Films

[steviewevie]

 

[annlopez]

Who watched Oppenheimer? Tell me if it is worth watching, because I hear different opinions

[steviewevie]

6 hours ago, annlopez said:

Who watched Oppenheimer? Tell me if it is worth watching, because I hear different opinions

I watched it and thought it was very good, although don't have too much to drink beforehand.

[steviewevie]

 

[SheffJeff]

I've just seen that it's national cinema day this weekend so it's 3 squid for tickets at the majority of cinemas... thought it might be of interest to those on here.

[steviewevie]

 

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[philipsteak]

That's a VERY busy trailer.

[justanotheronethen]

23 hours ago, steviewevie said:

 

Can anyone tell me the song playing in this with Perry Farrel's vocals on?

[steviewevie]

On 9/9/2023 at 1:02 PM, justanotheronethen said:

Can anyone tell me the song playing in this with Perry Farrel's vocals on?

Janes Addiction - Three Days.

[justanotheronethen]

5 hours ago, steviewevie said:

Janes Addiction - Three Days.

Cheers Stevie! Need to revisit their albums, love his voice.

Incidentally I spent the other half of that trailer trying to work out where in the Star Wars time-line it fits 🤣

[steviewevie]

4 minutes ago, justanotheronethen said:

Cheers Stevie! Need to revisit their albums, love his voice.

Incidentally I spent the other half of that trailer trying to work out where in the Star Wars time-line it fits 🤣

it's like a mix of star wars, game of thrones, dune, harry potter, and maybe some narnia for the hell of it.

[justanotheronethen]

1 minute ago, steviewevie said:

it's like a mix of star wars, game of thrones, dune, harry potter, and maybe some narnia for the hell of it.

I can't wait to see the Screen Rant Pitch Meeting for it

[Rufus Gwertigan]

Just thought I would give Evil Dead Rise a run before I cancel my Netflix. Bloody hell it is not exactly late morning viewing is it? Absolutely brilliant.

[steviewevie]

 

[clarkete]

On 8/5/2023 at 8:17 PM, steviewevie said:

I was up for Barbie but my daughter who is one of these young feminists you hear about thought it was at best lame, at worst sh*t, so not sure I'll bother although I am on old man so maybe it's meant for me.

I saw it on streaming and of the same mind as @FloorFiller I loved it.  Some bits hysterical (a montage of him going for jobs) and some quite profound (her having feelings), but the rest of the cast were fab too.

I'd guess that maybe your daughter is quite young and some of the references didn't hit, or she's reached that age many of us did where anything populist is a bit lame?

Other films I've watched recently, plenty of you will have seen them before but all first for me, none at the flicks but from a variety of sources...

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/night_in_paradise - netflix - Korean - "a wronged mobster with a target on his back connects with a woman who has her own demons"

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/nimona - netflix - brilliant animation, plenty of humour and some heart too.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blackberry - "'BlackBerry' tells the story of Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, the two men that charted the course of the spectacular rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone" (much more entertaining than that sounds)

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ma_raineys_black_bottom - netflix - "Tensions and temperatures rise at a Chicago music studio in 1927 when fiery, fearless blues singer Ma Rainey joins her band for a recording session" (great film and Chadwick Boseman too).

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_man_escaped - A classic french film (based on the writings of a member of the resistance) about attempting to escape from a prison run by the Gestapo.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jojo_rabbit - netflix - (not to everyone's taste but I liked it a lot) "Jojo is a lonely German boy who discovers that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his imaginary friend -- Adolf Hitler -- Jojo must confront his blind nationalism as World War II continues to rage on"

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blue_dahlia - A classic film noir 

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_fabelmans - part biographical story by Speilberg 

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/out_of_time - twenty year old thriller with Denzel Washington and Eva Mendez set in Florida 

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/771566890 - Lou - netflix - some decent action and thrills, but Allison Janney is definitely the best thing about it

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/elemental_2023 - disney+ - not the best of Pixar, but as you'd expect well made and entertaining nonetheless.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1019609-spellbound - Hitchcock classic with Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck, from a time when psychiatry was seen as a bit of a novelty

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/indiana_jones_and_the_dial_of_destiny - given how much I disliked the previous one in the series and the mixed reviews I was surprised how entertaining I found this tbh 🙂 

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/foreign_correspondent - another Hitchcock classic.  One of the lead roles in this is played by George Sanders (the voice of Shere Khan) who was also in All About Eve which I saw recently.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/searching_for_sugar_man - this is the one I'm sure most of you saw way before me.  For a documentary it's also a great detective/human interest tale. 

 

[steviewevie]

On 9/22/2023 at 4:51 PM, clarkete said:

I'd guess that maybe your daughter is quite young and some of the references didn't hit, or she's reached that age many of us did where anything populist is a bit lame?

I haven't seen it, so don't know. She is 18, and was disappointed. Said it was predictable bollocks. She liked Oppenheimer though.

[clarkete]

On 9/23/2023 at 7:13 PM, steviewevie said:

I haven't seen it, so don't know. She is 18, and was disappointed. Said it was predictable bollocks. She liked Oppenheimer though.

Predictable? Intriguing, as I'm not sure anyone would have guessed before it that it was going to directly criticise the doll range and the Mattel board. 

That's the way when you're a young 'un though innit - everything is passe as soon as it happens 😉

[clarkete]

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rio_bravo  "a western for people who don't even like westerns" directed by Howard Hawks (who made a lot of great films).

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/heart_of_stone_2023  Fairly entertaining netflix nonsense with Gal Gadot and Jamie Dornan.

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15180952/    The Balcony Movie (Polish) - one I watched on HBO Max - "Composed from the conversations that the director holds with people passing by in the street under his Warsaw apartment, each story in 'The Balcony Movie' is unique and deals with the way we try to cope with life as individuals. All together, they create a self-portrait of contemporary human life, and the passers-by present a composite picture of today's world."

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1018433-sea_hawk - Errol Flynn as a privateer taking on the Spanish Armada in a film by Michael Curtiz (also did Casablanca, White Christmas and tons of other classics).  Some of the romance is swooning and amusing by modern standards, but the plot and action hold up very well - plus there's some rousing music that makes you want to puff out your chest and swing across a rope to board another ship.

[moogster]

On 9/25/2023 at 5:40 PM, clarkete said:

Predictable? Intriguing, as I'm not sure anyone would have guessed before it that it was going to directly criticise the doll range and the Mattel board. 

That's the way when you're a young 'un though innit - everything is passe as soon as it happens 😉

Hmmmm it seemed to me like a "we are so cool we can look in the mirror and criticize ourselves" from Mattel. I found it a bit predictable too. I enjoyed more the small scenes (the mansplaining for example). I think I heard too much about it, I should have waited longer to see it. Lots of talk about Allan and what, 5 mini scenes? 

[clarkete]

On 10/3/2023 at 8:48 AM, moogster said:

Hmmmm it seemed to me like a "we are so cool we can look in the mirror and criticize ourselves" from Mattel. I found it a bit predictable too. I enjoyed more the small scenes (the mansplaining for example). I think I heard too much about it, I should have waited longer to see it. Lots of talk about Allan and what, 5 mini scenes? 

I've already seen it a second time, with my aging mum and I still thought it was brilliant.

Two of the songs were earworms by the end of it.

[philipsteak]

Summer of Soul, about the Harlem Festival in 1969, is on Channel 4 tonight (and presumably on whatever their streaming site is now called, although worth checking as films don't always make it on to there). If you haven't already seen it then do. The music is obviously amazing but the doc as a whole is just brilliant

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