What have you watched recently? 3D!

28-03-2020 1:10am

shrapnel222 wrote: »

the hunt

lots of violence. simple set up. wasn't expecting much but enjoyed its mindlessness

the "it wasn't real but you wouldn't let it go and ruined us so we made it real" part was bordering on clever.

28-03-2020 1:12am

Del.Monte wrote: »

"The International" (2009) on Netflix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mDi49Qj1xk

Clive Owen stars in this action packed thriller about corrupt bankers, arms dealers and hit men. Can't say much more without giving away the plot but there's plenty of excitement and the movie never flags right to the end. I had watched it before but enjoyed a repeat viewing. 8/10

co-incidentally I also re-watched this recently also (one of the few perks of getting a bit older is that you can forget enough to watch a movie again after 10 years lol) and also re-enjoyed it - 7.5 /10

bnt · 28-03-2020 9:59pm

Just watched A Quiet Place: I wish I had seen it before details of the sequel came out. The new film's cast list gave away a major spoiler for the first film:

the absence of John Krasinski indicates that his character didn't make it to the sequel

. The opening sequence was very effective in setting things up: they didn't pull their punches there. I think it went on a bit too long, with multiple endings, but with that nice little twist at the end.

barrymanilow · 28-03-2020 10:59pm

The Way Back

Ben Afleck plays a bereaved alcoholic who takes up the job of Basketball Coach for the struggling team of his old high school for which he was once the star player.

Good , think the mighty Ducks but a lot less Disney , more real and more adult themed.

8/10

shrapnel222 · 29-03-2020 12:58pm

Watched Downhill last night. What absolute garbage. to think it's a remake of force majeure, a Brilliant swedish comedy from a few years ago is painful to see.

Don't watch it, watch force majeure instead

Tony EH · 29-03-2020 9:40pm

'Dressed to Kill'

Brian De Palma's 1980 movie focuses on a killer who first stalks a sexually frustrated, 50 something, housewife (Angie Dickinson) and then a prostitute (Nancy Allen) in a pretty tepid and conventional, but highly regarded thriller.

I say "highly regarded", but I'm at a loss, somewhat, to see why really. It's a fairly straightforward yarn and only those with a barely functioning brain would miss the central "surprise" of the film's story. However, it does have a certain fascination to it and my attention was kept throughout. It's kind of like a lot of those 70's/80's Italian Giallo movies. There's a heightened sense to everything that's going on and it all feels very unreal, but they're just not that good in the end. Watchable, weird, but ultimately unsatisfying. But, this is a general thing for me where De Palma is concerned, who's a director I've never truly warmed to. Even with his films that I consider to be his best, like 'Casualties of War', 'The Untouchables' or 'Carlito's Way', there's always something that sticks in my craw. 'Scarface' is, probably, the only film of his that I can say is great and free of the worst of De Palma's inherent flaws as a film maker and I disliked that movie for a long time.

'Dressed to Kill', like so much of De Palma's output, demonstrates these flaws amply. Some of the film feels so amateurish, it's difficult to believe that it gets a pass from a lot of folk. However, at other times, it comes off as very accomplished, proving that De Palma can put out good work. The scene in the subway, where Nancy Allen's character is pursued by the killer, is very well staged and shot, even if it is sort of scuppered by the introduction of some ridiculous gang members. Likewise, the cat and mouse antics of Angie Dickinson's character and a stranger she's attracted to in the art gallery is very well done. Elsewhere, Keith Gordon's character has some interesting things to do. But, these scenes are all offset by a simple (even simplistic) story that's all but telegraphed to all the audience members that aren't asleep at the wheel and several sequences are rather laughable.

5/10

'The Hunt'

Lambasted by President Trump, who I reckon hadn't even seen it or knew what it was actually about, and given a rough ride by most critics, 'The Hunt' is neither awful, nor good and instead occupies that middle ground - that huge area of middle ground - which is average fare. It's a fairly mediocre "people being hunted" movie. A kind of subgenre of a subgenre. Although what that genre is exactly, I don't know. But there seems to be a number of those types of movies out there, from 1932's 'The Most Dangerous Game', to 'Battle Royale' to 'The Hunger Games'.

After a brief setup, 'The Hunt' drops us into the action and we follow a number of people - the "deplorables" - who wake up, gagged, in a field. Pretty soon, it becomes evident that they are the quarry of some people who don;t wish them well. A crate in the middle of the field they wake up in provides them with weapons to use as a defence. But, it's clear that they are at an extreme disadvantage. Inevitably, one character steps up to the challenge and decides to confront their tormentors.

If you've seen any of this type of film before you'll know where it's going after 15 minutes, and while that in itself is ok, it's the heavy handed political satire that lets the film down. Simply put, it's just too on the nose to be likeable and if it was only handled a little smarter or in a more subtle way, the film would have been a more successful result.

To its credit, there is some enjoyable darkly comic moments sprinkled here and there and a couple of nice unexpected turns. But, it never rises above it's "OK" status.

5/10

'The Invisible Man'

A 2020 update of the classic H.G. Wells story that's been put on the screen (large and small) in nearly every decade since the Claude Rains Universal classic from 1933. The basic story of invisibility remains the same here, but everything else has been changed and in some ways for the better too. The focus of this particular iteration is not really on the invisible man, but on a different character. Cecilia Kass (Elisabeth Moss) is the girlfriend of a talented optics engineer, Adrian Griffin (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) who treats her abusively and from whom she wishes to escape from. She does so one night and subsequently finds out that her Adrian has committed suicide as a result of her exit. However, strange things start to occur and she becomes convinced that her beaux might not be so dead after all.

'The Invisible Man' in its 2020 form is very much a departure from its former incarnations. But, it's a smart update that has its own reasons for existing and isn't just another remake that only stands on the shoulder of a former giant like so many remakes and reboots do. There's enough here that makes it its own story and in that respect there's a lot to recommend it. It's also helped too by a great starring performance by Elisabeth Moss, whose physical expressions are a definite boon to the production over all. But, while she is sympathetic as a put upon unfortunate, she doesn't drown in a pool of her own victimhood, but instead becomes a heroine worth getting behind as she takes it upon herself to tackle the situation that presents itself to her.

As a fan of the 1933 film, which is the best movie adaptation of Well's story, I was a bit hesitant about this modern update. But, after a while, it won me over. It's not perfect by any means and it's probably a tad over long, but it's still a decent film in its own right. However, whether it revives the flatlined Universal "Dark Universe" attempt at a franchise remains to be seen.

7/10

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 30-03-2020 1:27pm

Emma (2020)

Watched this last night. I love the book and I've seen several adaptations of it before but I still really enjoyed this version. Visually it's very stylish and the music and movement complement each other so well. There's a few little changes here and there, just enough to set it apart from previous versions.

Del.Monte · 03-04-2020 12:16pm

Bored with Netflix for the time being, last night I returned to my favourite hunting ground - YouTube.

"The Only Way" (1970)

A wartime movie about Danish Jews being spirited out of Denmark to Sweden as the Nazi round-up began. It's quite slow moving yet very watchable - helped by the screen presence of the gorgeous, 19-year-old Jane Seymour in her first credited part. Worth a look if you're feeling jaded with all the latest drug/crime movies on Netflix. 7/10

pixelburp · 03-04-2020 5:46pm

The Aeronauts (2019)

Spectacular scenery once afloat, but the characterisation occasionally hit clichés so hard it could cause concussion. Most - if not all - of the kind of tropes you'd expect with Scientific Biographies could be found: the stuffy academic consensus, mocking the foolish pioneer; the tutting family members; the rousing "Science Is The Best!" speech at the end; the lead scientist, comfortable in facts & statistics, but not the chaos of LIFE damnit; and so on. Basically, do not think to play "take a drink" here, your liver can't take it. To be fair, the cast were enthusiastic and gave some good, charismatic performances, the actual writing was just too baggy and stilted. At least, as said, the actual effects and vistas were spectacular; there were a number of set pieces that were genuinely hair-raising and tense.

Nerdlingr · 03-04-2020 8:24pm

Watched "collateral" , which is didnt think much of. Bit of silliness towards the end and the from the moment the film started you just knew who the last target was gonna be. 6/10

Also "JoJo rabbit" which I enjoyed. Brilliantly acted by the young leads. The gut punching scene (no spoilers) really got me too. 7.5/10

Del.Monte · 04-04-2020 5:39pm

"Justified Force" 2019

On YouTube.

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Police drama with a serious amount of action. One of the best crime movies I've watched in years and I won't say more than that. 9/10

NIMAN · 04-04-2020 11:58pm

For the times we are in, decided to watch Contagion.

If there are any family members who are really scared about the coronavirus, don't let them watch this.

Interesting how close it mimicked the current crisis, complete with nonsense on the internet that millions believed.

Mad_maxx · 05-04-2020 1:59pm

the post with tom hanks and meryl streep

incredibly boring

Dades · 06-04-2020 1:23pm

Little Women

Was on the Lockdown list. I expected this to be better, tbh. Timeline all over the shop - was quite confused throughout the whole first hour (as was my missis). Very hard to go on a journey with the characters when the movie is spoilering itself throughout. Odd decision to tell the story this way. Finished reasonably strongly, albeit more like a romcom at times.

I remember the brouhaha around Oscar time about Greta Gerwig not getting a directing nom. Well to my mind if she had if would have been clear tokenism.

A nice update of a story for women about women, but too flawed to be much more.

Irish Aris · 06-04-2020 2:01pm

with the lockdown I started using my Mubi subscription - which in general I don't use that much. The first three films I saw:

The Miracle Of The Sargasso Sea (2019)

I am from Greece and back home the film has gotten rave reviews and a ton of nominations for the annual Hellenic film academy awards.
I found the presentation of life in a small provincial town well made. The characters and situations are obviously a bit over the top for dramatic purposes but for the most part they are believable - at least for me that I am a bit familiar with the Greek countryside reality. Some good performances as well, especially from the 2 leading ladies. I also liked the music - even the songs in the nightclub, which aren't really my thing but I thought they fitted nicely. My only issue was that I didn't like any of the characters enough to care what would happen to them, so by the time the reveal happened, I have lost interest and wasn't thoroughly wowed. Kind of liked it but not necessarily recommending it.

Le Doulos (1963)

First time I watched a Jean-Pierre Melville film. I'm not familiar with his work so not sure if this is one of his "trademark" films, but I really enjoy it. The story kind of reminded me the novels of James Ellroy who I also like as a writer. The black and white cinematography was beautiful and enhanced the noir feel of the film. And Jean-Paul Belmondo is cool as a cucumber!!! Highly recommended and got me interested in Melville's cinema - Mubi tuns a retrospective at the moment, I have already missed a couple of them but his 3 last films (Army of Shadows, Le Circle Rouge, Un Flic) are still available

The Rite (1969)

One of the lesser known Ingmar Bergman films, I read that this was a TV film. I'm not really sure what to make of it which makes me wonder if I really understood it. The main story is really interesting: a judge interrogates three actors who perform in a play that has been considered pornographic. The chapters/scenes of the film switch between the interrogation of the actors and what appears to be scenes of the play- that's how I interpreted many of them, as they wouldn't make sense otherwise. The ending was quite unexpected, to me at least - but in a way that makes the whole thing intriguing. It's just that most of the dialogue (especially in the non-interrogation scenes) is a bit obscure, so other than a comment on censorship I didn't get much out of the film. If anyone else has seen it I would be interested in their opinion of what the film is about.

Hector Savage · 06-04-2020 2:19pm

The Shawshank Redemption
What an absolute classic!! and Stephen King too - such an amazing story teller ... those last 15 minutes when Red gets out and goes to the hayfield, followed by the bus and the blue pacific .... amazing!!!

Mike Litoris · 06-04-2020 2:54pm

Mad_maxx wrote: »

the post with tom hanks and meryl streep

incredibly boring

Yeah, was expecting something closer to All the Presidents Men and was disappointed. It just meandered into nothingness.

Just on that YT movie posted by Del Monte above, Justified Force. Don't watch the trailer, just jump straight in. It's seriously low budget but all the better for it!

droidman123 · 06-04-2020 6:19pm

@ irish aris,seeing your from greece you might be interested in a greek movie called the last note (2017) very good and poignent movie about 200 greeks selected from the prison camps to be executed for a reprisal on an attack on a german unit by the greek resistence in greece during ww2

Mad_maxx · 06-04-2020 7:09pm

Mike Litoris wrote: »

Yeah, was expecting something closer to All the Presidents Men and was disappointed. It just meandered into nothingness.

Just on that YT movie posted by Del Monte above, Justified Force. Don't watch the trailer, just jump straight in. It's seriously low budget but all the better for it!

I loved bridge of spies so it's not like you can't make a story like this entertaining

bnt · 06-04-2020 11:49pm

This evening I finally got around to something I've been meaning to do for years: watch Pulp Fiction in chronological sequence. It really puts a whole different spin on things, in particular with the character of Vincent Vega (John Travolta). (Spoilers ahead.)

In chronological sequence, you get a better chance to see how he changes over the three days over which the film is set. To cut a long story short: after the crazy events of the first day, after which Jules (Samuel L Jackson) has had enough, it's not too surprising that Vega wants some drugs the next day, to take the edge off before he takes his boss' wife out to dinner, but he's sloppy and nearly causes her to die. By the third day, when he's staking out Butch's apartment with Marcellus, he's a physical and nervous wreck and makes a fatal mistake when Marcellus is out getting coffee.

Tony EH · 06-04-2020 11:59pm

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

Del.Monte · 07-04-2020 8:42am

"Ignatius" 2020

I watched this thought provoking short yesterday. Domestic abuse and a two-faced, aspiring politician makes for compulsive if uncomfortable viewing in this 10 minute film shot in Enniscorthy, Co.Wexford.

The complete movie is available on Vimeo here: https://vimeo.com/404328451

With a cast drawn drawn from the local drama group, I found it absorbing. Well worth a look. 10/10

Fysh · 07-04-2020 10:25am

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 · 07-04-2020 12:19pm

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 · 08-04-2020 5:18pm

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 · 08-04-2020 5:47pm

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 · 08-04-2020 6:14pm

Tony EH wrote: »

^
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 · 09-04-2020 8:05pm

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 · 09-04-2020 10:30pm

"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 · 10-04-2020 3:26am

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 · 10-04-2020 10:55am

"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 · 11-04-2020 11:24am

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 · 11-04-2020 8:11pm

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 · 11-04-2020 9:35pm

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 · 12-04-2020 9:10pm

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 · 13-04-2020 12:05am

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 · 16-04-2020 12:16am

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 · 16-04-2020 12:45pm

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 · 16-04-2020 5:09pm

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 · 16-04-2020 9:38pm

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 · 17-04-2020 11:35am

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 · 17-04-2020 12:11pm

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 · 17-04-2020 2:41pm

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 · 17-04-2020 2:53pm

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 · 17-04-2020 9:23pm

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 · 17-04-2020 10:02pm

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 · 17-04-2020 11:42pm

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 · 18-04-2020 7:49pm

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 · 18-04-2020 11:19pm

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 · 19-04-2020 12:02am

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

What have you watched recently? 3D!

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