Be Excellent To Each Other

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?

It’s 50 Shades of Grey, but for nerds.

I believe it's very much not a faithful adaptation.
I enjoyed the book but don't think I'll bother with the film.

Finn’s character arc in two movies is as good as anything in the previous six.

Molly's Game is pretty fucking good.

Elba acts the shit out of it, as always.

Yeah I wanna watch that. Apparently Micheal Cera as Toby Maguire is hilarious.

Thor Ragnarok is awesome.

Looking forward to Infinity War.

What? Not even sort of.

It Came From The Desert: The Movie

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4288674/

Is that related to the Cinemaware game?

The Cinemaware logo is at the end of the trailer. The trailer isn't exactly making me want to watch the full film though.. the acting looks pretty bad.

In other film news, Netflix added some decent old stuff the other day - Jaws, Brewster's Millions, and the classic musical, The Blues Brothers.

That's strange, if you select the Musicals category in Netflix, they don't list the The Blues Brothers...

I’m just going to see Isle of Dogs. I couldn’t be more excited!

Mylene Class is going too.

Where’s the Banhammer, hmmm?

Sold out seats. Typical Sat.

I waited for the next showing. Totally fucking worth it. Isle of Dogs is awesome. Not really for kids, mind.

I watched a lot of films this week, mostly whilst sat next to a ginger idiot.

1) Nude Nuns with Big Guns
Oh noes! Sister Sara was on drugs or something, and to honest I'm not sure why. I think a baddy drugged her, but I don't know why. Anyway, she shot a lot of people, and spent a lot of time naked. As far as really crap films go, this one was okay.
2) Project X
Oh noes! Thomas is going to have a party, but he's a nerd so no-one will come. Spoiler alert: A lot of people come! This is one of the best films ever created.
3) Molly's Game
Oh noes! Molly can't ski, so starts running poker games instead. Hella good. I would like to give Molly kisses.
4) POULTRYGEIST
Oh noes! A fast food chicken restaurant was built on top of an Indian burial ground, and the chicken is becoming possessed or something. There are lesbians protesting, for some reason. This one was hella violent and hella stupid. And, surprisingly, a musical. To say it wasn't great would be an understatement.
5) Elves
Oh noes! A combination of Nazi's and inbreeding and witchcraft has summoned an Elf (just the one, no matter what the film is called). It seems to spend all of the film not really doing anything, but the Nazi's are pretty bad (as you might expect). The department store Santa saves the day, even though by the end I was routing for the Elf, because he tried to share his cockroach.
6) Little Bitches
I've no idea how this happened, but somehow we ended up watching a coming-of-age comedy with Sam off iCarly and Sam and Kat. They did lots of swearing (and we all learnt something about tampons). But - mainly - shit.
7) Breeders
Oh noes! Weird gloopy aliens are raping virgins in New York! It's okay, Dr. Nameless and Officer Dull can stop them! Eventually. This one is almost worth watching for the massive jizz pool at the end.
8) Deadpool
Yeah, this is still fantastic.
9) Starship Troopers 3: Marauder
Oh noes! This started off fine and then the tape snapped on the video or something, and it wouldn't play. Boo!
10) Dog Soldiers
Yeah, this is still fantastic.

I can’t believe you sat down and watched a film called Poultrygeist.

THIS MAY NOT BE SAFE FOR WORK

Also we watched a show where people eat a cheap version of something (a hotdog, maybe), then a medium priced version of the same thing, and then a stupidly expensive version of the same thing, and decide which was the best value for money. They were about ten minutes long each, and we watched for six straight hours.

Worth It, by Buzzfeed. I specifically went to the £200 ribs place I ate at in Seoul because of it, which is probably worse than watching it for six hours straight.

We didn't even like it that much.

I think we watched six hours of Worth It, five hours of The Bombay Chef, four hours of BBQ Pitmasters and about an hour of whatever show had the lovely lovely Chef Megan in.

And 20 minutes of Deep Fried Masters.

When we saw that episode I said "I wonder if that's the one Gaywood went to, they prep the meat just like his photo".

Also they went from being two annoying guys with a mate with a camera to going to Korea with David Chang, which is pretty fucking impressive.

Then we watched more hours of a guy who makes good indian food (but has terrible kitchen hygiene) but kept trying to do other cuisines and doing the worst things you've ever seen.

Yes, it is impressive they got Chang, right?! And yes, I specifically went to the same place they go to in the video, because I am deranged (and it looked amazing.)

And it was amazing.

Hahahaha!!! Oh my actual goodness. I did not know that films like that existed. How much WTF did they cram into that trailer?!?! There can’t be any film left. That’s the worst looking film I’ve ever heard of.

Boobs looked lovely, though.

Ready Player One (the film) is fucking embarrassing painful bullshit cringey terrible trash. Which is a position I stand by, but Jenny Nicholson, as usual, nails every aspect of that:

Jesus Christ, downloading immediately!

A Quiet Place. The acceptable face of horror for me - in that it's thriller more than it is horror. I was gripped, though afterwards it seemed quite a slight thing, and I thought it by implication had a bit of a plot hole, of the 'surely someone in authority would have tried variations on that before?' Gets away with it on the grounds that the family were tinkerers and in that they just don't tell you the back story in full.

Agreed with all of this. It's also rather satisfying that I've spoilered that but it's actually in the trailer. In fact that single scene does a brilliant job of telling you pretty much everything you need to know about the film in an incredibly efficient way.