Joined: 30th Mar, 2008 Posts: 14144 Location: Shropshire, UK
Bloke looks disturbingly like Ian Beale at 0:43, and after the mess that was Cara Delevingne's acting in Suicide Squad I'm not sure she's really cut out for a lead role. Perhaps I'm being overly harsh though.
and after the mess that was Cara Delevingne's acting in Suicide Squad I'm not sure she's really cut out for a lead role. Perhaps I'm being overly harsh though.
I think in fairness to her that was more to do with what she was given to work with.
Joined: 30th Mar, 2008 Posts: 14144 Location: Shropshire, UK
Jem and I watched "Life" last night, featuring Deadpool, Donnie Darko and the secret agent woman from MI: Rogue Nation (or MI5, which fits equally well given she's British in it)
Actually pretty good, which surprised me. Heavily influenced by Alien, that much is obvious. Surprisingly brutal. My only complaints are that some of the setup is questionable, but nothing majorly wrong!
Jem and I watched "Life" last night, featuring Deadpool, Donnie Darko and the secret agent woman from MI: Rogue Nation (or MI5, which fits equally well given she's British in it)
Actually pretty good, which surprised me. Heavily influenced by Alien, that much is obvious. Surprisingly brutal. My only complaints are that some of the setup is questionable, but nothing majorly wrong!
I quite fancied that from the trailer so will probably try to see it this weekend. Although I also want to see Free Fire and Ghost in the Shell so we'll see if I can cram them all in or not.
Joined: 30th Apr, 2008 Posts: 7315 Location: Behind you
What I've watched recently...
Jack Reacher 2. Can't remember much about it. It wasn't great.
Dr. Strange. Found this curiously unengaging.
Fantastic Beasts... Enjoyed this, but I was expecting it to be rubbish. Katherine Waterston has an interesting face, she seems to morph from attractive, to plain, to interesting in every scene. Nothing to do with her gender, she just seems to have one of those faces that changes. Intrigued to see her in Alien: Covenant as the new lead. She's being sold as the new Ripley, which are big reeboks to fill...
Well, yes I know they've probably come up with some bullshit excuse why he's not dead, but it pisses me off royally, is what I'm getting at. Why bother doing a shocking character death if you're just going to handwave it away just to bring the actor back? It's insulting.
So how are they going to explain it? A point blank bullet to head wasn't quite deadly enough? His consciousness was backed-up and reloaded into a robot body? He has a twin? What bullshit nonsense are they going to do?
Joined: 27th Mar, 2008 Posts: 17154 Location: Just Outside That London, England, Europe
DavPaz wrote:
Well, yes I know they've probably come up with some bullshit excuse why he's not dead, but it pisses me off royally, is what I'm getting at. Why bother doing a shocking character death if you're just going to handwave it away just to bring the actor back? It's insulting.
So how are they going to explain it? A point blank bullet to head wasn't quite deadly enough? His consciousness was backed-up and reloaded into a robot body? He has a twin? What bullshit nonsense are they going to do?
Last night's film was 'TOWER', it's an animated documentary about the 1966 Texas University massacre, when a lone gunman climbed to the observation deck of the main campus building's tower, and opened fire with various weapons, including a powerful long-range sniper rifle. Over the course of 90 minutes he killed 14 people and injured 31 others. He had also killed his wife and mother earlier in the day.
Whilst the majority of the film is animated using the 'rotoscope' technique, there is also a decent amount of archive footage that was shot on the day by news organisations in the town, and also audio of radio news broadcasts from the day itself, along with many photographic stills.
The main characters of the day have their voices played by actors who recorded their voices for the animated realisations of the people onscreen (reading from interviews with the actual people), however, towards the final third of the film there is an incredible moment where the film cuts away from the animation, to the actual person, saying the same words. (Some of the people from the day are still alive now, and recorded video interviews for the film.)
From then on the film does this several more times, with the film cutting away from the animation, to a video interview of the actual people we've been watching in the animation. It's amazingly powerful.
Unfortunately some of the other characters died (in one case quite recently), but there is a video of the man talking in 2012 about the day in question, which is used.
What struck me most is that even though the massacre happened 50 years ago, the people are still visibly traumatised and have been profoundly changed by what happened that day. Particularly there is a pregnant woman who was shot, and also her partner who was walking with her. Her partner was killed, and she lost her baby, and speaking about it fifty years later she says she still wonders what the life of her child would have been like, who died in her womb that day. (She was never able to conceive again.)
One common thread is that the people involved weren't really given much in the way of help afterwards, and that most of them never saw each other again after the day. The film brought some of these people together again for the first time in fifty years, and their reactions to each other are incredible to watch.
My rambling description really isn't doing this film justice, it's a stunningly powerful and effective piece of cinema, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.
One final note though, the film is almost entirely about the victims, the killer himself is scarcely even named or discussed, so whilst given the subject matter it is necessarily upsetting, the film nonetheless remains hopeful, and focuses on the incredibly brave and selfless actions of various people on the day.
945/1000 - Be advised that you will 'get dust in your eyes' more than once.
Free Fire: The latest and most straightforward film from Ben Wheatley of Kill List, High Rise and Sightseers fame. Despite being basically just a single shootout stretched out to feature length it never loses momentum and the fact that everyone involved seems to be having the most fun helps to carry it all along. It doesn't have the lasting impact of his previous more batshit films but it's good dirty fun. Ghost In The Machine: Disclaimer: I've never watched or read any other version of the story so I'm taking this as it's own thing rather than a remake or whatever. It looked lovely as you'd expect and was generally well acted throughout but fucking hell, it's never even stood in the same room as someone who might know how to spell the word 'subtle'. Right from the start it batters you over the head with anything it thinks you might need to know e.g. right down to a doctor defining the contextual meaning of the words 'ghost' and 'shell' within the very first spoken lines of dialogue in the film. It's also not as stylish as the trailer made it look and outwith certain scenes it has a quite generic 'future city' style to it it all. Nice looking but utterly insubstantial about sums it up.
Particularly there is a pregnant woman who was shot, and also her partner who was walking with her. Her partner was killed, and she lost her baby, and speaking about it fifty years later she says she still wonders what the life of her child would have been like, who died in her womb that day. (She was never able to conceive again.)
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Be advised that you will 'get dust in your eyes' more than once.
Just reading that part made me feel a bit emotional
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It felt like it was all in slow motion and could have done with being 40 minutes shorter.
Not very good.
I absolutely love Drive, seen it several times and will do so again at some point.
You just need to let it get into you and get inside the world, and also realise that you're watching a superhero film rather than a 'normal' film, if you will.
(That's not my interpretation by the way, the director himself has explicitly said it's a superhero movie.)
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