Films I watched this week (NO SPOILERS) (Vol 3)
Discussion
ajprice said:
The Lost Boys
It was the anniversary showing in the cinema, and I hadn't seen it before, it wasn't what I was expecting. It was more about the kids than the vampires, more Goonies than Near Dark. Still enjoyed it, and It was really 80s tastic, mullets and mohicans everywhere
. 'The Two Coreys' got a mention on Smith & Sniff this week talking about 'Licence To Drive' too, so I might hunt that one out for some more 80s cheese.
Godzilla x Kong
So lightweight after Godzilla Minus One. Fun though, and Kong was the best character in the film. Many buildings were smashed, many people must have been killed, nobody mentions it, cities are turned to rubble, carry on R.I.P. everyone and everything in Rio de Janeiro. It won't happen but can the next film be all monsters with no humans there just for exposition please.
Monkey Man
Loved this one. In a way it's a standard revenge story, the Indian setting and politics worked really well, and the fights were full on. Dev Patel broke his hand, some toes and injured his shoulder filming the fight scenes. This was going to be a Netflix film, Jordan Peele saw a cut of it, bought the rights for his Monkey Paw production company and put it in cinemas. Absolutely the right move.
Crikey! 'License to Drive', now there's a blast from the past. Went to see it in Orlando at a cinema a short walk from Wet n'Wild back when it was released in 1988 and I don't think I've seen it since. It was the anniversary showing in the cinema, and I hadn't seen it before, it wasn't what I was expecting. It was more about the kids than the vampires, more Goonies than Near Dark. Still enjoyed it, and It was really 80s tastic, mullets and mohicans everywhere
. 'The Two Coreys' got a mention on Smith & Sniff this week talking about 'Licence To Drive' too, so I might hunt that one out for some more 80s cheese.Godzilla x Kong
So lightweight after Godzilla Minus One. Fun though, and Kong was the best character in the film. Many buildings were smashed, many people must have been killed, nobody mentions it, cities are turned to rubble, carry on R.I.P. everyone and everything in Rio de Janeiro
. It won't happen but can the next film be all monsters with no humans there just for exposition please.Monkey Man
Loved this one. In a way it's a standard revenge story, the Indian setting and politics worked really well, and the fights were full on. Dev Patel broke his hand, some toes and injured his shoulder filming the fight scenes. This was going to be a Netflix film, Jordan Peele saw a cut of it, bought the rights for his Monkey Paw production company and put it in cinemas. Absolutely the right move.
Pablo16v said:
ajprice said:
The Lost Boys
It was the anniversary showing in the cinema, and I hadn't seen it before, it wasn't what I was expecting. It was more about the kids than the vampires, more Goonies than Near Dark. Still enjoyed it, and It was really 80s tastic, mullets and mohicans everywhere . 'The Two Coreys' got a mention on Smith & Sniff this week talking about 'Licence To Drive' too, so I might hunt that one out for some more 80s cheese.
Godzilla x Kong
So lightweight after Godzilla Minus One. Fun though, and Kong was the best character in the film. Many buildings were smashed, many people must have been killed, nobody mentions it, cities are turned to rubble, carry on R.I.P. everyone and everything in Rio de Janeiro. It won't happen but can the next film be all monsters with no humans there just for exposition please.
Monkey Man
Loved this one. In a way it's a standard revenge story, the Indian setting and politics worked really well, and the fights were full on. Dev Patel broke his hand, some toes and injured his shoulder filming the fight scenes. This was going to be a Netflix film, Jordan Peele saw a cut of it, bought the rights for his Monkey Paw production company and put it in cinemas. Absolutely the right move.
Crikey! 'License to Drive', now there's a blast from the past. Went to see it in Orlando at a cinema a short walk from Wet n'Wild back when it was released in 1988 and I don't think I've seen it since. It was the anniversary showing in the cinema, and I hadn't seen it before, it wasn't what I was expecting. It was more about the kids than the vampires, more Goonies than Near Dark. Still enjoyed it, and It was really 80s tastic, mullets and mohicans everywhere
. 'The Two Coreys' got a mention on Smith & Sniff this week talking about 'Licence To Drive' too, so I might hunt that one out for some more 80s cheese.Godzilla x Kong
So lightweight after Godzilla Minus One. Fun though, and Kong was the best character in the film. Many buildings were smashed, many people must have been killed, nobody mentions it, cities are turned to rubble, carry on R.I.P. everyone and everything in Rio de Janeiro
. It won't happen but can the next film be all monsters with no humans there just for exposition please.Monkey Man
Loved this one. In a way it's a standard revenge story, the Indian setting and politics worked really well, and the fights were full on. Dev Patel broke his hand, some toes and injured his shoulder filming the fight scenes. This was going to be a Netflix film, Jordan Peele saw a cut of it, bought the rights for his Monkey Paw production company and put it in cinemas. Absolutely the right move.
Licence to drive is a firm favourite. On the list of films I’ve sat my kids down and ‘made’ watch Will need to seek out the s&s episode.
Did Oppenheimer on Friday. It was ok.
smn159 said:
The First Omen
Prequel with pleasing nods to the 1976 original. Pretty good and made me search out the Gregory Peck version for a watch later!
Worth a watch if, like me, you loved the original
I avoided it like the plague for a long time, but found the remake to be a good film. Prequel with pleasing nods to the 1976 original. Pretty good and made me search out the Gregory Peck version for a watch later!
Worth a watch if, like me, you loved the original
An oldie from 1973 last night - 'Big Guns' starring Alain Delon as a hitman who wants to retire but has to take revenge on his bosses for blowing up his wife and son in their Alfa Romeo Giulia saloon, it's a bit like an Italian 'Get Carter' with plenty of car action and Delon doing most of the stunt driving. Also known as 'Tony Arzenta' and 'No Way Out', it's one of the better Euro crime flics of the era. The trailer looks a bit washed out here, but the dvd version I have is much better overall, it all looks rather bleak though as it was shot in January...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZVe8uMFvhg
Only Delon could look cool wearing a v-neck pullie over a roll neck...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZVe8uMFvhg
Only Delon could look cool wearing a v-neck pullie over a roll neck...
[url]|https://thumbsnap.com/BhTFCfrY[/url]Watched spaceman in netflix. I love medative space films and had high hopes for this. But it really is quite 'meh' which is a shame given the hype. It's a very poor man's solaris (tarkovsky version) in that it's about loss and loneliness. But it really didn't need to be set in space, could easily have been on a ship with the spider as a mermaid or something. The space side was entirely incidental and unresolved.
5 jars of nutela out of 10 waste disposal tubes.
5 jars of nutela out of 10 waste disposal tubes.
Composer62 said:
smn159 said:
The First Omen
Prequel with pleasing nods to the 1976 original. Pretty good and made me search out the Gregory Peck version for a watch later!
Worth a watch if, like me, you loved the original
Where did you watch this ? ThanksPrequel with pleasing nods to the 1976 original. Pretty good and made me search out the Gregory Peck version for a watch later!
Worth a watch if, like me, you loved the original
tupak798 said:
Candyman (1992)
So 90s but actually as disturbing today as it was then. Forget the remake.
I watched this for the first time last year and I agree, it had lost none of it's impact. Very gritty and harrowing. Great film, not seen the remake but I'm in no rush to based on reviews. So 90s but actually as disturbing today as it was then. Forget the remake.
Stargate
Roland Emerich's warm-up to Independence Day, I actually think this is the better film. Kurt Russell and James Spader star. Beautiful production design from the sets to the costumes, a story that's a mix of Sliders/X-Files/The Mummy and so dense in lore and rich with ideas it would go on to spawn 3 separate TV shows (SG1 was brilliant and well worth watching) along with one of the catchiest scores that you'll be humming way after it's finished.
Stargate has always been one of my favourite Scifi films and I managed to pick up a copy of the 25th Anniversary Blu-Ray at the weekend having only had it on DVD up to now. No 4k yet (it's 30 years old this year so maybe if we're lucky.....) but it still looks beautiful with all the effort they put into the production design. There's an extended edition which adds a few scenes but once again nothing I think really adds much and I personally feel the theatrical is the better cut as the added scenes only slow the pace.
Really can't believe it's 30 years old, I think it's on Amazon so give it a watch if you've never seen it.
7.5/10
Roland Emerich's warm-up to Independence Day, I actually think this is the better film. Kurt Russell and James Spader star. Beautiful production design from the sets to the costumes, a story that's a mix of Sliders/X-Files/The Mummy and so dense in lore and rich with ideas it would go on to spawn 3 separate TV shows (SG1 was brilliant and well worth watching) along with one of the catchiest scores that you'll be humming way after it's finished.
Stargate has always been one of my favourite Scifi films and I managed to pick up a copy of the 25th Anniversary Blu-Ray at the weekend having only had it on DVD up to now. No 4k yet (it's 30 years old this year so maybe if we're lucky.....) but it still looks beautiful with all the effort they put into the production design. There's an extended edition which adds a few scenes but once again nothing I think really adds much and I personally feel the theatrical is the better cut as the added scenes only slow the pace.
Really can't believe it's 30 years old, I think it's on Amazon so give it a watch if you've never seen it.
7.5/10
cuprabob said:
Composer62 said:
smn159 said:
The First Omen
Prequel with pleasing nods to the 1976 original. Pretty good and made me search out the Gregory Peck version for a watch later!
Worth a watch if, like me, you loved the original
Where did you watch this ? ThanksPrequel with pleasing nods to the 1976 original. Pretty good and made me search out the Gregory Peck version for a watch later!
Worth a watch if, like me, you loved the original
A long overdue update from me, though the rate of film watching has slowed recently.
Frost / Nixon (2008)
A rewatch, though it's been some years. I love the subject matter - mid-20th century American politics is fascinating to me - and I thoroughly enjoyed Micheal Sheen's oleaginous David Frost and Frank Langella's vain and paranoid Nixon. A legitimate part of the Watergate canon.
9.5 killer questions out of 10
Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
I knew little of it (other than the general receipt of high praise) before watching. I loved the ambiguity that threads its way throughout revealing a little, stepping back and then changing perspective again and again. The plot, while central to the plot, is at the same time secondary to the building up and dismantling of intertwined lives, layer by layer. Deserved praise to writers and cast. Superb.
9.75 chutes out of 10.
Wonka (2023)
Let's do Wes Anderson The Musical! No, let's not! Hammier and cheesier than a un grand sandwich au jambon et fromage, but ultimately lacking in any real substance. A great cast and the non-musical theatre style singing was fine, but beyond the superficiality of it, there wasn't much to care about. Hugh Grant tried to save it, but even he couldn't play himself playing an Oompaloompa. Can we give Dahl a rest now please?
4 spoonfuls of nothing out of 10.
Napoleon (2023)
Back to the vanity and paranoia. Some great elements - and the usual American/French digs at the British - but I fear watching on TV lost something that a trip to the cinema would have given. The film had to work hard to get at the scale of the times and the epic nature of the Napoleonic Wars. The enduring love with Josephine was well done, but the machinations of getting to power (and Napoleon's famously weird behaviours - sneaking round doorways - didn't land). In many ways the subject matter felt too big to capture in a single film.
7 battles out of 10.
Ferrari (2023)
I'd have said you were lying if you told me this was a Michael Mann film. I fell asleep. In fact, the only thing that saw me through the whole thing was Penelope Cruz's performance. She acted everyone else off the screen. The rest of it was dull, the decision to film in English with terrible Italian accents was poor and the premise - I'm in my late 40s, enjoy cars and motorsport but can tell you nothing about the 1957 Mille Miglia - was narrow. The story of selling to Fiat would have been far more interesting. As someone once said, only in Italy could they support a car....
5 inevitable racing incidents out of 10 (4.5 of which are for Ms Cruz).
Frost / Nixon (2008)
A rewatch, though it's been some years. I love the subject matter - mid-20th century American politics is fascinating to me - and I thoroughly enjoyed Micheal Sheen's oleaginous David Frost and Frank Langella's vain and paranoid Nixon. A legitimate part of the Watergate canon.
9.5 killer questions out of 10
Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
I knew little of it (other than the general receipt of high praise) before watching. I loved the ambiguity that threads its way throughout revealing a little, stepping back and then changing perspective again and again. The plot, while central to the plot, is at the same time secondary to the building up and dismantling of intertwined lives, layer by layer. Deserved praise to writers and cast. Superb.
9.75 chutes out of 10.
Wonka (2023)
Let's do Wes Anderson The Musical! No, let's not! Hammier and cheesier than a un grand sandwich au jambon et fromage, but ultimately lacking in any real substance. A great cast and the non-musical theatre style singing was fine, but beyond the superficiality of it, there wasn't much to care about. Hugh Grant tried to save it, but even he couldn't play himself playing an Oompaloompa. Can we give Dahl a rest now please?
4 spoonfuls of nothing out of 10.
Napoleon (2023)
Back to the vanity and paranoia. Some great elements - and the usual American/French digs at the British - but I fear watching on TV lost something that a trip to the cinema would have given. The film had to work hard to get at the scale of the times and the epic nature of the Napoleonic Wars. The enduring love with Josephine was well done, but the machinations of getting to power (and Napoleon's famously weird behaviours - sneaking round doorways - didn't land). In many ways the subject matter felt too big to capture in a single film.
7 battles out of 10.
Ferrari (2023)
I'd have said you were lying if you told me this was a Michael Mann film. I fell asleep. In fact, the only thing that saw me through the whole thing was Penelope Cruz's performance. She acted everyone else off the screen. The rest of it was dull, the decision to film in English with terrible Italian accents was poor and the premise - I'm in my late 40s, enjoy cars and motorsport but can tell you nothing about the 1957 Mille Miglia - was narrow. The story of selling to Fiat would have been far more interesting. As someone once said, only in Italy could they support a car....
5 inevitable racing incidents out of 10 (4.5 of which are for Ms Cruz).
Composer62 said:
cuprabob said:
Composer62 said:
smn159 said:
The First Omen
Prequel with pleasing nods to the 1976 original. Pretty good and made me search out the Gregory Peck version for a watch later!
Worth a watch if, like me, you loved the original
Where did you watch this ? ThanksPrequel with pleasing nods to the 1976 original. Pretty good and made me search out the Gregory Peck version for a watch later!
Worth a watch if, like me, you loved the original
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