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by Tafdolphin » Mon Jan 21, 2019 9:09 pm

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Yeah, there was a huge scandal about a lot of the anti-TLJ sentiment being stoked and circulated by Russian trolls, possibly at the insistence of the state. It was believed to be part of their generalised cyberwarfare campaign against the States which included all the Trump stuff.

Not liking the movie is fine, but the hate it got was completely unjustified.


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by KomandaHeck » Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:33 am

We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011) - ****
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) - *****
The Big Sick (2017) - ***
Manchester By The Sea (2016) - ****
Seven (1995) - *****
Zack and Miri Make A Porno (2008) - **
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) - ***
Beasts of No Nation (2015) - ****
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) - ****
Zodiac (2007) - *****
Coco (2017) - *****
The Shape of Water (2017) - *****
Phantom Thread (2017) - ***

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by Vermilion » Tue Jan 22, 2019 7:48 am

SugarDave wrote:Zack and Miri Make A Porno (2008) - **


The 'that chick just frosted me' scene left me in absolute stitches.

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by Lotus » Tue Jan 22, 2019 10:37 am

Split - 7/10
Full Metal Jacket - 7/10

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by Ste » Wed Jan 23, 2019 11:05 am

Robocop (original) - Not seen this for a while. Enjoyed it even more than I thought I would. 8

Logan - Think I had too high expectations for this. Was hoping it might be of Dark Knight level. 7

Hereditary - Bit slow but thought it was worthwhile. 6

Truth or Dare - Typical Blumhouse film. Decent but nothing amazing. 5

February - Again a bit slow. But good creepy atmosphere. 6

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by OrangeRKN » Wed Jan 23, 2019 11:41 am

Tafdolphin wrote:Even Donald Glover was just doing a Billy-Dee impression.


Which was also a very good Lando impression... which was kind of the point? To be the same character? I thought he nailed it.

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by Tafdolphin » Wed Jan 23, 2019 12:31 pm

OrangeRKN wrote:
Tafdolphin wrote:Even Donald Glover was just doing a Billy-Dee impression.


Which was also a very good Lando impression... which was kind of the point? To be the same character? I thought he nailed it.


Nah. There's a difference between an impression (Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs) and a great performance (Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs). Glover is a great actor, and did a passable Billy-Dee, but it didn't work in Solo.

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by OrangeRKN » Wed Jan 23, 2019 1:03 pm

We'll agree to disagree then as I thought it worked well. Yes an impression is more of an exaggeration if we're being pedantic, but while it was a flamboyant performance Lando was always like that.

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by KomandaHeck » Fri Jan 25, 2019 3:57 am

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) - ***
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) - ****
Chinatown (1974) - ****

Casablanca (1942) - *****
It's always weird going into these films often called the best of all time, I'm almost looking for any flaw that'll bring it down. Genuinely thought this was brilliant though.

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by Vermilion » Fri Jan 25, 2019 7:49 am

SugarDave wrote:Casablanca (1942) - *****
It's always weird going into these films often called the best of all time, I'm almost looking for any flaw that'll bring it down. Genuinely thought this was brilliant though.


They'd be stupid to try and remake it again too, as the one starring Myra Dinglebat & Peter Beardsley was definitive!

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by Tragic Magic » Fri Jan 25, 2019 5:39 pm

Stan & Ollie

Sublime. One of the finest movies I've seen in a while.

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by Peter Crisp » Fri Jan 25, 2019 6:00 pm

Just watch Vice at the cinema.

Very good and showed what an utter gooseberry fool he was and just how easily he convinced Bush to hand over pretty much all presidential power to him so he could wage whatever war and illegal surveillance of the US people he wanted. Anyone interested in US politics should watch this as it really does show just how ruthless many republicans are in getting what they want.
It also shows the invention of Fox News and the rest of the bonkers right wing media.

An easy 9/10 and Christian Bale is great as Cheney.

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by Yubel » Fri Jan 25, 2019 6:44 pm

Stan & Ollie.

Their personalities were very well portrayed by John C. Reilly and Steve Coogan; the whole dynamic was uncanny at times. Their chemistry, the subtle expressions, pokes and prods. The ending was bitter-sweet and, on the whole, I felt that what the film punctuated most is how they'd left it too late in their careers to do a tour.

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by mcjihge2 » Sun Jan 27, 2019 2:34 pm

Dr Strange - One of the best Marvel films, funny and well paced. 9/10

Pitch Perfect - Great film 10/10

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by Tafdolphin » Sun Jan 27, 2019 3:37 pm

A New Hope 7/10

Travesty etc, but watching this for the first time in a good few years really put into sharp relief the film's failings. Firstly, the dialogue is largely terrible. All the characters are so broadly drawn they become nothing but tropes. Arguably this was the point, it's a fairy tale, but it doesn't stop a lot of the wise-cracking dialogue from falling flat. Secondly, the film is often fairly boring. No doubt this has come from decades of watching and rewatching but the film doesn't really get going until after Tatooine and even then the plot plods along until the, admittedly still pulse-racing, finale. It's comfortably towards the bottom of my own Star Wars hierarchy, and another watch simply confirmed this.

The Force Awakens 7.5/10

Watching these two back to back isn't a great idea: TFA is, beat for beat, a copy of ANH. The dialogue and characters are far more nuanced and effective, with the exception of Rey being something of a Mary-Sue, but the individual plot points and crisis moments are ripped directly from its progenitor and it's actually rather shameless.

I loved this film when I first saw it, but in retrospect I think a lot of that was due to it being a well directed, well scripted film as opposed to a catastrophic misfire in the vein of the prequels. The more I rewatch it, however, the more I see just how derivative it is and how much it was bettered by its vastly superior sequel. Which is up next...

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by Rocsteady » Sun Jan 27, 2019 4:04 pm

:lol:

Do you just constantly rewatch the Star Wars films? Feel like half your posts lately have been about them/TLJ

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by Oblomov Boblomov » Sun Jan 27, 2019 4:07 pm

I'm waiting to see if he has the balls/ovaries/non-gender-specific-body-part to come back after watching it and admit that TLJ is largely a steaming turd.

I fear it more likely the charade will continue.

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by Jenuall » Sun Jan 27, 2019 4:11 pm

Vermilion wrote:
SugarDave wrote:Casablanca (1942) - *****
It's always weird going into these films often called the best of all time, I'm almost looking for any flaw that'll bring it down. Genuinely thought this was brilliant though.


They'd be stupid to try and remake it again too, as the one starring Myra Dinglebat & Peter Beardsley was definitive!

So hard to get a copy of it now though. You can't get it for love nor money, it's like Venus' arms, like Brooke Shields' buttocks!

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by Kriken » Sun Jan 27, 2019 6:11 pm

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It was incredible. Felt so genuine and cool things were constantly happening. The animation was so good.

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by Tafdolphin » Sun Jan 27, 2019 8:52 pm

Rocsteady wrote::lol:

Do you just constantly rewatch the Star Wars films? Feel like half your posts lately have been about them/TLJ


Saw A New Hope infront of a live orchestra on Friday, first time I've seen it in about 5 years, and was inspired to spend a lazy Sunday watching The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi with the wife. Last time I saw either was about 2 years back (maybe a year for TLJ). I comment about them a lot because...I like the Star Wars films, I suppose. And dislike bad opinions.

So, without further ado:

The Last Jedi 8.5/10

Still the best of the recent Star Wars crop, and my second favourite in the series behind Empire, this is the most tonally consistent of the films whilst also being the first to examine what it is to be a Star Wars film. It's a film that recognises that the series, both in-universe and out, is about legacy, about building on what came before, and to actually do something with that. It burns Star Wars to the ground, literally and narratively, and made the franchise feel exciting for the first time in 40 years.

Whereas Force Awakens concerned itself with ground laying and capital p Plot (whilst tippytoeing back into the groove timid as a Twilek in a Rancor cave) TLJ is all about character. The story here is laughably simple: the Resistance gets caught, they must escape. The narrative though, those events that take place between the giant plot holes of the greater arc, are the true focus and they're where the film shines. At the end of TFA Finn is a relentless coward obsessed with saving the girl he attributes with his rebirth, Poe is a gungho meathead with no higher thought processes and Rey is a dreamer convinced of fairytale endings. TLJ mercilessly tears down these characters and rebuilds them anew as something better, something deeper and something that Star Wars hasn't really seen since the original trilogy closed out: people.

And that's not even counting Kylo Ren. In TFA Driver put in a fantastic physical performance of barely constrained rage, but apart from a rehash of Anakin-tropes we didn't know what drove him. By the end of TLJ, we not only knew who he was but were taught sympathy for him. Sympathy. For the villain in a Star Wars film. Much has been said about the series' simplistically solid black and white morality and TLJ took this and ran, making Ren the best Star Wars villain in the series, Vader included.

It's an incredibly satisfying film that builds its arcs flawlessly and brings them back together to provide the most intriguing set up for a next entry I can think of. It's not perfect. As much as I like its intent the casino scenes don't really work, Hux is the film's one misstep in characterisation and some of the lines are a little too on the nose, but it's a far deeper, more thoroughly thoughtful film than The Force Awakens and I for one am incredibly excited about Johnson's in production non-Skywalker trilogy.

SugarDave wrote:Casablanca (1942) - *****
It's always weird going into these films often called the best of all time, I'm almost looking for any flaw that'll bring it down. Genuinely thought this was brilliant though.


Apropos of nothing, Casablanca is my favourite film of all time. If the screen has seen a better realised locale than Rick's I haven't seen it.

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