scottsdad Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 Very jealous of @BFTD - if I had known it was on at the cinema, I would have taken the wife and son. They are big Jaws fans - Scott memorised the Indianapolis speech for his Nat 5 in Drama. Here's reverse Jaws... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfha Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 On 23/09/2021 at 14:37, scottsdad said: Doctor Strange (2016) 3/10 Feeble superhero movie. Cumberbatch spends the first half of the film acting like House, even sounding like him in places. Then overnight he's got amazing magical powers. Pisspoor story. Loads of CGI and Mads Mikkelsen cannot save this. I never liked Dr Strange in the comics and was surprised they made a film of it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfha Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 5 hours ago, BFTD said: Jaws (cinema) - It really can't be overstated quite how good that film is; an absolute masterpiece of tension. ^^^^ My dad took the whole family to see this in the pictures in 1975 and, unknown to us, we walked in half way through it. Just as well at that time you would just stay in your seat at the end and watch it over again! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 18 hours ago, Shandon Par said: Big congratulations to the set designers who created Skyfall house/castle or whatever it was. Half-expected Austin Powers to turn up and say to the viewer “isn’t it remarkable how little a cardboard mock Tudor mansion on a moor in England looks like a Scottish castle?”. Is that you turning up to price the exterior paint job? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, scottsdad said: Very jealous of @BFTD - if I had known it was on at the cinema, I would have taken the wife and son. They are big Jaws fans - Scott memorised the Indianapolis speech for his Nat 5 in Drama. Here's reverse Jaws... Keep an eye on the listings at the Stirling Vue - they're still showing a fair number of old films right now. I had to take the wean to an appointment in Stirling during one of the brief gaps between lockdowns, and noticed that they were still open - literally all they were showing were classics, and I was raging that I had other things to do and wouldn't have an excuse to travel to Stirling again for a while. That day alone, they were showing Alien, Aliens, Predator, The Silence of the Lambs, and a bunch of other stuff. Could've spent the day there. Edit: it's on again in three hours Edited September 27, 2021 by BFTD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archie McSquackle Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 LA Confidential - I'd forgotten just how great a film this is with marvellous performances all round. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 36 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: Is that you turning up to price the exterior paint job? Yeah, in my sister in law’s Aston Martin. She seemed to be blessed with more brains than her sister/my wife. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 20 minutes ago, Shandon Par said: Yeah, in my sister in law’s Aston Martin. She seemed to be blessed with more brains than her sister/my wife. Based on your stories, that’s not difficult. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 45 minutes ago, Archie McSquackle said: LA Confidential - I'd forgotten just how great a film this is with marvellous performances all round. Robbed at the Oscars by Titanic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MileBU Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 Oasis: Knebworth 1996 10/10 just for the sheer nostalgia. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archie McSquackle Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 Robbed at the Oscars by Titanic.There is no comparison. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 7 minutes ago, Archie McSquackle said: 2 hours ago, Arch Stanton said: Robbed at the Oscars by Titanic. There is no comparison. Correct. Have you ever seen a goal clip set to the music from LA Confidential? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moniton Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Saw " The Many Saints of Newark" on Sunday night, good addition to the Sopranos story. Only gripe would be that the New Jersey police didn't seem interested in the various murders/running gun battles in the street. Still a solid 7/10 and it was good to be back in the cinema. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 Two middle of the decade blockbusters today. Godzilla (2014) dir. Gareth Edwards I get the criticisms of this but I completely disagree. Rewatching it again on a bigger screen and a good soundsystem made me appreciate the scale Edwards conveys and the restraint he shows towards showing the monsters. The last 20 minutes are a joy that wouldn't have happened if he'd went gung-ho much earlier. That's before you get to scenes like the HALO jump which is class. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) dir. George Miller Nothing I can say that hasn't been said a million times before. Amazing cinematography and use of colour that looks even better in crisp 45 Ultra HD. The movie's also amazing at worldbuilding without overly expositional dialogue. You get the sense of this post-apocalyptic wasteland and how the elites come to control it in a few scenes without anyone really devoting much time to telling you. All the while it's great fun from start to finish and clearly effectively storeboarded and not CGI'd out of its nut like so many of its peers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy boo Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 The Guilty(2018) This is the original Danish film of the remake just out on Netflix with Jake Gyllenhaal. A cop is awaiting trial for something which will be revealed later and is given desk duties in the control room meantime. He takes a call from a woman who has been kidnapped and must try to locate her and direct officers to various locations etc. The whole film is set in the claustrophobic control room with only a handfull of characters and the main ones on the end of his phone. Outstanding......9/10. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Two middle of the decade blockbusters today. Godzilla (2014) dir. Gareth Edwards I get the criticisms of this but I completely disagree. Rewatching it again on a bigger screen and a good soundsystem made me appreciate the scale Edwards conveys and the restraint he shows towards showing the monsters. The last 20 minutes are a joy that wouldn't have happened if he'd went gung-ho much earlier. That's before you get to scenes like the HALO jump which is class. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) dir. George Miller Nothing I can say that hasn't been said a million times before. Amazing cinematography and use of colour that looks even better in crisp 45 Ultra HD. The movie's also amazing at worldbuilding without overly expositional dialogue. You get the sense of this post-apocalyptic wasteland and how the elites come to control it in a few scenes without anyone really devoting much time to telling you. All the while it's great fun from start to finish and clearly effectively storeboarded and not CGI'd out of its nut like so many of its peers. I thought Mad Max: Fury Road was a steaming pile of shit.Style over substance.Sent from my SM-A125F using Tapatalk 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 3 hours ago, DeeTillEhDeh said: I thought Mad Max: Fury Road was a steaming pile of shit. Style over substance. Sent from my SM-A125F using Tapatalk Lazy critique. Ignoring that style over substance isn't necessarily a bad thing when the style is so perfectly nailed it also succeeds in conveying a lot of the world building and themes without wasting time explaining it or really being didactic about what it's trying to say. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 No Time To Die. I'm certain this will split opinion, for a number of reasons. I fucking loved it, though I am a massive Bond fan, so much so that I've seen Die Another Day in its entirety more than once. Ana de Armas may be the most beautiful woman in the world, although Lea Seydoux definitely has a say in the destination of that trophy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 Completely forgot Lea Seydoux was a Bond character the whole time I played Death Stranding. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kersey Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 6 hours ago, DeeTillEhDeh said: I thought Mad Max: Fury Road was a steaming pile of shit. Style over substance. Sent from my SM-A125F using Tapatalk It's not patch on the original trilogy, but it does have a guy with hybrid guitar/flamethrower. Now that is fucking cool. Mad Max 2 is the best of the bunch IMO. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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