Film

[StoutAndAle]

"Batman" - 1989. 

There's a Tim Burton season on in The Triskel at the minute.

I've seen this countless times - it was the second film that I saw in a cinema - but I hadn't seen it on a big screen since then. There are some fairly cheesy bits in there and a 4K remaster hasn't been kind to some of the make-up/VFX but it's still brilliant.

Some people complain - especially after Nolan started making his trilogy - that Nicholson is hammy and just mugs his way through the film. I disagree, he's playing it like he does the more manic part of RP McMurphy, the coming unhinged side of Jack Torrance and the sleaze of Daryl Van Horne.

Keaton is class as Bruce Wayne/Batman. I love the scene where he goes into Nicholson territory when they confront each other in Vicky Vale's apartment - "Yow wanna get nuts? Let's get NUTS!" 

[StoutAndAle]

Speaking of battering Nazis, wee lad's first watch of Raiders last night, having left him mull over The Sound of Music and The Ten Commandments for a few months. Loved it of course  Still a 10/10 masterclass in film making.

Not sure where you live but there's a few 45th Anniversary screenings of "Raiders OF The Lost Ark" in the (appropriately named) Arc cinema in Cork starting from around 11th September.

I'm sure that  the 4K run is not confined to just Cork.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Haha, that is appropriate! Cheers for the info. As it happens I'll be in Cork for a couple of days at the end of August for the first time in over a decade, so that's nice, but too early for this. If any of our locals (here in Bordeaux) show the 4K, I might have a wander down (although having French subtitles on screen is always a slight minus of any Anglophone cinema experience here, which was another nudge for us to invest in a projector a few years back).

[StoutAndAle]

although having French subtitles on screen is always a slight minus of any Anglophone cinema experience here

I went to a screening of "Nosferatu" - the Robert Eggers version - while I was in France a while back. It was VO-SF so the French subtitles on-screen too, for some reason I found my eyes drifting down to the subtitles even though the film was in English (mainly) and I speak barely passable French.

Worse that that though was when I went to a screening of John Woo's "The Killer" in Paris one pissing rain afternoon, the lady at the desk told me, in English, that it was subtitled.

I replied, in French, with a very smart "Oui, je comprends! Ce n'est pas un probleme!" because I assumed the subtitles would be in English.

She smiled and said "Ooh! Tu parles Chinois?" which I didn't fully cop but see was smiling at me so I gave it the oul Del Boy "Oui oui! Mange tout dans combien de temps a la mode!" and strutted into the auditorium.

Then, because I'm a thick cunt, had to sit through a 2-hour Chinese film with French subtitles.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Haha, bummer!

I do my best to ignore them, but even that effort can take away from the experience, especially with, say, IMAX-type movies where the whole idea is to be as immersed as possible and my stupid brain is there going, "Hmm, I don't know if I'd have translated that like that"