Be Excellent To Each Other

Also, CGI blood is easier to remove if the censors come calling

That's the problem with 'censoring to a certificate', there's actually not that much that the BBFC censor these days at Cert 18, but distributors will request a 15, or 12A, or whatever, and the BBFC will advise them on what to cut to get that certificate.

So recently for example Kingsman was cut for a 15, where an uncut 18 was available. A Walk Among The Tombstones got exactly the same treatment.

Transporter 2 got cut for a PG-13 in the States (some of which was indeed CGI blood), but could have had an uncut R - and so on.

I went through a phase of importing DVDs from the States in the 90s and into the 00s, as the BBFC were notoriously scissor-happy at the time either cutting for a 15 or even at 18 (they're a lot more liberal now at 18). The ridiculous cuts to The Matrix for its 15 for example, where the headbutts had to go, rendering a couple of the fight scenes a bit daft looking.

There's so many great uses of CGI, but I can't stand it when it's used to recreate something that would be relatively easy to do a practical effect for, at least when the effect is implemented badly enough that I can tell. Films are inherently all smoke and mirror's, but I don't want to see behind the curtain. Obviously there are cost considerations, but I would agree that despite the many advances technology has provided for filmmakers, there has also been a big old mess of regression.

CGI is absolutely amazing these days. I reckon that most of the time you don't even know that you are looking at it. For Expendables 3 they actually just got a bag of moldy old bollocks in front of a green screen and filmed that for two hours and all the rest was added in afterwards, you can't even see the join!

Also, for Rambo, I'm pretty sure that the cost of all of the blood squib packs would have been higher than the CGI had they gone down the practical route

The other issue with a lot of practical effects is that, quite often, they're built for one angle and one angle only. It locks the director into one shot. Directors don't like having the SFX guys telling them 'I don't care about your 'vision', this is the shot our FX works in.'

CGI stuff, the effects are much more flexible.

Song Of The Sea is epically beautiful. And very relaxing.

I should have mentioned it earlier, but I just remembered.

Bill and Ted 3 news: https://www.yahoo.com/movies/alex-winte ... 78022.html

that does look wonderful. But not in the cinemas until July? Pah.

Is it not? Ooops.

Woah

That's what imdb says. But then I looked on the BFI site and it seems they were showing it in October last year. I don't know. Maybe July is the DVD release date. Either way, will get on it when it arrives.

Watched 'We Are What We Are' last night which is a rather unusual horror film, I went into it basically knowing bugger all about it and it certainly surprised me on more than one occasion.

Kept me interested right to the end and the finale wasn't what I'd ever have guessed.

Oh yes it's got OLD KELLY MCGILLIS in it as well, and it also has a well hot lass called Ambyr Childers in it and for a moment it looks like it's going to get a one on the Craster Scale with her but then it doesn't. It does however get a one on the Craster Scale elsewhere, but not perhaps in a way you'd want.

Not a bad little flick, 7.5/10

Here's the synopsis from Rotten Tomatoes:

...colour me excited.

Divergent:Insurgent - Still a bit Hunger Games light but I think I slightly prefer this lead femme to Jennifer Lawrence as she's a tad less simpering and also much more volatile. I quite enjoyed this and there were quite a few unexpected moments in it yet somehow again there was a tiny bit of something missing that The Hunger Games manages to have. I think it's partly that it doesn't quite get the depth to do with consequences of actions or maybe just that this follows in the wake of the Hunger Games that makes it feel rather more of the same. Despite only being about 2 horus of film it still felt a little stretched as well which Hunger Games Mockingjay Pt1 didn't despite being longer and only half a film really. It's good, got a good lead character but isn't quite good enough.

I watched "A Year of Violence". You shouldn't.

It feels like it goes on longer than a year and has no violence. These are the facts.

Oh my god. That madmax trailer looks AMAZEBALLS

Went to see Get Hard. It should have been terrible, but it was actually pretty funny

Tonight's film was the slightly bonkers (as is often the case with French films) DISCOPATH.

Seriously, I'll let the synopsis from Rotten Tomatoes do most of the talking here.



Yes we have a film set in the 70s (and then the 80s), complete with period cars and ghetto blasters and suchlike, whereby a deranged serial killer is inspired to kill by THE SOUND OF DISCO MUSIC.

This film has got the lot, young would-be lesbians at an all-girls college, perverted priests, French cops with serious moustaches, a maniac DISCO OBSESSED killer, big 70s hair, platform shoes, the whole thing. (And a pretty good disco soundtrack.)

Oh yes and some reasonably nasty murder scenes so it's not all total cheese, although death by a 45RPM is a bit daft I suppose.

You know how Craster has his scale? 1 for boobs and 0 for no boobs? Well I currently run the bollocks scale, whereby 1 is a film that takes my mind of MY RUINED FUCKING BOLLOCKS for 90 minutes or so, and a 0 is a film that doesn't.

This film gets a 1 on the Hearthly bollocks scale. A high recommendation indeed.

Check out DISCOPATH!

Fast 7 was booked up?

I watched Horrible Bosses 2 tonight. It was bad.

I watched Interstellar yesterday. It was far too up its own arse, but seriously compelling. What an incredible film it could have been if it were an hour shorter and Nolan didn't try to be "arty" with the sound mix.

It was a sequel to a so so film,so it didn't bode well.


I sort of enjoyed it, particularly the improbably badly designed robots, but I think you've hit the nail on the head there.

I've watched Taken 3 and I'm so angry I don't know if I'll sleep tonight. It's bad. Movie execs really took a shit all over this just like they did Bourne.

Wife chose, and fast 7 was only on as a 2 header with fast 6 as far as I could see, it's released properly tomorrow isn't it?

What have they done to Bourne?! Was there a fourth one?

Bourne on the 4th Of July

Yeah, The Bourne Legacy.

And if the entire plot wasn't utter bullshit from start to finish.

That I don't mind - unless it's a documentary, I can happily overlook the science.

I'll still comment on it during the film, obv.

There's even basic stuff that's wrong with it though. Like the fact they've been planning this secret space mission for however long without thinking to ask the only experienced astronaut in the world to come along until he randomly walks in the door, despite the fact the leader of the mission knows him personally and he only lives down the fucking road from their headquarters.

Interstellar was enjoyable enough for me - but even by Hollywood standards the science was just laughable.

Never mind the fact they needed some huge old-style Apollo/Saturn type booster rocket to escape Earth's paltry gravity well, but to escape the combined gravitational pull of another Earth-sized oceanworld planet that's so close to a fucking black hole that the astronauts experienced massive relativistic time effects, only required the quick firing of shuttle-borne rockets...?

There's also the issue of said planets being blown to fuck if their parent star had gone supernova (which it must have done if there's a black hole at the centre of their system instead of a parent star); if said parent star was massive enough to go supernova and form a black hole it must've been a huge O or B Class Blue Supergiant which would've only lived for a few million or tens of millions of years at best (no way could planets with breathable atmospheres form in that geological timescale, and that's ignoring the massive stellar wind arising from, and hugely variable nature of such stars 'cause if you're a planet, said massive star suddenly turning into a Red Hypergiant can be somewhat disconcerting and terminal); and most importantly - if there's no star, only a black hole, how come it's fucking daytime/daylight on said planets and why is there even weather at all...?

I read some piece about the 'genuine science' done on the part of the film's producers in modelling exactly how a black hole is supposed to look, which struck me as a bit rich considering the pre-school stuff like this they did get wrong.

I dread to think what true science-heads made of it.

Sounds like you guys all need to get DISCOPATH watched instead, no need to worry about the science behind it all then LOLZ.

Any suggestions on where we might obtain this from?

@Hearthly

W-What? Y-you can see what I'm typing...?




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The usual combo of nzbplanet and Tweaknews worked for me, torrenty type stuff might be able to sort it out as well I suppose but I don't do torrents.

Amazon says you can buy it from the 4th May - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Discopath-DVD-J ... B00T7QLCF0

Not much of a result for the legal option there considering it's been up on Usenet for 166 days.

I would never put you on ignore old chap, (I've never put anyone on ignore here, for that matter), I think we just need to agree to disagree when it comes to politics

I know mate, that was my lame attempt at sarcastic humour.
I'll not give up the day job.

Y'know what I fancy watching today? DISCOPATH.

So, you thought the never-ending runway at the end of Fast and Furious 6 (or whichever one it was) was stupid? Well, 7 is like that for basically the last two thirds of the film.

CGI Paul Walker was good though, although he is facing away from the camera a noticeable amount.

I am off to see 7 at the Imax tomorrow night. Mrs T is overjoyed to be coming along

45 minutes into Discopath and I'm very close to turning it off. It's awful. Bad bad not good bad.

Dialogue, plot, acting: awful.

Disco: Terrible with generic disco sounds (it's the same track again and again) since I doubt they had the budget for real disco music.

Sexy lesbianism: Not even a side boob.

AE must have been high on meds when he posted in here about this garbage.

In all fairness I didn't make any promises besides it scoring a 1 on the scale of taking my mind off my FUCKING BOLLOCKS in the wake of a vasectomy gone wrong. (Where 0 is 'Oh fuck my bollocks hurt' and 1 is 'Blimey I actually forgot about my throbbing bollocks for a bit'.)

Did you finish watching it then?

He's just fell off the roof.

No, he's going down some scaffolding as the credits roll.

The best thing I could possibly say about that was that the American cop looked a bit like Nicholas Cage and was on par in terms of their acting ability. Cause Cage is garbage as well.

I liked the title sequence though.

0.0001 out of 10

Try The Toxic Avenger. It's awesome! You know, good bad. Or bad good. Or whatever. But good! Or bad.

Well, I enjoyed it tremendously, but I was very, very drunk.

So that's a tick for you in the 'ambivalent' column then?

Sorry AE, I hated it. It was really terrible.

I gave it a shot though.

Talking of terrible films, I've got one question:

Is Mark Wahlberg the Jason Statham of action/drama?

Yes, I watched Mark Walhberg play Mark Walhberg in The Gambler. Just like Statham he's occassionally loveable as Mark Walhberg no matter what setting you put Mark Walhberg in but The Gambler was too much Mark Walhberg as he attempts to be Matt Damon but ends up being Mark Walhberg. Again. I hated it.

In a similar vein, has Johnny Depp, in your heart of hearts, been in a good film in the oast 20 years?

The first Pirates of the Carribean, perhaps. I'm ignoring the existence of any of the other films until I die.