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List the films you've seen at the cinema: 2019

Judy.
Rene Zellweger pulls off a technical accomplishment in her role as Judy Garland, with lots of ACTING, but it's not much more than a schmaltzy tv biopic. I hope she gets the Oscar as she really really wants it and has worked very hard for it, but if you want to watch a decent film about fading Hollywood stars performing in Britain to pay their bills, then watch Stan & Ollie instead.
 
The Harder They Come - not as good as Rockers, but Jimmy Cliff is great and the music is sublime

The Serial Killer's Guide To Life - godawful British comedy about a woman killing self-help woo wankers, which as an idea has potential, but in execution is up there with Sex Lives Of The Potato Men
 
Threshers_Flail said:
Monos

Visually stunning and the score by Mica Levi is great but it left me a bit flat and none of the characters had any depth.
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I really liked the film, maybe as I'm a very visual person :D thought it was very powerful.

I've read a few things about it on the net since I went to see it which I found very interesting, almost all of the young people are not actors, they were chosen out of 300 applicants and had to go on a very tough boot camp in the jungle.

The actors and crew were taken up the jungle on rafts by the Colombian kiyac team and some illegal miners who knew the area helped out as production assistants. They were living in the jungle while making that part of the film and there were a few hairy moments, one when a large tree fell down inches away from them.

The little guy who visited them from time to time had actually been a child soldier from the age of 11, he was hired as an adviser but they decided to put him into the film as a character.

I imagine they all earned their money for making the film!
 
Went to see Dr Sleep tonight. I liked it and would watch it again, obviously it's not as good as The Shining though. Was quite long but still felt the ending was a bit rushed, would like to have seen more at the hotel
 
Terminator Dark Fate.

Surprisingly good. Enough nods to the past without getting too smug, and pretty good to have an action film with three female leads including an older woman. Top effects too.
 
A380 said:
Terminator Dark Fate.

Surprisingly good. Enough nods to the past without getting too smug, and pretty good to have an action film with three female leads including an older woman. Top effects too.
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Feel like we watched a different film :D

Truly awful, Mackenzie Davis was good but Linda Hamilton and the other lead were poor.

I fell asleep during one of the action set pieces (and I have no issues with big dumb violence, it was just so badly shot I couldn't care what was happening).

Better than Genysis, but that's not saying much.

In order - 2, 1, 3, 4, 6, 5.
 
Monos - hypnotic and otherwordly portrayal of child soldiers high up in the mountains of an unspecified South American country, probably Colombia. Some incredible performances from the children, some of whom had never acted before, but what really shines are the imagery of the landscape and the eerie score by Mica Levi, which is one of the best I've heard in years. It didn't quite have the emotional heft that it was probably aiming for, but it's an unforgettable achievement all the same. 5 unfortunate bovines out of 5
 
Good Posture
Comedy drama about an unloved/unlovable brat who goes to stay with a reclusive writer, exchanging written notes with her and abusing her hospitality. The two leads, Grace Van Patten and Emily Mortimer, do a lot to make you care for their rather unsympathetic privileged characters, though they are almost upstaged by fantastic supporting part from John Early as an absolute idiot. Though it's wryly amusing in places, it's all a bit indulgent, especially with the appearance of some literary figures playing themselves, though Jonathan Ames is great fun (Martin Amis also made me laugh despite myself, banging on about how unhappiness makes better art or something)
3 entitled oaf out of 5
 
Sorry I Missed You.
A Ken Loach film about the gig economy.
Another one of those films, like For Sama, that won't be watched by the people who ought to see it.
It's unrelentingly bleak, though there are some moments of levity. Not enough though, but I guess the point of the film is that life is bleak for those who are trapped in such a grim and thankless treadmill. How misleading is the poster below? <hollow laugh>
3 piss bottles out of 5
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The Octagon said:
Feel like we watched a different film :D

Truly awful, Mackenzie Davis was good but Linda Hamilton and the other lead were poor.

I fell asleep during one of the action set pieces (and I have no issues with big dumb violence, it was just so badly shot I couldn't care what was happening).

Better than Genysis, but that's not saying much.

In order - 2, 1, 3, 4, 6, 5.
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I was somewhere inbetween the 2 of you. Generally well done, watchable in a 3 and a bit out of 5 sense. But I wasn't keen on the comedy moments, so I did think it was a bit smug and there were too many repeats of previous plot details (as indeed there have been in others in the series).
 
Wilf said:
Godfather?

In practice, any film that goes beyond one sequel is usually shit but... 'boycott them'?? bit elitist??
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it was said in jest
but ffs, we don't need more Batman films. we need new stories. Scorsese was right - it's not cinema, it's television on a big screen.
 
Orang Utan said:
that was my opinion, not his. he was right that they aren't cinematic.
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But that isn't what he meant by 'cinematic' and it makes no sense in this instance. They work far far better at a cinema on a big screen than they do on TV, that's why he says they are theme parks. Which is fair enough. The stuff about the lack of peril and lack of complex characters is tosh.
 
belboid said:
But that isn't what he meant by 'cinematic' and it makes no sense in this instance. They work far far better at a cinema on a big screen than they do on TV, that's why he says they are theme parks. Which is fair enough. The stuff about the lack of peril and lack of complex characters is tosh.
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i don't agree. i think they work better on tv. Batman did. The Boys did. I hope Watchmen will. they work better as continuing episodic stories.
 
The Boys was a made for TV programme, not a film though. The film of Watchmen was just poor, and both kept very much to he comic book look. Not sure which of the umpteen Batman's you mean.
 
belboid said:
The Boys was a made for TV programme, not a film though. The film of Watchmen was just poor, and both kept very much to he comic book look. Not sure which of the umpteen Batman's you mean.
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THE Batman with Adam West.
And I was not talking about the Watchmen film but the TV series.
The Boys was made for TV and was great - that's my point.
 
and Thor: Ragnarok was a brilliant comedy, for the cinema. Black Panther was just great cinema. Various X-Men have had some brilliant - and inventive - scenes that work far better on the big screen. Joker has as complex characterisation as most mainstream Hollywood movies.

The fact that The Sopranos was great telly does nothing to distract from Goodfella's being great cinema.
 
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The only Marvel film I really liked was Black Panther, partly cos it had an actual story you could follow. Captain Marvel was very entertaining but fuck knows what was going on. One of the reasons Marvel films work better on telly is you can put the subs on, use rewind and pause (to Google wtf was just said that refers to a film you haven't seen) so you can follow the poor exposition and shouting over explosions. But all in all, they're mostly not even interesting enough to watch on telly.
( Jessica Jones and Luke Cage are two examples of Marvel making better telly than movies btw)
 
I enjoyed The Boys, but have hated every one of the modern superhero films I've seen (I've seen quite a lot cause Kids). Even the ones everyone raves about - Thor Ragnarok, The Dark Knight, Black Panther - are lumpen basic primary coloured crap.
 
The aeronautics. Not what I was expecting- which was a kind of greatest showman- but much better. A look at the early days of flying through one flight and flashbacks. The fact it has two of the most beautiful actors around at the moment as leafs is just a bonus. I’d recommend.
 
A380 said:
The aeronautics. Not what I was expecting- which was a kind of greatest showman- but much better. A look at the early days of flying through one flight and flashbacks. The fact it has two of the most beautiful actors around at the moment as leafs is just a bonus. I’d recommend.
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Who?
 
Rocks
British drama about a teenager whose mother abandons her, leaving her to look after her young brother. Though the plot centres on their troubles, this film is really about friendship amongst teenage girls. Set in East London, and partly improvised by a mostly amateur (but brilliant) cast (75% of them and the crew are female), this is a tender and realistic portrait of the vulnerabilities of young people getting a raw deal in life. Though all the performances are fantastic, special mention must be made of the little boy, D'Angelou Osei Kissiedu, with one of the cutest performances in recent memory. Loved his 'remix' of the Lord's Prayer.
4 tiny frogs out of 5
 
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