Films I watched this week
Discussion
C4 showed Locke last night. The whole film is set inside the main character's car as it travels along a motorway and all dialogue is in the form of telephone conversations. The descriptions doesn't sound very interesting but it was very good, all the better for not wrapping everything up in a neat bow at the end.
El Guapo said:
C4 showed Locke last night. The whole film is set inside the main character's car as it travels along a motorway and all dialogue is in the form of telephone conversations. The descriptions doesn't sound very interesting but it was very good, all the better for not wrapping everything up in a neat bow at the end.
Locke is very good and well worth a watch.As is Grimsby surprisingly. Clunky start (you need to get past the stale, unfunny bits), but there were genuine laugh out louds in it. Worth a punt. 7/10
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
I REALLY like the first one, I put to the back of my mind the differences of character physicality and just enjoyed the action, script and pace.
This one, was not as good, for me. More formulaic, which is sad given he has some pretty good source material (but then maybe the novels are formulaic..)
Anyway Tom Cruise plays an ex-Military Police man, and he's a pretty good ex-Military policeman too, until he has a crisis of....
No..no..TC plays Jack Reacher, who gets the job done, with decent set piece fights, car chases (no motorbike?!) and of course some running...and adds a massive planet size'd lump of Hollywood cheese right at the end, with the younger member of the cast.
Your brain can stay in if it insists... 6.6/10
I REALLY like the first one, I put to the back of my mind the differences of character physicality and just enjoyed the action, script and pace.
This one, was not as good, for me. More formulaic, which is sad given he has some pretty good source material (but then maybe the novels are formulaic..)
Anyway Tom Cruise plays an ex-Military Police man, and he's a pretty good ex-Military policeman too, until he has a crisis of....
No..no..TC plays Jack Reacher, who gets the job done, with decent set piece fights, car chases (no motorbike?!) and of course some running...and adds a massive planet size'd lump of Hollywood cheese right at the end, with the younger member of the cast.
Your brain can stay in if it insists... 6.6/10
Yesterday I saw Mean Creek, An Education and The Wrestler. The best was the Wrestler (amazing performances all round, especially Rourke, really believable), An Education (Nick Hornby stuff always good) and Mean Creek (didn't do it for me, not a patch on Stand by Me or similar coming of age films). All on Netflix though and all worth a watch.
Star Trek Beyond
Watchable, pretty colours and lasers and explosions. More action, and more gags - more "Scotty" action, which im sure has nothing to do with Simon Pegg co-writing it. Also the line "...skip to the end" being his catchphrase in Spaced must just be coincidence.
Swiss Army Man
Socially awkward Paul Dano is lost in the pacific and about to kill himself when a corpse (Daniel Radcliff) is washed up on the beach. His various "corpse-powers" (like the ability to produce vast quantities of gas as he decomposes) provide Dano with a means of leaving the island (using him as a Jetski). Soon he thinks of the corpse as a friend, and then the conversation starts being 2-way...
A very strange buddy-movie, sometimes sad, often amusing, it reminded me of a particular episode of Mighty Boosh ("The Nightmare of Milky Joe") crossed with Weekend at Bernies.
Watchable, pretty colours and lasers and explosions. More action, and more gags - more "Scotty" action, which im sure has nothing to do with Simon Pegg co-writing it. Also the line "...skip to the end" being his catchphrase in Spaced must just be coincidence.
Swiss Army Man
Socially awkward Paul Dano is lost in the pacific and about to kill himself when a corpse (Daniel Radcliff) is washed up on the beach. His various "corpse-powers" (like the ability to produce vast quantities of gas as he decomposes) provide Dano with a means of leaving the island (using him as a Jetski). Soon he thinks of the corpse as a friend, and then the conversation starts being 2-way...
A very strange buddy-movie, sometimes sad, often amusing, it reminded me of a particular episode of Mighty Boosh ("The Nightmare of Milky Joe") crossed with Weekend at Bernies.
Luther Blisset said:
New Adam Curtis Documentary film called HyperNormalization, made 3 hours fly by.
Here's a trailer
https://youtu.be/AUiqaFIONPQ
Here's the film
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04b183c/adam...
ETA it contains some distressing footage from the outset
Started a thread about this (and him in general) t'other day - glad to hear im not the only one here that loves his workHere's a trailer
https://youtu.be/AUiqaFIONPQ
Here's the film
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04b183c/adam...
ETA it contains some distressing footage from the outset
Edited by Luther Blisset on Monday 17th October 16:42
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
However, i did laugh at this image my buddy sent me:
We watched divergent the other night.
have to say thought it was a bit pap. From the Maze and Hunger Games sort of genre.
not very convincing and not very well executed - I felt as though the main premise of "being Divergent" was about as threatening as preferring milk or cream in your coffee in fact more to the point I couldn't really care less.
all in all, babbage.
have to say thought it was a bit pap. From the Maze and Hunger Games sort of genre.
not very convincing and not very well executed - I felt as though the main premise of "being Divergent" was about as threatening as preferring milk or cream in your coffee in fact more to the point I couldn't really care less.
all in all, babbage.
Happened to catch "The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do The Time Warp Again..." (a re-make of the original) on the telly last night. Wish I hadn't bothered. Starts off reasonably well with a nicely cheesy first number, but then tries too hard and ends up looking like a grunge version of High School Musical. This is hardly surprising considering it is directed by Kenny Ortega. Ultimately it fails, lacking pretty much all the charm of the original. 2.5/10.
Quickmoose said:
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
I REALLY like the first one, I put to the back of my mind the differences of character physicality and just enjoyed the action, script and pace.
This one, was not as good, for me. More formulaic, which is sad given he has some pretty good source material (but then maybe the novels are formulaic..)
Anyway Tom Cruise plays an ex-Military Police man, and he's a pretty good ex-Military policeman too, until he has a crisis of....
No..no..TC plays Jack Reacher, who gets the job done, with decent set piece fights, car chases (no motorbike?!) and of course some running...and adds a massive planet size'd lump of Hollywood cheese right at the end, with the younger member of the cast.
Your brain can stay in if it insists... 6.6/10
Really don't know why they picked this book as the new film as I thought it was one of the poorer ones.I REALLY like the first one, I put to the back of my mind the differences of character physicality and just enjoyed the action, script and pace.
This one, was not as good, for me. More formulaic, which is sad given he has some pretty good source material (but then maybe the novels are formulaic..)
Anyway Tom Cruise plays an ex-Military Police man, and he's a pretty good ex-Military policeman too, until he has a crisis of....
No..no..TC plays Jack Reacher, who gets the job done, with decent set piece fights, car chases (no motorbike?!) and of course some running...and adds a massive planet size'd lump of Hollywood cheese right at the end, with the younger member of the cast.
Your brain can stay in if it insists... 6.6/10
Anthropoid.
Various hype about this 'untold' and 'forgotten' story, which is all balls, as the story is a famous one - the mission to assassinate top Nazi and all-time w
ker of the week Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in 1942.
The bravery of those involved has been immortalised in at least three films already, including the fab Operation Daybreak. As it turns out there's a lot of shot for shot remaking going on compared to Operation Daybreak, so basically it turns out to be a modern remake of it, with some improvements in accuracy (and new departures from it). What it loses in comparison to Daybreak is a cracking and somewhat out of place music score, swapping it for a much more brooding atmosphere (particularly in the climactic church battle where the music really hits home), and the build-up to the assassination and man-hunt afterwards is, well, a little bit dull in Anthropoid. I'm surprised they spent so much time on this less exciting part of the story and literally zero time on letting you know what a Heydrich was. Anyway once the action kicks off you get a different movie entirely and it certainly does its job of letting modern audiences know the story, and I think it's a good tribute to the men and women involved.
I didn't think you could top Operation Daybreak's final moments for grit in the eye territory - but Anthropoid manages it. Well worth a watch. But so is it's slightly cheesier 1970s ancestor.
Various hype about this 'untold' and 'forgotten' story, which is all balls, as the story is a famous one - the mission to assassinate top Nazi and all-time w
ker of the week Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in 1942.The bravery of those involved has been immortalised in at least three films already, including the fab Operation Daybreak. As it turns out there's a lot of shot for shot remaking going on compared to Operation Daybreak, so basically it turns out to be a modern remake of it, with some improvements in accuracy (and new departures from it). What it loses in comparison to Daybreak is a cracking and somewhat out of place music score, swapping it for a much more brooding atmosphere (particularly in the climactic church battle where the music really hits home), and the build-up to the assassination and man-hunt afterwards is, well, a little bit dull in Anthropoid. I'm surprised they spent so much time on this less exciting part of the story and literally zero time on letting you know what a
Heydrich was. Anyway once the action kicks off you get a different movie entirely and it certainly does its job of letting modern audiences know the story, and I think it's a good tribute to the men and women involved.I didn't think you could top Operation Daybreak's final moments for grit in the eye territory - but Anthropoid manages it. Well worth a watch. But so is it's slightly cheesier 1970s ancestor.
droopsnoot said:
"The Man who haunted himself" was on Horror (ch 70) the other night, a pretty good film with plenty of Rover P5 action. First time I've noticed that Luigi the housekeeper is one of the brotherhood from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
I didn't notice much beyond the Lamborghini Islero GTS last time I watched it. 
CR6ZZ said:
Happened to catch "The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do The Time Warp Again..." (a re-make of the original) on the telly last night. Wish I hadn't bothered. Starts off reasonably well with a nicely cheesy first number, but then tries too hard and ends up looking like a grunge version of High School Musical. This is hardly surprising considering it is directed by Kenny Ortega. Ultimately it fails, lacking pretty much all the charm of the original. 2.5/10.
Hadn't realised this was out.It looked like an awful idea from the start. I wonder how they persuaded Riffraff to allow it.
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