Ira Gaines Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 Clueless is outstanding. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 6 hours ago, Arch Stanton said: Echoed. Straight Time, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, The Godfather and its sequel, Apocalypse Now, OFOTCN, Network, The French Connection, Blazing Saddles Young Frankenstein (how the f**k did MB make both of those in the same year?), ATPM, Alien, Taxi Driver, Chinatown, Jaws, WWandtheCF, The Warriors, The Deerhunter, Halloween, Midnight Express...and those are just off the top of my head. 6 hours ago, Zen Archer Esq. said: I would add Midnight Cowboy, Electra Glide in Blue, Thunderbolt & Lightfoot, M A S H and American Graffiti. A few others... Two Lane Blacktop The Last Detail The Friends of Eddie Coyle Blue Collar The Long Goodbye And that's without mentioning any British gangster films like Get Carter or The Squeeze, French flicks like Les Valseuses or any Blaxploitation movies. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 (edited) Bad Lieutenant - Harvey Keitel takes a lot of drugs while being a policeman. I've often wondered what life would be like if you were always on a bender and this movie shows you it's a bad idea. Inland Empire - Absolutely mind bending. Similar themes to Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive. I'll need to watch it again though as there were about 20 minutes of scenes in Polish and I was Chromecasting it so didn't get subtitles. Dreams are a big part of Lynch's work and this is most dream like. The ending is fantastic and Laura Dern is unbelievable. Trees Lounge - A sad wee story about a man becoming more and more bitter. It says everything about lockdown that I was watching a movie showing me a bunch of jakeys wasting their life and was still thinking that looks great! Steve Buscemi managed to get some cast together for it and Chloe Sevigny is up there in the great Hollywood jailbait roles of all time. Edited February 10, 2021 by Detournement 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 In Fabric (2018) Caught this on BBC iPlayer and have to say it's one of the weirdest films I've ever seen. A red dress is possessed and causes all sorts of horror to anyone who has it. Very stylistic way it's filmed by director Peter Strickland and there are some good, in a strange way, comic scenes but overall it didn't quite hit the mark for me. 5.5/10I wasn't too sure about it the first time around but loved it the second time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 8 hours ago, BFTD said: QED. Does this mean i'm a youngster? That's sick bro. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 5 hours ago, coprolite said: Does this mean i'm a youngster? That's sick bro. You were passing until that wack statement, old man. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jupiter Jazz Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 (edited) 13 hours ago, tongue_tied_danny said: A few others... Two Lane Blacktop The Last Detail The Friends of Eddie Coyle Blue Collar The Long Goodbye And that's without mentioning any British gangster films like Get Carter or The Squeeze, French flicks like Les Valseuses or any Blaxploitation movies. The Long Goodbye is my favourite from the 70's. Elliot Gould was the boy. Check him also in California Split among others. I'll throw some more gems from the 70's in: Barry Lyndon, Paper Moon, McCabe & Mrs Miller, The American Friend, Night Moves, Nashville, Scarecrow, The Parallax View, The King of Marvin Gardens. Edited February 10, 2021 by Jupiter Jazz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mishtergrolsch Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 Team America - World Police Just complete and utter genius. Too many quotes and lines to pick out. From Kim Jongs "Ronery" to "America, f**k yeah!" Its just genius. Gets 10/10 from me every time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 6 minutes ago, mishtergrolsch said: Team America - World Police Just complete and utter genius. Too many quotes and lines to pick out. From Kim Jongs "Ronery" to "America, f**k yeah!" Its just genius. Gets 10/10 from me every time. I suppose it would have been anachronistic for Russell T Davies to use "Everyone has AIDS" in his most recent show... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 Dune 2/10 This is the 1984 film. It's absolutely terrible. The effects are abysmal, and not just by today's standards but by the standards of the time. Multiple films by that time had done sci fi special effects pretty well. The effects here were cheap and silly. Many of the characters had an odd, whispered inner monologue, which didn't work as a device at all. The worst part is how incredibly cheesy and cringey so much of it was. Baron Harkonnen floating around was a toe curler but any scene involving the wee lassie was a spine snapper. The sound weapons and 'The Voice' were laughably cheesy. Despite three planets being shown, with the main one where most of the film takes place being a desert planet, there is only a single black person in this film, an extra who doesn't even clock a full 60 seconds of screen time. This film had the fucking gall to last for 2 hours and 17 minutes as well. Utter trash. There's a good story to be told so hopefully this year's film of the same name can deliver. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 Possum - a distraught lad wanders a bleak urban landscape trying to dispose of the man-spider puppet that he wrote a book about, while portentous music plays in the background. That synopsis might come across as a bit flippant, but that's genuinely a pretty good summation of the film. I've no doubt there's a bunch of very clever symbolism involved that flew right over my head, but it's incredibly boring and doesn't go anywhere interesting. Written and directed by Garth Marenghi too, which makes it all the more disappointing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinkle Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, mishtergrolsch said: Team America - World Police Just complete and utter genius. Too many quotes and lines to pick out. From Kim Jongs "Ronery" to "America, f**k yeah!" Its just genius. Gets 10/10 from me every time. One of the best soundtracks as well Classic ETA - ah derka derka derka Edited February 11, 2021 by Twinkle 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 17 hours ago, tongue_tied_danny said: Two Lane Blacktop All I can remember about this is James Taylor trying to act. In fact, he was quite wooden. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mishtergrolsch Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 7 hours ago, Twinkle said: One of the best soundtracks as well Classic ETA - ah derka derka derka "I'm Akmed, I'm a terrorist" "Surprised, Cockfag!" "Arek Bardwin" "Please, Gary. Im not from Hollywood, I'm not going to f**k your mouth and my time is extremely valuable" "What happened to the base? It was destroyed by a Socialist weasel" Fucking tremendous. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 7 hours ago, Zen Archer Esq. said: All I can remember about this is James Taylor trying to act. In fact, he was quite wooden. He's not a great actor, Dennis Wilson is also fairly wooden. It's one of these films that is really slow, not a lot happens but I find it enthralling. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 On 08/02/2021 at 20:09, BFTD said: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - fading TV actor Leonardo DiCaprio copes with a career crisis with his stuntman friend Brad Pitt, while his neighbour Sharon Tate enjoys the start of her film career in late '60s Hollywood. Well, this was quite the pleasant surprise, in more ways than one. I don't remember feeling that any character was just a cipher for Quentin Tarantino, who also decided not to make his customary horrible cameo, and nobody referred to "n*ggers" at any point. There were, of course, the customary foot fetish scenes for QT to fap over, but if that's the trade-off then I'll happily take it. This was a very enjoyable film - no great plot to follow, just Pitt and DiCaprio pootling about as the hippie era comes to an end, and I thoroughly enjoyed my time with them. I've never been a DiCaprio fan, but I thought he was excellent in this, and I really fell for the bromance he had going on with Pitt, for whom this kind of thing is like breathing. Of course, anyone familiar with Sharon Tate will know what the film is building towards, and... Reveal hidden contents ...frankly, I was surprised and delighted that Tarantino decided to right wrongs in a similar fashion to Inglourious Basterds - there's absolutely no need to go over the Manson Family murders again, and QT obviously feels a fair bit of anger towards the people responsible, so his rewriting of history was a blessed relief. Sharon Tate isn't so much a character in the film as a backdrop, cut off entirely from the rest of the film and viewed from afar as a happy young woman enjoying the life she's started to build. It was a good choice to leave the film without that being destroyed. My only gripe was that a sudden fast-forward and voiceover from Kurt Russell was jarring and felt like the original cut of the film had been substantially longer, but nobody could satisfactorily edit it down. It's a flaw, but I'd forgiven it by the end. Quality stuff. I like how Tarantino does the history re-writing. Like you mentioned he first did it in IG and then again in OUATIH. It's kind of him living out his fantasy of how he wanted certain parts of history to play out. I enjoy that he does it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 On 10/02/2021 at 07:23, Detournement said: Inland Empire - Absolutely mind bending. Similar themes to Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive. I'll need to watch it again though as there were about 20 minutes of scenes in Polish and I was Chromecasting it so didn't get subtitles. Dreams are a big part of Lynch's work and this is most dream like. The ending is fantastic and Laura Dern is unbelievable. Presumably you've seen this? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Aye. Makes me want to start smoking again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Wilkos Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 The Trial of the Chicago 7 - 8/10 Paul Blart: Mall Cop - 2/10 Life as We Know It - 1/10 Big Daddy - 5/10 New York Minute - 9/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jupiter Jazz Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Two Lane Blacktop is fantastic, it's so enigmatic. Repeated viewings are definitely needed I would say. Warren Oates is brilliant. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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