Films I watched this week
Discussion
JonRB said:
Jimmy Recard said:
I've never met anyone who actually likes Adam Sandler.
I find the concept of disliking someone you have never met to be somewhat strange. Adam Sandler was bloody good in that. So, he was good, at least once... and I know someone who knows him. Does this count?
JustinP1 said:
A while back I had the pleasure of working for a couple of months with the guy who did the Punch-Drunk Love score and soundtrack.
Adam Sandler was bloody good in that. So, he was good, at least once... and I know someone who knows him. Does this count?
I admit to not having seen that!Adam Sandler was bloody good in that. So, he was good, at least once... and I know someone who knows him. Does this count?
AlexC1981 said:
I just watched the first Pirates of the Caribbean film. The Curse of the Black Pearl. Now that is a film that really does have everything you could want in a film. I really enjoyed it. It reminded me very much off Sid Meier's Pirates! computer game.
Don't bother with the sequelsPesty said:
AlexC1981 said:
I just watched the first Pirates of the Caribbean film. The Curse of the Black Pearl. Now that is a film that really does have everything you could want in a film. I really enjoyed it. It reminded me very much off Sid Meier's Pirates! computer game.
Don't bother with the sequelsBrownBottle said:
qube_TA said:
Dude that's a classic film, Piper is great. It's a Carpenter film, made for about £10, it's aweseome.
I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum.....and I'm all outta bubblegum!
9/10
There's been rumours for years about making a new version, they'll spend $150m on it and it'll suck.
I guess you seen it years ago when you were young and it holds a bit of nostalgia for you? I'm the same myself with loads of films from my youth but watching it now for the first time aged 38 it just wasn't that good.I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum.....and I'm all outta bubblegum!
9/10
There's been rumours for years about making a new version, they'll spend $150m on it and it'll suck.
I was actually excited when I found out Roddy Piper was in it as I used to enjoy watching him as a lad in the WWF but honestly he was terrible.
Watched The Martian last night, enjoyable, but I'm sure he'd gone a bit more nuts being stuck on another planet not knowing if he was ever going to get home - more like his character in Interstellar, on that note is Matt Damon carving himself out a niche playing stranded astronauts 
One of Ridley Scotts better films of recent times (yes The Counsellor I'm looking at you!)
One of Ridley Scotts better films of recent times (yes The Counsellor I'm looking at you!)
Pickled said:
Watched The Martian last night, enjoyable, but I'm sure he'd gone a bit more nuts being stuck on another planet not knowing if he was ever going to get home - more like his character in Interstellar, on that note is Matt Damon carving himself out a niche playing stranded astronauts
Not just astronauts, don't forget Private Ryan 
ajprice said:
Pickled said:
Watched The Martian last night, enjoyable, but I'm sure he'd gone a bit more nuts being stuck on another planet not knowing if he was ever going to get home - more like his character in Interstellar, on that note is Matt Damon carving himself out a niche playing stranded astronauts
Not just astronauts, don't forget Private Ryan 
A Most Violent Year
Early '80's NYC; chap trying to expand his heating oil delivery business comes under attack from the competition whilst trying to complete a property purchase.
Nicely played, excellent period attention to detail & lots of moody views of the Bronx & the Manhattan skyline.
Enjoyed it & hadn't realised until the end that the director (J C Chandor) also did the excellent Margin Call & All Is Lost.
Early '80's NYC; chap trying to expand his heating oil delivery business comes under attack from the competition whilst trying to complete a property purchase.
Nicely played, excellent period attention to detail & lots of moody views of the Bronx & the Manhattan skyline.
Enjoyed it & hadn't realised until the end that the director (J C Chandor) also did the excellent Margin Call & All Is Lost.
AlexC1981 said:
I just watched the first Pirates of the Caribbean film. The Curse of the Black Pearl. Now that is a film that really does have everything you could want in a film. I really enjoyed it. It reminded me very much off Sid Meier's Pirates! computer game.
Yip, sublime film.Other pirate films that I like; Pirates, The Crimson Pirate...erm....Yellowbeard is interesting.
Mystic River
2003, dir. Clint Eastwood. Set in Boston.
I couldn't remember whether I saw this when it came out, and realised I had in the first scene, but thankfully I kept watching:
The keystone of the plot is the first scene where three eleven year old boys play in the street. A car pulls up, and two plain clothes policemen chastise the boys and takes one of them 'home', when in fact we see through snippets that he is abused for four days before he escapes.
25 years later, the three friends are estranged, but they are brought back in contact where each of course has their regrets and guilt over what happened. Sean Penn's 19 year old daughter goes missing. Tim Robbins (the abused boy now disturbed adult) comes home covered in blood. Kevin Bacon is the homicide detective assigned to the case.
This really is Eastwood at his best. He has such a humanist view on a story that you simply cannot fail to empathise with characters whilst understanding their serious flaws. Penn and Robbins won Oscars that year for their performances in this film.
The plot is gripping, not only through the emotions of the characters in their reactions to the situation but how you know from minutes in that there will be a showdown, and when it happens it is superb. Better than that though, unusually, there is an epilogue where no words are spoken and it is simply the glances and expressions of the main characters over a few minutes not only explain the outcome of their actions but leaves an utterly haunting watermark on the context of the whole film.
Superb stuff.
8.5/10
2003, dir. Clint Eastwood. Set in Boston.
I couldn't remember whether I saw this when it came out, and realised I had in the first scene, but thankfully I kept watching:
The keystone of the plot is the first scene where three eleven year old boys play in the street. A car pulls up, and two plain clothes policemen chastise the boys and takes one of them 'home', when in fact we see through snippets that he is abused for four days before he escapes.
25 years later, the three friends are estranged, but they are brought back in contact where each of course has their regrets and guilt over what happened. Sean Penn's 19 year old daughter goes missing. Tim Robbins (the abused boy now disturbed adult) comes home covered in blood. Kevin Bacon is the homicide detective assigned to the case.
This really is Eastwood at his best. He has such a humanist view on a story that you simply cannot fail to empathise with characters whilst understanding their serious flaws. Penn and Robbins won Oscars that year for their performances in this film.
The plot is gripping, not only through the emotions of the characters in their reactions to the situation but how you know from minutes in that there will be a showdown, and when it happens it is superb. Better than that though, unusually, there is an epilogue where no words are spoken and it is simply the glances and expressions of the main characters over a few minutes not only explain the outcome of their actions but leaves an utterly haunting watermark on the context of the whole film.
Superb stuff.
8.5/10
Asterix said:
Eastwood is a master of letting the audience work our for itself what has really happened.
Unforgiven is the same.
Exactly this. Unforgiven is the same.
In Mystic River, the final 2 minute epilogue scene set after the finale is simply mastery. It's just portraying a parade in the street with the characters watching it and catching each other's glances.
It tells you exactly what happened in the weeks/months the viewer has missed, and just when you think you understand it all, the last 5 seconds blow that idea away.
Watched Jonestown last night. It's a half-documentary, half-dramatic recreation of the Jonestown massacre. I didn't know much about it and it's absolutely mind-blowing. It's also terrifying to see just how easily-led human beings are given the right circumstances; something we should all be well aware of.
My only complaint was the film encouraged the idea that it was mainly about socialism rather than religion. Otherwise, a fascinating and shocking story.
The theory is discussed in depth by the excellent Red Letter Media:
http://redlettermedia.com/half-in-the-bag/jack-and...
My only complaint was the film encouraged the idea that it was mainly about socialism rather than religion. Otherwise, a fascinating and shocking story.
Jimmy Recard said:
I've never met anyone who actually likes Adam Sandler.
So who is it who puts him in these films?
He puts himself in them. The process seems to be that he raises a massive budget via product placements, then makes a very cheap film. The remaining cash goes in his pocket or to his mates for a half-arsed cameo.So who is it who puts him in these films?
The theory is discussed in depth by the excellent Red Letter Media:
http://redlettermedia.com/half-in-the-bag/jack-and...
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