Films I watched this week (Vol 2)

[robemcdonald]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

cuprabob said:

robemcdonald said:

ETA. Just checked your profile. It makes sense why the details I ignored were frustrating for you. If they ever made a film about the ventilation business I would probably be exactly the same. (That’s not going to happen thankfully)

That would be a breath of fresh air

It would be cool, for sure.

That would be air conditioning. I don’t do air conditioning....

[Munter]

Le Mans 66

I put it on a par with Rush.

Yes there's silly gear changes. But accept it's made for average viewers and enjoy it for what it is.

4 out of 5 wheel nuts

[Clockwork Cupcake]

robemcdonald said:

That would be air conditioning. I don’t do air conditioning....

Do you do duvets?

[anonymous-user]

Halb said:

Probably best to avoid films that deals with one's business area of expertise.

Maybe, but Rush was much better in not hamming up the racing scenes (the non racing hamming up was more than enough). They spent a lot of time talking to guys like me to make sure they didn't do the garbage shots of half throttle driving.

It doesn't help that i know the GT40 and its history extremely well.

Always a problem for someone in the industry to put their knowledge aside of course, but it could have been so much better, that's what is disappointing. Seems to be the norm in racing films though.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Anything car-related where they are meant to be going flat out, and are neck and neck with someone, and then drop a gear and floor it to go faster, annoys the hell out of me. The Fast & Furious series almost made it a cliche.

[Spydaman]

Earthquake Bird. I'm no film critic but I really enjoyed it. Only criticism was some of the subtitles weren't on screen long enough to read them.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

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[Clockwork Cupcake]

Pesty said:

I keep looking for the button that shows an entire schematic of our facility including air vents and safe rooms but it seems inoperable.

The one that's fully 3D rendered with lots of cool flyaround effects?

[Pericoloso]

Ronin was on ITV4 late last night.

Being 2.5 hours long with ad breaks ,I'm not sure I've watched it to the end before ,with a short attention span and a bit of a fidget ,I did last night.

The car chase is obviously first class ,completely forgotten that the female lead is driving the M5 and De Niro drives the Peugeot.

8 De Niros out of 10 McElhones.

[Adam B]

Joker - utterly brilliant - a relief that disturbing edgy films like this still get mad, with socially commentary on mental illness, JP is captivating 9.5:10

Now about to go and see Le Mans 66 having been inspired yesterday:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

My first 4DX movie so expecting some cornering action and smells of sweat. Will piss myself in my seat for added realism

[vonuber]

Moana. Good stuff.

8.9 positive female role models for young girls out of 10.

[Halb]

Pericoloso said:

Ronin was on ITV4 late last night.

Being 2.5 hours long with ad breaks ,I'm not sure I've watched it to the end before ,with a short attention span and a bit of a fidget ,I did last night.

The car chase is obviously first class ,completely forgotten that the female lead is driving the M5 and De Niro drives the Peugeot.

I do recall really liking Ronin. More-so when I found out the car chase they used a right hand drive car and had the bloke next to De Niro drive, so he went into full on deniro gurn mode seeing al the cars coming towards him at umpty miles and hour.

jsf said:

Maybe, but Rush was much better in not hamming up the racing scenes (the non racing hamming up was more than enough). They spent a lot of time talking to guys like me to make sure they didn't do the garbage shots of half throttle driving.

It doesn't help that i know the GT40 and its history extremely well.

Always a problem for someone in the industry to put their knowledge aside of course, but it could have been so much better, that's what is disappointing. Seems to be the norm in racing films though.

well I suppose the flipside is that gem one finds that gets it right! and you can jump up from your settee in your grundies and shout to the heavens, 'yes, yes, yes! they got it right!.'

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[Juanco20]

Peanut Butter Falcon

Don't let the strange name put you off. One of my favourite films of the year.

[TCEvo]

Point of No Return (UK: The Assassin) (1993)
Blu-ray

Hobson’s Choice for junkie cop-killer who finds herself within a shady off-book US Gov assassination program after a botched heist.

Re-make of the original La Femme Nikita, re-watch for me following a discussion on this thread a couple of weeks ago.

Lots to enjoy here: Bridget Fonda, a cool pre-insurance ad Harvey Keitel, snappy early ‘90’s Hollywood direction, Zimmer score, beige PC’s & extra points for use of L7’s “Everglade”.

[Adam B]

Juanco20 said:

Peanut Butter Falcon

Don't let the strange name put you off. One of my favourite films of the year.

Been a few compliments on here, might give it a go this week (Shia la Boof was putting me off)