Be Excellent To Each Other

This weekend I watched Straight to Video tripe Karate Warrior 2. It is utterly awful. If you ever have the opportunity to watch it, please do yourself a favour and don't. There is very little Karate and not much in the way of Warrior-ing. Just generally teenagers doing not much at all. Agony.

Tomorrowland trailer looks fun.

John Wick - Generally ok.

Saw the new Avengers film in three-deez at the local cinema last night.

It was good, I enjoyed it, but I wasn't blown away despite how hard it was obviously trying. I won't really go into detail and no spoilers but despite being quite a thrill-ride it was also a bit predictable; even though I had been trying not to see too many trailers I felt like I knew what was coming next.

There were a lot of really good bits and the GFX looked amazing as you would expect but somehow it just felt like overall it was less than the sum of its parts. I don't know if maybe it's because the first one was so exciting (and I went to see it twice at the cinema which is pretty unusual for me) but I come out of this one a little underwhelmed. Perhaps the ever increasing ramping up of action films has led to a kind of 'action-fatigue' for me.

Oh, and I think that films need to chill with the 'quippy one liner' quota, don't try to force so many laughs.

Overall, maybe too much is a bad thing after all, and that's not something I would have expected.

Looks like Krishnan Guru-Murthy has pissed off Iron Man.



Skip to 6m if you don't fancy watching the rest of the interview.

Russell Brand is talking about it.

Saw Age of Ultron tonight and it was alright, I suppose. There was the odd flash of the excellence of the last one in the dialogue (the Whedonesque quips mostly) but the plot very often fell into disappointingly standard blockbuster incoherence and it definitely wasn't anywhere near as good as the previous film. Things I didn't expect:

On a side note I felt the 3D was very good in that it added depth (yes, ha ha) to the world without ever once being gimmicky. I quite like modern 3d but generally I'm 'aware' of it when watching a film whereas this time I forgot completely about it until I took the specs off to go to the toilet at one point and was appalled at how flat the raw image looked. As an immersion device this was definitely the most effective use of 3d I've ever experienced due largely to the relative subtlety of it.

You went to the toilet in the middle of a film? Are you really 7?

MockingJay Part One: Really good and deals with ideas well above what I would expect for a film for teenagers

I agree with all of that, the 3D was well done.

When I saw the 2nd Lord of the Rings film, I needed a piss as soon as I sat down and didn't go until it finished.

That was the most glorious piss I've ever had.

Watched "All This Mayhem" the other night. Really, really good feature length documentary about two Aussie brothers Ben and Tas Pappas, from a rough background they grew up skateboarding together and became some of the best vert skaters in the world. All the while being pretty fucking nuts and taking loads of drugs. They were the antithesis of the whole horrible corporate X-Games scene yet they were also competing in it.

Best bit was their confrontation with birdman, the clean-cut Tony Hawk. Who came up to them after a contest sulking and saying that he thought he should have won. "Yeah, fack off Hawk ya wanker, ya can't even flip yer board yer fackin' old cunt".

It all gets a bit less funny after that, though.

I agree with this. Thus you are wrong.

I was really surprised when it ended as I was into it so much. Loved it.

I've watched Jupiter Ascending.

It's utterly terrible garbage. Just as something is about to happen that guy (the one with a bland name and is the hunk of the moment) saves the (useless) woman (played by that hottie of the minute).

Useless woman continually saved by macho man time and time again. Utterly horrible bullshit. Probably written and directed by some very insecure man.

No one can act, the cast a shambles, the action is terrible, the set pieces boring, the story is utter nonsense with no redeemable qualities ... yet the budget was probably massive.

Don't watch this unless you hate yourself and you've got a spare 2 hours of self harm to fit in but you can't find a sharp knife.

DUFUQ EDIT: Did I just read that The Matrix brothers did this!? oh. Dear.

Siblings. One of them is no longer a brother

Racist

Wreck it Ralph: Lovely. Really, really, lovely. especially enjoyed spotting things in the background.

I love men in black 3.

'kay.

Either (a) drink some more or (b) stop drinking. Xx

Hang about, they're remaking The Fantastic Four? Without Jessica Alba? GETTHEFUCKOUTTAHEAR.

THERES A FRIENDS MOVIE NOW!?!?

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME!?

IS THIS A HOAX!?

WHAT IS THIS?

IS THIS A FRIENDS MOVIE!?

Must be a hoax or a spoof trailer. IMDB has never heard of it.

Yeah, turns out it's a hoax and I kinda which I hadn't posted that on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Google+, LinkedIN etc etc etc...

Yes, I enjoyed Hot Tub Time Machine 2. Yes, it's stupid. Yes, it kinda is an adult sweary version of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Well I thought it was.

They shouldn't have done the virtual sex scene though. That was bad.

Lord, why did I enjoy that. Look, I'm sorry people, so sorry. Look, I'll make it up to you with a rap I made up. My name is Saturnalian/I am an alien/Something something radiator? Fine, I'll just get lost then. Right, ok, fine, grumble...

Big Game looks pleasingly SammyJackson.

Talking of Sam Jacko, KINGSMAN is the tits. It's utterly awesome. So awesome, in fact, that I might go cinema and watch it without the Korean subtitles. It's like John Wick meets James Bond meets every 'coming of age' film ever. It's like The Hunger Games/The Maze Runner/The Divergent//The something/The something else but actually really really REALLY good. It's sweary and violent so it's actually like Kickass. Y'know, the good one, before it took a rapid nosedive. So, yeah, watch it now.

Oooooh, I'd been tempted by that. Will get hold of an evaluation copy this weekend.

I watched this tonight, really good 'true' horror film in that the scares come from the psychology of the whole thing, and it gives you characters you really buy into.

That's what I thought.

We watched Locke tonight, really good. Stars Tom Hardy, nobody else on screen, a character study I suppose you would call it. But quite an achievement to make a compelling film where nothing happens except a Welsh bloke talking on the phone.

We watched Jurassic Park 2 last night. I've never seen it before.

It was rubbish.

Jupiter Ascending is fucking awful. A terrible movie with almost no redeeming qualities.

You are dead to me, the vision.

So, judging by early reviews, the new Mad Max film is quite good*

*Fucking Awesome

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mad_max_fury_road/

I can see me and my mate Chris having a blazing row about whether to watch that or Avengers when we go to the cinema next week.

Went to Avengers last night, too long and too much spectacle, by about the fifth massive big fight bit I was having long blinks.

Mad Max it is then.

are you going to do the thing with the hole in the bottom of the popcorn bucket?

Is this some sort of northern thing so you can bring your own popcorn in or something?

Look how young Bacon and Guttenberg look!

Trying to find some decent sci fi recently so had a go at some less mainstream stuff.

Europa Report was utter tosh. If you've sprung for the cost of the south african guy from Elysium and District 9 at least give him a script to work with, and spend at least a few thousand pounds on the effects. Utter gash.

Last Days On Mars, half way through, seems to be ok but fairly middle of the road horror film that happens to be on mars.

The other day I fancied watching a horror film.

I don't really enjoy scary monster type horrors (not scary), or jumpy horrors (cheap), but wanted either a psychological horror or thriller.

So, i set Russel about with the task of Netflix-ing us up.

he failed miserably, and instead found a film called 'The Mist' (from a Stephen king novella).

It was bad. And though it could have been a 'so bad it's good' way, it was actually so bad that it came all the way back out of so bad it's good and became really bad.

It's Tremors, but mixes giant rubber monsters, some CGI awfulness relatively early on, and then there are some better CGI monsters. But it's awful.

Saving grace is the final scene, because it didn't wimp out, at least.

I 'loved' The Mist. In that it was a excellently tense emotional ride. That super religious woman made me hate a fictional character in a way I didn't know was possible.

I must also disagree with Mimi and thought The Mist was fantastic, slightly dodgy CGI aside.

I believe the story behind it is that Darabont totally refused to compromise on the film or its ending, and therefore had a substantially smaller budget to work with than he was supposed to have, hence the often 'not brilliant' special effects. (It's unfortunate that the first CGI effect is also by far the worst.)

As a film though I felt it was great, with really strong performances across the board, and like a lot of the best horror films, the real threat is humanity to itself.

Absolute gutpunch of an ending too.

Stephen King praised it as well, saying that it's the ending he'd had given the story if he'd have thought of it at the time.

maybe I watched a different version? I didn't think it was an intense emotional ride at all.

There were some good performances: the religious woman, the next door neighbor, a few others, BUT I thought the acting from the main guy (the illustrator dad) was awful. it was so flat and the acting equivalent of painting by numbers.

Also the monsters were rubbish, and the monsters so predictable that i started being able to guess what the 'next' monster was.

Like I said in the other thread, loved the Avengers film

I had hoped to go see Home with the girl, but it didn't work out that way.
We saw it in dutch a few weeks ago and really liked it, would have been nice to see it again in english

The Mist is legit.

The best psychological horror movie is Bug.