Be Excellent To Each Other

Yeah, the basic plot on this was as old as time, but I think the film was pretty awesome. The Rock's song was also excellent!

Watched Split last night, featuring James McAvoy.

A fantastic film IMO, and a bit of a return to form for M. Night Shyamalan.

Not really a spoiler, but the movie is about a man who has disassociative personality disorder and has 23 distinct personalities.

I was gripped right from the opening scenes, and although it gets a little odd towards the end it was compelling throughout. McAvoy is superb in every one of his roles.

The only "bad" thing about the film is that it hit a little close to home for me in some ways (for reasons that I won't go into) and left me feeling rather weirded out and strange afterwards, and I still feel a little odd now. On the plus side, I can't remember the last time a film affected me so deeply, so I guess I still have some emotions somewhere

Just been to see The LEGO Batman Movie.

Awesome, as the last LEGO movie was. Possibly the best Batman film ever made, packed full of references to the other Batman films (some subtle, others not so subtle) but without being "too much."

My only complaint with it is the completely unnecessary (IMO) iPhone product placement - Apple must have paid a shit ton for that.

Aye. When your five year old son turns round mid film and says "Daddy, that's siri" you know it's a little overdone.

How much does your five year old use your fucking phone, dude

I've just had a good old cry at lovely jap anime "Your Name."

Good gracious that was lovely. Someone hold me, please.

He doesn't touch my fucking phone. He can use his own fucking iPad.

Best film I saw last year and destined to be a true classic.

Been meaning to see it, but not got round to it.

If it ever swings round an arts cinema near you, don't hesitate. It's jaw droppingly beautiful.

It has a shockingly awful limited run in UK cinemas. Dave is probably all right in that London but the nearest to me was Birmingham (as far as I could see & the only showing in the sodding Midlands). Modern cinemas are rubbish.

Apart from the cozy seats.

IT's on at the place we went for ghost in the shell. Easy enough to get to.

Won't the dub be terrible though?

Ghost in the shell was undubbed, I'd guess this is too.

Edit:I'd be correct, too.

There's a limited release again in five (count 'em!) cinemas this Tuesday for Your Name, Japanese language. I might try to catch the 7:00 showing at Swansea.

Plymouth, Portsmouth, Exeter, Birmingham, Swansea.

List and times here: http://subtitled.yournamethemovie.co.uk ... 54&zoom=15

I think, mainly, I need to ask Cras to come. He loves anime.

I was round at my mates, watched loads of films.

The Magnificent Seven: Better than I thought it'd be. Highlight is Ethan Hawke's PTSD ridden ex Confederate sharpshooter. And Vincent D'Onofrio, who is always excellent. The big battle scene at the end is also pretty damn good.

The Nice Guys: funny as hell. Felt like Fat Russell Crowe's part was written for John Goodman though. Keith David! The Seventies. Loved it.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: the gimmick was reasonably fun, but they kept up the Pride and Prejudice bits for far too long. I get it's supposed to be a juxtaposition... But...

Hardcore Henry: way better than I thought it was going to be, way better than it had any right to be. Perfect 'turn brain off, switch on, enjoy' movie. Props to Sharlto Copley who pretty much has to carry the film on his own, and does it by consuming a large part of the set. ( though the actors playing Henry are really surprisingly good at conveying emotion through what amounts to hand gestures)

Watched this last night. We both really enjoyed it. Although the best copy I could find was a cam with some weird thing going on with the sound so that nothing came out of the front speakers so it was all coming from behind our heads. But yeah, McAvoy was brilliant.

Saw Split last night. Hard to watch for personal reasons but glad I went. Wasn't particularly sold on the acting of one of the three kidnapped girls (Haley Lu Richardson). Everything else was good though - gripping, pace was great, James McAvoy was fantastic (and hot, oh yes). Well worth watching.

Thoroughly enjoyed John Wick 2, but the ending was bullshit.

Fizzle out?

The final third is full of stuff setting up the next one, and it loses a lot of momentum.

But yeah, really fun up until then.

World-building maybe not quite so tight as the first game, but it's perhaps a little funnier.

Film Review!

The Funhouse Massacre

It's not fun. It is a massacre. The tits were OK. The whole Slutty Trash Panda Harlequin thing is a major, major, thing for me. I feel I can talk about it now. Christ, that's a load from my (chest -Ed). It's like the goth girl/swamp trash thing, like Neve Campbell in Wild Things, helena BC in Fight Club

4/5

Just watched Project Almanac which was recently added to Netflix. Not a bad time travel film, with elements of Time Lapse, Groundhog Day and Butterfly Effect. Drags a bit in places, but worth a watch.

Was easier to believe that they built a time machine than they all actually used windows phones.

We ignored the opinions of the people at Rotten Tomatoes and watch Bad Santa 2 last night.

We were a bit sick of TV shows and liked the first one

For the first 30 minutes there are some funny bits although some might find these crude.

Then the funny stuff gets a bit too crude and stops being as funny, the plot then moves to try and get a happy ending and some redemption for characters and there are very few attempts at any more funny stuff from maybe 50% through.

All in all average, think its better than the 23% RT gave it but not much more than 40%

It did make us laugh in places and after having a 3 year old run us ragged all day we needed some laughs.

No Coen Brothers probably didn't help.

Over the weekend I watched :

Lego Batman : Awesome. The best Batman film ever.

John Wick (the original one): Really good, I'd avoided this for some reason. Made the best use of Keanu's limited acting range.

Moana: Excellent family film. The Rock was very good indeed.

Minions: Just never got round to this. Funny, as to be expected.

Lego Batman is indeed awesome.

This.

I laughed so much.

Watched a couple of recent Netflix additions

The Fear of 13. Very good documentary about a bloke who was convicted of murder and spent 23 years on death row. The man himself is a very good storyteller.

Criminal. Face/Off style silly plot, but set in London, with some comically bad dialogue to boot.



Still fairly watchable though.

You really don't want a kerfuffle though

I watched that too. He was a good story teller and perhaps that was part of why I just didn't believe half of what he was saying.

2 films over the weekend.

1. Girl on the Train. I just finished the book, so was eager to see how a stream-of-consciousness, diary style book would translate to the screen. Turns out, the answer is narration. Lots of narration. I was actually quite impressed by how they managed to carry the story over with overlapping timelines and the like. Emily Blunt was superb as the lead, but I didn't like the casting on the male leads. Not very convincing. Also, the girl playing Megan looked so much like Jennifer Lawrence on muscle relaxants, I was frequently distracted. Overall, 728 bananas out of 1000.

2. Eddie the Eagle. I put this on late(ish) last night as my first choice was nearly 3 hours long I need my beauty sleep. Pretty enjoyable film. Quite small in scale though. Small cast, not much conflict. Not a lot of peril. Of course, it being based on a true story kinda ruins any dramatic tension. I did enjoy the performances though, especially Keith Allen as the badly conflicted, by always loving Dad. Taron Egerton seem to be destined to be the next Tom Hanks with his wonderfully wistful and witless portrayal of Edwards and HUGE JACKEDMAN did some good work in the John Candy In Cool Runnings role. Speaking of which, I loved the little throwaway reference to the Jamaican bobsled team. Calgary '88 truly was a magical time. Overall, a very enjoyable 699 bananas out of 1000.

I watched Dredd last night. I haven't seen it in ages but remember it being quite decent. But fuck me I can't remember it being quite so deliciously violent. Loved it. Again.

Especially when psychic gal submachine guns some poor saps face at close range during her escape I actually said "sheeeeeet" out loud to no one at all. That's the mark of some good violence.

It's a great film - I think I've watched it 4 or 5 times now. It really needs a sequel.

Not sure if serious, but then you are Mr Chris, so https://moviepilot.com/p/dredd-2-sequel ... ow/4205564

A TV series would be awesome

Nope: http://2000adonline.com/post/1393

Why wouldn't I have been serious? There hasn't been a sequel and it doesn't currently sound like there will be one.

There is so much great material in the Judge Dredd comics, really a shame that they haven't found a story that translates to a profitable movie.

Maybe there will be a TV show which as was said on Movie Pilot might be a better medium, doubt we will see another film as the last one didn't make money.

A TV show sounds like a terrible idea especially since the awesome ultra violence of the last film (being the significant draw for me and most people who loved the film) wouldn't transfer over to the telly.

I feel you've not seen
Ash vs Evil Dead
Banshee
Game of Thrones
Hemlock Grove
Sons of Anarchy
Vikings
If you think TV can't be violent.

Hey, I accidentally alphabetised. Go me!

Surely the first and last ones would be in between Hemlock Grove and Sons of Anarchy if you'd done that?

Yes.
No.
Yes.
No.
Yes.
No.

A pattern emerges. Plus there's violence and then there's ultra violence. I've never heard of Hemlock grove though; is that any good? Like actually good?

It was a bit like a violent Twighlight.

So no.

I know which word you were aiming for there...

Yes, Dredd was good. I quite like Karl Urban.

Also from that link, John Carter was a really enjoyable film.

Wow.


He's good in Almost Human, and it has bonus Lyla Fucking Garrity.

If you watch them make sure to get a proper viewing order off the Internet!