Be Excellent To Each Other

so very much

I went to see Star Trek last night. I really enjoyed it, I like how it focused on there crew rather than the ship.

I'm not very good with sentimental things. I can't watch the first Finding Nemo film because I find it too upsetting, and then I end up thinking of it years later and getting upset.

I love Idris Elba, so I'll look for a clip of that bit.

I watched a clip. Nemo is in it. He's upset. Idris Elba is a sea lion but he sounds so much like Idris Elba always does that I'm just imagining him laying on that rock instead of the sealion.

Obviously he's naked.

ONLY BECAUSE SEALIONS DON'T WEAR CLOTHES.

It's more upsetting than Nemo, so I would avoid it.

Good film though!

I saw World War Z last night. It started off with some promise then quickly turned into a parody of itself. Pretty pap I reckon.

Did you watch the proper version of it?

The PG-13 version, which was released in cinemas as a 12 over here I think, had an astonishing number of changes made to bring it in at that rating.

The UNRATED or DIRECTOR'S CUT or HARDER VERSION or TOO HOT FOR CINEMA or BRUTALIX UNLIMITED or whatever the fuck they called it, doesn't fix the inherent problems the film has, but does at least tip it over into being a proper zombie style film. I'm not sure if the neutered version was even released on DVD/Blu-Ray or not.

There's no single thing that's different about the proper version, more a cumulative effect over the course of the running time that much improves the 'feel' of it.

http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=594947

New Rogue one trailer

Lobster - I half watched this. It seemed really good. You have 45 days to find love or you get turned into an animal.

Watched Suicide Squad last night. It was a fun action flick, and they tried to allude to some deeper stuff with Harley, but overall nowhere near my Top 5 comic book movies/series. Or Top 10 for that matter. But it's fun.

Should have also been called "Deadshot is fucking awesome, also Harley Quinn does some neat stuff too and we zoom in on her butt in short-shorts every 5 seconds, oh and don't watch it for Jared Leto he's in it for like 10 minutes". Not as catchy though.

No, but with that title I'll probably go watch it. It was otherwise on my 'meh' list.

We all went to watch Finding Dory as part of Ms Z's birthday outing yesterday.

I really enjoyed it, loved Hank the cranky Octopus Mrs Z fell asleep for 10 minutes and Master Z only needed one toilet run. If you like Pixar films you (and your kids) won't be disappointed.

The short film "Piper" that was on before it started was beautiful.

That's a pretty short film.

Funny, the screenplay was exactly 1000 words

Rogue One continues to look utterly, utterly amazeballs.


In other news, Transformers Age of Extinction is actually watchable.

Oh, another Death Star. That's the last thing they'll expect.

Not sure if or not but this is set *before* a new hope - its the story of them stealing the deathstar plans that end up in R2D2

Looking forward to the "many bothans" scene

Wrong film Dave, that was for the Death Star mk 2.

In other other news, it turns out transformers age of extinction was pants

It's a mini adventure!

When I was a kid I heard it as 'Bothams' and wondered why the rebellion was cloning a boring, instantly forgettable cricketer of whom it is impossible to pay attention to for spy work.

No, wait...

Hercules is pretty watchable. The Rock is always good quality

He's so big

Just watched The Nice Guys, the latest Shane Black movie (he wrote and directed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and wrote many great films.) It's fantastic, very much a spiritual sequel to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

Interest piqued.

Rewatching Kingsman tonight, and it's still great fun.

The Nice Guys is pretty good but it's no where near as good as Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

You shouldn't watch The Little Prince on Netflix unless you NEVER WANT TO STOP CRYING.

Oh my god.

I have no idea why this film got slated/lukewarm reviews, but The Lone Ranger is absolutely brilliant. BRILLIANT.

are you sure?

Also, unrelatedly, I tend to listen to film soundtracks. There are a couple of tracks from the How To Train Your Dragon soundtrack that will, without fail, make me cry. It's weird.

BRILLIANT

just checking

Is there an echo in here?

That's the problem with an all encompassing movie topic.

This week I've seen two films on Netflix that have very good reviews and good acting but neither of which I enjoyed.

Hard Eight. Great cast, acting and atmosphere, but the barest of plots. When it finished I was just left feeling 'Er, is that it?'

The Babadook. Again, good acting, but I couldn't wait for the film to end. According to IMDB - "William Friedkin (director of The Exorcist (1973)) said "I've never seen a more terrifying film than 'The Babadook'".". Umm, it bored the hell out of me.

I quite liked Babadook, I think. I thought the book itself was wonderful.

I do remember thinking that if had just stayed as a film about a single mother trying to bring up a troubled child it would have been better, though.

I realise I'm coming perilously close to suggesting that some people 'are watching the Bababook wrong' but I honestly think you need to understand where it's coming from, and my personal feeling is that it'll work better if you're a parent.

I've yammered on about it before. (Which is unusual for me, I know.)

Of course it could well be that people totally get it and just don't like it, which is fine too

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I agree. It's a little uneven in tone, I'd say, but it's still much better than any review I read of it.

Indeed - you're absolutely right on the slightly variable tone (one can perhaps blame Depp to a degree) but overall it's jolly good fun, and made me grin quite a bit. When the theme tune finally kicked in it was absolutely joyful.

In other "not as bad as the reviews say" news, A Million Ways To Die In The West was good fun - made me laugh a fair few times. Some of it fell flat, but it's always compensated for by Charlize Theron who is just sublime generally.

Suicide Squad: better than expected but not as good as it could have been.

The ending was rubbish and most of the best bits were in the trailer, and there's a lot of straight up exposition, but while the Squad were doing their merry thing it was quite entertaining.

Two hours (two hours!) into Batman vs Superman and I can't make up my mind about it. I want to like it, I really do.

We've just finished watching Room and it was absolutely brilliant.

It's about a women who has been kidnapped and is being kept in a room. She has a 5 year old son who has never left the room and has never experienced the outside world.

I'm not going to spoil anything else but trust me, it's great and definitely worth a watch.

Yes I watched this earlier in the year, really great film. I'd take it over any of your standard issue Batman vs Whofuckingever Idiotothan HOLLYWOOD BRAINATTACK shite any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

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EDIT - Sorry just realised that looks like a direct response to MrChris's post above, but it's not intended as such, it's just that the SUPERHERO VS SUPERHERO thingy is the latest movie BLAMATHON that I'm aware of, and I tend very much to not like them. When I was a lad one superhero per film was quite enough, thank you.

Yeah I thought Room was pretty good, but not quite as good as The Room.