Along with Parasite I've also watched in the past few days Shane and The Seachers - (proper dad's Saturday afternoon) and Okja, keen to see another Bong Joon-ho film.
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Just back from Sonic and... no, I’m kidding. You guys know I’m better than that. Back from A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood and it’s a superb film. Didn’t really expect it to be what it was and found it to be a deeply personal film in a way that, at times, I’m not sure I liked because it made me feel things I didn’t necessarily want to feel. So not the film I was expecting, which was Tom Hanks just being adorable as Mister Rogers. Instead it’s more about his influence on a journalist going through some tough stuff. Actually a testament to the real guy that even the might Hanks, as great as he is in it (and he is), still probably doesn’t captivate in the way real Mister Rogers did. But he plays it brilliantly and the movie is really good.
Weirdly for a film that can’t have wide interest, the cinema was jammed. Is going to obscure movies on a Monday night a thing I don’t know about?Comment
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Casa de mi Padre
Dont know how this got passed me when it first came out, as i quite like Will Ferrel comedies.
All subtitled, brilliantly done. great special effects, and the sets are a joy to behold...
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Night Of The Living Dead - Planning to watch the first three in fairly close proximity. Night is great but it's so bleak ... and it lacks something I love about the other two and that's any sense of just living in the world ... but you don't get to have that over a single night.Comment
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I feel like I've seen this. Weird. But I can't remember what happens.Originally posted by beecee View PostCasa de mi Padre
Dont know how this got passed me when it first came out, as i quite like Will Ferrel comedies.
All subtitled, brilliantly done. great special effects, and the sets are a joy to behold...
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THE SPECIALIST. Because I thought it was the Sly Stallone mid-90s movie that was the cool one (must be ASSASSINS???) and also that it's on one of them slimline 4-in-1 compilations along with COBRA, PAYBACK and GET CARTER (Sly remake).
All those films are deece but this is RUBBISH. Despite overactingly brill James Woods at his arsiest. Despite Sharon Stone being brilliant and sexy and kinda gaunt but still classic.
It's just the plot is pish, it's like they were all coked-up playing SNES Super Bomberman one night and they all thought it'd be great to make a movie about two guys using timed explosives to (eventually) take each other out in quite a protracted and boring manner. It's ridiculous, in fact it's beyond comprehension.
It even has a really bloody good John Barry James Bond score, it's really Bond-y and vintage and bombastic, it's really cool but unfortunately serves to make the crappy movie it's accompanying look a bit crappy. Rod Steiger's in it, too. He serves the same purpose as the music.
I mean. Timed explosives. It's as cack in practice as it sounds. An absolutely ridiculous (and unsatisfying) premise for a movie, ffs!!!!Comment
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Continuing the Bong Joon-ho-athon I watched The Host. Class monster movie that's more than a monster movie. Beginning to see a bit of a trademark style/message. Loved it.Comment
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I’d seen The Host a few years ago and really liked it, but on a similar Bong theme I watched Snowpiercer last night. It was a film I dropped after five minutes the first time round, but I returned to it because it was *him* directing, and watched it to the end. I enjoyed it, and the train was a really strong allegory for class divisions, but the tone seemed all over the place. I liked the central character and the central idea, but on the whole it felt like a great film hiding inside a good one. 6/10.Comment
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Watched "The Dark Knight" on Wednesday.
Now, I'm a Marvel kind of guy but goodness me if this isn't an utterly spectacular piece of cinema.Comment
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Watched the new Netflix Dragon Quest movie. Dragon Quest: Your Story. It was brilliantly colourful, beautifully animated, funny, with endearing characterization, then they took a great big **** on it in the last ten minutes with some 4th wall breaking/meta garbage and ruined it utterly.
Watched with my son and the missus and we all agreed they just flushed the film down the pan at that point. Bizarre.Comment
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Thanks for the spoiler tag. Going to watch that this weekend.Comment
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Dug out my old Sonny Chiba Streetfighter boxset, must've had it about 15 years but never actually watched any of the films. One of the discs appears to have 'rotted' a bit, the silver side has a massive grey portwine stain on it...however, it seems to be working so we shall see...Comment
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Really enjoyed it. Didn't quite know what to expect but it was a great nostalgic fusion of game & movie. The music was fantastic (obviously) and I loved how many of the series' monsters and references they crammed in, even down to a puff-puff mention.Originally posted by Golgo View PostBe interested to hear what you think of it.
So it was really enjoyable... Until that ending. That's got to be one of the strangest narrative decisions I've ever come across. It rips you right out of the story while trying to simultaneously convey the message that the story is real to you when you watch/play it. Just bizarre. I would still recommend it to any DQ fan though, and it's really made me want to play another game in the series.
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