What films have you watched recently?

EricTheWeary

In the Tall Grass. 

Based on a story by Stephen King and his son ( there is a brief nod to Christine in it although it passed me by, anyway it’s mentioned in IMDB). 
Very Stephen King I guess. I should think fairly low budget. Kept me engaged. Wasn’t amazing,not terrible. . 

BGG

Just watched El Camino ... very slow, very dull ... crock of shit. 

boogieman

schrodinger1612 said:

I really enjoyed joker - I can see why it’s not for everybody (slow pace, dark and brooding etc.) but I was engrossed in it. 

Booked tickets to see the 4K rerelease of The Shining later this month.

Waiting for the dark fate reviews to start rolling in before prebooking..

Oooh I didn’t know that was a thing, will have to check it out. I see they’ve made a film of Dr Sleep too...should be interesting, the book is very good. 

I just watched Contact again. Very decent film, although there are quite a few loose ends that aren’t dealt with in the film that are explained in the book, like why they didn’t send a second person through the machine to verify things. 

hollywoodrox

not_the_dj said:

"Threads" the BBC nuclear drama from 1984. 

Never seen it before, but I've heard a few things about it and I saw it was the anniversary of the original broadcast the other day. Tracked the full version down online and watched it in two sittings late at night.

Pretty powerful stuff even now, and really makes you think that it could well turn out like that.

I might give that a watch . I remember the day after but never saw threads, was that one set in Sheffield ?

hollywoodrox

I saw the Martian a few years ago . I’m recently watching lots of short film on a channel called. Omeletto on YouTube, some really great ones. Also A channel called dust , S I fi shorts

not_the_dj

hollywoodrox said:

not_the_dj said:

"Threads" the BBC nuclear drama from 1984. 

Never seen it before, but I've heard a few things about it and I saw it was the anniversary of the original broadcast the other day. Tracked the full version down online and watched it in two sittings late at night.

Pretty powerful stuff even now, and really makes you think that it could well turn out like that.

I might give that a watch . I remember the day after but never saw threads, was that one set in Sheffield ?

Yes, it’s the Sheffield one. 

https://archive.org/details/threads_201712

ICBM

The Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 classic. It’s on BBC iPlayer just now if you’ve never seen it... you should.

One of the most influential films ever made for a good reason. It’s still an outstanding work of genius.

10/10

CloudNine

To echo the comments above about Joker. Watched it last night, completely blown away. Best film I have seen in years.

tony99

CloudNine said:

To echo the comments above about Joker. Watched it last night, completely blown away. Best film I have seen in years.

Is batman in it?

tony99

I only like batman

stickyfiddle

CloudNine said:

To echo the comments above about Joker. Watched it last night, completely blown away. Best film I have seen in years.

Yeah. It's difficult to describe, because I don't want to say "I loved it" because that's completely the wrong sentiment. But I loved the experience of watching such a great bit of filmmaking. 

I'm holding some hope that Phoenix won't want to play the role again in a Batman movie, which I'm 100% onboard with. I'd like to see some of the other list of excellent bad guys done right, with much more "detective-ing" if possible. 

And it's a bit delicious that this makes Leto's attempt look extra shite and should put the final nail in any thoughts of a connected DC-verse for a good while.

Philly_Q

stickyfiddle said:

I'm holding some hope that Phoenix won't want to play the role again in a Batman movie, which I'm 100% onboard with. I'd like to see some of the other list of excellent bad guys done right, with much more "detective-ing" if possible. 

I haven't seen Joker (yet) but I understand it's set in a time frame where Bruce Wayne is a small child, so Joker would be an OAP by the time Wayne is Batman. 
I wonder if that was intentional by the makers of Joker, and simply not thought through by the studio execs?

stickyfiddle

Philly_Q said:

stickyfiddle said:

I'm holding some hope that Phoenix won't want to play the role again in a Batman movie, which I'm 100% onboard with. I'd like to see some of the other list of excellent bad guys done right, with much more "detective-ing" if possible. 

I haven't seen Joker (yet) but I understand it's set in a time frame where Bruce Wayne is a small child, so Joker would be an OAP by the time Wayne is Batman. 
I wonder if that was intentional by the makers of Joker, and simply not thought through by the studio execs?

Yeah. Joker is always/generally suggested to be older than Batman, but the gap would be pretty large here. 

earwighoney

Philly_Q said:

stickyfiddle said:

I'm holding some hope that Phoenix won't want to play the role again in a Batman movie, which I'm 100% onboard with. I'd like to see some of the other list of excellent bad guys done right, with much more "detective-ing" if possible. 

I haven't seen Joker (yet) but I understand it's set in a time frame where Bruce Wayne is a small child, so Joker would be an OAP by the time Wayne is Batman. 
I wonder if that was intentional by the makers of Joker, and simply not thought through by the studio execs?

I think I read for the upcoming Batman film with Robert Pattinson will exist in a different timeline to the Joker film; there's no continuity with the current Joker film.  

Jalapeno

Loved The Joker, a really good film.

FatBob

hollywoodrox said:

I saw the Martian a few years ago . I’m recently watching lots of short film on a channel called. Omeletto on YouTube, some really great ones. Also A channel called dust , S I fi shorts

DUST - some really good stuff on that YT Channel. Thought provoking.

A very good shout.

FatBob

stickyfiddle said:

CloudNine said:

To echo the comments above about Joker. Watched it last night, completely blown away. Best film I have seen in years.

I'm holding some hope that Phoenix won't want to play the role again in a Batman movie, which I'm 100% onboard with. I'd like to see some of the other list of excellent bad guys done right, with much more "detective-ing" if possible. 

The DC people will want another, but Phoenix seems to be the kind of guy who would walk away to another role.

A film that I thought wasn't up to much on BluRay, then I chose to watch it again and changed my mind True Grit with Matt Damon and Jeff Bridges.  Another Western I loved and still do is 'Open Range'. Majestic film and Duvall and Costner, with Robert Duvall being one of my favourite actors, after Gene Hackman.

FarleyUK

earwighoney said:

Philly_Q said:

stickyfiddle said:

I'm holding some hope that Phoenix won't want to play the role again in a Batman movie, which I'm 100% onboard with. I'd like to see some of the other list of excellent bad guys done right, with much more "detective-ing" if possible. 

I haven't seen Joker (yet) but I understand it's set in a time frame where Bruce Wayne is a small child, so Joker would be an OAP by the time Wayne is Batman. 
I wonder if that was intentional by the makers of Joker, and simply not thought through by the studio execs?

I think I read for the upcoming Batman film with Robert Pattinson will exist in a different timeline to the Joker film; there's no continuity with the current Joker film.  

I get really annoyed with this; they can't seem to decide on any kind of continuity at all, which makes it looks pretty crappy. Fair enough if Phoenix isn't reprising the role as Joker, but there should at least be an agreement timeline connection etc.

I went to see Joker Saturday; superb film. Really enjoyed it - the kind of film that stays with you for days afterwards.

And poor Gary.

stickyfiddle

FarleyUK said:

earwighoney said:

Philly_Q said:

stickyfiddle said:

I'm holding some hope that Phoenix won't want to play the role again in a Batman movie, which I'm 100% onboard with. I'd like to see some of the other list of excellent bad guys done right, with much more "detective-ing" if possible. 

I haven't seen Joker (yet) but I understand it's set in a time frame where Bruce Wayne is a small child, so Joker would be an OAP by the time Wayne is Batman. 
I wonder if that was intentional by the makers of Joker, and simply not thought through by the studio execs?

I think I read for the upcoming Batman film with Robert Pattinson will exist in a different timeline to the Joker film; there's no continuity with the current Joker film.  

I get really annoyed with this; they can't seem to decide on any kind of continuity at all, which makes it looks pretty crappy. Fair enough if Phoenix isn't reprising the role as Joker, but there should at least be an agreement timeline connection etc.

I went to see Joker Saturday; superb film. Really enjoyed it - the kind of film that stays with you for days afterwards.

And poor Gary.

I don't see it as being that important. The various classic Batman comics over the years are mostly non-canon with respect to one another. Batman stuff has always been more like James Bond stories than the serial-narrative of the MCU. 

I'd far rather we got high quality one-offs (or tightly-planned trilogies, etc) than a bloated "universe" that's planned for the sake of bums on seats more than quality of output. 

ICBM

Forbidden Planet

1956 Sci-fi classic. Given that this was made a year before Sputnik was even launched, it's astonishing - both the concepts and the visuals are far ahead of their time, and it's clearly been hugely influential on everything from Star Trek to Total Recall and even Star Wars, probably. The plot is very tenuously based on Shakespeare's The Tempest, but you'd probably have to know that to make the connection. Some of the special effects are remarkable, and it also features the first completely electronic score in any film.

If there's a criticism it's that some of the characters and the acting are rather more of their time... it's also slightly disconcerting to see Leslie Nielsen as the hero, before he discovered his talent for comedy, and Robby The Robot is still rather too obviously human-operated despite being pretty advanced by the standards of the day. But still, at least

9/10