Ah, I thought you meant the animated one.
Ah, I thought you meant the animated one.
I prefer the second.Originally Posted by Mike
Both are amazing though.
Finally watched Oppenheimer as I got the disc for Christmas, happy it lived up to the hype.
Just booked tickets for Wonka. Crazy how much of a good deal meerkat movies is.
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The cinemas are still on their arses, giving away free tickets with Sky Movies and my mrs gets 6 free a year with Lloyds Bank. That said Vue near me has all upgraded seats and it's only £5 in anyway.
My local independent is £6.50 and it’s absolutely banging. Shame the films out these days are generally pretty shit otherwise we’d be there every other week or so.
My main issue is that the turnaround time from cinema to streaming is so short for a lot of releases that unless I am really hyped for them I'd rather wait and watch them in my house with no strangers ruining my enjoyment.
How long are we giving cinemas before they're nearly all gone?
Surely they'll never be gone fully.
Premieres will keep big ones open surely and you'll always get niche arthouse places.
Hence why I said nearly. The reality is though that if Mission Impossible whatever it was can't turn a profit with Tom Cruise literally jumping off a mountain, on a motorbike, then the industry is utterly screwed. When the metaverse (or a usable alternative) takes hold and you can watch a film on a huge projection in front of you, with anyone you like, while sat in your living room in just a pair of standard size glasses it'll be as hard to find a cinema as an NHS dentist.
Cinemas just need to adapt, I know some independent places have found niches like going vintage with the decor or intermissions with choc ices for sale, but I'd love to see a proper attempt at the Alamo Drafthouse model.
Agree with this. Films good enough but he is not.
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Looking forward to this:
In a similar vein:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/202...today%E2%80%9D.
Last one out turn the light off etc.A 2021 survey conducted by the British Board of Film Classification found that almost two-thirds of teenagers polled supported trigger warnings on films which might negatively affect their mental health.
Fuck me. How predictably depressing. I’m also not having it that those views don’t exist today.
And what are you meant to do with a trigger warning? Get up and leave immediately? Be ready to leave when you think the triggering might be about to happen? Be ready to shut your eyes and close your ears before it does? Leave when it has happened and head straight for your nearest Twitter?
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Bit like with the story on the BBC yesterday about "How to enjoy the darts if it's the first time you are watching it" all the article should really have said is don't this isn't for you, you'll only get offended and then want to ruin it for those who usually watch it.
I got Brotherhood of the Wolf 4K for Christmas, put it on yesterday and the new restoration of the film comes with a warning at the start about it containing outdated historical attitudes that may be offensive to some people, because it stars a Native American in 18th century France
Perhaps you can get a potted version of potential offence beforehand?
That was one of my GCSE texts.
Oh, lo and behold:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-65700288
Fucking lol at the curriculum still pumping out Of Mice & Men.
Would it really be that different from the content details that go along with the age ratings?In a similar vein:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/202...today%E2%80%9D.
Last one out turn the light off etc.
Saltburn. Jesus Christ.
Monster is incredible storytelling. Probably my favourite Kore-eda.
I’d really appreciate if someone like Lewis or Yev watched this
It's sort of on my to do list Waff but I don't have high hopes.
Just you wait.
I enjoyed it, accent aside.
The three “shocking scenes” really weren’t that bad, and fit in with the rest of the film.
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Ehhh, maybe the third one did but the first proper weird one caught me far too much off guard.
I was laughing by the end.
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Decision to Leave is on iplayer.
Hero. I’ll be on that tomorrow night.
On an unrelated note, I watched Memento for the first time last night.
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Wonka was alright, better than the Depp one but nowhere near as good as the first one.
Having Chalamet sing Pure Imagination at the end was a terrible idea though. Up until that point I was thinking he wasn't amazing but not awful. Then they shoved that direct comparison in your face and you can only acknowledge how utterly outclassed he was by Gene Wilder.
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Chalamet is a bit of a mystery to me. No shoulders and a bit of a runt, interesting eyes I suppose, is he the 2020s take on a male pin-up, i.e. one with no masculinity in him at all? I can't see any other reason to be putting him in all these big lead roles, because he's not exactly a great actor. OK I guess if you like blank expressions, but not great.
Barbie is fucking shite innit
Yep
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I've not watched it, but was intrigued by all the post-feminist commentary on women in society talk about it at the time and since, when it just looks like absolute dross at the same level as all the straight to DVD Mattel specials in her back catalogue. Wait, Americans use catalog?
I thought it was pretty good.
I didn't mind it, Gosling is worth a few lols and Allen is also good comedy. Given it's really just a film to push a brand it's probably the best it could be.
Watched it last night. Utterly brilliant until the last 20 minutes or so whete it feels rushed.
Sicario, it's good.
I saw The Pope's Exorcist last night, utter shite
Worth it just for the shot of him on the Vespa.
Watched Wonka last night. Enjoyed it, glad I didn’t pay to see it though.
Watched a film called 65 yesterday, whereby Adam Driver travels from somewhere in space to Earth, 65 million years ago, his ship gets twatted by an asteroid and he crashes and ends up fighting dinosaurs while saving a little girl (why is it ever thus?).
Overall, a very bad film with a cool premise. They made like no effort to build up the main character, then expected you to care about him, then took away the reason to care about him right at the end. Some very bizarre choices.
Did he chuck the little girl at a pack of raptors so he could escape or something?
Christ, 65 was bad. Watched it a few months back and I'm just gutted I'll never get that time back.
It's up there with 'Mr Woodcock' as the worst film I've ever seen.
65 was extremely dull.
Not exactly, but at one point she takes out a T-Rex. So maybe she was the badass space captain all along
I've been filling in a bit of a cinematic blind spot I've always had recently by watching quite a lot of Alfred Hitchcock. I've had a box set laying around (I know, old school) for years that I just never touched.
I don't know, I feel like I'm not really getting it. Not to say a fair bit of it hasn't been enjoyable because it has. But I just haven't had the feeling yet that I've been floored by the work of an absolute genius.
Notable ones I've watched are Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds, North by Northwest and Strangers on a Train.
Notable ones I've yet to watch would be Psycho, Rope, Dial M for Murder and Rebecca.
My favourite so far is definitely The Birds. It's a great example of just taking a very simple and off-putting idea and mining in for a lot of suspense and borderline horror. It's just a cleverly simple premise that works. Even so I would say this is an 8/10 film, and it's comfortably my favourite of the lot so far.
Vertigo in particular I found to be very overrated. It's constantly held up as a shining example of the very best cinema has to offer, whereas I thought it was just a decent film that ran a bit too long. I realise it could be sacrilege to say this. I suppose we all have these things that just don't click with us though. Maybe a re-watch would improve things.
Psycho is a biggie too, obviously. Maybe it will click for me when I see that.
I did some of the Hitchcock films as well and similarly loved the Birds (they were real birds and they did peck at the actors) and North by Northwest (deeply frustrating film in a good way).
Psycho is excellent as well.
North by Northwest is definitely my second favourite. I feel like it was probably formative for the whole "fast moving, big-budget spy/action flick" genre. Right down to the tongue in cheek humour, globe trotting aspect of it (I don't think they left America, but you get what I mean, they're on the move a lot) and the "big final set piece at a well known landmark" finish. It definitely feels directly influential on a lot of films that came after it.
I rated Cary Grant in it in massively. Whereas maybe one of my issues with Vertigo (and to a lesser extent Rear Window) is I felt Jimmy Stewart was maybe a bit mis-cast in them. Maybe mis-cast is the wrong word, but he didn't suit my taste for the kind of films that I saw them as trying to be.
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