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Post by DarknessFish on Feb 17, 2019 21:52:23 GMT
Another low-budget horror under my belt, this one being the tried and tested 'people stuck in a claustrophobic environment with an unknown evil outside' type of thing. With a cast of just 6 people, most of which is whittled down to 3 quite quickly, it really relies on the set-pieces and character interaction for its tension, which it does pretty well. Not bad at all.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Feb 18, 2019 13:38:47 GMT
Oh, I started watching Monty Python's Flying Circus again! I plan to watch all four series over the next few weeks. I did this already back in 2006 or so, and I really enjoyed the experience (it was the first time I'd seen around half the episodes in their entirety).
Anyway the first one ('Whither Canada?') isn't exactly vintage, but it features the wonderful 'Funniest Joke In The World' sketch (which I think was done better in the compilation film And Now For Something Completely Different). What's interesting is that the audience don't know how to take half the jokes, and some of them fall flat. And you're as interested in what dates it as much as what's funny (well, I am, anyway!) - and now, fifty years on, some of it really looks old.
I also watched the 'Gas' episode of Bottom, which really is sublime. It might be my favourite of the whole three series. There's not a single dead moment, it just rattles along, stuffed with ideas and wonderful performances (Rik and Ade as great as ever, but Brian Glover as 'Mr. Rottweiler' and the fella who plays the gas man are fantastic additions). I don't like to say things like this are 'underrated' but the show isn't held up as great in the same way as the likes of Dad's Army or Python or Vic and Bob or Hancock or whatever are - and I'm not really sure why. To me the show represents everything that's great about British comedy.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2019 22:03:19 GMT
I couldn't sleep last night and stared watching this sci fi movie called Legion. It had good actors in it - Dennis Quaid, Paul Brittany, and others, but it was terrible.
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Post by driftin on Feb 21, 2019 15:50:26 GMT
BlacKKKlansman This could’ve been as superb as Do the Right Thing but the tonal shifts into comedy are far too awkward. I love the ending which is a completely unsubtle pure angry political statement about modern American society though but the rest of the film only goes this far on occasion rather than throughout.
Velvet Buzzsaw Another one that doesn’t go far enough. It can’t quite decide whether it wants to be schlocky trash or some late-Cronenbergian arthouse satire and it suffers for that. The various actors in this eating the scenery are superb to watch though, especially Jake Gyllenhaal.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World A very lovely end to a very lovely trilogy of family action-adventure films. It’s always nice to see this kind of thing.
Piercing They should call this 50 Shades of Blood. It’s the funniest and sweetest movie about a man wanting to brutally murder a prostitute only for her to be kind of into that thing. Things turn into a surreal nightmare involving S&M, torture, self-mutilation, and hallucinations of alien tick monsters feeding on faces but by the end you’re thinking “aww, how sweet, they want to stab each other, that’s so romantic!” Nice dream-like Giallo-inspired visuals and sound design too. I liked this.
If Beale Street Could Talk Gorgeous, poetic, and it wrings every emotion out of you. The best movie of 2018.
Lords of Chaos The story of Mayhem and Burzum that is “based on truth and lies”. It’s very well made but it straddles the line between condoning and condemning these racist violent idiots a bit too much but I am glad it portrays them as idiots. The fact that its existence pisses Varg Vikernes off makes me happy though.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Feb 21, 2019 15:55:20 GMT
BlacKKKlansmanI love the ending which is a completely unsubtle pure angry political statement about modern American society Really? I hated that. I wasn't especially keen on the rest of the film either - it was just a fairly enjoyable little story. If Beale Street Could TalkGorgeous, poetic, and it wrings every emotion out of you. The best movie of 2018. Looking forward to seeing that next week.
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Post by driftin on Feb 21, 2019 16:00:08 GMT
BlacKKKlansmanI love the ending which is a completely unsubtle pure angry political statement about modern American society Really? I hated that. I wasn't especially keen on the rest of the film either - it was just a fairly enjoyable little story. It actually gave the film some context and reminded me of the old (young) angry Spike Lee. The rest of the film just felt a bit pointless and even confused. It needed to be much more angry and serious. Some of the comedy did make me laugh out loud though, especially the final phone conversation.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2019 19:44:28 GMT
PiercingThey should call this 50 Shades of Blood. It’s the funniest and sweetest movie about a man wanting to brutally murder a prostitute only for her to be kind of into that thing. Things turn into a surreal nightmare involving S&M, torture, self-mutilation, and hallucinations of alien tick monsters feeding on faces but by the end you’re thinking “aww, how sweet, they want to stab each other, that’s so romantic!” Nice dream-like Giallo-inspired visuals and sound design too. I liked this. Two words: Smell the Glove
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Post by driftin on Feb 22, 2019 13:18:04 GMT
PiercingThey should call this 50 Shades of Blood. It’s the funniest and sweetest movie about a man wanting to brutally murder a prostitute only for her to be kind of into that thing. Things turn into a surreal nightmare involving S&M, torture, self-mutilation, and hallucinations of alien tick monsters feeding on faces but by the end you’re thinking “aww, how sweet, they want to stab each other, that’s so romantic!” Nice dream-like Giallo-inspired visuals and sound design too. I liked this. Two words: Smell the Glove If that's claiming the film is sexist, dead wrong.
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Post by DarknessFish on Feb 22, 2019 13:46:09 GMT
Slightly barking mad, very elegant, and quite surprisingly well-paced for a film that goes on for nearly 2 1/2 hours.
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Post by driftin on Feb 22, 2019 13:57:56 GMT
Slightly barking mad, very elegant, and quite surprisingly well-paced for a film that goes on for nearly 2 1/2 hours. I loved that. Park Chan-wook just continues to be brilliant and weird but when he wants to he can also make that weirdness quite progressive and wholesome.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Feb 24, 2019 22:19:35 GMT
The best Antonioni I've seen so far. It has all his themes but I felt it was more mature, more tragic than previous iterations. I could just relate to Nicholson more than the protagonists in his earlier films and that helped.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Feb 24, 2019 22:33:35 GMT
I just watched Ocean's Eleven and thought it was boys-with-their-toys fucking trash. Really nothing good about it at all.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Feb 24, 2019 22:40:10 GMT
I just watched Ocean's Eleven and thought it was boys-with-their-toys fucking trash. Really nothing good about it at all. Ooo but it's a throwback to old Hollywood! All that glamour and finger poppin' style, ooo yeah! And fucking Brad Pitt and Gorgeous George wearing shades! Rat pack baby! VERY COOL. FUCK OFF
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Post by Crunchy Col on Feb 24, 2019 22:55:24 GMT
I enjoy those heist movies sometimes, but this was just so dull, you know? the protagonists were too fucking busy adjusting their shirt cuffs to do anything interesting at all. I still want to see Rihanna in the latest one, tho'...
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Feb 24, 2019 22:59:42 GMT
Ach I've never seen it.
Rihanna though. Apparently she's dating a billionaire.
Doubt he's pissed on somebody's LPs.
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