Film

[Blackout]

I'm all for the film makers squeezing every drop of rage juice out of the Social Media Mob if it means more money in the Bank.

[StoutAndAle]

Poster for upcoming Almodovar movie getting some folk pissed off, including Instagram's algorithm, albeit since over-ridden on an appeal of "artistic" merit or some such lark, since apparently biological merit doesn't cut it. I won't post the image directly, just in case it shocks any of ye:
https://elpais.com/icon/cultura/2021-08-09/almodovar-libera-el-pezon-claves-para-entender-el-primer-y-provocador-poster-de-madres-paralelas.html

Possibly an homage to this...?

https://thoughtcatalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/andalou-eyeball-quartet.jpg

[Necro Red]

The avengers is fucking awful. Can't watch superhero stuff anymore. It's all shit. Guardians of the galaxy been top of the shit pile. Probably last one I liked was the Karl Urban Judge Dredd and more recently The Boys, again with Karl Urban.

Agreed, I think less is more with the comic book flicks. It really is quantity over quality. I honestly can't stand them anymore.

[Mower Liberation Front]

Just finished watching Evangelion 3.0+1.0.

Pretty definitive finale to the series, but damn, wasn't expecting the ending. Brilliant film, all the same.

[Eoin McLove]

The Big Lebowski. Maybe, just maybe, the perfect film.

[open face surgery]

Spectacular. The Coen Brothers just have, or at least had, a beautiful way of telling a story.

Watched Confessions of a Dangerous Mind last night. Enjoyable stuff. Sam Rockwell is great in it.

[ochoill]

Just finished watching Evangelion 3.0+1.0.

Pretty definitive finale to the series, but damn, wasn't expecting the ending. Brilliant film, all the same.

I need to watch the other rebuilds first, looking like i'll be off to the torrents for them.  Rewatched the original series and film again lately, it is top class, itching for more.

[O Drighes]

I watched a Mexican film, "New Order", at the IFI yesterday and it was fucking bleak. It was like a Gaspar No´é's film + good old Latin American gratuitous violence.

[Mower Liberation Front]

Just finished watching Evangelion 3.0+1.0.

Pretty definitive finale to the series, but damn, wasn't expecting the ending. Brilliant film, all the same.

I need to watch the other rebuilds first, looking like i'll be off to the torrents for them.  Rewatched the original series and film again lately, it is top class, itching for more.

All four rebuild films are now on Prime Video, I just signed up for the free trial to watch the final one.

[jobrok1]

Having dinner earlier... pissing rain... fuck all to do for the evening... and the other half pipes up...

"How about a movie night. I think the kids are old enough to watch Die Hard, yeah?"

I stared across the table, smiled and just said, "Yippee-Ki-Yay, Motherfucker"

[Eoin McLove]

Watched Beckett on Netflix. Not bad. I thought the Greek countryside looked amazing in the first half of the film and between it and the dark, eerie score, there was a potent atmosphere created. Despite having interesting elements throughout, I think it lost something as it went along and became more like a typical action thriller. There were hints of Hitchcock in the first half and then it felt almost like a 70s action film when it moved to the city (where it all began,  you gotta!...). Definitely worth a look.

[ochoill]

Just finished watching Evangelion 3.0+1.0.

Pretty definitive finale to the series, but damn, wasn't expecting the ending. Brilliant film, all the same.

I need to watch the other rebuilds first, looking like i'll be off to the torrents for them.  Rewatched the original series and film again lately, it is top class, itching for more.

All four rebuild films are now on Prime Video, I just signed up for the free trial to watch the final one.

Ended up getting the trial and watching 1.11 and 2.22 last night.  Obviously very similar to the series for 1.11 but it changes up severely for 2.22, it's very deadly but a bit less miserable than the series at the minute at least.  Have a week left to do the next two because I can't pay for another streaming service, looking forward to going through them.

[StoutAndAle]

Watched two more James Bond films in my quest to see them all.

Fuck me this has become more of a slog than I anticipated. "Octopussy" and "A View To A Kill". Both are fairly abject shite. There are very merits for either film. Roger Moore is about 60 by the time he's in these.

Duran Duran's theme and the Eiffel Tower scene are the saving graces of the latter along with Christopher Walken not knowing where he is or what he's meant to be doing.

Overall "Octopussy" is a load of bollocks and "A View To A Kill" is like a star-studded episode of "Murder, She Wrote".

Looking forward to finally seeing the Timothy Dalton ones.

[Eoin McLove]

I always thought they were a load of bollocks. The only good ones are the Daniel Craig ones and that's only because they ripped off The Bourne Identity 

[StoutAndAle]

I always thought they were a load of bollocks. The only good ones are the Daniel Craig ones and that's only because they ripped off The Bourne Identity 

I had never seen any of them before apart from "Dr. No", "Live & Let Die" and both versions of "Casino Royale". I have to say that I'm struggling now.

People say to me "They're of a time, you have to remember that too". I think that you're right though, McLove - these last two films must surely have being considered terrible back in the day.