Film

[The Heretic]

Watched A Quiet Place 2 and found it disappointing compared to the first one...

[livingabortion]

Color Out of Space

It's a Lovecraftian horror with Nicholas Cage being Nicholas Cage, what's not to like?

Nicholas Cage

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Watched Death Becomes Her for the first time since I was a kid last night. Strangely, all the funniest bits happen in the first half, which is the part I remembered the least. But as much as I was entertained by it, really need to get backing to choosing the movie before rather than after smoking!

Edit: There was another thing which shows how long ago I saw it last, i.e. before I first saw Wayne's World 2. The guy who plays Jim Morrison in the latter has a small role in Death Becomes Her, a film in which someone else again plays a cameo of an eternally young Jim Morrison!

[Carnage]

Watched Luca with my nephew yesterday, typical Pixar film. Grand, passed the time harmlessly enough.

[Eoin McLove]

I saw an amusing one the other evening called JCVD. It's Van Damme playing himself and he gets caught up in the robbery of a post office and gets mistaken for one of the perpetrators. By turns funny, dark and violent, what surprised me most about it was what a great actor Van Damme is.

[livingabortion]

Yeah Jean Claude Van Damme is class.

[StoutAndAle]

Re-watched Tarantino's "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood". It's a masterpiece of modern cinema.

That scene were Brad Pitt

Spoiler

is out of his head after smoking the LSD-laced cigarette is so damn good.

Cliff : You! I remember your white little face... you were on a horsey! Yeah... you are?

Tex : I'm the Devil! And I'm here to do the Devil's business.

Cliff:  No... it was dumber than that. Something like Rex.

[close]

[Eoin McLove]

I thought it was shite.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Same. Certainly not a film I'll ever willingly watch again.

I did finally get around to a proper second viewing of Blade Runner 2049 though. Expectations were low this time, so I enjoyed it more, and was more charitable towards certain aspects that really jarred with me first time around. But apart from its remaining flaws (such as, for being such a visual feast otherwise, how awful the CGI looked for one particular character...that shit needs to be re-done asap, since the technology for doing better is now in the hands of any random geek who knows how to execute a deep neural net), it is still in any case not a patch on the original. Its premise as a sequel is...grand. But you need to do a helluva lot more than grand. Notably it adds absolutely nothing to the cerebral/philosophical level compared to the first. If you put the original at 10/10, then there's no way the sequel can get more than an 8 imo.

And then last night, watched The Blues Brothers with a couple of friends who'd never seen it. Maybe my 20th viewing or so? Maybe more? Always enjoy the hell out of it.

[Eoin McLove]

The soundtrack alone is a winner! There are certain scenes that really get the hairs standing up.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

The soundtrack is great...although, the highlights of it (and I'll admit that's probably nostalgia playing its part) are the revisits of themes from the original. Again though, that original soundtrack, jaysus, just not fair to give other composers standards like that to live up to!

[Eoin McLove]

You aren't talking about Blues Brothers anymore,  are you 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Haha, when you said soundtrack, I said "Blues Brothers", but then when you shifted to hairs standing up, I thought you were on Blade Runner 2049. All amazing, albeit (off-)worlds apart soundtracks!

[open face surgery]

Haha. The wording caught me as well but was 95% sure he wasn't talking about Blade Runner.

[Eoin McLove]

I've never seen Blade Runner