Detournement Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 @BFTD Jimmy Page isn't exactly without skeletons in his closet either. Winner may well have been a standard casting couch creep but Weinstein seems genuinely psychotic. Sadly the days of good old exploitative cinema are in the past. We are trending towards every movie being made for 12 year olds. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpInTheAyr Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 Rise of the Footsoldier (extreme edition) is the Godfather of football hooligan films. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 24 minutes ago, Detournement said: @BFTD Jimmy Page isn't exactly without skeletons in his closet either. Winner may well have been a standard casting couch creep but Weinstein seems genuinely psychotic. Sadly the days of good old exploitative cinema are in the past. We are trending towards every movie being made for 12 year olds. Is Page one of the ones who fucked kids? That's starting to seem like a very naïve question about anybody from a Seventies rock band. It's cyclical. Hollywood seems to be moving back towards making films for more of an adult audience again, but I can't see the lower-end of the industry ever giving up making the films that pander to our baser instincts. It's virtually a rite of passage for directors and actors to make a few dodgy exploitation flicks before being trusted with anything more worthy. Incidentally, someone seems to have found a Hungarian lad who's the spit of Charles Bronson to make Death Wish rip-offs with 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 Jimmy was pumping Lori Matrix when she was 14 years old. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 Jimmy was pumping Lori Matrix when she was 14 years old. Maddix, no? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 12 minutes ago, WhiteRoseKillie said: 2 hours ago, Detournement said: Jimmy was pumping Lori Matrix when she was 14 years old. Maddix, no? Aye auto correct got me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 On 21/02/2021 at 19:01, Detournement said: Jimmy was pumping Lori Matrix when she was 14 years old. Standard. Didn't Steven Tyler run off with some lassie the same age? There seems to have been a period of time when it was genuinely considered a perk of being a rock star that you got to molest children. I don't consider myself the most hardline of parents, but I'd like to think that if some rich drug-addled alkie arrived and offered to take my kid away on tour for sexual purposes, I might have something to say about that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Possessor - psychological horror from David Cronenberg's son Brandon. Andrea Riseborough plays an assassin who works for an organisation that uses technology to take control of people's bodies and commit untraceable crimes. I know I've seen Cronenberg's first film, Antiviral, but weirdly can't remember it at all. On the basis of this, though, he's certainly a chip off the old black, as Possessor would fit nicely into his dad's body of work. Plenty of the Cronenberg themes are present, with the unsettling melding of technology with the organic, some shockingly brutal violence, a bit of unpleasant gore, and some really quite creepy imagery. It provokes questions without sledgehammering the point, contains uniformly good performances from all concerned, and reminded me of why I was such a Cronenberg fan in my youth. I think he'll have even better movies in his future, but I'm delighted to see that there's someone else making this kind of thing. Piercing - an obsessive-compulsive young man attempts to indulge his fantasy of murdering a woman with an icepick. I really didn't quite know what to make of this. Essentially a two-hander, the antihero hires a prostitute to murder, only for things to quickly go awry, and the rest of the piece revolves around the two of them attempting to feel each other out. We get inside his mind on occasion and see some of the reasoning behind his obsession, while his potential victim's motivations remain fairly mysterious. That probably makes it sound a bit more interesting than it actually is, unfortunately; the film might have somehow whooshed me, but I found it quite dull past a certain point, and it was only 70-odd minutes long. It certainly has an interesting aesthetic, giving the impression of being a film made in the late 70s/early 80s, making bizarrely extensive use of models of tower blocks, and pinching music from various giallo films, but it didn't amount to much for me and just made me want to have a Dario Argento fest in the near future. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanton Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 The 39 Steps. The Hitchcock version, watched this on Saturday afternoon it's a pretty decent version . Found myself laughing at the scene where Hannay ( Robert Donat ) was supposed to be frying a piece of fish on a gas stove whilst smoking a cigarette at the same time . 7/10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpInTheAyr Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Palm Springs. Excellent trippy comedy from Andy Samberg and JK Simmons. Pleasantly surprised by how charming this was. Best going into it without looking up the synopsis 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 On 21/02/2021 at 10:36, Gianfranco said: I’d say the last 3 mission impossible movies have been better than the last 3 Bond ones. I’ve never seen Mission Impossible 3 so might make an effort to go back and watch it. Yep, MI 4, 5 and 6 are all miles better than any Bond film since Craig's first one in 2006. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 Standard. Didn't Steven Tyler run off with some lassie the same age? There seems to have been a period of time when it was genuinely considered a perk of being a rock star that you got to molest children. I don't consider myself the most hardline of parents, but I'd like to think that if some rich drug-addled alkie arrived and offered to take my kid away on tour for sexual purposes, I might have something to say about that.When Zeppelin returned to the states, it was her mother who dropped her off at the airport, effectively delivering her to Page. Unbelievable now, it hardly raised an eyebrow at the time.As you say, these seem like another era, where Page, John Peel, and what seems like every middling rock band were plundering the schools for "road wives". I think Pete Townshend was the last of rock's wrong'uns to get anything like a pass. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 Captivity - DVD - model/socialite Elisha Cuthbert is kidnapped and kept in a dungeon by a sadistic killer. That's pretty much all your need to know about the plot for this. The first half revolves around our (completely two-dimensional) heroine being grubbily punished for not obeying orders, before a second act twist that you'll probably see coming a mile off removes a lot of the miserable grimdark, but still doesn't go anywhere interesting. A flaccid entry into the torture porn genre that entirely forgets to include anything to build the torture around, then also gets bored with the torture. Director Roland Joffe (who made The Killing Fields and The Mission, incredibly) apparently wanted this to highlight the plight of poor rich people like Paris Hilton, who are held captive by society and can't live their lives freely, or some other facile rubbish. Confederate States of America - DVD - a television broadcast from an alternate present in which the Confederacy won the American Civil War. A cute idea that was clearly made on a limited budget, but still an entertaining (and occasionally skincrawling) piece of speculative history that highlights the racist legacy of the slave trade. Full of casually racial advertisements for products, many of which actually existed in scarily recent times (Niggerhair cigarettes, anyone?) Worth watching if the concept appeals. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 When Zeppelin returned to the states, it was her mother who dropped her off at the airport, effectively delivering her to Page. Unbelievable now, it hardly raised an eyebrow at the time.As you say, these seem like another era, where Page, John Peel, and what seems like every middling rock band were plundering the schools for "road wives". I think Pete Townshend was the last of rock's wrong'uns to get anything like a pass.The way Peel and his widow throw his first wife under the bus in his autobiography is so grim. Just basically say IIRC “he never did anything, she was mentally ill, and she lied to him.” Cool! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 15 hours ago, WhiteRoseKillie said: When Zeppelin returned to the states, it was her mother who dropped her off at the airport, effectively delivering her to Page. Unbelievable now, it hardly raised an eyebrow at the time. As you say, these seem like another era, where Page, John Peel, and what seems like every middling rock band were plundering the schools for "road wives". I think Pete Townshend was the last of rock's wrong'uns to get anything like a pass. For some reason, it really upsets Bowie fans when Lori Mattix is mentioned. Arguments range from "LOL never happened" to "she chose to be a groupie and it was a different time". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Anyone who defends a paedo musician no matter what is probably a massive paedo themselves. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Bad Times at the El Royale - Disney Star. Saw the names Jeff bridges and Jon Hamm, and decided to give it a go based on that. Good decision.The director has obviously watched a bit more QT than is strictly healthy, but this is a pretty good "strangers bring their secrets to remote hotel" offering, with plenty of flash back expedition will timed to keep the interest, and several WTF? moments along the way. Maybe twenty minutes to long, but an enjoyable couple of hours or so.8/10. Nah, what the hell, 9 - a point for the singing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Casualties of War Vietnam thriller from 1989 starring Michael J Fox as a young soldier who stands up to the rest of his unit when they abduct, rape and murder an innocent female civilian. I saw this when it first came out but I couldn't remember much about it. The story is pretty shocking, especially as it is based upon real events. I'm quite sure this kind of thing has happened repeatedly in most, if not all, wars throughout history. Very good performances by Fox as the idealistic soldier who refuses to bow to peer pressure and also by Sean Penn as the deranged ring leader of the offence. My only minor quibble is that it looked a bit too much of an 80s production. It was too clean and the colours were too bright. I prefer war films that look more grainy and washed out. 7/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinkle Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 14 minutes ago, WhiteRoseKillie said: Bad Times at the El Royale - Disney Star. Saw the names Jeff bridges and Jon Hamm, and decided to give it a go based on that. Good decision. The director has obviously watched a bit more QT than is strictly healthy, but this is a pretty good "strangers bring their secrets to remote hotel" offering, with plenty of flash back expedition will timed to keep the interest, and several WTF? moments along the way. Maybe twenty minutes to long, but an enjoyable couple of hours or so. 8/10. Nah, what the hell, 9 - a point for the singing. Brilliant film. Cynthia Erivo steals the show with the signing. One of my favourite films of the last few years 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Cut it by maybe 30-40 minutes, tidy up the ending and give a nice payoff for the crossing timelines and it's a 10/10. $100m please. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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