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going by what was presented to us, the entire of the third act was unnecessary - they literally just had a helicopter and now needed to get to the top of a tall statue, yet decided to go through the whole final task sort of thing. If they'd put in a line about how it had run out of fuel or was damaged or something that'd be better.

That said, video games aren't shy of putting arbitrary bullshit restrictions on you like that, and it's riffing off video games, so whatever.

It's only the third Jack Black film I've seen where he doesn't annoy the piss out of me.

GazChap wrote:

It's only the third Jack Black film I've seen where he doesn't annoy the piss out of me.

Go on then, what are the other two?

Say 'The Holiday' and I'll murder you

MaliA wrote:

Say 'The Holiday' and I'll murder you

That is a great film, isn't it?

When you work out the key I'm actually surprisingly simple and transparent.

Maybe it's the Tenacious D stuff.

MrChris wrote:

When you work out the key I'm actually surprisingly simple and transparent.

Is the key Laudanum?

Film review! Swiss Army man:

I have no idea what the shit that was all about. Radcliffe brilliant.

https://youtu.be/gwHA7d1OkAY

I watched Jigsaw. It’s terrible.

If you must watch a Saw film just watch 1 & 2 and pretend they decided to end it there.

It's the same writer/director as In Bruges and The Guard

DBSnappa wrote:

It's the same writer/director as In Bruges and The Guard

Well not quite - they are two brothers Martin, (In Bruges) and John (The Guard) McDonagh.

Dunkirk - a lot better than I'd thought it would be, even if in some scenes the lack of scale made it seem a little like a budget made for TV effort.

MrChris wrote:

Dunkirk - a lot better than I'd thought it would be, even if in some scenes the lack of scale made it seem a little like a budget made for TV effort.

This is a film that really needed to be seen on IMAX.

MrChris wrote:

Dunkirk - a lot better than I'd thought it would be, even if in some scenes the lack of scale made it seem a little like a budget made for TV effort.

This is a film that really needed to be seen on IMAX.

Trousers wrote:

DBSnappa wrote:

It's the same writer/director as In Bruges and The Guard

Well not quite - they are two brothers Martin, (In Bruges) and John (The Guard) McDonagh.

Ooh, yeah. I knew there were two brothers both writer/director. Martin made this one.

DBSnappa wrote:

MrChris wrote:

Dunkirk - a lot better than I'd thought it would be, even if in some scenes the lack of scale made it seem a little like a budget made for TV effort.

This is a film that really needed to be seen on IMAX.

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

DBSnappa wrote:

Trousers wrote:

DBSnappa wrote:

It's the same writer/director as In Bruges and The Guard

Well not quite - they are two brothers Martin, (In Bruges) and John (The Guard) McDonagh.

Ooh, yeah. I knew there were two brothers both writer/director. Martin made this one.

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

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.

GazChap wrote:

Seven Psychopaths next.

Great, great film. Underrated.

Kern wrote:

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.

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.

Grim... wrote:

DBSnappa wrote:

MrChris wrote:

Dunkirk - a lot better than I'd thought it would be, even if in some scenes the lack of scale made it seem a little like a budget made for TV effort.

This is a film that really needed to be seen on IMAX.

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

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

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

Harrison Ford
Meryl Streep
Snark and Leviathan
Dune

9/13 for me, apparently I suck.

Ones I got wrong:

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

Harrison Ford
Meryl Streep
Snark and Leviathan
Dune

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

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?'

Author:	JBR [ Sat Jan 06, 2018 12:29 ]
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I liked Jumanji! Thought Jack Black played his part well - not that it's subtle or anything, but good. Made me laugh. Only thing I found annoying was casting Kiwi Rhys Darby as an Englishman. He has a good stab at the accent, then the Kiwi I's snick through, yis they do. Pointless.

Author:	Goddess Jasmine [ Sat Jan 06, 2018 12:41 ]
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We loved it too. Ian is a great big 'un!

Author:	MaliA [ Sat Jan 06, 2018 23:05 ]
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Film review! Swiss Army man: I have no idea what the shit that was all about. Radcliffe brilliant.

Author:	Bamba [ Sat Jan 06, 2018 23:29 ]
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Kevin Hart is fucking awful. That's not a comment on anything except Kevin Hart. And the morons that keep casting him in stuff. Every time he opens his stupid squeaky little mouth I want to find him and murder him. The rest of Jumanji was pretty awesome. Bearing in mind that anything which mixes the concepts of 'American' and 'comedy' is already on my shit list even conceptually. It worked; it just did. Talented cast and good script.

Author:	GazChap [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 11:41 ]
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Yeah, I liked Jumanji 2. Kevin Hart was a bit annoying, but not as much as he usually is. It's only the third Jack Black film I've seen where he doesn't annoy the piss out of me. Gillan was entertaining enough, and The Rock just smashed it as he always does. Particularly the smouldering intensity. My only nitpick is that ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! going by what was presented to us, the entire of the third act was unnecessary - they literally just had a helicopter and now needed to get to the top of a tall statue, yet decided to go through the whole final task sort of thing. If they'd put in a line about how it had run out of fuel or was damaged or something that'd be better. That said, video games aren't shy of putting arbitrary bullshit restrictions on you like that, and it's riffing off video games, so whatever. Watched the original Jumanji on Friday night. Have never seen it before. Man, some of the CGI/puppetry really doesn't age well - particularly the spiders, which were just fucking comical. Perhaps that was the point.

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Author:	Grim... [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 11:45 ]
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GazChap wrote: It's only the third Jack Black film I've seen where he doesn't annoy the piss out of me. Go on then, what are the other two?

Author:	MaliA [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 11:47 ]
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Say 'The Holiday' and I'll murder you

Author:	DavPaz [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 12:15 ]
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I really like School Of Rock. Just Jack Black being himself.

Author:	devilman [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 12:24 ]
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Looking at the stuff he's acted in, I've only seen Enemy of the State, Demolition Man, Anchorman and the X-Files episode and I don't remember him in any of them, so it's odd that I still find him annoying. Maybe it's the Tenacious D stuff.

Author:	GazChap [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 12:28 ]
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Grim... wrote: GazChap wrote: It's only the third Jack Black film I've seen where he doesn't annoy the piss out of me. Go on then, what are the other two? Tropic Thunder and Enemy of the State. I wasn't aware he was in Demolition Man.

Author:	Jem [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 12:36 ]
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I too enjoyed Jumanji and I can't stand Jack Black. He was OK in this.

Author:	MrChris [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 15:36 ]
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MaliA wrote: Say 'The Holiday' and I'll murder you That is a great film, isn't it?

Author:	MaliA [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 15:37 ]
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MrChris wrote: MaliA wrote: Say 'The Holiday' and I'll murder you That is a great film, isn't it? You are quite the enigma

Author:	MrChris [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 15:39 ]
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When you work out the key I'm actually surprisingly simple and transparent.

Author:	RuySan [ Fri Jan 12, 2018 13:48 ]
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LewieP wrote: https://youtu.be/gwHA7d1OkAY This is promising. HBO + Michael Shannon + Good Book. Can't go wrong there.

Author:	DBSnappa [ Mon Jan 15, 2018 14:24 ]
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I've seen couple of films recently. First was All The Money In The World. It's a good movie and if you're unaware of the life of J Paul Getty, he doesn't come across as very pleasant. Christoper Plummer does a fantastic job. It's well acted, well written and quite dispiriting on the whole human nature front, largely. It's based on true events. In the 70s, Getty's grandson was kidnapped in Italy and held for ransom. Getty refused to pay. What is astonishing, is the length of time this whole debacle took to resolve. Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri This is a very good film, with a cracking script and brilliant acting from all the cast. It's more a tragicomedy than the trailer suggests and is genuinely upsetting as well as laugh out loud funny. It's the same writer/director as In Bruges and The Guard, but this is a more measured film and expects you to pay for the laughs with some bitter reflection.

Author:	Pundabaya [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 16:03 ]
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Jack Black is amazing in films where all he has to play is Jack Black.

Author:	Cras [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 16:06 ]
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MrChris wrote: When you work out the key I'm actually surprisingly simple and transparent. Is the key Laudanum?

Author:	Grim... [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 16:52 ]
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devilman wrote: Maybe it's the Tenacious D stuff. /narrows eyes

Author:	Curiosity [ Mon Jan 08, 2018 17:55 ]
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Cras wrote: MrChris wrote: When you work out the key I'm actually surprisingly simple and transparent. Is the key Laudanum? B flat

Author:	Squirt [ Tue Jan 09, 2018 13:36 ]
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MaliA wrote: Film review! Swiss Army man: I have no idea what the shit that was all about. Radcliffe brilliant. very peculiar. I do like that Radcliffe's film choices since the end of the Potter films has been ... eclectic.

Author:	LewieP [ Fri Jan 12, 2018 13:08 ]
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https://youtu.be/gwHA7d1OkAY

Author:	Satsuma [ Sun Jan 14, 2018 14:34 ]
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I watched Jigsaw. It’s terrible. If you must watch a Saw film just watch 1 & 2 and pretend they decided to end it there.

Author:	Hearthly [ Sun Jan 14, 2018 15:53 ]
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Satsuma wrote: I watched Jigsaw. It’s terrible. If you must watch a Saw film just watch 1 & 2 and pretend they decided to end it there. 3 was pretty good and from memory 6 was quite clever and surprising in delivering a sort of social message about the health care industry in the USA, 4 and 5 I'm hard pushed to remember anything much positive about though. 1 and 2 are indeed the best.

Author:	devilman [ Sun Jan 14, 2018 17:44 ]
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I like all the Saw films, but I'd be hard-pushed to tell you which one was which. I'd heard Jigsaw was bad though, so I'll just pretend that doesn't exist. 'No Good Dead' was added to Netflix the other day. Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson and just 1 hour 24 in length, so I was expecting a thriller that didn't hang about. However, the middle bit, which I'm guessing was supposed to build tension, bored the hell out of me. By the time the climax of film came around, I'd lost interest.

Author:	MrChris [ Mon Jan 15, 2018 15:20 ]
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Dunkirk - a lot better than I'd thought it would be, even if in some scenes the lack of scale made it seem a little like a budget made for TV effort.

Author:	Trousers [ Mon Jan 15, 2018 15:25 ]
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DBSnappa wrote: It's the same writer/director as In Bruges and The Guard Well not quite - they are two brothers Martin, (In Bruges) and John (The Guard) McDonagh.

Author:	DBSnappa [ Mon Jan 15, 2018 15:42 ]
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Trousers wrote: DBSnappa wrote: It's the same writer/director as In Bruges and The Guard Well not quite - they are two brothers Martin, (In Bruges) and John (The Guard) McDonagh. Ooh, yeah. I knew there were two brothers both writer/director. Martin made this one.

Author:	DBSnappa [ Mon Jan 15, 2018 15:43 ]
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MrChris wrote: Dunkirk - a lot better than I'd thought it would be, even if in some scenes the lack of scale made it seem a little like a budget made for TV effort. This is a film that really needed to be seen on IMAX.

Author:	KovacsC [ Mon Jan 15, 2018 15:45 ]
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DBSnappa wrote: MrChris wrote: Dunkirk - a lot better than I'd thought it would be, even if in some scenes the lack of scale made it seem a little like a budget made for TV effort. This is a film that really needed to be seen on IMAX.

Author:	Grim... [ Mon Jan 15, 2018 15:47 ]
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DBSnappa wrote: MrChris wrote: Dunkirk - a lot better than I'd thought it would be, even if in some scenes the lack of scale made it seem a little like a budget made for TV effort. This is a film that really needed to be seen on IMAX. Unless they showed a different film, that's not going to help the lack of boats or people on the screen.

Author:	Trousers [ Mon Jan 15, 2018 15:52 ]
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DBSnappa wrote: Trousers wrote: DBSnappa wrote: It's the same writer/director as In Bruges and The Guard Well not quite - they are two brothers Martin, (In Bruges) and John (The Guard) McDonagh. Ooh, yeah. I knew there were two brothers both writer/director. Martin made this one. Watching The Guard on a recommendation led me to In Bruges which I had never seen before. That was an awesome week.

Author:	MrChris [ Mon Jan 15, 2018 15:53 ]
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Grim... wrote: DBSnappa wrote: MrChris wrote: Dunkirk - a lot better than I'd thought it would be, even if in some scenes the lack of scale made it seem a little like a budget made for TV effort. This is a film that really needed to be seen on IMAX. Unless they showed a different film, that's not going to help the lack of boats or people on the screen. Quite. It seemed like they'd forgotten to add in the cgi for a lot of it.

Author:	Kern [ Mon Jan 15, 2018 15:58 ]
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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.

Author:	GazChap [ Mon Jan 15, 2018 15:58 ]
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Trousers wrote: DBSnappa wrote: Trousers wrote: DBSnappa wrote: It's the same writer/director as In Bruges and The Guard Well not quite - they are two brothers Martin, (In Bruges) and John (The Guard) McDonagh. Ooh, yeah. I knew there were two brothers both writer/director. Martin made this one. Watching The Guard on a recommendation led me to In Bruges which I had never seen before. That was an awesome week. Seven Psychopaths next.

Author:	MrChris [ Mon Jan 15, 2018 16:09 ]
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Kern wrote: 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. 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.