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by Floex » Thu Jul 27, 2017 9:36 am

Haven't seen the film but I'm more in shock that it's being compared to Three kings :lol:

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating: The Directors Cut
by Preezy » Thu Jul 27, 2017 9:41 am

Three Kings is a fantastic movie to be fair.

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating: The Directors Cut
by Moggy » Thu Jul 27, 2017 9:51 am

Preezy wrote:Three Kings is a fantastic movie to be fair.


I prefer the wise men version.

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating: The Directors Cut
by Frank » Thu Jul 27, 2017 10:39 am

Gemini73 wrote:I thought it was pretty good with some great casting all round, (Luke Evans as Gaston was particularly superb)


Apart from his voice :shifty: Josh Gad as Le Fou was good but again, the pub song just wasn't as good as it could have been.

It'd be good to see someone edit out all the pointless twaddle like the enchantress backstory and the silly Paris section :dread:

The beast song, though. Fantastic. That's the one thing that I think the animated film is missing, a big Beast number.

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by Gemini73 » Thu Jul 27, 2017 11:07 am

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Gemini73 wrote:I thought it was pretty good with some great casting all round, (Luke Evans as Gaston was particularly superb)


Apart from his voice :shifty: Josh Gad as Le Fou was good but again, the pub song just wasn't as good as it could have been.

It'd be good to see someone edit out all the pointless twaddle like the enchantress backstory and the silly Paris section :dread:

The beast song, though. Fantastic. That's the one thing that I think the animated film is missing, a big Beast number.


Yeah Gaston's song wasn't as good as the original, agreed, but other than that I thought he was great.

Did you know that some of Emma's songs used were the live version shot during filming? Apparently she gave such a good performance that it was decided that the finished edit would feature a mix of both the studio recordings and those shot live depending on which one version was better.

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating: The Directors Cut
by Peter Crisp » Thu Jul 27, 2017 11:15 am

Blue Eyes wrote:Dunkirk 3/10

There's so little to say about this that is good. Well shot, sums up the good. Everything else is boring, sterile garbage. Best war film ever, some banana splits have said. Three Kings gooseberry fools on this from such a massive height it would obliterate the earth.

There is no characterisation. So it is boring. That's the long and short of it. It's not bold to ignore that important aspect of film making, it's lazy. Don't get me wrong, it's fine not to conform with typical cinematic tropes if you have something special. But this film is garbage. Tedious, no stakes, indulge-fest about something that should be anything but.


How the hell can you say this film was boring?
Also no stakes? Are the lives of 400k people stuck on a beach not high enough stakes for you?

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating: The Directors Cut
by Knoyleo » Thu Jul 27, 2017 11:40 am

I tell you what does worry me about Dunkirk, is the way people are focusing on how great it sounds and looks in Imax. Given that I'm unlikely to see this film in a regular cinema, let alone an Imax one, I do wonder what substance is actually left once that "big screen spectacle" is stripped away.

It's tied to something else I was thinking about after the last cinema debate on here, about what the proportion of a film's viewership is that go to see it at the cinema, as opposed to those who watch it at home? I always assume the latter would be greater, and so it seems odd to create a film that loses so much of the experience when not viewed on a massive screen, or with a foundation rumbling sound system. Or maybe I just don't get it, and the big screen spectacle is the purpose, and if you're watching it on Netflix a year later, that's just part of the long revenue tail, and you were never the target audience for the film anyway.

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating: The Directors Cut
by Squinty » Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:32 pm

Going to see it at the weekend to see what all the fuss is about.

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by Tafdolphin » Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:10 pm

Knoyleo wrote:I tell you what does worry me about Dunkirk, is the way people are focusing on how great it sounds and looks in Imax. Given that I'm unlikely to see this film in a regular cinema, let alone an Imax one, I do wonder what substance is actually left once that "big screen spectacle" is stripped away.


You will absolutely lose the spectacle. I haven't seen such a "you must see this is a cinema" film for ages: IMAX not required, but a regular theatre is a must.

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating: The Directors Cut
by Ironhide » Thu Jul 27, 2017 3:21 pm

Logan - 9/10

I really liked this, As with Deadpool it's an interesting take on the comic/superhero genre and is refreshing to see the 'hero' portrayed in a way that shows that they are as flawed and vulnerable as everyone else around them.

The film is fairly depressing in tone and the deaths of Xavier and Logan had genuine impact.

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating: The Directors Cut
by Blue Eyes » Thu Jul 27, 2017 5:55 pm

Peter Crisp wrote:
Blue Eyes wrote:Dunkirk 3/10

There's so little to say about this that is good. Well shot, sums up the good. Everything else is boring, sterile garbage. Best war film ever, some banana splits have said. Three Kings gooseberry fools on this from such a massive height it would obliterate the earth.

There is no characterisation. So it is boring. That's the long and short of it. It's not bold to ignore that important aspect of film making, it's lazy. Don't get me wrong, it's fine not to conform with typical cinematic tropes if you have something special. But this film is garbage. Tedious, no stakes, indulge-fest about something that should be anything but.


How the hell can you say this film was boring?
Also no stakes? Are the lives of 400k people stuck on a beach not high enough stakes for you?

You don't get to invest in any characters, is the problem. I'm aware this is kind of the point of the movie, but it definitely didn't work for me.

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by mcjihge2 » Thu Jul 27, 2017 6:51 pm

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Ive just watched the prestige. Not seen it before. good film. The thing i dont get is why didnt hugh jackman at the end ask him if he tied the knot? I figure his wifes death was jackmans motivation to ruin christian bale, so with his dying breath why didnt he ask him about that? Also even if it was the other twin who got scolded by micheal caine for suggesting the other type of knot, then surely bale 2 would have known he shouldnt tie the knot because its dangerous. Im trying to work out who the baddy was - hung Bale , alive Bale or Jackman?


Angiers is so far into his obsession at this point that he's almost completely forgotten about his wife and the knot. His hatred for Borden is now so absolute the original source has become irrelevant. He straight up says this to his assistant earlier in the film. If anything, the fact that he doesn't ask just adds to his character. Also there are no bad guys, just men driven to horrific acts through obsession. Again, this is stated in the closing dialogue between the two survivors.

It's the nuances and the questions the plot makes you ask yourself, as you have done, that I think marks this as a genuinely extraordinary film.

I also just watched memento. Not seen that before. Also a good film. I kind of feel worse for watching Memento than the Prestige though.

EDIT: Id say on reflection Memento is the better film than the prestige. Even though its confusing, the storyline seems to tie up better.


Funnily enough, I watched Memento this arvo too and about an hour in I realised I'd never actually seen it all the way through. It's a nice little trick piece, the stitching together of the story is masterfully done and it's clear that it set the tone for Nolan's entire career. However, the story itself is largely uninteresting and once you've pieced it together there's little appeal to watching it through again. There's no ambiguity, no secrets, it's a standard crime story with largely unlikeable and two dimensional characters told in a fascinating way.


In most part I do agree with you. The thing extra i took from memento was that is was a horror about a man trapped in his own dementia, and how he was manipulated by his own thoughts into doing bad things. And I suppose for me with a family history of Alzheimers it hit home a bit more - in my mind im personally closer to going Memento than going Prestige.

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating: The Directors Cut
by Gandalf » Thu Jul 27, 2017 8:58 pm

Blue Eyes wrote:Dunkirk 3/10

There's so little to say about this that is good. Well shot, sums up the good. Everything else is boring, sterile garbage. Best war film ever, some banana splits have said. Three Kings gooseberry fools on this from such a massive height it would obliterate the earth.

There is no characterisation. So it is boring. That's the long and short of it. It's not bold to ignore that important aspect of film making, it's lazy. Don't get me wrong, it's fine not to conform with typical cinematic tropes if you have something special. But this film is garbage. Tedious, no stakes, indulge-fest about something that should be anything but.


Troll alert!

And to have the audacity to say the absolute piece of gooseberry fool Three Kings is a better movie??? You are strawberry floating clueless when it comes to film.

I'll get you a taxi number as you need to use one.....

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating: The Directors Cut
by Blue Eyes » Fri Jul 28, 2017 8:14 am

Gandalf wrote:
Blue Eyes wrote:Dunkirk 3/10

There's so little to say about this that is good. Well shot, sums up the good. Everything else is boring, sterile garbage. Best war film ever, some banana splits have said. Three Kings gooseberry fools on this from such a massive height it would obliterate the earth.

There is no characterisation. So it is boring. That's the long and short of it. It's not bold to ignore that important aspect of film making, it's lazy. Don't get me wrong, it's fine not to conform with typical cinematic tropes if you have something special. But this film is garbage. Tedious, no stakes, indulge-fest about something that should be anything but.


Troll alert!

And to have the audacity to say the absolute piece of gooseberry fool Three Kings is a better movie??? You are strawberry floating clueless when it comes to film.

I'll get you a taxi number as you need to use one.....

Well I would contest that it is you who is clueless, good sir. Three Kings is good.

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating: The Directors Cut
by Preezy » Fri Jul 28, 2017 9:10 am

Gandalf wrote:And to have the audacity to say the absolute piece of gooseberry fool Three Kings

Woah woah woah

94% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes
7.1 on IMDB

Hardly a piece of gooseberry fool film.

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating: The Directors Cut
by Gemini73 » Fri Jul 28, 2017 9:13 am

I liked Three Kings.

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating: The Directors Cut
by Blue Eyes » Fri Jul 28, 2017 9:17 am

Looks to me like you'll be the one getting in that taxi, Gandy!

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating: The Directors Cut
by Moggy » Fri Jul 28, 2017 9:19 am

It's nice to see that Gandy is no longer massively overreacting to things. :lol:

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating: The Directors Cut
by Denster » Fri Jul 28, 2017 3:10 pm

Seeing Dunkirk on Sunday on IMAX.
Despite Blue's review I'm confident it will also be better than Bladerunner.

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by Lotus » Fri Jul 28, 2017 3:25 pm

Chinatown - 8/10

+ Strong and believable characters
+ Atmospheric soundtrack that nicely weaves in and out of scenes
+ Good sense of mystery and intrigue
+ Twists and turns all the way through

- Central plot wasn't that interesting
- Some silly moments

Enjoyed this - reminded me a lot of LA Noire - I can see where the latter got some of its inspiration from. There don't seem to be too many crime/mystery films like this, which is a shame.


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