Be Excellent To Each Other

Loving Vincent. Animation that is made up of paintings. Took me a little while to get used to the shimmering and what seemed like a lurch from close up to very unfocused wider view, but by the end I definitely felt the whole thing was a work of art. Over the credits they show some (I assume) of the original Van Gogh paintings from which they took characters (which explained the poses many of them were in initially) and I felt like a philistine for not knowing any of them already, but also very happy for such a quick guide. Story wise, it's about why/how he died. Apart from a little lull in the middle, that was enough to hold my interest throughout.

I really, really want to see this. I watched a short film on the making of it a while back, and oh my goodness.

I think the ‘shimmering’ of the individual oil frame scenes was dealt with in a similar way to how they worked with the hand-drawn frames of The Snowman, from what I understood of the animation.

AARGH. Fucking wankers.

Seems vaguely sensible. That said, I read the books and they’re different from that. I can give a less wanky précis of that if it helps.

I would be interested, yep

Thor Ragnorak is bloody brilliant.

Also yes please

Ready Player One is a visual feast. Decent story, decent enough acting (with what little of the real world we see) and with enough pop culture references to necessitate IMDb to buy another server just for its trivia page.

8/10.

Interesting. Both the trailer and the reviews make it look awful.

FTFY.

It's not going to win any awards for its plot, and it's not exactly a "thinky" film - it's just a pure popcorn movie IMO but isn't necessarily any worse off for it.

I watched Annihilation. I thought it was quite good bar a couple of yawnsome plot points.



And that JJ Abrams was allowed to do multiple cameos as giant lens flares.

5/10

It just seems, from the trailer, to be a giant game of “Yes, I too can remember things from the past (that we have licenses to)”. With added Willy Wonka.

There is a lot of that, yes, but apart from a couple of setpieces they tend to be more incidental than full on "HEY, REMEMBER THIS?"

The trailer makes it look really cringey and awful, but it's reviewing well so I'll probably give it a shot.

Yeah, I’m trying to work out whether I want to see it or not, rather than just shitting on it for the lols.

Probably gonna wait until it is on a respected and entirely legal streaming site.

As R.I.P.D. was added to Netflix yesterday (or re-added, I'm not sure), I thought I'd give it a go. Enjoyable film, but I think it would have been better as a more adult film, rather than the cartoony violence that gave it a 12A instead.

An interesting mix of films added to Amazon Prime today. I've never seen Ben Hur or the first Blade film so I might give them a go, but I'm steering clear of Little Nicky - a friend of mine thought it was amazing and dragged me off to the cinema to watch it with him. I think it's safe to say we had different tastes as I thought it was complete rubbish.

Feex for the correct resolution here.

5.3 on Imdb, 38 on Metacritic, starring Adam Sandler.

You should find new friends.

The first Blade is great, the sequels lost me a bit as they were mostly just Wesley Snipes carrying suitcases full of money around and not filling in his tax returns.

EDIT - Trivia fact, Blade is a film I imported on R1 DVD, for reasons I can't remember, I don't think it was cut in the UK, maybe I just wanted it early.

Blade 2 is awesome, foo.

The last Jedi was ok

I thought that, but rewatching it recently(ish) I realised it wasn't.

We went to see Game Night last night. When Gaz explained the plot to me I was a bit "ok, sounds bollocks but willing to give it a shot".

I was crying with laughter unable to breathe more than once. Very funny. Would watch again.

Aye, it's pretty fucking awesome. Certainly the best comedy I've watched in quite a while.

Does anyone remembers 3 90s TV Movies called Hornblower about the Napoleonic Wars?

Those films were shot on the village i grew up, so yesterday after feeling homesick i started watching the movies on youtube and it's even more awesome after all these years.

I couldn't work as an extra because of school exams, but many people i knew did, and it's amazing to watch a film and see so many familiar faces.

And i searched on IMDB by location and it happens that lots of other movies where shot there, including one James Bond movie (the one with George Lazemby, but it still counts). I have much more to watch when nostalgia hits me.

"Call me by your name" is pretty fantastic. Best film of the oscars thus far by a large margin. That kid can act.

Also, Michael Stuhlbarg is always great. He used to be the poor-man's Joaquin Phoenix. Now Joaquin Phoenix is the poor-man's Michael Stuhlbarg.

Roxanne Roxanne.

Being an enormous fan of electro and early rap I was very excited to see this coming last year. I went into it expecting Straight Outta Compton, but came out of the other end feeling pretty sad. I guess when you are 6 years old Queens and Brooklyn sound very exciting in rap music. Then when you see what it was actually like it's a bit of a shock. Whilst it was not the film I was expecting at all (it had hardly any music in it for example) it was still a fantastic watch. Very depressing, and she was down trodden pretty bloody badly. There should be more films like this.

Off to see Ready Player One again tonight, this time taking Jem with me and watching in full IMAX glory.

When you said "is it OK if I go to the cinema on Wednesday night?" I didn't realise I was included in that....

Were those the ones with Ioan Gruffud? I thought it was a series, but I do remember quite enjoying it.

Yes, those ones.

They were indeed series that went to be edited for TV movies. On youtube there's both versions.

There was one guy i knew that got the easiest money of his life (i think it was 500€) for doing a stunt that involved jumping from the mast of the ship to the water.

I used to be a big star wars fan, like most of us I expect, however I didn't bother seeing the last Jedi in the cinema, never got round to it.
I'm watching it now and it is just terrible, I'm an hour in and there hasn't been one single redeeming part yet...

Your face is terrible.

Your face has no redeeming parts.

I finally saw it the other day. Enjoyed it for the most part but some of the jokes seemed really incongruous, when Poe was talking to the bloke on the star destroyer it properly felt like something that's been done more than to death in Marvel movies.

It's just so... Disney, which is unsurprising.
No depth to any of the characters, played for laughs in the wrong places, everyone is just so earnest and stupid, nobody does anything that feels a natural decision, or says anything that feels like a natural conversation.

I really really really wish Rey and Kylo did in fact team up to create a new post-light/dark galactic order, dismantling the republic/rebel dichotomy.

Have you even seen Episode IV?

Of course, but that is totally different tonally. e.g. In the last jedi, everyone cares so much about everyone else, right from the very first moment they meet. Compare that to Han Solo, who couldn't give two shits about any of the other main protagonists, and he evolves through the film into someone who realises he cares. Character development, nuance, it's all missing in the new films.

Ready Player One is fucking God awful. A bigger load of trite clichéd horseshit I've rarely seen. Just...wow.

MrsA asks "Have you read the book?"

I do not know why she does ask this but it seems To Be Important

I have not read the book.

The book is also clichéd nonsense.

And it's awesome.

Assuming the film is a faithful adaption I'm genuinely mystified by it's popularity.

Nostalgia. A love of fun. Narcotics

Shape of Water.

It was nice and cute, but nothing special. If you took out a couple of scenes, it could be a sunday afternoon movie for the whole family. It even has a pantomime villain.

But it won the oscar, so what do i know?