What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[BFTD]

I think I'll give it a pass for now then. Thanks anyway.

Maybe comparing it to The Sound of Music was a bit harsh. That'd put anyone off.

[Detournement]

Spring Breakers (2012)

Still genius and I had never realised that Jeff Jarrett is the Christian youth group leader at the start so it's even better than I remember.

Knight Of Cups (2015)

I meant to download the film Malick made about the Austrian peasant who refused to fight for the Nazis but that's actually called A Hidden Life and I was a bit confused when the film started with Christian Bale surrounded by models. Knight Of Cups is quite similar to The Thin Red Line the big difference being instead of being about the experience of marines fighting in the Guadalcanal campaign of WW2 it's about what it's like to be a rich and good looking  guy in modern Los Angeles. I can remember this getting panned when it came out but I really enjoyed it and it's worth watching just as a documentary about the urban geography of LA. The key thing with Terence Malick films is to watch them slightly high or drunk.

 

[Twinkle]

The Northman. Be waiting a while for this but its utter shite. Gutted as i enjoy Vikings, Last Kingdom etc but i didnt enjoy it one bit

[accies1874]

73. We're All Going to the World's Fair (2022)* - Digital Rental

I knew nothing about this other than its title and it being on a 2022 movie preview as one to watch, and… did not expect this.

It starts with an unnerving one-take of a girl recording a video for YouTube taking part in an online trend called The World’s Fair challenge or something, leading to a v indie opening credits sequence with ‘handwritten’ titles, an indie song playing and lonely shots of a small town. There’s also snow which manages to make all indie flicks even indier. So that made me think we were getting an understated drama about a young girl in a sleepy town, and while that is sorta the case, it is fucked up.

Probably the first thing to say is that you never, as far as I remember, see anyone share a space with another character – certainly not the main character. What’s quite interesting, though, is that you do see people on screens share a scene with her which plays into the idea of following online trends to find connection. That lets a few things be left undefined or ambiguous, like her age: she acts too old to be young and too young to be older and that’s all related to her slipping through the cracks of society and life (she’s actually about 19 irl atm but no idea when this was filmed). Her home life and general reality is a bit ambiguous too, but there’s enough there to know that it is not nice – especially when you see the grim alternative she’s trying to escape to.

The premise – is a YouTube trend trying to kill you? – could have and no doubt has been done utter shitely in the hands of some cheapo horror hacks. There’s even a fake video in the film showing how it would’ve looked if Blumhouse got their paws on it. Instead, its horror elements are much more low-key and it always feels real because…

… camerawork. There’s a blend of shaky/handheld traditional camera stuff and computer/”found” footage that often work together to make me forget that I was watching fiction. It was more like watching a girl’s vlog or diary documenting her mental breakdown, which was terrifying to me, more so because of that authenticity.

There’s another character too who would’ve been the exposition guy in a worse film (from what I remember of Sinister, he would’ve been that guy on the video call) but becomes something really interesting here. His character fascinated me as he was initially pretty damn scary with a  disembodied voice, creepy profile picture and assembly of strange details on his computer and desk, however I started asking a lot of questions about him come the end. There’s a long take that’s begging you to wonder about his past and present, and that vagueness is played into the film’s conclusion – not so much about the veracity of events, more why you’re being told them.

I was actually left wondering more about this guy than I was Casey who we’d spent most of the film watching but when I thought about it more, I realised that there’s a shift of perspective in the film that wasn’t 100% clear to me because we were still watching Casey’s life. That was an interesting spin on found footage films.

74. Wild Men (2022)* - Cinema

Another good Danish film with “wild” in the title after last year’s Wildland. This is a v funny comedy that had a great sense of when to be funny, when to be sad, when to be both etc. They set up a few plotlines to converge that didn’t quite do in the exciting manner I expected but that’s because it was more interested in its character and theme, although I’m not sure if I was 100% on board with its messaging but will give it another go. This might also be the worst subtitled/translated film I’ve seen due to a lot of overlapping dialogue that wasn’t picked up. Felt like I was missing out.

75. Superbad (2007) - Netflix

I would've been happy just having a runtime filled with them going from daft situation to daft situation without ever settling into scenes as that was the weakest part for me. The absurdity was what I enjoyed the most and when it came to actually cracking jokes, I was less into it. 

[Detournement]

5 hours ago, Twinkle said:

The Northman. Be waiting a while for this but its utter shite. Gutted as i enjoy Vikings, Last Kingdom etc but i didnt enjoy it one bit

You didn't even enjoy it when they were out their dial on mushrooms howling like wolves in the pishing rain?

[Clown Job]

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Managed to catch this the other day, much better than I expected going into it, very funny also 

Spoiler

Nic Cage and Pedro Pascal doing acid together was a particular highlight 

 

[Arch Stanton]

The Departed - (2006)

It's a superlative film full of near career best performances from DiCaprio, Wahlberg and Damon.

Scorsese fully deserved his long awaited Best Director Oscar (it also won Best Picture).

And yet...

Would a lowly Sergeant be able to delete a record from the employee database? The last 20 minutes of the film depends entirely on believing that premise. I don't believe it's credible.

[DA Baracus]

13 hours ago, Twinkle said:

The Northman. Be waiting a while for this but its utter shite. Gutted as i enjoy Vikings, Last Kingdom etc but i didnt enjoy it one bit

Aye, saw it earlier tonight and was disappointed. Not sure what the story was supposed to say.

13 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said:

The Departed - (2006)

It's a superlative film full of near career best performances from DiCaprio, Wahlberg and Damon.

Scorsese fully deserved his long awaited Best Director Oscar (it also won Best Picture).

And yet...

Would a lowly Sergeant be able to delete a record from the employee database? The last 20 minutes of the film depends entirely on believing that premise. I don't believe it's credible.

Maybe that's a comment on how corrupt and self serving the police in the US are?

[DA Baracus]

Sonic 2

8/10

The first one was surprising amusing, charming and good. It gave Jim Carrey his performance in years.

This sequel builds on that and improves things. It's a very amusing film and has plenty of nods towards the source material (I particularly enjoyed Stone's manual).

This instalment introduces Tails* and Knuckles. Anyone who had played up to/or Sonic 3 will know who they are (although Tails is a playable character in Sonic 2, but can’t fly; he can fly in Sonic 3 though; also, plugging the Sonic 2 cartridge in to the Sonic and Knuckles cartridge let you play Sonic 2 as Knuckles).

Anyway, this is an amusing and charming film. Very enjoyable. Jim Carrey gives another brilliant performance. He is back to his best and I really hope he stays on of they do a third one.

 

 

 

 

 

*I didn't get the name 'Tails Miles Prower' until I was 20.

[DA Baracus]

Sonic spoilers

But Shadow can f**k so far off. If they do a 3rd film then I hope they treat Shadow as a joke then go with another enemy (who Robotnik helps).

[BFTD]

1 minute ago, DA Baracus said:

*I didn't get the name 'Tails Miles Prower' until I was 20.

When did you switch to DA Baracus?

[UpInTheAyr]

The Northman. Be waiting a while for this but its utter shite. Gutted as i enjoy Vikings, Last Kingdom etc but i didnt enjoy it one bit

So disappointing. Was completely underwhelmed by it. Was expecting him to raise an army and battle a kingdom, but he just went off by himself to battle an ousted former King on a farm. Was expecting something on a much grander scale.

[DA Baracus]

6 minutes ago, BFTD said:

When did you switch to DA Baracus?

Was always this. My username goes years back before I joined thanks to a friend, and fellow Pars fan, nicknamed 'Furious'. Haven't seen the lad in years mind and haven't seen him at a Pars game for a few years, but I mostly go to away games.

His family are absolutely excellent folk. His sister was in my year and school and a really sound person. His maw was really sound. His old man was simply exceptional. Genuinely one of the best people I've ever known. We were all in awe of him. A ridiculously cool guy. Hope they're all doing well.

They also had cool dogs, even though one of them pished on my Pars goalie top once.

[BFTD]

2 minutes ago, DA Baracus said:

Was always this. My username goes years back before I joined thanks to a friend, and fellow Pars fan, nicknamed 'Furious'. Haven't seen the lad in years mind and haven't seen him at a Pars game for a few years, but I mostly go to away games.

His family are absolutely excellent folk. His sister was in my year and school and a really sound person. His maw was really sound. His old man was simply exceptional. Genuinely one of the best people I've ever known. We were all in awe of him. A ridiculously cool guy. Hope they're all doing well.

They also had cool dogs, even though one of them pished on my Pars goalie top once.

A Raith-supporting dug. Well I never.

Eventually you'll post something about films (or music, or dugs) being better when you were you were young, and everyone will start calling you YerDa Baracus.

[KingRocketman II]

On 12/05/2022 at 18:35, accies1874 said:

72. El Dorado (1967) - Film4

I don’t really like westerns, but this is alright. It’s quite a sleepy film without being thoughtful or anything like that, it just doesn’t seem to have an interest in being exciting and would rather focus on Robert Mitchum’s arc (which isn’t that interesting). There was something about how it shot its dialogue sequences that often really annoyed me and seemed a bit scattergun. It passed the time though.

I think this is one of three Wayne movies (other two being Rio Bravo and Rio Lobo) which all share pretty much the same set-up - I need to double check but either all three movies have a besieged jailhouse set-up and/or have the trio of protagonists sharing the same characteristics......

[Paul Kersey]

The Nice Guys

I caught this on Film4 last night. An excellent wee movie. Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling star as a pair of private detectives looking for a missing porn star in 70s LA.

I loved everything about this. Some interesting plot turns, hilarious dialogue and slapstick violence. There was also a pretty cool 70s soundtrack.

This slipped under my radar when it came out a few years ago so I was pleasantly surprised when I watched it last night.

8/10

[KingRocketman II]

14 hours ago, KingRocketman II said:

I think this is one of three Wayne movies (other two being Rio Bravo and Rio Lobo) which all share pretty much the same set-up - I need to double check but either all three movies have a besieged jailhouse set-up and/or have the trio of protagonists sharing the same characteristics......

thinking about this further (and forgive the faux pas of quoting self), was there not a scene in a Tarantino movie where this was highlighted and discussed? Maybe Jackie Brown??

[velo army]

On 13/05/2022 at 20:30, BFTD said:

On 13/05/2022 at 18:33, accies1874 said:

I think I'll give it a pass for now then. Thanks anyway.

Maybe comparing it to The Sound of Music was a bit harsh. That'd put anyone off.

^^^ Mrs was pumped by a lonely goatherd type post.

[BFTD]

I'm just scarred from hearing the lovely Julie Andrews being called a c**t face  

[Nkomo-A-Gogo]

I watched DOCTOR SLEEP last night on netflix.

I really enjoyed it. 

Rebecca Ferguson is beautiful.