Film

[astfgyl]

Poor old nic got a bad doing at the end of Knowing. Enjoyed that one too

[astfgyl]

https://m.independent.ie/business/technology/crackdown-on-dodgy-box-tv-streams-under-way-in-12-irish-counties-42377688.html

Oh no

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

It's the same director who did The Crow.

Fuck, of course! Knew I recognized the name. It's a better piece of cinema than The Crow... which I have seen at least 10 times 

Will add that one Knowing to my watchlist, nice one man.

[Carnage]

Haven't seen Dark City since it came out but I loved it at the time. I remember putting it with The Matrix in a 'the world isn't what it seems to be' box.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

maybe even forward influence onto aspects of, say, Inception.

Wiki confirms this:

When Christopher Nolan first started thinking about writing the script for Inception, he was influenced by "that era of movies where you had The Matrix, you had Dark City, you had The Thirteenth Floor and, to a certain extent, you had Memento, too. They were based in the principles that the world around you might not be real"

[blessed1]

Inception was an awful load of shite.
As are most of Nolans films I think. The Prestige and Memento were great but that's about it. His Batman films were such overhyped bollix.

[Carnage]

My only problem with The Prestige is that all of the twists were glaringly obvious and could be seen a mile off, but it was about the execution and not the reveal, I suppose. It was certainly more entertaining than the book, which fell a little flat.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

The newest Batman was better than any of Nolan's, but I still enjoyed them. And Dunkirk was superb. A lot of his stuff I can take or leave though alright.

[Ollkiller]

The newest Batman was better than any of Nolan's, but I still enjoyed them. And Dunkirk was superb. A lot of his stuff I can take or leave though alright.

The new batman was shyte. Fucking boring. The Dark Knight was brilliant.

[ldj]

I'll have to give the new Batman a watch, tried to watch it last year and turned it off at the Nirvana scene.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I guess it's not for everyone, but at least it's a serious film, unlike certain bad joke Batman films which are unarguably and genuinely shite. Even things like the sound design of the newest Batman are really nicely thought out. The atmosphere they went for is obvious visually, but they really went to town adding extra depth to it. Story is great fun too; old school film noir crime mystery. And, finally, even though the withdrawn tormented soul take on Batman jars a bit of first, personally I think the gamble paid off. But love it or hate it, it's at least a very different take on Batman to anything done before, and that's no small order at this stage of things.

Watched Fantastic Mr.Fox with the young lad this evening. Good fun but not amazing. No Paddington 1 or 2!

[Ollkiller]

Stylistically it does look really good but just bored the hole off me. Yeah Fantaatic Mr Fox is only ok.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Babylon, at times excellent, at other times lands flat, or at least doesn't take off the way intended. Nice the way it presents itself as the dark mirror vision to Singin' In The Rain of the same period in cinema, but still a bit uneven overall, and the final 15 minutes or so will be divisive as hell.

[Carnage]

There's a smugness to Fantastic Mr. Fox (and all of Anderson's films TBH) that just rubbed me up the wrong way. The nephew and niece love it though, so what do I know.

Just watched The Whale, it's good stuff. Bleak as fuck, Fraser did a mighty job. Of course the SJWs are up in arms that he got the part over someone who was actually morbidly obese, and that it got the Oscar for Hair & Makeup. Of course.

[Ollkiller]

As regards whatever Anderson has done The Royal Tenenbaums is a tour De force of a film. So good.