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Unless they showed a different film, that's not going to help the lack of boats or people on the screen.

I saw Lady Macbeth. It was okay. 6/10.

One star.

Watching The Guard on a recommendation led me to In Bruges which I had never seen before. That was an awesome week.

Quite. It seemed like they'd forgotten to add in the cgi for a lot of it.

Thankfully the large epic shots which show up this flaw are pretty rare. I just remember the tension and claustrophobia of all the sequences in tight sinking boats and the agonies of the men, which is where the film really shows its brilliance.

Seven Psychopaths next.

I disagree - there were a lot of shots on the beach after the first 15 minutes where it looked empty, and almost every shot at sea had maybe 3 to 6 boats in view, even when panning back in the direction they'd come from (where there should have been a relatively decent number of boats in view) or actually at the beach. The only point this was remedied was right near the end.

There was nothing at all in the film to give the sense of the scale of 300,000 men being rescued.

Great, great film. Underrated.

I was fully on board right from the opening shot (in both senses of the word)

I think how it looked was probably fairly accurate, the evacuation lasted for over a week. So although hundreds of boats evacuated 300,000 men they didn't all do it at the same time.

In any case I actually preferred the way it was done with mostly practical effects, even if that limited the scale of some of the shots. The bits with a couple of actual Spitfires was approximately a million times better than a full squadron of CGI ones blowing up a dozen digital Messerschmitts.

It's based on what actually happened. They only sent three for air support apparently.

Nolan actively refused to use CGI.

Although he used it in other places, so

Quick Alien quiz for Grim... and GazChap
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/article ... alien-quiz

8/13. Only 61% awesome

All of them, obv.

Although I confess I got a lucky guess at 'What was the title of the legendary abandoned film on which designer H.G. Giger and writer Dan O’Bannon first collaborate?'

9/13 for me, apparently I suck.

Ones I got wrong:

Although the one about androids isn't actually correct any more, not since Covenant.

Tut tut. No full profit share for you!

8/13

8 lucky guesses there!

It's like you've practiced.

Having seen every Alien film and read some of the novels and listened to the director's commentary on Alien ages ago I was a shoe-in for a big score here.

I got 4.

For context, Craster and I play a drinking game where we do online quizzes and drink if we get it wrong (the other drinks if we get it right).

It got to the stage where Craster was telling me the answer and I was telling working out the question.

Craster did Star Wars, fact fans.

And West Wing, obv.

Then we did a load of the citizenship tests and got badly shitfaced.

Do you mean 'really well shitfaced'? I'm not even sure what bad shitfacing would present as.

Swearing at a pork butt, in this instance.

Y'all should watch the Netflix original movie, The Babysitter. Dark, uberviolent comedy. Under 90 mins, for you movie length officionados

That is true, yes, but comparing shots from the film with contemporary photographs his version still looks a bit empty. There's also a lack of consistency in the film - e.g. the queues of blokes on the beach are there one sequence, gone the next, and then back towards the end. I know the evacuation took place over the course of a period of time, but the beach thread within the film didn't cover more than a day or so I thought.

The Spitfire bit was accurate (and also very good), as there was very, very little aircover, and almost none of it over the beach.

Apart from right at the end where

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Andy Garcia was the coolest Muthafucker alive in Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead, a film which I remember very fondly. He hasn’t been in a good film for well over 10 years and so it comes to pass that he is in the god awful Geostorm. He ain’t in it much thankfully, no, the real star is Gerard Butler. Yup. Exactly.

The film sucks dick.

I also watched Enter The Dragon. Again.

It’s not my favourite martial arts film but, by god, it has the best soundtrack. That intro music is pure jive, you honky honk a honks. Honk.

And Bruce Lee? Man that guy looked like he was carved out of oak. What a beautiful man he was.

Bonus song:

Fucking

He was in Passengers, though, which was good.

And Ghostbusters, which was meh except for when Hemsworth was on the screen.

I’d say Passengers was average and it felt like #beautifulpeopleproblems

I’ve watched The Disaster Artist an’ all. It’s very good but it does require at least a basic understanding of The Room. I can imagine some people going in cold my be put off by Franco’s peformance but it might actually be a damn goood performance of a child-like nutcase. I’d recommend it but only with that caveat.

Coco is superb. I'm not crying, you're crying!

A challenge for you all: name a film with a stronger opening scene than The Lion King.

Raiders of the lost ark.
The shining.

Lion king is certainly up there though.

Shining is just drinking up the mountain, isn't it?

I was more thinking of the tour of the grounds.

Up
Saving Private Ryan (is the beach landing the opening?)
Lost in Translation (just for you,Grim...)

Nah, it's some veterans at a memorial or something I think.

Cancel that one then.

Difficult challenge to think of a memorable opening scene. But I can’t think of how the Lion King opens either.

Another guess though: Star Wars (take your pick) for the iconic crawl.

I’ve never seen The Lion King. I’m sure Russell told me it’s basically Hamlet, though. The only things I am aware of is some baboon holding the baby over a cliff, in homage to Michael Jackson waving someone’s baby over a balcony and Hakuna Matata, as my old workmate would sing it every day, despite knowing only two words of it.

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe starts with a pretty intense bombing raid.

Lethal Weapon 2 - the toilet bomb
Inglorious Bastards - the interrogation
The Matrix - face kicking in leather
Train spotting - choose narration

Also:
Casino
Mean Streets
Pulp Fiction

Though I'd go with Up or Trainspotting.

Up's opening scene isn't the sequence everyone is thinking about. The film starts with the old man as a young boy watching a news reel at the cinema about Paradise Falls and then has a little adventure with the wife to be.

That’s exactly the sequence. You have to introduce the characters before you kill them off in a bitter sweet montage.

Four minutes isn't enough for The Matrix.

Trainspotting is a good shout though.