Films I watched this week (NO SPOILERS) (Vol 3)
Discussion
Cloudy147 said:
Falling Down
Aaaah, the old classic about a regular guy who is frustrated with the world and goes on a rampage. Haven’t seen it for decades, my friends and I were talking about it recently so purchased the dvd (cheaper than buying from a streaming site, how can that be right?! Anyhow…)
They don’t make them like they used to, has that 90s gritty yet filmic brightness to it which I always liked, holds your attention from the start and I found it to be a really good film.
7 quality fast food breakfasts out of 10 lunch menus from me.
Thats a great film and love the breakfast scene at Whammy Burger. Aaaah, the old classic about a regular guy who is frustrated with the world and goes on a rampage. Haven’t seen it for decades, my friends and I were talking about it recently so purchased the dvd (cheaper than buying from a streaming site, how can that be right?! Anyhow…)
They don’t make them like they used to, has that 90s gritty yet filmic brightness to it which I always liked, holds your attention from the start and I found it to be a really good film.
7 quality fast food breakfasts out of 10 lunch menus from me.
Clockwork Cupcake said:
suffolk009 said:
I re-watched Starship Troopers last night. Looking at it with older eyes, and understanding what Verhoeven was trying to say it makes much more sense. Some of the acting remains dire.
I still can't believe that some people took it at face value and thought it was pro-fascist and pro-war, rather than the satire that it was. bodhi said:
Friday night has become weird film Friday in our house, and after the wife chose American Beauty last week it was my turn. Sadly she refuses to watch RoboCop so instead we went for The Big Lebowski.
Pretty sure it needs no introduction, but just in case, Jeff Bridges and his misfit bowling team get themselves involved in rescuing a rich man's wife from kidnappers, and chaos ensues.
Easily in my Top 5 if not Top 3 films, so many brilliant lines and each time you watch it you pick up on something else.
"I am here to fix da cable ya"
"You can guess what happens next"
"He fixes the cable?"
Easy 10 out of 10 for me.
Def one of my faves also, like Lenin said.Pretty sure it needs no introduction, but just in case, Jeff Bridges and his misfit bowling team get themselves involved in rescuing a rich man's wife from kidnappers, and chaos ensues.
Easily in my Top 5 if not Top 3 films, so many brilliant lines and each time you watch it you pick up on something else.
"I am here to fix da cable ya"
"You can guess what happens next"
"He fixes the cable?"
Easy 10 out of 10 for me.
andy_s said:
bodhi said:
Friday night has become weird film Friday in our house, and after the wife chose American Beauty last week it was my turn. Sadly she refuses to watch RoboCop so instead we went for The Big Lebowski.
Pretty sure it needs no introduction, but just in case, Jeff Bridges and his misfit bowling team get themselves involved in rescuing a rich man's wife from kidnappers, and chaos ensues.
Easily in my Top 5 if not Top 3 films, so many brilliant lines and each time you watch it you pick up on something else.
"I am here to fix da cable ya"
"You can guess what happens next"
"He fixes the cable?"
Easy 10 out of 10 for me.
An all time great.Pretty sure it needs no introduction, but just in case, Jeff Bridges and his misfit bowling team get themselves involved in rescuing a rich man's wife from kidnappers, and chaos ensues.
Easily in my Top 5 if not Top 3 films, so many brilliant lines and each time you watch it you pick up on something else.
"I am here to fix da cable ya"
"You can guess what happens next"
"He fixes the cable?"
Easy 10 out of 10 for me.
Apparently Jeff Bridge's grandchildren call him "Grandude".
Def one of my faves also, like Lenin said.
andy_s said:
bodhi said:
Friday night has become weird film Friday in our house, and after the wife chose American Beauty last week it was my turn. Sadly she refuses to watch RoboCop so instead we went for The Big Lebowski.
Pretty sure it needs no introduction, but just in case, Jeff Bridges and his misfit bowling team get themselves involved in rescuing a rich man's wife from kidnappers, and chaos ensues.
Easily in my Top 5 if not Top 3 films, so many brilliant lines and each time you watch it you pick up on something else.
"I am here to fix da cable ya"
"You can guess what happens next"
"He fixes the cable?"
Easy 10 out of 10 for me.
Def one of my faves also, like Lenin said.Pretty sure it needs no introduction, but just in case, Jeff Bridges and his misfit bowling team get themselves involved in rescuing a rich man's wife from kidnappers, and chaos ensues.
Easily in my Top 5 if not Top 3 films, so many brilliant lines and each time you watch it you pick up on something else.
"I am here to fix da cable ya"
"You can guess what happens next"
"He fixes the cable?"
Easy 10 out of 10 for me.
generationx said:
Gremlins (1984)
Young man gets a mysterious Christmas present from his inventor father, much chaos ensues.
Hard to believe this is forty years old, also that I haven’t watched it for about twenty of those.
So much fun, mildly horrifying, has aged surprisingly well.
9/10 - a “must see”
A huge film in it's day. Features the very nice Phoebe Cates.Young man gets a mysterious Christmas present from his inventor father, much chaos ensues.
Hard to believe this is forty years old, also that I haven’t watched it for about twenty of those.
So much fun, mildly horrifying, has aged surprisingly well.
9/10 - a “must see”
bodhi said:
andy_s said:
bodhi said:
Friday night has become weird film Friday in our house, and after the wife chose American Beauty last week it was my turn. Sadly she refuses to watch RoboCop so instead we went for The Big Lebowski.
Pretty sure it needs no introduction, but just in case, Jeff Bridges and his misfit bowling team get themselves involved in rescuing a rich man's wife from kidnappers, and chaos ensues.
Easily in my Top 5 if not Top 3 films, so many brilliant lines and each time you watch it you pick up on something else.
"I am here to fix da cable ya"
"You can guess what happens next"
"He fixes the cable?"
Easy 10 out of 10 for me.
Def one of my faves also, like Lenin said.Pretty sure it needs no introduction, but just in case, Jeff Bridges and his misfit bowling team get themselves involved in rescuing a rich man's wife from kidnappers, and chaos ensues.
Easily in my Top 5 if not Top 3 films, so many brilliant lines and each time you watch it you pick up on something else.
"I am here to fix da cable ya"
"You can guess what happens next"
"He fixes the cable?"
Easy 10 out of 10 for me.
Cloudy147 said:
Falling Down
Aaaah, the old classic about a regular guy who is frustrated with the world and goes on a rampage. Haven’t seen it for decades, my friends and I were talking about it recently so purchased the dvd (cheaper than buying from a streaming site, how can that be right?! Anyhow…)
They don’t make them like they used to, has that 90s gritty yet filmic brightness to it which I always liked, holds your attention from the start and I found it to be a really good film.
7 quality fast food breakfasts out of 10 lunch menus from me.
One of my all time favourite films. The whammy burger scene is iconic and I literally can't get Maccie Ds breakfast without thinking about it. Aaaah, the old classic about a regular guy who is frustrated with the world and goes on a rampage. Haven’t seen it for decades, my friends and I were talking about it recently so purchased the dvd (cheaper than buying from a streaming site, how can that be right?! Anyhow…)
They don’t make them like they used to, has that 90s gritty yet filmic brightness to it which I always liked, holds your attention from the start and I found it to be a really good film.
7 quality fast food breakfasts out of 10 lunch menus from me.
bodhi said:
Friday night has become weird film Friday in our house, and after the wife chose American Beauty last week it was my turn. Sadly she refuses to watch RoboCop so instead we went for The Big Lebowski.
Pretty sure it needs no introduction, but just in case, Jeff Bridges and his misfit bowling team get themselves involved in rescuing a rich man's wife from kidnappers, and chaos ensues.
Easily in my Top 5 if not Top 3 films, so many brilliant lines and each time you watch it you pick up on something else.
"I am here to fix da cable ya"
"You can guess what happens next"
"He fixes the cable?"
Easy 10 out of 10 for me.
I bowl (not on Saturdays) and this and Kingpin are the GOATS when it comes to accurate films about bowling. Although it's not the main theme of Lebowkski it captures the weirdness so well. Pretty sure it needs no introduction, but just in case, Jeff Bridges and his misfit bowling team get themselves involved in rescuing a rich man's wife from kidnappers, and chaos ensues.
Easily in my Top 5 if not Top 3 films, so many brilliant lines and each time you watch it you pick up on something else.
"I am here to fix da cable ya"
"You can guess what happens next"
"He fixes the cable?"
Easy 10 out of 10 for me.
C5_Steve said:
Cloudy147 said:
Falling Down
Aaaah, the old classic about a regular guy who is frustrated with the world and goes on a rampage. Haven’t seen it for decades, my friends and I were talking about it recently so purchased the dvd (cheaper than buying from a streaming site, how can that be right?! Anyhow…)
They don’t make them like they used to, has that 90s gritty yet filmic brightness to it which I always liked, holds your attention from the start and I found it to be a really good film.
7 quality fast food breakfasts out of 10 lunch menus from me.
One of my all time favourite films. The whammy burger scene is iconic and I literally can't get Maccie Ds breakfast without thinking about it. Aaaah, the old classic about a regular guy who is frustrated with the world and goes on a rampage. Haven’t seen it for decades, my friends and I were talking about it recently so purchased the dvd (cheaper than buying from a streaming site, how can that be right?! Anyhow…)
They don’t make them like they used to, has that 90s gritty yet filmic brightness to it which I always liked, holds your attention from the start and I found it to be a really good film.
7 quality fast food breakfasts out of 10 lunch menus from me.
272BHP said:
A Man Called Ove - Bluray
A bitter and curmudgeonly widower wants to end his life but his suicide attempts keep being interrupted by his neighbours.
This has been on my watch list for years but I just never got around to seeking it out. I saw the US remake starring Tom Hanks last year and thoroughly enjoyed it, the original Swedish version however is better in every way and has a gravity that the remake just cannot match.
9/10
The OH and I watched the Tom Hanks version a few weeks ago and we were both in bits at the end. This one is in the list but might have to wait a few weeks before putting ourselves through that again. A bitter and curmudgeonly widower wants to end his life but his suicide attempts keep being interrupted by his neighbours.
This has been on my watch list for years but I just never got around to seeking it out. I saw the US remake starring Tom Hanks last year and thoroughly enjoyed it, the original Swedish version however is better in every way and has a gravity that the remake just cannot match.
9/10
A weekend of rewatches for me, starting with...
Goodfellas
As far back as I can remember, I wanted to rewatch this on 4K after picking it up at Christmas
So I finally did Friday night. I've seen the film more times than I care to count, it's top 10 of all time for me. The 4K transfer is done very well; the film retains it's original grain and look overall. The biggest improvements are with the colour grading and sound IMO, of course, the close-ups reveal all the more detail now but the palette really pops off the screen now and every needle drop is balanced perfectly. I don't think there's a more stacked soundtrack to a film that works so well with every scene. The music is almost another character.
The beauty of this film is no matter how many times I watch it, no matter how well I know the story, by the end of those first scenes I still want to part of that world. And that's really the whole film, it's not a cautionary tale nor is it trying to teach you right from wrong or deliver any sort of moral lesson. It's showing you this is why they do it, this is why despite knowing where it would lead these people are a part of this world.
I've always slightly preferred this over Casino but only because of that aspect. Casino was always a bit more brutal, a bit more ruthless of a film. There's far less romance in the story and the greed really seeps through. (Incidentally, I learned that the real-life guy whose character Robert De Niro's is based off in Casino is still around and hosts dinners in Vegas where he talks about his time running Casinos, dealing with the mob etc etc. Amazing.)
10/10
Then we moved onto an epic quest I'd been wanting to get round to for a while....
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring & The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Extended editions (4k))
I think LOTR is probably the film I own the most versions of. I have the original Special Edtion DVD extended editions, the Blu Rays and then picked up the Extended Editions on 4K a while ago when they were on sale. I wanted to watch them all back to back but as each film is 4 hours long or more, I ran out of time and will need to watch ROTK next weekend.
These films were made for 4K. The detail in everything in the world from the costumes to the sets is breathtaking. Every scene is lit like a framed picture, there's no getting away from how incredible it all looks. It's been a while since I saw the films but it was just as magical as the first time.
The extended editions must be some of the best "extended" films ever made, because not once does any of the substantial extra material ever slow the pace of the film nor seem superfluous. Alot of time and effort went into them (the credits just for the people who worked on the extended editions are 20 mins of names scrolling on a screen at the end of fellowship!). Could you watch the standard versions? Yes, and you're experience of the film would be no less but once you've seen them you really have to watch the extended versions because they add so much more to the lore and background.
TTT is probably my favourite of the three and I'm reminded of how well we used to able to film at night by the battle at Helms Deep, why have film and TV suddenly lost the ability to do scenes at night that aren't pitch black???
There are one or two shots where the background effects look slightly dated but none of the big stuff has really aged at all due to a lot of miniatures being used and all the other practical special effects, They really are generational films.
Both a 10./10 for me
Goodfellas
As far back as I can remember, I wanted to rewatch this on 4K after picking it up at Christmas
So I finally did Friday night. I've seen the film more times than I care to count, it's top 10 of all time for me. The 4K transfer is done very well; the film retains it's original grain and look overall. The biggest improvements are with the colour grading and sound IMO, of course, the close-ups reveal all the more detail now but the palette really pops off the screen now and every needle drop is balanced perfectly. I don't think there's a more stacked soundtrack to a film that works so well with every scene. The music is almost another character.
The beauty of this film is no matter how many times I watch it, no matter how well I know the story, by the end of those first scenes I still want to part of that world. And that's really the whole film, it's not a cautionary tale nor is it trying to teach you right from wrong or deliver any sort of moral lesson. It's showing you this is why they do it, this is why despite knowing where it would lead these people are a part of this world.
I've always slightly preferred this over Casino but only because of that aspect. Casino was always a bit more brutal, a bit more ruthless of a film. There's far less romance in the story and the greed really seeps through. (Incidentally, I learned that the real-life guy whose character Robert De Niro's is based off in Casino is still around and hosts dinners in Vegas where he talks about his time running Casinos, dealing with the mob etc etc. Amazing.)
10/10
Then we moved onto an epic quest I'd been wanting to get round to for a while....
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring & The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Extended editions (4k))
I think LOTR is probably the film I own the most versions of. I have the original Special Edtion DVD extended editions, the Blu Rays and then picked up the Extended Editions on 4K a while ago when they were on sale. I wanted to watch them all back to back but as each film is 4 hours long or more, I ran out of time and will need to watch ROTK next weekend.
These films were made for 4K. The detail in everything in the world from the costumes to the sets is breathtaking. Every scene is lit like a framed picture, there's no getting away from how incredible it all looks. It's been a while since I saw the films but it was just as magical as the first time.
The extended editions must be some of the best "extended" films ever made, because not once does any of the substantial extra material ever slow the pace of the film nor seem superfluous. Alot of time and effort went into them (the credits just for the people who worked on the extended editions are 20 mins of names scrolling on a screen at the end of fellowship!). Could you watch the standard versions? Yes, and you're experience of the film would be no less but once you've seen them you really have to watch the extended versions because they add so much more to the lore and background.
TTT is probably my favourite of the three and I'm reminded of how well we used to able to film at night by the battle at Helms Deep, why have film and TV suddenly lost the ability to do scenes at night that aren't pitch black???
There are one or two shots where the background effects look slightly dated but none of the big stuff has really aged at all due to a lot of miniatures being used and all the other practical special effects, They really are generational films.
Both a 10./10 for me
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