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Watched Bone Tomahawk which I was looking forward to. Good use of a couple of hours, not too sure there was much of a point to it (it kind of wrapped up in a bit of a hurry after a fairly slow build up) but I enjoyed the company of the gang of old cowboys.

Oh and OUCH at that particular scene.

I enjoyed Tomorrowland as well. You're right, they fumbled the ball toward the end but I kind of had to admire that they went for the line in a definitive fashion.

There was something intrinsically sexy about it in a way a lot of films no longer seem to aspire to.

Finally got around to watching Mad Max Fury Road the other day. Good god, that was some epic action film making. Not sure what action movie director it was, but one of the more notable ones of the last decade said George Miller took them all back to school and gave them all a masterclass.

Clearly that director had never seen Singham Returns.

I saw Crimson Peak yesterday. And despite being in a bit of a bad mood before hand (I'd caused a bit of damage to my car) I found it surprisingly engaging and utterly sumptuous to look at. Funny thing is how when you look at it in detail it doesn't really amount to much but yet there's something there... It may be just the getting carried up in all the decaying gothic splendour of the house.

My only criticisms are that it gets a bit unnecessarily brutal at times... Some things just detract from the gothic beauty like a particularly nasty and harsh killing in a bathroom seems entirely inappropriate. If it had toned that down a bit I think it would have kept the atmosphere a lot. Jessica Chastain vamps it up in quite splendid manner in this I feel and the heroine is more likeable than I initially thought she would be; vulnerable at times, plucky and courageous at others.

Did I mention it's really nice on the visuals?

A beautiful mind.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268978/?re ... lmg_act_22

Why I hadn't seen this film before is a mystery, but it's fab.

The 'EVIL DEAD' (2013 remake) last night, it's on Amazon Prime.

Not a stunningly good film but it certainly delivers the gore, one of the things the people who made it were quite pleased with is that it's almost entirely done with practical effects instead of spunk-trumpet CGI, and it really shows. (I only spotted one CGI shot in the whole thing and that was one they couldn't have done with practical effects.)

Doesn't stick around for too long (90 minutes), and provides a fairly solid genre experience with splendid viscera, flesh, blood, and bone.

Unfortunately perpetuates the myth that nailguns make for lethal weapons.

7/10.

Watched Trainwreck over the weekend...it wasn't very funny or good. Shame.

You should watch Young Adult instead.

Except for every single bit with John Cena in (which, if you believed the trailers, was the entire film and not about fifteen minutes).

It's far from the most egregious error peepetuated by film.

See: Guns instantly kill people.
Swords immediately kill people.
Axes immediayely kill people.
etc etc.

Only in very limited circumstances ate tjese true. See also : Incapacitate.

Unless they're one of the goodies in which case being shot or stabbed is usually about on a par with a nasty paper cut.

True Cena did a pretty good job of sending himself up. Nice to see he has a sense of humour. The rest of the film was just too much unpleasant behaviour for my liking. Behaviour that I would dislike were it a male lead or female.

Get a good hit from those weapons and you're fairly likely to go into shock.

Less likely than people expect. It's not uncommon for people to not notice thay've been shot and/or stabbed. At least until the adtenaline has worn off.

Depends where you get him.

Also, I think Cena improvised a load of the stuff in the movie, didn't he?

Some experts refer to a weapons Stopping Power instead of their lethality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopping_power

Yes. There are many outtakes, especially in the cinema.

I haven't seen it but I saw the trailer at the cinema the other day when it struck me that The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 has to be the shittest name for a film in the history of all films.

Worse then The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain?

2 Fast 2 Furious?

Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel?

Yeah, worse than those. I think it's the way the trailer voiceover guy had to sort of blurt it out like smallprint at the end of a crappy TV ad.

In that case The Twilight Saga:Breaking Dawn, Part 2 is equally bad

Cena and LeBron are the best things about the film.

I was very disappointed that Cena was only in it for 15 minutes. I was waiting for his big comeback but it never happened. Very weird because they trailed it as if he was the big co-star.

Yep. I was very surprised that he didn't pop up at the end.

With a dude. 'Cos he was clearly gay.

Oh, very clearly gay. The actual sex scene was hilarious.

"YOU LOOKED LIKE A DUDE! HRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRN! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARN! HRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGggggggggggh!"

If the other films are anything to go by, not just a shit name either.

Boo!

Is that real? Does Dory really keep on swimming at the end of Finding Nemo? And just swim into list oblivion?

What's wrong with these films?! They are horribly sad! Why are they always so traumatising?

What?

So, Dory is the blue fish, right? So after they assumedly find Nemo she just keeps on swimming until she gets lost, like some Alzheimer's patient walking into the desert (but with more water, obviously)?

I mean, that's not suitable subject matter for a kids film. It's nightmarish and traumatising. It's like that film where some dad drives his kids to the outback and then blows his brains out and they almost die of thirst. It might be Walkabout, or maybe not. I can't remember. Picnic at hanging rock? Something, one of those.

I mean the being lost bit, and tge hopelessness. I don't actually mean the suicide bit. I'm sure not even Disney Pixar would include the fishy suicide of Daddy Nemo.

Though... Bambi's mum... Yeah, they'd probably allow Nemo's dad to hang himself or something.

I wonder if you can hang yourself in water?

I bet you could at high tide and with a string current.

I wonder what the recorded cause of death would be, though? Hanging, drowning, asphyxiation?

Edit: I meant strong current, but string current is funny. If you were a small fish you could probably use string rather than rope.

I think Mimi needs to be rebooted.

DI think it's a genuinely awful premise for a film designed to appeal to kids. What is a child's worst nightmare? Bring separated from mum and dad.

I once got seperated from my nan in the first ever supermarket to be built on the isle of Sheppey. It was a Tesco.

I was found curled into a ball in the bottom shelf of the toy soles, desperately clinging to Wembley Fraggle (because I recognised him from the telly). They had to call for my nan on the tannoy to rescue me.

And I refused to leave Wembley behind, traumatised as I was, so she had to buy him for me.

And so began the adventures of Mimi and Wembley, and how we became the great explorers and authors of the Thames Estuary Islands.

Two words for anyone who thinks Disney films are too sad, Watership Down. Kids have it far too bloody easy these days.

This thread went a bit weird and sad all of a sudden.

I don't think children necessarily relate what they see in a film to their own lives, and can appreciate a story for what it is, a work of fiction.

Hearthly Jnr wrote a story called 'The Story of Dazzle's horrid childhood' a couple of weeks ago, the opening line is:

'This sad story started on Monday 18th Sept 1995. Morgress punched Dazzle in the face as soon as he was born. Morgress's first plan of killing Dazzle was...'

She then went on to list six ways that Morgress intended to try and kill Dazzle (Morgress is Dazzle's mum), including the rather creative 'send bombs down the hallway'.

Hearthly Jnr has never been punched in the face or bombed.

I must say, this is an immense opening to a book.

I'm going to spoiler this in case you've not seen the original (which is about being lost), but I don't think that's the point of the second one from watching that trailer.




Also, is this the first trailer Pixar has done that isn't a one-shot short? It feels pretty rushed together.

I'm not saying that Woody Harrleson thinks the film is boring, but he just rocked up the premier in his pyjamas.

Yeah, we're not allowed to talk about Watership Down.

One day 'Bright Eyes' came on the radio at work, so I took my headphones out as it makes me feel a bit sad. Chloe noticed and came over to ask if I was Ok as I was a bit sad. I told her yes, I was fine, I just thought that the song I was listening to a second ago was a bit sad and so might go and make a cuppa. she asked which song. but didn't know it. I said it was the association with the film, which she also hadn't seen. She asked why it was sad.

So I told her all about the adventures of these brave rabbits, and about the land being developed, and the seagull, and the peril of crossing the road and those awful dogs. Anyway, I did tell her it was beautiful, but that right at the end Hazel has been telling the story of his adventures to all of him many offspring, and is laying in peace, in the sun, with small bunnies all playing happily around him, when the black rabbit beckons him 'you've been feeling tired, Hazel'. Man, writing it makes me cry. Look, I'm crying. Seriously, there may be something wrong with me.

Well... I get to that pint and then I start to cry, telling her about him falling asleep, and his little rabbit soul chasing the black rabbit ver fields as if he was in his youth,, and then the soar of the music as his little soul spins around and the animation turns into a few oak leaves. Well big globby tears happened (then and now) so I look like I am having a break down over the recollection of a film.

Then the big boss comes in, sees me in some distress, and asks wha has happened. I manage to squeak 'Watership Down' before bursting into tears and having to leave.

The big boss is perhaps the most emotionally flat person I have ever seen and I don't think he understands it in others, so that's why he things I am mad.

I can't remember if I was pregnant when this happened. I have a funny feeling I wasn't.

Also: the scene in Land Before Time when the mother of the young diplodocus (or brontasaurus, I can't remember now) dies. Then her little one keeps seeing her in clouds, and things like that. Then he sees her afar in the sunset, and he is so, so happy, and he runs up to her and licks her leg in happiness, but it is just a dry wall, where he saw his own shadow, made so big and like his mummy by the setting sun.

I'm crying my flipping eyes out here now. I sometimes wonder if there is something wrong with me. I've just had to wake my little baby boy up to give him a cuddle because of writing this.

I've seen the first bit, up until he gets lost and starts being really upset, then I made Russell turn it off because it was making me cry.

I was definitely pregnant then (well, I think I was), but I don't think I would watch it again, as thinking about the bit where he gets lost makes me feel really upset.

I love you so fucking much, Mimi. Don't ever change.

You weren't:
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Aw... hehe, made me cry! See... I'm going for a lay down. Then I'm going to watch Columbo. Columbo never makes me upset.