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.
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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.
Meru is a great documentary about mountain climbing. Almost perfect as far as documentaries on such a subject can go, I'd say.
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.
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.
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/n...pqsTKwc8cYrXC5
Anyone seen Macbeth yet? Going to see it tonight.
Who's in it?
Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.
Fassbender and Cotillard
Anyway bottled it and going to see Sicario instead.
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?
Well paris, texas was a whole bunch of nothingness.
Is Martin still about?
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/f...pqIw16IuFwKtm4
Wonder whether he agrees.
You forget how many of them are crap when you see them listed like that. They should really have taken the seventies off.
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.
Thin Blue Line for me tonight.
Fucking hell. Shocked to the core. That was an astonishing documentary and Errol Morris is a life saver.
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.
I'll check them out.
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.
I'm going to give the Thin Blue Line a watch now. :thumb:
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.
If they hadn't stuck surgery somewhere in it I'd have seen it by now. Trailer looks class.
That was quite excellent.
Watching Hotel Transylvania and all I can think about is fucking Dracula's sexy 118 year old daughter, Mavis.
That looks completely fucking horrible
Why would you want to be spoiled?
It'll be a load of old predictable flannel.
EDIT: About that child soldiers thing.
It absolutely does. It looks challenging, and harrowing, and I can't fucking wait.
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.
Another one to add to the TTH weirdo list. A shame, I had really high hopes for you, Maz.
Maz has been on the weirdo list for ages. He shat on a magazine, lest we forget.
I think I often prefer films with sad/dark endings rather than happy ones.
*emo.gif*
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.
Just go and watch fucking Disney films if you don't want sad endings.
They might not have sad endings but fuck me they have sad beginnings or middle bits.
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.
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.
How old are you Maz?
Honestly, yes, it is strange and it does make you a weirdo.
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.
Things I've found today and am excited about...
1. Bill and Ted 3 is apparently scripted http://www.metalinjection.net/at-the...s-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
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.
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.
Goldeneye would be higher on mine. The opening scene is so fucking cool.
When you see them written out like that you realise just how many of them have absolutely terrible titles.
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
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.
29.
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?
Thanks, dude
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