Films I watched this week (Vol 2)

[wjb]

I'd rather watch 2016 Ghostbusters than Clockwork orange again.

Utterly overrated bag of old ste that film.

[T-195]

Halb said:

you could have just left it at that pic.
I did watch a bit of the 2016 ghostbusters, and it isn't as bad as I thought on first watching, it's not good, or close to it, but I could see how some bits if altered would be rather ok.

It wasn't that bad.

Kate McKinnon was great on Seinfeld's Coffee and Cars.

[Halb]

T-195 said:

It wasn't that bad.

Kate McKinnon was great on Seinfeld's Coffee and Cars.

I'd say it was OK, but in comparison to the originals, it suffers mightily. Had to check which KM was. Her performance for me felt just off, out of a nickolodeon programme or something.

[motorizer]

Dragged across concrete

Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn are suspended cops who decide to rob a criminal who turns out much more dangerous than they expected. Things go south badly....

From the director of bone tomahawk I was expecting some gore and brutality at some point and it was certainly there.... dialogue was unrealistically pretentious and flowery for cops and criminals and the film was overlong though IMO, took a long time to get going so i'll say 5/10

[TCEvo]

poing said:

Rear Window

Hitchcock at his finest.

9 well swirled glasses of brandy out of 10.

Definately, superb film.

[Halb]

Pesty said:

It’s not a today’s standards thing. I much prefer most old films to most modern films.
The spent time on character development and typically had better stories that made sense.

...and as if my magic..this pops up on my yt feed (I have been smashing my way through hyperdrives vids though)
Why Action Movies Have Started to Suck: The Protagonist Throw!
HyperDrive
https://youtu.be/3r1fd5NHHfM
5mins

[hyphen]

Pesty said:

It’s not a today’s standards thing. I much prefer most old films to most modern films.

The spent time on character development and typically had better stories that made sense.

The deer hunter and the shining just happen to be two that for me are over rated.

I’ll add to that mean streets and taxi driver.

They aren't bad in fact they are pretty good.

But the hype is too much.

Where as imo clockwork orange is a masterpiece so it’s all subjective. As is casino and goodfellas etc.

Taxi driver is astonishing.

Even Tarantino agrees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw6w8WyNdUQ

Edited by hyphen on Sunday 3rd November 16:01

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Halb said:

...and as if my magic..this pops up on my yt feed (I have been smashing my way through hyperdrives vids though)
Why Action Movies Have Started to Suck: The Protagonist Throw!
HyperDrive
https://youtu.be/3r1fd5NHHfM
5mins

Quote of the vid: "A movie does not need to be realistic - only believable and internally consistent".

Totally agree. In fact, I've been saying that for years both here and on other threads. The film (or book, or whatever) should establish its rules (the framework within which you agree to suspend your disbelief) and then remain consistent within them.

[motorizer]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Halb said:

...and as if my magic..this pops up on my yt feed (I have been smashing my way through hyperdrives vids though)
Why Action Movies Have Started to Suck: The Protagonist Throw!
HyperDrive
https://youtu.be/3r1fd5NHHfM
5mins

Quote of the vid: "A movie does not need to be realistic - only believable and internally consistent".

Totally agree. In fact, I've been saying that for years both here and on other threads. The film (or book, or whatever) should establish its rules (the framework within which you agree to suspend your disbelief) and then remain consistent within them.

Yeah it's something I'd noticed myself, not necessarily the throwing but baddies that seem unbeatable at the start of the film ending up in fistfights (and throwing) by the end, there's a vampire film i recall... might be thirty days of night, where the vampires drag people off in the blink of an eye at the start, and are indulging in fisticuffs later on.....

[Halb]

I think as RLM says, you may not notice, but your brain does. In the Terminator if it touches you, there'll be no moronic choke throw, it'd just crush your windpipe or stab it's steel fingers through your throat. It wants you dead. It's not wrestling.
How many choke throws in that later terminator film?

[RemyMartin81D]

maccas99 said:

Robocop (1987 Original) on Netflix

Was actually looking around for T2 to watch again due to all the talk on hear about it, wanted to refresh my memory. Found T1 and Genysis and didn't fancy either so I plumped for this. Have to say I still really enjoyed it and the effects don't age too badly and were really cutting edge at the time. I love the Paul Verhoeven style as well with the newscasters and the funny TV - "I'd buy that for a dollar".

Also features one of my favourite quotes - "bhes leave..." So simple, yet so effective!

8 out of 10 ED 209's

Modern classic. I always loved the satire, it's actually a very well made film people tend to remember the violence. That said Murphy's death scene is still shocking (to me at least) it's so violent anf Vicious. You do end up hating and wanting him to enact revenge in the best way possible. I always felt Boddicker's death to be too simplistic but with age I realise it's actually a side show anyway. Dick Jones is the proper bad guy.

I agree thats t's so fking quotable not to mention the legendary dubbed for TV version

https://youtu.be/H-y1PAUtv3k

[Clockwork Cupcake]

RemyMartin81D said:

Modern classic. I always loved the satire, it's actually a very well made film people tend to remember the violence. That said Murphy's death scene is still shocking (to me at least) it's so violent anf Vicious. You do end up hating and wanting him to enact revenge in the best way possible. I always felt Boddicker's death to be too simplistic but with age I realise it's actually a side show anyway. Dick Jones is the proper bad guy.

There was an excellent multi-page article in New Scientist magazine not long after the film came out where they explored the concept of the film as an allegory to man losing his humanity to technology and then regaining it, and also the concept of the illusion of free will vs actual free will. The article argued that beneath the violence it was actually an intelligent film.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Halb said:

...and as if my magic..this pops up on my yt feed (I have been smashing my way through hyperdrives vids though)
Why Action Movies Have Started to Suck: The Protagonist Throw!
HyperDrive
https://youtu.be/3r1fd5NHHfM
5mins

I've been working my way through Hyperdrive's vids, thanks to your tip-off, and having done "Dystopian Sci-fi", "Military Sci-fi", "Hard Sci-fi", and "Tech Noir", I have come to realise that I have watched a LOT of sci-fi films over the years as I've seen pretty much all the films mentioned in those vids.

[BluePurpleRed]

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[Halb]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

I've been working my way through Hyperdrive's vids, thanks to your tip-off, and having done "Dystopian Sci-fi", "Military Sci-fi", "Hard Sci-fi", and "Tech Noir", I have come to realise that I have watched a LOT of sci-fi films over the years as I've seen pretty much all the films mentioned in those vids.

ditto, yet even so,hypedrive's introduced me to several I've not seen and even some I was not aware of!

[Halb]

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[Clockwork Cupcake]

Halb said:

ditto, yet even so,hypedrive's introduced me to several I've not seen and even some I was not aware of!

Yes, same here. His video on the Steampunk genre has given me a few interesting leads, and some of his other videos have also reminded me of several films on my "to watch" list which I own on DVD but haven't watched yet.

[Halb]

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[NoVetec]

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[Centurion07]

ash73 said:

wjb said:

I'd rather watch 2016 Ghostbusters than Clockwork orange again.

Utterly overrated bag of old ste that film.

Ghostbusters was on telly the other night, I didn't think it was that bad as a TV movie but I wouldn't pay to watch it. Made me laugh in places but the non stop cameos grated. Don't think it deserves all the hate it gets from miserable middle-aged men.

It deserves every bit and then some. If you can't see that then you have no place on this thread reviewing films.

Repeat after me; "the remake of Ghostbusters was an utter pile of ste".