That just reminded me of Raising Arizona, Comedy · When a childless couple of an ex-con and an ex-cop decide to help themselves to one. Strictly comedy though. Must see this again. I'd totally forgotten about this movie. lol.
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That just reminded me of Raising Arizona, Comedy · When a childless couple of an ex-con and an ex-cop decide to help themselves to one. Strictly comedy though. Must see this again. I'd totally forgotten about this movie. lol.
Does anyone know if/when Hacksaw Ridge comes out in the UK?
Ditto. The Coen brother's are just so effortlessly cool aren't they-goddamn!
i'll get around to posting my top 100 films at some point (about half way done).
Just 2 that randomly popped into my head....
Both dark and wondrous.
This is the film that ignited my love of world cinema.
Just 2 that randomly popped into my head....
Both dark and wondrous.
This is the film that ignited my love of world cinema.
Great experience in general. The movie was good, but I think the whole experience just put me in the right mood to watch it and enjoy it. Plus, when I go somewhere with company to watch a movie, I always seem to enjoy it more. I'm quite tired so I'm going to sleep on it and then I'll do a review here tomorrow.
I think you need to be in that sort of environment to really appreciate stuff like Stan Brakhage's work for an example.
The State of Things - A thoroughly good meta-film-within-a-film film, a very personal film by Wenders with his usual aimless moody existential shtick and American film references. Films.
No, but I have seen the poster a few times and been entranced by Nicholson's moustache and how he probably felt that he needed to grow out a moustache in order to play a retiring detective.
Hope this helps.
I remember it been quite dull when I saw it but I was only about twelve.
Sean Penn's latest film appears to be a real stinker.
"A backdrop of Third World atrocity, suffering and merciless human-rights violations serves as the canvas for a faux-profound Hollywood love story in Sean Penn's stunningly self-important but numbingly empty cocktail of romance and insulting refugee porn, The Last Face."
"The warning signs arrive from the very first frame that we’re in for a rough ride, with text on-screen likening the “impossible brutality” of the conflict in Africa to that of the love between a man and a woman."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...ean-penn-charlize-theron-crass-romance-cannes
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/sean-penns-last-face-cannes-896014
"A backdrop of Third World atrocity, suffering and merciless human-rights violations serves as the canvas for a faux-profound Hollywood love story in Sean Penn's stunningly self-important but numbingly empty cocktail of romance and insulting refugee porn, The Last Face."
"The warning signs arrive from the very first frame that we’re in for a rough ride, with text on-screen likening the “impossible brutality” of the conflict in Africa to that of the love between a man and a woman."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...ean-penn-charlize-theron-crass-romance-cannes
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/sean-penns-last-face-cannes-896014
Cheers, lads. 
Not worth the time IMO. It's a bit dull.
Doh.
Day of the Dead (1985) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088993/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Last part of Romero's zombie trilogy, and my favourite altough it got some faults. There is some dodgy acting with the feckers from the army, they go way overboard on trying to be this rag tag semi crazy bunch IMO, to the point that it gets annoying. Also the last part with them escaping the helicopter, I mean wtf? Just them jogging towards the helicopter, then some zombie grabbing that woman and suddenly it cuts to them living happily on some island? What happened in between ffs.
Still a quality movie, and it shits on most modern ones. Also love the synth score, and the Frankenstein doctor and his domesticated zombie and what he pulls off at the end is a cool twist.
8/10
Last part of Romero's zombie trilogy, and my favourite altough it got some faults. There is some dodgy acting with the feckers from the army, they go way overboard on trying to be this rag tag semi crazy bunch IMO, to the point that it gets annoying. Also the last part with them escaping the helicopter, I mean wtf? Just them jogging towards the helicopter, then some zombie grabbing that woman and suddenly it cuts to them living happily on some island? What happened in between ffs.
Still a quality movie, and it shits on most modern ones. Also love the synth score, and the Frankenstein doctor and his domesticated zombie and what he pulls off at the end is a cool twist.
8/10
Trailers - Experimental is the only way to describe this movie. There's no real plot and a bunch of images that seem to make no sense. This isn't a movie to put on at home randomly and I think I was in the perfect circumstances to watch it, so I may be overrating it. Below there's a newspaper's review, which I mostly agree on. It was a shame that I didn't get to stay and listen to the answers Rashidi gave to the audience since the metro in Porto closes at 1am during the week. Of course I also missed the metro and had to pay 10 euros for a taxi, because things can't always go right.
@R.N7 just got some real competition from Portugal here. I can see a passive aggressive "who can watch the most obscure movies" duel brewing between them.
I think we've just witnessed a first round KO
That reviewer sounds like he/she has never seen an experimental film before.
Don't know about first round KO, I just recently beat you in your own park by watching obscure Raul Ruiz films set in Portugal.
Don't know about first round KO, I just recently beat you in your own park by watching obscure Raul Ruiz films set in Portugal.
It has begun
Contact is nice. Think I like it more today than when I first saw it. The ending is still ill-thought, but the rest of the film more than make up for it.
Fine, you win round 1. I'll be back for more
Spent 5 hrs in a flight and managed to catch up on some movies....
Central Intelligence:
Misleading title as the movie was anything but intelligent. Dwayne Johnson acting as a teenager who never growed up yet still is a CIA agent. Kevin Hart is an accountant whose career is stuck yet can easily access arms bidding and international financing. The movie is a world of contradictions and plot lines that stretch the definition of ridiculousness. Juvenile and not even a little bit funny.
2/10
Legend of Tarzan:
Standard wife kidnapped, hero rescues movie. Even the backdrop of Tarzan and national slavery couldn't beef up the plot line. Margot Robbie is. Christoph Waltz also gives a good performance. With a better plot and tighter screenplay this could have been a very good movie. The scenic backdrop of Congo looks awesome even in a shitty plane TV and that alone would be worth watching this movie in a big screen I suppose. Pretty average film that could have been so much better.
5/10
Central Intelligence:
Misleading title as the movie was anything but intelligent. Dwayne Johnson acting as a teenager who never growed up yet still is a CIA agent. Kevin Hart is an accountant whose career is stuck yet can easily access arms bidding and international financing. The movie is a world of contradictions and plot lines that stretch the definition of ridiculousness. Juvenile and not even a little bit funny.
2/10
Legend of Tarzan:
Standard wife kidnapped, hero rescues movie. Even the backdrop of Tarzan and national slavery couldn't beef up the plot line. Margot Robbie is
. Christoph Waltz also gives a good performance. With a better plot and tighter screenplay this could have been a very good movie. The scenic backdrop of Congo looks awesome even in a shitty plane TV and that alone would be worth watching this movie in a big screen I suppose. Pretty average film that could have been so much better. 5/10
Was better in the book. Didn't translate as well into a film.
Read the book as well, but long time ago, so can't remember much. Know that several of them went, not just one.
I'm expecting to see some reviews of really obscure Manoel De Oliveira films from his early years.
People love bitching about the ending. But I really like the film and the perspective it puts forth. Most of the issues it covers are more realistic than most sci fi films.
I'm a big Crichton fan. Love the book and the concept. I think that the effect/feelings of her trip was better imagined reading the book than seeing the film. Good film nevertheless.
Sagan!
Check out Lucas Moodysson´s Container. Moodysson went from making very accessible films like Fcuking Amal and especially Togetherness, and then really went over to the dark side and began making some creepy, freaky, stream of consciousness experimental stuff like Container.
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Fun fact, I walk on Passeio de Manoel de Oliveira (a sidewalk named after him) everyday to go to university.
I've also seen his 1942 classic Aniki Bóbó and the more recent Singularidades de uma rapariga loura.
I've seen fecking Amal and I remember liking it, so I'll definitely check it out someday. Things are a bit tough time wise right now, so I haven't really been watching any films recently.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - got dragged to this by the girlfriend and my God, what a complete fecking disaster this film is. I feel like posting a Mockney sized rant but I'm choking on my own rage. Nonsensical rubbish, ineptly directed with a completely dogshit screenplay from Rowling who clearly has no understanding of the form. Ugh, utter filth. And the feck happened to Johnny Depps face?
That's an impressive amount of anger! God help any cute little kittens in your vicinity.
the critics seem to like it so maybe JK Rowling has just found the perfect way to annoy me in which case fair play to her.
The critics tend to review childrens films through the "will your kids like it" lens tbf. Because most childrens films would be panned across the board if they were targeting adults.
The trailers were awful too.