Films I watched this week (Vol 2)
Discussion
Midsommar - Directors Cut
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Three hour information video from Swedish tourist board. Come for the sun and pretty flowers, stay for the weird pagan stuff.
Basically don't take your moany girlfriend if you're not really into her anymore but are too lazy to dump her. Probabaly won't end well for you.
9 giant wooden mallets out of 10 smashed faces
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Three hour information video from Swedish tourist board. Come for the sun and pretty flowers, stay for the weird pagan stuff.
Basically don't take your moany girlfriend if you're not really into her anymore but are too lazy to dump her. Probabaly won't end well for you.
9 giant wooden mallets out of 10 smashed faces
popeyewhite said:
Can anyone explain to me why Shawshank is so feted? Think I've seen it twice just to try to understand what the fuss was about but I remained just as ignorant! Why do people like it so much?
I think the problem with Shawshank is everyone going on about it being an amazing film sets up expectations that are tricky to meet for those who have not yet seen it. When I first saw it I knew nothing about it at all. No-one was talking about it and I think it was actually a flop in it's run in the cinema. So my experience was a film I had not even really heard of and I had no expectations of it. I ended up loving it.I actually find if people really hype a film up to me before I have seen it I rarely end up liking it very much. The more buzz a film gets in fact the more likely when I actually see it it's going to fall flat for me. It's very rare an extremely hyped films lives up to expectations. In fact if the general buzz is that a film is nothing special I am more likely to end up enjoying it. That happened just recently with Once upon a time in Hollywood. The buzz was it was long and boring and nothing happened. So of course I really enjoyed it and in fact would rate it as the best film I have seen this year.
Edited by dvb70 on Thursday 14th November 09:31
Dr Sleep - caught this last night after a revisit to The Shinning the other week. It seems to have gotten some bad press but I thought it was a really good movie with a great storyline and all tied in nicely for the finale. Only thing I would say is Abra was a little too brave, going head on into various situations and then not really showing much emotion to her fathers death
8 axe slams out of 10 bathroom doors
8 axe slams out of 10 bathroom doors
Big Raff said:
Dr Sleep - caught this last night after a revisit to The Shinning the other week. It seems to have gotten some bad press but I thought it was a really good movie with a great storyline and all tied in nicely for the finale. Only thing I would say is Abra was a little too brave, going head on into various situations and then not really showing much emotion to her fathers death
Saw it last week and really enjoyed it. It managed to be faithful to both the book and the Stanley Kubrick 'Shining'. Rebecca Ferguson is very nice to look at too
8 axe slams out of 10 bathroom doors
Saw it last week and really enjoyed it. It managed to be faithful to both the book and the Stanley Kubrick 'Shining'. Rebecca Ferguson is very nice to look at too
8 axe slams out of 10 bathroom doors
Raising Arizona (1987)
Blu-Ray
More Cohen Brothers, slapstick nonsense this time.
Reformed crim & lady wife copper, keen to start a family, "acquire" a baby from prominent local couple with an abundance of kids. Sniff of baby-return reward money draws out the hunters.
Pretty funny in places, many of the usual faces, looks great & it's still one of Nick Cage's best performances IMO.
Blu-Ray
More Cohen Brothers, slapstick nonsense this time.
Reformed crim & lady wife copper, keen to start a family, "acquire" a baby from prominent local couple with an abundance of kids. Sniff of baby-return reward money draws out the hunters.
Pretty funny in places, many of the usual faces, looks great & it's still one of Nick Cage's best performances IMO.
TCEvo said:
deadslow said:
not generally a fan of Cage, but this film is a laugh-out-loud cracker
Looking at wiki, that man has made a lot of films; only a handful of decent ones though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLAtWvCxGPk
Pesty said:
TCEvo said:
deadslow said:
not generally a fan of Cage, but this film is a laugh-out-loud cracker
Looking at wiki, that man has made a lot of films; only a handful of decent ones though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLAtWvCxGPk
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