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What have you watched recently? 3D!

johnny_ultimate

You people just keep on watching films, don't you?

We have reached the contractually-mandated 10,000 post limited in thread 2, so here's another one. It's like the first two, but with gimmicky 3D added and a no-name director taking over from the well-known one who directed the first two.

Here's the first thread: https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055488699
And the second: https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056732038

So... what have you watched recently?

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Fysh

Tony EH wrote: »

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That sounds interesting. Where did you see that? I'd like to give that a whirl myself.

I would guess it's a fanedit - someone going by the username "nAsA" uploaded a version (obliquely titled "Pulp Fiction: The Chronological Edit"

) a few years back. Should be easy enough to find with googleyour search engine of choice.

Dades

Bad Boys for Life

A bit of ridiculous fun, nothing more.

Sullied somewhat by a really? twist and a preposterous end scene that suggests a sequel.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I watched My Life as a Courgette last night on Film 4. Beautiful little French (language) stop motion film about a 9 year old boy who gets sent to a children's home after his mother dies. I didn't realise until I watched it that it's written by Celine Sciamma, who wrote/directed Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

Anyway, well worth a watch, it's streaming on All 4 for a while.

shrapnel222

never rarely sometimes always

simple and powerful story of a young girl in a small town having to make a trip up to new york for personal reasons. Both girls in this are excellent. this is very much an indie film and dialogue is kept to a minimum, overall very impressive.

Thunder road

i'd been wanting to see this but had forgotten about it till p to the e mentioned it on this thread. Didn't find it as good as i was hoping for sadly enjoyable nonetheless

Bad boys for life

the worst of the 3 sadly. thought it was incredibly poor

The gentlemen

great craic. return to form for Guy Ritchie

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

2 hours of good clean fun in comedy and violence. never saw suicide squad, but Harley Quinn is awesome!

watched another 2 or 3 but they were crap so i'll spare you!:pac:

bnt

Tony EH wrote: »

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That sounds interesting. Where did you see that? I'd like to give that a whirl myself.

Fysh wrote: »

I would guess it's a fanedit - someone going by the username "nAsA" uploaded a version (obliquely titled "Pulp Fiction: The Chronological Edit" ) a few years back. Should be easy enough to find with googleyour search engine of choice.

Not a fan edit - I ripped it from my own DVD years ago, and the other day I split the video file in to chapters and set up a playlist for them in VLC. I didn't get it quite right the first time, but the final chapter order was 1,3,4,5,22,23,24,25,2,26,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,27,28.

Chapter 2 is the prologue to the diner robbery: its placement is awkward because its timeline is completely contained within 26, the full diner robbery scene. So you could leave it in its usual place at the start, and view it as a flash-forward.

PS the scene in Ch. 6, with Butch as a boy being given the gold watch, is strictly-speaking the earliest in the timeline. But I left it where it was because it's a dream memory that Butch has before the fight i.e. it belongs with the fight.

bnt

Now I think about it, you don't have to be as drastic as I was with the editing. The main thing is to keep following Vincent & Jules at first: when they finish up (!) with those kids in the room, you get the title card "Vincent Vega and Marcellus Wallace's Wife" and it jumps to Butch and the gold watch story. At that point, jump forward to "The Bonnie Situation" and stick with that all the way to the end of the Diner scene where they walk out, which is normally the end of the movie. At that point, it's back to "Vincent Vega ..." all the way till Butch and Fabienne ride off on Zed's motorbike chopper.

Del.Monte

"The Lads" 2017 Full movie on YouTube

'In a small town in Ireland childhood friends Fionn, Scott and Paul come across an envelope full of money. They do what any group of "Lads" would do and spend all of the money on pints, smokes, chips and drugs. After spending all of the money in 2 weeks the lads find out that the money belongs to dangerous gangsters who want their money back. The lads must fight for survival and do what ever it takes to get the money back or it will be the last time any of them have a few pints together'.

I lasted until 8 mins in - utter ****e.

al87987

New star wars and bad boys 3 both very forgettable 5/10's

Butch and Sundance and the sting both 8/10. Hold up really well. Any recommendations along those lines?

Del.Monte

"Blood Relative" 2017 full movie on YouTube.

Revenge movie. Man's sister is killed by crime mob and he's out for revenge.

Cast of nobodys - to me anyway - but they were well cast.

Lots of mayhem and strangely satisfying. Second time I've watched it and it still hit the spot. 8/10

pixelburp

The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

Generally regarded as one of Andersons's lesser films, sitting somewhere in the middle of his existing CV, just before that quintessential style truly took over his method. Still quirky as hell but with a touch more restraint, its cast having enough going on under the surface to give it more depth than some of those later follies. The three brothers in its main cast underpinned the story with a very typical sibling rivalry, that floating sense of love & hate that forms the relationships between brothers. Lots of little understated moments giving texture to the three brothers' various personalities, often visual rather than spoken. It goes without saying it was a gorgeous film to look at, the canvas full of saturated colours, with particularly deep royal blues and yellows. A bit of a "shaggy dog" story with no real conclusion or destination - but then much like a train journey in real life, that's kinda the point.

mikemac2

The Gambler

Mark Wahlberg , John Goodman, Alison Brie

An English language professor from a mega rich family is a degenerate gambler who pisses away hundreds of thousands of dollars. Is given chance after change to chance to save himself and always fails.

I didn't like this film at all. I see it got 46% on metacritic and I would put it even lower

The professor spends half the film waffling on neo-realistic modern English or whatever he was trying to say and the rest is about gambling. That recent Adam Sandler has a basketball betting story and was better

1.5 / 5 for me, thumbs down

Tony EH

mikemac2 wrote: »

The Gambler

Mark Wahlberg , John Goodman, Alison Brie

An English language professor from a mega rich family is a degenerate gambler who pisses away hundreds of thousands of dollars. Is given chance after change to chance to save himself and always fails.

I didn't like this film at all. I see it got 46% on metacritic and I would put it even lower

The professor spends half the film waffling on neo-realistic modern English or whatever he was trying to say and the rest is about gambling. That recent Adam Sandler has a basketball betting story and was better

1.5 / 5 for me, thumbs down

Watch the 1974 one with James Caan.

mikemac2

The Duel

Chris Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson

After some googling a “Helena duel” did exist and is a vicious way to solve a conflict. Makes 12 paces and pistols at dawn seem civilised

A town on the Texas Mexican border is the scene and dead Mexicans are washing up downstream and being found by the Mexican army. To avoid a dispute the Texas Governor sends in a Texas Ranger to investigate

The town practically worships their snake carrying Pentecostal preacher and the Ranger makes discoveries about the town

I love a good western but this wasn’t one them. Deserves the bad reviews it received, thumbs down

johnny_ultimate

First Love - Takashi Miike’s 150th-odd (I’m just guessing) film is unmistakably a Takashi Miike film. Takes its time to build up: lots of yakuza nonsense to get through in the first hour. But when it hits its stride, it hits it hard: the last hour is a gleefully bloody and playful extended chase where Japan’s most prolific filmmaker is happy to inflict all manner of goofy harm upon his characters. A surprisingly sweet, unlike central relationship underpins it all... but you’re here for the cartoonish hyperviolence, and this is a fun ride in that regard. Audition it ain’t, but still a fun addition to the vast Miike canon.

Blow The Man Down - Quietly dropped on Prime, but worth seeking out if you have an account. Directors Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy offer up a film that, if not exactly mind-blowing, has plenty to recommend. Featuring an almost all-female cast, this is blackly comic thriller about how two vaguely connected acts of violence end up unbalancing the fragile manufactured order of a Maine coastal town. Secrets bubble up after blood is spilled. The film boasts some strikingly good ideas, most overtly a Greek Chorus of singing fishermen that pop in at opportune moments with a few lively sea shanties.

Army of Shadows - Melville’s French Resistance drama has few heroes: basically a few folk trying to stay alive and avoid arrest while getting a few hits in at the Nazis now and again. It’s absorbing in its matter-of-factness: there’s a persistent tension and danger, but the filmmaking is admirably and artfully down-to-earth. Cinematography is masterful - befitting the subject matter (and title) much of the film takes place in near-darkness, and that really conjures up the sense of these rebels both lurking waiting for their moment but also desperately attempting to avoid Gestapo attention.

El Gato De Negocios

Possum (2018)

Working my way through my horror to do pile, I watched this tonight. Difficult movie to describe as it does not follow traditional story telling. A dark, foreboding tale of psychological trauma with two outstanding central performances from an extremely minimalist cast. It contains one of the creepiest creatures I've ever seen in any movie and it had me gripped from the off. Extremely Lynchian feeling running throughout, its difficult to not compare it to something like Eraserhead given the use of sound and visuals but thats not to say its not a truly original piece of work, really enjoyed it. The movie manages to provide the needling sense of dread / anticipation for almost its entire duration and one scene in particular actually gave me a proper scare which nowadays is sadly a rarity. Its only around 85 minutes long including credits so I'd suggest not reading anything about it whatsoever and go in completely blind. Very, very impressed.

8/10

Mizu_Ger

Doctor Sleep (Director's Cut!)
Thought this was good overall. Well acted and paced. Wasn't scary at all (it wasn't trying to be), which surprised me. Rebecca Ferguson's accent was all over the place. Sometimes she was going Irish then American and even both in the same sentence. The last 30mins or so

when they returned to the hotel

was where this fell apart.

It just turned into The Shining's greatest hits

. It's a pity as otherwise it was better than I expected.

Rojo
Argentine drama set mid-seventies, just before the coup. It centres around a lawyer and the insidious degradation of the society at the time. It's disjointed (eg. the opening scene makes no sense until later int he film) and less about story than people ignoring events around them or just outright profiting from them. Well worth a look.

Lionbacker

Bacurau

What starts out as a Brazilian social drama morphs into a Spaghetti western close to the end. Quite a bonkers movie that sustains a level of tension throughout, which reaches a wild climax towards its conclusion.
Well worth a watch. 8/10

El Gato De Negocios

VFW (2019)

Low budget gorefest with a plethora of recognisable faces in the cast. Set in a world where drug addiction has more or less toppled law and order, a young girl steals a big bag of dope and ends up holed up in a VFW (veterans of foreign wars) bar and a fight for survival ensues.

Starring the likes of 70s blaxploitation icon Fred Williamson, character aactor William Sadlier and George (Norm from Cheers) Wendt this is alot of fun from start to finish. Buckets of blood and inventive kills, some cheesy one liners and not a single use of CGI make this a perfect beer and pizza flick. Think Hobo With a Shotgun crossed with a home invasion movie.

7/10

pixelburp

The Report (2019)

Leaden and earnest but without a trace of a pulse to make this worthwhile or remotely cinematic. And while the presentation was sober - the subject a clear example of illegality by America's justice system - the script still couldn't resist moments of self-praise at how noble the US political structure was. Really lacked any self-awareness, and a good example of why presentation & making subjects digestible is important in legal dramas such as this: possibly, unknowingly reinforced when a character chastised the titular report for being 7,000 pages long. Too stoic by half, but without the stylistic flourish of a Fincher to make the cold environs take life.

She is d.i.s.c.o

Lost in Translation

Lovely film. You really connect with the characters. Bill Murray and Scarlett Johanson's acting is so good, you would think they were playing themselves. Soundtrack is great also.

I'm still wondering what he whispered to her in the end.

PTH2009

Watched a movie called 'Rock star' which stars Mark Warburg and Jennifer Aniston. From 2001

Story is a bit meh but the music is good

https://youtu.be/-NIXXXzzyiY

ILikeBoats

PTH2009 wrote: »

Watched a movie called 'Rock star' which stars Mark Warburg and Jennifer Aniston. From 2001
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They do a great cover of we all die young
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00DkPyT2LiE

Fysh

Lionbacker wrote: »

Bacurau

What starts out as a Brazilian social drama morphs into a Spaghetti western close to the end. Quite a bonkers movie that sustains a level of tension throughout, which reaches a wild climax towards its conclusion.
Well worth a watch. 8/10

I finished watching this tonight on Mubi, and it was great - the tonal shifts are excellent, and the hypnotic stillness of it at times makes the final act that much more impactful.

It reminded me a bit of Monos, though Bacurau not quite as bleak as that...

PTH2009

ILikeBoats wrote: »

They do a great cover of we all die young
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00DkPyT2LiE

Love that song but I think the band who originally recorded it and other songs featured in this movie never made it big but I could be wrong of course. Steelheart is the name of the band

The movie actually featured a number of musicians, John Bonhams son, Zach Whylde and Myles Kennedy (who was the guy who looked up to Izzy).

Afaik Dominic Wests was prob the only fake musician there

Decuc500

Lionbacker wrote: »

Bacurau

What starts out as a Brazilian social drama morphs into a Spaghetti western close to the end. Quite a bonkers movie that sustains a level of tension throughout, which reaches a wild climax towards its conclusion.
Well worth a watch. 8/10

There were so many John Carpenter influences/nods in Bacurau you would almost lose track! Also excellent use of music from his non-movie soundtrack album Lost Themes.

Fuascailteoir

Fantasy island

Will be generous and give this a 0.5/10. Simply awful. Not enough to the film to merit any further mention

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I watched The Florida Project having recorded it off Film 4 after seeing people rave about it.
I've never been so disappointed in a film. Felt like every poverty porn cliche you could think of dressed up as a half arsed attempt at social commentary. It's been a while since I've watched something and been mad about the time I've lost to it.

ziedth

I knocked on "In the tall Grass" on netflix during the week. Typically don't really go for horror films but I thought the little trailer as you flick onto the title looked somewhat promising so gave it a go. All around it's fairly poor, setting is quite good but apart from a somewhat interesting middle part where they could have made it interesting with time loops etc. It just kind of plods along to a lazy ending. The Acting is atrocious too. Avoid it.

It best a 4/10

NIMAN

The Invisible Man

Heard great things about it, and it was a solid film.
Maybe not as scary and suspenseful as I had been lead to believe.

But worth a watch.

7/10

As for Midway, well that's a different story. Stopped it after about 20mins. Shocking acting and I could just tell all that gung-ho OTT stuff would have annoyed me.

al87987

Capernaum - 7/10

Farely harrowing tale about a kid growing up in the slums of Lebanon who tries to sue his parents because of his ****ty life. Twas a foreign oscar contender recently.

The Platform 8/10

Watched this on Netflix and was very impressed, unorthodox prison vibe makes a lot of social commentary, great Spanish film.

Searching for Sugarman 8/10

Nice short oscar winning doc on the musician Rodriguez, great talent, soundtrack is amazing.

Diego Maradona 8/10

Filled the football void and as with all Asif Kapadia documentaries uses old footage to tell a vivid story. Some rise and fall for Maradona, lots of synpathy towards him but also a good bit of finger pointing.

Some generous scores but all worth a look.