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Bruges? Fahking Bruges?!?!

I love it so much. Also Bruges.

If you haven't seen The Guard, you should do. By the director's brother, and just as good IMO.

Saw In Brugges when it was released and never understood what's so funny about the "fuckin Brugges" thing. Can anyone please explain to me?

Because jokes get better when you explain them, right?

It can only get better when it starts at "not funny". So yes, you can explain it. It's now like i will laugh, but at least i can understand the point of it.

It's a really pretty medieval city, so most people wouldn't be complaining about it.

He just really doesn't want to be there.

This short film he did is great too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9w9BJXeL4E


Ok I watched mother! And I don't really know how I feel about it. There's some interesting elements in the interplay between the metaphor and the literal, but feels like it's not got much to really say about anything.

I'm not at all surprised mainstream audiences rejected it wholesale. I wonder who's idea it was to give it a wide release and market it like a spooky house horror movie (which it is not at all).

Also Jennifer Lawrence is a pretty bad actor, I have no idea why she's been so successful. Rest of the cast is fantastic though.

I can't decide if it would be a better experience going in blind, or going in aware of the central hook. If you know what the movie is supposed to be, I think you can stop trying to figure it out and just enjoy it more on it's own merits. Figuring it out yourself doesn't actually make it any more meaningful, in my opinion.

Darren Arrenofsky is probably my favourite director, but it's definitely one of his lesser movies.

I love In Bruges.

The way every single element encountered in the first two acts shows up in the the third act is amazing.

Darren Arronosky is definitely my favourite director, i even loved Noah (Jennifer Connelly ), which most people didn't, but i hadn't got the time to watch mother! yet.

J.Lawrence is a great actress, she proved many times over (ever watched Winter Bone?). Maybe stardom has spoiled her and she isn't fit to be a A-list actress.

EDIT: In Bruges joke...still not find it funny. It just isn't for me.

If making something that isn't funny into something that is vaguely funny via repeated, inexhaustible, unbelievable, mind-numbing repetition isn't funny here then what on earth are you doing here man that's like literally our whole schtick, title, your mum, Ron Howard, flatramp.

WWWEEELLLAAARRRGHHHIIINNNGAAAAAAAARRRRRSSSSS

Yeah you could be right about just not being right for big blockbusters. Certainly she was better in Winter's Bone than anything else I've seen her in, but she was rubbish in Passengers, and I honestly thought the only reason she continued to be in the Xmen movies was because she signed up to a three movie deal for First Class, but she has reupped to do a fourth movie. I don't even begrudge actors taking work they consider beneath them just for the paycheck, but she is just broadcasting that she doesn't give a shit throughout all the movies. At least be a professional and try to do your best.

Which is your favourite Arronofsky movie? It's The Fountain for me by a healthy margin. Proper masterpiece.

Requiem for a Dream. Definitely. Its score has been overused since then, but the impact the movie had on me back then was unequalled. And Jennifer Connelly obviously. Pi and The Wrestler are 2nd and 3rd receptively. Also loved Black Swan but felt the movie could use a bit more grittiness. It felt to clean and blockbuster-y for his standards.

The fountain might be my least favourite, but it's still great, although suffers from lack of Jennifer Connelly.

Jennifer Connelly is in Labyrinth. Robin Wright is in Princess Bride.

There’s no need for other movies.

Jennifer Connelly could be in a tyre commercial and she'd have my attention.

Did she do an awful movie once about a water tower on top of a block of flats? I remember watching it at 4am during a bout of awful insomnia.

That's probably the remake of japanese classic Dark Water. Only seen the original though, although logically the remake should be better because she's in.

Dark Water? Horror movie? Not great, but had Jennifer Connelly.

I think i need to watch the remake of Dark Water:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382628/med ... 2717092864

Yes, that’s the film.

I was particularly tired and fed up when I watched it, so it might not be as horrid as I remember, though if the actual reveal is what my memory thinks it is, I don’t think I’d like to watch it again, anyway.

Horror films don’t really bother me at all, but many years later this still sits in my brain.

There's one really shocking scene in the japanese ones, something involving an elevator. Don't know if it's the same in the remake.

I don’t remember the elevator bit, but I’m not very good at retaining movie plots, but

Happened in real life too, weirdly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elisa_Lam

Brr.

Blimey, what a creepy story, if you really want to get freaked out, watch the elevator video of her.

1m57s for the skin-crawly part.

Aww that’s upsetting. That’s a real human being that died there. I hope she’s at peace now.

It seems more likely she's haunting the hotel.

why did the conversation about jennifer connelly ended up with such a creepy video?

Really enjoyed “Detroit”.

Absolutely terrifying is man.

A true story about the riots and murders in 1967 that pokes tiny holes into the past and allows us to understand another side of the historic stateside racial tensions.

Great direction and performances from all concerned, although Star Wars bloke irritated me because he looked, sounded and moved like Denzil Washington with hair. Weird. Nah, he was great though. It’s a fabulous film and a must see.

Did anyone watched Toni Erdmann? I did some months go but this article reminded me of how good it was:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/d ... ni-erdmann

And they say Germans don't have a sense of humour. It was of the funniest movies i've ever seen.

Dunno if it's worth it's own thread.

It's official, Disney are buying Fox.

Xmen, Fantastic Four, Deadpool, Silver Surfer, Dr Doom & Galactus will now be in the MCU.

Plus all the other stuff that Fox owns. Alien, Avatar, Independence Day, Planet of the Apes, Kingsman and so many more movies are going to be disney property.

The Xenomorph, born of an Alien Queen, is now officially a Disney Princess.

Boy's got a point.

So Disney now own a big chunk of Sky TV?

They're not buying Fox, they're buying 20th Century Fox

No, it does

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42353545

Goodness, sorry my mistake.

It ends up owning most of Hulu, too, as the BBC also noted. This is a huge deal in every sense of the words.

This image was created by Disney

Edit: Hmm, that's a bit small...

Now i have a good excuse to buy a Xenomorph plush to my nephew.

Aren't they drones?

Not that I believe that being genderless should disqualify someone from being a princess. Maybe the acid blood and all the killing tho.

Liz II was the same as a nipper.

Stupid patriarchy, imposing its standards of beauty on innocent princesses.

But enough about Elsa from Frozen.

Disney will now (assuming it goes ahead) own the 1966 Batman TV series and currently airing Gotham.

Bit of a reversal for Murdoch, he appeared to be hell-bent on owning all of SKY.

The deal appears to have no guarantee that his kids will get executive positions either.

Still, no doubt a good chunk of the $52 Billion Disney just shelled out is coming his way