BFTD Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 Antrum (DVD) - mockumentary about the rediscovery of an obscure Seventies horror movie linked to mysterious deaths. "Mockumentary" in the loosest possible sense, as there's just a brief "woo, infamous film" spiel at the start, and an even briefer (and shite) epilogue bookending the actual feature itself, which was clearly what the filmmakers were most interested in presenting. Unfortunately, it's pretty poor, with a young woman and her even younger brother traipsing through the woods to dig a hole to hell in order to rescue the boy's dug. A no-money-or-imagination effort that could have had some potential in different hands, but is just a dull, bloodless mood piece with nothing interesting for the audience beyond its premise. BigFatTabbyBoy: "Ugh, it's a fucking arthouse film". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 2 hours ago, scottsdad said: Two suggestions for the runner up spot (as I am in total agreement here). Hide contents Hide contents Die Hard 2 is the exact same movie as Die Hard. And Die Hard 3 is fucking brilliant! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 I get the impression none of the Starship Trooper sequels understood the original Verhoeven. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 The Night of the Hunter (1955) Before seeing this film Robert Mitchum had always struck me as a bumbling oaf of an actor; witness his murdering of Phillip Marlowe in the remake of "The Big Sleep" or him sleepwalking through Herman Wouk's "The Winds of War" and its sequel. However...he is masterful as the preacher who terrorises a young boy and girl in order to find their criminal father's stash. He is also an absolute bawbag to their mother (Shelly Winters) and commits an act which was pretty shocking to the 50's movie goer. Also featuring former silent movie star (and rhyming slang recipient) Lilian Gish in a pivotal role, it's one of the best movies of the 50s. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deegee Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 We went to see The Courier on Saturday and it was a really enjoyable movie. A true life gripping story with strong lead actors who gave some depth and credibility to the relationships between each other, colleagues and families. It also wasn’t too far- fetched, nor drawn out with silly “Tom & Jerry” type chases but retained the suspense you’d expect with Cold War espionage and the KGB on your case. I’d definitely recommend this movie. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 (edited) Deepwater Horizon on Sky just now. ... just what you want to be watching during night shift on a BP operated rig. Edited August 17, 2021 by Hedgecutter 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 Stillwater. 2021 Matt Damon plays an unemployed ex-roughneck oil worker who travels to France to try and prove his incarcerated daughter’s innocence. Pretty good. Very Amanda Knoxy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ya Bezzer! Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 Zodiac I rarely watch movies but I was bored and it was on Prime and had universal good reviews. I didn't really like it much. If you take the three main performances in the movie Robert Downey Jr was rotten ham in a hot, unventilated room, Jake Gyllenhaal was slightly better but never looked like anything more than a guy pretending to be another guy and the only convincing performance was Mark Ruffalo as a weary police detective. There was much praise of the film producing some kind of authentic atmosphere of the period but it seemed to me this was mostly done by slapping music of the time all over the film in a clumsy and artificially annoying fashion. There was an obvious attempt at some kind of Scorsese-esque template but Scorsese uses period music in this films brilliantly and with much more success. This made me not like music I actually like. The second half of the movie is simply a bore. Even the Zodiac killer has given up to work in a hardware store but our plucky hero continues on with his amateur detective case work, obsessively researching a serial killer to the detriment of his relationship with his family. The fact that at the end of the movie we get text that strains to explain that he still has a relationship with his kids (but not his wife) suggests there was some kind of realisation that the our protagonist comes across as, well, a bit of a douchebag. The movie is over long and meandering, the story could have been tightened up and condensed but much like the 1990s in music when artists filled the full 74 minutes of a CD instead of making listenable albums, Hollywood has determined that quantity over quality rules. If they can't make good movies anymore they'll give you a lot of movie as a misguided compensation. It is also a good example of the second most common error in movie making these days, that complexity is a substitute for substance. Zodiac isn't a terrible movie but it's not all it's cracked up to be. The phrase 'in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king' and I suspect this is where this movies reputation comes from. It has uncommon cinematic aspirations but they are never fulfilled and ultimately elicits 'when does this end' checks and one large shoulder shrug as the credits roll. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 17 hours ago, Detournement said: Die Hard 2 is the exact same movie as Die Hard. And Die Hard 3 is fucking brilliant! Die Hard 2 is a poor rerun of 1. Agree on the third...but what about the others? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorge Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 2 minutes ago, scottsdad said: Die Hard 2 is a poor rerun of 1. Agree on the third...but what about the others? Diminishing returns. 4 is passable, but 5 is absolute dog meat: seeing Bruce Willis on the One Show sofa looking disinterested and like he'd rather be anywhere else is exactly how you'll feel watching that one.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 18 minutes ago, scottsdad said: Die Hard 2 is a poor rerun of 1. Agree on the third...but what about the others? I haven't watched them because I've got good taste. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 10 hours ago, Arch Stanton said: The Night of the Hunter (1955) Before seeing this film Robert Mitchum had always struck me as a bumbling oaf of an actor; witness his murdering of Phillip Marlowe in the remake of "The Big Sleep" or him sleepwalking through Herman Wouk's "The Winds of War" and its sequel. However...he is masterful as the preacher who terrorises a young boy and girl in order to find their criminal father's stash. He is also an absolute bawbag to their mother (Shelly Winters) and commits an act which was pretty shocking to the 50's movie goer. Also featuring former silent movie star (and rhyming slang recipient) Lilian Gish in a pivotal role, it's one of the best movies of the 50s. It's one of the best movies ever. The scene on the river, the shadow in the bedroom, the angry mob and Shelley Winters underwater are absolutely stunning scenes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btb Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 11 hours ago, Arch Stanton said: The Night of the Hunter (1955) Before seeing this film Robert Mitchum had always struck me as a bumbling oaf of an actor; witness his murdering of Phillip Marlowe in the remake of "The Big Sleep" or him sleepwalking through Herman Wouk's "The Winds of War" and its sequel. However...he is masterful as the preacher who terrorises a young boy and girl in order to find their criminal father's stash. He is also an absolute bawbag to their mother (Shelly Winters) and commits an act which was pretty shocking to the 50's movie goer. Also featuring former silent movie star (and rhyming slang recipient) Lilian Gish in a pivotal role, it's one of the best movies of the 50s. Genuinely scary movie when I first saw it with Bob convincing as a quasi-religious psychopath who you just knew would let his left hand (HATE) take control when it mattered. Charles Laughton's only movie as a director - Southern Gothic at it's best. As for Mitchum his best work was in early noir movies my personal favourite being Out of the Past (Mitchum, Kirk Douglas & Jane Greer as the Femme Fatale) - he was just phoning it in by the 60s trading on his past work much like another Bob (De Niro) does these days. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 @Arch Stanton @btb 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocketman Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 On 16/08/2021 at 16:46, Detournement said: Die Hard 2 is the exact same movie as Die Hard. And Die Hard 3 is fucking brilliant! 6 hours ago, scottsdad said: Die Hard 2 is a poor rerun of 1. Agree on the third...but what about the others? 6 hours ago, Scorge said: Diminishing returns. 4 is passable, but 5 is absolute dog meat: seeing Bruce Willis on the One Show sofa looking disinterested and like he'd rather be anywhere else is exactly how you'll feel watching that one.... 6 hours ago, Detournement said: I haven't watched them because I've got good taste. drinking game we tend to play - name the sequels (or the alternative name if they dropped the number or accompanied the number in some territories) without looking up: Die Hard Die Hard 2: Die Harder Die Hard with a Vengeance and then I start to struggle: A Good Day to Die Hard Live Free or Die Hard or maybe the other way around. Same for Mission Impossible after the first three. They all have inter-changeable titles.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy boo Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 We went to see The Courier on Saturday and it was a really enjoyable movie. A true life gripping story with strong lead actors who gave some depth and credibility to the relationships between each other, colleagues and families. It also wasn’t too far- fetched, nor drawn out with silly “Tom & Jerry” type chases but retained the suspense you’d expect with Cold War espionage and the KGB on your case. I’d definitely recommend this movie.Watched this last night and thought it was really good. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Limbo (2020) 8.5/10 Brilliant film especially relevant just now with the ongoing situation in Afghanistan. The cinematography is class as is usually the case when filming on the Outer Hebrides. The acting and directing doesn't feel small budget at all and infact it's absolutely best seen at the cinema especially for the last 10 mins. So get out to your local cinema and get it watched. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Children of the corn 1 - 11. Took me a while. Beauties Charlize Theron, Naomi Watts, Kelen Coleman, Eva Mendez make an appearance. Also Micheal Ironside and Alexis Arquette show up. I’m putting this on my CV. I doubt anyone has ever bothered/suffered watching them all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 There are eleven Children of the Corn films? IIRC, the original Stephen King short story was only about seven pages long. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 I can only assume those are stylised Roman numerals and he means he has watched Children of the Corn I-II. There can't be eleven of them! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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