Films I watched this week (Vol 2)
Discussion
fathomfive said:
cuprabob said:
fathomfive said:
Dead Mans Shoes.
It's a good 15 years old but worth a watch. Paddy Considine plays a great brooding brother out for revenge.
It's a brilliant filmIt's a good 15 years old but worth a watch. Paddy Considine plays a great brooding brother out for revenge.
ks. 
"You were never really here"
Amazon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8oYYg75Qvg
Apparently it got a 7 min standing ovation at the premiere.
Emperors new shoes springs to mind!
In a way it reminds me of the Ryan Gosling film "only god forgives" Style over substance. It's quite short and the film doesn't really explain itself o tell the story as well as I expect it to. It's all very surface stuff. no depth. I don't know if it was just me, but the sound was all over the place too. At a particularly important note, a character is dying and spilling the major info that is important. I could hardly hear him!
I mean I worked it out from the next scenes. But overly quiet dialogue, combined with VERY loud music at times, meant I was racing for the remote often!
5/10
Amazon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8oYYg75Qvg
Apparently it got a 7 min standing ovation at the premiere.
Emperors new shoes springs to mind!
In a way it reminds me of the Ryan Gosling film "only god forgives" Style over substance. It's quite short and the film doesn't really explain itself o tell the story as well as I expect it to. It's all very surface stuff. no depth. I don't know if it was just me, but the sound was all over the place too. At a particularly important note, a character is dying and spilling the major info that is important. I could hardly hear him!
I mean I worked it out from the next scenes. But overly quiet dialogue, combined with VERY loud music at times, meant I was racing for the remote often!
5/10
Hampstead
Found it on Amazon Prime this afternoon. Not normally my kind of film but I really enjoyed it, Brendan Gleeson is always great and I aspire to be as grumpy as him one day.
7.7/10
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5153236/?ref_=nm_flmg...
Found it on Amazon Prime this afternoon. Not normally my kind of film but I really enjoyed it, Brendan Gleeson is always great and I aspire to be as grumpy as him one day.
7.7/10
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5153236/?ref_=nm_flmg...
ukaskew said:
chris watton said:
including Mark Kermode, lost my respect and receptivity to their views when they clearly lied about the merit of TLJ. They cannot be trusted anymore.
Genuinely interested to know what you thought Mark Kermode (for example) gained from liking TLJ. He doesn't do any set visits or review events on distributor money, he doesn't attend Cannes or such events where you can feast on corporate hospitality. In fact he pretty much spends 3 days per week solid sat in the cinema, happily paying for his own ticket if it's not a press screening. His political views are very public, too.By any metric, around 50% of the public liked TLJ, so even by your reasoning there should still be a good number of critics who genuinely enjoyed TLJ.
For the record I liked TLJ but disliked Alita...and I watch movies in the cinema before reading any reviews. I found the Alita script to be painfully generic and I didn't care at all for their attempt at a sequel planning ending.
Either way, TLJ was boring garbage.
A random result googling for Netflix led me to The Breakfast Club to rent on Amazon, a classic I'd never actually seen. Five very different high school kids are thrown together for a whole Saturday of detention, and relationships develop. It's so old it's in SD, but still easily 7/10.
Watched "Mary Queen of Scots".
Christ, what a load of pony.
Who knew that in the 1500's both Queens (Mary & Elizabeth) would have privy councils with a high proportion of black and Asian members!
And Mary in particular had a very progressive mindset about homosexuality - kindly telling the bloke who'd had been bumming her husband that he shouldn't be ashamed of who he is. The rest of the time shes talking about girl-power and how evil the male patriarchy is.
Afterwards I googled it, and the (female) director announced at the start of the project that "no way would she be having an all-white cast".
Well, I hope one day she directs a film about, say, Martin Luther King, and casts Danny Dyer in the lead role.
Also, Margot Robbie was way less hot than she was in Wolf of Wall Street or Suicide Squad.
1 Diversity tick / 10 Political-correctness-gone-mads
Christ, what a load of pony.
Who knew that in the 1500's both Queens (Mary & Elizabeth) would have privy councils with a high proportion of black and Asian members!
And Mary in particular had a very progressive mindset about homosexuality - kindly telling the bloke who'd had been bumming her husband that he shouldn't be ashamed of who he is. The rest of the time shes talking about girl-power and how evil the male patriarchy is.
Afterwards I googled it, and the (female) director announced at the start of the project that "no way would she be having an all-white cast".
Well, I hope one day she directs a film about, say, Martin Luther King, and casts Danny Dyer in the lead role.
Also, Margot Robbie was way less hot than she was in Wolf of Wall Street or Suicide Squad.
1 Diversity tick / 10 Political-correctness-gone-mads
SCEtoAUX said:
Halb said:
PSR is an OK film, there are better if that's the vibe you want, but all you have to do is start it post landings, and it'll be all OK.
Do we mean "Saving Private Ryan" here? If so, then I think you'll find it's "SPR"Sardonicus said:
A film popped into my head the other day so thought I would post up here "Bad Boy Bubby" pretty twisted by all accounts late late TV possibly SKY coming out of a drunken slumber many moons ago after being out for the evening , needless to say didnt watch it all 
real weird 
Never heard of it but looks interesting! On my list. real weird Bullitt
This was on the other day and having watched a documentary about Steve McQueen I thought I would watch it. Funnily enough I don't recall ever having watched the whole thing before.
I really enjoyed it, it was well shot and had some very atmospheric bits and cool all over the place. It just shows that a good film is a good film.
This was on the other day and having watched a documentary about Steve McQueen I thought I would watch it. Funnily enough I don't recall ever having watched the whole thing before.
I really enjoyed it, it was well shot and had some very atmospheric bits and cool all over the place. It just shows that a good film is a good film.
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