3 at the time.
3 at the time.
Watching the Big Short again now.
I got it wrong first time round, it's a good film.
I thought it was going to be shit but it's alright.
Vertigo's the one where Jimmy Stewart is the bloke out of Rear Window but with legs, right? And he gets obsessed with a woman who looks exactly like his dead ex or something because SUSPENSE! I dunno what to make of Hitchcock. I generally like his work but can't look past Strangers on a Train as the one.Originally Posted by Spoonsky
Just watched Legend of Tarzan thought it would be shit, ended up being worse. Arguably one of the worst I've ever seen.
Test.
So, Dirty Grandpa.
While being far from good, it's not that bad and I did genuinely lol a couple of times.Toggle Spoiler
Grimsby, for example, was a lot worse.
The Kermode review for that is probably my favourite review ever.
It was a classic.
"And not just fleetingly, but for a long time"
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is quite boring and doesn't go into the nature of their executives deceptions in anything like enough detail.
I like how you spend the first half of the film thinking you're supposed to see Jimmy Stewart as a protagonist (He's Jimmy Stewart!), and you only slowly realise that he's losing the plot as you get to the second half of the tilm.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ghostbusters_2016/
Is this just critics trying to avoid being branded sexist?
Honest Trailers reminded me how Ghostbusters II is Ghostbusters.
I took the SEXISM to be an easy out. You could have re-made it with blokes and the Pokemon Go-playing manchildren would have still shat the bed, so blaming that lets you 1) brush off bad reviews; and 2) re-boot other franchises without having to justify why your last attempt failed.
There was definitely a whiff of the Harold/Mert agenda in the initial "fucking WOMEN?" response, but since then basically every legitimate criticism has been shouted down as sexist by some twat or another.
I think it was that it seemed like they were specifically redoing it just so they could do it with women.
It wasn't much to do with gender politics more than it was to do with nerds getting completely pissy over Bill Murray not doing a cameo. Yeah, the first film is an 80s classic but then they made a second one which had the same plot of the first. You don't get to be upset over this. Consider yourself lucky you got a third film. A film the original cast never unanimously wanted to make. Take it or leave it.
Not to anyone sensible. Everything is getting a remake or a reboot at the moment, particularly anything borne of the eighties, so Ghostbusters was going to get one sooner or later.
Bill Murray does do a cameo.
Yeah, but what I mean is there wasn't any reason to make the whole cast female other than to go "LOOK, WOMEN!"
There's no point in supposedly being progressive with an all-female cast if one of them is just going to be the usual shouting black woman. I watched some of her stand-up and it was absolutely painful.
It's a Paul Feig film. Female lead casts are his thing, and his biggest hit was the one with an all female cast.
She was being a cunt on Twitter lately too, whining about how none of the big fashion houses had volunteered to 'dress' her for some awards do, and saying they'd come to regret it when she shows them no love in future. She seems utterly intolerable.
Yeah. I don't tend to go in for reboots as a general rule, so I'm giving this one a wide berth. But there's a reason that this got far, far more vitriol than, say, Total Recall or Robocop, and a lot of it was uncomfortably misogynist. The trailer was eventually the most disliked video on Youtube, which is clearly not just a result of people being tired of franchise reboots (even if Youtube-trailer-disliking is one of the pitiful possible ways to express your futile anger), or else the other unnecessary IP-revivals would see the same thing.
It doesn't really sound like a good movie in itself, but that doesn't even come close to justifying the weird degree of hatred levelled at it from some sections, given that unnecessary reboots and sequels of nostalgia-inducing properties are basically everywhere. But that hatred has certainly muddied the water for any subsequent reviews (which are either sexist! or pandering! depending on which side you started on, irrespective of the quality of the movie).
Would be amazing with an all male cast. Seth Rogen and his cronies, maybe Slimer smokes some weed. Top notch.
Just watched this, jesus fucking christ.It was a classic.
"And not just fleetingly, but for a long time"
Kermode's best review is of 'Little Man'. He sounds like he's about to weep for the duration.
The Visit is disconcertingly poor. The whole thing looks like it's been made by a sixth form film club.
Shyamalan should probably retire if that's all he has in his locker now.
Filth is absolutely bat shit mental.
Going to try The Revenant tonight.
I thought you tried that most nights?
i.e. having sex with a bear i.e. your wife.
I lolled.
Looking through my choice, the best bet may actually be Grimsby
Thanks for the spoiler, cunt.
Whiplash is just brilliant.
Didn't know if Rev had subs or not so binned it and watched Kajaki again. So hard hitting and tougher to watch after Chilcot.
High-Rise has interesting things in it, which stops it from being a dreadful film, but ultimately it's an absolute fucking mess - littered with the sort of dreamy bohemian nonsense that ruins any sense of structure to the narrative. Which is a shame really, as it definitely had potential.
I've just put Batman vs Superman on only to see that it's two and a half hours long. Obviously had low expectations anyway, but fucking hell.
one of my missus' pretentious bellend mates has told us we have to watch this. We'll see.
I'm a twit
I subjected myself to the 'Ultimate Edition' a couple of weeks ago. It's turd, and I can't think of a single character who remains consistent over the course of the film.
Apparently there's a version that's 3 hours long and makes a lot more sense.
The ultimate? I've downloaded that.
Even as a fanboy of all things superhero I'm dreading it a little. The film just looks so bad.
I've bailed, I just couldn't face it.
And I've still yet to see a coherent explanation as to why every piece of shit film is two hours twenty plus these days. It makes no commercial sense whatsoever.
Aye.
And yeah, me too. I never got into the Marvel stuff really but I grew up liking Superman and Batman a lot. I'm expecting it to be shit but I'll still watch it.
I started reading High Rise a while ago and found it dull. I gave up on it temporarily intending to go back to it but I'm not sure I will. Same thing happened with J. G. Ballard's Crash. I doubt I'll bother with the film now either.
I haven't seen the normal one, but if it makes considerably less sense than the one I watched then whoever put it out in the first place should be arrested.
Just watched Go, knowing nothing about it other than the favourable reviews. I thought it was great. A clear rip off of Pulp Fiction, ridiculously over the top and some poor acting at times, but I was constantly engrossed and entertained. Really surprised at how much I enjoyed it.
Anyone up for doing the opposite of the TOP 250 in IMDB? I'm on about the bottom 10 films. They are:
Rank & Title IMDb Rating Your Rating
1. Code Name: K.O.Z. (2015) 1.5
2. Saving Christmas (2014) 1.6
3. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004) 1.6
4. Daniel der Zauberer (2004) 1.6
5. Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) 1.7
6. Pledge This! (2006) 1.7
7. Turks in Space (2006) 1.8
8. Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010) 1.8
9. Titanic: The Legend Goes On... (2000) 1.8
10. Disaster Movie (2008) 1.9
Anyone seen any of them so far? If I can get a hold of any of them via torrent I'm going to give them a try.
Turks in Space sounds fabulous.
So Babel, I've had it on my shelf for ages now without bothering, so tonight was the night and sadly it's not very good.
The Brad Pitt bit was very well done (and probably could have sustained a film in its own right), but the rest was absolute hokum.
I don't get Iñárritu, of his films I've seen:
21 Grams - Good, but a bit too much convenient happenstance, which plagued the above as well actually.
Birdman - Bang average
The Revenant - I've seen it a couple of times now and in fairness I liked it a lot more second time round. Just picked up the Blu-Ray so looking forward to enjoying the cinematography properly on my 46 incher (although I understand the 4K version is absolutely fapworthy).
I should probably watch Amores Perros, but I don't hold out that much hope based on the above.
Amores Perros is like his Sixth Sense. He made basically the best thing he'll ever make right out of the gate.
Might need to get More or Less on the case with this one, but that seems to happen more than you'd imagine with people in film and tv.
Damon/Affleck and Ricky Gervais spring to mind without really thinking about it, in addition to shymalayananan.
Do the creative juices get sucked out of these people once they're actually in the industry, or does it take an idea that spunks their load so hard to break down the doors to make it in the first place that they've no hope of that difficult second album being anywhere near as good?
Presumably a lot of first features are ideas that have been stewing for ages so there's twenty years of thought before that first piece goes into production and then six months of thought before the next one.
Yeah, like that amazing sitcom idea you came up with.
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