DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Yup. Was waiting for you to watch it.
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belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Confessions (Kokuhaku)
A 2010, Japanese, not quite horror but bloody horrific drama, starting with a teacher in a ridiculously large and unruly class telling them she wont be coming back next term. And she wont be doing so for a bloody good reason which unfolds over the opening twenty minutes or so. We then go to the various confessions of those involved (or close to them), all of which just gets more and more horrific as it goes along. There's nothing (well, hardly anything) truly gory, nor jump scars, it just builds and builds an intense all prevailing sense of dread and despair for humanity. Bloody brilliant.
A 2010, Japanese, not quite horror but bloody horrific drama, starting with a teacher in a ridiculously large and unruly class telling them she wont be coming back next term. And she wont be doing so for a bloody good reason which unfolds over the opening twenty minutes or so. We then go to the various confessions of those involved (or close to them), all of which just gets more and more horrific as it goes along. There's nothing (well, hardly anything) truly gory, nor jump scars, it just builds and builds an intense all prevailing sense of dread and despair for humanity. Bloody brilliant.
Orang Utan
They cannot crucify you if your hand is in a fist
Split - schlocky M Night Shyamalan fare - a waste of two hours to be frank
Reno
The In Kraut
Lightweight, I just watched all the Rocky films in my preparation for Creed !
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The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
First 2 episodes of Doom Patrol (DC Comics property that had a soft introduction during Titans Season 1).
Basically a loose 'family' of misfits and experiments brought together by Timothy Dalton's mad professor patriarch.
It's proper batshit and fun, but has some genuine pathos mixed in too, very enjoyable.
Some decently big names in quirky roles, including Brendan Fraser, Matt Bomer and the aforementioned Dalton.
Not to mention the always great Alan Tudyk as both the narrator and antagonist, leading to much 4th wall breaking and potshots at the various superhero cliches / format.
Well worth a watch, you'll know after the 1st episode if you want to carry on
Basically a loose 'family' of misfits and experiments brought together by Timothy Dalton's mad professor patriarch.
It's proper batshit and fun, but has some genuine pathos mixed in too, very enjoyable.
Some decently big names in quirky roles, including Brendan Fraser, Matt Bomer and the aforementioned Dalton.
Not to mention the always great Alan Tudyk as both the narrator and antagonist, leading to much 4th wall breaking and potshots at the various superhero cliches / format.
Well worth a watch, you'll know after the 1st episode if you want to carry on
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Was that those mad mum, dad, daughter, son bastards?First 2 episodes of Doom Patrol (DC Comics property that had a soft introduction during Titans Season 1).
Basically a loose 'family' of misfits and experiments brought together by Timothy Dalton's mad professor patriarch.
It's proper batshit and fun, but has some genuine pathos mixed in too, very enjoyable.
Some decently big names in quirky roles, including Brendan Fraser, Matt Bomer and the aforementioned Dalton.
Not to mention the always great Alan Tudyk as both the narrator and antagonist, leading to much 4th wall breaking and potshots at the various superhero cliches / format.
Well worth a watch, you'll know after the 1st episode if you want to carry on
Could be worth a watch.
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
No, the AC-DC cooking mummy and robot man, etc.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Oh yeah, gotchya.
Watched it this afternoon. Second maternal revenge film of the week. So intense and such great storytelling. Loved it.
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
SpiderMan: Into The SpiderVerse
Wow. I'd heard it was good and obviously it won the Animated Oscar too, but it far exceeded what I was expecting.
Possibly the best animated film I've seen, inventive with the medium, pitched perfectly to appeal to both superfans and casuals, and with a perfect balance of humour and seriousness (some fairly dark and heavy themes for a 'kid's film' throughout).
As much as I love the MCU take on Spidey, they lean a little too heavily on him being a Stark fanboy and almost sidekick, whereas the guys making this film seem to get the character more than any other I've seen, and the various alternate versions were all distinct but still shared the same characteristics.
The voice acting is great (Nicholas Cage as SpiderNoir was inspired casting, to pick out just one example) and the visuals are fantastic, there's desktop wallpapers for days throughout
Brilliant soundtrack too.
Requires a second viewing just for all the references and quick cut moments I think, not to mention the best Stan Lee cameo of the lot
Watch right to the end of the credits, it's worth it
9/10
Wow. I'd heard it was good and obviously it won the Animated Oscar too, but it far exceeded what I was expecting.
Possibly the best animated film I've seen, inventive with the medium, pitched perfectly to appeal to both superfans and casuals, and with a perfect balance of humour and seriousness (some fairly dark and heavy themes for a 'kid's film' throughout).
As much as I love the MCU take on Spidey, they lean a little too heavily on him being a Stark fanboy and almost sidekick, whereas the guys making this film seem to get the character more than any other I've seen, and the various alternate versions were all distinct but still shared the same characteristics.
The voice acting is great (Nicholas Cage as SpiderNoir was inspired casting, to pick out just one example) and the visuals are fantastic, there's desktop wallpapers for days throughout
Brilliant soundtrack too.
Requires a second viewing just for all the references and quick cut moments I think, not to mention the best Stan Lee cameo of the lot
Watch right to the end of the credits, it's worth it
9/10
Orang Utan
They cannot crucify you if your hand is in a fist
Aye, i saw a late night showing of this and there were literally six of us. All stayed for the credits and we all fell about laughing at the codaSpiderMan: Into The SpiderVerse
Wow. I'd heard it was good and obviously it won the Animated Oscar too, but it far exceeded what I was expecting.
Possibly the best animated film I've seen, inventive with the medium, pitched perfectly to appeal to both superfans and casuals, and with a perfect balance of humour and seriousness (some fairly dark and heavy themes for a 'kid's film' throughout).
As much as I love the MCU take on Spidey, they lean a little too heavily on him being a Stark fanboy and almost sidekick, whereas the guys making this film seem to get the character more than any other I've seen, and the various alternate versions were all distinct but still shared the same characteristics.
The voice acting is great (Nicholas Cage as SpiderNoir was inspired casting, to pick out just one example) and the visuals are fantastic, there's desktop wallpapers for days throughout
Brilliant soundtrack too.
Requires a second viewing just for all the references and quick cut moments I think, not to mention the best Stan Lee cameo of the lot
Watch right to the end of the credits, it's worth it
9/10
SpiderMan: Into The SpiderVerse
Wow. I'd heard it was good and obviously it won the Animated Oscar too, but it far exceeded what I was expecting.
Possibly the best animated film I've seen, inventive with the medium, pitched perfectly to appeal to both superfans and casuals, and with a perfect balance of humour and seriousness (some fairly dark and heavy themes for a 'kid's film' throughout).
As much as I love the MCU take on Spidey, they lean a little too heavily on him being a Stark fanboy and almost sidekick, whereas the guys making this film seem to get the character more than any other I've seen, and the various alternate versions were all distinct but still shared the same characteristics.
The voice acting is great (Nicholas Cage as SpiderNoir was inspired casting, to pick out just one example) and the visuals are fantastic, there's desktop wallpapers for days throughout
Brilliant soundtrack too.
Requires a second viewing just for all the references and quick cut moments I think, not to mention the best Stan Lee cameo of the lot
Watch right to the end of the credits, it's worth it
9/10
Seeing this next week, cannot wait!
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Three Billboards. Excellent, compassionate, troubled, unresolving, everything I expected really.
Reno
The In Kraut
Von Trier’s latest cinematic provocation, The House that Jack Built. I’m no fan of the director and haven’t really liked anything by him since his haunted hospital series Riget/The Kingdom. I can't take a film-maker, whose very film gets made to cause walkouts at Cannes, too seriously.
This one is a serial killer flick with some philosophical waffling and extreme violence committed against men, women, children and ducks. While it's a difficult film to recommended, I minded this less than most of his other films. Being aware that the violence is just there to provoke a reaction, I didn't feel particularly affected by it and I quite liked where the film ends up. It's too long but if you like horror films and can stomach extreme gruesomeness, it's worth a watch, otherwise give it a wide berth.
I watched the unrated version. There also is an R-rated version which cuts a lot of the worst stuff but considering what the film attempts, that's probably defeating the purpose.
This one is a serial killer flick with some philosophical waffling and extreme violence committed against men, women, children and ducks. While it's a difficult film to recommended, I minded this less than most of his other films. Being aware that the violence is just there to provoke a reaction, I didn't feel particularly affected by it and I quite liked where the film ends up. It's too long but if you like horror films and can stomach extreme gruesomeness, it's worth a watch, otherwise give it a wide berth.
I watched the unrated version. There also is an R-rated version which cuts a lot of the worst stuff but considering what the film attempts, that's probably defeating the purpose.
Burning.
Slow paced, some beautiful long shots and lots of time to think 'wtf is going on here?'. Great characters and performances...hated the bad guy. The trailer really did get me hooked into a film that was quite unlike anything I would've expected. Wish I'd seen it at the pictures. Still thinking about it morning after is always a good sign I think.
SpiderMan: Into The SpiderVerse.
Really enjoyed it. My son said he was surprised Isle of Dogs didn't win best animation but this is next level, astounding stuff.
Slow paced, some beautiful long shots and lots of time to think 'wtf is going on here?'. Great characters and performances...hated the bad guy. The trailer really did get me hooked into a film that was quite unlike anything I would've expected. Wish I'd seen it at the pictures. Still thinking about it morning after is always a good sign I think.
SpiderMan: Into The SpiderVerse.
Really enjoyed it. My son said he was surprised Isle of Dogs didn't win best animation but this is next level, astounding stuff.
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Watching Bohemian Rhapsody on a feed from the Middle East. We noticed the film seems roughly edited at places, but then remembered that over there they censor out stuff as trivial as heterosexual kissing in the mouth, never mind gay stuff.
I’ve just checked the running time and our version is 39 minutes shorter than the full film. I guess we’ll have to watch it again when it reaches the UK channels to see what debauchery we’ve missed.
I’ve just checked the running time and our version is 39 minutes shorter than the full film. I guess we’ll have to watch it again when it reaches the UK channels to see what debauchery we’ve missed.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
You missed nothing, whitewashed to the core. One brief, very brief, pill popping scene and if you watched while taking only cursory notice you might even think Mercury was straight. A 'film' about Queen, not Mercury, and built around Queen songs. I saw Live Aid so what was the point of the last 25 minutes exactly? Overlong.
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John Wick - Chapter 2. Keanu does his thing, lots of blood and bullets.
Just watching the body count will make you dizzy and just how many assassins for hire are there? I feel like it's set in an alternate world where everybody is a killer. Or maybe it's a metaphor for our own world...
Reno
The In Kraut
I don't think everybody is supposed to be a killer in this world, John Wick is about a hidden underground world, which just caters to and is populated by assassins. Last year's Hotel Artemis has a similar premise though it leans more explicitly into dystopian science fiction.
cybershot
Well-Known Member
Widows
Remake of an old British TV show where 3 wives of killed criminals carry out the last act of their husbands to claim $5m in order to pay off the people chasing them and start new lives, plenty of twists along the way. It's been done countless times, and while the leader of the women is a bit of a twat at the best of times, you want them to come through. Worth watching.
What they had.
Hard watch as family struggles to come to terms with their mothers Alzheimer's disease, but well worth watching, try not to watch wen you're already sad or depressed as this won't help your mood.
Remake of an old British TV show where 3 wives of killed criminals carry out the last act of their husbands to claim $5m in order to pay off the people chasing them and start new lives, plenty of twists along the way. It's been done countless times, and while the leader of the women is a bit of a twat at the best of times, you want them to come through. Worth watching.
What they had.
Hard watch as family struggles to come to terms with their mothers Alzheimer's disease, but well worth watching, try not to watch wen you're already sad or depressed as this won't help your mood.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Blackkklansman - always thought Spike Lee was overated since Do the Right Thing but enjoyed this.Great story and a brilliant parallel bit where an eye witness decribes a public lynching and burning as the KKK have their initiation service .The film concludes with some timely footage of the modern far right in America.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
The Shepherd: Border Control (2008) with Jean Claude van Damme. Genuinely one of the worst things I've ever watched, so breathtakingly shoddy in every way that it's no surprise it went straight to video. Some sort of trite bobbins about drug trafficking bad guys and grief and that. Yet there are odd flashes of self-awareness from the script and the star, a pitch-perfect 1970s exploitation-movie pastiche soundtrack, and it contains one bit of deathless dialogue:
[Drunk woman in bar] Sho, aren't you gonna take me home? Why not?
[JVD] Because you're piss drunk and I'm holding a rabbit.
Almost worth wasting an hour and a half of my life just for that tbh.
[Drunk woman in bar] Sho, aren't you gonna take me home? Why not?
[JVD] Because you're piss drunk and I'm holding a rabbit.
Almost worth wasting an hour and a half of my life just for that tbh.
See, I hated that bit (felt quite meh about the film in general). Such heavy handed hammering home of the message just in case you hadn't already got the point...
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