Shin Godzilla is so goddamn good. It's like The Martian meets Robocop meets Attack on Titan meets...Godzilla.
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Yep. IIRC, that was the year of feminist movies.
A load of dross was offered up for Oscar consideration including the above.
Yes feminism is a real nightmare but Suicide Squad won an Oscar and Jackie didn't so maybe there's hope for movies for manboys to get some recognition yet.
Is Jackie a feminist movie?
Is Jackie a feminist movie?
Not necessarily. The fickleness of Hollywood can suggest movie types for the following season but that doesn't mean they will win anything.
The same happened when the black community were up in arms as they weren't nominated for any awards.
The following year we had a few films of which '12 years as a slave' rightly won it.
I can't say I noticed any particular feminist leanings in types of films nominated at this year's Oscars. None of the BP nominees were even directed by a woman. If you see some sort of bias towards women in the Best Actress category then I suppose you're right though.
Suicide Squad had a bird in it so uh checkmate @Wonder Pigeon
Omg you're a bird it all makes sense now
Omg you're a bird it all makes sense now
R.N7 has found his soul-mate.
I'm feeling a little torn. Waterford Crystal was my first thought, but now I'm considering something more practical, like a set of Kitchen Devils knives, guaranteed to last them into their twilight years.
When something like this happens, I always sit before a nice, open fire, pour myself a brandy, and play The Carpenters 'We've only just Begun' for an hour.
Not this year. A few years ago.
Joy and Room got released the year of the more feminist movies. Also, Suffragettes.
War for Planet of the Apes. Shite out of 10.
The worst of the 3 in my humble.
The worst of the 3 in my humble.
I had just about gotten bored of this thread after reading nothing but Baby Transformer Drivers 5 reviews for weeks.
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You should watch Gojira. I loved watching it in theatre.
Me too.
Popped it on just before going to see Shin, I'd had the DVD still in plastic for ages. Good stuff.
Gimme a break... 
https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...review-rooney-mara-casey-affleck-david-loweryGuardian said:
A Ghost Story review: Casey Affleck goes undercover in a strange and haunting tale
Affleck plays a sheet-wearing spirit trying to connect with Rooney Mara’s widow in David Lowery’s audacious and affecting meditation on love, loss and letting go
I thought you wrote this synopsis, found a random picture, and then fabricated an URL.
Nooooo, mate. I love practically anything ghostly, but I'd be dying (ho ho) to laugh at every scene in that film, I think.
"feck the tolerances"
Alien is hilarious, couldn't take the grin off my face for a long time when they landed.
We need Scott to make more of them. Go with the bang, Ridley, go full Ben Stiller!
Alien is hilarious, couldn't take the grin off my face for a long time when they landed.
We need Scott to make more of them. Go with the bang, Ridley, go full Ben Stiller!
Second Guardians of the Galaxy is so colourful and *pretty* that it actually comes off pretty ugly. I didn't like it much, the universe is pretty uninteresting compared to (older) comic books dealing with cosmic side of Marvel, and this story was just dull.
Some ok moments, with mostly Drax bringing the laughs. "Mantis, look out!"
Some ok moments, with mostly Drax bringing the laughs. "Mantis, look out!"
Trial and Retribution (Series Two, 1998, 3hrs 21mins)
'A serial killer has been viciously attacking women before murdering them. However one victim survives and names the arrogant Damon Morton as her assailant. The case is not helped by the fact that Morton clearly has a hold over people, such as the three employees who come forward to claim responsibility for the crimes and his put-upon wife, who gives him an alibi.'
Excellent stuff, written by Lynda la Plante.
8/10
'A serial killer has been viciously attacking women before murdering them. However one victim survives and names the arrogant Damon Morton as her assailant. The case is not helped by the fact that Morton clearly has a hold over people, such as the three employees who come forward to claim responsibility for the crimes and his put-upon wife, who gives him an alibi.'
Excellent stuff, written by Lynda la Plante.
8/10
Sadly, Joseph Bologna has passed away:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/aug/14/joseph-bologna-obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/aug/14/joseph-bologna-obituary
The Equalizer (2014)
First time I have watched this, when trailers were out I always fancied seeing it but never got round to it. I sure missed out. Thought it was brilliant, the style of it, the fight scenes was awesome. I even quite liked the soundtrack, especially during the home depot scene They picked the actors out very well too, obviously Denzel Washington gets most the credit but Marton Csokas who played the bad guy was excellent, everything about his character creeped you out a bit. Storyline was to be expected for a film like this, and it has a lot of feel good moments in it too. Can't wait for the sequel.
8/10
First time I have watched this, when trailers were out I always fancied seeing it but never got round to it. I sure missed out. Thought it was brilliant, the style of it, the fight scenes was awesome. I even quite liked the soundtrack, especially during the home depot scene
They picked the actors out very well too, obviously Denzel Washington gets most the credit but Marton Csokas who played the bad guy was excellent, everything about his character creeped you out a bit. Storyline was to be expected for a film like this, and it has a lot of feel good moments in it too. Can't wait for the sequel.8/10
Watched this over the weekend because of your review. And it was well worth it - cheers.
It's an effortlessly engaging yet brutal movie that seemed to ramp up the tension without me noticing.
Shout out to the fantastic zombie en-masse attack scenes and the cute kid who was absolutely fantastic.
I couldn't see this on Netflix (UK) but it is available on Amazon Prime.
I love practically anything ghostly, but I'd be dying (ho ho) to laugh at every scene in that film, I think.
That idea was played for comedy by Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis in Beetlejuice. Pretty hard to take seriously.
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
One of the most enjoyable movies of any genre that I've seen in a long time.
Trigger warning: white people, conversations.
A Fantastic Woman - a transgender woman in Chile deals with the aftermath of her partner's death with his awful family. A horrifying film with a standout lead performance from Daniela Vega, listlessly directed by Sebastien Leilo. Produced by Pablo Larrain and I wish it had his visual panache.
Golden Exits - Alex Ross Perry goes full Alex Ross Perry. Long, mannered conversations between Brooklyn yuppies about love, ambition etc. He described it as "commercially worthless" which is about right. I'm a big fan of his and I think he's one of the best directors of women out there but this is certainly not going to be for everyone. Sidenote, Emily Browning, an actual Australian, plays a pretty unconvincing Australian in this.
A Fantastic Woman - a transgender woman in Chile deals with the aftermath of her partner's death with his awful family. A horrifying film with a standout lead performance from Daniela Vega, listlessly directed by Sebastien Leilo. Produced by Pablo Larrain and I wish it had his visual panache.
Golden Exits - Alex Ross Perry goes full Alex Ross Perry. Long, mannered conversations between Brooklyn yuppies about love, ambition etc. He described it as "commercially worthless" which is about right. I'm a big fan of his and I think he's one of the best directors of women out there but this is certainly not going to be for everyone. Sidenote, Emily Browning, an actual Australian, plays a pretty unconvincing Australian in this.
I've been to the pictures quite a lot over the past few weeks:
- There was a Fincher cycle in a cinema that I like, so I had the opportunity to discover Se7en and Fight Club on the big screen, really good experience both times - especially for Se7en which is one of my favourite films; I also re-watched Zodiac there, it's one of these films that is aging very well, and I wonder if it's not Fincher's best...
- Not going to go into too much detail regarding the awful The Circle, with Emma Watson; it's a truly stupid film, I suppose it's a teen movie (not sure why I went to see it) that parades as something more, but is just altogether idiotic. I wanted to mention it because of Emma Blandson's awful performance. Rarely have I been so taken aback by an actor's performance, it's Tommy Wiseau levels of bad. Overacting, underacting, bad timing, too much brow action, I dunno how she does it, but it's all there for you to enjoy. There's one scene that's specially cringe inducing, when she speaks during a board meeting, and is meant to have a eureka moment... it's bad, really, really bad.
- I enjoyed Terrence Malick's latest film, Song to Song, which has a nice cast consisting of Rooney Mara (main character), Michael Fassbender, Ryan Gosling and Nathalie Portman (who's hardly in the film really); set in the Austin music scene which serves very much as a background, the film doesn't really talk about what the summaries set out, but rather about our tendency to hurt those we love, how we're attracted to our own past, loneliness... Fassbender and Mara are both excellent, while Gosling is actually quite good in this (I wasn't sure how he'd be in a Malick film). The fluidity of the film, as always with Malick, is impressive, but I doubt it will convert any non Malick fans, while those who already like him will be on board. It's part of a trilogy with (the bad) To the wonder and (the slightly better) Knight of cups, and for me this is the best of the three.
- the latest Planet of the apes film was really good as well, it's one of those films that could be utterly ridiculous at any given moment but actually never is given how well it's made. Really enjoyed it, maybe the best blockbuster of the year?
- There was a Fincher cycle in a cinema that I like, so I had the opportunity to discover Se7en and Fight Club on the big screen, really good experience both times - especially for Se7en which is one of my favourite films; I also re-watched Zodiac there, it's one of these films that is aging very well, and I wonder if it's not Fincher's best...
- Not going to go into too much detail regarding the awful The Circle, with Emma Watson; it's a truly stupid film, I suppose it's a teen movie (not sure why I went to see it) that parades as something more, but is just altogether idiotic. I wanted to mention it because of Emma Blandson's awful performance. Rarely have I been so taken aback by an actor's performance, it's Tommy Wiseau levels of bad. Overacting, underacting, bad timing, too much brow action, I dunno how she does it, but it's all there for you to enjoy. There's one scene that's specially cringe inducing, when she speaks during a board meeting, and is meant to have a eureka moment... it's bad, really, really bad.
- I enjoyed Terrence Malick's latest film, Song to Song, which has a nice cast consisting of Rooney Mara (main character), Michael Fassbender, Ryan Gosling and Nathalie Portman (who's hardly in the film really); set in the Austin music scene which serves very much as a background, the film doesn't really talk about what the summaries set out, but rather about our tendency to hurt those we love, how we're attracted to our own past, loneliness... Fassbender and Mara are both excellent, while Gosling is actually quite good in this (I wasn't sure how he'd be in a Malick film). The fluidity of the film, as always with Malick, is impressive, but I doubt it will convert any non Malick fans, while those who already like him will be on board. It's part of a trilogy with (the bad) To the wonder and (the slightly better) Knight of cups, and for me this is the best of the three.
- the latest Planet of the apes film was really good as well, it's one of those films that could be utterly ridiculous at any given moment but actually never is given how well it's made. Really enjoyed it, maybe the best blockbuster of the year?
@Rooney in Paris agree Zodiac is his standout for me, can't imagine anyone doing anything more with the subject matter. Think you've inspired me to re-watch it this weekend!
You watched all those films yet you couldn't bother making the effort to see Solaris? Hmph.
Atomic Blonde
First, let me start by saying that any film that has both Charlize Theron and Sofia Boutella automatically gets a 5 by default. Add to that a makeout scene between the two of them and you get an extra 1.5 right there! Charlize Theron will look through her back catalogue when she hangs up her acting boots and nod with a great deal of satisfaction. She really puts herself through the mill with this film in some of the fight sequences.
Atomic Blonde is a good old-fashioned action spy thriller set in the Cold War 80s....and that's about as much as I got from the plot. Theron plays a special operative tasked with recovering some valuable data wanted by nearly all of the top intelligence agencies and some not so good guys. We get a peek into the murky world of espionage and counter-intelligence where everyone is out to get one over the next man or woman. The film plays out in retrospective story mode as the plot and intrigue is slowly unravelled. With a pumping 80s soundtrack, this film is definitely substance over style with the action gritty, raw and very violent, with some whincy moments.
You really have to pay attention to keep up with this film as nothing or no-one is as they seem. Not much of the film is laid out by way of explanation apart from Theron's narrative during cross examination and the plot twists and turns continue right up until the very last scene. A strong supporting cast makes for a good watch though Theron I felt was just a tad too one-dimensional. I may just need to watch this again to get my round it all.
Atomic Blonde felt like a Salt movie with a bit of Bourne thrown in for good measure but just way more badass. Decent enough.
I'm giving this a 7.5/10.
First, let me start by saying that any film that has both Charlize Theron and Sofia Boutella automatically gets a 5 by default. Add to that a makeout scene between the two of them and you get an extra 1.5 right there! Charlize Theron will look through her back catalogue when she hangs up her acting boots and nod with a great deal of satisfaction. She really puts herself through the mill with this film in some of the fight sequences.
Atomic Blonde is a good old-fashioned action spy thriller set in the Cold War 80s....and that's about as much as I got from the plot. Theron plays a special operative tasked with recovering some valuable data wanted by nearly all of the top intelligence agencies and some not so good guys. We get a peek into the murky world of espionage and counter-intelligence where everyone is out to get one over the next man or woman. The film plays out in retrospective story mode as the plot and intrigue is slowly unravelled. With a pumping 80s soundtrack, this film is definitely substance over style with the action gritty, raw and very violent, with some whincy moments.
You really have to pay attention to keep up with this film as nothing or no-one is as they seem. Not much of the film is laid out by way of explanation apart from Theron's narrative during cross examination and the plot twists and turns continue right up until the very last scene. A strong supporting cast makes for a good watch though Theron I felt was just a tad too one-dimensional. I may just need to watch this again to get my round it all.
Atomic Blonde felt like a Salt movie with a bit of Bourne thrown in for good measure but just way more badass. Decent enough.
I'm giving this a 7.5/10.
What's the red cafe's reveiw's on nolan's Dunkirk.
Shot Caller
Very good, sometimes excellent. It reminds a lot to Felon, which is no surprise when you look that director is the same. Ordinary man ends up in prison and in short, the prison doesn't rehabilitate him at all.
Recommendation.
7/10
Very good, sometimes excellent. It reminds a lot to Felon, which is no surprise when you look that director is the same. Ordinary man ends up in prison and in short, the prison doesn't rehabilitate him at all.
Recommendation.
7/10
Cool gonna check out Felon @Jim Beam as I loved Shot Caller
A Silent Voice - Anime which does have some similarities to Your Name in terms of style but deals with more serious subject matter such as bullying, suicide and coping with disabilities. It's about a boy, Shoyo, who is popular and has a circle of friends at school when a new girl joins who is deaf. She ends up being bullied by most of the friends but Shoyo is particularly harsh and is eventually ostracised. It then skips forward a few years where Shoyo has no friends but feels guilty about what he did and tries to make it up to the deaf girl and reconnect with his old friends. It's astoundingly beautiful at times with an interesting and quirky soundtrack.
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Yesssss. Not just a great anime film, but just a great film.
The Lost City of Z - it's kind of extraordinary this film got made, as it was never going to be anything but a financial flop. Old school adventure epic, brilliantly rendered (although very gloomy, apparently the sun was weaker in the early 1900s and artificial lights provided very little), all very enjoyable. I cannot, for the life me, understand what filmmakers see in Charlie Hunnam. He doesn't feck this film up, but he has absolutely no presence. There's a dozen British actors who could've played Fawcett better.
Night Train (1959) - Very enjoyable train noir, can't think of many other films that have utilized the train setting better. Emanated strong Hitchcock vibes but focused mostly on people's interactions whilst cramped together in a small environment. The despondent face of Lucyna Winnicka was probably the highlight of the film, that or the ethereal jazz score.
It has very similar premise with lots of violence and brutality. Also great leading performances (especially Val Kilmer). IMO Shot Caller is a little better movie but not much between them. Definitely worth to watch.
With you on this one. Watched Zodiac again a few months back. Not only it is aging very well, it is one of those movies which gets better after watching it again. Think I fully appreciate what a genius movie it is on my second viewing.
And, also, can't decide between Seven and Zodiac which one is my favorite from Fincher.
Neither can I. Love them both, I'd say Zodiac is a more mature film, but Se7en is brilliant and impressive for a director's very early work.