malatesta32
Not Serb. No, Really!
with interstellar, skip to rocket launch. its great but you only need to see the 1st bit once. mini-mal has been doing space at school so watched the intersteller feller and gravity several times! great!
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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flustercuck
Spoonerist
In essence, the first 40 minutes of the film isn't really anything to do with the story, its just a massive infodump. It does set up the father-daughter relationship for later on though....
malatesta32
Not Serb. No, Really!
yeah, i liked the idea of dustbowl storms (and the interviews) and running out of food but please, just get the spacesuit on and CGI me for 2 hours.
seventh bullet
sovietwave
I like the 'major league' baseball game the family goes to see, which shows up society's dwindling economic resources and population. The interviews of elderly people (except for Ellen Burstyn) are taken from a documentary on those who lived through the man-made dust bowl conditions in the 1930s Depression.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
It has Mike Tyson.
magneze
🎧
Is that a good thing?
malatesta32
Not Serb. No, Really!
cold mountain, field of shoes and a steven seagal sniper movie - none of which i saw all of. never seen a seagal movie before but he sure cant act. he was sitting down in most of it. awful.
flustercuck
Spoonerist
Quite possibly "Sniper:Black Ops", where he gets killed before the end.
On the other hand, "Field of Shoes" sounds like the best Steven Seagal movie never made...even better than Sheep Impact
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
War Dogs.
Based on a true story - in this case the true story of a pair of gobshites who tried to get rich by becoming scumsucking bottom feeders in the post-Iraq war international arms trade. Stars the loathsome Jonah Hill as the chief scumsucker, though I doubt if the other party - the hero of this flick - really is the 'nice guy' he's portrayed as here. He's played by a "Miles Teller", whom I had not previously heard of before, and he bears a startling resemblance to the current PM of Canada.
It's a good flick, fine for what it is - but I bet the 4chan crowd and other basement dwellers will get the wrong end of the stick and think these guys were heroes. That's because, from what I can see on the net, it actually downplays the darkness of what these to got up to.
Based on a true story - in this case the true story of a pair of gobshites who tried to get rich by becoming scumsucking bottom feeders in the post-Iraq war international arms trade. Stars the loathsome Jonah Hill as the chief scumsucker, though I doubt if the other party - the hero of this flick - really is the 'nice guy' he's portrayed as here. He's played by a "Miles Teller", whom I had not previously heard of before, and he bears a startling resemblance to the current PM of Canada.
It's a good flick, fine for what it is - but I bet the 4chan crowd and other basement dwellers will get the wrong end of the stick and think these guys were heroes. That's because, from what I can see on the net, it actually downplays the darkness of what these to got up to.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
All About Eve
A pre-Oscars treat, the best film ever to get fourteen nominations. And, god, but it is still amazing. Anne Baxter really should have won best actress, she's astounding. Even better than the mighty Bette.
Jackie
Kind of admirable in a cold way. It didn't grab me, except for Portmans performance, which is stonily impressive.
A pre-Oscars treat, the best film ever to get fourteen nominations. And, god, but it is still amazing. Anne Baxter really should have won best actress, she's astounding. Even better than the mighty Bette.
Jackie
Kind of admirable in a cold way. It didn't grab me, except for Portmans performance, which is stonily impressive.
Virtual Blue
ready
Moonlight - not just another tragic love story, and definitely one that will be on my mind for long time.
Collateral Beauty
There was an interesting story to be developed here, but this suffers from taking all the easy options in every and any possible choice. This is a highly manipulative piece of work, best avoided.
There was an interesting story to be developed here, but this suffers from taking all the easy options in every and any possible choice. This is a highly manipulative piece of work, best avoided.
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
Just watched the first two series of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - probably the first thing I've watched on Netflix in months. I briefly feel asleep towards the end of series one and woke up to find Danny DeVito was now a thing 
Charlie Day is so fucking cute 
Charlie Day is so fucking cute 
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Not emotionally engaging? WHAT? are you some sort of sociopath or something? i felt so much for all the characters in that film. even the most minor of characters was well drawn in that film - the granny on the phone, Affleck's boss, even the kids.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
My dad started playing some weird film about some monkeys that find a giant iPhone in the desert then go mental. Then things get even weirder, until I realised I had seen it before as a teenager drunk and stoned at some late show.
bi0boy
Power User
I normally cry pretty easily with movies, perhaps this wasn't cheesy enough, perhaps it was the characters bottling everything up, or perhaps it was just family deaths overload.
There were only two moments where I felt a teeny bit sad, when he was being interviewed by the cops and when his nephew was staring at the three framed photos for a long time. But even with those I didn't even feel particular moved.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
I didn't cry at all but that doesn't mean that it wasn't emotionally engaging, like OU I felt the pain, the horror, the devastation that the characters had experienced.
TruXta
tired
Huh. I loved that film, but moreso for the way the lead character fought. I hadn't thought about the angle you've seen it through. Cheers.
Moonlight.
A film of our time, and that isn't necessarily a good thing. I can't believe that Mahershala Ali won the 'Best Supporting Actor' for this, it just makes no sense whatsoever.
A film of our time, and that isn't necessarily a good thing. I can't believe that Mahershala Ali won the 'Best Supporting Actor' for this, it just makes no sense whatsoever.
Can you expand on both points? On the first, do you mean because of the setting and scenario or a general comment on the movies that are made now?
On the second, do you mean you don't think he was any good or just not in the film long enough?
I was disappointed with the film given the positive reviews and Oscar nomination but thought Mahershala was the best thing in it and would have preferred if he was in the film longer and they had allowed that part of the story to develop more.
Virtual Blue
ready
Passengers - total max speed bollocks. When Laurence Fishburne makes an appearance, I thought it would be saved and turn into an Event Horizon scenario. Nope. Hah, and Andy Garcia WTF! His best performance in years.
Jackobi
swallows anything
This week:
Spotless - French made, black comedy series based in the UK about a crime scene cleaner and his brother. Surprised I missed this the first time round as it was right up my street.
Roots (2016) - I remember the original being much better but still a stark reminder.
Moonlight - Recommended, and not what I was expecting but an intelligent film if slow paced. Brokeback Mountain in the ghetto.
Spotless - French made, black comedy series based in the UK about a crime scene cleaner and his brother. Surprised I missed this the first time round as it was right up my street.
Roots (2016) - I remember the original being much better but still a stark reminder.
Moonlight - Recommended, and not what I was expecting but an intelligent film if slow paced. Brokeback Mountain in the ghetto.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
The Second Mother (2015) - deft, nuanced, tragicomic farce (if that's a thing) about a Brazilian housekeeper and her employers whose lives are all turned upside down when the lead character's daughter (raised out in the poorer northeast while her Mum slaved out a lifetime in service) breezes in to live with them and breaks all the social rules of this setup. It's very, very good - understated but absolutely pointed and sharp about Brazil's social stratifications, snobbery, sexism, class, women's labour in all its forms, etc etc etc. Perhaps a tiny bit slow and goes a little sweet-softy at the end, but Regina Case in the lead role is a revelation, a real, live, touching, infuriating, heartbreaking, funny, brave and unique person. Some scenes are genuine absurdist slapstick, others have you squirming in pure awkwardness. Recommended as long as you're not expecting action thrills.
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