BFTD Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Movie 43 - put this on for BigFatTabbyBoy, as I figured he'd love it. He did. Think I'm going to get fed up hearing about how realistic Hugh Jackman's balls looked, however. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Black Dynamite Michael Jai White lampoons the blaxploitation genre. If you're a fan of the likes of Shaft or Truck Turner you will love this. If you have never seen these films you will think that this is incoherent garbage. 9/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Black Dynamite Michael Jai White lampoons the blaxploitation genre. If you're a fan of the likes of Shaft or Truck Turner you will love this. If you have never seen these films you will think that this is incoherent garbage. 9/10Being a bit harsh, there. Any film which features a kung fu fight with Pat Nixon deserves full marks, Shirley? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YER SISTERS YER MAW Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 The Blues Brothers Watched this classic many times but with it's recent 4k Blu Ray release with DTS X audio, it really makes some difference to the picture and sound quality and breathes new life into it. There's a few scenes that I'm positive I've never seen before and I'm sure they're not on the DVD version I own or been on it anytime I've seen it on the telly. 8.5/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mishtergrolsch Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Watched Predator 2 for the first time in years as I recently watched the original. Always remember it as being pretty average at best but have to say I really was shocked at how poor it actually is, especially compared to the original. I forgot Bill Paxton was in this till he makes his appearance. The original sets the Predator up to be a clever, adaptable and ruthless hunter here to stalk its prey for an unknown reason. Trophies? Glory? f**k knows. That's the mystery and that makes the film so much better. In this its here to stalk a gang of stereotyped 1990s Jamacans and a mid 40s LA cop in Danny Glover and gives up with about half an hour to go setting its self destruct to go off. Big Danny prevents this and blah blah blah ridiculous old lady scene, falls down a lift shaft into a hole and lands on the Predators ship which nobody had noticed. Cool fight scene and rather decent ending adding some history and meaning to the Predators saves it from being as bad as any Predator film made after this one. This one left me feeling that if an ageing, slightly out of shape Danny Glover can take a Predator out then it was either a shite one he fought or Arnies gang were vastly over rated. I go with the former, obviously. 5/10. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Batman Begins Every time I watch this, I am more and more convinced that it's a better film than The Dark Knight, and I love The Dark Knight. A quarter of a point off for Tom Wilkinson's weird accent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Batman Begins Every time I watch this, I am more and more convinced that it's a better film than The Dark Knight, and I love The Dark Knight. A quarter of a point off for Tom Wilkinson's weird accent.IMO it's almost completely different from TDK: it has different aims with a different style (to an extent). BB is pretty much exclusively about Bruce and his view of Gotham (and how he thinks he can change it), but TDK was more of an 'epic' crime thriller that had Gotham and its infrastructure more at the heart of the narrative. BB mostly takes place in the slums/shanty towns of Gotham IIRC. You forget how stylised Gotham is in BB compared to TDK as the general view of the trilogy is that it placed Batman in a real-life setting. I thought the dialogue was different too (in keeping with the contrasting styles) as BB had its characters speak in occasionally distracting on-the-nose monologues which was pretty much avoided in TDK - save for Harvey Dent. They're both great and I think it's hard to compare them considering how different they are, but I'd say I prefer what BB is but appreciate that TDK does most things better. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustOneCornetto Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 (edited) The Imposter (2012) Fascinating documentary about a 13 year old boy who went missing from his home in Texas only seemingly to turn up just over 3 years later in Spain. The story is seen from different perspectives and it's so far fetched you have to remind yourself it really happened. Added bonus for me was hearing the song Wayfaring Stranger by 16 Horsepower a couple of times. 7/10 Edited May 30, 2020 by JustOneCornetto 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 6 hours ago, mishtergrolsch said: Watched Predator 2 for the first time in years as I recently watched the original. I really liked the concept for Predator 2 when it was first announced; a Predator is drawn to near-future LA by unprecedented gang violence sparked by a record-breaking heatwave. Back when we'd only had the original film, that sounded pretty badass, like when Alien 3 was supposed to be about the xenomorphs finally making it to Earth. Fox have made terrible decisions with these films time and again, though. Lethal Weapon was big at the time, so they obviously figured they'd get the guy from those films that everyone liked. When he wasn't available, they went for Danny Glover. Presumably one of the execs at the studio had a boner for voodoo being the scariest fucking thing ever, you guys, so they chucked a load of that in. It's amazing how often that shit seems to happen to film scripts; see producer Jon Peters for a prime example of forcing personal obsessions into movies. Something that just occurred to me - seeing as how Disney bought Fox (or 20th Century Studios, as they're now known) to reunite the Marvel characters they owned film rights to, does that mean they also own the Predator/Alien franchises now? ... Yes, apparently so. Loving this picture: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mishtergrolsch Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 15 minutes ago, BigFatTabbyDave said: I really liked the concept for Predator 2 when it was first announced; a Predator is drawn to near-future LA by unprecedented gang violence sparked by a record-breaking heatwave. Back when we'd only had the original film, that sounded pretty badass, like when Alien 3 was supposed to be about the xenomorphs finally making it to Earth. Fox have made terrible decisions with these films time and again, though. Lethal Weapon was big at the time, so they obviously figured they'd get the guy from those films that everyone liked. When he wasn't available, they went for Danny Glover. Presumably one of the execs at the studio had a boner for voodoo being the scariest fucking thing ever, you guys, so they chucked a load of that in. It's amazing how often that shit seems to happen to film scripts; see producer Jon Peters for a prime example of forcing personal obsessions into movies. Something that just occurred to me - seeing as how Disney bought Fox (or 20th Century Studios, as they're now known) to reunite the Marvel characters they owned film rights to, does that mean they also own the Predator/Alien franchises now? ... Yes, apparently so. Loving this picture: The House of Mouse really are swallowing everything up to re hash and destroy successful old franchises that should be left in the past. They should use the money to pay for up and coming writers to write new and interesting films and not dry hump our childhood memories while smearing member berries all over our faces. A Disney Alien or Predator film would be fucking hilarious right enough. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Just now, mishtergrolsch said: The House of Mouse really are swallowing everything up to re hash and destroy successful old franchises that should be left in the past. They should use the money to pay for up and coming writers to write new and interesting films and not dry hump our childhood memories while smearing member berries all over our faces. A Disney Alien or Predator film would be fucking hilarious right enough. Unfortunately, all the Disney Corporation has ever done is take people's childhoods and feed it back to them, starting with the fairy tales they adapted in the early days. They're now retelling the fairy tales they already retold. It's always been a company that prizes technical innovation at the expense of artistic expression. New things are risky, after all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 4 minutes ago, BigFatTabbyDave said: Unfortunately, all the Disney Corporation has ever done is take people's childhoods and feed it back to them, starting with the fairy tales they adapted in the early days. They're now retelling the fairy tales they already retold. It's always been a company that prizes technical innovation at the expense of artistic expression. New things are risky, after all. Did Disney not produce Deadpool? An R rated version of Predator/Alien, with a shit tonne of cash behind it, could be promising. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 (edited) 7 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said: Did Disney not produce Deadpool? An R rated version of Predator/Alien, with a shit tonne of cash behind it, could be promising. No, but apparently they're happy to make more Deadpool films with an R rating. People still act surprised when they find out that Disney are happy to make money from films that aren't for kids. Apparently the first question some folk asked after the Fox buyout was, "are they going to make Deadpool PG?" I think there are still American family groups boycotting Disney because their Buena Vista label distributed Pulp Fiction Edit: unfortunately, with regard to Predator/Alien films, Disney don't seem to be very good at handling properties that need development. Pixar managed to keep making good original films for a while after the buyout as the folk who'd been responsible for their early classics were mainly still there, and they seem to have been smart enough to leave Kevin Feige to get on with what he was already doing at Marvel. However, George Lucas left the Star Wars franchise in a serious mess, and what Disney have managed hasn't been an improvement. The Alien/Predator films have arguably been shite since the '80s ended, so they'll need to find people to burn down that mess and start again, which doesn't seem to be their strong suit. We can only hope we don't get quasi-remakes of the original films, with elderly Sigourney Weaver and Arnold Schwarzenegger handing over to younger, forgettable characters. And the least said about Indiana Jones, the better. Edited May 30, 2020 by BigFatTabbyDave 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanton Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 (edited) Lizzie , The story of The Borden family axe murders . Dark stuff . Good performances all round . Did she do it ? 8/10 Edited May 30, 2020 by stanton 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid android Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Margin Call Stanley Tucci, a sour-faced Demi Moore, Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, and Jeremy Irons, who is very good. They managed to make a potentially tedious topic (the stock market) quite engaging. No actions - just guys in suits talking. I slightly got the impression they may have been copying Glengarry Glen Ross - it's probably not as good as that, but I liked it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlandcowden Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 (edited) just watching the film "young adult" which I recorded the other night.can anyone tell me where it is the main characters living at the start of the film? oh,she just mentions its Minneapolis.didnt recognise it as it wasn't on fire Edited May 31, 2020 by highlandcowden 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 On 30/05/2020 at 13:46, mishtergrolsch said: Watched Predator 2 for the first time in years as I recently watched the original. The original sets the Predator up to be a clever, adaptable and ruthless hunter here to stalk its prey for an unknown reason. Trophies? Glory? f**k knows. That's the mystery and that makes the film so much better. Watched a YouTube clip called "Things you didn't know about Predator". For example it started as a joke about the Rocky films. "He's had a fight with everyone. Who is he going to fight next? An alien?" Fortunately it was not Stall one that got the lead role. Jean Claude Van Damne was the originally Predator and his monster looked more like an insect. He quit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrie Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Killer's Anonymous Thought this rubbish would be the worst film I'd watch today. 1/10 but then... Old Dogs Hold my beer. 0.5/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 (edited) Black Rain Michael Douglas play a bad ass New York cop who is chasing a fugitive through the seedy back streets of Japan. It's hardly an original concept. Coogan's Bluff, Brannigan and Red Heat all featured cops acting out of their jurisdiction. However it was still slick and stylish and had just the right amount of violence. 7/10 Edited June 3, 2020 by tongue_tied_danny 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 On 02/06/2020 at 05:49, Fullerene said: Watched a YouTube clip called "Things you didn't know about Predator". For example it started as a joke about the Rocky films. "He's had a fight with everyone. Who is he going to fight next? An alien?" Fortunately it was not Stall one that got the lead role. Jean Claude Van Damne was the originally Predator and his monster looked more like an insect. He quit. IIRC, wasn't there one shot left in the film of Van Damme's Predator? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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