Film

[Caomhaoin]

I'm watching 'The Hobbit' with the young lad this morning as it happens. Harmless guff really, he's fairly into it. He's 7, but.

[leatherface]

Watched the Cable Guy again today what a great film. I still can't believe it was received so badly when it was released I think it's Jim best film and one of the last great ones before he started making nothing but shite.

Completely agree, watched it a few times with friends back in the day and it was always funny, for us at least. I think maybe it is too black for some, insofar as it straddles the line between comedy and dark, psychological drama. That never bothered me though, I think it succeeds well as a comedy on its own, completely overlooked, but genuinely hilarious in parts. If you don't mind Jim Carrey being silly/dark it's great.

[Pedrito]

That Barry Lyndon recommendation..wow, 3 hours of bliss. Yes, O'Neal is a block of wood, but there's something endearing about him all the same. A stunning movie, and good fun too, great story. Irish lad chancing his arm with fine foreign women, who would have thunk it.

Any other films of that ilk worth a bash? The filming style back then of letting things draw out, scenes where little to nothing happen, it really lends itself to full immersion. Is Dr Zhivago worth a shot? Spartacus? Anything with lads fencing eachother and beautiful buxom wenches in palaces and castles.

[Carnage]

Lawrence Of Arabia is always worth a look, if you like those midpaced, lanquid, well shot films. Gandhi, too.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Lawrence of Arabia is a visually beautiful film, worth it for that alone, but an odd one on the atmosphere. It's certainly not the film it feels like it's going to be from the opening hour or so, but that brings its own appeal.

Not a woman in sight though, buxom or otherwise! Haha.

A Royal Affair, Danish movie from a few years back, is very good. There's a French movie about Molière you might enjoy too, and another called Ridicule which is very entertaining and also royal court based.

[Eoin McLove]

Watched the Cable Guy again today what a great film. I still can't believe it was received so badly when it was released I think it's Jim best film and one of the last great ones before he started making nothing but shite.

Completely agree, watched it a few times with friends back in the day and it was always funny, for us at least. I think maybe it is too black for some, insofar as it straddles the line between comedy and dark, psychological drama. That never bothered me though, I think it succeeds well as a comedy on its own, completely overlooked, but genuinely hilarious in parts. If you don't mind Jim Carrey being silly/dark it's great.

I haven't seen it since it came out but I hated it. His lisp fucking ruined it for me, it annoyed me so much 

[Caomhaoin]

A Royal Affair is very good alright, although I don't like watching films in a language I'm totally ignorant of with Spanish subtitles, which is what you get with the telly here, obvs.

Dr Zhivago is a classic lad. Great acting and atmosphere.

[Snare]

Caught all 3 Jumanji films the past few weeks, cracking entertainment for all the family.

[Eoin McLove]

Here's a sentence I never thought I'd hear myself type.  I'm watching Cowboys and Aliens. 

Here's another one.  I'm enjoying it!

[Caomhaoin]

I'm going to watch my third hobbit instalment in three days with the young lad. It's much more enjoyable this time around. The CGI is still horrendous, but without the very high expectations and anticipation first time round, it's grand for what it is.

[Emphyrio]

Mentioned earlier so I said I'd rewatch Cube. Not as good as I remembered it. However, it's still about 100 times better than Hypercube. Jaysus, awful muck.

[Nail_Bombed]

New Spike Lee film coming out on Netflix - Da 5 Bloods. Looks like it'll be good stuff. Loved BlacKKKlansman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5RDTPfsLAI

[Pedrito]

Well Dr Zhivago was an incredible watch aswell. I think it's a good idea to watch some of these old movies, things that are starting to seem like artefacts from a world we have never known. Imagine what it would be like if we had clear, colour, well shot footage of stuff that was happening in 1910, 1920 etc when we were younger. I know stuff exists, but it has that black and white surrealness to it that something like Dr Zhivago simply doesn't have.

Anyway, my point being that it led me to read about the guy who wrote the original book> Pasternak, and what a life that man had..incredible. A real insight into the the horrors of classism and elitism, only to be replaced by the even greater horrors and madness of Bolshevism, Communism etc. It certainly puts a crisis like Coronavirus in it's place and left me with a sense of the transcience of life, this idea that we somehow have it all worked out now and yet future generations will almost certainly look back at the ways we live now, the changes we've introduced, etc etc and will see positives in some and see complete madness in others. More related to some of the other threads on here, but anyway, a really great film that leaves it's mark on you emotionally, without ever having to resort to graphic levels of violence, profanity etc.

[Caomhaoin]

Anyone seen that Belorussian film 'come and see'?

😯😯😯😯😯😯

Yikes. Shocking stuff, extreme cruelty, violence and apocalyptic horror mixed with weird surreal moments.

If you didn't already know, Gerry was a bad, bad bastard in the East in WW2. 'Kin hell.

[Carnage]

I saw Come And See about a year ago, on a friend's recommendation (he likes his bleak war films, previous recommendations were Cross Of Iron and Son Of Saul). Fuck me but that is one bleak film. Brilliant but harrowing, I'd never be able to sit through it again.