Film

[StoutAndAle]

Ya, great show. Second season is very good too, Deadly Games. Based around '96 Atlanta Olympics.

The recent Clint Eastwood film "Richard Jewell" based on the 1996 Olympics is worth a watch too.

[StoutAndAle]

My wife was talking about James Bond last week - she has seen them all.

I said "I haven't seen many of the James Bond films - 3 in total."

She was a slightly surprised at this fact as I've seen nearly every heap of shit Kung Fu flick known to man (wait til she hears that I haven't seen "Casablanca") and we've been together for 15 years but it has never come up before even though Bond films have been released in this time.

Now, due to pandemic restrictions, she has decided that there's no time like the present change this fact.

Perhaps watching the Bond series for the first time in my life as a 40 year old man I am not best positioned to comment fully. I didn't grow up watching them like my friends did so they're not part of my fabric like the Star Wars or Indiana Jones films.

Anyway so far:

"Dr. No" - 3/5 - I have seen this one before - some good 1960s spy thriller goings on - shot like a TV show though.

"From Russia With Love" - 3/5 - Some great fun to be had, some terrible acting on show and is it just me or does Robert Shaw look like Daniel Craig has been cloned and sent back in time.

"Goldfinger" - 3.5/5 - Cool gadgets. Some ridiculous plot devices. I had Sick Boy's voice in my head for most of this film.

"Thunderball" - 3.5/5 great stunts, again ridiculous plotting. Too long by 20mins (when compared to "Goldfinger"). The underwater scenes are great but the crew must have been pleased as punch with working out all the tricks - there must be 40 mins of this film under or in water.

[open face surgery]

Or maybe Daniel Craig looks like Robert Shaw was cloned and sent into the future. Hmmmm!?

[Carnage]

Watched Thunderbolt And Lightfoot last night, one I'd been meaning to watch for years. I didn't know it was directed by Michael Cimino, I thought Eastwood directed it, but it was an enjoyable couple of hours, a nice, meandering plot and very much of its time.

[StoutAndAle]

Or maybe Daniel Craig looks like Robert Shaw was cloned and sent into the future. Hmmmm!?

C'mon now. That's too far fetched.

[Emphyrio]

News of The World - Tom Hanks is very good, as ever, but only an alright movie.

Dallas Buyer's Club - Excellent. It must have been around the time Matthew McConnaughy gave up the shitty romcoms. Both he and Leto put in great performances.

The Empty Man - It probably had a couple of interesting ideas but poorly executed and nearly 2hrs 20mins is too long for a "horror" that this was trying to be.

[Caomhaoin]

I was watching that film adaptation of 'One Day in the life of Iván Denisovich' last night. Grim and low budget, and reasonably faithful to the book. The way they focus on the issue of rations as the poor bastards raison d'etre...god bless us and save us...

[open face surgery]

Watched Calvary again over the weekend. Sligo looks well but I stand by my initial impression when it came out that it's a mess. How is Aidan Gillen famous? No one, ever, has sounded like any of the accents he has ever done. Fuck!

Watched Dolemite Is My Name. Funny, straight forward, feel good movie. Enjoyed that.

Parked. Bleak enough. Colm Meaney is great.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Calvary is definitely an absolute mess, wouldn't watch it again myself.

[Slaughterday]

How is Aidan Gillen famous? No one, ever, has sounded like any of the accents he has ever done. Fuck!

I think this every time I see him on screen. Fuckin headwrecking. Himself and Barry Keoghan are two Irishmen who can't do Irish accents. Baffling.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Found out the other day by watching the original that classic 80s movie and Tom Hanks career launcher The Man With One Red Shoe is a remake of a 70s French movie called The Tall Blond Guy With One Black Shoe. Pretty funny, and now I'm curious to watch the Hanks one again, since I probably haven't seen it since the 80s.

[Pedrito]

Gotten mad into the oul Samurai films again. Akira Kurosawa movies especially. Cinematic genius. Watched Throne of Blood last night which is Macbeth set in Feudal Japan. Just pure class altogether. His ideas seem to have been copied in so many of my favourite movies and the main actor Toshiro Mifune is fast becoming one of my favourites of all time. The man just commands the screen. Amazing performance.

[Carnage]

Yojimbo is yer only man. Mighty film.

[CorkonianHunger]

Gotten mad into the oul Samurai films again. Akira Kurosawa movies especially. Cinematic genius. Watched Throne of Blood last night which is Macbeth set in Feudal Japan. Just pure class altogether. His ideas seem to have been copied in so many of my favourite movies and the main actor Toshiro Mifune is fast becoming one of my favourites of all time. The man just commands the screen. Amazing performance.

Throne of Blood is brilliant, my favourite out of the Mifune/Kurosawa films.

[Ollkiller]

Re watched The Secret in their Eyes recently. Won the best Oscar for foreign film in 2009. An absolute tour de force of a movie. The ending stayed with me for years. If you haven't watched it you're very lucky.