List the films you've seen at the cinema: 2019
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Le Mans 66 - I love Christian Bale, and he puts in a splendid performance as a young brummie Pete Postlethwaite in this one. Incredible race sequences, some cheesy bits, and an unexpected (for someone who doesn't know the story) and very effective ending. Definitely worth seeing.
I liked this despite being not at all interested in motor racing -- the race scenes are great -- but I have to disagree about Christian Bale. He was ACTING in CAPS with bells on and (while not his fault), all the gorblimey, nice cup of tea stuff in the script was godawful. And I'm amazed you could tell he was meant to be a Brummie, given his accent veered about as much as his car did. (Did I mention he was definitely ACTING?)
ETA I've seen him be very good in some things and hamming it up far too much in others. This imo was definitely the latter.
A380
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Knives Out. Played dead straight by an amazing cast. Hilarious and very very clever. I really couldn’t work out how it was fitting together. But it did. Will see again as it fitted together like a watch. Like a modern American Ealing Comedy. That’s high praise.
Hah! Certainly doesn’t sound like any Brummie I've ever met but...Funny you should say that about the accent, I haven't seen the film myself but someone on a Birmingham forum I'm a member of said he thought it was good - much better than the various Peaky Blinder character efforts
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Apparently it's a lot of fun on a second watch too.
I saw it today, very clever, well acted and very funny (but NOT a comedy, it's played straight as A380 says). Not a lot going on with music but then proper Agatha Christie didn't do that either and this is really one of them.
They're a horrible bunch of bastards, honestly. It all comes out and sometimes you're in a gleeful delight when any particularly nasty character has to unveil themselves.
The most amazing thing is they've managed to make Ana de Armas (Joi from BR2049) look not stunning. She's done her cheeks like Marlon Brando in The Godfather.
Reno
The In Kraut
Parasite, the new film by Bong Joon Ho (The Host, Mother, Snowpiercer, Okja)
It's very good but maybe due to the advance praise the film has been getting since festival screenings, I didn’t think it was quite the masterpiece it has been made out to be. It also caused me to check out another film from last year, which deals with similar subject matter, Shoplifters which I wrote about on the DVD/Video thread and which I liked even better.
The main bulk of the movie is great. It deals with a poor but shrewd family who insinuate themselves into the services of household of a rich but slightly dim family by recommending each other for jobs, without revealing that they are related. They get rid of the existing housekeeper to get their mother a job but that housekeeper (mild spoiler)
I found the climax slightly disappointing. It goes into thriller territory, when I would have liked this to stay more of a satire. I may need to give this another watch and with adjusted expectations it may play better. I always find Bong Joon Ho among the most interesting and stylish filmmakers currently working and all of his films are about class or class war in one way or another. Parasite is very good despite my reservations, but Mother is probably still my favourite of his.
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It's very good but maybe due to the advance praise the film has been getting since festival screenings, I didn’t think it was quite the masterpiece it has been made out to be. It also caused me to check out another film from last year, which deals with similar subject matter, Shoplifters which I wrote about on the DVD/Video thread and which I liked even better.
The main bulk of the movie is great. It deals with a poor but shrewd family who insinuate themselves into the services of household of a rich but slightly dim family by recommending each other for jobs, without revealing that they are related. They get rid of the existing housekeeper to get their mother a job but that housekeeper (mild spoiler)
has a secret of her own, which leads to the plan unraveling.
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emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
Am I the only one not keen on this? I didn't find it funny, Craig's accent annoyed me and I thought the solution to the mystery was obvious.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
You're not the only one. I also found Daniel Craig's accent annoying and the solution to the whole thing very unsatisfying. I was expecting something clever. It's a shame cos when I first saw the trailers I thought it would be so far up my street it should probably move in with me. I found it really dull which is a criminal waste of the actors in it.
them all saying the nurse came from somewhere different annoyed the shit out of me when it turned out to be a red herring. Or was that just to signify that they were a racist bunch of fuckers who had so little interest in her they didn't know where she was from? Annoying either way.
So obvious the knife at the end was a prop as it had been so clearly signposted you'd have to be a moron not to have realised
So obvious the knife at the end was a prop as it had been so clearly signposted you'd have to be a moron not to have realised
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emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
Yes I found the politics scenes to be cringe inducing. But yes I think it was meant to show them as racist.
Ming
I shot a man in Reno...
Just watching this one. I knew the history and accounts of the EIT program but it's quite harrowing seeing it up close and the political bullshit that happened after the facts came out.
krtek a houby
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Not counting the various new films see on Netflix, here's the ones we saw at the pictures
The Favourite
Spiderman - Into the Spiderverse
BlacKkKlansman
Avengers - Endgame
Spiderman - Far from Home
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Joker
Star Wars - The Rise of Skywalker
The Favourite
Spiderman - Into the Spiderverse
BlacKkKlansman
Avengers - Endgame
Spiderman - Far from Home
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Joker
Star Wars - The Rise of Skywalker
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
The accent was hilarious.
Re your spoiler - the second reason was the point. I thought the politics were quite well done, not too overplayed.
sovereignb
Well-Known Member
Blackkkkklansman
Joker
The Last Tree
Ready or Not
Knives Out
Joker
The Last Tree
Ready or Not
Knives Out
ginger_syn
Her Insanity laughs under pressure...👾
Last film I've watched this year at the cinema was jumanji 2 which was enjoyable fun.
T & P
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Just saw it and absolutely loved it. It’s been a while since I left a cinema so thoroughly entertained. A very enjoyable two hours.
I get people being distracted or even annoyed by Craig’s accent, but let’s be honest: a film whereby the biggest- or indeed, only- flaw is an unrealistic/ OTT accent is by default a very good film and worthy flick, and better than 90%+ of all movies out there. Certainly nothing significant enough for anyone refraining from watching it, or enjoying it overall for that matter, IMO at least.
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gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
In the last week: Little Women, Jumanji 2, Star Wars (in order of how much I enjyed them).*
* not necessarily because of how good the actual films were but because I went with small kids.
* not necessarily because of how good the actual films were but because I went with small kids.
Saw this at the LFF so no-one had seen any trailers. When Daniel Craig came out with his first line, his accent was completely unexpected and the entire audience laughed.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Just watched this and its a very engrossing and fascinating if meandering noir stoner film which when it ends you think what was that all about? Remimded mea bit of Donnie Darko, never the less I'd reccomend it, its fascinating ,even though its a case of the journey being better than the destination.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
saw this tonight and was very glad I had. normally id never go near an " american teen comedy" but this was way more than that. Agree with everything you say - worth watching for the batshit drug induced barbie bit alone.
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