How can anyone not like Jeff Goldblum?
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I like him , just not in Thor.
Coco - I absolutely loved it. Brilliant, brilliant movie.
It's overtaken Wall-E as my favourite Pixar film.
It's overtaken Wall-E as my favourite Pixar film.
Some parts of Casablanca have aged really badly. Still worth watching for the quotes.
Nice to hear, I can't say the trailer had me too interested and Wall-E is fantastic. Along with Up!, my favorite Pixar films
Do tell.Some parts of Casablanca have aged really badly. Still worth watching for the quotes.
Wall-E and Up were my two favourites before this one, but this is definitely up there for me.
It's lots of fun, has a cracking story, absolutely incredible visuals (like genuinely amazing at times), deals with some good themes and will legitimately have you tearing up... its everything you'd want from a Pixar movie.
How's it for a 5 year old you think?
Erm, it has lots of pretty colours, a funny dog character and some catchy tunes? So probably good I'd think?
World War 2 has passed.
I’m probably a bit too strict but I try to keep my kids on looney tunes level content for the most part. They’ve only seen portions of Toy Story for example
I’ll check it out
It's less kid friendly then Toy Story for sure (though not as scary... fecking Sid)
The shape of water (2017)
Bullcrap recycled soviet story seen through Hollywood lens. Great production tough.
Bullcrap recycled soviet story seen through Hollywood lens. Great production tough.
Up! is legitimately one of my favourite films of all time. The story is so simple yet the richness of the visuals and score is unmatched in mainstream animation as far as I am concerned. The opening montage scene blasts me every time.
I enjoyed Coco too. Kids will love the awesome colourful visuals and music, but perhaps you may judge some of the themes of life and death (not to mention all the skeletons) a touch too much for certain kids. On the whole the macabre stuff is handled with a well-judged touch I think.
Yeah, totally agree. I think both Up! & Wall-E are similarly moving which is remarkable for animation outside of Miyazaki films
Great to hear, if nothing else it'll be good viewing for the parents
You see, I'd agree with you (I thought it was a wonderful film), but do you not think the subject matter may be a bit too heavy for younguns? It deals with death a lot, so I'm wondering.
Though I wouldn't give a feck, I'm planning on showing my kids Even Horizon by the time they're 4.
Possibly, but then it is quite a nice idea of death all things considered ... that you live on if people remember you and what not.
Its nicer the Lion King for example... Mufasa
The feels, manPossibly, but then it is quite a nice idea of death all things considered ... that you live on if people remember you and what not.
Its nicer the Lion King for example... Mufasa
Amazing performance by the lead in that
Sam Neill?Amazing performance by the lead in that
It's certainly eye-grabbing.Amazing performance by the lead in that
@Dirty Schwein and @pauldyson1uk , you two should watch 'Tragedy Girls' and tell me what you think, I loved it.
I have that on my list. Need to convince the wife
Drowning by Numbers - Absolutely brilliant. It might just be Peter Greenaway's most accessible film and definitely my favourite of his. There's so much going on inside his compositions that it makes a fellow symmetry junkie like Wes Anderson's frames seem completely vapid.
It's also the film where this famous Michael Nyman piece originates from.
It's also the film where this famous Michael Nyman piece originates from.
Yeah, Coco was wonderful.
Everybody's Child well worth a watch! Pretty heavy going throughout, it's a doc about a heroin addict in Edinburgh. Danny Boyle got him to help out on Trainspotting 2. You tend to think of Glasgow when you think AIDs, smack and vicious junkies, so this does a good job of redressing the balance a bit.
Atomic Blonde - 7/10
Could do with fewer twists, but enjoyable and entertaining altogether, so can't complain much.
Could do with fewer twists, but enjoyable and entertaining altogether, so can't complain much.
Just watched Caddyshack for the first time.... it was surprisingly terrible. Like, really terrible.
I mean, there’s absolutely no story whatsoever, fine, but aside from a couple of nice Bill Murray adlibs, the humour is barely even a notch above the likes of Porkys and other “mugging and bewbs’” comedies of the late-70s. When the funniest character in your film is a Middle Aged Rodney Dangerfield doing his standup act, just beating out someone doing a comedy retard voice, you’re definitely on the wrong side of dated.
Disappointing considering it’s reputation and the talent involved. I can only assume people are cripplingly nostalgia blind to its obvious rubbishness.
A Futile and Pointless Gesture - A slightly funnier biopic of the man who wrote Caddyshack (and the much superior Animal House) starring Will Forte in a variety of terrible wigs and the now mandatory Domnhall Gleason. Mostly fine, if a little “TV Special” but ye gods man, the wigs!! The wigs I tell you!!! 6/10
Guy Richie’s Gor’ Blimey King ‘Awfa! - I’m technically still watching this, but Charlie Hunnam is such a black whole of anti-charisma that I’m quite happy to write it off already. And he STILL hasn’t learnt how to do a convincing English accent since Green Street. And he’s fecking English!! Also the wideboy aesthetic and silly idiosyncratic nicknames felt so pat and dated it’s almost like Richie is doing an SNL parody of himself. 4/10. 2 of them for Beckham’s hilarious cameo. His finest work since “Pepsi”
I mean, there’s absolutely no story whatsoever, fine, but aside from a couple of nice Bill Murray adlibs, the humour is barely even a notch above the likes of Porkys and other “mugging and bewbs’” comedies of the late-70s. When the funniest character in your film is a Middle Aged Rodney Dangerfield doing his standup act, just beating out someone doing a comedy retard voice, you’re definitely on the wrong side of dated.
Disappointing considering it’s reputation and the talent involved. I can only assume people are cripplingly nostalgia blind to its obvious rubbishness.
A Futile and Pointless Gesture - A slightly funnier biopic of the man who wrote Caddyshack (and the much superior Animal House) starring Will Forte in a variety of terrible wigs and the now mandatory Domnhall Gleason. Mostly fine, if a little “TV Special” but ye gods man, the wigs!! The wigs I tell you!!! 6/10
Guy Richie’s Gor’ Blimey King ‘Awfa! - I’m technically still watching this, but Charlie Hunnam is such a black whole of anti-charisma that I’m quite happy to write it off already. And he STILL hasn’t learnt how to do a convincing English accent since Green Street. And he’s fecking English!! Also the wideboy aesthetic and silly idiosyncratic nicknames felt so pat and dated it’s almost like Richie is doing an SNL parody of himself. 4/10. 2 of them for Beckham’s hilarious cameo. His finest work since “Pepsi”
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It’s mad Steve. He was the least convincing football hooligan in a film starring Elijah Wood as a football hooligan. He’s gotten a little better since then, granted, but surrounded by the requisite plethora of “colourful cockney characters” mandated in a Ritchie film, his still middling appropriation of his own accent only stands out more. He sounds like a yank doing a ‘bit’ as a faded “limey” rockstar/coked up A&R exec red herring character in an episode of Castle. Having researched the role by only watching Mary Poppins and Spinal Tap.
He also has the on screen charm of a wet Weetabix, which admittedly doesn’t help.
All that sounds like a kind of genius for failure, mate.Finally watched Dunkirk last night/this night, was flying. I actually found it pedestrian-paced with no characters you give a shit about (eg the young lad's muted death on the boat when the shellshocked guy barely hits hom?) and just boring.
Was willing it to end.
Was willing it to end.
That quite literally describes how I felt about the movie. Wasn't until the scene with the guys sitting in the boat waiting for the tide that I started feeling a wee bit of investment in the characters. Usually I re-watch movies like this but I don't myself doing the same with Dunkirk. Too high of expectations going in I guess.
Never liked the film. Just nowhere near as funny as it thinks it is (or was as I only saw in once in the early 80's and I doubt that it has aged well).
Hugely underwhelming wasn't it?
It will be, if you watch it on a shitty screen with a jet engine roaring behind you.
Definitely wouldn't translate well to an airplane screen.
The whole experience was in the big screen and big sound. The music, huge screen and tick-tocking building up the tension.
I didn't.