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Post by Art Vandelay on Jun 12, 2020 4:31:21 GMT
Bit of a strange trio...
Darlin - A feral girl is dropped at a hospital and taken in by a catholic boarding school in strange horror thriller drama type thing. This is a real mess of a film. There are a lot of ideas and styles just chucked together, there are some scenes which are nothing to do with anything, the kids are playing it like they're in a naturalistic coming of age drama while some of the adults are playing it like they're in an over the top black comedy, while some of the characters just feel like they're from a different film entirely.
I realised halfway through that it's a sequel to 'The Woman' which I think might have been better than I initially gave it credit for. I don't think I'll be saying the same about this in the future. The ending threatens another sequel. I'll go 4/10
The Endless - Two brothers return to the cult where they grew up and left and ten years earlier in odd drama sci-fi type thing. The more explicit it became about what was actually going on the less I enjoyed it. And I wasn't that into it to begin with. It's got a certain style about it and I can see some people really liking this, but I didn't. I'll go 5.5/10
Knives and Skin - A teenage girl goes missing and her friends and parents do stuff in dreamy frustrating drama. As the search for the missing girl goes on various things come out about various characters, none of which anything to do with the missing girl or really much relevance to anything. There are a lot of themes introduced but then not really developed beyond a one or two scenes, nothing really goes anywhere, most scenes have a distracting ambient music intruding underneath, and an awful lot of time is spent watching people sing. There are a few good ideas, and some of the scenes are kind of interesting but it's all just really really irritating. I kind of hated it but I'm going to give it some credit for having its own style and give a relatively generous 4/10.
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Post by charliecheswick on Jun 13, 2020 19:32:20 GMT
Come to Daddy. I put this on expecting to last ten minutes due it be absolutely terrible but in the end I enjoyed it and found it pretty funny. 6/10.
The Day Shall Come. It's no Four Lions although it isn't without its moments. 6/10.
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Post by randomtask on Jun 14, 2020 11:07:30 GMT
Gascoigne - Shallow documentary which basically hits the highlights of his footie career and tabloid stories along with some platitudes and boring anecdotes from Lineker, Rooney and Mourinho. The rest is "narrated" by Gazza himself. Once or twice they try and delve into what really made him tick but his Geordie accent couple with his mumbling makes it hard to make a lot of it out and it's all too brief. 4/10 Eric Clapton: My Life in 12 Bars - Now that's how you do a documentary about someone and delve deep. Really didn't realise what a dick he was for most of his life/career. Was all before my time of course  Terrible what happened to his son! Fascinating watch though, and of course a classic guitar soundtrack along the way. 8/10 As an aside, there was a throwaway line in the first 20 mins or so about how he used to play at "The BoatHouse" in Nottingham a lot. I hadn't heard of it so looked it up and apparently it's the fucking Nottingham Boat Club... the one on the banks of the Trent not 50 yards from the TrentEnd. I had no idea but apparently it was the place to be at one point, with people like Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Sex Pistols, U2, Dire Straights etc... all having played there. Who'd have thought it looking at it now www.nottinghampost.com/whats-on/music-nightlife/nottingham-boat-club-venue-brought-2634836the-boat-club.org/the-boat-club-nottingham-history.pdf |
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Post by tramaziboy on Jun 29, 2020 16:52:30 GMT
Good film on Amazon Prime called Deathstalker. Has the woman murdered by Phil Spector in it.
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Post by Art Vandelay on Jun 30, 2020 7:30:42 GMT
Well, here's three to avoid....
Replace - A woman finds she can replace her manky old skin with other people's. Standard body horror sci-fi type thing. I didn't care what was happening and have already forgotten how it ended. It was at least competently made and acted though which is enough to make it the best of this bunch. 4/10
Killer Weekend - A group of twats go on a zombie themed paintballing stag do and things get out of hand in British black comedy type thing. It's not entirely devoid of laughs and it is at least quite short but it is pretty awful. 3/10
Rock Paper Scissors - A serial killer is released after a plastic faced doctor declares him 'cured', the sister of one of the victims wants revenge in cheap horror thiller type thing. This is absolutely woeful. The acting is bad, the script is bad, and a lot of the plot doesn't make any sense. I wouldn't know where to start with everything wrong with this. There a few unintended laughs due to its general awfulness and fortunately it's quite short, but it's bad. Really bad. 2/10
I wondered why the hell I'd downloaded that, and a quick google reveled there's another film from the same year with the same name. I think it's safe to assume that, not for the first time, I've watched the wrong one. Annoying.
High hopes for the next films though as I've got the new film from 'The Greasy Strangler' bloke. I'll report back later, and probably try to force people to watch it. It does have a surprisingly good cast which in a way is good news but also slightly disappointing too..........
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Post by randomtask on Jul 1, 2020 15:54:07 GMT
Apollo 11 - Cracking movie length documentary about the first moon landing. It's told entirely through restored archive video and audio footage of the actual event, there is no voiceover or people talking to a camera or any of the usual documentary tropes which really makes you feel a part of it as opposed to just watching a history lesson. Amazing stuff. The bit where they leave the moon orbit to land left me properly breathless. 10/10 Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind - Don't know why i've suddenly started watching loads of these documentary films as opposed to fiction but heyho. This one was great as well, trying to tell his full story and not just a puff piece. Some proper funny clips of him as well, i'd never seen the Critics Choice 2003 bit. He is up for an award with Daniel Day-Lewis and Jack Nicholson and for some reason the award is split between Day-Lewis and Nicholson which whatever way you look at it is basically an "fuck you" but he is invited up to stage anyway to say a few words by Nicholson and is hilarious. Recommend finding the clip on youtube. 8/10 On the TV front, i happened to come across Wellington Paranormal. It might have been mentioned on the old forum thread, i'm not sure. But it's by the same people that are doing the What We Do In The Shadows TV series and is another mockumentary spin off from the movie. This one focuses on the 2 police officers that were called to the vampire house in the movie (the ones that are hypnotized and fail to spot all the dead bodies around the house ). It's a New Zealand show and very there sense of humour but i liked it. It is basically following the 2 hapless cops around as they join the "paranormal" unit of their department. Also really enjoyed Staged which was on BBC recently, 6 x 15 minute episodes so short but good. The idea is that David Tennant and Michael Sheen were going to be doing a play together that was shut down because of the pandemic so there director decides that they should continue rehearsing over Zoom. Was chuckling all the way through. The actors are playing sent up versions of themselves, much like Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon did in The Trip series. Well worth a watch anyway.
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Post by charliecheswick on Jul 2, 2020 14:44:58 GMT
The Look of Silence, pretty messed up Indonesian genocide documentary. Much like The Act of Killing if anyone's seen that.
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Post by ER on Jul 4, 2020 18:58:56 GMT
I've seen those two plus Alps and Dogtooth. I should warn you everything before 'The Lobster' is in Greek  Does anyone watch Inside Number 9? I don't think I ever saw it mentioned. I've just started on the new series, the first one is football based..... I have - a mate augggeated then and I watched the lot in a few days. Really good 9/10 The ref one was funny 😂 The Bill one in the restaurant was very good as well with Philip Glenister |
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Post by ER on Jul 4, 2020 19:07:41 GMT
The Invisible man - quite creepy thriller just out on sky box office
I liked it 8/10
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Post by charliecheswick on Jul 8, 2020 17:30:09 GMT
The Platform. Pretty crackers, 8/10.
But, I'm a Cheerleader. Girl get sent to a gay conversion camp. Pretty funny, 6/10.
High Rise, was alright, felt like it should have been better. 6/10.
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Post by Art Vandelay on Jul 10, 2020 8:27:13 GMT
That reminds me, I've still got a couple of 'Inside Number 9's to see. It's always mixed bag of a series but even the weaker ones are decent.
Fermat's Room - Four mathematicians are invited to a convention where they are given puzzles to solve while also trying to work out who invited them and why as things get increasingly dangerous in Spanish mystery thriller type thing. When I thought about this afterwards it's actually a bit silly but it's enjoyable enough at the time and, after a fairly terrible run of films, it was just nice to watch something that wasn't a bit shit. Bonus half for some good puzzles to ask people afterwards. 6.5/10
Leave No Trace - A father and his teenage daughter live in the woods, things go from there in slow sombre drama. This reminded me of 'Winters Bone'. Don't be expecting anything too exciting to happen but in its own slow and slightly dull way it's actually pretty good. 7.5/10
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Post by ER on Jul 15, 2020 19:19:37 GMT
There is a series on Netflix called Unbelievable about this masked rapist. Goes on a bit but very good 8/10
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Post by charliecheswick on Jul 20, 2020 19:06:38 GMT
Palm Springs, a bit of The Groundhog Day about it, 6/10.
The King of Staten Island. Mostly very good, delved into a sentimental half hour which didn't really sit well with the rest of the film. Despite that I'll still go with 7/10.
Next Goal Wins, documentary about the worst International team in the World trying to win a game, 7/10.
Marvellous, a re-watch but I still love it enough to watch it again, 10/10.
Swallow, woman deals with her issues by swallowing random objects. 6/10.
Vivarium. Odd, couple go to see a house and can't leave. 5/10.
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Post by Art Vandelay on Jul 24, 2020 7:38:33 GMT
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn - A woman steals some money and leaves her husband to go and see a man from her past performing a 'magical evening'. Or something like that in comedy type thing from the guy who did The Greasy Strangler.
Well, that was about 40% of the way to being a normal film. There's sort of too much plot to briefly summarise but also there's no plot at all. The good - Aubrey Plaza, Jemaine Clement, Matt Berry, some funny (funny funny not just weird funny) lines, Beverly, Beverly's evening, there's no grease, no murder, no old men's genitals. The greasy - There's some of that awful music, some totally unnecessary scenes that are nothing to do with anything, a random sex scene featuring two people nobody wanted to see naked, and it's about half an hour too long. Bonus - If you thought that Indian bloke from TGS who couldn't say potatoes needed a bigger role then there's some good news for you...
Fruitvale Station - Based on real events, the films opens with a incident involving a group of young black men and the police and then we see the main guys day leading up to this event. Nice low budget natural style about it and quite relevant with the recent business in America although I didn't know what it was going in, which is probably the best way to go. I'll go 7/10.
Escape Room - Six strangers are invited to take part in an escape room to win a prize in mystery thriller horror type thing. It's like a poor man's Cube. 5.5/10
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Post by charliecheswick on Jul 28, 2020 19:25:41 GMT
I've seen An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn, I remember enjoying it. Fruitvale Station was good but a bit depressing. I'm watching Room 104 at the minute. A bit patchy but worth a go. Like mini Black Mirrors all filmed in the same room.
Also watching Once Upon a Time in Iraq. Interesting Iraqi take on 2003 and since.
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Post by Art Vandelay on Aug 13, 2020 8:08:44 GMT
What's been annoying me recently is this.......
Now, I sometimes watch quiz programmes, because knowing a lot of stuff helps give the impression I'm more intelligent than I actually am, and I increasingly see people saying 'that's before my time' before failing to answer a simple question correctly. At what point did people start thinking a quiz should be about stuff just from your own lifetime? I'd like hosts to start responding with "Yeah, that's because it's a quiz not a bloody memory test you prick".
And that's the PG version, I'd upgrade 'bloody' and 'prick' for anything after 9pm. I saw some dope say it about the Second World War the other day, how old did she think the other contestants were?!
Anyway, I've seen.......
Greta - A young woman befriends an old woman in drama thriller type thing. Best not to know any more going in. I thought it lost it a bit in the final third but it was enjoyable enough. 6.5/10
The Black String - After an encounter with a mystery woman Malcolm in the Middle starts to go a bit wrong. Is he losing his mind or the target of a sinister plot? Well, it could be either really in mystery horror type thing. 5.5/10
Cold Weather - A guy drops out of college and moves back home to live with his sister and becomes involved in a mystery involving his ex-girlfriend in a low budget drama that I'm going to call a mumblecore noir. Some people will find this unbearably slow but I'm got a grudging admiration for film that, having already had several scenes where very little happens, with the drama just starting to hot up takes time out to have a several minute scene where a man buys a pipe. This is probably the most lackadaisical film I've seen that is still technically a thriller. I'm going 7/10
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Post by randomtask on Aug 21, 2020 11:52:52 GMT
Eagle vs Shark - From the What We Do In The Shadows guy, but i think it's one of his first movies. It was OK, about an odd couple's adventures when they go back to visit the blokes home town for revenge against his school bully. A couple of proper laugh out loud moments but a lot of it is just meh. 6/10 The Very Excellent Mr Dundee - One of those movies where people play exaggerated versions of themselves like in the The Trip series. Paul Hogan, of Crocodile Dundee fame, is tempted into making a 4th Dundee film but keeps getting into scrapes along the way. Honestly it's mostly crap but i kinda of enjoyed it. You just need to dial your sense of humour down a bunch of notches. 4/10 I decided recently that i would try and watch the entirety of The Simpsons from the beginning, in order  I only watched it properly when i was in Uni about 20 years ago and have only watched very occasionally since then. 674 episodes, should keep me busy for a while
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Post by randomtask on Aug 26, 2020 9:30:48 GMT
The Edge - Cricket documentary about the Andy Flowers era. He took over as England coach when the test team was 7th in the world with a plan to get them to number 1 in 2 years. It worked in less time than that but eventually left an atmosphere of toxicity that shortened careers and left to big fall outs. Quite interesting really, i was following cricket at the time and obviously knew about stuff like Trott and Swann going home from Australia mid-Ashes series but didn't really know why. Worth a watch, but probably only if you like cricket of course. 8/10
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Post by charliecheswick on Sept 1, 2020 17:37:50 GMT
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot. Funny in parts. 6/10.
Ready or Not, comedy horror type of thing. I liked it, 7.5/10.
The Last Picture Show. Classic film, never saw it before. Pretty good, think I would have enjoyed it more if I first saw it when I was younger. 8/10.
Used Cars. Kurt Russell is a used car salesman in a feud with another used car salesman across the road. Decent old comedy, 7.5/10.
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Post by randomtask on Sept 4, 2020 9:26:29 GMT
Hamilton - Filming of the stage show about the life one of the lesser known Founding Fathers of the US. Enjoyed that, it is 2hrs 40mins though. 8/10
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Terrible what happened to his son! Fascinating watch though, and of course a classic guitar soundtrack along the way. 8/10
I only watched it properly when i was in Uni about 20 years ago and have only watched very occasionally since then. 674 episodes, should keep me busy for a while