What have you recently watched?

[dave-brown]

^^^I tried watching this, mainly due to your lengthy and informative review you gave Kerry. Lol.
I dunno, he played a really good roll (Adam Sandler, wow , never thought I'd say that), but it was just painful suspense to what I deemed to be a predictable and tragic ending. I stopped half way through and watched monty python.

Was there a surprise at the end or did he end up lonely and destitute/ dead or in prison? Wife takes all his remaining wealth and probably dobbed him in?
Angry African American / professional basket ball players smash up his shop and car etc.
He makes a few desperate attempts to hold his life together before some emotional and melodramatic scenes of him screaming in frustration, presumably in the middle of the street, at night, in the rain
..?

[Dead Kid]

I thought Adam Sandler played a pretty good role in Click. One of those movies that's way better than the premise, but mostly because the premise is absolutely retarded. I don't feel the need to seek out more of his good roles any time soon though.

[Dead Kid]

Watched the other day. Feature length debut from Solondz (Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness etc.) which he's since disowned. Can see where he started the socially awkward characters thing, only he's the main actor in this one and he really was that socially awkward at the time. Not sure if he really thinks the whole film is that terrible, or if he just had a bad experience making it or doesn't like seeing his awkward past self as the main focus. Anyway, I thought it was pretty good.

[the croc]

Grim.

[dave-brown]

If anyone else recommends I watch that stupid tiger shit on net flix I'm gona go flip our and flog them, regardless of age or gender or any potential physical disability.

[dustbinflowers]

If anyone else recommends I watch that stupid tiger shit on net flix I'm gona go flip our and flog them, regardless of age or gender or any potential physical disability.

Yep

[Dead Kid]

Just watched Ready Player One, 5 months after Dubpunker recommended it. The turnaround time for my movies-to-see list is improving, huzzah.

I thought the virtual world they created made the movie a good bit of escapism. I like reading the reviews on RateYourMusic.com as they're a less mainstream bunch - and they're mostly quite negative about this one. They complain about the excessive pop culture references, but that's what you'd expect people to load into a VR sandbox, albeit some different ones by 2045. One reviewer refers to the VRchat was a mistake video, and just look at the Thomases swarming around the giant Ronald McDonald. Ready Player One's virtual world is believable as an optimistic/fantasied extrapolation from that shit. About what you'd expect compared to people being glued to their phones now too.

edit: The Shining part in particular looked like a heap of fun.

At least they saved the day so people will cuddle their partners on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

[Drax]

Watched this fantastically crap Honk Kong action movie recently.

Pretty sure all of the music in it is stolen, including some poorly re-cut versions of well known songs by bands like Pink Floyd. The styles in the soundtrack are all over the fuckin show. Another bonus is the overdubs seem to all be done by 3 Australians, and their attempts at accents range from shit to real shit. It actually has a relatively complex plot with lots of characters, but since the continuity and editing and basically everything is so fucking shoddy it gets pretty confusing if you aren't paying close attention.

***** Highly recommend.

[Subcide]

[Max]

Absolute bollocks, like a bad stand up comedian who thinks saying "fuck" a lot makes him Bill Hicks. Thanks for getting your gear off Elle, appreciate it.

[Kerry]

Batman Begins the other night. And The Dark Knight last night, but passed out towards the end. Seen them before and they're excellent. Bale plays the best Batman/Bruce Wayne, and Heath Ledger was a remarkable Joker. It's also interesting looking into Ledger's Joker after having watched Joker with Joaquin Phoenix recently. (hu btr?)

[Dubpunker]

White Lines 7/10
best entertainment throughout
i love manchester and i never went to ibiza

[Drax]

(hu btr?)

Mark Hamill.



Recently:



Fun enough. The Angels can't act, the music is alright and then there's this bit where a young lady invents a new style of diving into water: https://youtu.be/eUNuAfQMC3E?t=1914

[Dubpunker]

[Kerry]

^Very good!

[dave-brown]

Pretty good

[Kerry]

Not brilliant but I enjoyed it.

[dave-brown]

Not brilliant but I enjoyed it.

Worth watching?
I just finished a book on the Red Orchestra, the underground berlin based communist group who were killed by the S.S.
Wasnt the best book I've ever read but I learned more about germans giving info to the Soviets during ww2. Who and why etc, more so how and what effect it had on the outcome of the war. They gave up a lot of info on the Wermachts movements leading up to Stalingrad, although Hitler would of lost that regardless of the leaked info, was pretty coked up by then.

'Labyrinth of Lies' is a really good movie. Watched it last week. Reveals how little the next generation of Germans knew about Auschwitz. Looks into coming about of the Frankfurt trials of 1963

[Kerry]

Worth watching?

Yeah, it's not brilliant but I enjoyed it. Haha yeah but nah, yeah it's alright. Not brilliant though.

[dave-brown]

Worth watching?

Yeah, it's not brilliant but I enjoyed it. Haha yeah but nah, yeah it's alright. Not brilliant though.

Should get into reviews bro

[Kerry]

Worth watching?

Yeah, it's not brilliant but I enjoyed it. Haha yeah but nah, yeah it's alright. Not brilliant though.

Should get into reviews bro

Yeah.

[dave-brown]

Yeah, it's not brilliant but I enjoyed it. Haha yeah but nah, yeah it's alright. Not brilliant though.

Should get into reviews bro

Yeah.

Mean

[Kerry]

Started watching Raised by Wolves. It's a TV series.

[dave-brown]

Started watching Raised by Wolves. It's a TV series.

Mean?

[Kerry]

Started watching Raised by Wolves. It's a TV series.

Mean?

It's okay.

[dave-brown]

You're not really selling it

[Dead Kid]

I'd never seen a film from Mr Leone so I watched The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. I enjoyed the style of it and the depiction of the absurdity of war, but didn't get a whole lot else out of it. Some of the other stuff that happens is alright but not a whole lot of stuff happens. I guess westerns are just like the movie equivalent of country music to me. All those gunfights and showdowns get old fast.

[Max]

Leone's westerns are a distinct genre, not really at all like the old school morality plays like Shane, High Noon etc. The protagonists are much more morally ambiguous, and they're very atmospheric, lots of close ups of facial tics, eye movements etc and of course the Morricone soundtrack. Complicated plots and extremely long of course. I'd recommend Once Upon a Time in the West.

[Dead Kid]

Yeah, I mean I dig most of the elements you listed, and if a film is slow and atmospheric then it should be extremely long - 2 hours becomes too short for much to happen. But for me, the dialogue and events that unfold in slow films need to be really damn intriguing (Stalker is probably the perfect example of that). No western genres or any period dramas at all other than war films ever really seem to do that for me. Even in the painful 7 hour slog of watching Sátántangó there's quite a bit of intrigue, deep and moving dialogue and all kinds of shit that had me thinking about it for a long time afterwards.

If I'd enjoyed The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly a bit more, I was considering watching Once Upon a Time in the West next. But what more does it have to offer if it doesn't even have the crazy and hilarious civil war stuff?

[Max]

Two words - Claudia Cardinale.