Is there guts and shit in it?
Is there guts and shit in it?
That looks shit hot, but those accents can do one.
Going to see North by Northwest in a cinema today.![]()
Going to try and avoid all material to do with Silence before I watch it, much like I did with Arrival and Interstellar. Films are so much better when you don't know anything about them.
Just watched Arrival.What a lot of bollocks.
Captain Fantastic.![]()
Watched Dr. Strange today, it lived up to my hype and then some. I fucking loved it.
Fucking amazing visually.
Definitely need to see Arrival as of all the views I've heard, around half are 1/10 and half are 10/10 with nothing in between. Intriguing.
Depends how bad you thought that was.
The thing with this, Contact, Interstellar etc. for me is that they all have a brilliant idea/very intriguing premise that more or less shits itself in the run in (the Arsenal of the film world if you will). They're also not nearly as clever as they think they are/are portrayed as being to anyone who's watched as many films as we do.
Tottenham, you mean.
It's no 2001, but Moon certainly didn't shit itself.
Why didn't you like the ending, Yev?
For thinky sci-fi, have you watched Primer, Yev? Or Dark City? Or Solaris?
I'm assuming you've seen Blade Runner.
I watched Guardians Of The Galaxy at the weekend. Didn't know anything about it, but it turned out to be quite fun. Worth a watch
Dark City is hardly 'thinky'. It's a less paranoid Matrix without the budget for shootouts.
The Eyes of My Mother.
Holy shit. This is what horror should be imo, hit all the right notes, primarily dread. Had a feel of a more nonchalant Angst/Martyrs, albeit nowhere near as graphic. Many will hate it
Fucking loved it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5225338/
I liked Arrival a lot. It didn't try to do too much, which is the place many sci-fi films fall down (Interstellar).
I agree with Yev that the romantic dialogue was cringey, but aside from that I thought it was straightforward enough and had an internal logic that made sense. The "twist" was pretty telegraphed, but I think it was meant to be. It wasn't a Shamayalayayan movie with a twist out of nowhere so much as one where the meaning dawned on you over the whole last half to third of the film.
Like all sci-fi, you can pick it to pieces if you want. But it held together well enough that the suspension of disbelief could finish the job, I think. Also, the ending really worked for me.
What's the twist? Spoilered, naturally.
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Arrival was basically the movie Contact should have been if it was less crap.![]()
The Handmaiden is a 2 hour 40 minute Korean film. My expectations were really high and it didn't quite meet them - it could've been an hour shorter and a lot simpler - but it was still really beautiful and had some memorable scenes. Some massive lesbian scenes too.
Allied was quite enjoyable, not truly a great film and it got too sentimental but it was a fine diversion for the afternoon.
Moonlight... damn. This is one that will stick with you after you leave the theater. Best movie of the year so far.
Bad Education Movie is quite shit. I've never seen an episode.
I watched Dear Zachary today but the editing just didn't sit very well with me. It did get better after the beginning but then started going a bit mental again during the ANGRY bits. I thought it distracted from the story and emotions that it was trying to evoke at times. Did choke me up but I expected to be barely holding on considering the actual story.
While watching it I assumed it was conceived as a pure tribute and developed into a sort of narrative piece when the shit went down, but the timeline doesn't really fit that so the editing seems off to me in retrospect. I will not be watching it again to confirm.
I've seen it three times. The editing is a bit shonky but when it was designed as a tribute on a nothing budget, and with what came during the filming, I can easily forgive it.
Just back from Arrival and while good, I honestly feel a bit disappointed after some of the praise it had been getting on here.
Got half an hour into I Am Bolt but had to turn it off because I need subtitles.
I'm a twit
I might give it a go.
When I first watched the trailer it just looked like a Puma promo video, which put me off.
Didn't realise there was a teaser out a while ago now. That and Alien: Covenant being brought forward to May.![]()
None recent, but Steve Jobs, Hail Cesar and The Big Short are all crackers.
I really liked Arrival. I think they just about pulled the ending off (certainly compared to Interstellar), and the previous three quarters were top-notch; the pacing, the style, everything seemed a step better than the recent films in the same vein.
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On the topic of Shyamalan, Split looks really interesting.
It does but the the immediate reaction to James McAvoy doing a lispy child's voice was laughter, which I'm almost certain isn't the desired effect.
Tower tonight.![]()
First review I've came across, and not exactly glowing. I'm still downloading the shit out of it when it arrives though
http://www.rte.ie/entertainment/movi...er-spaceballs/