Yeah. The ensemble cast is brilliant. Paul Whitehouse, Tambor, Palin ,Winstone, Isaacs, Buscemi......
I'm amazed Stephen Fry and Rowan Atkinson didn't make a cameo appearance. You should watch this movie.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 10:09 pm
by rowan
Friend of mine directed this:
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2018 8:55 pm
by paddy no 11
Death of stalin - brilliant
I, tonya, good show, worth a look
Phantom thread - very good, is pretty much what you'd expect
Re: RE: Re: Last film watched
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2018 10:19 pm
by Donny osmond
paddy no 11 wrote:Death of stalin - brilliant
I, tonya, good show, worth a look
Phantom thread - very good, is pretty much what you'd expect
I, Tonya was some of the best acting I can remember seeing. Feckin grim plot, but very watchable for all that.
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Re: Last film watched
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2018 4:01 pm
by Mikey Brown
Annihilation. Proper crap. If you think you haven’t seen t, well, you have.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 11:25 pm
by kk67
Amadeus.
In honour of Milos Forman I bought the DVD this afternoon. Fecking superb film, Peter Shaffer is the writer.
I might have a fault with my new JBL soundbar. It cuts out the background noise ?. It cuts out totally at silence ??.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 7:15 pm
by kk67
Brimstone.
Guy Pearce is a fantastic actor. Him and Mark Rylance are two of the finest actors I've ever seen but this is not a movie I will watch again. I'd usually be happy to watch a decent Western more than once..... even a half decent Western and I'll watch it a few times. But this is super ugly.
On a lighter note... C5 had 'Dances with Wolves' as their Sunday family fare.
Strangely, someone at C5 decided not to include the subtitles in the broadcast. Which meant that the lengthy polemics dealing with why: 'we can't trust Whitey' were totally lost.
It was such a bizarre moment that I actually started to question whether the original movie had subtitles. When I realized I was translating the Sioux language, I knew it was a f*ck up.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 12:10 am
by WaspInWales
Avengers: Infinity War.
Saw this the other day with my 12 year old son. He loved it, but I thought it was a massive pile of wank.
Too much happening, too many characters (which may have been the point, but it was just overly pointless).
My son is into the Marvel universe thing, but my experience is limited to a few movies, without the need for much of the back story.
I liked Deadpool, Ant-Man and Gruaniads of the Galaxy, but can live without the others I've seen.
This is going to drag on for many a year, before people start to figure out that the plot lines and characters are pretty much interchangeable and divert their attentions to whatever else.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 12:35 am
by WaspInWales
Ready Player One on the other hand...
...Loved it!
CGI rich, soppy storyline, loser overcomes adversity, loser overcomes the odds to win the 'game', kids Vs adults, good Vs evil, corporations...blah blah blah, but I thought it was a more than decent flick.
Haven't read the book, didn't know one existed, so just judged the movie on what I saw, and I enjoyed it and the nostalgic references.
I was really looking forward to this film after the hype from the trailers, and part of me thought the film would be crap, but I liked it.
Give me this over x amount of 'superheroes' fighting evil and threats against the Earth, any day!
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 9:45 am
by Mikey Brown
For some reason I flicked through batman vs superman. I thought it would be a pile of garbage but funny. It wasn’t that funny though.
Confirmed to me that, as I suspected, every single one of these superhero films are totally shite.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 11:03 am
by OptimisticJock
I enjoyed infinity war but do agree there's too many characters that I'm not interested in. I dont really care about Black panther, vision, visions burd, the budget iron men and probably another couple. If you're not into marvel I can see why you wouldn't enjoy it.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Sun May 06, 2018 1:23 am
by WaspInWales
cashead wrote:
WaspInWales wrote:Avengers: Infinity War.
Saw this the other day with my 12 year old son. He loved it, but I thought it was a massive pile of wank.
Too much happening, too many characters (which may have been the point, but it was just overly pointless).
My son is into the Marvel universe thing, but my experience is limited to a few movies, without the need for much of the back story.
I liked Deadpool, Ant-Man and Gruaniads of the Galaxy, but can live without the others I've seen.
This is going to drag on for many a year, before people start to figure out that the plot lines and characters are pretty much interchangeable and divert their attentions to whatever else.
Infinity War works better when you view it as a film about Thanos, his motivations (bring balance to the universe by culling 50% of the population, for the greater good) and his personality - he's not truly evil, he believes he is being altruistic, and there even is some good in him but at the same time, he's absolutely committed to his goals as well, no matter the cost. The Russo Brothers who directed it have said as much, and his narrative arc in the film even follows that sort of structure.
Out of the three Avengers films, it's the only one I enjoyed, but it does have the common issue that always besets comic book cross-over events or ensemble pictures - the huge cast of characters is difficult to wield effectively.
In terms of the rest of the MCU films, it's really a case of what you're into since a fair few of them feel like other genre films, which happen to feature Marvel characters: Ant-Man is basically a heist film, the last couple of Captain America films are very much espionage films, Thor: Ragnarok is a buddy film, and so on.
I agree that Thanos was the strongest/most interesting character in the movie. Says a lot when multi-million/billion dollar superheroes are up against him, but at the same time it just paves the way for the follow up when it's revealed all the culled population have just been sent to a parallel universe and can be saved by the remaining Avengers with a little help from someone close to Thanos. Rinse and repeat.
No doubt all the Marvel films fall into generic categories such as heist, espionage and buddy flicks but they're all about good vs evil, overcoming adversity, against the odds, etc, etc...
I've never been into comics so my default setting may be stopping me from appreciating these films for how others perceive them. That said, I grew up on Superman and Star Wars movies and I've definitely appreciated them, no matter how corny they have been.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Mon May 07, 2018 1:27 pm
by morepork
Sorry, after the worthless drivel that was Thor Rankcock, no more of that staid, dull superhero formula for me.
Baddie sets up catastrophic event >>> goodies battle it out, get slapped about then re-group >>> some heartfelt revelations amongst the cast that would make an '80s teen horror movie blush >>> big final battle royale >>>> open ended conclusion set up for the next spunking of enough resources to educate 50 000 children for a decade.
Fark that.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 7:49 am
by zer0
Deadpool is what you'll be wanting then. Aiming to see DP2 sooner rather than later.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 11:03 am
by Banquo
zer0 wrote:Deadpool is what you'll be wanting then. Aiming to see DP2 sooner rather than later.
me too. First one was excellent- the marketing for the second one is a work of genius too.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 12:19 pm
by Numbers
Banquo wrote:
zer0 wrote:Deadpool is what you'll be wanting then. Aiming to see DP2 sooner rather than later.
me too. First one was excellent- the marketing for the second one is a work of genius too.
A mate of mine saw it earlier in the week, apparently it's better than the first one.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 6:01 pm
by morepork
zer0 wrote:Deadpool is what you'll be wanting then. Aiming to see DP2 sooner rather than later.
Yeah, nah. Not risking it again.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Sat May 19, 2018 9:08 am
by Mikey Brown
morepork wrote:
zer0 wrote:Deadpool is what you'll be wanting then. Aiming to see DP2 sooner rather than later.
Yeah, nah. Not risking it again.
But he talks to the camera and stuff. It’s wild.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Mon May 21, 2018 1:46 pm
by Banquo
cashead wrote:Watch Logan then.
Or Logan Noir (lol)
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 7:58 am
by Banquo
cashead wrote:
Banquo wrote:
cashead wrote:Watch Logan then.
Or Logan Noir (lol)
Logan Noir owns, hth. The original colour version is superior though.
The title is pretentious, was my lol moment
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2018 1:00 am
by zer0
Solo. Not as good as Rouge One, but a lot better than I was expecting based off the trailers. A nifty little cameo towards the end which could play into a Boba Fett film, or used in a sequel (which IDK if they're doing with these anthology series).
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 5:22 pm
by Banquo
cashead wrote:Got around to seeing Black Panther.
It's 'aight.
I fell asleep watching it at home. Just thought it dreary tbh.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 1:33 pm
by kk67
The Ballard of Lefty Brown.
It's a cracking Western. Bill Pullman is quality.
Re: Last film watched
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 3:34 pm
by J Dory
kk67 wrote:The Ballard of Lefty Brown.
It's a cracking Western. Bill Pullman is quality.
Maybe i was in the wrong mood, but found it to be cliched rubbish. Still watched it until the end though, why I'm not sure. Maybe it was the promise that it might get good, it didn't.