Film

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Ah, he has his moments. Moonrise Kingdom is a great aul film too, perhaps my favourite of his.

[open face surgery]

Not a fan of his style at all.

[StoutAndAle]

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.

Ah here!

AH HERE!

The newest Batman character reminded me of those drab lads that I went to school with in the 90s who wore a Nirvana shirt, wallowed in their "depression", never read the books that they talked about and then got collected by Mummy in a Mercedes to go home to a 5-bed house located in a nice part of town.

[StoutAndAle]

I haven't seen "Isle Of Dogs" but I've enjoyed all of Wes Anderson's films - to varying degrees.

"Bottle Rocket" is absolutely brilliant. I struggled with "The Life Aquatic", "The Darjeeling Limited" and some of "The French Dispatch".

I'd have to watch "The Darjeeling Limited" again though - saw it on a plane with my usual order of 2 vodka and tonic - so it might have impaired my opinion.

[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.

Ah here!

AH HERE!

The newest Batman character reminded me of those drab lads that I went to school with in the 90s who wore a Nirvana shirt, wallowed in their "depression", never read the books that they talked about and then got collected by Mummy in a Mercedes to go home to a 5-bed house located in a nice part of town.

He didn't remind you of them; he was them  That's a large part of why it's not for everyone, totally get that. But I found the film built around that character was excellent, more impressive than what Nolan built around a more classic take of the character. Maybe it's also because I went in expecting DCU/MCU level shite, which it most definitely and objectively isn't.

[leatherface]

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

'The Life Aquatic' is good too, if you like the sea and jacques cousteau films with library music in the background. I like it anyway. Fully understand people not liking Anderson though, he is very polarising but I'm on board with his stuff in general. Didn't really like 'Royal Tenenbaums' though so different courses for different horses I suppose.

[Carnage]

I liked The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic to a point, The Darjeeling Express wasn't great if memory serves. But the general tone of his films has an air of 'look at how great we all are' to it, and it's offputting. I've had The Grand Budapest Hotel on my to watch list since it came out but can never bring myself to actually put it on.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

But the general tone of his films has an air of 'look at how great we all are' to it, and it's offputting.

Well put. Now that you've said it, I think this is what I go into his films guarding against, so when it's not there, or is there less, they're the ones of his I enjoy the most.

[CorkonianHunger]

Used to hate Wes Anderson stuff but I'd say half of his films grew on me a lot, the other half I'd take or leave.

Just watched the new All Quiet on the Western Front. Thought it was amazing.

[ldj]

Have a dose of something today so sat down and watched the new Batman. It's enjoyable, not perfect but a decent romp.

There was some odd choices in there, the 'priveleged white assholes' line came out of nowhere and got a bit of an eye roll, especially when delivered by an actress born to multi-millionaire parents in a movie about a rich guy beating the shit out of poor people.

But apart from that Paul Dano plays a great weirdo as always and Colin Farrell was very entertaining too, could have been a bit shorter but it was better than Dark Knight Rises at least.

[Cailleach]

I watched The Sting and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid the other night. It was my first time seeing these movies. I'm going to search for more Paul Newman and Robert Redford movies to watch.

[Carnage]

The Sting is a personal favourite, I must have seen it 20 times at this stage. Wasn't too pushed about Butch & Sundance TBH.

[open face surgery]

I watched The Sting and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid the other night. It was my first time seeing these movies. I'm going to search for more Paul Newman and Robert Redford movies to watch.

Pretty sure that's the only two they are in together. Love both those movies though.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Had ourselves a bit of an Elmore Leonard movie weekend: Jackie Brown, Out Of Sight, Get Shorty. Clearly not all of a par, but all at the very least highly entertaining.

Lot of interesting mix and matching of actors between the three movies too, but notably also Michael Keaton playing the same character, Ray Nicolette, in both Jackie Brown and Out Of Sight, though a more comic-pathetic version in the latter.

Must watch 3:10 to Yuma later in the week, that's one I never saw.

[Carnage]

Just watched Avatar 2 there. Overly long (3hrs. +) and as a result, it really drags in the middle but overall enjoyable, better than I expected (my expectations were low). If you liked the first one, you'l like this.