Rewatched home alone a few nights ago. Still brilliant. Found myself disliking the main character mind, mostly because I know he got to honk mila kunis in future.
Rewatched home alone a few nights ago. Still brilliant. Found myself disliking the main character mind, mostly because I know he got to honk mila kunis in future.
Who here has watched Rosemary's Baby? Some profoundly disturbing shit.
Tower is brilliant. A bit rough and there are some odd choices with the animation, but overall it's very well done. I had some vague awareness that an event like that had happened but I had basically no detail on it. Well worth seeing.
How much does the animation add to the overall feel of it? I loved how Waltz with Bashir came across.
It's a similar style of animation but it's used very differently. It's basically there so that actors and actresses can play the part in a reconstruction without it being jarring when the actual people turn up fifty years older and looking nothing like them. Presumably also so that it's possible to mount a reconstruction of sorts on what must have been a very small budget.
Finally got around to it last night. Thought it was great - very Coen brothers too so I'd have thought any fan of their output would enjoy it. Some quality casting and performances as usual but 5 mins of Franny Mc was enough for her to steal the show as usual. She's like the American Emma Thompson.Originally Posted by Adamski
Fantastic Beasts... is genuinely brilliant. Undoubtedly my favourite family effort of the last few years. The humour feels perfectly pitched and on the whole it's a great ride. Will be interesting to see where they go with that as a franchise.
My second most anticipated movie of next year:
Going to be astonishing.
I've two that tie for first, both horror:
Grave is titled Raw, also:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4954522/?ref_=nv_sr_1
A Cure For Wellness:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4731136/?ref_=nv_sr_2
The trailer for A Cure For Wellness looks pleasantly bonkers, but it's a Gore Verbinski film. Given how completely he managed to neuter The Ring I imagine that trailer will be the highpoint of that particular film experience.
I can forgive a shit film if the visual is rife and fucked up.
Also a journalist geezer I know (writes for the Scottish student Guardian so gets early screenings) watched Silence, his thoughts in spoilers:
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Tadanobu Asano was great in all those lunatic Japanese films he used to do, Survive Style 5+ and Ichi in particular, but now he's just the caricature in the Thor films. I'm still in two minds over that film, it looks great but I can't see myself being able to take those accents in any way seriously.
Survive Style 5+
Moana is brilliant.
I've just seen a trailer for Film 2016. I know Kermode always said he would never be offered it as he wouldn't appeal to the show's target audience, but if that's the case what the fuck are the three chumps they've got now doing on it?
Am I alone in thinking Silence just looks incredibly dull? Happy to be proved wrong come release.
No, the trailer looked insanely boring. I don't understand what built the hype.
I don't want to watch the trailer but the description makes it sounds like pretentious wank.
It's Scorsese, it's bound to be brilliant
He's had a couple of duffers, Gangs of New York springs immediately to mind.
I liked that. Not as good as his best, but still enjoyable.
Wolf of Wall Street was unrestrained, unfiltered horseshit too.
Actually, out of all of the films of his that I've watched (which is all except for a couple), I'd say that there's only Bringing Out the Dead that I thought wasn't at least "good".
It wasn't awful, but hardly brilliant.
No chance. That was one of the most entertaining films I've seen in years. There's not many films that can run for 3 hours and not feel like it.
I liked it, but I've still no idea why the will existed to get it made.
That one felt like about nine. It's a character study about a man with no character and you could have cut the runtime in half without losing anything of substance.
Yev, you'll hate it. Its a given. I'll lap it up and everything will be right with the world.
I think it looks good, and, since he won't be able to pack it with Rolling Stones/blues music, he might have made more effort with the actual film-making.
He'll find a way. Gimme Shelter will have some hitherto unknown mystical origins.
Yeah Tower is a superb documentary. I've just got some dust in my eye mate, I swear.
I really enjoyed Rogue One a lot. More than TFA, even.
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It doesn't have the feel of a "main" Star Wars film, because it doesn't spend so much time getting to know the characters, or building the world. It's a very localised set of characters out to solve a very specific problem in a world you already know. But the self-contained nature of the film really helps it, I think. It's a slightly different kind of film, but still a good one.
Gonna watch American Honey tomorrow, I think. Looks right up my street.
I'm a twit
Likewise. Andrea Arnold is a fantastic filmmaker.Gonna watch American Honey tomorrow, I think. Looks right up my street.
Watched a couple of movies I had very high expectations for. Manchester By The Sea was a little disappointing, but La La Land.
I'm all over La La Land.
What Oscar screeners are coming down the line and are there any out already?
I've no idea what's up for the awards in 2017.
None out and I wouldn't be surprised to find little or none this year.
PTP have banned them, right?
They've been scared by the What.cd closure and the geezer who got shat on for The Revenant last year.
Yeah you can discuss them in the forums but can't up.
Hive, the main leaker, shit the bed last year after his spree of dropping them every day, barely been seen this year.
Does anyone have a favourite Christmas film?
Some of my favourites include:
* The Holiday
* Santa Claus
* Santa Claus 2
* Santa Claus 3
* Hats off for Christmas
* Scrooged (Bill Murray)
Edit:
And...
* Home Alone
* National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Die Hard, Elf, and the Santa Claus one with Dudley Moore in it for nostalgic reasons.
The holiday was absolute garbage
Elf, Home Alone, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and Frozen for me.
Home Alone, forgot that. That's a definite too. I quite like a chuckle at Love Actually the more elderly I become too.
Just watched the Muppets Christmas Carol.
Same, and I've only just hit 25. It's a nice movie despite Hugh Grant.
Die Hard wins though.
Holy shit the last 45 of rogue one.
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The film is far from perfect but I think I preferred it to TFA, and I quite liked that film.
There's too many adorable bits in it too ignore. LA, that is, not DH.
It's a Wonderful Life.
I watched Paddington the other day and nearly cried because I'm incredibly easy to manipulate. Does Hugo count as a Christmas film?
Die Hard, Elf, Scrooged, Home Alone, Bad Santa and Jingle All the Way.
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