Films I watched this week (Vol 2)
Discussion
glazbagun said:
Face Off. A favourite from my teenage years, I was afraid it could't be as good as I remember, but I was wrong.
The best bits of John Woo's Hong Kong stuff mixed with the best of 80's action. Just a brilliant action movie with great performances and a mental plot.
A country mile ahead of any of the cheap CGI action dross of today.
I went the other way. I have F/O on VHS somewhere. But now it just looks sThe best bits of John Woo's Hong Kong stuff mixed with the best of 80's action. Just a brilliant action movie with great performances and a mental plot.
A country mile ahead of any of the cheap CGI action dross of today.
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Langweilig said:
Passengers. I quite enjoyed this film. Even though I felt it "borrowed" a lot from Red Dwarf and Starship Titanic.
It's pretty good imo.But I WISH they'd done it as a mystery/horror rather than schmaltzy Hollywood romance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gksxu-yeWcU
And Lawrence is easy on the eye!
Obi Wan said:
I’m going through an Al Pacino phase at the moment. So far I’ve seen Scarface, Frankie and Johnny, the Irishman, Heat, Carlitos Way, Danny Collins all I’ve which I’ve enjoyed and I’m watching Any Given Sunday and Scent of a woman this weekend.
Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon if you get a chance. The latter often on TCM/Film4 iirc
The aforementioned Donnie Brasco of course!
And if you want a slightly odd, but good "Looking for Richard" is a sort of 2 hour documentary of Pacino making a Shakespeare play only there's no actual play at the end
S1KRR said:
Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon if you get a chance.
The latter often on TCM/Film4 iirc
The aforementioned Donnie Brasco of course!
And if you want a slightly odd, but good "Looking for Richard" is a sort of 2 hour documentary of Pacino making a Shakespeare play only there's no actual play at the end
For Al Pacino don’t forget Insomnia.The latter often on TCM/Film4 iirc
The aforementioned Donnie Brasco of course!
And if you want a slightly odd, but good "Looking for Richard" is a sort of 2 hour documentary of Pacino making a Shakespeare play only there's no actual play at the end
Great movie.
Newc said:
LuS1fer said:
Inception....nodded off towards the end...
Are you sure ? That is definitely, definitely one of my all time favourites. Especially when we are sitting at the street cafe with Cobb and Ariadne and "so how did we get here?" etc.... stunning, mind bending stuff to tie your brain up in knots
K12beano said:
Newc said:
LuS1fer said:
Inception....nodded off towards the end...
Are you sure ? That is definitely, definitely one of my all time favourites. Especially when we are sitting at the street cafe with Cobb and Ariadne and "so how did we get here?" etc.... stunning, mind bending stuff to tie your brain up in knots
Either this of The Dark Knight for Nolan's best film IMO
LuS1fer said:
Inception. God, it was dull, nodded off towards the end and turned it off.
I also found it to be tedious, utterly overblown nonsense. Much like a Looper. Another massively hyped ste film that we're all told we should admire.Interstellar was slightly better, though of the same ilk.
I think TDK, Memento & The Prestige are way, way better films.
zygalski said:
LuS1fer said:
Inception. God, it was dull, nodded off towards the end and turned it off.
I also found it to be tedious, utterly overblown nonsense. Much like a Looper. Another massively hyped ste film that we're all told we should admire.
Newc said:
Been watching Deutschland 83/86 over the last couple of weeks. Simply excellent slice of 80s cold war history and the equal paranoia of East and West.
Are these subtitled?Hopefully they are available. I look forward to seeing these as I spent most summers in my youth in East Berlin. A very interesting place which has an individual character of it's own!
phazed said:
Newc said:
Been watching Deutschland 83/86 over the last couple of weeks. Simply excellent slice of 80s cold war history and the equal paranoia of East and West.
Are these subtitled?Hopefully they are available. I look forward to seeing these as I spent most summers in my youth in East Berlin. A very interesting place which has an individual character of it's own!
S1KRR said:
[Passengers is] pretty good imo.
But I WISH they'd done it as a mystery/horror rather than schmaltzy Hollywood romance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gksxu-yeWcU
And Lawrence is easy on the eye!
That's a fascinating alternative take on the film, I wonder if the scriptwriters had something similar in mind and the producers decided between a more horror film and the romance that we got?But I WISH they'd done it as a mystery/horror rather than schmaltzy Hollywood romance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gksxu-yeWcU
And Lawrence is easy on the eye!
Unfortunately the producers have to worry about more than just 'will it make a good film?' and have to worry about the money it would bring in - I can see 'a sci-fi physiological horror starring Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence' not doing as well as 'a romance starring Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence', despite the fans of sci-fi preferring the first!
Maybe if they had lesser known stars (ie a smaller budget) they would've been more willing to take the risk but with big budget stars they wanted more chance of making money.
ben5575 said:
phazed said:
cuprabob said:
Are these subtitled?
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Yes and available on All 4
Thanks. Will give 83 a whirl this evening ./quote]
Yes and available on All 4
Oldboy, the original Korean version which has one of the most realistic fight scenes ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU8949uj5YI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU8949uj5YI
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