Arch Stanton Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 My run of 40s classics continued with Citizen Kane (1941) No, it's not the greatest film ever made although may well have been at the time. It was certainly innovative; telling the story in retrospect, the grand sets which zoomed in from miles out, the quirky angles, the lighting.. It's easy to forget Orson Welles was only 28 years old and this was not only his acting debut but his directorial too. A brilliant score by Bernard Hermann (did he ever compose a bad one?) and solid acting from Cotten, Moorhead and Comingore. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpInTheAyr Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Wonder Woman 1984 premiered on HBO Max tonight, just sayin. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spud131 Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Wonder Woman 1984 premiered on HBO Max tonight, just sayin. Gal Gadot 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Wonder Woman 1984 It doesn't match the first, and to be fair, that's a high bar. But it's definitely worth a watch. Pedro Pascal is on the form of his life here. 7/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpInTheAyr Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 1 hour ago, Andre Drazen said: Wonder Woman 1984 It doesn't match the first, and to be fair, that's a high bar. But it's definitely worth a watch. Pedro Pascal is on the form of his life here. 7/10 Thought it was okay, not as good as the first. Bit hyper and had the same kind of style that reminded me of Thor Ragnarok. Overdone it a bit with the 80's theme, I dont think even the eighties were that eighties. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 The hyper nature of it was one of it's best points for me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 I've seen enough memes and plot points already to conclude that Langley must be directly writing the scripts these days 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 6 hours ago, Andre Drazen said: Wonder Woman 1984 It doesn't match the first, and to be fair, that's a high bar. But it's definitely worth a watch. Pedro Pascal is on the form of his life here. 7/10 4 hours ago, UpInTheAyr said: Thought it was okay, not as good as the first. Bit hyper and had the same kind of style that reminded me of Thor Ragnarok. Overdone it a bit with the 80's theme, I dont think even the eighties were that eighties. Did either of you clock who Max's driver was? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 (edited) Nope. EDIT: I just googled it... holy shit. Edited December 26, 2020 by Andre Drazen 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 1 minute ago, Andre Drazen said: Nope. EDIT: I just googled it... holy shit. I knew straight away, although I had to check, as I didn't recognise his real name from the credits! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 I didn't even remotely recognize him despite him looking exactly the fucking same. I suppose I just wasn't expecting him to turn up in Wonder Woman. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginaro Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Wind River 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy boo Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Let Him Go New Kevin Costner one where his son dies and the mother remarries and goes off with his grandson to live with new husbands redneck family in the middle of nowhere. Costner and wife track them down and try to rescue their grandson. Lesley Manville(who was great in Mum) is terrific as the matriarch of the rednecks......8/10. The Midnight Sky New George Clooney one set in 2049 when mankind has destroyed earth and a spacecraft is returning from a mission to find a suitable planet for for humans to colonise and can't make contact with earth. CGI was great but felt the film dragged at times with overlong scenes......7/10. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Annihilation Decent sci fi about a group of scientists and soldiers investigating an alien phenomenon around a coastline.I liked it, was different in that you didn't know if the alien was actually nefarious or whether what was happening was just because it exists.A bit more thoughtfull than some alien films but lacked something. Ending was spectacular though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpInTheAyr Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Did either of you clock who Max's driver was?Never noticed, was it Matt Damon? Probably too distracted by the poor CGI. For a film that was sitting about for so long I was surprised by this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 2 hours ago, D.A.F.C said: Annihilation Decent sci fi about a group of scientists and soldiers investigating an alien phenomenon around a coastline. I liked it, was different in that you didn't know if the alien was actually nefarious or whether what was happening was just because it exists. A bit more thoughtfull than some alien films but lacked something. Ending was spectacular though. It pretty wildly diverges from the book it's based on. The director was clearly mainlining Tarkovsky while he made it. The bear scene is sick tho, fucking still gives me the heebies. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 8 hours ago, UpInTheAyr said: 13 hours ago, Mark Connolly said: Did either of you clock who Max's driver was? Never noticed, was it Matt Damon? Probably too distracted by the poor CGI. For a film that was sitting about for so long I was surprised by this. Could not be further from Matt Damon tbh! Spoiler It's Stevie the bookie from Still Game 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pub car king Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Christmas vacation 7/10. Not seen it for years and didn't realise Mrs Griswold was such a milf back in the day. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Putting down a list of movies released this year that I at the very least really enjoyed. Throwing it in Spoiler tags as there's a lot. Hunter Hunter Onus Love and Monsters Freaky Run The Trial of the Chicago 7 Enola Holmes The Babysitter: Killer Queen The Argument Host The Silencing You Should Have Left The Rental Arkansas The Dark and the Wicked 12 Hour Shift Don't Let Them In The Vanished The Invisible Man Boss Level The Nest Shirley Relic His House Spree 1917 Richard Jewell Queen and Slim The Honeymoon Phase Just Mercy Disappearance at Clifton Hill Blood on Her Name Parasite The Lighthouse Blow the Man Down I'd probably say that the MAIN highlights of the year were The Lighthouse, Queen and Slim, You Should Have Left, Parasite, Host and Shirley. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 I'll wait until the end of the year before doing the same but there has honestly been a lot of really good stuff released this year - or, at the very least I've seen a lot of really good things. There's probably an element of smaller releases not getting buried by the bigger ones and me being more willing to take a risk at home than the cinema, but it's been nice having one positive this year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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