Same thing.
Same thing.
Anyone seen A Bridge Too Far?
The people vs Larry Flint was absolutely mental. What a man.
Arrival.
Fucking Tree of Life levels of shit.
Ahaha I was going to say I bet Henn0rz loved it as well.Originally Posted by Henry
I thought it was outstanding. What's the best one then?
Surely everybody (here at least). It would be like not having seen Zulu.
Well is it a jolly good watch?
Yes.
Rogue One is a bit boring.
The girl who played with fire was a lot more far fetched than the first. Seemed a bit disjointed, if entertaining.
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Watching Return of the Jedi now as it's on Sky1. Is it a thing with all these that you have to keep turning them up to hear the talking bits but then the action is massively too loud. Between it and Rogue One earlier I can not find a happy medium at all but I never remember them being as bad.
All films are shit like that I find.
It's seriously fucking annoying.
I watched Whiplash recently. I just stumbled upon it on Netflix and hadn't heard anything about it going in. Pretty great, to put it simply. J.K. Simmons is terrific in it.
I don't think I'm particularly one for this sort of thing usually, but the use of lighting was brilliant.
For anyone tempted to watch it, I'd avoid reading a plot overview or reviews etc beforehand.
Finally got round to watching Deepwater Horizon.
Pretty terrifying seeing what can go wrong in the industry you work in. Particularly one which is pretty close to home. Some of it is absolute nonsense, but it wasn't as bad as I'd thought it'd be in terms of slander.
It's got absolutely nothing on 'spiral to disaster' though, then again Piper Alpha was about about 15 times worse in terms of fatalities.
At least you couldn't lose any hair in the fire.
I'm watching a Jimi Hendrix biopic on BBC. It's OK, had its moments, although rather hamstrung by seemingly not having any Hendrix music in it, but the weirdest thing is that Andre 3000 plays Hendrix and doesn't look anything like him. So for five minutes I was just lolling at Andre 3000 camping his way around early Hendrix. But then I forgot about it, and now at the end I am totally buying it. So it could just be that Andre 3000 is the great lost screen talent of our generation.
He looks quite like him, bearing in mind what an ugly cunt Jimi Hendrix was, so he just had to get the mumbling down.
Gene Hackman's accent in A Bridge Too Far is something else.
Watched the ides of March yesterday too. I'm sure it'd read somewhere it was really boring (it wasn't) but it was definitely a bit pointless.
Think that was made in the era where Ryan gosling was in about 40% of all films.
Went to see Kong: Skull Island today, it's what you expect from something like that in this day and age.
Trying to create a great storyline but failing, chucking loads of 'star names' into the pot hoping something nice will come about and being far too long.
They got the explosions on the money, had a great soundtrack and it looks brilliant though. Enjoyable fare all told.
Anyone seen Free Fire yet?
Was not what I was expecting at all, absolutely loved it. Really funny.
Coraline is miles better than it, and Paranorman is a more coherent piece with one truly outstanding set piece to raise it up. It's very good, just not as good as what Laika have been doing previously. Think A Bug's Life.
Whiplash won about five Oscars and was the subject of a fairly lengthy discussion on the old board. How have you never heard anything about it?
Going to see it on Thursday. I expect huge fun.
I'm not a massive follower of films, although I really enjoy them. I couldn't name many Oscar winners. And I didn't read every page on the old board...
What did you think of it?
It was excellent. I could do without Simmons' behaviour behing tacitly justified and the classroom scenes in the early going made the 'merit' system that apparently applies feel a bit too arbitrary, but in general it was very good.
Cant agree more Whiplashes failings but overall it is excellent. Despite the ending rankling a tiny bit, the intensity and pacing of the preceding hour and a half or whatever it is was breathlessly good - and I use that superlative very deliberately. I came out of the cinema quite exhausted.
So garbage I had forgotten I'd watched it. Fuck sake. This is why I recognise bits of it.
Kong: Skull Island was absolute nonsense which went well with a few beers. Enjoyed it.
Watched Blackfish today.
It's not a TOP TIER documentary but it is damn good.
I always knew that Seaworld were a bit dodgy but they come out as proper villainous bastards.
#Freetheorcas.
Doctor Strange. Utter utter shit. Losing faith with comic book films massively, just the same old stuff repackaged very shoddily.
I thought Doctor Strange was a real attempt to do something different with comic book fare, but the Marvel rhythms are so well established that the films seem to sneak back into them even when it makes no sense for them to do so. I agree that it was bilge.
If you're after some genuinely different comic book stuff get on Legion, the TV series.
Going to see it tonight. It was either that or Table 19.
Get Out was one of the most enjoyable films I've seen in a while. I thought the main guy was superb and every character played their role wonderfully. It was fairly obvious and predictable from an outsiders point of view but the film kind of drew you in to see it as if you were Chris. Customary 'they couldn't have made it if it was the other way around!'.
And lol at Fast and Furious 8. The trailer just looked lol.
"Hang on, hang on. What if we get a submarine to come up through the ice and fire a torpedo at the good guys. Let's have The Rock jump out of the jeep as it's driving alongside the torpedo which hasn't exploded yet, and get him to kick it back to the bad guys! Fuck yeah, sounds great!"
That for every scene basically.
I haven't seen Fast and Furious since I saw the first one in the cinema, which was about fast cars and women shaking their bootays. Why the fuck is a submarine involved in all this? Are the films still like your average Nelly video or has it just changed massively?
Yeah they became action movies after 5. They're fantastic.
Bit meh, but very early days I suppose. The poster is class though.
They became brilliant action films. Once The Rock got involved things picked up big time.
Can't wait until it's out myself. They're just brilliant preposterous mindless action films, with tidy birds and cars for the bonus.
It's out today but been in cinemas since Wednesday.
Out for me, which means a good stream. There's not a film that has ever been made, or will ever be made, that would drag me to a cinema.
Well that's nice isn't it.
It's absolutely fantastic.
Adam is obviously going through a tough time at the moment.
If I hated the cinema would that change?
Have you ever been to a cinema, Giggs?
Couple of times, though the last time I recall it was a very small place. People just have zero manners in these places any more which makes it a pisser of an experience. Bit like restaurants, I don't want to watch a film with a bunch of strangers the same as I don't want to eat a meal with them either.
This year I'll celebrate 10 years of absence from the cinema. It means I watch films when they come on the telly two years later, but what of it.
I rarely go now but quite like it. Ideal if it's really quiet but shite when busy so agree on that.
I like going at mid-day, midweek. Barely anyone in, quiet as fuck, perfect. Only go a couple of times a year though unless I'm seeing some lass which means peak time, crammed, full of dickheads.
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