Film

[astfgyl]

Think I enjoyed Nosferatu more on the 4k disc as the local IMC can be fucking awful to watch darkly lit movies as the projector and screen need servicing(which seems to be the case in most of them!).

Mate of mine was managing one of the IMCs and told me that some of them have different cheaper protectors that they bought from China but that might have just been the eye crossing 3d ones

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

I need to revisit it. I do recall that the ending made it for me, but now I can't really remember what the ending was.

 

Big dirty Gigi D'Agostino needle drop is how it ends

[Eoin McLove]

I just watched Steve on Netflix with Cillian Murphy in the lead role. It's an adaptation of Shy by Max Porter, but it fairly elaborates on the whole world of that little story. I found it really, really enjoyable. Shot in a shaky camcorder style that suited it, particularly as it was set in 96 (although the one bit of Metal that was playing in it sounded more 2026... I'll reluctantly let them off the hook), it looked right. Something of a chaotic mess in a way, but engaging and authentic and the messiness made perfect sense in context of the story. Well worth a look.

[91/30]

Seen 'No Other Choice', Korean film by Park chanwook in the cinema - same director of the original 'Old Boy'. Dark comedy without too much comedy, great stuff, recommended

[Emphyrio]

I just watched Steve on Netflix with Cillian Murphy in the lead role. It's an adaptation of Shy by Max Porter, but it fairly elaborates on the whole world of that little story. I found it really, really enjoyable. Shot in a shaky camcorder style that suited it, particularly as it was set in 96 (although the one bit of Metal that was playing in it sounded more 2026... I'll reluctantly let them off the hook), it looked right. Something of a chaotic mess in a way, but engaging and authentic and the messiness made perfect sense in context of the story. Well worth a look.

I watched The Thing with Feathers a couple of weeks ago, having read Porter's book last year. Coincidentally, Cillian Murphy's favourite book. Would have thought it would be impossible to adapt but it was very good, if you're happy to be sad for an hour and a half.

[Eoin McLove]

I just watched Steve on Netflix with Cillian Murphy in the lead role. It's an adaptation of Shy by Max Porter, but it fairly elaborates on the whole world of that little story. I found it really, really enjoyable. Shot in a shaky camcorder style that suited it, particularly as it was set in 96 (although the one bit of Metal that was playing in it sounded more 2026... I'll reluctantly let them off the hook), it looked right. Something of a chaotic mess in a way, but engaging and authentic and the messiness made perfect sense in context of the story. Well worth a look.

I watched The Thing with Feathers a couple of weeks ago, having read Porter's book last year. Coincidentally, Cillian Murphy's favourite book. Would have thought it would be impossible to adapt but it was very good, if you're happy to be sad for an hour and a half.

Interesting. I didn't know that was made into a film. I must see if it's on Netflix. I liked the book, but I think Lanny is his best so far. It was the first of his I read, which might be the reason, but it was just so creative and colourful, despite being a sad story.

[Pat Twisted Wrath]

Watched The Witch again for the umpteenth time. Never fails to fill me woth absolute dread. Beautiful movie.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Master & Commander again last night. Has def now officially entered my list of "comfort" movies 

[Ollkiller]

Ya The Singers short film on Netflix was well good.

[Sworntothecans]

Been spoiled with a rake of MGM UA/ Cannon era Charles Bronson movies on prime at the moment.

Tonights drinking movie: 10 To Midnight, which I think everyone's oul pair rented within the first couple of months of getting a VCR.

Bronson Vs a Ted Bundy type which played like a yank republican wet dream but watchable as fuck.

[Eoin McLove]

Ya The Singers short film on Netflix was well good.

I would have taken a full length, as the actor said to the bishop.

[John Kimble]

Gave Predator Badlands a watch the other day and it was a moderately entertaining distraction, nothing more. However, why on earth does everything have to be part of some wider cinematic universe? It was more of that Weyland Yutani stuff that crosses over into Alien. I know there have been Alien v Predator movies already, so it's not exactly a new development but it just reinforces the complete dearth of new ideas.
Also, as someone who enjoyed both Predator and Predator 2, be warned that this is a completely sanitised and family friendly version of the Predator (there is plenty of violence but it's of the PG variety). It's a buddy movie by the end of the film, with events wrapping up in a nice cozy manner that stops short of all parties heading off for a nice picnic by a babbling brook. Not really what you want from a character that's called Predator ffs. Makes you yearn for the sheer mindless violence and humorous nihilism of the 1980's.

[Mooncat]

Makes you yearn for the sheer mindless violence and humorous nihilism of the 1980's.

Oh man, the absolute peak of that was the scene in Robocop where Ed-209 shoots the guy in the corporate boardroom. He just keeps emptying the machine guns into him for an over the top amount of time. I still burst out laughing at that scene every single time.

[John Kimble]

Yeah, Robocop was tops for that. The gang shooting the shit out of Murphy, the lad getting his balls shot in the filling station...the lad from ER getting covered in toxic waste and Boddicker ploughing him out of it with the car. Glorious, OTT stuff. 

[Pat Twisted Wrath]

Makes you yearn for the sheer mindless violence and humorous nihilism of the 1980's.

Oh man, the absolute peak of that was the scene in Robocop where Ed-209 shoots the guy in the corporate boardroom. He just keeps emptying the machine guns into him for an over the top amount of time. I still burst out laughing at that scene every single time.

"Only a glitch", I believe Dick Jones said.