Films I watched this week (Vol 2)

[V8mate]

ajprice said:

jsf said:

GTI16V said:

I watched "Mandy" with Nicholas Cage on Sky this week
Erm..............WTF?!!!

Probably the most surreal, bizzare, trippy and batst mental film I've seen for years. Nicholas Cage goes full on crazy once the st really hits the fan and completely dominates every scene like some deranged parody of himself.

I still don't know what to make of it, but it definitely stayed with me and visually it's stunning.

Great isnt it.

all of what GTI16V said, and yes it is great

I've had this on the USB stick I feed my TV with since December, but always seemed to have prioritised other films ahead of it.
Your prompts put that right this evening.

Wow. Wow. Wow.
Any film which leads in playing King Crimson has my attention, and what a refreshing change to the mediocrity that has filled film releases in recent times it turned out to be. Wonderful hark back to the psychedelic era and superbly acted by all involved. Can't believe it's a 6.6 on IMDB... though given the visual diet Hollywood is feeding us these days, and the morons who consume it, maybe I can.

If you liked this film, I'd very much recommend 2013's A Field in England; essentially a psychedelic, drug-fuelled scene from Civil War-era England... set in a field! In fact, pretty much any film from Rook Films is ace.

As for Mandy, it's a solid nine trips out of ten hallucinations.

[RizzoTheRat]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Dune

Every bit as bonkers as I remember it.

Special effects haven't aged very well, and the acting is poorer than I remember, but still entertaining.
(edit: although not as much as I remember)

3 little makers / 1 Shai-hulud.

I'm just reading the book for the first time, and to be honest it's taken a while tog et in to it. Sounds like maybe I shouldn't bother with the film.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

RizzoTheRat said:

I'm just reading the book for the first time, and to be honest it's taken a while tog et in to it. Sounds like maybe I shouldn't bother with the film.

The film is an utter mess, and rather incomprehensible without reading the book first, yet a travesty if you have.

The first time I ever watched it, it was having not read the books first but in the company of someone who had, who was able to explain it to me as we went along. Fortunately it was on home video so we could pause it, rather than talking in a cinema.

[Adam B]

Halb said:

Fading Gigolo, lovely lil slice of New York life. John Tuturro, Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Liev Schriber.
Great

sky netflix or Amazon please?

[tobinen]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

RizzoTheRat said:

I'm just reading the book for the first time, and to be honest it's taken a while tog et in to it. Sounds like maybe I shouldn't bother with the film.

The film is an utter mess, and rather incomprehensible without reading the book first, yet a travesty if you have.

The first time I ever watched it, it was having not read the books first but in the company of someone who had, who was able to explain it to me as we went along. Fortunately it was on home video so we could pause it, rather than talking in a cinema.

I found the book helped me out with the film, but the books (Children of Dune and the other one) are hard-going, or they were for me as a young teenager.

Dune the film is worth it simply for Sean Young and Francesca Annis in stilsuits

[nonsequitur]

Billy Liar, with Tom Courtenay. From 1963, a classic black and white slice of domestic life, but with Billy retreating into his own private fantasy country when he gets frustrated with the mundane everyday.

i think it was julie Christie's first film playing one of Billy's girlfriends.

[Gargamel]

tobinen said:

I found the book helped me out with the film, but the books (Children of Dune and the other one) are hard-going, or they were for me as a young teenager.

Dune the film is worth it simply for Sean Young and Francesca Annis in stilsuits

There are six Dune books, but they get increasingly bizarre and after a while it is hard to care about anyone in them, or what happens to them, especially as they jump hundreds of years.

I watched The Social Network. It was pretty funny and I was expecting a Zuckerberg love in, but actually it is nothing like that.

A solid 8 likes out of 10 lawsuits

[V8mate]

[redacted]

[Halb]

Adam B said:

Halb said:

Fading Gigolo, lovely lil slice of New York life. John Tuturro, Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Liev Schriber.
Great

sky netflix or Amazon please?

I've deleted it now, but I recorded it via sky box from BBC2, I think, it was from one of the basic channels. I really only watch Atlantic, BBC2...erm, that's mostly it.

[RizzoTheRat]

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[Pesty]

RizzoTheRat said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Dune

Every bit as bonkers as I remember it.

Special effects haven't aged very well, and the acting is poorer than I remember, but still entertaining.
(edit: although not as much as I remember)

3 little makers / 1 Shai-hulud.

I'm just reading the book for the first time, and to be honest it's taken a while tog et in to it. Sounds like maybe I shouldn't bother with the film.

I’ve read the book. I like the book. I still love the film although I’m in the minority.

The vision laid out on screen is epic. He hanged the story added bits and lynch weirdness. Yes the effects have aged and he’s tried to fit it all in one movie that could have been three.

Bear. That in mind and think of it as a different version. Great score, great visuals, it really has a lot going for it.

[grumbledoak]

Pesty said:

I’ve read the book. I like the book. I still love the film although I’m in the minority.

The vision laid out on screen is epic. He hanged the story added bits and lynch weirdness. Yes the effects have aged and he’s tried to fit it all in one movie that could have been three.

Bear. That in mind and think of it as a different version. Great score, great visuals, it really has a lot going for it.

I liked Dune the film too. I've never read the books, though I have downloaded them now they are £1.99 on kindle.

[chris watton]

grumbledoak said:

Pesty said:

I’ve read the book. I like the book. I still love the film although I’m in the minority.

The vision laid out on screen is epic. He hanged the story added bits and lynch weirdness. Yes the effects have aged and he’s tried to fit it all in one movie that could have been three.

Bear. That in mind and think of it as a different version. Great score, great visuals, it really has a lot going for it.

I liked Dune the film too. I've never read the books, though I have downloaded them now they are £1.99 on kindle.

I too have a soft spot for this film, and if a special edition blu ray version was ever released, I would certainly buy it.

I think the musical score helps a lot, as it does for Conan the Barbarian.

[maccas99]

chris watton said:

I too have a soft spot for this film, and if a special edition blu ray version was ever released, I would certainly buy it.

I think the musical score helps a lot, as it does for Conan the Barbarian.

New Dune movie is on the way - https://www.space.com/new-dune-movie-adaptation-be...

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Pesty said:

Bear. That in mind and think of it as a different version. Great score, great visuals, it really has a lot going for it.

There exists an extended "Special TV Edition" with an extra 35 minutes of footage. I have it on DVD. It is so far from David Lynch's vision that he successfully got the director's name changed to Allen Smithee (an official pseudonym from the Guild of Directors).

It's very different in places. And the sound and music in the extra footage is very much "bad TV movie" standard and feels very disjointed. I wouldn't recommend it as a first viewing over the theatrical release, but if you have read the books and like the film, then it is worth watching as a curiosity.

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Tuesday 14th May 10:28

[Pesty]

grumbledoak said:

I liked Dune the film too. I've never read the books, though I have downloaded them now they are £1.99 on kindle.

Children of dune is my favourite. Just be aware its all dialogue and space pollitics.

There an no wierding modules or whatever they are called.

I did not say this, i am not here.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Pesty said:

I did not say this, i am not here.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

One of the things that really annoyed me in the film was that Jessica is a Bene Gesserit, who have supreme control over their emotions, but loses her st during the flight over the deep desert during the escape from the attack, and the subsequent escape over the sand, and does the whole Damsel in Distress trope, whilst Paul is all stoic and in control. In the books it was very much the other way round as I recall.

Still, that's just one of a litany (against fear) of issues with the film.

Having said all that, I still have a soft spot for the film. But I'm really looking forward to the new film due to it being helmed by Denis Villeneuve. If anyone can pull it off, he can.

[Halb]

The Shallow
had me gripped, great shark film, similar to others of that nature; the Reef, Open Water etc, but thank fk it had an ending I found palatable

[biggbn]

Wind river on Netflix, very watchable, good story.