Film

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Saw it in the cinema on release 10 years ago, finally got around to a second watch last night: A Royal Affair. Beautiful film. Alicia Vikander and Mads Mikkelsen star, alongside many other heads from Danish cinema.

[Necro Red]

Finally had a look at Last Days Here last night. Man, how depressing. Liebling has so much natural talent but he is ruined with the crack and gear. Shocking to see how he lives. He looks older than his very old parents. Grim.

He is some mess, poor chap

[Carnage]

Watched the new Jurassic World last night. Much better than the reviews would suggest, but still inconsistent in its pacing and could probably be a good 20-30 mins. shorter. Some nice new creature designs though.

[astfgyl]

Jesus I really thought Jurassic world was awful and I watched it with two 6 year olds who would be happy just to go to the cinema. Maybe I'd enjoy it more with less expectations. Come to think of it what did I expect anyway?

Watched the latest Jackass movie last night. It made me feel old and it wasn't great either. Poor actually.

[ldj]

Went to see the new Thor today, bar the odd pleasant surprise I've lost interest in the whole superhero movie thing, I thought this might be good though as I like Taita Waititi and the almost power metal aesthetic looked cool but it was very disappointing, nearly all of the humour misses, pretty much every character is a goofy moron, I love a bit of old GNR but at a certain point they were really reaching to fit as many references/songs in as possible, and they completely wasted their chance to use Christian Bale effectively.

Biggest highlight was hearing Rainbow in the Dark played during the credits, nice to see Dio getting more attention with this and Stranger Things.

[Pentagrimes]

Yeah Batman was painful. The nod to/rip off of Se7en was bizarre.

Watched this last night, it's incredible. it's like if The Chapman Brothers, Ray Harryhausen, and Away from Voivod got together and decided to make a stop motion surreal horror film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jas8OABbn0Y

not one to watch for plot, it's entirely just a moving artwork really.

"The Batman" is absolute shit. And I say that as a lifelong fan of Bats in print and on film. It's way too long, there's no justification for the running time at all and completely unsatisfying.

Looking forward to "Mad God". The guy who made it - Phil Tippett - creator of the Tauntaun and most of the stuff in Return Of The Jedi, "Robocop" ED-209 and some of the Jurassic Park dinosaurs - was on Marc Maron's podcast a few week's back. It took over 20 years to make - he even lost his mind during production of it. Worth a listen.

Where did you see it? In a cinema?

This is on in the IFI in Dublin this week, and I'm going to catch it this afternoon..and probably as many times as I can after that in the next 5 days. Incredibly excited to see this on a big screen.

[astfgyl]

Watched Dino Crocodile vs Mega Shark last night.

[Carnage]

Ah, Terence Mallic's latest?

[astfgyl]

I thought Kenneth Branagh overplayed it a bit with the hard psychological stuff but otherwise it was decent if a little cerebral at times

[Emphyrio]

Watched a few this week.

The Northman - not bad but not great.
The Black Phone - disappointing. The highlight were Tom Savini's masks.
The Batman - good but not as good as I was expecting. Not a patch on The Dark Knight but set up nicely for a sequel, obviously enough.

[Slaughterday]

12 Monkeys. Stumbled across the commentary for this on YouTube so decided to give it a lash for the 20th time or so. Still an absolute classic. Big fan of nearly all of Gilliam's output but this is his best work.

[astfgyl]

Watching Die Hard With a Vengeance here.

Can't believe they have Jeremy Irons playing a German. What next, Lord of the Rings with black elves or something..

[Eoin McLove]

Stay in your lane,  Irons!

[astfgyl]

Man the injustice is really hurting me but I'm trying to let it go because it was the 90s.

Desperado. It's both great and not great but more of the first than the second. Can anyone think of a worse actor than Quentin Tarantino though? Actually now I'm thinking about his face and plastic surgery hasn't really worked out for him has it. What's that film where he's playing an Aussie or a really shit English accent but anyway he's a cowboy in it and his face is fair fucked nowadays

[Eoin McLove]

His head looks like if Pete Steele had his face run over by a bin lorry.