Film Thread

[Giggles]

Is there guts and shit in it?

[Dark Soldier]

[John]

That looks shit hot, but those accents can do one.

[Spoonsky]

Going to see North by Northwest in a cinema today.

[SvN]

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.

[Boydy]

Is there guts and shit in it?

Actually, spoilered, just in case other people don't want to know:

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No.

[Giggles]

Actually, spoilered, just in case other people don't want to know:

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No.

I'll await it's Kodi arrival so.

[Yevrah]

Just watched Arrival.What a lot of bollocks.

[Boydy]

[Magic]

Captain Fantastic.

[Baz]

Just watched Arrival.What a lot of bollocks.

I feel like I've seen it all just from the trailer.

I'm gonna go watch Allied instead.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Watched Dr. Strange today, it lived up to my hype and then some. I fucking loved it.

Fucking amazing visually.

[Giggles]

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.

[Yevrah]

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.

I'd probably give it a 6. Cracking start/first hour, but as with almost all of these 'thinky' space/sci-fi things it doesn't end particularly well.

[Giggles]

I'd probably give it a 6. Cracking start/first hour, but as with almost all of these 'thinky' space/sci-fi things it doesn't end particularly well.

Interstellar bad?

[Yevrah]

Interstellar bad?

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.

[Magic]

Tottenham, you mean.

[Henry]

I'd probably give it a 6. Cracking start/first hour, but as with almost all of these 'thinky' space/sci-fi things it doesn't end particularly well.

What are the exceptions, do you think?

The ending wasn't amazing, but it was adequate. Certainly not as shit as Interstellar's.

[Yevrah]

What are the exceptions, do you think?

The ending wasn't amazing, but it was adequate. Certainly not as shit as Interstellar's.

2001 is the obvious answer and I haven't really seen anything in the sub-genre that comes close.

[John]

It's no 2001, but Moon certainly didn't shit itself.

[Boydy]

Why didn't you like the ending, Yev?

[Yevrah]

Why didn't you like the ending, Yev?

Multi-quote shit-off ahoy!

Few reasons:

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I thought the relationship between Adams and Renner, which was basically the crux of the film was thoroughly unbelievable, I was more convinced by Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in Speed.
His line to her, which was something along the lines of "the most remarkable thing wasn't meeting them, but meeting you" was horrific.
The aliens uniting humankind so that one day they we can save them was just as sickly sweet.
The way we were united left me thinking "oh, fuck off..."
How were we actually united? Wouldn't Sudan and Russia just have continued to blow the shit out of their pods and presumably China and the US would have been deeply distrusting of each other 5 minutes after the hippopods fucked off.
The telegraphed nature of the 'twist', was the sort of thing that you couldn't fail to see from pretty early on if you were remotely paying attention and ruined any dramatic heft the supposed reveal for it should have had.

Some of the above shouldn't matter, and I can fairly be accused of over-thinking it, but I'm sure as shit I wouldn't have been doing that had the film been up to scratch and kept me in the room. Sadly, it didn't.

[Henry]

For thinky sci-fi, have you watched Primer, Yev? Or Dark City? Or Solaris?

I'm assuming you've seen Blade Runner.

[Raoul Duke]

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

[John]

Dark City is hardly 'thinky'. It's a less paranoid Matrix without the budget for shootouts.

[Dark Soldier]

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/

[ItalAussie]

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.

[Giggles]

What's the twist? Spoilered, naturally.

[Henry]

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The twist is that the "flashback" sequences you've been seeing throughout the film of what you assumed were her dead child, are actually premonitions.

[ItalAussie]

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In the end, the thoughtful message of the film was that all relationships end sadly eventually - through death or separation - and we know this going in, but we still enter them anyway, because they develop their value as they are experienced. I thought it was quite well done. It even subtly made you root for a relationship that you knew with certainty was doomed, which is kind of the opposite of most films. I liked the way it pulled that off.

The best sci-fi is about more than sci-fi.

Arrival was basically the movie Contact should have been if it was less crap.

[Spoonsky]

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.

[Dquincy]

Bad Education Movie is quite shit. I've never seen an episode.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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.

[Henry]

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In the end, the thoughtful message of the film was that all relationships end sadly eventually - through death or separation - and we know this going in, but we still enter them anyway, because they develop their value as they are experienced. I thought it was quite well done. It even subtly made you root for a relationship that you knew with certainty was doomed, which is kind of the opposite of most films. I liked the way it pulled that off.

The best sci-fi is about more than sci-fi.

Arrival was basically the movie Contact should have been if it was less crap.

Contact is not crap.

[Dark Soldier]

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.

EDIT: I'll just chuck a ffs instead.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

EDIT: I'll just chuck a ffs instead.

I understood why he was doing it and I did think that it worked in places but when it didn't work it was really jarring.

[John]

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.

[Dark Soldier]

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.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Just back from Arrival and while good, I honestly feel a bit disappointed after some of the praise it had been getting on here.

[Baz]

Got half an hour into I Am Bolt but had to turn it off because I need subtitles.

[Baz]

Got half an hour into I Am Bolt but had to turn it off because I need subtitles.

Watched it. It's awesome. Everyone should watch it. The man's hilarious. His rivarly with Gatlin and [faux] competition with Blake is really funny.

Also Serena Williams is in it quite a bit. Makes Denise Lewis look like nothing, which is crazy.

[John Arne]

I might give it a go.

When I first watched the trailer it just looked like a Puma promo video, which put me off.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Didn't realise there was a teaser out a while ago now. That and Alien: Covenant being brought forward to May.

[Manc]

None recent, but Steve Jobs, Hail Cesar and The Big Short are all crackers.

[Spoonsky]

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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The twist actually got me, when the alien said "Louise see the future" and I realized that all of those flashbacks were actually in the future, and that Renner was the father. Best twist I've seen in a movie for a while, not that I go to a lot of twist-y films, and maybe I'm dumb for not having seen it coming sooner.

[Adamski]

None recent, but Steve Jobs, Hail Cesar and The Big Short are all crackers.

I thought Hail Ceasar was the biggest lot of wank I've seen all year, I'm a massive Coen Brothers fan and I've seen them all but I had to put that off half way through.

[Bernanke]

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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The twist actually got me, when the alien said "Louise see the future" and I realized that all of those flashbacks were actually in the future, and that Renner was the father. Best twist I've seen in a movie for a while, not that I go to a lot of twist-y films, and maybe I'm dumb for not having seen it coming sooner.

It clicked for me when:

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She said "who is this girl you keep showing me?". Going from there to the "actual" reveal was great, because it didn't feel like the movie wanted to beat you over the head with the twist like something from Shyamalan.

And the style part, that's Villeneuve for you.

[Bernanke]

On the topic of Shyamalan, Split looks really interesting.

[John]

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.

[Giggles]

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/