Be Excellent To Each Other

Same thing really, what's important is that we all sat there to watch the credits and were not rewarded for our efforts.

Somebody write a strongly worded letter.

How far you in? It gets tremendously odd. Avoid all possible spoilers and don't binge watch it. Having to wait a week for each new episode, having absolutely no idea -like the rest of the Internet - was an amazing experience. The show is very much an acquired taste, but I haven't been able to leave off thinking about it since it aired. It felt so relevant to our times.

You were rewarded by the greatest piece of music in the history of superhero movies. What more do you want?

I don't know, robots? Dinosaurs? Robot dinosaurs?

Zoids.

Burttank.

That's okay, gives us more time between films on Friday.

I know your game and I'm not falling for it!

(But only because I know Grim... And Haywood wouldn't let me. )

Lol I wasn't even kidding the last one is great.

We are about two thirds through, episode 13 or so.



It's been a fascinating show to watch. I enjoyed the feeling of being at sea at the beginning, very much feeling at the mercy of whatever lynch decided to do next, and not worrying too much about understanding what was happening.

However, I've found that the further we get in the series, the more I feel I should understand what's going on, yet I still feel I'm fumbling in the half light. And this is frustrating, as I don't know if that's down to me not paying close enough attention or the will of lynch.

I feel the series would change dramatically on a second viewing.

But I've definitely enjoyed it. Being asked if I've gotta light hasn't felt the same since.

We watched Annihilation last night. It looked FUCKING AMAZEBALLS in 4k HDR, I'll give it that. That was an interesting film that needs a vicious edit to make it bareable. Loooooong takes of people walking slooooooowly across the screen. Long pauses between dialogue. The most pretentiously drawn out confrontation. To sound a bit Hearthly for a second, it could do with being an hour shorter.

I'm starting to really dislike painfully serious films too. Humans tend to squeeze humour into desperate situations in real life, so why not in movies, eh?

Expendables.

Some choice. Painfully serious or painfully seriously shit.

Ready Player One is the most heartfelt, emotionally complex yet fun romp since The Godfather Pt 2. Nah it’s a load of old shit interspersed with “Look it’s Sonya Blade from Mortal Kombat”.

If you can find a 4K HDR copy of Andrei Tarkosvky’s Solaris I heartily recommend it

I saw the Clooney remake soon after release and vaguely remember enjoying it. I guess the original is superior?

It’s a lot slower. And more serious.

Pacific Rim Uprising is a big bag of shit but I had to watch to the end.

Some terrible actors acting terrible, some good actors acting terribly, generic dialogue, generic soundtrack BUT FUCK ME giant robots beating on giant robots and giant monsters in downtown Tokyo was always going to be watchable. When giant monster picked up a robot man and swung him through a bunch of skyscrapers I was entertained. And there’s some reasonable CGI in here and, unlike, say, Transformers, you can always follow the action.

Also no one ever says that Tokyo was evacuated so it’s fun to play “how many tens of thousands just died in that scene”.

Turn off brain and enjoy for an hour or so.

Pacific Rim is one of my sons favourite films so he was hyped when we went to see Uprising.

The story/acting is pap but the action is good.

He loved it

They do say that everyone was in secure shelters.

I thought it was utter wank. The only saving grace was the Aliens reference (the special command the Always Sunny guy used to "hack in through the back door" was Lima Victor 426).

What a shame. I was half looking at my phone during the talking though.



I did say it was shit. Still, them robots, aye?

I hope you weren't looking at your phone in the cinema...

Yeah, some were cool, but Gypsy Avenger was by far the most boring one, and took up 90% of the screen time.

The kids enjoyed the first Pacific Rim, and we saw the trailer for the new one in the subway and it looked vaguely interesting. We didn't bother going to the cinema to watch it. We might watch it if it's on at our local multiplex at some point, but otherwise from the look of it we're better off watching the 2014 Godzilla and Kong: Skull Island again.

I wouldn’t pay money to see it, lord no.

Ooh, we've not seen Kong: Skull Island. I'll have to see if there are tickets available for a showing at my local cinema.

How to make Pacific Rim films much better: increase giant robot/monster biffage by about 200%.

I'm still disappointed we didn't really get to see Cherno Alpha properly in the first film. In fact Gipsy Danger was the most boring of the robots in that film...

I watched it from someone else's, so you might be waiting a while.

Wreck It Ralph may just be the perfect film. Loads of story without feeling rushed or bloated. Fleshed out, complex characters that grow and develop throughout the story. Great visuals, kicking soundtrack and just the right amount of humour. There's even a romantic sub plot that feels natural, for goodness sake!

Perfect. Fight me.

1) Point Break (original)
2) days of thunder
3) point break (original)
4) swingers
5) nightmare before Christmas
....

18675)wreck it ralph

Pffft. Not even Mean Girls in that Top 5? Be ashamed of yourself.

Great game references, really enjoyed first half hour, next hour is about a completely made up game for the film. Was disappointment.

The Incredibles and Kung Fu Panda constantly fight for "best CGI film" in my brain.

Well, not constantly.

Kung Fu Panda 3 remains the most visually stunning movie I've ever seen. I saw it in 3d and in parts my jaw literally dropped

I’m about 40 minutes into the new Tomb Raider and my phone has been out for about 30 minutes. It’s a load of trite cliched shit.

It's not great for sure. I did manage to enjoy it but yeah, literally every part of its been done before and much better.

Title

I genuinely laughed out loud in actual real life at this. Congratulations.

I couldn’t even finish it to see whether Walton Goggins was a decent villain. What a load of old shit.

I watched OUT OF SIGHT last night, I have never seen it before even though it is quite old (1998).

It is directed by Steven Sodabread and has George Clooney, Ving Rhames and Jennifer Lopez in it.

I guess if you were giving it a genre you'd say it's a sort of crime-caper action film with some comedy and romance and suspense.

It's all very well done with a nice Sodabread slickness and efficiency, and it's beautifully shot, there's nothing about the film you could really criticise for being done 'wrong', but even so I wasn't blown away by it.

If you're after some very competent but ultimately lightweight fun, you could do a lot worse.

770/1000

We watched the new version of Stephen Kings 'IT' last night.

I've not seen the original mini-series and all I knew about the film was that it was about a scary clown.

It seems like the film carried the story across really well; all the characters were portrayed excellently and I understood the plot throughout.

I'd love to hear from one of you lot if the film matches up to the book and original series well?

Edit: I was attempting to put a funny rating of "balloon out of 10" but apparently the board doesn't want me to post a balloon emoji.

I've also read the word balloon too many times and it doesn't seem like a real word.

The first half of the mini-series is excellent (and covers the same period as the film).

The second half... not so much

All I could think when they were all cutting their hands and holding bloody hands was "well that's just unsanitary"

They do worse in the book. Penetration worse. Bom chicka wa wa. Intercourse, I'm talking about intercourse.

Okay, you really shouldn't read the book.

o/

So they have a weird gangbang?

Maybe I SHOULD read the book... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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