Detournement Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 I've been on a Peter Falk binge. A Woman Under The Influence - A John Cassavettes film with his wife Gina Rowlands playing a mentally ill housewife losing her grip on reality. Peter Falk is her husband trying to hold the family together but clearly on the edge of a breakdown himself. Hard to watch but absolutely rivetting, all the family dynamics are perfect. Wings of Desire - A really unique film about two angels observing Berliners which has more in common with modernist novels than most other movies. There is a plot concerning one of the angels played by Bruno Ganz but the film is mainly seeing the city and the people from the perspective of the angels who can hear people's thoughts and try to watch over people in crisis. Peter Falk plays himself working on a film in Berlin and gets involved in the main plot in a brilliant way. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SANTAN Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 I'm watching First Blood. Need I say more.... 10/10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
young_bairn Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Suicide Squad (2021) Actually enjoyed this after seeing mixed reviews. It's a switch brain off popcorn movie with a great cast of characters. 7/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Burn After Reading (2008) dir. Coen BrothersRewatched this as my flatmate hadn’t seen it. Superb. The CIA trying to make sense of a bunch of dipshits causing havoc still does me in with David Rasche and JK Simmons making the scenes even funnier. John Malkovich is also far and away maybe my favourite actor. 9/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy boo Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Bone Tomahawk Kurt Russell is a small town sheriff in the 1890's who leads a rescue party for townsfolk abducted by an indigenous cannibalistic tribe. Not for the squemish......8/10. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 1 hour ago, jimmy boo said: Bone Tomahawk Kurt Russell is a small town sheriff in the 1890's who leads a rescue party for townsfolk abducted by an indigenous cannibalistic tribe. Not for the squemish......8/10. Anyone wandering into that expecting your common-or-garden Kurt Russell western would have been in for quite the shock. Has more in common with the likes of Cannibal Holocaust in places. Good film, would recommend too. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Burn After Reading (2008) dir. Coen BrothersRewatched this as my flatmate hadn’t seen it. Superb. The CIA trying to make sense of a bunch of dipshits causing havoc still does me in with David Rasche and JK Simmons making the scenes even funnier. John Malkovich is also far and away maybe my favourite actor. 9/10Brad Pitt's performance is so good it made me hate almost every other Brad Pitt performance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Brad Pitt's performance is so good it made me hate almost every other Brad Pitt performance. I’m willing to be proven wrong here but I can’t name a director that understands Pitt better than the Coens (dumb idiot) or Tarantino (smug p***k capable of extreme violence). Both get the best out of him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 10 hours ago, NotThePars said: I’m willing to be proven wrong here but I can’t name a director that understands Pitt better than the Coens (dumb idiot) or Tarantino (smug p***k capable of extreme violence). Both get the best out of him. Yeah Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was an (maybe the) exception. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludo*1 Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was a big disappointment for me. I get that it was Tarantino's love letter to the golden generation, but it was just a bit pish for huge stretches with brilliant scenes spliced in from time to time. So much of the runtime was just unnecessary for me. It highlights the difference between Scorsese and Tarantino. Scorsese tends to make the most of his huge runtimes (with some exceptions, I'm looking at you Silence) whereas Tarantino has got into the habit with self serving nonsense in his past few films IMO. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 Life is beautiful (1997) Decent Italian film the main character is extremely flamboyant too close to the edge of being an irritant for me but a good film if you happen to see it on. Very few films show Nazi atrocities outside of Germany, Poland, France etc. So interesting to see the Italian story of course worth bearing in mind the Italian's themselves perfected concentration camps during the 20's and 30's to kill Africans, you don't get a sense of this in the film. Anyway not bad nice ending 8/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 2 hours ago, accies1874 said: Yeah Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was an (maybe the) exception. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is his best performance for me. Killing Them Softly is good as well. 2 hours ago, Ludo*1 said: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was a big disappointment for me. I get that it was Tarantino's love letter to the golden generation, but it was just a bit pish for huge stretches with brilliant scenes spliced in from time to time. So much of the runtime was just unnecessary for me. It highlights the difference between Scorsese and Tarantino. Scorsese tends to make the most of his huge runtimes (with some exceptions, I'm looking at you Silence) whereas Tarantino has got into the habit with self serving nonsense in his past few films IMO. What bits didn't you like? I thought everything in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood seved a purpose. The Irishman though..... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 Layer Cake - An entertaining enough gangster movie which is obviously hoping to be a serious movie but is closer to Lock Stock than The Long Good Friday. The director Matthew Vaughn is an uber posho (real name de Vere Drummond) and the subtext of this movie is working class criminals bad and stupid, upper middle class criminals good and clever. Daniel Craig and Micheal Gambon are excellent and it's always good to see Joe from This Life on screen. Sienna Miller has one of the flimiest roles i've ever seen basically so she model some nice sussys. Oscar winner Sally Hawkins also has a role that is similar but involves a machine gun. The ending is ripped off from Carlito's Way but it's well done. Notorious - Ingrid Bergman is a good time girl who's father has just been jailed in America for helping Germany during the war. Cary Grant is the OSS agent who wants her to go to Brazil to uncover a Nazi plot. Really entertaining all the way through and Bergman and Grant are excellent as a mismatched couple who have to put their feelings aside for the greater good. I'm usually against remakes but this seems perfect for a Tarantino style remake which would make the Nazis (a word never said in the film) more grotesque and devious and make the Miami and Rio locations more sleazy and tropical. The film released in 1946 and instead of calling the villains Nazis it describes them as IG Farben men. That got me interested because of my love of Gravity's Rainbow and it turns out that any mention of IG Farben was cut out for 40 years because the US government wanted Americans not to think too much about how the vast majority of top Nazis were absorbed into the West German state with very little punishment. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Brightside Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 On 09/08/2021 at 20:22, SANTAN said: I'm watching First Blood. Need I say more.... 10/10 You'll struggle to find a film franchise that sold-out more after its first film. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SANTAN Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 1 hour ago, Mr. Brightside said: You'll struggle to find a film franchise that sold-out more after its first film. Aye they were my da's favourite movies so I've seen them all multiple times from a young age, never enjoyed the second one, thought the third was slightly better and we won't even mention the later ones... -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 The End of Evangelion (1997) dir. Hideaki Anno I've been rewatching the Eva series in anticipation of all 4 Rebuild movies dropping on Amazon tomorrow. This is the feature length retelling of the final two episodes which were originally released when the creators had clearly ran out of their budget. What was originally a very plot light introspective and positive conclusion is this time an action packed and much darker conclusion that seems more grounded in the conclusion about Anno's famous mental health problems arguably partially influenced by the vitriolic conclusion to the original series. The best scene in this movie is when Asuka gets pummelled by the Eva series. Nightmarish stuff. Mostly great movie even if some of the scenes and implications are very suspect. Also want to shoutout whichever poster watched this recently despite having never watched a single episode of the original series. What a powerful mind. I've watched it all twice over and still had trouble getting everything that was going on. 8/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btb Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 The original version of Alfie starring Michael Caine is on one of the minor SkyMovie channels at 9pm. Released in 1966 when the Pill was only available to married women and before abortion was legalized it dealt with the all too real consequences of sex in the 60s. It was remade in the 00s set in New York with Jude Law in the Caine role - I've never seen the remake but I doubt it could have the same impact as the original. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDoddyKane Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 Cache (Hidden) - French film. An absolute classic. If you havent seen it best to not read any reviews or watch the trailer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Tunbridge Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Promising young woman (2020) 7/10. Enjoyed this, story of a woman seeking revenge after her friend is raped because she was v drunk at a party. Spoiler Some double twist at the end with Cassie getting killed in her mission for revenge, then when you think the guy has got away with it seeing the scheduled messages and her back up plan coming into play. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 On 12/08/2021 at 18:32, Mr. Brightside said: You'll struggle to find a film franchise that sold-out more after its first film. Two suggestions for the runner up spot (as I am in total agreement here). Spoiler Spoiler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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