Film

[OpenSores]

Watched the new Top Gun there, good craic. As cheesy as you'd expect but a better film than the original. The flight sequences were amazing, I'm sorry I didn't see them on the big screen.

Watched Belfast yesterday, better than I'd expected. Tonally all over the place though.

What completely ruined Belfast for me was reading about the location filming. I understand why they couldn't but it just fell flat for me.

[Carnage]

Filmed in London, I believe. Understandable.

Watched Antlers earlier. Traumatised child meets body/tolk horror. Bleak but by the numbers, and the creature could have been better, it looked a bit PS1 cut scene.

Just watched Nobody. Bit late to the party but it was good craic, bloody and funny. Saul Goodman goes John Wick.

[OpenSores]

Nobody is great fun, only watched it myself recently.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Just watched a film from 1981 called Reds. I'd never heard of it until Paul Sorvino died and a Jacobin-style socialist I follow on Twitter paid tribute to his role in it as American Communist Party founding member Louis C.Fraina. He's only a supporting character though. Main roles are played by Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, and Jack Nicholson. It's a true story about the radical US revolutionaries who got swept up in the Russian revolution between sort of 1910 to the mid 1920s, people who saw it all. It's interspersed throughout with interviews with very elderly people who lived near them or moved in their circles. Epic movie anyway. 3 hours long, so a bit slow in places, but no more than others. Acting is great. Especially, as always, Jack Nicholson.

[Crow]

Yeah, 'Reds' is really fucking good. Haven't watched it in years. Could do with another go of it one of these days.

Have you ever read 'Easy Riders, Raging Bulls'? Lots of cool and/or hilarious info on Warren B in there. Great book.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I know the book but haven't read it, no. I'll stick it on the retirement list 

[OpenSores]

Must rewatch Reds been too long.

[CorkonianHunger]

Watched Martyrs the other night. Tough one in the end. Not so much the actual content just the overall tone and by the end you feel empty. Which is a good thing I suppose.

Another weird one, The Wolf House. Short enough foreign film about that German commune in Chile. Its done as stop motion and its on Youtube. Was glued to it.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Martyrs put me off horror movies. I felt like I'd seen the extreme limit of what I could still consider as entertainment and then just lost interest in the rest, apart from a very few exceptions.

Watched The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Surreal, silly, and highly entertaining. Maybe promised more at the outset than it delivered on, but still a good watch.

[open face surgery]

Thought Martyrs was insane.

[Carnage]

The original French one was intense, the ending was so bleak. Didn't bother with the remake.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Didn't know there was a remake, but won't be bothering either.

[CorkonianHunger]

Looks like the US remake was a cash grab. Hostel style torture porn shite. The original one is mental especially the last few minutes. Left me sitting in silence.

Only other films that had a similar effect were Snowtown, Dead Mans Shoes and Irreversible.

[Eoin McLove]

Snowtown was one of the bleakest films I've ever seen. Must rematch it.  Dead Man's Shoes- total classic. I haven't seen Irreversible. Is that the Top Gear feature length?

[CorkonianHunger]

I haven't seen Irreversible. Is that the Top Gear feature length?

Yeah, French Top Gun without the flying.