The Films You Watched Thread V: Dead Men Watch No Movies

[johnnyy]

I have watched:

The untouchables..7/10
The Wee Man..8/10
Legend..8.5/10
The Irshman..5/10
The Gentleman 9/10
Uncut Gems..6.5/10
Training Day 10/10

[JazzFunk]

^The Irishman looks bloody weird, with all the CGI 'fountain of youth' thang goin on. If it's still on Netflix, I'll be watching it purely for the Uncanny Valley factor.

Anywipes, watched a modern sink drama called FUNNY COW, taped it off Film4 t'other week cos it sounded like a British sink drama and I lurve British sink dramas and I watched this and - zut alors! - this was 100% a British sink drama. From 2017.

It's pretty deece, I correctly guessed about five minutes in this was *loosely* based on the life of Marti Caine...and it turned out when I Googled it afterwards that this was, indeed, *loosely* based on the life of Marti Caine.

It deffo IS a sink drama. Only thing I found jarring was the Alun Armstrong bit, it was just histrionic and totally didn't ring true. Apart from that...nicely deece. I'd say tape it.

Vic Reeves cameos as a club auditionee (is that even a word???) with a puppet lion.

He is hilarious in this and I belly-laughed.

PS Paddy Considine is also brill as a specky, inconsequential drip. Against his normal type, he's a propah wet lettuce, beardy wazzock and a great juxtaposition to the guy who plays the abusive hub.

Yeah. Good film. Tape it!

(PPS: even John Bishop turns up for a minute!!!)

(PPPS: I forgot to mention Maxine Peake as the Marti Caine figure. It must be the gammon, the insidious gammon, within. She looks nothing like Marti Caine but she gives off a similar, ballsy vibe. She's ace).

[QualityChimp]

I have watched:

The untouchables..7/10
The Wee Man..8/10
Legend..8.5/10
The Irshman..5/10
The Gentleman 9/10
Uncut Gems..6.5/10
Training Day 10/10

71.43% of films you saw start with the letter "T".

[wakka]

Ghost World

Recent high school graduates Enid and Rebecca think normal people suck, weird people are great, and everything is pointless. The film follows them over the course of their first summer post-school. They can, and do, forge an afternoon's entertainment out of following a random couple that they see in a diner that they decide, for no particular reason, must be Satanists, and cruelly responding to a 'Missed Connections' posting in a local lonely hearts column with a hoax call. That's where their paths cross with Seymour, a lonely middle aged record collector, who becomes a flashpoint for their diverging worldviews and Enid's increasingly serious disaffection with the world at large.

I thought this was a really sensitive, interesting film about growing up. At first I cringed at Enid and Rebecca's too-cool-for-school sneers at the 'norms' at their high school prom who wanted to talk about summer plans for acting school, or the fact that they were majoring in business at college next year. But as it develops it becomes a really quite brilliant little film about how people outgrow one another. There are some really funny, laugh out loud moments too.

Recommended. Especially if you like gen X suburban ennui films (I do). Unfortunately it's only available in SD in the UK, but it is included on Prime Video.

[gordon]

I really enjoyed the graphic novel of Ghost World, so will definitely check that out.

[JazzFunk]

^Yeah, me too, it's superb and the art is beautiful. Steve Buscemi seems like a perfect choice to be in the film, despite me not having seen the film yet. If it's half as good as the book, it'll be very amazing.

[wakka]

[MENTION=2946]gordon[/MENTION] [MENTION=6476]JazzFunk[/MENTION]

Def going to pick the book up, great to hear you both enjoyed it

[JazzFunk]

^enjoy!!!!!

Ended up FINALLY watching the live action, Marky Mark MAX PAYNE, tonite. For the first time.

It really is as bad as they say. I fell asleep for twenty minutes during the middle bit. But I rewound to make sure I saw it ALL.

It's actually got some good stuff going for it, when it looks great it makes for
some beautiful, snowy, vivid NY bits that look achingly gorgeous. There are about four or five mini-moments of this phenomenon.

The rest of it is utter MEH. It cannot be emotionally connected with, even as a tragic case of a poetic human being as I am. I was so sad it was THAT dull.

But at least it kinda shallowly follows the plot of the first game and includes 'Valkyr'. But then it often makes NY snowflakes look like big, fat feathers from a pillow fight betwixt the siblings in THE LION, THE WITCH & THE WARDROBE.

Like, TOTALLY un-snowflakelike. Like fat feathers from a posh pillow, like I just said.

But it DID look truly beautiful at about six or seven points. TRULY beautiful. Like a totally sensuous dark and moody but lovely and nice Chrimble atmos.

It has a great Xmas atmos. At about seven points.

Guardedly recommended.

[JazzFunk]

I mean NOT recommended.

But guardedly for the occasional great, snowy atmos!!!!

[JazzFunk]

Watched Anton Corbijn's LIFE last night, it's a low key little affair about a few moments in James Dean's life where a Life magazine photographer followed him around and took several of the iconic pics you'd likely see if you typed "James Dean" into a Google image search.

It's decent. Very much so. Likeable Nothing much happens but it's all kinda beatnik. Dean comes across as a cool, nice kinda chap, it's not one of those films that deifies or sensationalises its subject.

There is some masterful image composition in this, don't forget that Corbijn shaped the look of prime-era Depeche Mode videos and this looks beautiful at points. Very snowy, too. Aaaaah.

Anyway, this is on Film4 at the mo. Would recommend if you fancy something languid, talky, atmospheric and with little - if any - action at all. Me likey.

[Atticus]

Went to the cinema yesterday to see the new print of Akira. There was no bad behaviour by other peeps like the Shining visit because there were none, just me and my mate. It's the best I've ever seen the film ... not just in terms of technical quality, I enjoyed it more than ever, and I'd forgotten how emotional the story is. Brilliant. I might just creep back to the cinema later this month for The Exorcist, if it's still open.

Also recently watched Rope. It's one take gimmick works really well and it's fun for a murder plot to show you the killers straight away and then watch them sweat.

Spectre - I feel this is as underrated as Skyfall is overrated. Very enjoyable but still firmly in the shadow of the outstanding Casino Royale.

American Hustle - I wasn't planning on watching this but it was on the other night and I caught it right at the beginning and couldn't switch it off. It's a film of great moments and great songs. Great performances too, especially from Bale. I'm not a massive fan of his but he's fantastic in this, very human and likeable. A very watchable caper.

[Dogg Thang]

I watched The Last Seduction with Linda Fiorentino and some guy who was in Chicago Hope and Bill Pullman. Not great. It’s basically Body Heat but with the story overworked a bit and with a poorer cast. It really shows how important the cast is in all of these. Sharon Stone can hold a movie and be so hot that you’d believe someone would do anything for her. Kathleen Turner too. Kim Basinger made everyone shot she was in feel a bit steamy in 9 1/2 Weeks, not just the sexy scenes. Even Glenn Close in the rabbit movie, while not pretty, had raw passion and danger. Same with many of the male leads - Rourke, Douglas. But when the main cast doesn’t work, the movie dies. And this movie died due to the casting.

I think I’m out of 80s/90s erotic thrillers now. I might have watched all of them. If I missed any, feel free to recommend.

Also watched Demolition Man. It’s fun and a really easy watch but it wasn’t quite as fun as I remembered.

[Atticus]

Kiss Me Deadly - This had all the ingredients of a film I should have loved but it just didn't happen. It's a tough-as-nails noir featuring Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer who happens to pick up the wrong dame in his car one night. It has all the tropes but for me it just didn't play out in a satisfying enough way. Good but not as great as some of the glowing reviews imo.

[Atticus]

Promare - big budget anime madness that's pure candy for the eyes but ultimately a bit forgettable.

Peeping Tom - Finally got round to seeing this and it is as brilliant as its reputation would have you believe. A British masterpiece from the top drawer.

The Fifth Element - Sometimes you see a film at the cinema and it's pretty disappointing ... then you revisit it years later and it clicks. This is NOT one of those films. I don't know why I expected my opinion to have changed over the course of 20odd years ... I liked Luc Besson's earlier films and I'm kind of seduced by the whole future New York vibe, but a bad film is a bad film and this is, and still is, a bad film.

[vanpeebles]

Kiss Me Deadly - This had all the ingredients of a film I should have loved but it just didn't happen. It's a tough-as-nails noir featuring Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer who happens to pick up the wrong dame in his car one night. It has all the tropes but for me it just didn't play out in a satisfying enough way. Good but not as great as some of the glowing reviews imo.

I’ve read all the Mike Hammer books and they are all pretty much run of the mill.