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Post by Bill in the rain on Nov 7, 2024 8:44:15 GMT
I hadn't realized that the V in V for Vendetta was also a reference to November the Vth.
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Post by zisssou on Nov 7, 2024 8:50:53 GMT
If we're going down this road, then I'll put Face/Off as the most absurd.. makes no sense film, but actually a very decent action film.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Nov 7, 2024 8:54:53 GMT
I don't actually care, I just hate the "oh look, here is a plothole" method of film critique. If you're not thinking about it while watching, then it's fine!
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Post by drhickman1983 on Nov 7, 2024 8:55:50 GMT
I guess we were due to come back full circle to fucking Bond films Fucking Leolian'sBro, you're a wrong un  Well back onto that film about an alien soon. I hold my hand up as being part of the problem. For me, the issue is I don't actually watch many new films these days so I just go back to the same old talking points. In fact that principle goes for most things, I only have so many conversation points I can engage with or come up with before they start repeating. Maybe I am just an NPC. |
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Post by zisssou on Nov 7, 2024 8:57:05 GMT
I guess we were due to come back full circle to fucking Bond films Fucking Leolian'sBro, you're a wrong un I hold my hand up as being part of the problem. For me, the issue is I don't actually watch many new films these days so I just go back to the same old talking points. In fact that principle goes for most things, I only have so many conversation points I can engage with or come up with before they start repeating. Maybe I am just an NPC. We need a "Stop getting Alien wrong" picture. |
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Post by drhickman1983 on Nov 7, 2024 9:00:33 GMT
Alien is not actually about an Alien, it's about a shark - Mark Kermode, possibly
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Post by Gruf on Nov 7, 2024 9:07:26 GMT
The Alien Drinking Bird is the main protagonist
Wait... you have skilfully steered the conversation back to Alien.
At least it's not Bond
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Post by drhickman1983 on Nov 7, 2024 9:12:01 GMT
Suddenly reminded of the cover to an old comic I have knocking around somewhere that captures both Bond and Alien
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Post by Lizard on Nov 7, 2024 9:15:21 GMT
Bond's Aston Martin crash lands on a prison planet, and he must assist the inmates in defeating a deadly plot hole.
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Post by zisssou on Nov 7, 2024 9:30:21 GMT
OK. Ship it boys.
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Post by Gruf on Nov 7, 2024 9:30:40 GMT
That cover has probably caused an involuntary ejaculation for some
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Post by Aunty Treats on Nov 7, 2024 17:23:06 GMT
Audition
Found it pretty boring. Doesn't really do anything to distinguish itself from something like Hostel
Only creepy bit is the sack lurching when the phone rings
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Post by Vandelay on Nov 7, 2024 19:27:00 GMT
Audition doesn't distinguish itself from Hostel? That sure is a take, particularly as Audition came out in 1999 and Hostel came out in 2005.
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Post by simple on Nov 7, 2024 20:07:38 GMT
I think he just means that people consider it an artistic and stylistically elevated film but he think its actually just a torture porn one, same as Hostel and the rest that followed. Not that its aping Hostel.
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Post by rawshark on Nov 7, 2024 20:34:33 GMT
Sack lurching…
Reminds me of whatever was in the bag in Resident Evil 4.
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Post by simple on Nov 7, 2024 21:24:51 GMT
Its usually something more like Barbarella that gets my sack lurching
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Post by Ulythium on Nov 7, 2024 21:34:36 GMT
Watching Star Wars for the first time in 2024 is kind of wild - it's such a cornerstone of popular culture that even though I hadn't seen it before, I sort of felt as though I had. Thanks mainly to Family Guy's 'Blue Harvest' send-up (but also to Clerks, Spaceballs, Robot Chicken, and umpteen others besides), whole chunks of the plot were instantly familiar to me; meanwhile, there were entire lines of dialogue that I knew verbatim, without ever having realised that they originally came from this movie.
Kind of cheesy, sort of campy, and definitely dated, but a fun sci-fi romp nonetheless.
8/10.
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Post by richardiox on Nov 7, 2024 22:13:28 GMT
Now watch The Phantom Menace
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Post by Ulythium on Nov 7, 2024 22:27:19 GMT
Now watch The Phantom Menace
Ha!
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Post by brokenkey on Nov 7, 2024 22:44:06 GMT
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Post by simple on Nov 7, 2024 23:03:45 GMT
Kill List (all4) In the mood for more Wheatley after finishing Generation Z. This is great obviously. Although every time I watch it I find it far bleaker than I remember it being. I do love how it manages to have an absolutely oppressive atmosphere even before it reveals what kind of film it really is. And doing folk-horror in such a naturalistic modern setting really something. I’m not sure how I didn’t realise at the time but [major Gen Z spoiler] the mastermind of the crisis who reveals themselves at the end of Generation Z is the same actor as the guy who hires the hitmen in this. He’s playing a very similar character. The same one?
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Nov 7, 2024 23:34:54 GMT
I think he just means that people consider it an artistic and stylistically elevated film but he think its actually just a torture porn one, same as Hostel and the rest that followed. Not that its aping Hostel. I think it's difficult to separate it from its context, in that it was a movie designed to pull the rug out from beneath you. It's almost impossible to watch now without knowing that it turns into a horror film (even the cover gives it away), but at the time the slowness was (imo) part of the point. And it's not *that* torture-porney, at least compared to what came afterwards. All of the wild stuff is in the last 15 minutes or so. |
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Post by rawshark on Nov 7, 2024 23:41:28 GMT
Kill List (all4) In the mood for more Wheatley after finishing Generation Z. This is great obviously. Although every time I watch it I find it far bleaker than I remember it being. I do love how it manages to have an absolutely oppressive atmosphere even before it reveals what kind of film it really is. And doing folk-horror in such a naturalistic modern setting really something. I’m not sure how I didn’t realise at the time but [major Gen Z spoiler] the mastermind of the crisis who reveals themselves at the end of Generation Z is the same actor as the guy who hires the hitmen in this. He’s playing a very similar character. The same one? This film has the honour of seeing my favourite cinema walk out… really hope I’ve not brought this up before. After a mid-film scene - if you’ve seen it, you’ll know - there was a heavy sigh from the row in front of mine, followed by an “I’m going.” Then a woman walking out of the cinema followed by a flustered man. That was a second date. I would bet my mortgage on it. |
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Post by rawshark on Nov 7, 2024 23:43:28 GMT
Now watch The Phantom Menace
Ha!
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Post by harrypalmer on Nov 7, 2024 23:53:54 GMT
Watching Star Wars for the first time in 2024 is kind of wild - it's such a cornerstone of popular culture that even though I hadn't seen it before, I sort of felt as though I had. Thanks mainly to Family Guy's 'Blue Harvest' send-up (but also to Clerks, Spaceballs, Robot Chicken, and umpteen others besides), whole chunks of the plot were instantly familiar to me; meanwhile, there were entire lines of dialogue that I knew verbatim, without ever having realised that they originally came from this movie.
Kind of cheesy, sort of campy, and definitely dated, but a fun sci-fi romp nonetheless.
8/10.
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Post by Ulythium on Nov 8, 2024 0:04:43 GMT
Have you seen the empire strikes back? If not you need to, it’s way better.
I think Empire was the one Star Wars movie I'd seen prior to this week.
Is it the one with the big dinosaur-looking robots?
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Post by rawshark on Nov 8, 2024 1:03:58 GMT
Have you seen the empire strikes back? If not you need to, it’s way better.
I think Empire was the one Star Wars movie I'd seen prior to this week.
Is it the one with the big dinosaur-looking robots?
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Post by rftp on Nov 8, 2024 7:22:19 GMT
No, that was Notting Hill. Nah, you're thinking of Moulin Rouge. |
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Post by dfunked on Nov 8, 2024 7:56:43 GMT
How to enrage SW nerds instantly:
"Dinosaur-looking robots"
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Post by retro74 on Nov 8, 2024 8:07:56 GMT
I’m off to The Winchester until all this blows over
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