isnt the father back story one of the main reasons for her actions in the film? She doesn't act like how I would expect a normal person to behave so it's useful to have some explanation for her actions.
List the films you've seen at the cinema: 2017
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You're probably right. I just thought the film was sufficiently gripping without the father's gruesome deeds being plonked upon us half-way through. Also, on a personal front, I get irrationally antsy if a film lasts more than two hours and start thinking of scenes to remove to get it back to 1 hr 45 mins.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Sometimes a critic liking a film confirms to an individual that they wouldn't like it.
If Paul Ross like a film, for instance, it's a cast iron guarantee that it is shit.
WICKED film. Great with an evening Holloway Odeon crowd, proper drive-in vibes.
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
The Age of Shadows. South Korean drama following members of the Korean resistance movement fighting the occupation by the Japanese in the 1920's. Surprisingly there's no martial arts involved but if you fancy lots of action, intrigue, tension, shootouts, bloodshed and some really nasty torture, I think you'll enjoy this. I did.
Z. Thinly-fictionalised account of the assassination of an opposition MP in 1960's Greece. Interesting to see the corruption of a regime so clearly presented and the lack of/need for physical action when the opposition are kicking the shit out of you.
Now want to find out more about the Greek military coup which took place not long after the events depicted.
Now want to find out more about the Greek military coup which took place not long after the events depicted.
Fear Eats the Soul. Older German woman and much younger Moroccan man fall in love and meet prejudice and racism at ever turn.
I'm woefully ignorant of the films of Fassbinder -- seem to recall Reno is a big fan -- so thought I'd try and catch a few in the retrospective that's just started at the BFI.
I'm very glad I did. Intelligent, interesting, realistic and by turns uplifting and utterly depressing. I'd really recommend this.
I'm woefully ignorant of the films of Fassbinder -- seem to recall Reno is a big fan -- so thought I'd try and catch a few in the retrospective that's just started at the BFI.
I'm very glad I did. Intelligent, interesting, realistic and by turns uplifting and utterly depressing. I'd really recommend this.
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
American Honey
Carpool karaoke with unpleasant characters. The first sing a long I could just about stomach but by the time of the umpteenth one those insufferable songs were starting to do my head in as well as the looks on the faces of the sales crew as they sung them.
The film (2hours 45 minutes) is at least 1 hour too long. A number of wasted opportunities were obvious where the story presented risk when it wasn't in the claustrophobic atmosphere of the crew's people carrier. The crew's manager Krystal played by Riley Keough was good and the most interesting character: the film should have involved her much more.
Shia LaBeouf played his part well.
Carpool karaoke with unpleasant characters. The first sing a long I could just about stomach but by the time of the umpteenth one those insufferable songs were starting to do my head in as well as the looks on the faces of the sales crew as they sung them.
The film (2hours 45 minutes) is at least 1 hour too long. A number of wasted opportunities were obvious where the story presented risk when it wasn't in the claustrophobic atmosphere of the crew's people carrier. The crew's manager Krystal played by Riley Keough was good and the most interesting character: the film should have involved her much more.
Shia LaBeouf played his part well.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Get Out
As almost everyone says the first two thirds is sharp and sassy, great performances from Kaluuya, Williams, Whitford and, especially, Catherine Keener. Some complain the last third goes off, but it doesn't really. It doesn't really carry the not very sub subtext through but, hey, it's a horror movie not a political treatise. Umpteen plot holes, but it zips along at such a pace it doesn't really matter.
As almost everyone says the first two thirds is sharp and sassy, great performances from Kaluuya, Williams, Whitford and, especially, Catherine Keener. Some complain the last third goes off, but it doesn't really. It doesn't really carry the not very sub subtext through but, hey, it's a horror movie not a political treatise. Umpteen plot holes, but it zips along at such a pace it doesn't really matter.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
well i never
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
The book is a fascinating read
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
The Boss Baby
Butt plug joke moments into the opening credits.
Fantastic Elvii scene.
Good pisstsking of Gandalf.
Nice running joke about class divisions on transport.
...and an unresolved plot about the clash between monopoly capitalism and its inherent self-destruction versus social democracy as a sustainable model for capitalist development.
Butt plug joke moments into the opening credits.
Fantastic Elvii scene.
Good pisstsking of Gandalf.
Nice running joke about class divisions on transport.
...and an unresolved plot about the clash between monopoly capitalism and its inherent self-destruction versus social democracy as a sustainable model for capitalist development.
The Boss Baby (3D)
I wanted to see The Boss Baby again and decided to give the 3D version a try after reading this review:
To 3D Or Not To 3D: Buy The Right The Boss Baby Ticket - CINEMABLEND
Normally I prefer 2D particularly with animated films because of the darking effect of 3D glasses. Well there are some great 3D effects in this version some of the best I've seen. For example: in one scene multiple colourful objects are tumbling from a great height and it really seemed like these were pouring out of the screen; and the glasses don't affect the colours too much.
I wanted to see The Boss Baby again and decided to give the 3D version a try after reading this review:
To 3D Or Not To 3D: Buy The Right The Boss Baby Ticket - CINEMABLEND
Normally I prefer 2D particularly with animated films because of the darking effect of 3D glasses. Well there are some great 3D effects in this version some of the best I've seen. For example: in one scene multiple colourful objects are tumbling from a great height and it really seemed like these were pouring out of the screen; and the glasses don't affect the colours too much.
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FridgeMagnet
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Ghost In The Shell
Basic background is completely changed from the manga (if you've read it or seen the OAV you'll see that within a couple of minutes) but that's okay.
Cast is generally good but wasted on really dumb lines, which may have been meant to be philosophical and mysterious but just come off as facile. I appreciate that plots get simplified but you can have a dumb plot with sharp dialogue. This increasingly irritates me about films, particularly now that TV has proved that you can have successful action/sci-fi which is actually well written.
The whole thing about whitewashing: I didn't mind the main casting decisions so much as the weird setting. It's meant to be Tokyo, or at least a Japanese city, but it is really just Blade Runner (maybe with _more_ westerners) and that was meant to be set in LA. In other circumstances I might think it was meant to be a suggestion that a near future Tokyo would be much more multicultural but it felt more like a clumsy mishmash, particularly as parts of it are patently Hong Kong. It does look good though, even if the Blade Runner thing is pretty retro nowadays.
Action is satisfying and fans of the OAV will be pleased that the classic scenes from that are replicated in fine form.
Needed more Takeshi Kitano, but what doesn't?
Basic background is completely changed from the manga (if you've read it or seen the OAV you'll see that within a couple of minutes) but that's okay.
Cast is generally good but wasted on really dumb lines, which may have been meant to be philosophical and mysterious but just come off as facile. I appreciate that plots get simplified but you can have a dumb plot with sharp dialogue. This increasingly irritates me about films, particularly now that TV has proved that you can have successful action/sci-fi which is actually well written.
The whole thing about whitewashing: I didn't mind the main casting decisions so much as the weird setting. It's meant to be Tokyo, or at least a Japanese city, but it is really just Blade Runner (maybe with _more_ westerners) and that was meant to be set in LA. In other circumstances I might think it was meant to be a suggestion that a near future Tokyo would be much more multicultural but it felt more like a clumsy mishmash, particularly as parts of it are patently Hong Kong. It does look good though, even if the Blade Runner thing is pretty retro nowadays.
Action is satisfying and fans of the OAV will be pleased that the classic scenes from that are replicated in fine form.
Needed more Takeshi Kitano, but what doesn't?
tommers
Busta Rhymes is an unstoppable movement
Boss Baby.
Tell your kids that the cinema has burned down. Ask somebody to break your arm. Whatever it takes. Avoid this film.
A kid's film about middle management. They don't know what that is. I try to forget. Awful on every level.
It didn't help that a lady sat behind me went "awww!" every time a baby appeared on the screen. Which is an awful fucking lot of the time.
God, even writing about it makes me angry.
Tell your kids that the cinema has burned down. Ask somebody to break your arm. Whatever it takes. Avoid this film.
A kid's film about middle management. They don't know what that is. I try to forget. Awful on every level.
It didn't help that a lady sat behind me went "awww!" every time a baby appeared on the screen. Which is an awful fucking lot of the time.
God, even writing about it makes me angry.
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