry; it's pink fluff.

I watched Cold War (Zimna wojna) tonight, a Polish film. It's quite good. Stylistically it's great; it's absolutely beautiful, and I like how bleak and sparse it is, but I personally felt the plot shat the bed a bit in the last 30 minutes or so. The film ends with

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the two main characters topping themselves, and rather than it being a particularly dramatic or moving scene, i sorta rolled my eyes and thought it was a bit stupid, and my mate turned to me, laughed, and said THEY FUCKING KILLED THEMSELVES, FUCK SAKE WHAT A STUPID ENDING as soon as the credits started rolling, which isn't exactly a glowing endorsement.

Critics seemed to absolutely love it, but then they bloody would wouldn't they.

The ending meant perfect sense to me.

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They loved each other and throughout their life they've always been pushed apart. Sometimes through their own stupidity/stubbornness/whatever or through other people/events. He went to Poland again to try and get her back, but got arrested and had his hands caved in due to be a deserter and she had to marry the pervert that runs the folk dance group and have his child, that was like the ultimate blockade. They couldn't get back together as the pervert would have just had him locked up again/murdered.

They sort of got married and then ended it all so they could finally be together with nothing getting in their way (other than death ofc).

They'd rather be together in death than apart alive.

Kulig though :drool:

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The ending meant perfect sense to me.

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They loved each other and throughout their life they've always been pushed apart. Sometimes through their own stupidity/stubbornness/whatever or through other people/events. He went to Poland again to try and get her back, but got arrested and had his hands caved in due to be a deserter and she had to marry the pervert that runs the folk dance group and have his child, that was like the ultimate blockade. They couldn't get back together as the pervert would have just had him locked up again/murdered.

They sort of got married and then ended it all so they could finally be together with nothing getting in their way (other than death ofc).

They'd rather be together in death than apart alive.

Kulig though :drool:

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Yeah she was stunning.

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Yaaah I get ya, and I don't think it doesn't make sense per se. It's hard to explain, but I guess I felt like the film hadn't done enough to make me actually care about the relationship. On one hand I loved how gritty and realistic it was, and they didn't really go hollywood on it at all, it was warts and all, but to me it crossed the line to being "actually this is just a really dysfunctional relationship and the only thing that seems to motivate you to be together is the fact you CAN'T be together" If they'd been free to pursue their relationship in a place they both wanted to be, they'd have broken up in 12 months. Besides shirley they could have just fled to France again or something. But that's just my immediate thoughts, I'll sleep on it

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the greatest showman was pretty damned good.

That 22 yo mixed race girl with the difficult to pronounce name is lovely. :wub:

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Stunning. :uhoh:

Shameful Lustage?

Baz only likes 16 year olds.

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Baz only likes 16 year olds.

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A Star is Born is seriously good. It does beg the question though why Lady Gaga has felt the need to bowl around like a twat and wear meat when she can sing like that.

Outlaw king is great.

Fast 5. Still amazing.

Blackkklansman pretty good stuff.

I can't believe that this Avatar sequel appears to be real. Has anything ever been so successful and left less of a cultural imprint?

Aren’t they making about 6 of them but just dragging it out for some reason?

They're filing two of them now.

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I can't believe that this Avatar sequel appears to be real. Has anything ever been so successful and left less of a cultural imprint?

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That's an interesting question, you should start a thread.

I can't think of anything at all actually.

We had that conversation years ago, when the sequels were first announced. I think it was Ital who posed the question then.

The answer is no, because nothing has ever been that successful regardless of its cultural impact. It's the highest grossing film of all time, and pretty comfortably so.

The lack of a cultural footprint will show in the box office for the sequel though, I reckon. If it hits middling Marvel numbers they'll be lucky, and there's no chance they actually make six of them.

I don't know. Remember those 'Avatar Depression' people who saw it and then couldn't cope with their boring lives? There was that mad forum thread of them all buying fish tanks and getting into that lucid dream shit.

Has Cameron done anything since then? You could market anything as "From the makers of..." and have better numbers than an Avatar sequel.

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I don't know. Remember those 'Avatar Depression' people who saw it and then couldn't cope with their boring lives? There was that mad forum thread of them all buying fish tanks and getting into that lucid dream shit.

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If all three hundred of those whoppers see it a couple of thousand times each maybe it'll be in with a shout.

They probably did.

I mean the sequel.

They probably will.

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I don't know. Remember those 'Avatar Depression' people who saw it and then couldn't cope with their boring lives? There was that mad forum thread of them all buying fish tanks and getting into that lucid dream shit.

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At least we acquired igor from that particular forum invasion.

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At least we acquired igor from that particular forum invasion.

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:D fuck you

I went to see a CINEWORLD SECRET SCREENING tonight, for mugs like me who've got an unlimited card. You book the seat, but you don't know what the film is until it starts.

It was Green Book, an odd couple road trip movie, essentially. It was schmaltzy Hollywood bullshit, but really good schmaltzy Hollywood bullshit. Solid 7.5/10.

I did one of those before and it was "Now You See Me". I felt completely conned.

Seen a few good ones recently.

Shoplifters, a Japanese film by Kore-eda and Wildlife, a not-Japanese film with Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan I'll group together cus they're both slow, character-driven films where not a lot really happens, so obviously I absolutely loved them. Shoplifters is more interesting and less po-faced, but both are crackers.

Sorry to Bother You is fucking nuts but also great. I like films that focus in on one theme, genre, event etc and basically spend a couple of hours trying to properly distill the very essence of that small thing, StBY basically does the opposite. It veers from gritty social realism to batshit fantasy to sci-fi to slapstick comedy to fucking loads of mad shit. It's like the director has taken a load of cinematic techniques and just thrown them all into the film. It's very self-aware and there's a few little wink wink nudge nudge moments but it never gets to Vince Russo I'M SHOOTING BRO levels, so doesn't get in the way of the film. Everyone should go watch it.

the post was really disappointing.

Shame.

Just a bit too dull.

Rocky 3 is on :cool:

Training montage :drool:

Had to keep going.

Hearts on fiiiiire, strong desiiiiire, rages deep withiiiiiiiiiiiiin :)

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Had to keep going.

Hearts on fiiiiire, strong desiiiiire, rages deep withiiiiiiiiiiiiin :)

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By far the best song in the film series.

I watched that Justice League film earlier, and it really is wank. To say it cost a million billion quid as well, the effects all looked a bit fifteen years old, and the colouring makes it look like some made for TV film. Why is that?

The only good thing is Icky Thump playing, which is a great song.

There’s something on syfy right now. It’s fucking awful.

Edit: GI joe 2009 apparently.

This might be the worst film I’ve seen since Battlefield Earth. I think I could watch it on mute and both understand the same amount of ‘plot’ and enjoy it more.

Anyone seen The Station Agent?

Tom McCarthy (Spotlight) wrote and directed it. I absolutely loved it, but not sure how universal it would be.