Nah. Can't find it.
Nah. Can't find it.
Boogie Nights
Yeah, enjoyed that.
Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie 1/10.
Atrocious piece of shit. I never watched it as a kid so didn't get half of the bullshit references and complete lack of character building (presumably this would have come had you watched the shoes) OH LOL HE CAN'T FLY A KITE OR SUMART LOL.
Fuck off you American piece of cunt. I'd rather watch Mahow take a 40 minute shit than sit through that insufferable pile of wank again.
The Gift's pretty decent. Never really taken to Jason Bateman before, but he's good when srs.
I watched it last night too, although I fared a bit better with it because I did watch some Peanuts as a child.Originally Posted by Magic
The bad thing about the film is that they don't really include anything for adults apart from 'nostalgia m8, it's brill' which you don't normally see in films these days. It's really forgettable and it's purely aimed at children or those who absolutely loved it as a kid.
I stuck Kingsman on as background noise while I was doing my WDYTOE, and it's not bad, isn't it? Similar to Kick-Ass in that it's mixing two genres that don't usually get near eachother, which gives it a sort of originality that was quite nice.
People keep telling me it's good (or at least alright) and yet everything about it looks utterly hateful.
It was excellent. It's well worth a watch for its originality alone, I'd say. The church scene is one of my favourite things of the last few years.
It's Kick-Ass as a spy film, with all that entails.
I keep seeing it when I'm looking for something to watch but I keep thinking this too.
Kingsman is really good.
It's basically comic book wank, but with actual violence and Colin Firth donning the shit out of proceedings in quite unexpected fashion.
The Big Short and Anomalisa are out as dvdscreeners. So fucking hyped for Anomalisa.
All over Anomalisa.
The Big Short is great. Very informative, with enough lighter segments to prevent it being too much hard work. Carrell is great and Bale does a weird thing with his lips.
8.5/10
I saw Exodus: Gods and Kings last night and thought it was alright. It's obviously not Gladiator good, but it's a true story apparently, and the lad who plays Ramesses/Multi does a great old-fashioned villain turn.
The man who shot Liberty Valance was surprisingly entertaining.
That being said, James Stewart seems to have an epic catalogue of films. I really enjoyed him in Rear Window and Harvey. Such a good actor.
Just watched it. Agree with what you say, its quality and way more entertaining than it has any right to be.
The Gift is brilliant but at times it just toes the line and it would have been nice had it stepped boldly across.
Cracking directorial debut though.
In depth breakdown on the Oscars, which are apparently more open than they've been for a long time, well bar Di Caprio who's apparently a shoe in.
http://www.indiewire.com/article/201...tions-20150312
Creed in Oscar discussions? Fucking hell.
I'm probably going to be so disappointed when I watch it, it's getting hyped to fuck.
Is it basically just Rocky redone with Stallone as the trainer?
If so, there's surely only so good that can be.
That's what I thought but the reviews are really fucking good, it's even getting mentions in a lot of 'Top 10 of 2015' lists.
Oh and the best documentary according to that link is Amy? Fucking hell. If a documentary on Amy fucking Winehouse is the best this year it's been a shocker.
Haven't seen Amy, but apparently it's a very good and moving film.
Yeah Amy is genuinely good. The Big Short or Spotlight will win the major awards I think, although The Revenant is the best of the contenders I've seen. Desperate for Son of Saul.
I too am desperate for Son of Saul. The rest of the vaunted movies barely interest me at all for whatever reason (with a few exceptions like the Revenant).
This is a remarkably stupid outlook on documentaries.
So, Anomalisa... I must be missing something. I mean, it was ok - but nowhere near as good as the critical reception it has received. I found the story quite ponderous, and completely predictable, and whilst the stop-motion was interesting, it didn't serve to add anything to the film (not that it would). Very underwhelmed. 4/10
Could you be any more wrong?
The Theory of Everything was bloody brilliant too.
Just fired Bridge of Spies on.
I don't normally get worked up over... anything, but that scene with the S&P-lady in Big Short.
I still can't convince myself to go watch The Big Short after that dogshit trailer. That's why I usually avoid trailers at all costs.
Just watched Once Upon A Time In America; pretty dece, but clumsy forced Hollywood ending (that I shamelessly enjoyed).
http://www.digitalspy.com/tech/news/...udio-a-favour/
That's quite interesting to me, in that why would they get drawn into a discussion over it, let alone apologise? Assuming the comments are legit.
I watched She's Funny That Way to pass some time and chill after the football. It has some funny bits and a kind of charm to it which let's you mostly forget it doesn't have much of a plot. I have a feeling the writers were aiming for something great to match classics similar to it, but in the end it's just a bit of fun.
I've hardly done anything but watch movies the past week and a half, so here we go.
Le Bonheur is another film by Agnes Varda and like her other films it's quite strange and delightful, and somewhat unsettling. She should be better-known as a director. That said I started watching another film of hers, La Pointe-Courte, and got bored after half an hour.
Tokyo Olympiad is the three-hour long documentary of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, in the spirit of Olympia. It's quite impossible to get your hands on (goes for like $200 on eBay) but for some reason the local dvd rental store had a copy. I watched it over two days and while it can wear on at times, on the whole it's well worth watching and there were a few scenes that were just brilliant (like the 50km walking race, who knew that existed?). Definitely worthwhile for any fans of the Olympics, or fans of filmmaking in general.
Brooklyn is a good story told very well, and anchored by a couple of brilliant performances. It doesn't try to be ground-breaking or anything more than it is, which is both a good and a bad thing. Saoirse Ronan definitely deserves the hype but the film as a whole probably doesn't quite deserve a nomination, though it was still very enjoyable.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is fucking good. Just really lovely. It also has the strangest amount of famous-ish actors playing very small or un-glamorous roles, Elijah Wood being the highlight.
Jafar Panahi's Taxi is very interesting. He's banned from making movies in Iran and so made this one from a camera in a fake taxi he was driving. It walks the line nicely between fiction and documentary which in a provocative way given the circumstances the film was made in. Definitely worth watching, if only to stick it to them Muslims.
The 400 Blows was good. It seemed more like a novel than a film, but it definitely grew on me as it went on and it will probably stick with me more than the other films will. The soundtrack is fantastic as well.
You've just brought Taz back with the mention of 'fake taxi'.
Grand Budapest Hotel has probably the most recognisable actors in small roles, but Eternal Sunshine definitely has plenty.
Yeah, that came to mind when I wrote the sentence, but those seemed more like gimmicky cameos fitting with the general overabundance of the film. It's odd in Eternal Sunshine because of how sparse the whole film is.
I don't like many movies so this might just be me, but I watched The Physician and by God that was the most pathetic attempt at a historical epic I've ever seen. Such an awful movie in every sense. Ben Kingsley is a good man but i bet he looks on that movie like one looks on fucking a 2 the morning after. A 2 with a dick. And HIV.
A cough that would sound concerning coming out of someone on a hundred a day and the resultant sore head and chest meant I abandoned my plan to watch some quality films yesterday and ended up doing the three Star Wars prequels instead, each of them for the first time since they were released.
The first one is just a laughable mess. The kid simply cannot act, and it should be considered an act of gross incompetence on the part of the entire crew that he was allowed to do so. His mother isn't much better, but at least she's obviously foreign so the stilted delivery can be looked upon as someone speaking a second language in the film aswell as the actress herself doing so. The plot is nonsense, there's nowhere near enough Darth Maul, and Jar-Jar Binks is a war crime.
The second one is a bit better. The big climactic battle was good fun but other than that it's basically just spinning its wheels.
The third is comfortably the best of the bunch, and actually not far away from the original trilogy in places. The 'Order 66' sequence is excellent for what it is, Anakin's 'fall' was well plotted, even as it was undermined by more incompetent acting, and the two big fights were reasonably well realised.
Obviously they're all guff, but the third at least was solidly entertaining guff. I'm about ready for that fucking screener of the new one to appear now.
I had 1 as better than 2, but that's probably because I saw the latter in the cinema and therefore couldn't escape.
Oh and think of this as a late Christmas present.
We talked about that on the old board I'm sure. The impression is fucking uncanny.
You and I did yes, others might not have seen it.
As you said at the time, Mayo's interjection makes it.
Definitely one better than two for me but I agree with John that 3 is decent.
I forgot just how rubbish Iron Man 3 was.
amour really isn't a great Saturday evening film.
It's a really good, if a little troubling, film. But Jesus.
Munich for me tonight.
Batman begins over here. Wanted to watch The Dark Knight but hate not watching things in sequence. Probably won't fancy TDK tomorrow now.
C'est la vie
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