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You should all see Game Night. The most fun I've had in a theater since that one strange time years ago.
I thought it was really good too! The ginger from Breaking Bad was hilarious
You should all see Game Night. The most fun I've had in a theater since that one strange time years ago.
I thought it was really good too! The ginger from Breaking Bad was hilarious
Gary Oldman 100% deserved Best Actor for Darkest Hour, amazing performance.
Big time. I didn’t see DDL’s film yet and I’m sure he’s great too. But Oldman gave a phenomenal performance in a good not great movie.
Calavry by John Michael McDonagh which was absolutely superb
So this week was the last week of the film class I'm doing the TA shit for, and for the last screening, we watched Calvary. Anyone who hasn't seen that movie needs to watch it pronto. It's a combination of Diary of a Country Priest, In Bruges, and an SVU episode. The script is phenomenal, Brendan Gleeson gives a tremendous performance that's as hilarious as it is moving, the cinematography and editing are way more sophisticated than I expected, it's just excellent on every level. The tone shifts quite a bit, but since it has an episodic structure, the tonal shifts match the shifts to and from different people with different temperaments and who are dealing with different problems.
The opening scene should go down as one of the GOAT, very ambitious way to kick things off and the long take worked brilliantly. And then the scene about midway through when Gleeson visits the serial killer in prison, that's the type of scene you can show literally anybody in the world, and when it's over, tell them, "That's how you direct a scene." And honestly, moving forward, I'll very likely actually do that myself. It's an absolute masterclass in every last fucking respect. I honestly can't think of a better individual scene from a movie that's been released in the last few years.
Highly recommended.
Watched Witchfinder General (1968) earlier.
You watched Michael Reeves/Vincent Price flick and didn't tell me about it in advance!!!?
Haven't seen Price in anything else to compare his performance here too, but I thought it was very good.
I now know what the Conquistadors felt like when the Indians told them that they had never heard of Jesus Christ.
Check out Theatre of Blood
The only movie that ever really scared me was the American version of The Ring.
@Bullitt68 you see phantom tthread?
I specialise in 17th century history
Annihilation.
I also saw Marked for Death
It might've been Seagal's most brutal Film although stuff like Out for Justice or Under Siege has better fight choreography.
You should all see Game Night.
The most fun I've had in a theater since that one strange time years ago.
The Foreigner was surprisingly cool. Jackie is a psycho. I can't believe that dude's still doing that shit at his age and after all that his body has been through...and that it's still awesome! That guy can still pull it off. The best surprise, though, was Pierce Brosnan. I don't think I've ever liked him anything (except maybe as the severed head in Mars Attacks!) but he was tremendous here. Very small and modest film, but well-written with strong characterizations and performances and some cool action scenes with Jackie.
Rimbaud, the two must-see Vincent Price classics are House of Wax and House on Haunted Hill. He also famously appeared in numerous Roger Corman films, most of which were adaptations of Poe stories. For what is arguably his best acting performance, though, you could check out the early Sam Fuller film The Baron of Arizona.
You asked me the "What do you do?" question earlier. Now it's my turn: What exactly are you studying? And why? Are you planning a career in academia?
Annihilation.
Definitely the best Film to come out in 2018 so far.
Sucks that it didn't come out on the big screen outside the US & China.
Natalie Portman & Jennifer Jason Leigh are the standouts in this.
Typically for an Alex Garland Film, it's visually gorgeous with some really creepy images & scenes that took me back to stuff like Alien (esp. the Alien spacecraft scene).
It's probably too nihilistic for general moviegoers,which is why the Producers wanted to change it.
It's hard to even find similar Films to this, probably something like Solaris,Stalker,2001 with a bit of Lovecraft.
I also saw Marked for Death, which is the last of Seagal's "good" movies i hadn't watched.
It might've been Seagal's most brutal Film although stuff like Out for Justice or Under Siege has better fight choreography.
The Jamaican Voodoo drug dealers were pretty fun.
Overall i think it's more raw than Seagal's other early stuff and this is what differentiates it from those.
Personal taste of course but I was just left feeling that film lacked the depth it seemed to think it had. The switch at the end really fell rather flat for me especially, simply not enough invested in Del Toro's character either personally or in his relationship with Blunt's.
I hadn't seen you around much, europe
the two must-see Vincent Price classics are
I finally watched IT (2017)
and it was absolutely awful
No idea how it is 85% on RT and 7.5 on IMDB
I specialise in 17th century history
For me, that was one of those movies where the thematic juice came more from the setting and it's ambiance rather than from your—I presume—character-focused perspective.
Take the ending for example, where the boy plays fotball. All the kids are doing their best FIFA-shit. Then the sound of gunfire howls in the distance. Everyone stops and looks around apprehensively. Then the play again, but the boy experiances a sort of tunnel-vision, he arduously blots out everything around him, focusing squarely on the football because that's the only way to avoid the violence in a society as his.
In Sicario, I like more the feeling that you get of a brutalization process. How violence degrades everything it touches and spreads outwards like the tendrils of an ocypussy. Some of the scenes in the film—like the opening raid at the cartel safe-house and the ghastly corpses found inside—capture this essence of violene on the spread. The drug-war in Mexico has already heinously polluted that society—and now it's spreading over the border, like a cancer remained unchecked. And not to mention how this process is threated as being unhinderable even by towering organizations like the CIA..
As a fellow fan of the past, do you ever watch a historical movie with a notebook in hand and just write down all the inaccuracies that you encounter? Being dyslexic I don't do that... I just keep all the notes in my head instead. I think you can actually have some fruitful and thought-provoking musings that way. I actually thought I reached some good insights doing that to Kingdom of Heaven (even turned it into an essay in Uni) and The 13th Warrior was another fun one doing that.
While we are finding out everyone does, what did/do you study at uni?
And I'm not bad enough to make a notebook of inaccuracies lol, though of course I sometimes can't help noticing things as they go along.
Movies, brahs. On average, how much movies do you watch per week? I can barely get time to watch 3 movies these times. It is sad.
Movies, brahs. On average, how much movies do you watch per week? I can barely get time to watch 3 movies these times. It is sad.
I'd agree with you on Cabin in the Woods, a terrible film that's far to pleased with what it thinks is a clever concept
For something horrish(dark comedy really) to wash the bad taste out of your mouth I'd recommend Killing of a Scared Deer.
I thought Cabin in the Woods was great. It was such a brutal inditement of all the lazy written, trope-filled horror flicks that come out I remember thinking that it might have killed that shit (obviously it was wishful thinking on my part).
Thought The Foreigner was surprisingly decent
Overall, better than I was expecting but if I was gonna recommend someone a recent revenge thriller set in nothern ireland I'd suggest Bad Day for the Cut 10 times out of 10
I am studying/researching for a History MA. It's taught postgrad rather than solely research, but the majority of it is based on my dissertation which I will starting soon. My undergraduate dissertation was on religious violence during the 1641 Rebellion in Ireland, and my postgrad dissertation will be entitled 'Thomas Waring, the Writing of History and New English Identity in Seventeenth Century Ireland'. We have particular 'strands' on the MA for the taught modules (along with more general ones) and my area is Religious Identity and Conflict, a lot of which is focused on the Early Modern Period.
In terms of long-term goals I am gonna wait and see how I do in the MA, if I get a distinction (or a high commendation but distinction in the diss) then I will probably look to get funding for my phd and go down the academia route - my supervisor asked me if I was going to apply this year so he seems to think I would have the ability, but just wanna wait and see. The MA dissertation will obviously be tougher.
If not, then I'll still have a masters degree under my belt and will look for some sort of graduate job, civil service etc. Teaching is always an option but not sure about that, it can be hard to get into in NI so I would probably have to move abroad - even just to Britain.
I finally watched IT (2017)
and it was absolutely awful
I watched It. No reason. I just saw it on the list and wanted to watch it. It was better than I was expecting but I still preferred the miniseries. I did get hit with one jump scare, but the movie wasn't genuinely creepy or unsettling. The miniseries, even with its low budget and huge helpings of cheese, actually manages to creep me out even now. The one thing the movie has over the miniseries, though, is the actual friendship between the kids. I thought the friendship dynamic was much better and more enjoyable in the movie. It'll be interesting to see how they handle the next chapter.
Pennywise looking like a juggalo's idea of an evil clown is too much of a turn off.
Marked for Death was a lot of fun. I saw it a few years back cause of @Bullitt68 s recommendation.
Plus it has a moment I thought was absolutely hilarious cause of Seagal’s demeanor and delivery. One of the heavies takes a female shopper hostage threatening to do her harm if Seagal comes near him and Seagal is super casually like, “I don’t give a shit about her. Do it. I don’t care.”
And you know how in movies when that happens- like Godfather Part III- and you know the character in that position is bluffing to get the villain to let his guard down. The vibe I get from Seagal’s character is that he absolutely legitimately did not give a shit...not the most noble hero out there lol.
Man these days I can barely keep up with the Sherdog Movie Club, let alone the Serious Movie Discussion thread.
Don't act restrained and shit, they are all must-sees.
I once threaten to spam the SMD with math problems if Bullitt68 ever bad-mouthed Chinatown ever again. Now that I know your weakness, that same threat shall now extend to you as well.
Movies, brahs. On average, how much movies do you watch per week? I can barely get time to watch 3 movies these times. It is sad.
Generally though my film viewing has increased massively over the last few years whilst my TV viewing is a tiny fraction of what it was. Ironically the best of the "golden age of TV" to me highlighted just how crap the majority of it really is these days, why waste your time watching that?
The Snowman (hilariously bad, we dubbed it "the film that doesn't know how ice works")
I watched The Snowman. Holy shit, that movie was atrocious. I genuinely cannot recall a worse thriller. Pick a Lifetime killer movie at random and I guarantee it's easily twice the film The Snowman is. I can't believe that Martin Scorsese's name is on that piece of shit as an executive producer and that Thelma Schoonmaker edited it. It's seriously one of the sloppiest, most poorly-made films I've seen in recent memory. Nothing in that movie worked. I'm not exaggerating. Nothing. Not a single character worked, not a single plot point worked, not a single coherent theme was conveyed. It was just a steaming pile.