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Booksmart

This was a bit of a gem. Two nerdy/super swot teenage girls decide to live it up prior to their graduation. And a night of batshit craziness and self discovery follows. ace script, great performances, imaginative, daft, hilarious, insightful and far better than the description of it as a "teen comedy" implies. Perfect sunday night viewing.
 
Kaka Tim said:
Booksmart

This was a bit of a gem. Two nerdy/super swot teenage girls decide to live it up prior to their graduation. And a night of batshit craziness and self discovery follows. ace script, great performances, imaginative, daft, hilarious, insightful and far better than the description of it as a "teen comedy" implies. Perfect sunday night viewing.
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If you haven't seen it, Eighth Grade (which came out about the same time as Booksmart) is a much better film IMO and definitely worth catching.
 
Sue said:
If you haven't seen it, Eighth Grade (which came out about the same time as Booksmart) is a much better film IMO and definitely worth catching.
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Part way through this. Really enjoying it :) thanks for the heads up.

Makes me SO glad there were no smartphones and social media when I was that age. It was fucking horrid being a kid and trying to fit in! It is all so magnified for the hormone addled, insecure lot today.
 
Badgers said:
Makes me SO glad there were no smartphones and social media when I was that age. It was fucking horrid being a kid and trying to fit in! It is all so magnified for the hormone addled, insecure lot today.
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Absolutely. And her lovely dad who wants to help but doesn't quite know how to. I'm going to have to re-watch it. :)
 
Just watched the Star Trek / Deep space Nine tribbles crossover.
29 years between the original episode and the DS9 crossover, and 25 years since the DS9 ep to now.
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Spider-Man: Far From Home - don't have time to watch the whole thing right now, but just saw Venice getting wrecked - will watch the rest later.
 
Watched 'Army of the Dead' and only just got through, largely rubbish, albeit entertaining rubbish.

Watched 'I Am All Girls', a South African film about human trafficking, split between 1994 and the present day. It's really quite good, obviously grim in places.
 
Sue said:
Absolutely. And her lovely dad who wants to help but doesn't quite know how to. I'm going to have to re-watch it. :)
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I just rewatched it yesterday and its even better than I remembered. In addition to the brilliant performances, the sharp writing and the humour its got a cool quirky soundtrack and great cinematography. Really unique film.
 
Benjamin Button - What a silly film. How did it win all those Oscars? So boring.
Cellular - Tedious predictable action trash.
The to do list - Audrey Plaza vehicle. Passable, but not for me. One for the teens I think.
 
miss direct said:
Just finished watching Behind Her Eyes. That was creepy and ridiculous at the same time.
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I quite liked that, but I don't mind a bit of supernatural nonsense on TV. I think those who were looking for a more realism based thriller would have been disappointed.
 
krtek a houby said:
We watched the recent Watership Down adaptation. Much better than expected, and best voice cast since Invincible.
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Really? I thought it was very poor compared to the original. I think there is a thread here somewhere where I expressed my feelings when it was first shown.

(I did like some of the voice acting though, John Boyega is always ace.)
 
Epona said:
Really? I thought it was very poor compared to the original. I think there is a thread here somewhere where I expressed my feelings when it was first shown.

(I did like some of the voice acting though, John Boyega is always ace.)
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The original looks beautiful, used to have the lovely film book with a few hundred stills from it, but it was always the novel, that I kept going back to. Seem to recall a bit of controversy over the latest adaptation, but we binged on it.
 
I am really enjoying The Aliens which was broadcast on C4 in 2016.

Alien looking humans have been living with us for 40 years but are segregated in a ghetto with border controls. Their hair is a popular narcotic which leads to all sorts of gang violence.

The segregation/racism/bigotry is a bit heavy handed but it's full of dark comedy and great little quirks.

Michaela Coel is luminous as ever.
 
Was quite disappointed by Master of None, in that it has turned from a comedy into a very serious drama - but episode 4 was really quite incredible, very well done and engaging, I was in tears ffs.

But yeah, definitely not a comedy anymore and the long lingering shots of people eating, or flower vases and pictures on a mantelpiece are really just wank. Like the director is trying to prove he knows about movies (Ansari is a movie connoisseur, apparently, and boy, he likes to show it off). I know he decided to step into the shadows after he got accused of sexual misconduct but if they were to completely change something's genre and just suck the comedy out of it, it should have been released as a new thing, a spin-off. NOT A COMEDY. Not as Master of None.

I also HATED the way the camera was just on one spot for the first few episodes, so you couldn't really see the actors' expressions, it felt removed and cold. I guess he was trying to make it look like theatre? But it was just frustrating and distracting, I don't think it worked. Episode 4 was a different beast, and there were more close ups. Episode 4 could have been a movie on its own. Did I say it was incredible??? ;). But not a comedy? I didn't laugh (not even internally or ironically) once ;)
 
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Mrs Miggins said:
I am really enjoying The Aliens which was broadcast on C4 in 2016.

Alien looking humans have been living with us for 40 years but are segregated in a ghetto with border controls. Their hair is a popular narcotic which leads to all sorts of gang violence.

The segregation/racism/bigotry is a bit heavy handed but it's full of dark comedy and great little quirks.

Michaela Coel is luminous as ever.
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Sounds like Alien Nation meets District 9.
 
krtek a houby said:
The original looks beautiful, used to have the lovely film book with a few hundred stills from it, but it was always the novel, that I kept going back to. Seem to recall a bit of controversy over the latest adaptation, but we binged on it.
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I think what it was for me is that the original had sometimes quite stylised and sometimes almost cutesy animations, and the contrast between that and some of the more horrifc bits of the story was incredibly powerful - particularly the scene where the warren is being gassed - I mean I can see the strong imagery of that (where the animation becomes very stylised and less realistic as the rabbits are trying to fight their way up to the surface and dying, and a couple of scenes with General Woundwort, or the scene with the poetry about snares, or the one with the Black Rabbit of Inle) while I am thinking about it and writing about it and I've got a lump in my throat just recalling those bits of the film. The remake wasn't terrible, it just lacks that sort of iconic imagery IMO. The original was a fucking classic for good reason.

EDIT: Love the book too. The opening line "The primroses were over" sets the scene and tone of the thing perfectly just using those few words. It should be a famous first line IMO.
 
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girasol said:
Was quite disappointed by Master of None, in that it has turned from a comedy into a very serious drama - but episode 4 was really quite incredible, very well done and engaging, I was in tears ffs.

But yeah, definitely not a comedy anymore and the long lingering shots of people eating, or flower vases and pictures on a mantelpiece are really just wank. Like the director is trying to prove he knows about movies (Ansari is a movie connoisseur, apparently, and boy, he likes to show it off). I know he decided to step into the shadows after he got accused of sexual misconduct but if they were to completely change something's genre and just suck the comedy out of it, it should have been released as a new thing, a spin-off. NOT A COMEDY. Not as Master of None.

I also HATED the way the camera was just on one spot for the first few episodes, so you couldn't really see the actors' expressions, it felt removed and cold. I guess he was trying to make it look like theatre? But it was just frustrating and distracting, I don't think it worked. Episode 4 was a different beast, and there were more close ups. Episode 4 could have been a movie on its own. Did I say it was incredible??? ;). But not a comedy? I didn't laugh (not even internally or ironically) once ;)
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Oh no, I was looking forward to it.
Was never a full on comedy, and had some truly stand out episodes (amongst some shite) but this sounds like a different beast.
 
Master of None series 2 was so shit. So far I'm enjoying series 3, I don't mind the evolution, fits in with the different stage of the characters' lives
 
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