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Films you have seen at the cinema 2023

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - excellent stuff, more than the equal of its excellent predecessor - some of the best and most inventive animation I've ever seen so definitely worth seeing on the big screen.

There was so much stuff left to wrap up I decided to go for a quick pee, when I came back the credits were rolling :facepalm:
 
Yossarian said:
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - excellent stuff, more than the equal of its excellent predecessor - some of the best and most inventive animation I've ever seen so definitely worth seeing on the big screen.
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Having just watched it, Across and Into the Spiderverse are both in a completely different league to any of the production line Marvel movies, and throw out more outstanding ideas in a single action sequence than most animated fare comes up with in a full feature. They're really quite something. The main complaints seem to revolve around it moving the plot along too slowly, which I sort of get but didn't think was a particular drag - mind you having watched the absolute turgid bore-fest of John Wick 4 recently maybe my tolerance is off kilter.
 
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Medusa Deluxe - Regional hairdressing competition and one of the contenders has been found scalped, gossip and speculation break out among the contestants, models and staff who have to stay waiting for the police to finish up, is there a killer on the loose. Shot in real time and a single camera tracking the action it could be a bit clever for its own good but it is just fantastically silly and tremendous fun.
 
redsquirrel said:
Medusa Deluxe - Regional hairdressing competition and one of the contenders has been found scalped, gossip and speculation break out among the contestants, models and staff who have to stay waiting for the police to finish up, is there a killer on the loose. Shot in real time and a single camera tracking the action it could be a bit clever for its own good but it is just fantastically silly and tremendous fun.
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Have you seen that the HPPH is reopening at the end of the month? :cool:
 
Rob Ray said:
Having just watched it, Across and Into the Spiderverse are both in a completely different league to any of the production line Marvel movies, and throw out more outstanding ideas in a single action sequence than most animated fare comes up with in a full feature. They're really quite something. The main complaints seem to revolve around it moving the plot along too slowly, which I sort of get but didn't think was a particular drag - mind you having watched the absolute turgid bore-fest of John Wick 4 recently maybe my tolerance is off kilter.
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Yeah, the Spiderverse are probably the best Marvel-based movies, mainly because they aren't part of the MCU. Lord & Miller are really talented. I remember my old studio did a works trip to see Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. It totally blew us away, the things they did with CGI was unbelievable.
 
I've seen a few things recently (I've been in France so mainly not v interesting French films. Apart from Le Samourai which was nice to see in a fleapit cinema.)

I did see (with French subtitles) a Fritz Lang/'Bert' Brecht film I'd never even heard of. Hangmen Die Too is a contemporaryish take on Heydrich's assassination and its aftermath. (It works on the premise he was killed by the local resistance, for example, as guess the whole story wasn't known at that point.)

It reflects on what resistance is and what it means in the face of reprisals. And has some lovely cinematography and a pretty snappy pace too. (And a couple of twists near the end to boot). Highly recommended.

Eta Just looked it up and the English title is actually Hangmen Also Die! :oops:
 
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Apparently Indiana Jones and the Dialup Destiny isn't being well received. Although that may be from the moning anti woke anti Disney cohort
 
Yeah tbh Crystal Skull was already a real stand-out example of why letting old men remake their glory days of being young and virile on a huge budget is a bad idea. See also all the macho-man output by Sly Stallone, Clint Eastwood and Bruce Willis of recent years. It didn't need another one on top.
 
Orang Utan said:
Just going in to watch Asteroid City at my local independent cinema, on their reopening night. It’s been closed for nearly two years for a refurbishment and I’m beyond chuffed it’s back
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Thought Asteroid City was not one of Anderson better films - and I'm a fan. It had a lot of good scenes but sum was less than the whole for me.

(Didn't get to see it at HPPH though, still need to go see something there)
 
Super Wings: The Movie. I thought it was very poor. Definitely no A Bugs Life or Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. I couldn't understand the motivation of the bad guy, but it seemed to work its magic on my daughter.
 
redsquirrel said:
Thought Asteroid City was not one of Anderson better films - and I'm a fan. It had a lot of good scenes but sum was less than the whole for me.

(Didn't get to see it at HPPH though, still need to go see something there)
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I don't understand his need to cram the script with superfluous guff. It's like he writes the script according to how visually complex each scene is, just in order to allow the viewer time to scan around.

I really can't stand to watch another Tilda Swinton speech with zero significance, no matter the background
 
redsquirrel said:
Thought Asteroid City was not one of Anderson better films - and I'm a fan. It had a lot of good scenes but sum was less than the whole for me.

(Didn't get to see it at HPPH though, still need to go see something there)
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Felt very meh about this. I really should've liked it -- 50s sci-fi/Westernish -- but it was so massively style over substance, I was actually pretty bored and a bit annoyed by it.

Style doesn't make up for lack of plot and just chucking in a load of big names can't replace character development. Really wish Anderson would do something different as this just felt really dull. :(
 
Went to my community cinema's social and we were shown a short movie about feminist activists in the UK, tracing from the turn of the century to modern day. The title had the world 'rebel' in it but I can't find it - does anyone know? It was cut with propaganda/public information videos to show the change of the woman's place in our society.

Sadly, we probably won't see many shorts as it was a pain to license and then the club had to pay over £100 to the council to have it rated (PG, as it turns out). On top of the licence fees, this becomes too expensive.
 
Asteroid City
The most Wes Anderson Wes Anderson film ever made. Watch as he disappears up his own tweedy and symmetrical deadpan arse.
Loved it
5 twee mises en scene out of 5
 
Indiana Jones & The Dial Of Destiny
It’s fun I suppose. It thunders along nicely with some appealing action sequences, but the knowing references to earlier films in the franchise just make it appear out of fresh ideas rather than clever and metatextual.
The shoddy CGI is unforgivable too.
3 old hats out of 5
 
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Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One
I saw this immediately after the Indiana Jones film and it knocks its tired old wrinkly arse into a cocked hat.
Let’s not think about the plot too much. There’s no time anyway, as it doesn’t let up for over 2 and a half hours (which flies by) of constant riveting action scenes.
You think that motorcycle stunt from the trailers must be the most exciting bit? Think on!
5 ‘FUCKING HELL!’s out of 5
 
Shabu
Sweet documentary about a teenage boy who lives in the infamous Peperklip housing estate in Rotterdam. It’s filmed over a baking hot summer and follows Shabu’s efforts to make money, as he’s in debt to his beloved grandma, having crashed her car while she is visiting family back in Suriname. He’s a daft lad (only 14, though the size of a mountain), but he’s so charming and full of zest, that you root for him all the way through.
4 homemade popsicles out of 5
 
The Shining
Great to see this on the big screen finally.
All films should be seen at the cinema, but especially Kubrick’s work.
You get to notice a lot more visual details and experience the sound design and almost constant music soundtrack with so much more intensity. The incredible faces and movement of Duvall and Nicholson are experienced even more intensely.
One of the best cinematic experiences I’ve had, to be honest.
237 hotel rooms out of 237
 
paul mckenna said:
I don't understand his need to cram the script with superfluous guff. It's like he writes the script according to how visually complex each scene is, just in order to allow the viewer time to scan around.

I really can't stand to watch another Tilda Swinton speech with zero significance, no matter the background
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You’re watching Anderson’s films wrong
 
I watched Casablanca on the big screen recently, faces are crystal clear, noir light and dark so much more defined, it just blew away watching it on TV (even if the plane was a bit iffy, I believe there's a story behind that). It was on at the Odeon and I hoped it would be the first of many B&W classics but sadly that one film was it. It's the sort of thing the Ritzy used to be good fat but sadly those days are long gone
 
Orang Utan said:
Indiana Jones & The Dial Of Destiny
It’s fun I suppose. It thunders along nicely with some appealing action sequences, but the knowing references to earlier films in the franchise just make it appear out of fresh ideas rather than clever and metatextual.
The shoddy CGI is unforgivable too.
3 old hats out of 5
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May well watch it, largely because we have no local cinema but they show the odd film in the town hall and it's a nice venue - and they've got this on next week. Same time, I'm a bit worried about seeing an 80 year old doing action shots, shades of De Niro in The Irishman. Not great.
 
domestos said:
I watched Casablanca on the big screen recently, faces are crystal clear, noir light and dark so much more defined, it just blew away watching it on TV (even if the plane was a bit iffy, I believe there's a story behind that). It was on at the Odeon and I hoped it would be the first of many B&W classics but sadly that one film was it. It's the sort of thing the Ritzy used to be good fat but sadly those days are long gone
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The plane at the beginning or the end?
 
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