Films I watched this week (NO SPOILERS) (Vol 3)

[popeyewhite]

Pommy said:

Just different and would say watch it again, it's aged well.

Might give it a go, maybe have a short Alien season at home.

[Pommy]

popeyewhite said:

Pommy said:

Just different and would say watch it again, it's aged well.

Might give it a go, maybe have a short Alien season at home.

Now that's a bloody good idea..will do the same I reckon.

[Adam.]

ZedLeg said:

Blade Runner is st too, Denis Villenueve did a much better job with the IP.

Really ?

[ZedLeg]

Adam. said:

ZedLeg said:

Blade Runner is st too, Denis Villenueve did a much better job with the IP.

Really ?

Just imo but I’ve never liked the original and loved the new one.

[parabolica]

cuprabob said:

Carl_Manchester said:

Tetris.

it's OK. it's not good, it's not bad. I did find it funny that some of it was filmed in Scotland as a replacement for 1980s Moscow .

6/10.

I remember seeing the film crews and cars at Prestwick Airport a couple of years back.

Our old office was used as a filming location - haven’t seen the film yet but it was in the trailer briefly. Very weird to see.

[Adam.]

ZedLeg said:

Just imo but I’ve never liked the original and loved the new one.

Fair enough of course

I loved both, would have thought it unusual to like one but not the other. No wrong answer of course

[ZedLeg]

Adam. said:

ZedLeg said:

Just imo but I’ve never liked the original and loved the new one.

Fair enough of course

I loved both, would have thought it unusual to like one but not the other. No wrong answer of course

I find the first one boring. TBH there might be a version I get on with, I’m not sure I’ve seen all the various versions.

I only found a version of Apocalypse Now I liked a few years ago. I think it’s called the final cut.

[Skeptisk]

popeyewhite said:

toasty said:

ajprice said:

Was it Prometheus or Covenant that had them running away down a hill from the big thing rolling down the hill?

Run. Sideways. Away. From. The. Thing.

This was the most stupid of all the stupid things in the film.

What's stupid is you let a moment of artistic licence (OK two moments if you include the black thing you wrote about a bit ago) colour your entire memory of a movie. The moments that stand out for me are the giant at the top of the waterfall at the beginning of the film and the discovery of the spaceman. I think the memories of some are coloured by an unrealistic expectation of how brilliant the latest in the Alien franchise was going to be.

Incidentally not all the previous Alien movies were good IMO, just the first two. Alien 3 was very poor, And 4 was only OK. Rose tinted specs?

I’ve tried erasing Prometheus from my memory as it was so bad. It wasn’t just the off ridiculous plot point. Almost nothing made sense and the characters just didn’t act in a believable way. The plot was silly with cod philosophy. It made me wonder how Scott had managed to make Alien and Blade Runner.

Having said that, he almost ruined BR with his suggestions that Deckard was a replicant. That makes absolutely no sense at all. Why isn’t he as strong as the other replicants? What is special about Rachel if Deckard also has false memories? Why would they risk introducing him to Rachel (as it should make him question himself)?

[ZedLeg]

TBF, Deckard's doubt about whether they're really human is kind of the main theme of the book. Blade Runner's problem is that when Scott stripped a lot of the weirdness out of the story the philosophical aspects became more incongruous.

[RizzoTheRat]

Surely there are only 2 Alien films, in the same way there was only ever 1 Highlander film.

[Skeptisk]

ZedLeg said:

TBF, Deckard's doubt about whether they're really human is kind of the main theme of the book. Blade Runner's problem is that when Scott stripped a lot of the weirdness out of the story the philosophical aspects became more incongruous.

It is decades since I read the book but I can’t recall it being implied that Deckard was a replicant himself. But I could have missed it. Although he had great ideas I don’t find a lot of Dick’s books to be that comprehensible at times. I think I finished Ubik wondering what the hell I had just read!

[C5_Steve]

Tetris

Pretty decent, I knew nothing about the story of the game getting released and whilst I appreciate it's been over dramatised the basics are there or there about. Cinematography was interesting, car chase scene in particular. It prompted my other half to get on eBay and look for an original Gameboy so must have been good (although there seem to be a lot of chances trying to cash in on the film asking for a grand for one!).

6/10

In regards to Prometheus, it was literally the Rafe Spall's character bit that ruined the film at that exact point for me. Up until then it'd been "ok, lets see where this goes" but when he TAKES OFF HIS HELMET in an unknown environment and he's the supposed expert on these things?!?! Having watched it once or twice since, those bits didn't jar me as much but it suffers from being dumbed down a lot but at the same time leaning heavily on everyone having seen all the other Alien films to cash in on nostalgia and world-building.

Of the two I prefer Covenant, substantially darker in tone and better for it. I'm very much looking forward to the Noah Hawley series having watched Legion.

[Raccaccoonie]

I enjoyed Tetris, didn't take itself too seriously and was entertaining and time flew by. Never really knew the Full story so get educated.
8/10

[President Merkin]

I booked the last seat for Tetris & the whole row disappeared.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

President Merkin said:

I booked the last seat for Tetris & the whole row disappeared.

Also....


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Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Monday 3rd April 11:04

[Snubs]

Cocaine Bear

I'm always willing to pay out rope to films like this that don't take themselves seriously. At 1hr30 it's the first film I've seen in a while that doesn't feel unnecessarily dragged out, unlike 'Everything, Everywhere All at Once Forevermore'.

There were some quite funny moments in there and it's easy to watch, with good performances from Ray Liotta and O'Shea Jackson Jr. I found myself losing interest towards the end and the CGI felt 15 years out of date, albeit in fairness I doubt they had a massive budget for CGI and you could argue it adds to the charm.

7/10

[Pommy]

Snubs said:

Cocaine Bear

I'm always willing to pay out rope to films like this that don't take themselves seriously. At 1hr30 it's the first film I've seen in a while that doesn't feel unnecessarily dragged out, unlike 'Everything, Everywhere All at Once Forevermore'.

There were some quite funny moments in there and it's easy to watch, with good performances from Ray Liotta and O'Shea Jackson Jr. I found myself losing interest towards the end and the CGI felt 15 years out of date, albeit in fairness I doubt they had a massive budget for CGI and you could argue it adds to the charm.

7/10

2 words 'meat crayon'

[Fermit]

Just watch Champions (2023) online, on a streaming site.

A former minor-league basketball coach receives a court order to manage a team of players with intellectual disabilities. Despite his doubts, he soon realizes that together they can go further than they ever imagined.

Utterly superb, a solid 8/10. The sensitive subject matter, which could very easily be properly mucked up, was handled superbly. Some real laugh out loud moments, and at just over 2 hours long it could well have felt dragged out, yet it didn't.

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[Brother D]

John Wick Chapter 4

This was really good as an action flick. I thought they had lost their way a bit with the last one, but this one came back strong. A few laughs both planned and from excess in some in the fight scenes (which did in some parts seem to drag on just a little too long).

I think it was nearly 3 hours but there wasn't really any lulls and they've introduced a new character so will have to see where that goes as seemed like there was more charatcter development than you would expect...

Anyway really impressive action movie and surprisingly well written imo

[Pommy]

Fermit said:

Just watch Champions (2023) online, on a streaming site.

A former minor-league basketball coach receives a court order to manage a team of players with intellectual disabilities. Despite his doubts, he soon realizes that together they can go further than they ever imagined.

Utterly superb, a solid 8/10. The sensitive subject matter, which could very easily be properly mucked up, was handled superbly. Some real laugh out loud moments, and at just over 2 hours long it could well have felt dragged out, yet it didn't.

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Can I ask what the laugh out loud moments were as I don't really recall any?