The Naitch Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 1 hour ago, Mark Connolly said: Paddington 2 There aren't many films more enjoyable than this IMO. The ending has me in bits every time as well. It's perfection from start to finish. Even better than the first one IMVHO. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 It's perfection from start to finish. Even better than the first one IMVHO.Which is still a superb film 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 The inaccuracy of the shooting was a bit much. But given that the original was partly blamed for Columbine you can see why it got toned down. It was a mixed bag but it completely destroyed coffee culture so I'm giving it two thumbs up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 The King - a Netflix original. As usual Holywood playing fast and loose with historical accuracy in this tale of Henry V taking the throne and invading France because the Dauphin sent him a toy ball. Decent film though and decent battlefield scenes 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Endings; beginnings. 2019. Standard Rom-com pish. But for Shailene Woodley I’d happily throw myself into a wood chipper hoping to be recycled as toilet paper and the chance to get between those cheeks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 On 27/12/2021 at 14:05, DrewDon said: I watched Midsommar last night. What an utterly odd film. I definitely laughed at some parts that I probably wasn't supposed to find funny, like when the old guy didn't die from the cliff ritual so needed to be bonked on the head by the mallet. Still, it must have had something as usually a film of that length will have me zoning out towards the end but it kept me engaged throughout. I think you're supposed to find them funny. Ari Aster has a sense of humour. The cinema I was in was laughing a lot (a bit uncomfortably I guess?) at those scenes. 23 hours ago, Genuine Hibs Fan said: Yeah, I've seen a lot of political criticisms of it as doom-laden and accepting of our inability to truly change things but, also, look at the guy's work before. Go to someone else if you want that he's very good at depicting why we are where we are now. I felt it certainly achieved that, and the ultimate message of the worthwhile things being spending good times with family and loved ones is apolitical but also probably true! It was pretty bloated though, and dragged towards the middle. Probably the weakest of his most recent three films but he'll struggle to make anything as good as the Big Short again, peerless This feels like it's in direct conversation with Adam Curtis's stuff. That interview from 2019 between the two where Curtis says "baby boomers [are] projecting their own fear of mortality onto the planet…trapping us in the depressed mind of a dying hippy" feels like it's a criticism that could be levelled against this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Anyway, I saw The Matrix Resurrections and loved it. Neo is Lana Wachowski and Trinity is her love of creating held hostage by the corporate machine. The love for this will depend entirely on how much someone loves incredibly on the nose meta commentary but the targets for criticism are all deserving. It's funny that Ben Shapino hates it given Neil Patrick Harris quotes him at length. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 I get that Adam Mckay doesn't do subtlety but I wasn't particularly enamoured with Don't Look Up. It's okay - not good but not terrible - and I laughed a few times but it was about 30 minutes too long. On a separate note, I saw West Side Story last week and enjoyed it. It does some things better than the original and misses the mark with others. I actually liked Ansel Elgort's version of "Maria" but he was a bit of a personality vacuum. On the other hand, Ariana DeBose as Anita was, by some distance, the stand-out performance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 The Matrix Resurrections Honestly I thought it was pretty shite and the ending was very predictable. Don’t understand why they felt the need to make it apart from the cash obviously 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archie McSquackle Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Watched Daddy's Home 2 last night - a great Christmas romp.Encanto tonight was fine, fairly average Disney fayre. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Inside Out is currently on BBC1. Spoiler Bing Bong is about to sacrifice himself 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Watching Spider-Man 2. Tremendous. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 The Untouchables. I had never seen it before. Starring Sean Connery doing the same accent he does in all of his movies. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 The Untouchables. I had never seen it before. Starring Sean Connery doing the same accent he does in all of his movies.It's still an enjoyable film - not De Palma's best but some nice scenes, some paying a nod to other classic films.The Union Station shootout scene is a total homage to the Odessa Steps sequence in Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin.Hood Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 On 28/12/2021 at 20:03, Clown Job said: The Matrix Resurrections Honestly I thought it was pretty shite and the ending was very predictable. Don’t understand why they felt the need to make it apart from the cash obviously Agreed thought it was shite. The Kings Man watched lasted night. Thought was decent. Better than the last one 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blootoon87 Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 Inside Out is currently on BBC1. Spoiler Bing Bong is about to sacrifice himself Thankfully I missed that. Jesus. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 Home Alone, Home Alone 2. The first is a bona fide classic. Some of the burglars mugging is a bit OTT for my sophisticated tastes but the big set piece finale of cartoon violence is hilarious. 9/10 I'd never seen the two so close together before and hadn't appreciated how much of a scene for scene remake it actually is. Substitute shop staff and pizza boy for hotel staff, creepy old man for creepy old lady, change some locations, done. The finale lacks panache and the taller one continually squeaking "harry" was getting on my tits. The bit where he repeatedly got bricked in the face was good though. Not bad exactly but not as good and quite pointless. 6/10, but minus one for giving Trump a cameo, 5/10. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetterlund Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 Face/Off Ridiculous nonsense but very entertaining. I enjoyed this at the time and it has been worth a repeat watch now and then. Now I'm no medical expert, but I suspect there are one or two essential elements of the plot which don't quite add up. Ignoring this though there are some great action scenes, with the speedboat chase at the end one of my favourite movie scenes from the 90s. 7.5/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 4 hours ago, Blootoon87 said: On 29/12/2021 at 14:50, Mark Connolly said: Inside Out is currently on BBC1. Spoiler Reveal hidden contents Bing Bong is about to sacrifice himself Thankfully I missed that. Jesus. There are 3 movie scenes that always have me (as per P&B vernacular) on the verge of tears. Spoiler The aforementioned spoiler, when the lads pick up the sled and start carrying it to the finish line in Cool Runnings, and when Paddington opens the door at the end of Paddington 2, to find Aunt Lucy standing there Every fucking time. And I'm welling up thinking about them right now! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 On 29/12/2021 at 22:52, Richey Edwards said: The Untouchables. I had never seen it before. Starring Sean Connery doing the same accent he does in all of his movies. Sean Connery was one of many actors who never did accents regardless of who they were supposed to be. "Name of the Rose" and "Highlander" would have been worse if he had tried. You would have felt cheated. Tommy Lee Jones, Michael Caine and James Mason are others. Compare Tom Cruise not even trying to sound German in "Valkyrie" with his dreadful Irish accent on "Far and Away". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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