Films I watched this week

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ukaskew said:

One thing in particular I did enjoy with a virtually sold out Three Billboards screening was the quiet reactions from others, it's literally a film where you could laugh out loud one second and feel bad for doing so the next, so that was kinda fun absorbing others reactions at the same time.

Unfortunately when Peter Dinklage said he was "off the to the little boys room" both myself and my son laughed out loud , we were the only ones in the cinema to do so

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The Spruce goose said:

SystemParanoia said:

12 Years a Slave

Powerful moving film..
Made me well up in places
So much hate for no damn reason

Edit: Rating 9/10 .. a few scenes mean im unable to watch with the kids.

Great Film, sad that Solomen disappeared into obscurity. It is also weird to think slavery still exists in this country , 50-100k people living still in slavery.

I think he had enough of being 'popular' and just wanted to life free, not exchange bloody shackles for golden ones.

I also don't think he was much of a natural leader.. just a man doing what he needed to to survive, and waiting for his opportunity.

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Clockwork Cupcake said:

Your Name or, rather, Kimi no Na wa

Absolutely spellbinding. I genuinely did not know where the story was going nor how it would end - it could have gone in any of several directions.

I picked up several call forwards and call backs throughout the film, so one to watch again I think.

Saw it on Sunday too. It was a special 2 day showing in the theaters here. Amazing film.

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SystemParanoia said:

The Spruce goose said:

SystemParanoia said:

12 Years a Slave

Powerful moving film..
Made me well up in places
So much hate for no damn reason

Edit: Rating 9/10 .. a few scenes mean im unable to watch with the kids.

Great Film, sad that Solomen disappeared into obscurity. It is also weird to think slavery still exists in this country , 50-100k people living still in slavery.

I think he had enough of being 'popular' and just wanted to life free, not exchange bloody shackles for golden ones.

I also don't think he was much of a natural leader.. just a man doing what he needed to to survive, and waiting for his opportunity.

It still blows my mind they had segregation in the USA in my lifetime.

One of the most moving films made.

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jsf said:

SystemParanoia said:

The Spruce goose said:

SystemParanoia said:

12 Years a Slave

Powerful moving film..
Made me well up in places
So much hate for no damn reason

Edit: Rating 9/10 .. a few scenes mean im unable to watch with the kids.

Great Film, sad that Solomen disappeared into obscurity. It is also weird to think slavery still exists in this country , 50-100k people living still in slavery.

I think he had enough of being 'popular' and just wanted to life free, not exchange bloody shackles for golden ones.

I also don't think he was much of a natural leader.. just a man doing what he needed to to survive, and waiting for his opportunity.

It still blows my mind they had segregation in the USA in my lifetime.

One of the most moving films made.

South Africa too

I can understand those that rose up and took a militant approach to try and gain rights and equality..

I just cant for the life of me understand how the likes of Dr. MLKing, Marcus Garvey or Frederick Douglass etc managed to stay so calm and seemingly stoical throughout their life. despite endless reasons and understandable excuses, to take up arms. and people behind them willing to march if only they said the word.

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Getting back to, “Darkest Hour “, I was staggered to discover that Gary Oldman played the mad killer detective in “Léon”!

When you look at the two characters, (Churchill & mad detective) side-by-side, it seems incredible.

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And the main villian in The Fifth Element, and Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK. Oldman really is one of those actors who can disappear into his roles and it takes you a while to work out it's him. Whole reason I loved Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was his (almost completely silent) acting.

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I've been a fan of Oldman for as long as he has been in Films, Leon is such a great film anyway, but his depiction of the bent copper is brilliant.

[200Plus Club]

3 billboards outside ebbing Missouri

Actually very impressed, as good as all the hype. 3 great performance from the leads.
One of those films that gets the entire audience vocal, sighing, laughing, almost crying.
Well worth seeing.

[Eddie Strohacker]

Just thinking back to the Polo/Polio gag.

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jsf said:

I've been a fan of Oldman for as long as he has been in Films, Leon is such a great film anyway, but his depiction of the bent copper is brilliant.

And lets not forget.....

[ukaskew]

Just got back from Darkest Hour, I admittedly probably got a lot more from the actual story than others because shamefully I wasn't that up on the nuts and bolts of it All, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

The tube train scene was a huge misstep and presumably utterly fabricated, but otherwise I was impressed. Oldman was ridiculously good and props to the makeup/prosthetics teams as his transformation was utterly seamless.

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DoubleTime said:

jsf said:

I've been a fan of Oldman for as long as he has been in Films, Leon is such a great film anyway, but his depiction of the bent copper is brilliant.

And lets not forget.....

My personal fave is the psycho copper in Leon, but it's hard to believe this is him too

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ukaskew said:

Just got back from Darkest Hour, I admittedly probably got a lot more from the actual story than others because shamefully I wasn't that up on the nuts and bolts of it All, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

The tube train scene was a huge misstep and presumably utterly fabricated, but otherwise I was impressed. Oldman was ridiculously good and props to the makeup/prosthetics teams as his transformation was utterly seamless.

He’s going to get the Best Actor Oscar for it for sure, Oscars love “transformational” performances and he’s overdue an Oscar too (which also counts). He and Francis McDormand must be at unbackable odds I think.

[MissChief]

Molly's game. It was...a little strange. Elba and Chastain were in it for the majority of scenes and they did well in the scenes together but for a film to work well, I feel anyway, you need to have a connection to the story or the characters. I didn't really feel that. I usually like Sorkin stuff, The West Wing is one of my most favourite TV shows ever, but this one fell a little flat for me. Three billboards... is by far the better movie. Chastain did play the part well though I must say.

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ukaskew said:

...The tube train scene was a huge misstep and presumably utterly fabricated...

Apparently not; from what I've heard that scene is based on a true event, although I suspect they 'enhanced' it for obvious reasons; Gary Oldman was talking to Simon Mayo about it last week.

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MissChief said:

Molly's game. It was...a little strange. Elba and Chastain were in it for the majority of scenes and they did well in the scenes together but for a film to work well, I feel anyway, you need to have a connection to the story or the characters. I didn't really feel that. I usually like Sorkin stuff, The West Wing is one of my most favourite TV shows ever, but this one fell a little flat for me. Three billboards... is by far the better movie. Chastain did play the part well though I must say.

Pretty much agree with that. I thought Molly's Game was superbly performed and I did enjoy it but it felt a bit sterile. That may be partly due to me seeing Three Billboards a week or two before it, which had similarly excellent performances but a lot more heart.

Three Billboards (and The Shape of Water) will stick with me for a long long time.

It was fun to see Michael Cera doing something a bit different though (playing Tobey Maguire, as I understand it).

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ukaskew said:

It was fun to see Michael Cera doing something a bit different though (playing Tobey Maguire, as I understand it).

I was wondering who his character was based on; figured it would be someone like Toby or Orlando Bloom.

[Halb]

Mr Homes, wonderful film, fine performances all round.

[durbster]

The Red Turtle
Superb animation from Studio Ghibli. It has no dialogue making it all the more amazing that it's compelling through to the end.

The story is fairly straightforward. How they tell it is sublime.