Have you seen The Beast by Bertrand Bonello ?
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I haven't. It's on my watchlist as I remember it got a great review here (presumably from you). I see that it's available for me so I will try to watch it soon.
Yeah I loved it. So many interesting themes it’s definitely one of my favourites of the year. Although I can see some hating it.
Ohhh I remember seeing the trailer for that last year and thinking it seemed interesting, but then completely forgot about it, and I'm not a fan of nepo-baby Léa Seydoux, but I'll give it a try if I can!
She is pretty much the leading role in The Beast. Feels like a film that could only be made in 2024.
I’m the opposite with Léa Seydoux as I’ll tend to watch anything if she is it in(I would also recommend One Fine Morning)Also she tends to be blunt in interviews which I like.
Although I know very little about french society. To me Léa Seydoux is the cool french actor who makes interesting films and then video games with Hideo Kojima.
Have you watched Kneecap? It’s not very highbrow but it’s original and great fun. It would easily make my top 10 of 2024 movies. Don’t let the year end without watching it!
I Saw the TV Glow was one of the most disappointing movies I've ever seen, based on expectations vs how muck I enjoyed it, and probably one of the worse A24 movies made. I am excited for A24's Babygirl though.
Carry On (Netflix attempt to battle Die Hard), set in an airport, set at Christmas, but that’s where the similarities end. Jason Bateman is the bad guy. Bad casting. Taron Egerton as the young security officer. Keep expecting him to burst into Rocketman.
Didn’t cut the mustard for me
4/10
Didn’t cut the mustard for me
4/10
We have it to watch and yesterday was the last day of work for the year so I'd guess we will watch it soon.
I missed it when it was in theatres here, but will surely see it at some point.
I can certainly see why it would be a bit polarizing. I just vibed with it and it stayed with me, and sometimes that's about enough.
The Substance
One of the strangest films I have seen in a long time, but I thought it was brilliant.
Demi Moore excellent, Dennis Quaid was good has the sleazy agent.
This is well worth watching.
8/10
One of the strangest films I have seen in a long time, but I thought it was brilliant.
Demi Moore excellent, Dennis Quaid was good has the sleazy agent.
This is well worth watching.
8/10
RED ONE has a long shelf life with multiple verticals - kudos to our Amazon partners for their strategic win, that’s just getting started.
Is this Dwayne The Rock Johnson human at all??
Is this Dwayne The Rock Johnson human at all??
He's literally just a walking, talking corporate brand - which would be a great heel gimmick if he hadn't already done it 25 years ago.
What's a vertical? Sequels? I suppose it's not that it can be rewatched every Christmas, cause that's covered by 'long shelf life'.
1917 - not sure why I constantly postponed watching this.. it is one haunting movie. Along with The Thin Red Line probably my favorite war movie. 9/10
The guard. A 2011 Irish black comedy by John Michael McDonagh about a policeman (Brendan Gleeson) in rural western Ireland, who has to deal with a drug smuggling case that brings an FBI agent (Don Cheadle) to his area.
I think it's really good. It doesn't have much to say I suppose, but Gleeson's character and his portrayal are brilliant, and the movie is full of great humor. Some nice shots, too. 8/10
I think it's really good. It doesn't have much to say I suppose, but Gleeson's character and his portrayal are brilliant, and the movie is full of great humor. Some nice shots, too. 8/10
Lots of horizontals, too.red one, picturiseed
But I'm now actually really curious what he meant there. I can't find it online very well - except if he meant it like 'vertical films', which are apparently films that work well on a phone. That's rather about aspect ratio though. But so maybe the data show a lot of people watching Red One on their phones...? Or memes and clips on social media?
Alien: Romulus
Finally saw this. It’s basically The Force Awakens for the Alien universe. I liked it. Good lead. Still uses the 1979 space tech, shot well. I think the original is one of the best films I’ve ever seen, and part of that was casting a bunch of older actors (like Harry Dean Stanton), making space and the future look grimy and industrial instead of magical, and throwing off the expectations of filmgoers, starting with a very slow first act. This reboot goes for the young crowd (20 year-olds) and probably hews a little closer to Aliens than Alien. But still, I loved being back in this realm. Very simple story, just an excuse to run around shooting xenomorphs. Probably evolved from doing a straight adaptation of Alien:Isolation, which in retrospect would have made a better film.
8/10
Finally saw this. It’s basically The Force Awakens for the Alien universe. I liked it. Good lead. Still uses the 1979 space tech, shot well. I think the original is one of the best films I’ve ever seen, and part of that was casting a bunch of older actors (like Harry Dean Stanton), making space and the future look grimy and industrial instead of magical, and throwing off the expectations of filmgoers, starting with a very slow first act. This reboot goes for the young crowd (20 year-olds) and probably hews a little closer to Aliens than Alien. But still, I loved being back in this realm. Very simple story, just an excuse to run around shooting xenomorphs. Probably evolved from doing a straight adaptation of Alien:Isolation, which in retrospect would have made a better film.
8/10
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Surely has to mean sequels? Or spin offs? Or both?!
Territories. So imagine:
Kids
Families
Foreign countries
The Rock fans
Action movie fans
Fantasy movies fans
Christmas movie fans
Etc.
Great film and the last film I actually saw in the cinema, right before Covid came along and I lost the will to leave my home to watch movies anymore.
Longlegs
It was OK, but have to be honest was not blown away with it.
It had the potential to be an epic, but fell short.
The filming was good , if felt creepy and music was good.
The acting was OK.
6/10
It was OK, but have to be honest was not blown away with it.
It had the potential to be an epic, but fell short.
The filming was good , if felt creepy and music was good.
The acting was OK.
6/10
First thing that crossed my mind after finishing the movie was - shit, I should have watch this in cinema. But it was still such an immersive experience.
i basically disagree with everything you come up with on this forum by default but strangely can sign up to every post of yours in this very thread
So I‘m glad you like Romulus because I‘m literally on the fence to watch it.
Alien Romulus was one of those films that I really enjoyed but the more I think about it, the less fondly I remember it.
It feels like an Alien/Aliens greatest hits tribute but at the same time, it's what the franchise needed to engage a new, younger audience.
I just wish they reduced the call backs and some silly things.
Overall, it was definitely fun.
It feels like an Alien/Aliens greatest hits tribute but at the same time, it's what the franchise needed to engage a new, younger audience.
I just wish they reduced the call backs and some silly things.
Overall, it was definitely fun.
110% this.
Weetee, you and me are twin sons from different mothers.i basically disagree with everything you come up with on this forum by default but strangely can sign up to every post of yours in this very thread
So I‘m glad you like Romulus because I‘m literally on the fence to watch it.
I‘ve seen my father for about 10x in my life and the last time was about 30years ago so not impossible I say!
Ugh
I wish Hollywood would stop doing it. It's just a shite troupe now and pisses me off. It was done extremely badly in this too, a few fun moments like "Game over" on the game screen near the start. But after that, dear god, WHY.
If you can ignore those annoying moments then the film is actually really fun and enjoyable. Definitely a must watch if you liked Alien/Aliens, as it's much better than the other shite Alien films in recent years.
I think “stay away from her, you bitch” is the straw that broke the camel’s back. The others were not great, but that one was Onana-esque in its ham-handedness.
I actually groaned very loudly at that. I can only assume it's the stupid, idiotic money men forcing the writers to throw this shit in to the films. I can't think a professional writer would think that was a good idea.
It's odd because the film didn't really need to do any of that. The 'new' stuff that they added was enough and gave the film its own identity. It held its own for the first half/2 thirds.
I will say that I generally detest cameos, call backs, one-liners that were from previous films, etc. Hollywood is getting so much worse in this area. Leave that shit in the past where it belongs.
Genuinely thought the parts on the colonised planet were pretty good world building. Pacing was great. I thought that whole section from the beginning until the post-chestburster scene where the xenomorph crawled out from its cocoon were pretty awesome. That cocoon scene where it emerged as an adult was fantastic and really added a new layer of horror to the creature. It gave us something we hadn't seen before. The film stands stronger when it brings something new to the table or at least it stands on its own two feet that way.
In that final third, I thought the zero-G part was also pretty cool and different. The rest of that scene just didn't need the call-backs and one-liners.
I guess opinions will be very divided by that 'offspring' section of the film at the end. I have to say that it was all filmed pretty well and gave us that classic sense of bodyhorror. The more I reflect on that, the more on board I am with it. At the same time, it's also a result of more meddling by Ridley Scott and his shoe-horning of the Prometheus series into this, where it perhaps wasn't needed. It's another sense of the franchise not quite being able to break free from its predecessors.
7 or 8/10 is a very fair score.
In that final third, I thought the zero-G part was also pretty cool and different. The rest of that scene just didn't need the call-backs and one-liners.
I guess opinions will be very divided by that 'offspring' section of the film at the end. I have to say that it was all filmed pretty well and gave us that classic sense of bodyhorror. The more I reflect on that, the more on board I am with it. At the same time, it's also a result of more meddling by Ridley Scott and his shoe-horning of the Prometheus series into this, where it perhaps wasn't needed. It's another sense of the franchise not quite being able to break free from its predecessors.
7 or 8/10 is a very fair score.
I will say that I generally detest cameos, call backs, one-liners that were from previous films, etc. Hollywood is getting so much worse in this area. Leave that shit in the past where it belongs.
Open Grave
A man wakes up with no memory in a pit full of dead bodies in the wilderness and must determine if the murderer is one of the strangers who rescued him, or if he himself is the killer. Completely forgot I saw this years back so watched it. Decent mystery and always like watching Sharlto Copley. Becomes a bit generic when everything is revealed though 6/10
Poor Things
Well directed and acted, the concept is very similar to a book my wife read though. I found Mark Rufallo to be a bit out of place with his performance though and Emma Stone did great overall but the acceleration on her speech felt it was to necessitate an easier narrative, one minute she's saying single words and the next she's using big words, felt too fast for me 7/10
Kinds of Kindness
By the same director as Poor Things. I preferred this one. It's an anthology film, I really liked the first story. The second story was decent and the third, whilst not bad, was definitely weaker than the first two. All the stories ended in an impactful way in the moment but also feel like those short films that end with a punch-line that are fun but not long-lasting. The video watching scene in the second story was one of the funniest things I've seen this year 7.5/10
We're All Going to the World's Fair
Alone in her attic bedroom, teenager Casey becomes immersed in an online role-playing horror game, wherein she begins to document the changes that may or may not be happening to her. By the director of I Saw The TV Glow, this movie gets mad plaudits for being a low budget indie feature with a strong voice and I was intrigued by the themes of perception / online perception, however, this was so slow paced and I found myself starting to doze off a couple of times. It's fine to have a slow pace, yet creepy film but don't fecking market the trailer as the opposite 5.5/10
Moana 2
More of the same but without the catchy songs. Definitely a step down from the first. Kids loved it though 5.5/10
A man wakes up with no memory in a pit full of dead bodies in the wilderness and must determine if the murderer is one of the strangers who rescued him, or if he himself is the killer. Completely forgot I saw this years back so watched it. Decent mystery and always like watching Sharlto Copley. Becomes a bit generic when everything is revealed though 6/10
Poor Things
Well directed and acted, the concept is very similar to a book my wife read though. I found Mark Rufallo to be a bit out of place with his performance though and Emma Stone did great overall but the acceleration on her speech felt it was to necessitate an easier narrative, one minute she's saying single words and the next she's using big words, felt too fast for me 7/10
Kinds of Kindness
By the same director as Poor Things. I preferred this one. It's an anthology film, I really liked the first story. The second story was decent and the third, whilst not bad, was definitely weaker than the first two. All the stories ended in an impactful way in the moment but also feel like those short films that end with a punch-line that are fun but not long-lasting. The video watching scene in the second story was one of the funniest things I've seen this year 7.5/10
We're All Going to the World's Fair
Alone in her attic bedroom, teenager Casey becomes immersed in an online role-playing horror game, wherein she begins to document the changes that may or may not be happening to her. By the director of I Saw The TV Glow, this movie gets mad plaudits for being a low budget indie feature with a strong voice and I was intrigued by the themes of perception / online perception, however, this was so slow paced and I found myself starting to doze off a couple of times. It's fine to have a slow pace, yet creepy film but don't fecking market the trailer as the opposite 5.5/10
Moana 2
More of the same but without the catchy songs. Definitely a step down from the first. Kids loved it though 5.5/10
Agree with all of that. The gravity purge stuff was cool.
The further I get from the Poor Things hype, the more I dislike that film. Ruffalo was the turd in the punch bowl. I haven’t liked his shtick since Spotlight, which was 2015. I think Emma Stone needs to stop doing this director’s movies, although he’s been an Oscars goldmine for her, so she’ll make another 10.
Killing of a Sacred Deer was his best film in my opinion.
The director clearly has a thing for Emma Stone though.
Jargon for performing well across various distribution channels and/or demographics.
Not a fan of this film or the director. I hated TKOASD, and wasn't that idiotic lobster one his as well?