Film

[Caomhaoin]

I was reading The Van the last few days and I was pleasantly surprised to see it was up on YouTube in film version. Ah good auld laugh

Watching Cardboard Gangsters, Irish show about a pack of Darndale knackers. Yer man the traveller who plays the lead, he was in Love/Hate I'm nearly certain is a terrifying fucker altogether. Great actor.

I liked the slogan on the gym wall 'suffer the pain of discipline or suffer the pain of regret'. Must read it to my young lad the next time he goes on a five hour donut and Minecraft binge.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Watched episodes II and III of Star Wars while hiding from the sun over the weekend. Revenge of the Sith still has a couple of real clanger moments that have become rightly infamous, but overall they're really pretty good and the narrative arc is very well controlled and unfolded.

Then, on what couldn't possibly be further to the other end of the cinematic spectrum, I rewatched Michael Haneke's Amour as Jean-Louis Trintignant, who plays the male protagonist, passed away a few days ago. Such a beautiful film, flawless cinema in front of and behind the camera.

[Eoin McLove]

Watched American History X for the first time in years. It holds up really well.

[ldj]

Watching the new Batman movie, off to a good start but I did start laughing my bollocks off when they started playing a Nirvana song, is that the best they could do to convey he's an edgy sadboy  .

[Pentagrimes]

Yeah Batman was painful. The nod to/rip off of Se7en was bizarre.

Watched this last night, it's incredible. it's like if The Chapman Brothers, Ray Harryhausen, and Away from Voivod got together and decided to make a stop motion surreal horror film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jas8OABbn0Y

not one to watch for plot, it's entirely just a moving artwork really.

[StoutAndAle]

I was reading The Van the last few days and I was pleasantly surprised to see it was up on YouTube in film version. Ah good auld laugh

The film of "The Van" doesn't come close to capturing the spirit of the book - in my opinion. Doyle's novel has magic in it.

I must have read it 10 times or more. The passage detailing Jimmy Snr. and Bimbo getting the van sans engine from where they bought it to Bimbo's garden is spectacular.

"That's a big pram Jimmy's pushin' wha'?"

[StoutAndAle]

Yeah Batman was painful. The nod to/rip off of Se7en was bizarre.

Watched this last night, it's incredible. it's like if The Chapman Brothers, Ray Harryhausen, and Away from Voivod got together and decided to make a stop motion surreal horror film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jas8OABbn0Y

not one to watch for plot, it's entirely just a moving artwork really.

"The Batman" is absolute shit. And I say that as a lifelong fan of Bats in print and on film. It's way too long, there's no justification for the running time at all and completely unsatisfying.

Looking forward to "Mad God". The guy who made it - Phil Tippett - creator of the Tauntaun and most of the stuff in Return Of The Jedi, "Robocop" ED-209 and some of the Jurassic Park dinosaurs - was on Marc Maron's podcast a few week's back. It took over 20 years to make - he even lost his mind during production of it. Worth a listen.

Where did you see it? In a cinema?

[Pentagrimes]

30 years.

It's on Shudder

[StoutAndAle]

30 years.

It's on Shudder

Right. Sound. He mentioned that during the interview but I assumed that Shudder was a US-only app. Seems like it's not though.

[Pentagrimes]

It's not.

And obviously if you know where to look you don't need shudder either

[Ollkiller]

That Batman film was beyond awful.

[astfgyl]

Watched the latest Jurassic world with the kids and it was so bad even they wanted to leave before the end. I didn't expect much going in as they've all been bad since the first one but this was spectacularly bad. Sort of like a shit heist movie with a backdrop of dinosaurs. Bad characters, nonsensical plot, over 2 hours but still felt rushed... I could go on and on but don't even take the kids to this one

[Circlepit]

I watched Interceptor on Netflix. After 15 mins my tv, couch and self esteem went out the window.
It was so so bad. Cunts.
I then watched Piranha. That was good. It’s  just silly fun with ladies and a cock.

[StoutAndAle]

I watched Interceptor on Netflix. After 15 mins my tv, couch and elf esteem went out the window.
It was so so bad. Cunts.

Watched the trailer. That was more than enough for me.

Ditto "Spiderhead" - that looks like shite too. Like a taped from a tape copy of "Black Mirror" or something.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Léa Seydoux, Florence Pugh, yer man who plays Elvis, and Christopher Walken apparently all cast for Dune Part II. If I had to guess, it must be Walken for the emperor, which could be very interesting!