It was a cracker, but it'll die with me.Originally Posted by Lewis
It was a cracker, but it'll die with me.
The Revenant is his best work, then Amores followed by Birdman. Rest can get to fuck.
Like any art it's probably largely about listening less to your creative instincts and more to business. The 2nd album thing is dodgy though, I reckon it's 3rd onwards that it often goes tits up.
What was this sitcom idea?
It was about a sharp-witted market trader and his plonker of a half-brother.
Mrs Broom's Boys.
Ant-Man is probably about as good as these things get, but still thoroughly mediocre.
As always, the 'action' scenes were interminably dull.
Oh and the baddie was so so weak.
By all accounts the new Star Trek is very good, which is very surprising.
It won't be very good, I can all but guarantee you that now without having seen a single second of it.
The poster looks a little too Star Wars for my liking. Its like J.J.'s trying to merge them into one universe.
Has anyone seen The Player ?
I might've seen five seconds of it. All I know is there's a long one-shot take and Tim Robbins is in it. Hang on. I might've seen all of it. Or maybe I just know how it ends.
I don't know what I've seen or done any more. Is this dementia?
Platoon is a lot more boring than I remember it being, and it can't even be that long since I last saw it.
So, Son of Saul. Thought it was a good film, but not much more than that. The opening was absolutely brutal, as were a few other moments, but the blurry-cam and Saul's increasingly rash actions (as understandable as it was for someone to not think rationally in those circumstances) just became more and more irritating and logistically improbable as the film wore on.
I know a couple of die hards of the old films that grumbled about the original Abrams one and then were contemplating not even seeing this after Into Darkness. Both have been more than pleasantly surprised with this.
BFG was pretty good, but a bit fluffy compared to the book/cartoon.
It was a bit strange, clearly a clever, satirical film but we nearly binned it after an hour. It was Hollywood taking a comical inward look at itself but a lot of people may have disregarded it was complete pretentious bullshit. Surprised to see it was nominated for Oscars.
Dawn of Justice: Ultimate Edition - yeah it was a bit of a mess really. Obviously it's just a daft film so I'm not going to get annoyed about it, but it was extremely bloated. I wasn't overly bothered about what was happening but it was a fun enough way of killing a bit of time, if nothing else. Some of the lines were decent and I quite enjoyed Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor, which I was surprised about.
The Killer Inside Me is alright I suppose, but I couldn't really shake the 'what's the point of this' feeling at any given moment.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0954947/?ref_=nv_sr_1
I watched this the other day too. I never saw the original cut, so I'm not sure what's new, but I agree that it was very bloated. Not a bad film at all, but nothing special either. The story was all very rushed and slapdash for me. It felt like it should have had at least five or six films leading up to it, like the first Avengers film.
I was the opposite with Eisenberg's Lex Luthor, I didn't like him. I couldn't buy into him at all. I thought Affleck did a good job though.
So what exactly is this Suicide Squad thing? Like is the one that looks like the Joker the same as the Batman Joker, so it's like a spin-off? It's getting monster hype anyway.
EDIT: Like the Dawn of Justice one mentioned above. It doesn't seem to be s Superman film, so is it a Lex Luthor spin-off?
I guess you need to have read all the comics to get all this.
Suicide Squad is just another DC thing (I haven't read the comics either) where they recruit criminals for suicide missions.
Sounds like something adult babies like Mahow will wet their pants over.
Looks fucking shit. Plus the amount of trailers and leaks I feel as if I've seen the movie already.
That's the main thing that got me wondering about it. Every day there's something else about it, seems to be the biggest hyped film of the year so far.
So is the Jared Leto character the actual Joker or a sort of Joker copycat? Is there a Batman character in it?
It's a reboot of the whole universe, so it's basically the same Joker but reinvented.
Yeah Batman turns up at some point apparently.
The Affleck one?
Speaking of which, I seen a trailer for some film with him as Batman along with Superman, the Flash, Green Lanten, Wonderwoman, etc. In what sort of universe are they all knocking about together?
Gal Gadot though
Yeah. Dunno how much he's involved but he's on the cast list.
The DC Universe....?
Actually, no Superman in that latter one. Was mixing it up with the Batman v Superman film.
It's all so confusingI blame the Avengers.
There also seems to be a standalone Wonderwoman film too.
Justice League is basically DC's version of The Avengers. And Superman is in it.
I already have multiple times.
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I watched Me Before You earlier. Aside from it having the worst soundtrack I've ever heard in a film, it was okay. Although if I didn't know from the book, the ending would've been a bit Rocky-like for me. Remember when you first watched Rocky as a kid and it suddenly cuts to the end credits and you weren't paying enough attention to the ring announcer to know whether he won or lost? Like that.
I can't see them turning the second book into a film either. At least not a very interesting one. Girl turns into an alcoholic, nearly dies, meets a worse train wreck than herself, then inevitably fucks off to spend more time with the Kiwi bloke. Amidst all that, her mum refuses to shave her legs any more. Sounds riveting.
Fenwick (Will) has terrific hair though.
I'm a twit
Watched Planes last night which was bang average.
Room
Yep, pretty good.
There's a really solid sports documentary called Iverson on Netflix at the moment.
Good use of 90 minutes. It's fairly predictable, mind.
Going to give The Wrestler a watch tonight.
Sicario was very solid. Feel like it could've been great though.
Batman v Superman really is a hot mess. I watched 'THE ULTIMATE EDITION' too which didn't help.
I only enjoyed the last 30 minutes or so when the action hit because that was the only good thing that happened during the film.
Eisenberg was a fucking mess but that was to be expected, Affleck I was surprised by as I thought he'd be garbage, I genuinely hate the cardboard cut-out that is Cavill and I enjoyed Gadot in her brief moments.
Wonderwoman actually looks like it could be an alright film comparatively.
X-Men: Apocalypse was not worth the time I spent watching it.
Chinatown. Fu...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37038684
Mindy Kaling in particular is such a mental choice.
Well I for one can't wait for another round of foul misogyny.
I still think these ALL FEMALE spin-offs are a bad way to go about things. There should be equality by way of women just having an equal share of big roles in big films by default.
Doing this makes it feel like they are from the special school and have been allowed by the men to have their own special film.
It feels wrong and actually a bit sexist in it's own right.
Doesn't bother me one bit, the usual thing of the originals are still there. Its showing a younger generation of lasses that the potential for leading roles in fairly large films are there for them (Ghostbusters being the main example in that sense).
It's a fucking shite gimmick. Wouldn't watch any of them for diamonds.
Proceeding from the idea that ladies can't enjoy something unless it has birds in all the main roles seems like an odd way to empower them.
It will continue seeming like a gimmick until more and more people are bold enough to do it. If more follow then you soon enough won't think twice whether it's four male lead actors, four female, or two each. Which is the way it should be.
It's a gimmick. You can disguise it if the film is actually any good, I'm sure, but a gimmick it remains.
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