Films I watched this week (Vol 2)
Discussion
jsf said:
LuS1fer said:
jcremonini said:
Antony Moxey said:
Three Billboards etc. Talk about emperor’s new clothes, both for the film and lead actress. Zero Billboards out of three Missouris.
I thought it was fantastic myself and is probably one of my top 10 films. Particularly liked the ending where you ask yourself if that guy really was the killer after all. We shall never know...LuS1fer said:
jcremonini said:
Antony Moxey said:
Three Billboards etc. Talk about emperor’s new clothes, both for the film and lead actress. Zero Billboards out of three Missouris.
I thought it was fantastic myself and is probably one of my top 10 films. Particularly liked the ending where you ask yourself if that guy really was the killer after all. We shall never know...I can comprehend that others liked it, but it wasn't for me. And as for labelling it a dark comedy, I really don't see that at all.
chris watton said:
jsf said:
LuS1fer said:
jcremonini said:
Antony Moxey said:
Three Billboards etc. Talk about emperor’s new clothes, both for the film and lead actress. Zero Billboards out of three Missouris.
I thought it was fantastic myself and is probably one of my top 10 films. Particularly liked the ending where you ask yourself if that guy really was the killer after all. We shall never know...Langweilig said:
Eye in the Sky. Actually quite good. I enjoyed it. A clever mix of hi-tech surveillance, political vs military conflict and a Foreign Secretary who has a dose of the trots. Alan Rickman and Helen Mirren who just want to waste terrorists without politicians wasting time.
Politically correct claptrap from start to finish.chilistrucker said:
Took the Mrs to see A Star Is Born and thought it was pretty good, I'd give it a solid 7/10.
This was our visit to an Everyman cinema and I thought it was pretty smart.
Agreed - we went to see this last night and it was far better than i expected, covering some tricky themes with more depth than is usually the case in these films.This was our visit to an Everyman cinema and I thought it was pretty smart.
Pity that the makers of Bohemian Rhapsody didn't feel the need for any similar ambition and went for an over long pop video instead.
SCEtoAUX said:
Langweilig said:
Eye in the Sky. Actually quite good. I enjoyed it. A clever mix of hi-tech surveillance, political vs military conflict and a Foreign Secretary who has a dose of the trots. Alan Rickman and Helen Mirren who just want to waste terrorists without politicians wasting time.
Politically correct claptrap from start to finish.
smn159 said:
Pity that the makers of Bohemian Rhapsody didn't feel the need for any similar ambition and went for an over long pop video instead.
A bit harsh I think.It was first and foremost an entertaining film which both my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed especially as it was, “of our time “.
phazed said:
smn159 said:
Pity that the makers of Bohemian Rhapsody didn't feel the need for any similar ambition and went for an over long pop video instead.
A bit harsh I think.It was first and foremost an entertaining film which both my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed especially as it was, “of our time “.
To turn Freddie's life into a flat, one dimensional story takes some doing, but this film managed it - good looking, great sounding but ultimately disappointing,
all IMO of course.
I enjoyed fury very much but that’s me
Though at first glance, Fury may seem as if it's just another World War II movie with a stellar cast (I mean, Brad Pitt, Shia Labeouf, Jon Bernthal, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, and Scott Eastwood? Yes, please), don't write it off as that just yet: While yes, the movie deals with the much-employed setting of World War II, it's actually much more true-to-life than it seems — even if it's not based on one singular story. From Street Kings writer/director David Ayer, Fury is actually based on a collection of true stories from real-life army veterans who spent their time during World War II in tanks, just like Pitt's tank crew in the film.
Click here to watch
According to ComingSoon.net , it was director Ayer's real-life association with World War II that drove him to keep the time as true-to-life as possible. "Both of my grandparents were in World War II and retired as officers," he said. "One fought in the Pacific and one fought in Europe. The whole family was in the war. I grew up exposed to it and hearing the stories, but the stories I heard weren't kind of the whole 'Rah, rah, rah! We saved the world!' They were about the personal price and the emotional price. The pain and the loss are the shadows that sort of stalk my family. That was something that I wanted to communicate with people."
The result was extensive research about soldiers who were real "tankers" during the war. In Fury , Pitt portrays US Army Staff Sergeant Don "Wardaddy" Collier, who's the head of a tanker crew maneuvering a Sherman tank across Germany in a single day toward the end of the war. According to the Charlotte Observer , Pitt spoke with veterans about their experiences, including a now 90-year-old man named Ray Stewart who fought at the Battle of the Bulge as a tank gunner and driver.
"We fought the war over again right in front of those movie guys," Stewart explained to the paper. "We looked around and saw them sitting there with their mouths open. They seemed sort of flabbergasted."
Adding to the real-life details is the fact that Ayer was apparently able to secure wartime tanks to use during filming. "Tanks from all over Europe. The owners were kind enough to let us weld them, paint them and get them into the exact configurations they were in during the end of the war. The Bovington Tank Museum, after extended negotiations, let us use a type of tank that has never been in a feature before."
Though at first glance, Fury may seem as if it's just another World War II movie with a stellar cast (I mean, Brad Pitt, Shia Labeouf, Jon Bernthal, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, and Scott Eastwood? Yes, please), don't write it off as that just yet: While yes, the movie deals with the much-employed setting of World War II, it's actually much more true-to-life than it seems — even if it's not based on one singular story. From Street Kings writer/director David Ayer, Fury is actually based on a collection of true stories from real-life army veterans who spent their time during World War II in tanks, just like Pitt's tank crew in the film.
Click here to watch
According to ComingSoon.net , it was director Ayer's real-life association with World War II that drove him to keep the time as true-to-life as possible. "Both of my grandparents were in World War II and retired as officers," he said. "One fought in the Pacific and one fought in Europe. The whole family was in the war. I grew up exposed to it and hearing the stories, but the stories I heard weren't kind of the whole 'Rah, rah, rah! We saved the world!' They were about the personal price and the emotional price. The pain and the loss are the shadows that sort of stalk my family. That was something that I wanted to communicate with people."
The result was extensive research about soldiers who were real "tankers" during the war. In Fury , Pitt portrays US Army Staff Sergeant Don "Wardaddy" Collier, who's the head of a tanker crew maneuvering a Sherman tank across Germany in a single day toward the end of the war. According to the Charlotte Observer , Pitt spoke with veterans about their experiences, including a now 90-year-old man named Ray Stewart who fought at the Battle of the Bulge as a tank gunner and driver.
"We fought the war over again right in front of those movie guys," Stewart explained to the paper. "We looked around and saw them sitting there with their mouths open. They seemed sort of flabbergasted."
Adding to the real-life details is the fact that Ayer was apparently able to secure wartime tanks to use during filming. "Tanks from all over Europe. The owners were kind enough to let us weld them, paint them and get them into the exact configurations they were in during the end of the war. The Bovington Tank Museum, after extended negotiations, let us use a type of tank that has never been in a feature before."
I watched Memento again yesterday, with Guy Pierce. From tbe year 1999 or 2000. It was among one of the first DVDs i ever purchased. Such a great film. So well put together.
I also watched The Matrix at 3am this morning. I have mixed feelings about The Matrix. Its not as revolutionary and good as all the hype made it out to be IMO. The machine they use in the car when Neo is on his way to meet Morpheous, is just silly. Its so Mad Max, Water World-ish if you know what I mean...
I also watched The Matrix at 3am this morning. I have mixed feelings about The Matrix. Its not as revolutionary and good as all the hype made it out to be IMO. The machine they use in the car when Neo is on his way to meet Morpheous, is just silly. Its so Mad Max, Water World-ish if you know what I mean...
ESOG said:
I also watched The Matrix at 3am this morning. I have mixed feelings about The Matrix. Its not as revolutionary and good as all the hype made it out to be IMO.
I remember coming out of the cinema when it first came out thinking that, as a sci-fi geek, it hadn't shown me anything I hadn't seen (or, rather, read) before. And even the Bullet Time had actually already been seen in the Smirnoff adverts that pre-dated it. Mind you, I also remember thinking "wow! How much did all those flat screen LCD monitors cost?"
One thing that has always annoyed me about the films, though, is the central conceit of "humans as batteries". I can understand why they chose that, because people weren't ready for what would have been more plausible. And that is the machines using human brains as organic computers in a vast cloud computing network. You could hang it off the whole "humans only use 10% of their brains" myth and say that it actually wasn't a myth, and that 10% was for making the human think they were in the real world, and the other 90% used by the machines. Some of that processing power would be used for running The Matrix itself. It would all make so much more sense than batteries. But, as I said, most people had little concept of cloud computing / distributed computing / botnets back then and wouldn't have understood.
Anyway, I digress. Sorry about that. It's a glitch in The PistonHeads.
Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Monday 5th November 22:48
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