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I really hope there's a typo in there, or

Zootopia - Kid's film which is surprisingly endearing. Good voice cast helps the ot along where a rabbit cop teams up with a fox hustler to solve a tricky case. It is on Amazon.

Nope. It's what wins you oscars.

Today I watched The Eichmann Show, about the televised trial of Adolf Eichmann which took place in Jerusslem and was televised worldwide, after he was accused of orchestrating the deaths of thousands of Jews in Nazi death camps.

The film was wonderful. Obviously very hard hitting and difficult subject matter, which I knew when I put it on, but I still wasn't prepared for some of the images in the historical footage of the death camps. I couldn't get my brain to decide whether to turn away or not, and I kind of forced myself to watch because I thought I should, but it's weighed heavily on me and I think I'd have shut my eyes had it lasted just one more second. So yes, do beware that that is there, but is perhaps 2 mins of the film, and you could turn your head. I cried silently at the footage. I'm glad I watched through it, just to have some 'tip of the iceberg' insight into the absolute atrocities of recent history and the madness of the human race. Maybe I shouldn't have watched it... I don't know... these things tend to sit heavily with me. I can't decide, yet.

There may be some bad accents, I can't tell as I watched it on mute whilst the little'un napped. I cuddled him tighter at some points.

I watched this last night. It didn't really grab me though, despite some good performances and a couple of good scenes (the traffic jam bit at the border, particularly). The no-holds-barred opening promised quite a bit, but by the end, it just felt like 'Man On Fire', but with lots of shots of people travelling somewhere.

Gosh, that's big.

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I think the mobile forum is having trouble with that picture, Grim...

Sooty, I hadn't seen your post!

Naughty Sooty... You're not going to spray me with that water pistol are you Sooty?

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"Oh, Sooty!"

Sicario is great.

John Wick 2: hell yeah.

The Makeup / CGI in the first one is pretty cool.

As often happens, a fan-made trailer is better, because music.

Just finished Civil War. It was... OK. Didn't really have much to it, and felt a lot more like the fist half of a two part made for TV thing.

Watched Lucy last night (she should really close her curtains)

Not a terrible film if ignore all the flaky science guff, but after a decent first half, it seemed in a hurry to get to a conclusion.

Just watched Locke, after several years of it being on my to-watch list. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Amazing performance from Tom Hardy, notwithstanding his dodgy Welsh accent.

I always think this is about the guy from lost.

Hurley?

No, the guy under the locked hatch.

The guy in the wheelchair.

Oh, the one in the band.

The one that was dead for the whole film.

Kubo and the Two Strings is bloody incredible. Probably best film I've seen this year.

I've properly loved every single Nicolas Winding Refn movie, but The Neon Demon was thoroughly disappointing.

You're better off just watching Suspiria or Black Swan.

I really enjoyed The Nice Guys - it was a very entertaining Saturday evening film. I would watch it again.

Noo Ghostbusters - loved it. Well paced, funny, the cameos weren't overdone, and Holtzman was amazing.

It seems most 'normal' folks like it. The rest of the internet not so much

Disagree about the cameos, I think they (and most of the other callbacks [1]) felt a little forced. You could lose every single cameo and it'd be a better film for it. But when the film was given room to breathe and be its own thing, I thought it was great. For example, I thought it was stronger because they didn't try and map Holtzmann, Gilbert and Yates onto Spengler, Stantz and Venkman. They were their own characters and I liked that.

Hemsworth deserves a shoutout, too. He's got great comedy chops.

Oh, and I vaguely recall people disliking the effects. I thought they were great. I loved the neon glow to everything, it felt like what 1984 Ghostbusters would have looked like if it was made with modern technology.

[1] callback I really liked:

In terms of Feig/McCarthy movies, I'd rate Ghostbusters and Spy about level, The Heat slightly ahead, and Bridesmaids a bit worse. I don't like Bridesmaids as much as everyone else seems to.

Callback?

Timing.

What?

What? I'm confused. What is going on?

Callback. What is it, aside from an actor's second interview?

Disagree on the callbacks, they were great. Also the cameos. Other than Murray, they were brief, witty, and didn't feel forced at all. Particularly Sigourney Weaver, who was brilliant.

"Safety lights are for dudes!"

The particular spoilered callback was brilliant in Ghostbusters and Hemsworth was being brilliant at being stupid. I felt Holtzman was a little forced at times but then I saw interviews with Kate McKinnon and found out that she's basically like that in real life so I guess not then. Generally speaking a thoroughly enjoyable fun movie that made me laugh loads.

Kubo is still probably the best movie I've seen this year.

Watched Payback on the commute. Well, that's a brilliant way to spend an hour and a half or so.

Have seen it before, but not for many years. Everything still felt fresh, apart from Mel Gibson's oversized jacket, which gave him a bit of a trampy vibe. Which was perfect.

"Here's your $140,000, but that's the closest you're ever going to get to it."

*Gibson, tied to a chair, goes to open his mouth, then just sighs*

New Ghostbusters. Thoroughly enjoyable.

New Magnificent 7. Thoroughly enjoyable, hadn't seen the original (blah blah seven samurai is actually the orginal etc...) for years, but this seemed a match for it. A bit drawn out in places but all the actors in it were great and the action was on the button.

Old Magnificent 7. Thought I would rewatch this afterwards. Oh dear, it really hasn't held up that well if you compare it to the remake, really shows up just how "acted" and fake everything used to be.

There are actually two completely different versions of Payback available. I suspect you probably saw the original version, with Kris Kristoffersen?

The reedited version removes the voiceover, takes away Kristoffersen's character (onscreen at least. IIRC he's replaced by female voice over) and changes the ending. I think it was also colour graded as well to give a darker feeling.

Having seen both, I would rate he re-release as superior. I think it's called "Straight Up"

Hang on... Yep: http://gb.imdb.com/title/tt0958860/

If you've never seen the director's cut you should give it a try, it's generally referred to as 'Payback Straight Up'.

Very different film, but arguably better. (It's not like the usual cheapy cash-in director's cut, but a substantially different version of the film and closer to what was originally intended, but the studio didn't want to release, this was pre-crazy Mel and they didn't want him playing too much of a nasty sort of character.)

http://www.cinemablend.com/dvds/Payback ... -2222.html

On a wider note this is a DVD I imported from the States back in the day (1999-2000 IIRC), when the BBFC were cutting the fuck out of everything even at 18, so importing the US 'R' rated DVD was the only way to get hold of the film in its unmolested state.

EDIT - Seems like I was writing my post at the same time as DavPaz

Interesting! All the elements they've changed are things I liked about the film (though Gibson's voice-over was a bit predictable in places. His on-screen dialogue was brilliant however: "Boil an egg.")

I will give it a few years and watch the remake.

Edit: re-edit rather than remake, I guess. And thanks also Hearthly.

You should have mentioned this before that you imported DVD because of the cuts

Beat ya!

Having a quick read around, it seems the director's cut was the original version and it was cut up and a new third act was filmed to give a 'happy' ending

If you're interested (and I am)

I love Payback. I prefer the Director's Cut, but the original release is solid.