Films I watched this week (Vol 2)

[irocfan]

toon10 said:

V8mate said:

phazed said:

I switched off Mad Max Something or other Road after an hour.

I could be heard muttering, jezz, will it ever end!

I turned it off after 20 minutes. The original is one of my top 5 movies of all time, but this^ was utter drivel.

Lucky you. I sat through the whole thing

wow! I thought I was the only one who didn't see the 'mastery' of this, rather thought it was an incoherent, bloated mess.

[V8mate]

Halb said:

V8mate said:

Halb said:

V8mate said:

I turned it off after 20 minutes. The original is one of my top 5 movies of all time, but this^ was utter drivel.

the original or Mad Max 2:The Road Warrior?

¿Que?

I mean, do you mean Mad Max (1979)?
I'm just wondering if you rate that over 2.

I much prefer the original.

For me, it's the very starkness of the original which truly reflects the dystopian future. The use of primitive imagery/camera work... it's a raw, horror story in the same club as Winner's Death Wish.

I can see why some people may prefer 2: it has more story and substance to it. It's a more rounded and polished 'movie'. The original is a warning.

[Adam B]

A Simple Favour

Well that was bloody good! Sharp, original, great script, some genuine funny moments, dark comical twists.

Great one to take the missus to, she will enjoy the strong sassy female leads, you will enjoy the female leads

8.5/10

Blake bloody Lively - bet her and Ryan's kids are right munters

[Evil Jack]

irocfan said:

toon10 said:

V8mate said:

phazed said:

I switched off Mad Max Something or other Road after an hour.

I could be heard muttering, jezz, will it ever end!

I turned it off after 20 minutes. The original is one of my top 5 movies of all time, but this^ was utter drivel.

Lucky you. I sat through the whole thing

wow! I thought I was the only one who didn't see the 'mastery' of this, rather thought it was an incoherent, bloated mess.

Same here - kept falling asleep it was so boring.

[yellowjack]

Nothing modern for me this week.

Stuck in a hotel in Reading on a Monday afternoon, I caught "First Of The Few" though.

Filmed during the war, not after it, and released in 1942, at a time when German air raids were still very much an ongoing danger.

Leslie Howard directs and stars as one Reginald Joseph Mitchell. All very clipped in acting terms, and I wasn't a fan of David Niven as Geoffrey Crisp. But it's a well told story, albeit with a strong whiff of wartime propaganda. Early scenes quite poor in terms of model work and effects, but then "there was a war on, don't you know!" Later in the film it uses actual footage of Spitfires in squadron service, and I'm pretty sure at one point I spotted a Heinkel 111 bomber wearing RAF markings, quite possible given that the Enemy Aircraft Flight operated a number of enemy aircraft back then.

Some quite obviously studio-bound scenes, but again, given the time it was made, it did a great job of telling the story with the background of the Schneider Trophy air races before the war. I'd quite forgotten how good it was, and great testament to the gratitude felt toward RJ Mitchell, especially as he wasn't that long dead.

Quite a few facts that may well have been a bit "awkward" for cinema audiences in 1942 were glossed over, or deleted completely. Rosamund John, who played Mitchell's wife Diana? She was only born in 1913, but Mitchell had married Florence Dayson, an Infant's School headmistress, in 1918. No mention was made of his diagnosis with Colon cancer, nor his colostomy, in 1933. Niven's role as "Crisp" also wasn't factual. Jeffrey Quill had been a test pilot heavily involved in the Spitfire's development, although Niven's character was a composite of a number of pilots, and his "based on" role helped bind the story together as he narrated it too, and "Crisp" was the RAF station commander setting the fact straight for his pilots in early/closing scenes.

What struck me after watching the film was how lucky the RAF was that he survived to design the Spitfire at all. Born in 1895 he was 8 years old when the Wright Brothers made the first sustained powered flight. He was very much "of serving age" during WW1, but had been employed as an apprentice at a locomotive engineering works in 1911, at the age of 16. In 1917, at the age of 22, he applied to Supermarine for a position as assistant to Hubert Scott-Paine, the owner and designer.

How different might things have been for Britain during 1941, if a young RJ Mitchell had been called up and shipped to France as canon fodder way back in 1917? Almost unthinkable now, history without the Spitfire. And in this centenary year of the end of WW1, sobering to think of just how many inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs the world lost among those millions of lives taken. All that from watching an old black and white movie on a Monday afternoon...

[anonymous-user]

i always listen to this song to motivate me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u4Md_aXVJE

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING - Spitfire

[wjb]

Adam B said:

Blake bloody Lively - bet her and Ryan's kids are right munters

I prefer his first wife

But yeah, I concur that it's not a bad trade

[phazed]

V8mate said:

I much prefer the original.

For me, it's the very starkness of the original which truly reflects the dystopian future. The use of primitive imagery/camera work... it's a raw, horror story in the same club as Winner's Death Wish.

I can see why some people may prefer 2: it has more story and substance to it. It's a more rounded and polished 'movie'. The original is a warning.

I agree with all of the above.

I saw the original will it first came out and was bowled over by it compared to other films of the time.

[Veeayt]

wjb said:

Adam B said:

Blake bloody Lively - bet her and Ryan's kids are right munters

I prefer his first wife

But yeah, I concur that it's not a bad trade

Alanis Morisette, while being a good singer, resembles a horse man, you can't be serious

I just read he also has a daughter whose name is James

[Cotty]

V8mate said:

I much prefer the original.

For me, it's the very starkness of the original which truly reflects the dystopian future. The use of primitive imagery/camera work... it's a raw, horror story in the same club as Winner's Death Wish.

I can see why some people may prefer 2: it has more story and substance to it. It's a more rounded and polished 'movie'. The original is a warning.

Love that first chase in Mad Max when they are chasing down the Nightrider.

[Adam B]

Veeayt said:

Alanis Morisette, while being a good singer, resembles a horse man, you can't be serious

I just read he also has a daughter whose name is James

I know you are joking but he didn't marry AM, he did marry Scarlett

lucky git

Edited by Adam B on Wednesday 26th September 16:25

[anonymous-user]

Adam B said:

A Simple Favour

Well that was bloody good! Sharp, original, great script, some genuine funny moments, dark comical twists.

Great one to take the missus to, she will enjoy the strong sassy female leads, you will enjoy the female leads

8.5/10

Blake bloody Lively - bet her and Ryan's kids are right munters

Went to see this on Saturday, enjoyed it quite a lot.

Bonus was it seems to have attracted a lot of top totty to my cinema to watch it.

[ukaskew]

Crazy Rich Asians

Given the good reviews and the fact I rarely dislike films I was surprisingly bored by this. Yes it was great to see some different scenery and a completely different cast to the usual Hollywood rom-com, but that aside it was very by the numbers. Blockers had this beat in pretty much every respect in terms of romantic comedies this year.

I wanted to like it far more than I actually did.

[Bullett]

Anon

A good initial idea, nicely shot, stylish (cool cars), tits and violence.
Sort of drifted off part way through and never really became the sum of its parts. it just felt like they didn't really know how to finish it and that it should have had a deeper fascist government/control angle which was touched on in a few scenes but never got going.

GDPR had obviously be rescinded by this point.

You ain't seen me right/google

[RizzoTheRat]

Watched Batman Begins last night. While it was a decent reboot of the franchise, the engineer in me can't cope with the concept of a device that vaporise all water within several hundred meters, including that in underground pipes, but doesn't seem to effect people standing right next to it

2100/2450MHz from me

[stongle]

RizzoTheRat said:

Watched Batman Begins last night. While it was a decent reboot of the franchise, the engineer in me can't cope with the concept of a device that vaporise all water within several hundred meters, including that in underground pipes, but doesn't seem to effect people standing right next to it

2100/2450MHz from me

Good grief, your head would explode trying to figure out how they got the T1000 (from Terminator 2) back in time then!

[Clockwork Cupcake]

RizzoTheRat said:

Watched Batman Begins last night. While it was a decent reboot of the franchise, the engineer in me can't cope with the concept of a device that vaporise all water within several hundred meters, including that in underground pipes, but doesn't seem to effect people standing right next to it

2100/2450MHz from me

And, furthermore, that nobody had boiled a kettle, had a hot steamy shower, or otherwise vaporised this water in the intervening time.

[RizzoTheRat]

stongle said:

Good grief, your head would explode trying to figure out how they got the T1000 (from Terminator 2) back in time then!

Shhh!

[marcosgt]

My son bought "Solo" and we watched it Tuesday.

I was all ready to hate it - I mean HOW can anyone be Han Solo, except Harrison Ford and, to be fair, he wasn't the Solo we know, but as a back story I thought it worked remarkably well and while I'm sure some found the references hammy, I loved them.

Especially the "I hate you.... I know" lines :biggrin:

It didn't have a surfeit of throwaway characters who served no real purpose either (eg Forest Whitaker!), which was a welcome change.

Probably the non-original SW trilogy film I've enjoyed the most.

8/10 from me.

M

[Veeayt]

marcosgt said:

My son bought "Solo" and we watched it Tuesday.

I too watched it with my son who is 12, and while there's nothing bad about it, there's also nothing good. The ending was borderline boring.

While we at it, I'd like to mention Danny Glover's character. With all the fuzz going around 'This is America', I expected a bit more of the promised charisma and acting skills. Instead if you pay attention to this character he didn't do a single thing for the plot and even rarely spoke for that matter. Maybe it's me who is a fool but there was nothing charismatic about him.